"Yaguba," the little shark said.
"No one ever told me before that a Nobel Shark can speak human language, not even in textbooks."
"Because I’m a more noble type of Nobel Shark," the shark said, "in short... the aristocrat of sharks."
Cezar hesitated for a moment and asked quietly, "Then will you eat people? When my father first gave you to me, my brothers frightened me by saying that as long as it’s a shark, it will eat human flesh, and that Nobel Sharks are no exception. Clearly, the books say that Nobel Sharks can grow up without eating anything."
"I don’t eat human flesh, I’m a vegetarian shark, I eat plants," the shark paused and said softly, "I also eat Anecdote Fragments, you can feed those useless Anecdote Fragments to me."
"That’s good then..." Cezar breathed a sigh of relief, "Wait a minute, you eat Anecdote Fragments?"
"Yes, yes!" The shark’s tone was quite boastful, swaying its tail a bit.
"Great... There’s a lot of single-use Anecdote Fragments in the palace, like ’Moving Stairs’ and ’Pigeon Messenger’. It’s just that taking them secretly might get me scolded by my father and the others."
"Don’t worry, you can secretly bring me one each day to feed me, my appetite is very small."
Saying this, the shark puffed up its little chest, as if to prove that its small body had a small appetite as well.
"No problem." Cezar nodded, "Next time I visit the Anecdote Library, I’ll secretly bring some fragments back for you."
"It’s a deal. Whoever lies will swallow ten thousand needles and become as dumb as Ghost Bell!"
"It’s the name of a stupid pig," the shark explained in detail, "a character from the fable ’Daddy Black Cocoon and His Three Little Piglets’. Don’t you know it?"
"Oh, oh, oh, you know so much." Cezar nodded and said admiringly, "I’ve read a lot of books, but I’ve never heard of this story."
Just then, a ghost pigeon with a letter tied to it flew in from outside the window, flapping its wings, and finally landed gently on the back of Cezar’s hand.
"What’s this?" The shark looked at the pigeon outside the Crystal Ball.
"The Anecdote Fragment ’Pigeon Messenger’, it’s the most basic and widespread Anecdote Fragment, everyone here uses it to send messages."
As Cezar spoke, he opened the letter on the ghost pigeon, which then dispersed into a green phosphorescence.
He glanced at the letter: "It’s from Li Qingping. Li Qingping is back!" Cezar’s expression was somewhat excited.
The shark was momentarily stunned and thought, Li Qingping, you’re simply unforgivable, secretly luring children away behind your good buddy’s back?
"Oh, oh, then quickly bring this Li Qingping to see me, the shark!" it said, "I really want to see if he is as silly as his name suggests."
"Okay, okay, Yaguba, wait here for me! I’ll go bring Li Qingping over."
Cezar spoke rapidly, placing the Crystal Ball on the nightstand, pressed his cheek against the glass, waved to the little shark, and then ran off without turning back.
Through the glass of the Crystal Ball, Ji Minghuan watched the Third Prince’s back leave through the shark’s eyes, and couldn’t help but ponder, "He’s really naive and sweet, it seems this prince is well-protected, it couldn’t be that type of dark inside, could it?"
At this moment, a black-blue interface popped up in front of the shark.
[Main Quest 2 Completed - Conceal the identity of the ’Eternal Abyss Shark’, use words to bewilder Third Prince ’Cezar’, and thereby gain the trust of the Third Prince.]
Upon seeing this, Ji Minghuan couldn’t help but roll his eyes.
He thought to himself: What bewitching the Third Prince, with this prince’s mental capacity, can the word ’bewitch’ even apply? In plain terms, it’s just coaxing a child, I’m the best at coaxing children, the Salvation Society still has a bunch of world-destroying darkened little children brothers waiting for me to coax them.
[Quest Reward Received: 1 attribute point, 1 skill point, 1 Split Point.]
[Main Quest 2 has been updated to Phase 2: Protect Third Prince "Cezar" from the assassination attempts of the Eldest Prince and the Second Prince, ensuring Third Prince "Cezar" successfully survives until August 1st.]