The sound of the whip breaking through the air and the muffled sound of being hit on the body sounded in the dark basement.

The pool in the center of the room has been stained light red by the mermaid's blood, and a few black scales that have been whipped off are floating on the water.

In the room where there was no other sound except the muffled sound of the whip, a hoarse voice that obviously used the voice-changing period sounded.

"Crow, you are still so disobedient, just record a teaching video, why are you doing this?"

As he spoke, the man in a black robe and whose face was tightly covered by a mask let out a pretended sigh.

"Didn't those two Cliles also teach you at that time? Why, you are only allowed to receive education, and those mermaids who are still like little fools in the mermaid breeding center are not allowed to receive education? That's how your parents are.Taught you?"

Another whip was swung down, and the mermaid, whose arms were handcuffed to the floor tiles, finally let out a muffled groan. Looking at the black-robed man whose whole body was hidden, he gave a low laugh, and then the blood-stainedFlick the tail hard!

The man in black robe who was only one step away from him was instantly doused by a wave of water. Crow looked at him, his still bright eyes seemed to see that ugly and disgusting soul through the layers of robes and masks.

He spat bloody saliva at the man who swung his whip again, and a mocking smile rose from the corner of his dry mouth.

"The classes you recorded are worthy of education? Hasn't Layton let you old bastards see blood in the past few years, and all of you are suddenly confused about your position."

Under the scolding and lashing of the whip by the man in black, he calmed down and continued to taunt: "You dare not let me die, and this is the only way. I advise you to give up those ridiculous things quickly."Thoughts, if he could kill you once, he could kill you a second time, a third time..."

He raised his head and looked straight at the trembling man, "Until there is no one left to kill, until the glory of the shitty family that you have always been proud of is turned into ashes and swept into the sea by my tail!"

"Shut up! You shut up!!!"

The black robe swung his arms angrily, just when Crodu was about to close his eyes to meet the whip, he suddenly let out a dumb laugh uncharacteristically, with a soft and gloomy tone.

"So you still expect this Layton to save you, oh no, to save your family."

He sighed as if there was nothing, and said with pity: "But as far as I know, Layton never took care of the mermaid breeding center after what happened that year, otherwise, how could our people infiltrate the center?"It went so well."

Seeing the mermaid's eyes suddenly opened, he continued: "Besides, who in the entire empire doesn't know that Layton is a bloodthirsty lunatic, maybe he can't resist this year's mental attack, and he will be useless in the Chinese New Year."Died silently in the angry palace."

I don't know if he thought of that scene, but he suddenly laughed.

"Hahahahaha, our situation is very good, but you persuade us to give up! It's ridiculous hahahahahaha."

After a brief moment of light entered the basement, it was quickly swallowed by darkness. The sound of leaving footsteps and the sound of closing and locking the door sounded. After a while, Crow struggled to look up and look around.

After confirming that the idiot had left, he relaxed, his body began to twitch unconsciously, and he also began to adjust his floating posture while making a "hissing" sound of pain from his mouth.

The blood-stained water became clear again under the action of the water change system, and Crow also smelled a familiar smell of medicine.

"Heh." Feeling the pain in the wound, he sneered, not wanting him to die.

but……

Thinking of what the man said just now, Crow sighed.

He also knew the power of Layton's mental riots. At the beginning, Shanas wanted him to help with spiritual counseling, but he didn't know if his mental power was too weak to suppress the black dragon in Layton's spiritual sea.

Ah, he, his human half-brother, can't wait for the day when he messes up the spirit of that black-robed man and runs out to tell him the truth!

After all, in his impression, Layton already possessed the emotional intelligence of Zhu Gusheng when he was very young.This kind of emotional intelligence doesn't matter whether you like it or not, but it definitely doesn't please those delicate and weak little mermaids!

Today's Crow is still a good brother who is worried about his brother's untimely death, he feels the pain from his body and thinks happily.

Under the rippling water surface, the black fish tail turned into a pair of scarred legs for a moment, but then disappeared quickly, as if everything was just an illusion.

In the quiet bedroom, after finding that there was no useful information other than the photo that was too old, Ji Mingjiang sighed and turned off the optical brain.

Looking at the overly thick diary in front of him, he pinched the bridge of his nose, bit the bullet and began to rummage through it for the information he might need.

But to his surprise, the information revealed on the first page of this diary was enough for him to make up his mind.

"Star calendar 3518, November 18th. After discussing with Berrick, I decided to take a minor mermaid home. The younger the better, that's the only hope."

Ji Mingjiang froze for a moment, what hope?

He continued to flip down.

"Star calendar 3518, November 19th. Under the operation of the protection center, we successfully received a little guy who was just 6 years old. He is really small. When Layton was 3 years old, he was as tall as three of them. I andBerrick named him Crow, as if the sound is weak, we hope that the labels of weakness, weakness, and fragility that have been slapped on mermaids for a long time will be successfully removed one day.”

