Chapter 259 (Catching Bugs)
"Is it beautiful?" A gentle and smiling question sounded in my ear.
Yun Mian nodded obediently, the beautiful blue fish tail reflected in her bright green eyes, her expression full of amazement.
It turns out that Princess Mermaid’s fish tail is so beautiful, just like the sparkling stars in the Milky Way in the sky.
But the mermaid princess in the fairy tale turned her beautiful fish tail into legs in order to go ashore.
"What is Little Cotton thinking about?" Anriel noticed the little guy's facial features slowly wrinkling.
Yunmian climbed to the edge of the clam shell, reached out and held Princess Yuyu's slender white index finger, tilted her little face up and said softly, "Sister, your tail is so beautiful, just like my mother's wings."
My mother's wings are a light golden color. When the sunlight penetrates through her wings, phosphorus powder flashes in the sunlight. As her wings flap, it seems that all the light is gathered on her. No one can take their eyes off those extremely beautiful wings.
Just like no one would not be amazed by the Mermaid Princess's tail.
Hearing this, Anriel stopped near a patch of glowing seaweed, looked down at the elf with sparkling eyes and a sincere expression, and her deep dark pupils slightly curved: "Little Cotton, do you want to try to touch it?"
"Yes, sister!!" She agreed very quickly and hugged Princess Yu Yu's fingers even tighter, like a happy puppy who saw a bone.
So Anriel turned the clam shell around and watched the little guy, who had been lying obediently on the edge of the clam shell, gurgled out a lot of breathing bubbles and carefully approached her tail.
In the surging undercurrent, Anriel's dark blue tail was gently bent, and when the elf approached, it moved as if unintentionally, and the thin and transparent fin gently and silently brushed the elf's cheek, caressing her light golden curly hair, causing the elf to scream in surprise, and subconsciously reached out to grab the fluttering fin.
But before her little fingers could touch it, the beautiful fish tail that was right in front of her suddenly changed direction, not only moving further away from her, but also deliberately stirring up the undercurrent to push her away.
Yunmian was thrown into a clump of soft and swaying seaweed in the water. The seaweed secreted a slightly sticky juice in the water. She pushed the seaweed aside with puffy cheeks, spitting bubbles and swam towards the direction of the tip of Princess Yuyu's tail.
There was a hint of smile in Anriel's eyes. Whenever the elf was about to reach out and grab her fish tail, she would gently shake her tail, making the elf run around her aimlessly like a little fish in the sea.
It was a bit cute, especially her little expression every time she was about to catch a fish but had to watch the fish tail brush past her fingertips. Anriel even wanted to pop the bubbles she spit out in the sea.
When Yunmian came back to her senses from the game of catching fish tails, she finally caught a glimpse of the faint smile in Princess Yu Yu's eyes.
"..." The elf stopped, floated in the water, put his hands on his hips, and glared at the evil-minded fish princess angrily.
It seemed that the resentment in her eyes finally awakened the kindness in Princess Yu Yu's heart. When she was feeling depressed and angry, the beautiful fish tail that had originally turned in another direction actually floated silently in front of her again.
Yunmian didn't move.
So the fish tail did not move, only the translucent fin was pushed by the undercurrent on the seabed and floated slowly in front of her eyes.
Yunmian looked up at Princess Yuyu.
Anriel lowered her eyes and smiled at her, the fish tail still stopped in front of her.
Yunmian reached out her hand tentatively.
She was prepared for the fish's tail to suddenly slip away, but when her fingertips unexpectedly touched the hard and cold scales on the fish's tail, her pupils widened in an instant, and her fingers stayed on the mermaid's tail for a long time before she reacted.
Seeing the little fellow staring with eyes wide open and in a daze, Anriel felt the slightly itchy and warm touch coming from her tail, and moved slightly with a little discomfort.
Yunmian was awakened in an instant.
As if afraid that the beautiful tail would swing away again, the child cleverly reached out and hugged the huge fish tail in front of him.
It’s more like grabbing two big scales and sticking myself completely to the beautiful tail than hugging it.
The moment the elf hugged her, Anriel's body suddenly stiffened. She endured the discomfort in her tail and did not throw the unruly little fellow far away.
With Princess Yu Yu's tacit consent, Yun Mian finally slowly let go of the beautiful fish tail that was much bigger than two or three of her own size, and then reached out to touch the dark blue hard fish scales.
"Wow——" The tender little voice was filled with unconcealable amazement.
After experiencing the initial touch, the little elf, who is not yet a month old, couldn't let go of the fish fin and touched the other scales again and again.
The scales are cold, hard and sharp, while the fins are soft and transparent. The feel is completely different from touching small fish or seaweed.
"Sister, please touch me so well~" the little boy squinted his eyes and spoke wildly intoxicatedly.
The system once again agreed with the host mother's repeated efforts to teach the child to expand his vocabulary.
If the little one wasn't so silly and hadn't even turned one month old, the mermaid princess would have sued her for harassment just for this sentence...
