Xi Zirui immediately panics at being taken out of the water. He's a fish, he's going to drown, uh, choke, without water.
His panic mounts when he's immediately taken out of the net and dumped in a basket full of water, as if he really is about to be someone's dinner.
"Did you bind his qi?" A familiar voice overhead asks.
"Of course," an equally familiar voice answers. "We don't want him changing into his human shape until we get there."
After that Xi Zirui feels the basket jostle as if someone picks it up by the handle and carries it as they walk.
He would like to look up and see who is literally kidnapping him, but being a fish with no neck joints that's impossible at the moment.
"Host shouldn't panic, he might even enjoy what's happening," Ni Ni says, her voice ringing pleasantly inside his head.
'How am I going to enjoy being kidnapped?', Xi Zirui tries to scream but the words only come out as a series of bubbles.
