Chapter 262 (Catching Bugs)
"--hiss!"
The sea snake with many patterns stared at the elf with cold eyes. After sensing her intention, it spit out its long, scarlet tongue threateningly at the bold elf.
It thought this would scare the cub away.
As a result, before it could wander back, it was suddenly grasped by a warm little hand.
At that moment, its entire body suddenly froze, as if it were held in the elf's hand like a thin stick. The sense of crisis of being held tightly by its flesh and blood made it dare not move. It could only stare at the extremely bold cub with its body frozen in disbelief.
At the same time, the sea witch who was originally handing a dagger to Anriel suddenly stopped, and along with the sea snakes swimming around her head, they all slowly turned their heads to stare at the elf cub that was pinching the sea snake on Anriel's shoulder.
Anriel was also shocked by this sudden change, and the heavy emotion that had been lingering in her heart because of the sea witch's words also inexplicably dissipated a lot.
Perhaps she did not expect that a tiny little cotton ball could be so bold and reckless, and could accurately pinch the vital point of a sea snake with just one hand.
The entire sea area seemed to be quiet at this moment.
Once again, the system was amazed at the host's ability to commit suicide.
In the strange silent confrontation, Yun Mian, facing many cold and inquiring gazes, stretched out her other little hand and curiously touched the long and slender tongue that the sea snake had half-sticked out and had not had time to retract.
Anriel's eyelids twitched at the sight, and she instinctively felt that it would be impossible for the little guy and herself to walk out of this sea area alive today.
The sea witch clenched the dagger in her hand more and more tightly, staring at the arrogant elf cub, as if she was thinking about how to use the dagger to cut her to vent her hatred.
Yun Mian felt nothing about it. The sea snake's tongue was icy cold, with a little bit of slippery chillness. Yun Mian pulled it out curiously, and the unfortunate sea snake finally came back to its senses from the huge shock and hurriedly retracted its tongue.
Its mouth was tightly closed. Its companions behind it, perhaps because they were frightened, also silently retracted their tongues that were constantly swallowing and spitting out their tongues. They decided to temporarily go against their instinct and be a snake that would not spit out its tongue.
So Yunmian's little hand touched the sea snake's head again, and she tapped its dense and hard scales in surprise. Finally, she happily shared with Princess Yuyu: "This little snake is so nice to touch~"
After saying that, he grabbed the little snake's seven inches and handed it to Princess Yu Yu, wanting to invite her to reach out and touch it and feel it.
Anriel: “…”
She could no longer ignore the sea witch's inky black face and strong murderous intent.
"Little Cotton, let it go quickly." She tried to calm herself down and persuaded the elf not to try to go to the edge of danger again.
Yunmian was a little reluctant.
The child held the little snake and thought for a while, then turned to look at the sea witch sister, whose face was dark for some reason, and smiled at her obediently, "Sister~ Can I buy this little snake? My mother and the tribesmen have never seen a little snake in the sea that can grow on a human head. I want to bring it back for them to see~"
Full of desire to share with fellow tribesmen!
Anriel: “…”
She was probably about to turn into foam on the bottom of the sea. It turned out that the prophecy of fate was fulfilled here.
But inexplicably, not only did she not feel any regret, but she also felt a strange sense of helplessness and smile in her heart.
Maybe it was because Little Cotton was too naughty and his behavior was too unexpected, so she felt that the sea witch must be a very well-educated fish to have been able to endure it until now without taking action...
"Sister? Is it okay?" Yun Mian did not get a response from the sea witch sister, and continued to fight for it: "I have a lot of sparkling gems, sister, can you sell the little snake to me? I will feed it sweet flower dew, make a soft nest for it, and take good care of it."
The little girl's eager look when she asked was very sincere. Of course, if she hadn't been holding the sea snake tightly, her words would have sounded even more innocent and kind.
Sea Witch: “…”
No one knows what kind of complex emotional fluctuations and thoughts the sea witch went through during this long yet short period of silence.
All we know is that when she took action, she snatched her snake back from the elf without hesitation, and then used her wide black fish tail to stir up the surging undercurrent on the seabed, and angrily expelled Anriel and the elf cub from the sea.
