Transmigrated to the Interstellar Era to Raise Mermaids GL - Chapter 16

“Ahhhh! Why is it here again!”

Hejia looked at the giant octopus that instantly blocked out the sunlight completely, retreating several steps in panic and pulling Orsa’s arm to hide inside the cabin.

Orsa pulled Hejia in front of her. While wrapping her arms around Hejia’s trembling shoulders, she commanded with a sonic wave: “Sam!”

Seeing her master’s icy expression, the octopus quickly lowered all its tentacles and explained in a low voice: “I just wanted to scare her a little, lest she think I’m easy to bully and point a gun at me again…”

Orsa ignored it and looked down at Hejia: “Don’t be afraid. It’s the helper I called.”

“Help… helper?”

Feeling the sunlight shine on her head again, Hejia cautiously turned her head from Orsa’s shoulder and saw the previously arrogant giant octopus submerging half its body into the sea, coiling its body and tentacles into a round sphere, diligently trying to compress its enormous body.

“It’s doing this…” Hejia was stunned.

Orsa said, “This octopus just enjoys playing pranks, but it’s not bad-natured. I’ve communicated with it. It regrets throwing you into the sea last time and is willing to help you clean.”

Hejia looked at the giant octopus curled up in the seawater, not daring to move again, and inexplicably saw a look of pathetic dejection on its face.

She turned back to Orsa, who was composed and at ease beside her, and her gaze immediately turned to admiration: “Wow, you’re amazing! You can not only control marine creatures but also make such a terrifying giant octopus listen to you!”

She shook Orsa’s arm, her eyes sparkling, and asked, “Can you show me how you communicate with marine creatures? Also, I’ve always wanted to know how you make those fish, shrimp, crabs, and shellfish throw themselves into the net?”

If she could learn that technique, she could become rich just by selling seafood!

Orsa withdrew her arm, tapping her head to remind her: “Time is tight, focus on work first!”

She glided to the railing first, leaped into the surging waves, and looked back at Hejia: “See you at the second island!”

Hejia also waved back, saying goodbye.

She watched Orsa, sitting in the giant octopus’s tentacles, gradually disappear on the distant horizon, and started to feel uneasy again.

After all, that octopus was so huge. Could Orsa really control it? What if it harbored malicious intentions again?

If only she and Orsa had a communication device…

Hejia turned and rushed off the boat, sprinting across the island at full speed: “Shelly, quick, quick! Stack the garbage on the road here!”

“Shelly! This dead tree trunk has crushed so many animals, hurry and help me move it!”

“Shelly! I’ll wipe the windows on the first floor, you wipe the second floor…”

Hejia was wiping the window with her right hand, and the wet rag in her left hand waited a long time with no one to take it. She turned around and found that Shelly was still walking towards her from far away, its dusty figure seeming to taint its unchanging gentle smile with a touch of bitterness: “Hello, I’ll be right there, please wait a moment…”

Oh, ho, she had actually burst out with a speed that robots couldn’t keep up with! Hejia was instantly full of confidence, feeling that her future was promising!

With this confidence, as the patrol boat traveled towards the second island at maximum throttle, Hejia disregarded how bumpy and terrifying the full-speed boat was. She stood at the very front of the deck, holding high-magnification binoculars to peer ahead.

Soon, she saw the situation on the island.

The giant octopus was swimming around the island. Its multiple tentacles worked on N tasks simultaneously. It was sweeping dust off the resort house roof with one, piling up and burning the trash on the road with another, waving branches to fan away all the rising smoke, and still managed to spare two tentacles to peel a banana and deliver it to Orsa, who was watching from the beach.

The flexible and efficient multitasking, like a performance show, astonished Hejia: No wonder they say octopuses are super intelligent. They couldn’t pull off a job like this without several brains working simultaneously!

She admired Orsa even more. Such a formidable giant octopus was tamed so obediently by her. She’s practically omnipotent!

Orsa re-boarded the boat, verbally recording the island’s consumption status into the recording-enabled translator pen.

After finishing the voice recording on the deck, she walked over to Hejia and handed the translator pen back, seeing Hejia leaning against the railing, intently observing the giant octopus swimming alongside the boat.

Orsa introduced: “Its name is Sam.”

“So it has a name too!” Hejia enthusiastically tried to communicate with it: “Hello, Sam. My name is Hejia!”

Sam and Orsa communicated with sonic waves. It didn’t understand other languages and didn’t like other humans, so it pretended not to see Hejia greeting it and continued swimming with its head down.

“Sam, respond to her.”

Orsa used sonic waves to tell it: “Hejia will also be my servant. I will take both of you to the Mûsin main planet in the future. You must learn to understand her language and get along with her soon.”

Sam had no choice but to reluctantly extend one tentacle and tap it a few times in front of Hejia.

“Wow, it’s responding to me! It really can understand human speech!”

Successfully interacting with a giant octopus for the first time, Hejia’s eyes sparkled with excitement. Not only was she no longer afraid, but she also proactively reached out and touched the thick, long tentacle in front of her.

She immediately liked the firm yet smooth texture and smiled: “It’s so well-behaved!”

Seeing Orsa standing next to Hejia with soft features, Sam dared not speak its anger and continued to keep its tentacle stiff, allowing her to stroke it.

Hejia then took out some dried fish snacks stored on the boat and placed them in the suction cups of Sam’s tentacle, saying, “Thank you for helping me clean today. Let’s call the past grievances a clean slate! How about I treat you to something to eat?”

“Hmph, don’t think you can bribe me with these petty favors! I won’t admit that a temperamental human who can’t even swim can take good care of the master!”

Seeing Orsa’s gaze quickly turn cold as ice, Sam had no choice but to shrink its neck and accept Hejia’s offering.

It angrily threw the dried fish into its mouth, immediately succumbed to the deliciousness of the processed food, and then extended several more tentacles, waving them in front of Hejia: “Wow, this fragrant and crispy texture is so good! What kind of heavenly taste is this! More… more, please…”

Seeing how smoothly she had established a good relationship with the giant octopus, Hejia excitedly put more snacks into Sam’s suction cups and said, “Do you like it? I have lots and lots of delicious food over there! You’re welcome to come find me on the beach to play anytime!”

She had already started envisioning the beautiful scene of using the hotel’s free food to lure the giant octopus into helping her catch fish and search for treasures in the ocean!

Hearing this familiar sentence, Orsa frowned slightly.

Seeing Hejia’s cheeks flushed with excitement and her hands curiously touching the octopus’s tentacles, a conjecture arose in her mind: Could it be that because Hejia can’t swim and hasn’t had much contact with marine life, she is especially enthusiastic towards all marine creatures?

She lowered her eyes to look at the shimmering scales on her waist. Her thick eyelashes trembled slightly. She felt that there was some truth to what Sam had said.

To become her servant, Hejia must first overcome her fear of water!