I became a mermaid egg and saved the Imperial Marshal

"All data are very good. It won't be long before the first growth period arrives."

Qi Yan woke up in a daze, rubbed her eyes, and saw Huo Linyuan standing in front of her.

"Awake? Alaid is doing a routine check-up on you." Huo Linyuan said.

Hearing this, Qi Yan swam to the edge, and Huo Linyuan reached out his hand, trying to give him a foothold.

Qi Yan understood what he meant, grabbed his index fingers with her two little hands, and stretched her neck to look at Alaid.

"Yanyan is growing very fast." After Alaid archived the test data, he walked over and touched Qi Yan's head.

"Really?" Qi Yan shook his tail. In fact, he didn't feel anything.

Aled smiled lovingly, then suddenly turned stern and pretended to be angry and said, "Can I still lie to you, little guy?"

Qi Yan could tell at a glance that he was teasing her, so she turned back and looked at her tail happily.

"It doesn't seem to be that long..." He muttered to himself, then turned his gaze to Huo Linyuan, seeking an answer.

"It's a little longer." Huo Linyuan spread out his palm and put it into the water.

Originally, Qi Yan was only as long as Huo Linyuan's palm, but now his fish tail could reach Huo Linyuan's wrist.

Qi Yan's eyes lit up, as if she had discovered a new world: "Really? I've really grown up!"

Seeing his excitement, Huo Linyuan also smiled.

Aled looked at the man and the fish, a scene so warm and harmonious that it seemed as if no one could interfere, and couldn't help feeling a little worried.

He adjusted his facial expression and asked in a relaxed tone: "Yanyan, do you want to learn pharmacy from me?"

Hearing his words, Qi Yan immediately became interested, while Huo Linyuan frowned.

Ignoring Huo Linyuan's unhappy look, Alaid continued: "Learning potions can help you better control your mental power, and can also..."

"Aled." Huo Linyuan warned. He didn't like the other party's behavior of making decisions on his own.

Qi Yan grasped the point and asked anxiously, "Can you heal A Yuan's injury?"

Although the original text said that purebred mermaids could repair Huo Linyuan's mental damage, Qi Yan had no idea how to do it.

"Of course." Aled nodded affirmatively.

"I want to learn. Please teach me, Grandpa Aled."

Feeling the force coming from his fingers, Huo Linyuan sighed softly. He knew that the matter was a foregone conclusion.

but……

Huo Linyuan touched Qi Yan's head and attracted his attention: "There is no rush for this matter. Wait until your mental strength is more stable."

"But..." Qi Yan frowned. His mental strength was already very stable.

As if he knew what he wanted to say, Huo Linyuan continued, "Besides, Aled will be busy preparing medicine for the infected people on the mining planet soon."

"Okay then." Qi Yan compromised unhappily, then turned to look at Aled, "Grandpa Aled, you have to teach me when we come back from the mining planet."

Aled smiled and nodded. He knew that this was Huo Linyuan's biggest concession.

-

"I don't want what happened today to happen again." Huo Linyuan's voice was a little cold.

After picking up Qi Yan, he did not let anyone interfere because he did not want Qi Yan to be treated as an experiment or a rare species, and he did not want anyone to interfere with his growth and future.

Seeing his cold and resolute expression, Alaid also got angry.

"Yanyan's growth rate is very fast. The existing records cannot explain this phenomenon at all. His growth data is now completely irregular."

"We simply cannot predict whether he will suddenly grow up one day. During the growth period, I detected that the fluctuation amplitude of his mental power has increased significantly. If it is not guided, you know better than anyone the consequences of mental disorder."

"You are overprotecting him like this, and it will only hurt him and yourself in the end!"

"There are more ways to guide and control mental power than just potions," Huo Linyuan retorted.

Seeing that he was not moved, Alaid was furious and blurted out: "He is a mermaid, and he has the ability to heal. What better choice is there than potion?"

Huo Linyuan frowned, very unhappy with what he said: "Yanyan is just like us. He has the right to choose his own life."

"No one is born to do what they should do. If you can't regard Yanyan as an equal to us, then I won't agree to let you become Yanyan's teacher."

Huo Linyuan left immediately after he finished speaking.

His words enlightened Aled, and he couldn't help but reflect on himself. He had always been eager to let Qi Yan become a pharmacist. Wasn't it because he had already privately determined that Qi Yan must and should become a pharmacist?

Looking at Huo Linyuan's back, Alade seemed to see the taciturn, wounded but tough and upright child again.

The three words "Huo Linyuan" have been deified by everyone for too long, so long that everyone has forgotten that he is also a flesh-and-blood person.

Every step in his life seemed to have been carefully measured.

He joined the mercenaries at the age of twelve, entered the military at the age of seventeen, annihilated the alien beast tide alone at the age of twenty-two, saved an asteroid system, and became the empire's marshal at the age of twenty-five.

Alaid once thought that Huo Linyuan was cold-hearted and was born to be a soldier.

But it wasn't until he saw little Huo Linyuan showing a childish smile when facing his favorite mecha, and until he understood the situation of the Huo family.

Alaid realized that there was no such thing as innate or inevitable. He just forced himself to become what everyone expected him to be.

As Huo Linyuan's pharmacist and personal physician, Alaid has seen him covered in scars many times since he was a child.

At this moment, he finally understood what Huo Linyuan meant. If too many expectations are placed on a person, the path of growth will become involuntary.

He didn't want Qi Yan to be like him.

And unknowingly, I seemed to have become the compulsive one.

-

"I have made a rough summary of the basic situation of the mining planet based on the information provided by Zoe." Wen Yi projected a relationship diagram into the room.

"The most serious outbreak is currently in the Maya Galaxy, located at the intersection of the Lang Ring and the Cetus. It has been found that Maya 13a is the origin of the outbreak, and the planets around it have been affected to varying degrees."

"In addition to the serious epidemics on several mining planets, the situation on nearby habitable planets is not optimistic either."

"The most difficult one at the moment is Helka. This planet has just been incorporated into the Empire's possession. The planet was initially developed by some interstellar miners, and later slowly attracted many poor people to settle here."

"Although this planet is sparsely populated, the medical care and technology here are extremely backward, causing the epidemic to develop very quickly. Currently, the entire planet has been infected."

"Have you found out the cause of the spread?" Huo Linyuan asked.

As soon as the epidemic was discovered, they implemented isolation and control, but despite layers of control, the epidemic still spread, and spread significantly.

Without human intervention, this situation would never have been possible.

Wen Yi shook his head: "I haven't found it yet."

Huo Linyuan tapped the desktop: "Make arrangements and prepare to go to Helka Star."