Anriel was finally tickled so much that she flicked her tail slightly. She swam over to catch the little creature that had been thrown away, put her back into the soft clam shell, and continued swimming forward with her.
Finally we came to a gorgeous underwater garden.
Yun Mian hadn't recovered from the touch of Princess Yuyu's tail yet, but when she raised her eyes, she saw many beautiful Princesses at once.
Red hair, black hair, green eyes, golden fishtail...
The little child looked up at the six fish princesses who came over all of a sudden, and was stunned for a moment.
"What's this?"
"Sister, is this the little guy you brought back?"
"Forest elf? It looks like it's less than one year old, right?"
"What's her name? She looks so small. Will she grow up?"
"Sister, did you meet the prince? What happened?"
The mermaid princesses gathered around and talked curiously, and most of the topics focused on the tiny elf cub in the clam shell.
Yunmian sat on the soft sand, holding the little fish that Princess Yuyu had just given her to play with, and looked up at Princess Yuyu and obediently called her sister.
There are six fish princesses!
The child was lying on the edge of the clam shell, and after he said hello, someone pinched his cheek out of curiosity.
She was neither angry nor struggling. On the surface, she puffed up her little face and was being pinched obediently, but in fact, her eyes had begun to wander back and forth between the different colored tails of the fish princesses.
They all look so nice to touch!
As if she had noticed her little thought, a mermaid princess who also had golden hair smiled and bent her fish tail closer, deliberately waving it in front of the child's eyes to tease her.
So the little kid who didn't learn his lesson couldn't help but stretch out his paws to chase the other person's tail, swimming in the water and blowing bubbles.
The system watched from the side, and inexplicably saw a silly kitten chasing a cat toy and accidentally falling to the ground.
While the elf was having fun chasing her sister's tail, the other mermaids pulled the youngest sister to the other side and asked in a low voice.
"Anriel, what are your plans for bringing her to our tribe?"
Anriel shook her head, her beautiful, thick red hair floating in the water. She whispered, "I discovered this elf by accident. I didn't have any special plans."
"Sister, besides this elf cub, where is the prince? Have you communicated with him after you rescued him?"
Anriel was reminded by her sisters, and seemed to have just thought of the prince. She answered in a daze, "No, I put him on the shore and left. He drank a lot of sea water and will probably wake up after dawn."
"...Then what do you want to do?" The second mermaid princess frowned slightly and said worriedly: "Anriel, you have to know that although the prince is outstanding, he is not a mermaid and cannot live with you forever in this seabed."
"I know." Anriel reached out to hug her worried sister, and said to the other sisters, "I don't need to obtain a long-lasting and sincere love. I just want to know the secret of making the soul eternal from humans."
"That prince is a good choice, isn't he?" Anriel's deep blue eyes narrowed slightly, and she sighed softly, "I am a child of Hetanya, but I don't want to become foam on the Hetanya Sea that is blown away by the wind after I die, and I don't want to become a handful of sea water that can be scooped up at will. After the short life of human beings ends, they can ensure the eternity of their souls while their bodies slowly decay..."
"If the prerequisite for having an eternal soul is to become a human, then I think I am willing. Perhaps the prince can help me better integrate into the human world."
Mermaids have extremely strict requirements for love. From birth to death, they advocate a sincere and complete love.
But this is very rare. Every mermaid knows how difficult it is to find love, so there are not many mermaids in the entire mermaid tribe, and newborns are extremely rare.
It is difficult for mermaids to meet their true love during their hundreds or thousands of years of lifespan, so there is a huge age gap between Anriel and her sisters. She is the youngest sister and also the smartest, most rational and most thoughtful mermaid among the princesses.
Therefore, she does not desire to force a human love. After all, human love is too short for the long life of a mermaid. It is like the transparent foam on the sea, which will shatter and disappear in an instant even without external obstruction.
What she wanted was the eternity of the soul, a world vaster than Hitanya, and a place farther that the fish tail could not reach.
"I have traveled to every corner of Hitanya, and I remember every reef washed by the sea in the Hitanya Sea. But when I cast my eyes toward the coast, I find that my cognition is trapped by the coast and it will be difficult to cross it in my lifetime."
The long coastline connecting Hitanya and the mainland is like the edge of a fish tank. If the fish in the tank jump out of the water, only death will be waiting for them. For mermaids, land means forbidden land and irreversible death.
But for Anriel, what is more difficult to overcome than life and death is the equally vast land connected to the end of Hetanya.
It is the brief moment when a mermaid turns into sea foam.
She didn't want her soul to be annihilated, and she didn't want her cognition to be imprisoned, so she wanted to break the racial constraints and restrictions.
She had to start with humans, and after careful selection, she felt that Prince Eric, who held a very high status among humans, was the most satisfactory entry point.
Happy Dragon Boat Festival, babies~
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution:
Yixuan 30 bottles;
Lin Shuyi 18 bottles;
Brother Xiaosa 13 bottles;
10 bottles of Xiaolan Zhiyun;
5 bottles of tea;
Also picked 3 bottles;
1 bottle of Jiuyan;
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