Cub Raising Association Chapter 47

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Although it was only a song sung by a cub, the audience on the shore subconsciously started to slowly adopt a more serious attitude when listening. Some even became enchanted by the singing.
When they had first heard it, many adults of the mermaid race had thought that the cub's singing would be intoxicating once he grew up. But as they continued to listen, they felt that the cub's singing already had this kind of effect.
Not to mention that the strength of the singing had directly shown the cub's great talent, the mermaid cub's singing was also very beautiful. Its tone clean and elegant, it was almost unfair.
Speaking of... What about the parents of this cub? Pulling themselves away for the cub's enchanting singing, the audience on the shore began to look around. But they could not see any adult mermaid or merman go into the sea.
The parents of every cub who had gone up before this one, had all responded to their cub's singing.
Although there was no rule that the parents must do this, according to the customs of mermaid race, parents who loved their cubs would definitely respond at this time.
The cub had mustered up the courage to sing to their parents in front of so many people, if the parents who heard this song did not respond, it would be a bit hard to justify.
Moreover, the cub had put in a lot of effort into his singing, they could hear that the little mermaid must like his parents very much. If the parents didn't respond, how disappointed the cub would be..... As the parent who was currently being condemned in the hearts of the audience, Xie Tao was actually looking for a way to get close to the reef. His first reaction was to consider whether he would straightforwardly jump in and swim or not.
But when an adult of the mermaid race saw that he wanted to go into the sea, he pulled him aside and asked him about it. He then asked him to stay put and wait for a moment.
Xie Tao did as he was told and impatiently waited for bit. He could see that the little mermaid sitting on the reef singing was looking at him a little anxiously. Then a road leading to the reef at last appeared in front of Xie Tao's eyes.
Just like columns of stones rising up from the depths of the sea, round stone plates emerged from underneath the surface, creating a path between Xie Tao and the reef.
This was one of the environment simulators' functions. The administrators could manipulate the environment through the control panel when necessary.
Seeing a path appearing on the sea, the people on the shore were a little puzzled. Especially when a young man with black hair quickly stepped onto the path and started walking forward. The cogs in minds of everyone present all of a sudden did not seem to be able to turn.
Wasn't it the parents of the cub who should go pick the cub up? Why was a human walking over to the cub? However, the mermaid cub sitting on the reef was indeed looking at the youth, this made some people gradually start to react a little.
It was an artificial reef which could be regarded as relatively large in size. After swiftly walking over on the path, Xie Tao smoothly stepped on top of it.
The reef was uneven. Careful to not let himself slip and fall into the sea, Xie Tao approached the cub who was sitting on the edge of the reef singing to him. Bending down, he picked up the little mermaid.
In order to make it easier for the youth to move at this time, the Knox cub who originally nestled in the arms of the youth had taken the initiative to climb up onto the youth's shoulder.
"Nor'sifa utha..." The mermaid cub in the human youth's embrace did not stop singing. But when he had been picked up by the youth, the cub's fin had very distinctly begun to sway, gently patting the person holding him.
With the cub's blue eyes fixed on him, Xie Tao followed the cub's singing and began to try to lightly hum a tune that could respond to the cub's melody.
The mermaid race had an innate talent for singing, the parents in the mermaid race could therefore easily sing a song that integrated with and matched their cub's song without interrupting or overpowering the cub's singing.
Xie Tao did not have this innate skill, but he still really wanted to respond to the cub's song. So he could only try hard to hum and carefully feel his way forward.
There were no lyrics, no change in syllables, but Xie Tao managed to lightly hum out a melody that responded to the cub's song.
Although he was a human, the youth's voice was also quite pleasant.
Hearing the melody the youth hummed, the singing of the mermaid cub in the youth's arms quickly became full of joy. Whether it was from the song and the cub's body language, this obvious joy could clearly be felt.
Because of their racial characteristics, mermaids and mermen were much more sensitive than other races when it came to perceiving spiritual power. Even though they couldn't see what ability a person had, they could also detect them.
At this moment, the majority of the audience along the coast all sensed a very strong spiritual power.
The spiritual power sensed came from the melody lightly hummed by the human youth. The strength of the cub's song seemed to have been amplified by this spiritual power and slowly climbed a little.
Those of the mermaid race in the audience were once again in awe. They all felt that this was unimaginable, even in their race this level of spiritual power was quite outstanding.
With all of his attention focused on the mermaid cub singing to him, Xie Tao did not notice the others' shocked reactions.
The spiritual power released in the song was actually not Xie Tao's full power, but the result of him deliberately manipulating the power to appear lesser than it was.
Ever since he became aware of the fact that his spiritual power belonged to an extraordinary high category, Xie Tao had begun to learn how to control his power
It could be heard that after a lot of effort groping about, the melody the youth was lightly humming became relatively good at responding to the cub's song.
Although they didn't know why this little mermaid had a human parent, just from the efforts the youth put into responding to the cub, everyone there knew that he doted on his family's cub just as much as any other mermaid parent there.
Everyone on the shore felt that the mermaid cub with the ice blue tail must have sung the most pleasant song of the evening. So when the singing stopped completely, all of the people present instantly gave the warmest of applause.

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The rest coming soon...