It's clear that Yang Jiangyu's background is far more than just wealth. Even the Shangguan family, to which Shangguan Bei belongs, and the Flying Eagle Group pale in comparison to the power behind Yang Jiangyu.
Lu Chen took a deep breath and sighed, "Tsk tsk, Miss Yang, this place is truly magnificent and spectacular! If people came to visit, it would be called the Yunzhou Underground Oceanarium. I reckon a lot of people would come, and if you charged each person a hundred yuan entrance fee, you'd be rolling in money! Becoming a billionaire would be just around the corner!"
Yang Jiangyu chuckled, "Mr. Lu, you're funny. I don't care about that little bit of money. I call this place 'Sea World.' Actually, it's based on the natural terrain. Deep underground in Yunzhou City, there's an underground sea that connects to the West Sea, more than ten kilometers away. I've simply built a small space of my own within this underground sea."
Just? Just? Lu Chen was amazed. How much would this "just" cost?
Yang Jiangyu laughed like a little girl, beckoning to Lu Chen, "Come sit here, I'll show you a more interesting view! Come on, even if I want to eat you, you can eat me back, who knows who'll eat whom?"
Lu Chen disagreed with this. No matter how fierce a man is, in the end, isn't he always eaten by a woman?
However, this time, Lu Chen couldn't refuse her request. He could only stand up and walk towards Yang Jiangyu, feeling extremely uncomfortable as he sat down in front of her.
Yang Jiangyu smiled slightly, a smile full of witch-like charm. She uttered softly, "From now on, I'll call you A-Chen too. How old are you?"
"Twenty-three," Lu Chen replied simply.
Yang Jiangyu nodded, "I'm twenty-five, two years older than you. You can call me Sister Xiaoyu from now on."
Lu Chen inwardly chuckled, realizing that yet another ambiguous older sister had appeared.
He nodded, expressionless, and said, "I'll accept you as my sister, but we need to agree on this beforehand. Since we're siblings, we need to be open and honest about everything. Don't do anything to upset your brother!"
"Oh, now that you mention it, I do feel upset. Humph, so you're really wary of me!" Yang Jiangyu pouted, suddenly grabbing Lu Chen's hand and pressing it against her chest, saying, "Feel it, you've broken my heart, you can feel it!"
Caught off guard, Lu Chen's hand was grabbed and pressed down. It felt like a soft, high mound was being crushed. Then, it felt like he was about to be bounced away.
He abruptly pulled his hand back. Although the feel was wonderful, very tempting, he put on a stern face: "Sister Jiangyu, please be more dignified. Don't be like this. We're both respectable people!"
"Don't I have any attraction for you at all?" Yang Jiangyu feigned a wronged expression. Lu Chen said seriously, "You're attractive, but at the same time, let me be frank, you also give me a very dangerous feeling. I always keep my distance from dangerous women. What do you need? Just say it quickly, my girlfriend is waiting for me upstairs!"
He glanced at his watch and nodded, "Thirteen minutes have passed, seventeen minutes left."
Yang Jiangyu sighed and clapped her hands. Then, with a soft hissing sound, the carpet on the floor automatically rolled up and shrank towards the corners, revealing the floorboards.
Lu Chen's eyes widened again.
Wow, this is so beautiful! So this space isn't underwater, but suspended in the middle of an underground sea!
After the carpet was rolled up, a transparent glass floor was revealed. Looking down, the seabed lay beneath one's feet, and schools of unidentifiable fish swam to and fro. Soft, shimmering light, seemingly from nowhere, illuminated them and the entire seabed, making them and the seabed itself appear vibrant and beautiful.
It was a truly mesmerizing sight.
Similarly, the seabed beneath one's feet was dotted with many oysters, many with their small mouths open, revealing the translucent pearls inside.
Yang Jiangyu clapped her hands gently again, and Lu Chen felt a slight movement. The round sofa had slowly rotated. Without moving, he could enjoy the unparalleled view of the underground seascape.
Yang Jiangyu then began to speak casually about this underground sea area. She wasn't just building a glass observation deck; the surrounding waters were also her breeding ground for oysters and harvesting pearls. This glass observation deck was primarily for observing the oysters' production processes.
The seawater pearls produced in this underground sea area are of exceptionally high quality; a single pearl around three centimeters in diameter can easily sell for thirty to forty thousand yuan.
The highest-grade pearls sold in the pearl shops above all come from here.
Lu Chen sat on the sofa, quietly listening to Yang Jiangyu speak, and gazing at the beautiful pearls still in their mother shells. Suddenly, a very obscure energy surged within his blood.
This energy, like a shadow, slowly swept through Lu Chen's body, but when Lu Chen tried to capture it, it vanished in an instant.
Although obscure and elusive, it contained an aura more powerful than any emerging supernatural ability, even giving Lu Chen a feeling of overwhelming power and absolute dominance, a faint sense of grandeur as he stood alone between heaven and earth. This domineering energy stirred an indescribable excitement within him.
