The river water was cold and deep. Huang Yiyao looked up and saw a little girl. She held her, her golden eyes shining.
"Princess, why are you always upside down..."
Is this the staff who came to rescue her?
She subconsciously held her hand, panicking and anxious: "Hurry up, it's a big fish!"
The girl blinked her eyes, waved her long tail, and said in a comforting tone: "Princess, I will take you to see the Great Elder. Don't be afraid."
Huang Yiyao was stunned...tail?
Huang Yiyao looked up from the tip of the blue tail and saw that indeed, the big tail was connected to the little girl.
By the way, Shui Yiyao is from the mermaid tribe.
She tried to take a long breath. She didn't feel suffocated at all in the water and could breathe easily.
She could hear things in the water and see things in the water.
It turns out that she is an amphibian, living both on land and in water.
She began to look at the girl in front of her. She was wearing an exotic short shirt and also had a long blue fishtail underneath.
This is a mermaid.
"You've been upside down all the time. Aren't you dizzy?" The girls curiously surrounded Huang Yiyao, who was lying at the bottom of the river like an upside-down onion, with her head down and her tail up.
Huang Yiyao: “…”
She tried to swim, but after swinging for a long time, she was still spinning in the same place like a head start.
Top-heavy.
God knows how fish swim.
How does the tail swing? Does it swing in a 90-degree arc or a 180-degree arc?
The mermaid girl suddenly looked towards the river again: "No, we have to leave, those humans are coming down."
She turned around, grabbed Huang Yiyao's hand, and rushed upstream like an arrow.
As they swam deeper, the water grew colder and colder.
After swimming for about ten minutes, the mermaid slowed down.
"Princess, we're almost there."
After a while, they saw a cave at the bottom of the river. It was very deep and dark.
But it does not affect vision.
"Don't be afraid, Princess. It's only a little dark here. We'll be there soon." The girl stopped in front of the river cave and spoke in a comforting tone, as if coaxing a child.
Huang Yiyao remained calm. Is Shui Yiyao so fragile that she needs to be coaxed?
But strangely, the soft and comforting voice seemed to really ease her tension a lot.
The little girl pulled Huang Yiyao into the dark river cave.
It was indeed very dark here, and Huang Yiyao unconsciously held the little girl's hand tightly.
Shouldn't mermaids be in the sea? Why are they in the river?
The little girl continued to coax her: "Don't be afraid, Princess. We will be there soon."
This river cave is very deep and long.
Huang Yiyao smelled a strong stench of decay. The deeper she went, the stronger the smell became.
She couldn't help but frown.
The little girl looked back at Huang Yiyao's expression and saw her frowning uncomfortably. She hurriedly explained, "We're only staying here temporarily. You don't know, but since you left, the shark tribe has been bothering us. We had no choice but to hide here. As long as the situation gets better, we can go back to the sea."
[——It’s all my fault.]
Suddenly, a voice sounded in Huang Yiyao's mind, a delicate girl's voice, with regret.
She paused.
Who is speaking?
She was about to investigate further, but she could not hear anything at all. But she knew it was not an auditory hallucination, there was indeed a voice in her head.
Shui Yi Yao.
"Princess, come in."
A steady voice sounded in the river cave.
Huang Yiyao swam in with the little mermaid.
The scene was uncomfortable.
It was a narrow cave, dark and gloomy, with dozens of mermaids huddled together. As she stepped into the cave, dozens of pairs of eyes looked towards her.
There was also a terrible fishy smell in the water - the smell of expired food, rotten mud, blood, and rotten fish and shrimp.
It's very pungent.
Huang Yiyao couldn't help but started coughing.
"Yabei, how could you bring the eldest princess in here directly?" An old man came up, frowned and scolded the mermaid girl.
Huang Yiyao was just about to say that she was fine, it was no big deal, she could just bear with it, but before she could say it, she started to feel dizzy and her head ached.
Even want to vomit.
Isn't it just that the environment is a little worse? Is that a big deal?
Is the mermaid's body so delicate?
wrong.
She suppressed the nausea and looked at the other mermaids, but none of them reacted.
But she really felt like she had trouble breathing.
Is she sick? She felt unwell from the moment she came in.
The old man said, "Hurry up and give the water-purifying beads to the princess!"
As soon as she finished speaking, someone handed her a golden crystal. She took it, and the air and water around her immediately became fresher.
Her breathing slowed down and she looked down at the beads in her hand. This thing was quite magical.
This is a piece of yellow quartz rough stone with clean color, few cotton spots that are almost invisible, and pure structure. It is obvious that it is natural and unheated. If it is used to carve a Yellow God of Wealth, the price will at least double.
However, although crystal carving and jade carving are of the same origin, crystal is harder and more time-consuming.
The old man walked over and stood in front of Huang Yiyao. He shook the scepter in his hand and said in a dignified voice, "Princess! It was I who asked you to come back. With all due respect, your plan has failed. Instead of wasting your time in the human entertainment industry, why not come back and lead our mermaid tribe? Let us not perish in this generation!"
