Along with Wilson's message came a photo of the mermaid.

The pale-faced mermaid has a skinny figure, and a slightly curly blond hair whose shape and color can be vaguely seen is no different from a bundle of dry grass at this time. The naked body is lying on the desolate ground full of gravel, and the exposed skin is scratched.There were many scars, and the blood oozing out soaked the ground under him so that it looked a little wet.

"My signal is not very good, so I won't post the video. This mermaid's tail is also very strange. I just patted him on the shoulder and he couldn't wake him up, so I patted his tail. Captain, you don't even know how scary it is! This mermaidThe tail is limp, it’s like being photographed in a puddle of mud!!!”

The three exclamations at the end vividly and vividly expressed the panic in Wilson's heart at this moment, and Ji Mingjiang could even imagine his expression.

Probably because the facial muscles moved so much that the sunglasses fell halfway, and the exaggerated mouth shape made his two mustaches fly up and down.

But Ji Mingjiang didn't bother to tease Cliles at this time, how could he have such a subordinate who was eager to perform, he frowned and carefully looked at the mermaid in the photo.

After a long time, he looked at Cliles with the same dignified expression, and said hesitantly, "This mermaid... shouldn't belong to us, right?"

"Take him aboard the starship, and come pick us up together."

After sending this message to Wilson, Layton nodded to Ji Mingjiang's question just now, "Let's change your clothes first, and we'll talk about it on the way back."

Reminiscent of the batch of accounts whose ip could not be found just now, Layton sighed, why didn't it stop for a while.

Xue Chenzao returned to the front desk and sat in a daze after seeing that nothing happened to Ji Mingjiang. When Ji Mingjiang and Cliles packed up their things and went there, they happened to see Wang Fu beating Xue Chen with a look of hatredlook.

Seeing that the boss was not the same as the boss and the employees were not the employees, Ji Mingjiang suppressed his smile, bent his fingers and knocked on the door frame twice, making some noises to attract the two people's attention.

"We have some things to go first." While talking, Ji Mingjiang turned on his optical brain, and relied on Xue Chen, who was slumped on the chair behind the front desk, not as fast as him, and quickly picked up the payment machine.

"drop."

A voice that haven't heard for a long time can't be counted. In the room where the crackling sparks sounded, Xue Chen paralyzed back under Ji Mingjiang's complacent expression, his gray-blue eyes were full of helplessness.

"I said I don't want you to give me money."

I don't know if it's because the brief exchange with the two of them just now gave him a new understanding of the characters of Ji Mingjiang and Cliles. Xue Chen seems to be a lot more relaxed than at the beginning.

After a big yawn in the warm and comfortable environment, he dragged his tone, complaining "Why do you have to meet me", "Jiang Jiang's live broadcast has helped me a lot, just nowIn that hour, my appointment phone calls were almost blown up, really, work is going to be busy again."

Although he complained, Ji Mingjiang didn't miss the slightly raised corner of Xue Chen's mouth.

"Don't talk about it, the manager behind you is staring at you."

Looking at Wang Fu silently clenched his fists, Ji Mingjiang smiled softly.

Xue Chen half-raised his eyelids, glanced to the side with gray-blue eyes, and waved his hands indifferently, "He's always been like this, and I'm used to it, but you and Your Majesty..."

Speaking of this, in Wang Fu's impression, Xue Chen, who has always been considered mild-tempered, saw contempt and contempt in his eyes that he had never seen before, but this emotion came and went quickly, when he looked up at Ji Mingjiang againMost of it has been eliminated, "I also saw those bullet screens just now, it's just a trick that the Federation has always been on the stage, don't take it to heart."

The two of them were still called in the previous sentence, but the latter sentence was directly addressed to him. Ji Mingjiang couldn't help laughing because of Xue Chen's aboveboard double standard, and after a few seconds of laughing in place, he tried his best to make him laugh.His expression became serious, and he said, "Don't worry, it's just that this kind of method won't affect me."

As soon as the voice fell, the public optical computer placed on the counter rang again. After a few seconds, it automatically hung up because no one answered, and a message slowly appeared on it.

"Reserve a two-person ski package for this Sunday, the communication number ends with 2894x, and the person who made the reservation is xxx."

After Ji Mingjiang noticed it, he changed his voice immediately, "Boss Xue should get ready for the sudden boom in business, and we won't bother you."

Leaving the ski resort and getting into the suspension car that Cliles got from unknown sources, Ji Mingjiang asked strangely while pulling on his seat belt: "Xue Chen should be a beast-like man, right?The good kind."

In the few times he had contact with the store manager, he could detect a slight overflow of his spiritual power. Although it was not serious, it probably wouldn't affect his daily life.

However, Ji Mingjiang was a little perplexed when he thought that it was only a part of the overflowing mental power that could make people feel a sense of oppression, "I remember that it should be quite convenient to find a job for a beast, let alone the animalization direction of the Arctic rabbit as the store manager."There are so many more jobs to choose from, why would he rather have no income and live on a planet that is not suitable for life?"

Hearing his question, Layton didn't answer immediately, but after starting the suspension vehicle and turning on the autopilot, he pondered for a moment, and then said with some hesitation and uncertainty: "He may have retired from the army, and there will be a fixedsubsidy."

He knew that there was no such person in the team he was in charge of, but Xue Chen's pair of overly long legs...seemed to be completely unimpressed?

After returning to the villa, Wilson, who had just sent the message, had already parked the starship on the large open space behind the villa, his face full of anxiety and despair.

As soon as he vaguely saw the two blurred figures of Ji Mingjiang and Cliles, he rushed forward, grabbed Ji Mingjiang's wrist, and ran into the human starship.