"..."

"Star calendar 3518, December 1st. Keruo has gotten used to the environment of the palace and will not be stressed anymore. It relieves Berek and me, and then we can arrange some simple courses for himYes. But recently, because he is worried about Crowe's health, he seems to be a little unhappy by ignoring Layton."

Seeing this, Ji Mingjiang couldn't help laughing. He knew that even if Cliles didn't show any jealousy now, he must have been very upset at the time.

And at the bottom of this page of the diary, a line of wild and scribbled handwriting was added to the blank space, and Ji Mingjiang recognized it word by word.

It is the handwriting of the former emperor, but the content is somewhat indescribable.

Probably Cliles' indifferent personality was manifested in his childhood, and his father took great pleasure in seeing his wife's distress.

"Hahahahaha who made that brat emphasize that he has grown up all day long, he is still a child after all!"

The content of the subsequent diary is the record of the little mermaid's learning progress and personality changes. Ji Mingjiang quickly scanned it, wrote down the key words, and then turned to the next page.

This record has continued for seven or eight years.

The sky outside was getting darker and darker, and Ji Mingjiang's posture of flipping through the diary had changed from straight back to lying on one side of his body by the pool.

He yawned slowly, a tear spilled from the corner of his eye, and then his eyes, which were squinted from sleepiness, widened instantly when he saw the next page!

"Stardate 3526, November 18th. Today marks Crow's eighth year as a member of our family, and we're all delighted to see his transformation. But he's only 14 now, and we're really going toTell him the truth?"

"Star calendar 3526, November 19th. After discussing with Burek, we decided not to tell him the truth directly, at least until he became an adult. Now let Crow give some lessons to those little mermaids according to the original planBar."

Most of the subsequent diaries recorded how to choose courses suitable for mermaids, and how to make Crow record the courses in easy-to-understand words. Ji Mingjiang read to the end, and the diaries came to an abrupt end on October 25, 3528.

"Star calendar 3528, October 25th. All the courses have basically been recorded, and it will be Layton's birthday in more than a month. Borek and I plan to choose a suitable energy star as hisBirthday present. In the spring of next year, these courses will be officially handed over to the Conservation Center, maybe at that time we can also tell Layton and Crow what happened to the Mermaid Clan, I hope everything goes well then."

Seeing this, Ji Mingjiang couldn't guess what happened after that. He gently closed the diary, sighed, and wrapped his fingers around his hair irritably.

Help, really don't set up flags indiscriminately, isn't this just a twisted saying that we will go back to our hometown to get married after I finish this battle!

After putting the diary aside to prevent it from getting wet, Ji Mingjiang took out his optical brain, and was about to send a message to Cliles to say that he had confirmed 80% of his guesses, when he inadvertently glanced at the top of the optical brain,Only then did I realize that it was already one o'clock in the morning.

"Is it so late... Let's talk about it tomorrow."

After deleting the line he just typed, Ji Mingjiang yawned.

Anyway, this matter can't be dealt with in a short while. At this stage, he only needs to know that the royal family is not the driving force behind the mermaid encounter.

When he was about to curl up his tail and go to sleep, his eyes glanced at the bed not far away.

"..."

"Wait..." He suddenly remembered something.

Ji Mingjiang murmured, "Isn't this the room of Cliles?"

So what about others?Could it be because suddenly recalled where went to a mental riot in the past?!

Just when he was about to dial Mr. Rowlett's communication, the door of the room was pushed open, and Cliles walked in with a tired face.

Looking at the diary on the ground, he first put it into the space button, and then explained to Ji Mingjiang with some worried eyes: "I went to the archives room after I finished handling today's government affairs.No record matching your guess was found in the files presented on the surface."

Ji Mingjiang frowned, and after telling Cliles the information he had just learned through the diary, he saw that his expression was obviously a little dazed.

After a few minutes of silence, Ji Mingjiang heard Cliles say: "If it is so important and secret that it needs to be passed on by word of mouth among immediate family members, then there may be some information in the darkroom of the archives."

"But..." At this point, he rubbed the center of his brows, "The dark room needs to be opened by the spiritual power of the emperor and the other five noble patriarchs. If any one of them is missing, it will be sealed forever."

"..."

Ji Mingjiang looked at him inexplicably, "How come the security guards in the archives room of your palace guard against even the emperor?"

They were all ridden on the head by the nobles, right?

The author has something to say:

Damn, although only one treasure had doubts yesterday, just in case, I'm going to yell out the loudspeaker: This article is 1v1 physically and mentally!!!

I don't really like the idea of cleanliness, so my 1v1 is the kind of cleanliness that you default from beginning to end. If it weren't for this setting, I would be the target of demining!No mark means no!

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Then the lottery was drawn yesterday. I didn’t expect so many cuties to like it when I first v. The number of people in the lottery is a bit small. I will do more qvq next time, dear!