Gu Mengmeng indicated Wabei to let go of her, before assuming the noble and wise air of that movie-loving, lonely old man. Imitating his benevolent smile, she addressed the crowd. "Hello everyone. I am the Messenger of the Beast Deity, Gu Mengmeng. Pleased to meet all of you."
The subsequent whispered murmurings of the crowd were foreign to Gu Mengmeng.
Thereafter, one of the mermaids morphed into half-beast form and approached her with some tentativeness. Maintaining a safe distance, he asked, "Are you really the Messenger of the Beast Deity?"
Gu Mengmeng chuckled. "Apart from the Messenger of the Beast Deity, have you met any female from a non-ocean tribe, who can talk and move like me in the deep ocean?"
The mermaid thought about it and felt that there was some logic to Gu Mengmeng's reasoning.