And after that, the entire sea area seemed to have an extra layer of barrier. If any fish wanted to explore it, they would hear the old and angry warning of the sea witch from the barrier: All cubs are prohibited from entering here!
Whether it’s an elf cub that’s not even a month old, or a mermaid cub that’s just turned fifteen, get out!
Anriel tried to enter this sea area three times with Little Cotton but failed: "..."
Yunmian sat on Princess Yuyu's shoulder, holding another small fish fry that was also unable to go in, feeling a little guilty. She seemed to have finally realized that what she wanted to buy was not a little snake, but the beloved hair of the Sea Witch sister.
If I bought that little snake, maybe the Sea Witch would become bald... No wonder she was so angry and even drove me and the Mermaid Princess out.
"Sister, I'm sorry..." The child lowered his head guiltily, leaned against the fish fin of the fish princess' ear, and promised in a low voice: "I will never pull the hair of the sea witch sister again."
Don't touch the little snake, don't pull the snake's tongue, and don't knock the little snake's scales...
Anriel was silent for a long time after hearing this, and finally left the sea area intact with the guilty elf.
The sea witch blocked this area of sea, and the second route she had originally planned seemed to be blocked.
She needed to go back and think carefully about what to do next to continue fighting against the inevitable fate of death.
On the way back, Yun Mian knew that she had caused trouble, so she quietly and obediently pulled Princess Yuyu's hair and did not make any more trouble to disturb her.
The system rarely sees the host being so well-behaved, but it is now a little troubled and at a loss. After all... the plot was lightly grasped by the host and completely collapsed in an instant. No one knows how the plot will go next.
The system stared at the progress of one of the task lines on the task panel, and then fell into a quiet confusion.
Compared with the other six task lines with zero progress, this line is moving forward at a speed as if being chased by a dog. Now it is clearly stopped at the 70% progress point, far surpassing the other lines.
So, can this be considered another lucky accident for the host?
It shares the progress bar with the host.
But Yun Mian didn’t quite understand. She didn’t feel happy about completing the task. Instead, she was rarely seen in a state of confusion and bewilderment.
"Why?" The system couldn't help but ask curiously.
The elf lay on the edge of the shell nest, holding his chin with his palm, sighed helplessly, and said sadly: "The Fish Princess doesn't want to stay in this sea forever. She wants to grow legs and walk on the shore, just like I will hide my wings and walk out of the Silver Moon Forest."
Yun Mian did not understand that stubborn and firm belief, but she keenly noticed Princess Yu Yu's loss and sadness in the past few days.
Perhaps in Princess Yu Yu's heart, not being able to leave the sea makes her feel far more unwilling than having her fate marked with an ending in advance.
"The fish princess gave me beautiful little pearls that can live in the sea."
Yun Mian lowered her head and pinched the white and round pearl on her neck, puffing her face and said sullenly: "But I don't have a gift to send Princess Yuyu ashore..."
The system was just about to comfort her, but after Yun Mian finished speaking, her lively eyes suddenly lit up, as if she had thought of something. She leaped and swam lightly out of the clam shell nest.
She found Anriel who was quietly staying in the garden, grabbed her long beautiful red hair and shook it gently. When Anriel looked over, she said to her softly, "Sister Yuyu, can you take me to the sea?"
Anriel was stunned for a moment and asked her, "What are you going to do on the sea?"
Without waiting for Yunmian to answer, she asked, "You want to leave Xitanya, right?"
Yun Mian looked at her suddenly cold expression, pursed her lips, and nodded obediently: "Sister, can you take me upstairs? Please~"
She didn't dare to swim upstream by herself, because once she left the mermaid's territory, she would be targeted by many big fish and sea creatures. Those creatures wanted to hunt her, and she didn't want to be eaten.
"...I'll send you away now." Anriel was silent for a moment, then reached out and held the little guy in her hand, just like she had held the unconscious elf from the sea before. She quickly swung her beautiful fish tail and swam to the surface of the sea with Yunmian.
When the waves broke and splashed onto the sea surface, the elf that was curled up obediently in Anriel's hand also spread its translucent green wings, turned around in the dim night, waved goodbye to her with a smile on his face.
