Chapter 260 (Catching Bugs)
"Anriel, you have been independent-minded since you were young. As your elder sister, we will not stop you from making your decision, but we hope that all your adventures will be worth it."
The oldest mermaid princess swam over from the other end. The elf grabbed her soft long hair and was led by her to the other mermaid princesses.
Anriel reached out and took the elf that kept blowing bubbles, then smiled and said to the sisters, "Don't worry about me. I just don't want to accept my destiny and want to try to struggle. The worst result is that I will turn into bubbles and merge into Xitanya."
She is very smart and is not afraid of the outcome of failing in her fight against fate. For her, that is not too bad.
While they were talking, the elf, who had experienced a whole night of adventure on the sea, had curled up on Anriel's neck and fell asleep.
She had used up all her magic to save people, fainted, fell into the sea, and was played with like a cat for a long time. There was no longer enough physical and mental strength in her little body. Perhaps even her soul was drowsily floating in the boundless sea of Hittanya.
Anriel originally wanted to put the sleeping little guy into the clam shell, but her hair and fins were tightly grasped by the elf cub around her neck. If she pulled it slightly, the cub would wrinkle his little face and hold it even tighter in displeasure.
She could only helplessly allow her slender neck to become a temporary nest for the cubs.
When Yunmian woke up, she was dizzy because of the shaking water waves as soon as she opened her eyes.
She subconsciously clutched the long red hair in her hands, and then she had the mind to look around.
It feels familiar, like the beach I woke up on last night.
"Little Cotton, the prince is about to wake up. Do you want to go back with him?" The mermaid princess Anriel raised her hand and rubbed the elf's soft hair.
Yunmian looked up at the beach.
Now it looked even more familiar. Eric was lying on the beach, his body being hit and covered by layers of white waves from time to time. Even so, he remained unconscious and never woke up.
He was left on the shore by the mermaid guards for a whole night. It was daybreak, the sun was shining on the beach, the seabirds flying back and forth in the sky and the small lives such as shrimps, crabs, and shells busying around on the beach made the motionless Eric look like a salted fish casually hung out to dry.
Or a luxurious salted fish wearing jewels and sparkling all over.
He was probably about to wake up, his eyebrows moved slightly, and the sand on his face moved with it.
Yun Mian was about to answer Princess Yu Yu's words, but before she could open her mouth, Princess Yu Yu held her up with her hand and quickly sank to the bottom of the sea.
……What's wrong?
The child looked at the wary Mermaid Princess in confusion.
Anriel looked up at the sea above.
Yun Mian also looked up. The two of them raised their heads and stared at the sea surface that was being bullied by the waves above without blinking.
After about a few minutes, a huge shadow slowly passed over the seemingly calm sea.
Yunmian had seen such a shadow last night. It was a huge ship sailing and sinking on the sea.
"Someone is coming..." Yun Mian said slowly.
She finally remembered the plot in the fairy tale at this moment, where the mermaid princess hid behind the reef and watched the prince mistake another princess for his savior.
She turned and looked at the Mermaid Princess.
When the shadow overhead slowly passed by and stopped at the shore, Anriel carried the elf and swam back to the surface of the sea.
The originally quiet sea surface was now noisy.
Yunmian and Anlil hid behind a nearby reef and witnessed together a beautiful girl walking towards the prince and waking him up.
The gentle sunshine on the coastline in the early morning, the white seabirds circling overhead, and the sea breeze driving away the layers of waves...
There is also a prince in distress and a beautiful princess who saves him.
It seemed as if the whole world had turned into a beautiful background picture that set off the meeting of the two people, and Yunmian and Anlil were just peepers hiding in the corner witnessing this beautiful encounter.
Anriel watched all this quietly, watching the prince bow to the human girl with eyes full of gratitude and amazement, watching them chat with each other tentatively with smiles and a bit of shyness, and watching the prince finally board the huge ship and return to his country from nearby.
The seabirds cried hoarsely above their heads, as if mocking her for having planned for so long and coming to nothing, and in the end she was only paving the way for others.
Yunmian flapped her wings and flew beside Princess Yuyu, biting her fingers unconsciously, her little face full of confusion for a moment.
Anriel accidentally saw the little girl's solemn and tangled expression at this moment, and couldn't help laughing and asked her: "What are you thinking about?"
Yun Mian glanced at Princess Yu Yu in a tangled manner, then looked at the huge ship sailing away with full sails. With a puffy face, she reached out and poked Princess Yu Yu's delicate face, muttering softly, "Sister, you saved Eric and me, but...but you were also the one who let the sea water overturn and drown us..."
This contradictory cause and effect relationship made Yun Mian at a loss as to what to do for a moment even when she saw that the life-saving grace that belonged to Princess Yu Yu was claimed by another princess in the plot.
If I tell Eric that it was Princess Mermaid who saved him, then it was also Princess Mermaid who caused him to fall into the water...