Huang Yiyao was stunned for a moment, then nodded.
The Great Elder's eyes lit up when he saw Huang Yiyao nod. "Since you agree, you don't have to go back this time. Stay."
Although this part is not written in the original novel, Huang Yiyao can infer from the plot that Shui Yiyao did not return to the mermaid tribe, she stayed in the entertainment industry until her death.
Huang Yiyao really doesn't want to stay in the entertainment industry. After all, she is just an honest craftsman who can't sing or dance, and is not worthy of staying in the entertainment industry.
But the entertainment industry may be Shui Yiyao's dream. Now she is just temporarily occupying Shui Yiyao's body and cannot make decisions for her.
Put yourself in her shoes. If someone were to enter her body and then announce that he was quitting the jade carving circle to pursue another career, she would go crazy.
The voice that just appeared in her mind was not an auditory hallucination. If Shui Yiyao was still in this body, she would return the body to her.
Huang Yiyao thought it over and said, "I think you're right. But this is a big deal, and I need to think about it. Besides, I still have some unresolved issues in the human world."
The old man frowned and was about to say something, but stopped himself: "It's good that you still know how to consider it now."
"Bring a chair over for the eldest princess." The elder instructed the people behind him, then turned to look at Huang Yiyao and said, "Princess, I need to report to you on the latest situation within the clan."
Huang Yiyao: "No need for a chair. Just talk, I'm listening."
No one listened to her, but the tribesmen still brought the chairs over.
Before the chair was brought over, Huang Yiyao was still wondering how the mermaid would sit since she had no legs or butt. When the "chair" was brought over, she realized that it was a big shell and the person could just lie down in it.
The Great Elder was standing and talking, and she was lying down?
She clearly remembered one of Shuiyi's biggest flaws in the original novel, which was her pretentiousness and airs. In several interview programs, she had put her legs sideways on a chair.
In the variety show, everyone was standing, but Shui Yiyao said she was tired of standing and asked the production team to give her a chair or a bed.
It’s not Shui Yiyao’s fault, this is the environment she grew up in.
Huang Yiyao hadn't originally planned to lie down, but she miraculously discovered that her legs started to ache before the chair was even lifted up.
She frowned slightly, thinking this was a little unusual.
[Golden-scaled mermaids, of pure bloodline, are extremely rare. However, they are timid, sensitive, and easily broken.] The voice in her mind whispered again.
Huang Yiyao immediately had a big question mark in her mind.
The voice explained: [To put it simply, it means being spoiled and crying.] Crying? She hadn't shed a tear since her grandfather passed away.
"Pah!" The two mermaids placed the huge clam shell behind Huang Yiyao. She was thinking about something and didn't pay attention to the movements around her. She was suddenly startled by the sound of the clam shell falling to the ground.
At that moment, Huang Yiyao had a very real experience of this "spoiled". In that moment, she felt the earth shaking, as if the whole sky was about to collapse and fall on her.
"Why are you two so clumsy! Princess! It's nothing, don't cry!"
The person next to him suddenly spoke out in a hurry to comfort him.
Huang Yiyao: “?”
Crying?
She lowered her head, golden tears dripping from her eyes. She subconsciously reached out to catch them.
The golden bead fell into her palm and solidified into a pearl.
[Golden mermaid tears are worth a thousand gold.]
The voice said again.
Mermaid tears? She had seen this thing before, and it was recorded in unofficial history and myths and legends.
Before she entered the book, she had looked up a lot of information about mermaids because she wanted to carve the image of Shui Yiyao, a mermaid.
Mermaid tears are very precious treasures, worth a fortune, but because of this crime of possessing such a treasure, mermaids are often hunted on a large scale, and thus this race is always on the verge of extinction.
Huang Yiyao looked at the golden pearl in her hand in confusion.
It turns out that there really is such a thing as mermaid tears?
She looked up again at all the mermaids in the river cave. There seemed to be less than fifty of them. Were they almost hunted down?
"Princess, please sit down first and let me explain it to you slowly."
Huang Yiyao still lay in the clam shell and listened to the elder talk about the situation of the mermaid tribe.
Simply put, they escaped from the sea.
Escaped from the shark tribe's territory.
The sharks wanted to capture the mermaids and use them as breeding machines, but the mermaids were unwilling and found an opportunity to escape into the river.
But mermaids are sea creatures, and after staying in the river for so long, they have started to get sick to some extent. But they can't go back to the sea.
The situation is difficult.
The Great Elder said, "We need to proceed slowly. The sea is already polluted. Even if we return now, we will get sick."
"Even if we want to go back, we have to find a seawater purifier first."
Huang Yiyao listened quietly.
In short, the mermaids are in a very difficult situation now. What the Great Elder said about the mermaids dying out in this generation is not an exaggeration.
In summary, the mermaids are weak and poor.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