Anriel quietly watched the elf's figure flying towards the beach that she would never be able to set foot on in her lifetime.
The moonlight was bright and cold, the waves were surging, and the mermaid with flame-red hair looked fixedly at the coast that had been beaten by the waves for years. She withdrew her gaze after a while, and fell silently into the cold and dark deep sea with the rise and fall of the waves.
Yunmian flew to the vicinity of the temple.
She folded her wings and chanted a spell to transform herself back into a human cub. This was a transformation magic cast by her mother on her, which would only become ineffective after a month, so it didn't take much energy for her to transform back.
Under the bright moonlight, the little girl with a delicate wreath on her head walked barefoot on the fine sand and came to a corner outside the temple. She knelt on the ground and tried hard to dig out piles of fine sand.
After a long time, she finally touched the small flower pot buried in the gravel.
Yunmian dug out the small nest filled with sand, looked up at the dense and bright stars in the sky, turned into an elf again, dug a hole in the small nest of flower pots and buried herself in it, closed her eyes and soon fell into a sweet and beautiful dream.
Parting was not sad for her. The long life of the elves made her no longer afraid of the so-called last meeting.
What's more, she came ashore to do something very important. She wanted to find a gift for Princess Mermaid to repay Little Pearl.
Yunmian has already thought about what kind of gift to give to Princess Yu Yu. Although it may not be as precious and special as little Pearl, it may still be a special enough gift for Princess Yu Yu.
With beautiful expectations for tomorrow, the elf cub turned over in the soft sand, pressed down the petal-shaped skirt that never wrinkled, and slept particularly peacefully and sweetly in the familiar nest.
Outside the nest, the system looked in horror at the Elf Queen, who was silently approaching the broken flowerpot covered in the cold moonlight. Knowing that the other party could not sense its existence, it still subconsciously blocked all its perceptions, leaving only a program to secretly scan and pay attention to the other party's actions.
Behind the Elf Queen, the four Elf guards also tensed their slender and light bodies just like the system.
Five full days have passed since the giant ship was overturned by the wind and waves at sea.
The inexplicable shipwreck that occurred that night made it difficult for the elf guards who had also sneaked into the coming-of-age ceremony to flap their wings into the water to rescue the drowning Little Cotton. Even one of the elf guards disguised as a human was rescued by Little Cotton.
When the wind and waves died down, they wanted to search for Little Cotton in the sea, but it was like looking for a needle in a haystack, so they could only use the Companion Leaf to immediately send a message to the Mother Tree of Life and the Elf Queen.
They lost the little cotton ball which was not even a month old.
But they didn't think that little cotton would sleep forever in this strange and boundless deep ocean.
The reply from the Elf Queen also confirmed this, so for the next few days, they stayed in this sea area, waiting for Little Cotton to come out from the deep-sea territory of the mermaid tribe.
At the same time, they also witnessed the scene where Little Cotton and the Little Mermaid Princess hid behind the reef and watched the prince and another human girl leave together.
They thought of the story about the mermaid princess that Little Cotton told them before she left Silver Moon Forest.
After that, I couldn't help but pay more attention to this prince.
So in just five days, the whole country of Narva spread the rumor that the prince was rescued by the kind princess of the neighboring country, that the two fell in love at first sight, and that the prince would soon marry the princess.
Everyone was expressing their condolences and blessings for the love between the prince and the princess, but only the four elf guards knew that the prince fell into the sea on purpose.
Because they had also seen with their own eyes that his royal highness, who fainted when he fell into the water, personally trained a group of palace guards who were excellent in swimming, and that they practiced underwater fencing in another closed water area every day, and even killed a large number of sea fish with swords in the water.
That is a place that the mermaids cannot reach, and it is the secret waters where the prince hides all his murderous intentions.
The elven guards watched all this quietly, worried that their little princess, who was not even a month old, would be inadvertently caught up in this death dispute. So after several discussions, they informed Her Majesty the Queen of the obscure situation between the Kingdom of Navarre and the mermaids, and asked her to make a judgment on the matter.
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