I woke up to find myself as the villain's older sister.

"Closed?" Yun Qingyi frowned even more deeply, a hint of doubt in her heart.

“Yes,” the mermaid princess said. “You were away these past few days and missed the latest news announced by Father, but it’s not too late to know now.”

At this point, the mermaid princess paused and said solemnly, "According to the recent divination results of the sea witch, the energy at the bottom of the West Sea has been exhausted. In the near future, the West Sea will face the greatest catastrophe in its history."

"The best solution to this catastrophe is for all sea creatures to migrate to the South China Sea."

Yes, that's exactly what the mermaid princess in the room said. However, according to the plot, the mermaid race did not migrate to the South China Sea in the end.

This timeline should be the point at which the Mermaid Princess learned of the depletion of energy at the bottom and then persuaded the Mermaid King to migrate to the South China Sea.

After the mermaid princess finished speaking seriously, she curled the corners of her mouth, wanting to enjoy the astonished expressions of the people in front of her. However, after a while, the three people in front of her all looked calm and composed.

Aren't you all afraid?

"?" Yun Qingyi glanced at her. "What are you afraid of?"

Upon hearing this, the merman princess's eyes widened: "Migration, catastrophe, energy depletion—any one of these words, if spoken outside of this context, would terrify anyone who hears them!"

"Oh," Yun Qingyi responded softly, then ignored her.

Then he asked the mermaid princess, "Where are we going?"

She glanced around at the scenery. The difference between a thousand years ago and a thousand years later was too great. She couldn't recognize where she was at all. However, she had a feeling that the place the merman princess was going to take them to was not the merman palace.

Sure enough, upon hearing the question, the mermaid princess chuckled and said, "Of course, it's to my secret base."

"Mm." Yun Qingyi and the others all nodded slightly.

"Huh? Don't you have any questions? Aren't you afraid I might have ulterior motives and want to harm you?" Seeing that the group still looked calm and collected, the mermaid princess put her hands on her hips and angrily questioned them.

"Something on your mind?" Yun Qingyi raised an eyebrow. "Didn't the princess already have something on her mind after meeting us?"

"The Merfolk race has a difficult time of reproduction and their population is small. Although there may be a very few who do not like to interact with people, they would never fail to recognize their own princess."

Ji Zhaozhe glanced at the mermaid princess: "But since you rescued us, we've acted as if we don't know you at all, yet the princess hasn't shown any suspicion."

He then said calmly, "It's hard not to think deeply about this."

"They even put on an act to give us more information," Yun Qingrou said.

Upon hearing the three's words, the mermaid princess's delicate face flushed red, and she stammered, "You, you, you...?"

Yun Qingyi looked at her with a smile: "Although we know you have other ideas, we don't know everything. At least, we don't know what you need us to do."

"So, can you tell us about it?"

Upon hearing this, the mermaid princess's eyes showed vigilance, and she was extremely conflicted. Originally, she had planned to take the people to her territory to coerce and lure them, but now it seemed that the people in front of her were clearly not good people.

Even if they're on their own turf, they probably can't do anything to them.

The mermaid princess was shocked for the first time that she had so quickly given herself away.

You know, she had never been this passive since childhood.

The last time she was caught was because she stole oysters from the neighbor's merman aunt's house. Her friends betrayed her, and that's how she got caught.

She took a deep breath and mentally prepared herself for a long time. Her expression changed repeatedly, sometimes hesitant, sometimes doubtful, and sometimes furrowed.

After about fifteen minutes, as if gathering her courage, she cautiously looked at the group and asked, "If I told you, would you help me?"

"meeting."

"Huh??" You agreed so quickly?

The mermaid princess was clearly bewildered by Yun Qingyi's thoughtless tone; she had just prepared several compensation options.

They agreed without even having a chance to say anything?

Yun Qingyi had no idea what the mermaid princess was thinking. If she did, she would have sneered: all she wanted to do now was find the key clues to the whole thing so they could get out of there as soon as possible.

She was getting tired of being in this strange space all this time.