No, I think if it’s only to the extent you mentioned, then the mermaid ancestors of this interstellar world should not be able to beat the mermaid ancestors of the underwater world, nor me.

Ji Mingjiang retorted silently in his heart, and then formally thought about the information revealed in Cliles' words.

So, the truth of the matter may not be far from what he guessed at the beginning?It's just that the only difference is in the position of the royal family?

Although Cliles didn't seem to know much about these histories, Ji Mingjiang still asked this question.

"Then do you know how the mermaid became what it is now?"

Sure enough, Cliles shook his head. He has never been very concerned about things other than safety of mermaids.

After taking office, he was busy dealing with the traitors in the empire and taking back the planets belonging to the empire from the robbers of the federation. After the situation stabilized, the disputes between the old and new nobles in the country and his own spiritual problems were another big problem.Trouble, how can I have the energy to care about whether there is any abnormality in the mermaid's personality.

"But if you want to know..." Ji Mingjiang said after seeing Cliles being silent for a moment, "I may have recorded something in my parents' diary, and I can show it to you."

Ji Mingjiang: "?"

"journal?"

He didn't understand, did the imperial family write diaries instead of archives to record these things in the empire?Is your royal family too casual?

"...What are you thinking about every day?" Cliles' helpless voice came from the top of his head, and it was only then that Ji Mingjiang realized that he had unconsciously spoken out what he was thinking just now.

"I'm going to get the diary, and bring back the dinner by the way." Looking at the time, it was time for dinner.

After Cliles went out, Ji Mingjiang slowly slid down the pool wall, buried half of his face in the cold water, and then his mind calmed down from the series of messages.Neglected details are also reproduced in the mind.

The tulle-like blue tail fin swayed in the water, and Ji Mingjiang exhaled a string of bubbles in the water.

When Cliles mentioned the diary of the first emperor and empress, he seemed to have some negative emotions?

——Although he usually has an expression of helplessness and indifference on his face, which hasn't changed much just now, but Ji Mingjiang's unique emotional perception buff still told him the news

Why?Could it be that apart from the hobby of keeping a diary, the couple also like to record in the diary the stupid things their children have done since childhood?

It wasn't until he got the diary that Ji Mingjiang vaguely understood the origin of Cliles' emotions.

It was a very thick diary, and the paper was a little yellowed. It was obviously completed by two people.One has delicate strokes and restrained strokes, while the other is written in a very wild and uninhibited manner, regardless of whether the person who gets this diary can understand it or not.

The number of pages is marked on the lower right corner of each sheet of paper, one page per day, Ji Mingjiang directly turned to the end, and the sheet marked page 3650 was still full of records.

He flipped through it roughly, and basically every few weeks, a vivid little mermaid would be drawn in the diary that day, from the first year to the tenth year, without interruption.

The appearance of the little mermaid has also changed from occupying only two or three horizontal grids at the beginning to occupying a quarter of the paper.

Ji Mingjiang can even see the character growth of this little mermaid from the too vivid sketch.

From the evasive eyes at the beginning to the cheerful and bright smile at the end, it is more close to saying that this is a mermaid's growth record book than the diary of the husband and wife.

As for why Cliles has such emotions...

Ji Mingjiang glanced at His Majesty the Emperor who took out the food from the space button.

He made wild guesses and didn't ask for evidence at all.

Gamble a meal, it is definitely because there are mermaids and mermaids in this diary, and the mention of Cliles is not even a tenth of the space!

"cough."

Living in someone else's house still needs to show some face to the owner. Ji Mingjiang gently closed the mermaid record booklet, pretending that he didn't find anything and said to Cliles, "What's for dinner today? I'll eat it.Let's see if we can find any information from the diary."

Layton glanced at him, not knowing if he noticed the sudden change of subject as if he was concealing it, but just put the dinner plate that he had just divided in front of him.

Probably because many people in the interstellar era have significantly improved their physical fitness and food intake after having the orc gene. Dinner is not as light and small as Ji Mingjiang's previous life. It is still full of rice and four dishes with meat and vegetables.

