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"Ning Bao, are you the messenger of the sea god?"

The group of cubs played games together for a while. Before going to sleep, Coco leaned close to Ningbao and asked in what she thought was a quiet voice.

"No way?"

Ning Bao scratched her head, a little uncertain. She wasn't completely without judgment; she thought the sea god Coco was talking about must be Lan Lu.

But is Ningbao Lanlu's messenger?

"Alright, then you are the messenger of the sea god. I will take you to see the sea."

In Coco's view, Ning Bao's lack of a complete denial meant it was an affirmation. After all, the merfolk were a race with a very clear and defined hierarchy; there weren't even commoner merfolk impersonating royalty, so who would dare to impersonate the sea god's messenger?

Anyway, Coco felt that there wasn't any, so Ningbao must be...is...

The little pink mermaid thought for a moment, puzzled. She remembered that she seemed to have learned this word before, what was it again? Oh, modesty, Ningbao must be modest.

"By the way, Ningbao, how about we sleep together tonight?"

Coco happily hugged Ningbao's arm.

She actually prefers to stick close to Ningbao rather than Number One.

Mermaids who are so young naturally don't have any concept of gender. Besides, to be precise, mermaids don't have a gender at all. They don't reproduce through sex, so how could they have a gender?

The so-called men and women are merely distinctions made by Ning Bao based on her own value system and the physical characteristics displayed by the mermaids.

Coco is a pink mermaid, so Ningbao thinks she is a girl. Morris is a blue mermaid, so Ningbao thinks he is a boy like Number One.

It's not fair to blame Ningbao for having such a superficial understanding of gender. After all, the child hasn't received proper sex education yet, so of course he'll differentiate based on what he knows.

However, there's another reason: Coco is a princess, and princesses are, of course, girls.

Of course, Number One has a gender. After all, he's not a mermaid from this world; he's a pet beast. He just happens to have a fish tail.

Coco likes to stick close to Ningbao for a simple reason: Ningbao is outgoing, friendly, and a typical social butterfly. Ningbao, on the other hand, is introverted and shy; he might not even respond to a single word Coco says. So, of course Coco prefers playing with Ningbao.

Ningbao's little brain is still a bit too slow to process what Keke said about taking her to see the sea, but aren't they already in the sea?

The child looked around blankly. Wasn't this all the sea?

"Ningbao, Ningbao, hurry up, let's go to sleep."

Coco didn't hear Ningbao's refusal and pulled Ningbao to swim into the big seashell.

"Huh? No, Ningbao wants to sleep with Mumu."

Ningbao finally came to her senses and repeatedly waved her other free little hand in refusal.

Mumu was also worried about Ningbao sleeping with Keke. With Ningbao's sleeping posture, what if she kicked Keke off the bed? In her opinion, Keke's actual fighting ability might not be as good as Ningbao's. No, it should be said that she's definitely not as good as Ningbao, and she'd probably only get beaten up unilaterally.

There are only three beds in this room—or rather, three big seashells, which are basically beds according to Ningbao and Mumu's worldview. Coco has one by herself, Mumu and Ningbao have one, and Number One and Baigao have one.

That night, Ningbao snuggled into Mumu's arms:

"Mumu, Coco said she'd take me to see the sea, but aren't we already in the sea?"

Mumu thought for a moment and replied:

"She must be referring to the Mermaid Queen."

"what?"

Hearing that voice, Mu Mu could almost see a huge question mark appearing above Ning Bao's head.

"It's a cultural issue, that's normal. But it could also be a translation problem."

"What translation?"

The question mark above Ningbao's head grew bigger and bigger.

"Didn't Wenya tell you?"

Mumu was also a little surprised:

"Wenya said that we can communicate smoothly with some races because the Heavenly Dao actively assumes part of the translation function. She said that in the last world, you couldn't communicate with many races, but Ningbao, when you talked to Yuyou, it was very smooth, wasn't it? You didn't feel any racial issues at all, right?"

Ning Bao was stunned; she had never even considered this.

Mumu laughed:

"Even within the same world, with the same species, there can be so many languages. How could different species in different worlds possibly speak the same language?"

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"Then...then Coco is a princess..."

Although Ningbao's expression was not clear at all, Mumu still understood what she meant and explained:

"There are two possibilities. The first possibility is that it was influenced by the original world. Like the world of beast taming, it broke away from the world of cultivation. Some of its cultural customs cannot be traced back to history, because the true source and origin are in the world of cultivation, so of course they cannot be found."

The second possibility is still a translation issue. To accommodate our understanding and values, Heaven tries its best to adapt the world's culture and terminology to something we can comprehend.

Frankly speaking, this is detrimental to their understanding of the world. Worlds like the world of cultivation, the world of beast taming, and the world of the apocalypse are actually alright, because the latter two originated from the former and share the same origin. So, while it can be a bit complicated to explain the latter two using the perspective of the former, it's still somewhat understandable.

However, starting with the worlds of giants and monsters, the differences become quite significant, and sometimes they are difficult to explain and fail to grasp the essence of things.

But this is actually the way the Heavenly Dao protects Ning Bao.

The reason is simple: different worlds have vastly different cultures and histories, and their customs may be completely different as well.

For example: beings in one world think that eating one's own kind is wrong, beings in another world think that eating one's own kind is a sign of respect for one's own kind, and beings in yet another world think that eating one's own kind is perfectly normal.

Creatures raised with the former cultural mindset cannot comprehend the latter two situations.

But do you need to understand things to complete a mission? No, you don't. Does Ning Bao understand the essence of the ghost world and the giant world? Let alone the essence, she hasn't even found all the rules set by the Heavenly Dao.

This is actually quite good.

Because Ningbao's values ​​are not fully formed, she is still very malleable. If she is constantly forced to accept completely different cultures, histories, and customs, or even form some self-contradictory ideas, Ningbao will eventually go crazy.

So although Mumu sometimes lamented the rigid class structure of the merfolk, it was just a lament; she never thought about making any changes.

(End of this chapter)