Lu Chen also felt that this energy became particularly pronounced when he looked at the pearls. There seemed to be an inexplicable connection between it and the pearls.
This connection gave Lu Chen a strange feeling about the pearls, as if they had transformed into an energy form, no longer solid. And the energy within him seemed to be subtly trying to draw them in.
Was this energy the fifth ability of the Seven-Life Flower? It felt faint, yet powerful at its core, definitely not the same obscure and dim energy that had appeared before.
Yang Jiangyu suddenly asked, "How is it? What do you feel looking at these pearls?"
Lu Chen was slightly startled, and the faintly flowing energy within him vanished. Damn it, had this woman figured something out again? Lu Chen became highly wary and decided to conceal his feelings.
He laughed heartily, "Of course I felt it, I felt it so much! So beautiful, so moving, it's simply a wonder of the world! Once you see it, you want to keep looking, you don't want to leave. If only I could bring my girlfriend down to see it, she'd be even more captivated than I am!"
This was clearly not the answer Yang Jiangyu wanted, as a few faint black lines appeared on her face. However, these black lines were quickly chased away by her charming smile.
She said, "There's something even more beautiful, but your girlfriend can't see it."
As she spoke, she clapped her hands lightly twice.
Then, Lu Chen's eyes widened suddenly, and he raised his hand to rub the corner of his eye in disbelief.
My God, mermaids!
A dozen or so slender, fair-skinned young beauties appeared out of nowhere, swimming beautifully in the seawater and dancing gracefully.
They were between seventeen or eighteen and twenty years old, the kind of young, blossoming beauties. They all had incredibly hot figures, the kind that were perfectly proportioned and curvy, and all looked very toned and supple.
The most striking thing was that they were practically naked! They wore completely transparent lace skirts underneath—red, purple, blue, white… which probably represented the tails growing from their bodies.
Their long, beautiful legs were fully visible, and even more alluring details were revealed when their legs were crossed. And to make matters worse, many of their movements in the water and their graceful dances required them to spread their legs.
Some even had their legs in a split.
Lu Chen couldn't help but cover his nose, afraid he was about to have a nosebleed.
No, he really couldn't take it anymore.
Yang Jiangyu laughed smugly: "Look at you!"
Then, she straightened up, raised her hands in the air and gently shook them, her ten slender fingers playing an invisible piano. With her gestures, the mermaids in the outer sea displayed even more breathtaking poses, some even embracing each other, twisting and rubbing their bodies.
Then, more than a dozen mermaids were all entwined together, their snow-white, supple bodies squeezed into a large mass of flesh, pressing and kneading each other, using various positions to tease each other's sensitive areas.
The scene was spectacular; even Lu Chen, a playboy, had never seen such a magnificent sight!
His heart pounded, and his breathing became heavy. Yang Jiangyu, meanwhile, stood to the side, watching him with a mysterious and alluring smile, provocatively, as if she were amusing him.
Lu Chen, rather embarrassed, chuckled and said, "Sister Xiaoyu, the performance of your dozen or so mermaids is truly spectacular! It wouldn't be enough here. If they were sent abroad to perform, they could make a fortune!"
This was the truth. Lu Chen had never seen such alluring erotic dances anywhere in the world. If they were to perform abroad, they would drive men all over the world crazy.
Yang Jiangyu chuckled and said, "Ah Chen, you might not believe it, but although I've trained these girls for years, I've never shown them to men before. You're the first."
"Huh?" Lu Chen genuinely didn't believe it.
Yang Jiangyu frankly admitted, "I'm one of them too, and I dance better than any of them. In my circle, many wealthy young ladies and socialites dance together. We dance not for men, but for our own enjoyment..."
As she spoke, one of her fingers lightly traced Lu Chen's thigh, and she asked with irresistible allure, "Understand?"
Lu Chen swallowed hard. He understood. Damn it, they were all lesbians! At the same time, a surge of indignation welled up inside him. Seriously, looking at the world, so many men can't find wives; the situation of more men than women is already serious, and you guys are still involved in lesbianism, further reducing the female resources for men!
What nonsense!
Although Lu Chen wasn't worried about that, as a man himself, he felt indignant.
"So what?" he said coldly, "What does this have to do with me?"
Yang Jiangyu smiled seductively and raised her hands again.
Her ten fingers, like ten tiny, jade-white fish, swam in the air, possessing an indescribable allure that made Lu Chen involuntarily shudder and his sphincter tighten.
Then, an even more dazzling scene unfolded.
The dozen or so mermaids swam towards Lu Chen's feet. Right beneath the transparent glass where his feet rested, their bodies pressed tightly against the glass, sometimes swimming on their backs, sometimes on their heads, fully displaying their front and backs to Lu Chen's eyes. Damn, he saw everything.