A red string? Wan'er's eyes lit up. This was the only thing her mother had emphasized. Could it be...?
She quickly got up and went back to the bedroom. Wan'er picked up the cotton pillow, laid it flat on the bed, and reached in through the opening...
After groping around for a while, Wan'er found something soft in the corner on the right. She grabbed it and pulled her hand out.
Thin, like blood vessels on a person's body, bright red, looking at the red string in her palm, Wan'er felt a strange heartache.
Could it be? It doesn't look like a key at all! Wan'er sighed dejectedly.
"This is the key." A sigh came from behind. Mercury had appeared behind Wan'er without her noticing. His nostrils twitched slightly, and his gaze was somewhat deep. "It is a blood vessel taken from your mother. Because you are a combination of human and aquatic, you are naturally different from ordinary people. Therefore, after you become an adult, your birthday is the most vulnerable time of the year, and also the time when your half-human, half-mermaid characteristics are most likely to appear."
To prevent you from revealing your true merman form, your mother went to great lengths, channeling a portion of her spiritual power into this tiny blood vessel to suppress your sexuality…
"What? So it really is a blood vessel! Or..." Upon hearing this, Wan'er's hand trembled, and the red rope she was holding almost fell to the ground. Tears instantly welled up in her eyes. No wonder her mother had a silk scarf tied around her wrist back then.
Moreover, her complexion was also...
"This is the greatness of maternal love, sigh!" Mercury shook her head and sighed, then walked to the window, glancing around and carefully examining the outside world before quickly pulling the curtains closed. She then turned back to Wan'er, saying, "Now that everything is out in the open, we must face it bravely. We must be even more careful. Perhaps countless eyes are watching us. In these extraordinary times, we cannot be careless."
"I think I understand now." Suppressing her heartache, Wan'er nodded solemnly, "Why did Uncle pretend to be Brother Er Gou on his way back?"
"Wan'er is clever. So you saw through me all along, which is why you insisted on bringing me back." Mercury laughed, tears streaming down her face. "I thought I wasn't pretending well enough."
“Although I don’t quite understand what I’m going to do, I believe your words and I trust my own judgment, so I’ll go open the box now.” Yi Wan’er felt a pang of sadness. She shook her head and then nodded, walked to the cabinet next to her, reached out and opened it, took out the wooden box from the top shelf, turned around and placed it on the bedside table.
As she reached out and inserted the red string into the keyhole, a magical force drew the string in...
"Buzz!" After a strange sound, the wooden box popped open with a "bang!" and a ball of flame, carrying heat, sprang out of the box. After floating in the air above the box for a few seconds, it chose its target and began to rotate around Wan'er's body. The entire room became dazzlingly bright because of the flame.
At that moment, the curtains fluttered, and with a "whoosh!" sound, a black hole was pierced through the curtains from the outside in, and a black, egg-sized spherical mist chased after the red flames...
"Oh no!" Mercury, standing behind, exclaimed inwardly, before he could even react.
Dark Elf! "Wow!" The little prince had already leaped up, opened his mouth, and swallowed the black mist in one gulp.
"Gulp!" After swallowing the black mist, the little prince tumbled off the bedsheets...
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