The deep seabed.
As Sophia's singing began, the surrounding noise seemed to disappear in an instant.
Her voice is ethereal and pure, like the sound of nature, as if it can wash away the dust in people's hearts.
Hearing her familiar voice, all the mermaids who had time gathered around her, except for the few mermaids who were diligently guarding the city gate.
They excitedly waved their tails and quickly approached Sophia and the others. For a moment, the colorful, thin, and light fish tails, as thin as gauze and as graceful as cicada wings, almost dazzled Lingling's eyes.
At noon, most of the male mermaids went out to the sea to hunt, so most of the people who gathered around were female mermaids and some little mermaids.
Some of them wore light and gauze-like clothes, some wore simple shell clothes, and some even had long seaweed draped over their bodies, but without exception, they all had extremely outstanding looks.
When they saw clearly that it was really Sophia who came back, their eyes were filled with surprise, joy and excitement.
"Little Princess Sophia!"
"Welcome back!"
"Great! You're finally back!"
The mermaids all cheered, and Sophia stopped singing. Her delicate face, which usually showed no expression, now smiled brightly and charmingly.
"Hello everyone, I'm back."
There was a mermaid girl who might be more familiar with Sophia. She swam out from the crowded group of mermaids and circled around Sophia several times, looking her up and down from left to right.
"Hmm? Hmm~Hmm!"
Sophia was completely confused by her. Holding Lingling's hand, she said helplessly yet dotingly, "Ariel, what are you doing?"
Ariel, a mermaid girl with an orange fishtail and red curly hair, has a delicate little face the size of a palm. Under her curved eyebrows are a pair of clear amber deer eyes. At this moment, she smiles brightly, her long eyelashes blinking, and she looks lively and cute.
She opened her arms and gave Sophia a big hug, and shouted with a thankful tone: "Thank God, you are safe."
Sophia was holding Lingling's hand, so it was inconvenient for her to hug her back. So she patted Ariel's back gently with one hand and said with some emotion: "Yes, everything is fine."
As he spoke, he swam back a little, let go of Ariel, looked at the mermaids, bowed slightly and said gracefully: "Thank you all for coming to greet me. My brothers and I are safe. After you have seen this, please go back to your work so as not to delay everyone's business."
Seeing this, Ariel swung her fish tail gently, bowed more exaggeratedly than Sophia, looked up and winked at Sophia secretly, smiled slyly, and replied in a slightly choked voice.
"Oh~ Dear little Princess Sophia, we're fine, so we just wanted to see you. By the way, could you introduce these three friends to us? Oh~ Especially this little cutie."
After he finished speaking, the mermaids who had been secretly watching Lingling, Tag and Holly also pricked up their ears and decided to listen carefully.
Listening to Ariel's exaggerated and naughty words, Lingling giggled and began to introduce herself in a baby voice without Sophia's introduction: "I'm Lingling, and these are my uncles, hello everyone~"
Ariel and most of the other mermaids smiled kindly when they heard the little milk ball's introduction.
However, there were still a small number of older mermaids whose expressions were not very good, but due to the two brothers Sophia and Jeffrey, they did not say much.
Sophia noticed the different expressions on the faces of her tribesmen, sighed slightly, and added, "This is my savior, Holly, and this is his brother, Tag. They are all friends of the Tree People."
"Lingling is a child from their tribe. During the time I couldn't come back, she came to the lake every day to accompany me. This time, she even made a special trip to escort me back."
She didn't say much after that. She believed that her tribesmen were not unreasonable.
Sure enough, when they heard that the three people were from the tree people, not humans, and that they were going to save Sophia and escort her home, the expressions of the small group of mermaids who were not very happy about their looks eased a lot.
"Hello, three friends who have come from afar. I am the mother of these three siblings, Kalinda."
Suddenly, an extremely gentle voice came from behind the mermaids. It was the mother of the three mermaid siblings, the Mermaid Queen.
It turned out that a mermaid had confirmed that Sophia and her two siblings had returned, and immediately rushed to inform her.
The blonde, blue-eyed mermaid queen had vaguely heard her daughter's voice and thought it was just hallucination due to excessive grief.
When she heard someone coming to inform her of her daughter's return, she immediately swam out of the palace at a high speed. Her golden fish tail swung very fast, and from a distance, it looked like a bolt of lightning.
When she arrived at where Sophia and the others were, she slowed down and slowly approached Sophia from the middle of the path made by the mermaids, tears in her eyes.
Kalinda calmed herself down, greeted Sophia politely, and then, without caring about anything else, hugged her and kissed her cheek.
"Sophia! Sophia! Sophia..." Kalinda kept calling Sophia's name.
Afraid that their mother would be too emotional, the two Jeffrey brothers looked at each other, temporarily gave Lingling to Tag and the others, and then swam forward to hug their mother and sister.
"Mother, don't be excited. We are back. Everything is fine." Jeffrey spoke to comfort her.
Kalinda's tears fell one by one. Lingling, who was standing behind them, didn't need to pay too much attention. She just grabbed a crystal clear blue pearl with her little hand.
"My poor daughter, you are finally back. If you hadn't come back, I... I really don't know what to do."
Kalinda didn't bother to catch the pearls that turned from her tears. She silently rubbed Sophia's face with tears in her eyes.
The sad look made Tag and Lingling feel a little helpless, especially when the mermaids who had just seen their unhappy faces actually cried with their queen.
Pearls fell one by one on the road where they were standing, and Lingling didn't know whether she should help her aunts pick them up.
She keenly felt the heavy sadness and didn't quite understand why everyone was so sad after being happy for a while when Sister Sophia came home.
Fortunately, the twin brothers kept comforting Kalinda, and Sophia kept hugging her mother tightly.
After about ten minutes, no one stopped crying.
During this time, Tag took Lingling by the hand and quietly asked a male mermaid who was more emotionally stable.
"Brother, could you please tell us why the queen is so sad? We are afraid of violating taboos, so please tell us."
The male mermaid had a gloomy expression, but considering that they were Sophia's benefactors, even though he didn't want to say it, his chest heaved violently as he spoke slowly.
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