Splash!
In the small pool in the performance preparation room, water splashed again, and another shadow with a fishtail fell into the water.
Hua!
Sihwa emerged from the water and wiped the water stains on her face. She thought she had returned to the bathtub of a residential house, but the very different touch at the bottom of the water told her that it was not a bathtub, and the smell of the water was very close to the real sea, even including the fishy smell of the sea creatures in the water.
"Where is this?"
She shook her hair and looked left and right.
"This is an aquarium in San Francisco." Zhang Zian was prepared and stayed away from her, not wanting to get his clothes wet by the water droplets between her hair.
"Oh."
Sihwa was obviously uninterested. If there was any place she was least interested in, it must be the aquarium, because even she knew that the aquarium was nothing more than marine life. If she wanted to see marine life, why didn't she go directly to the sea to see the original ecology?
"Is the aquarium this shabby?" She looked around critically. She did not see any marine life in this preparation room, and there were no tourists.
"This is a room for employees. I called you out just in case," Zhang Zian said. "There are two … your admirers, after watching your live broadcast, are imitating you and dressing up as mermaids to perform for tourists."
"Really?"
Sihwa suddenly became energetic, and her eyes widened. "My admirers, where are they?"
Fina watched this scene speechlessly, wishing she could go up and slap Sihwa to wake her up. Why are you so easily fooled?
"Zhi zhi."
Pi held the nameless book and blinked at Fina, meaning: You are often fooled by the same routine.
Unfortunately, Fina could not understand Pi's words.
Zhang Zian pointed at the passageway that connected the small pool and the large pool. "They swam through this passageway, dressed in mermaid costumes, and are performing for the tourists. But … you know, how can their clumsy imitation be compared to yours, the original?"
Sihwa was praised so much that she could not find the north. "That's right! Don't look at how stingy you are, you still have eyes! In the world, only I am truly smart, beautiful, lively, lovely, dignified, elegant, and generous mermaid. No matter how hard the imitators work, they can't learn one billionth of me … No, it's one trillion! Um … which is bigger, trillion or billion? "
"In any case, I'm still far from you." Zhang Zian interrupted her meaningless thoughts. "However, it is precisely because their acting skills are too poor and the water is too cold that their performance has a certain degree of danger."
"Is the water cold?" Sihwa swung her tail in the water. "I don't feel anything. It seems warmer than the seawater north of Germany."
"The Baltic Sea is almost at the North Pole!" "That's not the point," Zhang Zian complained. "Your admirer might be frozen in the water. You don't want your admirer to be in danger, right? If something happens to them, others will be deterred from imitating you … "
It was rare for Sihwa to be serious, and she seriously thought about the logic behind it.
"What you said seems to make sense, you miser." She followed Zhang Zian's train of thought. Of course, she felt that it made sense, but she didn't know that even the basic premise was wrong.
"That's for sure. After all, I also hope that you can become a world-famous anchor. When you earn a mansion in the future, I still want to live there," Zhang Zian complimented.
"Haha! No problem! Leave it to me! I will leave you a bathroom and an exclusive bathtub in a 2000-hectare mansion with a sky garden and a water cube pool! "Sihwa patted her chest and promised.
Zhang Zian was speechless. Actually, you're even more stingy than me!
Sihwa was eager to try. "Do I have to save them now? If I let them embarrass themselves in front of the audience, will it affect my image? "
Zhang Zian glanced at the live broadcast room. Through Snowy's live broadcast, he knew that Zhou Jing and Abby were now normal. There was no need to interfere. If a third mermaid suddenly appeared, they would panic and easily cause problems.
"No need. I called you out just in case," he said. "They may not necessarily be in danger, but if they are in danger and I call you out, it may be too late."
Sihwa's heart was itching. She couldn't wait to pull back the two clumsy imitators and let her perform for the tourists. After all, such a big bathtub was rare.
"Don't worry. Listen carefully and feel carefully. Can you hear that … sound of water rushing in the pipe?" he asked.
Sihwa's hearing was the strongest among the elfins, especially in the water. Water was a good conductor of sound, and the distance of sound transmission was much farther than in the air.
She plunged her head underwater.
There were countless noises echoing underwater, including the cries of various marine creatures, the sound of water flowing over the reef, the friction of some arthropods quickly digging through the sand, the rustling sound of fish swallowing seawater to absorb oxygen and excrete seawater from their gills, the sound of carbon dioxide bubbles exhaled by divers bursting in the water … Of course, there was also the noise of the tourists walking around.
It was quite tricky to distinguish a specific sound from it.
But that kind of sound definitely existed, because the structure of the Monterey Aquarium was designed like this. Because it was adjacent to the Pacific Ocean, the designer took a clever approach. He used pipes to connect the seawater outside to the aquarium tank. During the day, the filter was turned on to change the water in the tank to keep the water fresh and clear. At night, the filter was turned off, allowing the seawater to carry nutrients and plankton into the tank to nourish the creatures in the tank.
Just now, when he and Snowy followed Zhou Jing through the staff passage, they saw a branch pipe from the main pipe. In the seawater tank where the mermaid performed, there must be an entrance to the main pipe.
It was not difficult for Sihwa to save people. The difficult part was how to deal with the aquarium's investigation. A mermaid that came out of nowhere and entered a seawater tank would most likely shock the aquarium because it was a work error. It could even be defined as an accident. They might not think that it was a real mermaid. They would only think that someone was wearing a mermaid costume and pretending to be one. So, he would give a reasonable explanation of how this person had slipped into the aquarium.
As a modern facility, the main areas of the aquarium were monitored. It was almost impossible to say that a person could avoid all the monitoring and sneak in with a heavy mermaid costume. But Zhang Zian was sure that there was no monitoring in the seawater pipe.
After two or three minutes, Sihwa emerged from the water and said confidently, "I heard it!"
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