Ji Mingjiang, who had been undefended from the beginning because Wilson was under Cliles, was really led a few steps forward by him, and then he noticed the black dragon in the spiritual sea of Cliles.It was only when he got up suddenly that he came back to his senses, barely stopped, and dragged Wilson to a stop with his backhand.

"Wait! Why are you in such a hurry?"

Cliles, who was left behind just now, also followed up at this time, his eyes fell on Wilson's hand that was still holding Ji Mingjiang's wrist, and after staring at him to let go, he looked back and asked, "what happened?"

"Go in first, go in first, the condition of the mermaid I brought back is a bit too bad, and I won't be able to tell for a while." Wei Sen's clothes were still covered with dirt, and he was speaking very fast at this time, and he was still talking.Before finishing speaking, he raised his legs and walked towards the starship with the hatch open.

Ji Mingjiang frowned, exchanged glances with Cliles, and stepped up to follow.

Passing through several areas including the driving area of the starship's public area, the two followed Wilson all the way to a public bathroom in the deepest part of the rest area.Opening the door, the mermaid brought back was lying flat in the bathtub filled with water.

After the flowing water washed away the dust, the golden hair revealed its original color, but it was really not so bright and beautiful now.

Ji Mingjiang stepped forward with a frown, stretched out his hand and twisted a strand of wet hair that was wet by water. The hair in his hand was still rough even after soaking in water for a while, and he could tell the texture of the hair just by touching it.Fragile, maybe a little force can make this hair fall to the ground lightly.

And not to mention the tail that was highlighted in the message sent by Wilson, a healthy mermaid... No, even mermaids like those in the Mermaid Center who are sub-healthy all the year round, when unconscious and lethargic, the tail should not beSwaying with the waves like a clump of soft boneless seaweed.

After Ji Mingjiang hesitated for a moment at a loss, he tentatively reached out his mental strength and a hand at the same time, preparing to check the situation of the mermaid carefully.

Then saw that the fish tail, which was very loose to the naked eye, was agitated by a bubble that suddenly appeared from the bathtub drain.

"..."

Silently looking at the outrageous scene in front of him, Ji Mingjiang finally put his hand on his tail, from the position where the tail meets the waist and abdomen, gently but carefully caressed all the way to the tail fin, and then he retracted his hand.

Turning his head to look at Cliles and Wilson standing by the door, Ji Mingjiang shrank his fingers, as if the slight prickly sensation brought by the rough and curled fish scales was still on his fingertips.

"Get ready to return, contact the Mermaid Center and ask them to prepare the treatment equipment."

Rubbing between his brows, Ji Mingjiang turned his head and glanced at the mermaid whose eyelids hadn't moved from the beginning to the end, "It's a little bit earlier, I think his tail may be useless."

"I'll go right away." Gritting his teeth and smashing the door frame hard, Wilson hurriedly walked towards the cab.

Seeing Ji Mingjiang approaching, Cliles made room sideways, walked out of the bathroom with him, and then said: "After Wilson sent me a message, I contacted Odos and asked him to adjust the file, OdosAfter looking at his photos, I can judge that this mermaid is still in its infancy, and if we look for it according to this age group, there is no record of mermaid being lost in those years."

Although after going back, specific tests are still needed to make a specific judgment, but now both of them have a clear idea.

After all, according to Wilson, he saw this mermaid on a fringe star near the Federation. Even if the mermaids of the empire were not registered in the mermaid center and then robbed/smuggled, they would not be smuggled/smuggledThat kind of desolate place.In addition, Wilson said that there is a crashed Federation mecha next to the garbage mountain tens of meters away from this mermaid...

"How come the mermaid from the Federation came to us, it seems that they sneaked out after being abused?" Ji Mingjiang followed Cliles out, puzzled.

...

"Om—"

"Buzz—"

As soon as he got home and was about to take a shower, Grapa's communicator, which had rang several times today, rang again, which was particularly abrupt in the dark and quiet room with the curtains drawn.

And this time it was not a message, but a direct call to him. There was only a thin layer of trousers between the vibrating communicator and his thigh. Grapa was so surprised by the unexpected movement that he almost tripped himself.Fall by the door.

Why are there so many things going on today? The number of times contacted him this day was equal to the number of times contacted him in the previous year!

"Hello?" To calm down the faint anger in his heart, he took out the communicator from his trouser pocket, and just put it to his ear after connecting it, when the voice from inside made his eardrums buzz.

"There is a very urgent matter that needs you to deal with..."

"One of the mermaid subjects mentioned earlier is missing. The current speculation is that there is a high possibility that he escaped to the empire. Your additional task is to find him."

"This incident happened in the underground auction house, linked to the research institute, and directly alarmed the chairman... Therefore, this mission must only succeed and not fail."

"After you find it, you can directly kill it on the spot or contact the two people I pushed to you before. You must be fast. You must not let that mermaid fall into the hands of the imperial people."

Grapa's eyes went black for a moment, and Andre's voice continued to come out from the communicator, his tone was very impatient, and his voice was still a little trembling. Grapa couldn't tell whether it was because of fear or anger, maybe it was the two.Both have it.

After listening to Andre's words with a blank face, he briefly responded with a few words. After hanging up the communication, Grapa leaned on the table and looked at the room with only a dim yellow bedside lamp in front of him.There was a sense of absurdity.

... Are you kidding me?!For the ridiculous purpose of transforming a mermaid into a human form, it's fine to conduct human experiments, but let a mermaid that has passed the test and is confirmed to be a failure snatch a mecha and run away from the auction house???

Now it is even telling him that the escaped mermaid was not found in the federal territory, and it is very likely that he fled to the empire. Let him search secretly while completing the task?

"Mental disorder..."

Throwing the communicator in his hand on the table, Grapa muttered incomprehensibly.