After Ji Mingjiang took his share, he was eating a piece of fish when he heard Cliles suddenly talk to him about the diary.

His voice was a little low, but there wasn't much sadness in it. When Cliles talked about his parents, there was more nostalgia and relief.

"About when I was four years old, my mother brought back a little mermaid from the Mermaid Conservation Center, which is now the Mermaid Breeding Center."

If other people say the word little mermaid more because he is cute or to express affection, then the little mermaid that Cliles said is just acting as an adjective.

After all, according to his memory, the mermaid was not as long as his forearm when it was first brought back.

Although Cliles said he could listen to it while eating, just treat it as a story.But whether it was to show respect for the deceased or not to miss key information, Ji Mingjiang decided to finish the meal quickly.

Condemning with his eyes why Cliles wanted to talk about business while eating, he hastily took a sip of fish soup and swallowed the food in his mouth.

"Okay, keep talking." With a breath, Ji Mingjiang signaled.

"..." After a moment of silence, Layton continued.

"Actually, I don't know what they want to do. I just remember that after taking the mermaid back, my parents put most of their energy on him. After a while, they sent him to class with me.gone."

Speaking of this, Layton's face was obviously a little hard to explain. God knows what those two geniuses were thinking.

At that time, the mermaid would show some stress when entering an unfamiliar environment, unlike Ji Mingjiang, who was as natural as returning home wherever he was.

So he has always liked the cute cubs, the queen mother, with a big wave of her hand, hastily moved his study place from the study to the mermaid's small room.

"Wait." Hearing this, Ji Mingjiang couldn't help interrupting him, "So my little villa is where the little mermaid lived?"

He was a little surprised. After all, it sounded like this mermaid was weaker than the mermaids he saw in the mermaid center. Cliles' parents let him live in a pool connected to the lake outside?

"Of course not." Hearing this question, Layton wondered if he had misunderstood something, and then explained with a subtle look in his eyes, "I'm not so poor that I can't even clean up a new room."

"And that pool is too deep, that mermaid will really drown."

"!"

Ji Mingjiang was greatly shocked. Can fish really drown in water?!

"This possibility is very high. When the mermaid first arrived in the new environment, it was too afraid to choke on the water." After Layton answered his question lightly, he picked up the previous words and continued.

"My parents probably want that mermaid to understand the common language. It would be even better if he could learn it. In addition, they are also very concerned about correcting his personality. Basically, he spends most of his time when he is not in government affairs.Enter the mermaid."

And people's energy and time are limited, and most of the time is allocated, so the time and energy left for the still young Klaras will naturally be much less.

Ji Mingjiang got what he hadn't finished.

"That's why you hate mermaids so much?" Thinking of the indifference and annoyance surrounding Cliles when they first met, Ji Mingjiang suddenly realized.

Is it because of anger caused by childhood experiences?

But to his surprise, Cliles quickly denied his guess.

"I'm just sick of all weak creatures that have to depend on others to survive."

Because of his too indifferent tone, Ji Mingjiang looked up subconsciously, and at a glance, he bumped into the depths of Cliles' too deep golden pupils.

The posture of bowing his head with his back to the light made Cliles' original bright golden pupils darken a lot at this time, and he heard the young and promising His Majesty who was fully able to bear the burden said indifferently: "Including myself at that time.”

There was a sound of "哗啦", and Ji Mingjiang's tail fluttered uncontrollably under the emotion of being overly surprised, and the scattered water splashed broke the overly dull atmosphere at this time.

Ji Mingjiang glanced at Cliles, and the tail fin lightly swept over the back of his hand, leaving a clear water mark.

Layton glanced at him and didn't speak, but his tense emotions from recalling that period of time eased a lot.

He changed to a more relaxed posture, stroking the thin tail fin that Ji Mingjiang put on with his fingers, and briefly talked about his experiences before he was 14 years old.

