Chapter 50 (1/2)

They both love you

With his two hands on the edge of the small pool, the little mermaid whose ice-blue tail was swaying under the surface, pulled himself up and lifted his head. His blue eyes were looking at the two parents who were nestled against each other nearby.

The little mermaid first looked at the man standing on the left, then turned his eyes to the youth on the right. He then finally shook his tail fin lightly.

Xie Tao originally intended to hold him for a few seconds, then let go. But the tail around his waist and the other’s response of hugging him back lengthened those seconds into more than ten.

In this kind of situation, where it could be said to be almost no gap between the two of them, Xie Tao’s right cheek inevitably rubbed against the silver hair of this Knox. It was very cool and soft to the touch.

Xie Tao also touched the silver hair with his hand, you could see that it was very good quality.

Some more seconds passed, but Xie Tao did not feel that the Knox intended to let him go anytime soon.

At this close distance, Xie Tao had realized that in his adult form, the Knox was a little taller than him. He was actually almost half a head shorter.

Discovering that the mermaid cub in the small pool was looking straight at them with bright blue eyes, Xie Tao reached out and patted the silver tail around his waist. He then stepped back once it slightly loosened its grip.

When mermaid cubs returned to the water, they recovered quickly.

Xie Tao walked over with a chair and sat down by the small pool. He watched the cub play around in the water for about ten minutes, then picked up the mermaid cub from the pool.

Preparing to go out, the silver-haired Knox standing next to him returned to his cub form and jumped onto the youth’s lap.

Xie Tao tied the cloak for the Knox cub and held both cubs in his arms.

When he stood up, he felt some movement. Xie Tao looked down just in time to see the mermaid cub laying to the left reach out and grab one of the small horns of the Knox cub sitting next to him.

The Knox moved his tail slightly, but did not dodge, as if allowing the action of the mermaid cub.

It was a quite nice atmosphere. But how come he felt that the interaction between the two seemed to have changed a little over the night….

It was time to go back to Gaia today, but before leaving the planet, Xie Tao had one last thing he wanted to do.

It was not something he had come up with at the last minute. Xie Tao had thought for some time that since they were going to Hailumite, maybe he would let the mermaid cub he brought with him meet his late biological parents.

The idea was to take the cub to the cemetery to visit their gravestones.

The mother and father of the mermaid cub had departed very early and Xie Tao did not know what attitude the parents of the little mermaid had towards the cub. But at least the abandonment of the cub had not been done by them.

As the central city of Hailumite, Sailou had the most famous and largest cemetery on Hailumite. Every leader of the mermaid race and many heroes rested in this cemetery.

Some prestigious families in the mermaid race also choose to bury their family members there. It was based on this information that Xie Tao came to the cemetery with the two cubs in his arms.

After he arrived, he first tried to find the manager of the cemetery to further inquire about the matter. Following the directions given by the other, Xie Tao went to an area in the Osidiun Cemetery which was designated for the Houdie family.

Depending on their status in the family, there were obviously differences in the location of the gravestones among the members of the same family. The gravestones of the family heads were undoubtedly in the most prominent position and were not hard to find.

According to the fact that the father of the mermaid cub was the second son of the current Houdie family’s head, Xie Tao scanned the first two rows of gravestones. He finally spotted the names he was looking for in a relatively remote position on the second row.

To Xie Tao’s surprise, in front of the gravestones stood a seemingly still young-looking woman.

The other was clearly there to worship. From where Xie Tao stood, he could see that there was a bunch of fresh flowers in front of the two graves which were connected at the sides.

Xie Tao did not want to bump into the other, so he didn’t go over directly and instead went to stand in a relatively distant position while waiting for her to leave.

But it just so happened that when the other was about to turn around and leave, her line of sight ended up in Xie Tao’s area.

It only took one glance. When the mermaid woman saw the golden mark on the forehead on the mermaid cub held in the human youth’s arms, she showed a very obvious shocked look.

Unfortunately, he had been seen by a member of the Houdie family, but Xie Tao did not feel that he needed to panic.

As long as that family wanted to restore their reputation, they could not do anything to him at this time and place. No matter how unpleasant to the eye they found him, they had to bear with it.

Moreover, Xie Tao did not sense any malice from the other.

Since it was like this, Xie Tao felt that he might as well just walk over to the gravestones with the cubs.

The mermaid cub nestled in the arms of the youth had been very quiet throughout the journey. Although he didn’t know where they were, he was being carried by his parent. The cub would have lightly shook his tail fin no matter where he was taken.

The blue sky, the grass, the cluster of flowers, and the upright stones. This was the picture reflected in the eyes of the mermaid cub.

The cub did not know what the upright standing stones were and what they represented.