Chapter 222 The Invisible Embrace
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The roar deep within the soul reached its peak!
All of Yan Xi's senses and consciousness rushed toward their arms, which were pressed together by skin.
This tiny, insignificant point of contact has become the only channel connecting two worlds and spanning a century.
Yan Xi instantly recognized who the person in front of him was!
The overwhelming joy of regaining what was lost was mixed with the intense bitterness of a century of loneliness, leaving him frozen in place, too afraid to even return the grasp.
Karin never expected that there would be real physical contact this time.
After a brief moment of surprise, she immediately pried open the bird's palm and wrote, stroke by stroke, "Yes, it's me."
"Flower..." She only wrote the first stroke of the character for pear before her hand was already tightly held by the boy.
Yan Xi nodded and spoke silently, "Huali."
Huali's eyes lit up, and she immediately gripped his hand even tighter, shaking it up and down!
*
Neptune Palace.
The enormous throne was neither chair nor bed, and Neptune's body was deeply embedded in it. He tapped his fingers absently on the table and spoke in a deep voice, "How about the offerings?"
Brother Xia had no words to express his grievances: "There's nothing unusual. He's been handling all the tasks arranged by the young prince recently."
A dark glint flashed in Neptune's eyes, but he remained silent.
Shrimp Bro secretly glanced around. The male merfolk around him had changed, but they still surrounded the hall with the deep-sea pearl, creating a magnificent scene that was breathtaking yet subtly unsettling.
After a moment of contemplation, Neptune slowly spoke, "Come to think of it... he should have grown up by now."
Upon hearing this, the silver-haired merman who was grinding ink for the Sea King moved almost imperceptibly. The angle of the giant clam shell tilted slightly, and his slender wrist naturally brushed against the back of the Sea King's hand on the armrest.
Neptune paused in his tapping motion.
His gaze remained fixed on the empty space ahead, yet an even heavier and more viscous pressure silently spread out.
The meek, silver-haired figure before them, along with all the merfolk in the hall, were instantly shrouded in the shadow of power.
Shrimp Bro suddenly closed his eyes.
He's blind!
"You haven't even gone to comfort Yuan'er for so long!"
Suddenly, a woman's voice, tinged with seven parts resentment and three parts coquettishness, pierced the silence of the hall like a poisoned coral thorn.
The beaded curtain was violently parted by an invisible force, and a graceful and noble scarlet figure, accompanied by a strong exotic fragrance, swept in.
The Queen of the Sea walked straight up to the King of the Sea, "How long has it been!"
As she spoke, the corner of her eye flashed like a sharp, icy blade, precisely and ruthlessly piercing the silver-haired mermaid.
The merman immediately lowered his head even further.
Mentioning Li Yuan Hai Wang gives me a headache. "I don't know what kind of bewitching spell that ghost cast on him. Oh well, I'll go check on him again tomorrow."
"That's more like it." The Queen of the Sea reached out her nail-painted hand and gently massaged the Sea King's temple.
At the same time, her still-burning anger blazed in her phoenix eyes, which swept over the attendants behind her like the most precise conductor's baton.
Just one look.
The tall guard appeared instantly behind the silver-haired merman. His hands, like iron pincers, roughly restrained the man's slender arms, covered his mouth, and dragged him away.
In the blink of an eye.
Neptune remained with his eyes closed, showing no sign of turning. It was as if what was being dragged away was not a breathtakingly beautiful servant, but an insignificant, rotting seaweed leaf.
Beside the hall, a dark passageway leads deeper into the palace.
A series of piercing screams rang out as whips amplified the poison relentlessly lashed the silver-haired mermaid's body.
If you look closely, you can see the outline of his facial features, and even the other merfolk in the hall look remarkably like him...
The excruciating pain felt like a million red-hot steel needles piercing the silver-haired mermaid's nerves in an instant!
However, this is only the beginning.
*
After a brief period of dazzling brilliance, the fireworks created by the fire-type cards returned to silence.
Yan Xi held Hua Li's hand tightly and led her to a smooth rocky beach. He silently swept away the sand with his hands before pointing it out to Hua Li.
Ao Bai, who saw through everything: "..."
The gentle seawater rippled around the two of them, and the once dull coral regained its color at that moment.
Almost as soon as Huali settled down, Yanxi slowly reached out his trembling arm to her.
But then it stopped midway in mid-air.
A century of tempering in the abyss had etched "plunder" into his instincts, yet only when facing this eternally shrouded moonlight did his deep-seated violence find its suppression by a more unfamiliar emotion.
—It is fear, but also cherishing.
Yan Xi's Adam's apple bobbed with difficulty, as if he were swallowing burning thorns. Hua Li turned her head in confusion, only to meet the boy's deep blue eyes.
It contained an almost humble, silent plea.
Is that okay?
May I... touch you?
This is real... Am I allowed to desecrate it?
After a slight pause, Huali grabbed his hand and shoved it into her face without saying a word.
She even rubbed her face against his palm like a puppy.
However, with this extremely gentle touch, Yan Xi's imitation froze, and the century-old ice fortress completely collapsed.
A tear fell again.
The soft-hearted girl sighed, "It's a good thing the Little Mermaid lives in the water, otherwise anyone else would have been dehydrated by now if they cried like that."
As she finished speaking, she gently caught the little pearl and slowly stood up to hug the boy who was crying silently in front of her.
Yan Xi's eyes widened in an instant.
As he was enveloped by the girl's warm body temperature, he suddenly lowered his head, his chin resting directly on Karin's shoulder.
In the deep sea, a sweet, unfamiliar scent of pear blossoms drifted by like wisps of water. The boy's hand, suspended in mid-air, trembled as he formed a tight embrace.
Amidst ruins and deep sea, with no way forward and no light, he finally "embraced" this unseen yet real phantom.
Shrimp Bro watched this scene from behind Guanlan, "Xiaoyu's condition has worsened again."
Guanlan nodded, "It's kind of scary to hug yourself."
Shrimp Brother recalled the scene he witnessed at the Sea King's Palace earlier that day. "Commander, judging from the King's expression today..."
Guanlan's eyes sharpened. "Try to keep Xiaoyu out of the King's sight as much as possible..."
*
Huali knew Yanxi was clingy, but she didn't expect Xiaoniao to be this clingy.
I stayed by her side almost every step of the way for a whole month.
Seeing yet another pearl emerge, Huali's eyes lit up, a bittersweet feeling.
Seeing the money made me happy, but I can't take it with me!
Even if she can't take it away, she has to pretend; this is her last act of defiance!
Yan Xi glanced at the smiling face on the seashell, thought for a moment, and finally asked the question that had been lingering in her mind for almost a month.
"Hualin, how did you get back?"
As Huali was stuffing pearls into her pocket, she blurted out, "Actually, I didn't..."
Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the cold voice of the headquarters system.
"Mission One: Kill the Demonic Dragon. Reward: Half a star."
"Task Two: Help the Child of Destiny break the illusion, but do not reveal any clues related to the illusion to him. Reward: half a star."
Huali: "??" Wait, who died?
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