If I don't tell her, I feel like it's not a good idea for another princess to claim to have saved my life...
The child was so entangled that his simple thoughts were almost tangled into an unsolvable tangle.
Anriel was stunned for a moment, only then did she realize that what happened last night was not unknown to everyone, and the little elf beside her actually knew that it was she who caused the storm.
"Then why are you following me? Aren't you afraid that I will eat you as food?" Anriel looked at the cub in front of her, the smile faded from her deep eyes, and there seemed to be some unfathomable crisis hidden in her coldness.
Facing her dangerous gaze, Yun Mian scratched her head, then pinched the round little pearl on her neck and moved closer, saying obediently: "Sister could have eaten me when I wasn't awake, but you didn't, and gave me a beautiful little pearl, a beautiful shell nest, and sister was willing to let me touch your beautiful tail!"
The more she spoke, the happier she became, and the more determined she became. Finally, the little girl held the pearl in her hands and said with a smile, "Sister is the best fish princess, and she won't eat me!"
The best mermaid princess is the princess sister who can let her touch the fish tail.
What's more, she has a fairy tale filter for Princess Mermaid. In her eyes, Princess Mermaid is the best, most innocent and most powerful princess sister.
The prince and the other princess sister together are not as important as Princess Fish alone.
So the children’s hearts are actually biased from the very beginning.
She seemed unaware that her words had inadvertently soothed the somewhat dangerous Fish Princess. After she finished speaking, she was too lazy to use her wings to fly, and instead continued to lie on Anriel's shoulder, curiously looking at the undulating waves in the distance where the sea and the sky met.
He had no sense of crisis at all, let alone being angry and resentful towards the other person because of his near-death experience last night.
Innocent little fool.
Anriel tilted her head to look at the little guy lying obediently on her shoulder playing with his hair. The danger in her eyes faded a little, and was replaced by some inexplicable helplessness and tenderness.
Mermaids are not a kind race, but this little girl has never known what evil is from birth to now. Instead, she is like a piece of white paper. Even if others deliberately paint strange paints on her, she will paint them herself and turn those paints into cute flowers, grass, dogs and fish.
Anriel said nothing more.
Eric had been taken away from the sea by other humans, and it was too late for Yunmian to follow him. Anriel did not ask the original question and took the elf directly back to the mermaid's tribe.
As soon as she came back, several other mermaid princesses gathered around her, curiously asking her how things were going.
They all knew Anriel's original plan, which was to deliberately save the prince and get to know him, and then find a way to get to the land from the sea, so that it would be much more convenient for her to live in the human world. At least with the support of the prince, the power of a country would be much stronger than her alone.
Anriel could even ask the prince to find a human wizard and ask him to help her transform her fish tail into human legs, so that she could temporarily walk freely in the human world, and then slowly find the eternal secret of the human soul.
But now Anriel came back.
In the brief silence, as expected, Anriel shook her head and said calmly, "He was rescued by someone else. I didn't have a suitable opportunity to appear."
This also indicates that the prince probably can't take this path for the time being.
“…Then we can only go find the sea witch?” Several mermaid princesses frowned worriedly, not knowing for a moment whether they should persuade their sister to give up or help her think of other solutions.
Perhaps every race has its own special existence that can communicate with the gods and heaven. Humans have wizards, and in Hitya, there are the more mysterious sea witches.
But this sea witch does not often appear in their tribe, and many little mermaids don't even know of the existence of the sea witch.
The sea witch mainly serves the mermaid royal family. When Anriel was just born, the sea witch made a prophecy for her.
"The youngest princess will have the most perfect appearance, the most flawless heart, and the most intelligent mind. She is the child blessed by the sea god."
"She was destined to return to Hitanya's arms when she was fifteen years old and turn into the lightest foam on the sea. This was the fate the sea god had chosen for his most beloved child."
Because of the prophecy of the sea witch, Anriel was closely protected by the mermaids since she was born. She was not allowed to come into contact with dangerous humans or face the violent storms at sea. But this was not a secret. Anriel heard her predetermined fate from her tribe members when she was very young.
So she tried to fight against fate, she wanted to make her soul exist forever.
But the first road seems to be blocked.
Eric and the strange girl returned to his country, and Anriel lost the opportunity to contact humans. If she doesn't find a way to make a change, she may not be lucky enough to wait for the next encounter.
Therefore, her sister and tribesmen did not try to stop her from making all her seemingly willful decisions. Instead, they prayed for her in secret, hoping that she could change her fate as predicted by the sea witch as soon as possible.
"Perhaps the sea witch had predicted this day long ago." Anriel said calmly as she and her sisters swam deeper and darker into the sea, "Perhaps she is waiting for us to arrive."
Good night~
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution:
10 bottles of olive oil;
Endless Night 5 bottles;
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