"Granny Li is lying!" I Want to Be Immortal declared emphatically.
Hearing I Want to Be Immortal say this, Xiao Jie was somewhat surprised. Not because Granny Li was lying—that was obvious, considering the story was full of holes.
What surprised him was that I Want to Be Immortal could also see through the lies. It seemed that the kid wasn't completely foolish after all.
"Oh, why do you say that?"
"Isn't it obvious? First of all, these merfolk are so weak once they come ashore. There's no way they could have killed so many people back then. A granny has been able to live by herself all these years, so it doesn't make sense that so many fishermen from the village would fall victim to a group of merfolk that became useless once they came ashore."
"Anything else?"
"That carp, carp are freshwater fish. Why would Li He go out to sea to catch a golden carp? Besides, since Li He never returned, how could Granny Li know that he had fished for three days and nights and caught nothing?"
