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

Chapter 181 Black Stone Tablet

However, although……

Yun Qingyi looked at the mermaid princess, her eyes still revealing suspicion: "No, the mermaids have always paid close attention to you."

Although this is a forbidden area, how could a teleportation archway have been built so blatantly without anyone noticing? Besides, I don't think your father is a complete idiot.

"Hehe, you're very perceptive, senior." The mermaid princess smiled. "If we hadn't taken any precautions, we really couldn't have kept it from them, especially Father."

"However, the construction of this teleportation archway can also be considered a coincidence."

After saying that, the mermaid princess walked to the archway and said to Yun Qingyi and the others, "Seniors, please take a look."

Upon hearing this, the three followed the mermaid princess's gaze to the area where the archway was located.

After taking a few glances, Yun Qingyi looked somewhat surprised: "The floor where this archway is located is actually different from the rest of the floor."

"Yes, that's right, the color should be darker." Ji Zhaoze nodded in agreement.

“It’s not just the floor.” The mermaid princess patted the archway. “I’ve also hidden a spirit stone inside this archway to block my father’s investigation.”

"Then what's the purpose of this floor?" Yun Qingrou asked.

"Finally, you've hit the nail on the head." The mermaid princess curled her lips and said, "This is the coincidence I mentioned earlier."

"When I was a child, Tusoliangwu and I often came to this place to play hide-and-seek and pretend to be treasure hunters. It was quiet and mysterious, even though the adults repeatedly told us not to come here."

But you should understand that kids are the ones who want to do the things they're forbidden from doing.

So this place once became a secret base for us merfolk.

"Back then, we once again sneaked out of the adults' sight and came to this place to play hide-and-seek. I remember the surrounding conditions weren't very good that day," the mermaid princess said, her brows furrowing slightly as if she were lost in memories.

"The water around me was flowing faster than ever before, as if it were forming an ocean current. At that time, I found it incredible, but I was so scared that I just wanted to find a place to hide."

At this point, the mermaid princess looked at the black stone slab beneath her feet and the broad reef beside her: "I hid in this place back then, and never dared to go out."

"I don't know how much time had passed, but then I suddenly heard Tuso and Liangmeng's voices. They were talking about something and calling my name."

I was pleasantly surprised to hear the sound, and then I noticed that the water around me had calmed down, so I prepared to walk out of the rocks to find them.

But before I could go out, they arrived at where I was.

"I watched them walk toward me, their conversation becoming clearer and clearer, but they seemed to be unable to see me at all, and they stopped right in front of me."

I was very confused at the time, and even called out to them a few times, but they couldn't hear me or see me.

“I was initially very panicked when this happened, but they were right in front of me, talking about things I had never known before. Before that, I had no idea that people could be so disgusting.”

At this point, the mermaid princess's eyes were filled with disgust: "They talked for a long time, and I listened the whole time. At first, I felt at a loss, sad, and disappointed, but eventually, I became disgusted."

"At that time, I just couldn't understand why someone who grew up with me could say such a thing."