"That mermaid was probably taken away by my parents when he was very young, so his personality was cultivated very smoothly. I usually chat with him when I go to his room to find my parents."

When Cliles spoke, his fingers unconsciously lit the caudal fin in his hand, and a trace of itchiness spread from the tail all the way to Ji Mingjiang's brain, and he moved inappropriately.

Fortunately, didn't eat too much just now.

Seeing that the tail could not be pulled back in a short time, Ji Mingjiang silently rejoiced after spurning Cliles' inappropriate behavior in his heart.

"...everything after that was normal. After the mermaid's condition improved, they also made up for the part of my attention that I lost these years. Until then, except for the initial confusion, I never hated the three of themany of the

...What is until then?

Ji Mingjiang's ears fluttered, and he felt that the next thing might be the focus of what Cliles said.

After glancing at Cliles' expression, Ji Mingjiang silently added: It may also be a turning point in Cliles' life.

Sure enough, in the next second he heard Cliles continue to say, "When I was 14 years old, they took some guards to inspect other galaxies, and they wanted to find an energy star for me as a birthday present. ThenEncountered an ambush by the Federation on the road, neither the 20-member bodyguard nor the emperor and queen survived."

Ji Mingjiang's pupils shrank suddenly, but Cliles continued.

"Shortly after the news of the death of the emperor and empress came, the capital planet fell into chaos. The old nobles headed by the Kord family wanted to let me go. There were also people in the palace who had been inserted in the palace long ago.No peace inside."

"Half a month has passed since I cleaned up the affairs of the palace, suppressed the ambitions of those nobles, and executed all the Kodds who took the lead in attempting to usurp the throne."

"..."

Layton was silent for a moment before speaking.

"Then I found out that the mermaid was missing."

Hearing this, Ji Mingjiang asked in a daze, "Did you get kidnapped by those nobles?"

After all, a healthy mermaid is very precious even now.

But Cliles shook his head when he heard this, "After I found out, I went to search all the homes of the nobles at that time, and I also used the most advanced detectors at that time to find out their basements and searched them.None found."

At that time, before Cliles could get out of the shadow of losing his parents suddenly, he immediately discovered that the only mermaid who had grown up with him and could be his sustenance for his parents disappeared without knowing his life or death.

And he attributed all this to his own weakness at the time???

Ji Mingjiang looked at him in disbelief. Does Cliles remember that he was only 14 years old?This guy needs some counseling!

After Layton finished these words that had been accumulated in his heart for more than ten years, he came back to realize that Ji Mingjiang's tail was still in his hands.

Glancing at the mermaid who didn't know what he was thinking, he gently put the tail fin in his hand back into the water, and put the dinner plate pushed aside into the space button before standing up.

Suddenly a shadow was cast in front of him, and Ji Mingjiang, who was still trying to equate spiritual counseling and psychotherapy in his heart, looked up blankly, with a diary stuffed in his hand.

"After that, I didn't take care of it except to ensure that there would be no safety problems in the mermaid breeding center. I think my parents raised that mermaid at that time, it was definitely not purely for spiritual counseling or raising a child.other purpose."

Cliles leaned down and pointed his finger at the shell of the diary, "There may be records in it, you can look for it yourself. If it is really as you guessed, the change of the mermaid was maliciously guided by humans, I willFind an opportunity to take you to the royal family's archives to look at those sealed files."

After Cliles left, Ji Mingjiang put the diary aside in a swollen head, turned his head and turned on the optical brain, and began to search for information about the mermaid mentioned by Cliles.

Finally, after he exhausted all kinds of related words, he found a screenshot of the star network in a corner.

It was a picture of a man and a woman walking off the starship with a little mermaid in their arms at the gate of the palace.

The content of the text is "His Majesty Berek and Queen Shanas seem to have adopted a juvenile fish? I heard they call him Crow Krilles. Is this okay?"

Ji Mingjiang was taken aback when he saw it.

Surname Cliles?Did you just take the royal family's surname as soon as you took it back to the palace?