under the mask

Li Wei followed Professor Degas in the workshop for a week, and finally came out less than five days before leaving school to let the wind go. With two huge dark circles under his eyes, he turned the gatekeeper I was taken aback.

"What's going on here?"

"I'm coming out to catch my breath..." Li Wei smiled wryly, picked up a chair and sat down next to the janitor to bask in the sun.The sun was very strong near noon, but after staying in the underground workshop for a long time, it was good to bask in the dampness on my body.

He looked up at the sky, reached out his hand and took out a cigarette from the pocket of his lab coat, put it under his nose and smelled it. He stole it from Degas, thinking it would be good to smell it to refresh himself.The cigarettes in this world are similar to the cigarettes in his previous life, except that instead of tobacco leaves, they are gray grass from Seablue Star, a type of water plant that smells like mint, dried and ground into a fine powder. It is then processed and made into cigarettes.This kind of smoke can also be refreshing, and it will not be harmful to the lungs. If there is a bad point, it will be difficult to sleep if you smoke too much.

"When can I see your flying machine?" The uncle asked vaguely while holding a bowl of cold noodles and eating.

Labor and management also want to know, Li Wei stared at the slender cigarette in his hand and felt a painful sadness.His Oliveira was obviously pretty good, but Degas just nodded after checking it, and didn't say a word about the test flight, instead he grabbed him to look at the blueprints for modeling.In the last week alone, he built a room full of small starship models, which can be opened for an exhibition.

He had a hunch that Degas seemed to be doing it deliberately, just to keep him in the city of Skell.But it's impossible for Degas to know those things about himself?He is a mechanical madman. He basically spends time in the workshop except for class, and he doesn't even know about the friendship between him and Russell. Besides, the matter of the test flight was brought up by Degas...

Li Wei thought for a while and asked, "Master, is there anything going on outside the city these days?"

Already more than 100 years old, the old man who had spent most of his life squinted his eyes and glanced at him, wiped his mouth and said slowly: "I heard that there was a disturbance in the army station along the coast last week..."

trouble?Li Wei's heart moved, and he couldn't help straightening his back, but nothing showed on his face.This old man is very smart, he clearly knows the inside story from the way he puts on the show, but he is afraid that he will not talk to him carefully if he is concerned.But it’s nothing, at least he’s sure that something big happened outside, and it shouldn’t have anything to do with him, maybe Lynn was worried about the safety of Sky City, so he closed the city gate... Degas probably didn’t know exactly what happened, and It's a personality that doesn't care about everything, and it's normal not to go into details with one's students.

After figuring this out, he breathed a sigh of relief, but immediately became worried again.Although Russell can't give him any information, but counting the time, his big and small furs are coming out soon, and when he thinks of those who come out of their shells, he thinks of chicks and ducklings, those fluffy ones The little thing only recognizes the person he sees at first sight. What if the first thing his family Fumao sees is not him, and they recognize someone else as their father?

no!Li Wei's eyes became firm again, and he began to think about how to find a way to go out.

He had no idea that the "had nothing to do with him" incident happened along the coast, but caused disasters to all the institutions around the Sea of ​​Death, including the resident, workshop and laboratory, and even alerted the cabinet chairperson at the first time. The prime minister at the meeting, even ignoring Scott, who was still under observation, rushed to the auxiliary star by special plane.

On September 3038, 9 in the Jialai Wansi calendar, the turmoil that occurred on the auxiliary star was called the "Mermaid Rebellion".The Golden Mermaid King Siren led seven groups of Sharman Mermaids with nearly 23 Sharman Mermaids. The underground reservoir of the coastal laboratory invaded the Military Science Institute and 45 coastal stations along the underground water vein, and finally killed [-] aquatic creatures. The researcher died, [-] researchers were seriously injured, six doctors of science were missing, and more than [-] soldiers were killed or injured.

Since then, the saying that Sharman Mermaids do not have emotion and intelligence has been self-defeating. For a whole year, the Central City has talked about Sharman's discoloration. It's an extra sum, not to mention that there are many noble children among the casualties.

At this time, the entire coastline of the Sea of ​​Death was dead silent, and the mermaids had already dived into the deep sea. After a fierce battle, the soldiers stationed along the coast felt a bit desolately dazed. There were a large number of sandman mermaid corpses floating on the sea surface. There are also the remains of their brothers. The snow-white sand on the coastline has been stained red with blood, messy footprints are everywhere, corpses are scattered, and gunpowder smoke fills the dry air. The smell of putrefaction.

All this was so sudden, none of them expected that those beautiful creatures would be so fierce and vengeful. After more than half a year, they even raided the laboratory, and those helpless researchers and scientists were almost completely absent. The strength of resistance not only died quickly - but also died quite painfully, most of them did not leave a complete body.

The members of the giant scorpion station dispatched from the hinterland of the desert were as silent as the other soldiers, but they were not as shocked and frightened in their hearts.Because they have seen Sharman's ferocity and cruelty long ago, and they have also fought a bloody battle with him. In fact, thinking about it, it is not surprising that people on the coast will be almost chased and killed by Sharman... After all, they all still remember that time, after the bloody battle, the biological laboratory along the coast dragged away many surviving mermaids. It is said that many little mermaids were born later, but almost all of them died in the experiment.

"Boss," Kunta wiped off the purple blood on his face, and said anxiously to the dark-skinned Duke, "Boss, those Sharmans killed JB, so we went to slaughter and take revenge... Now the mermaid is coming for revenge again, this..."

"It's just some monsters." The Duke interrupted him with a gloomy face, and tightened his grip on the pulse gun: "We have revenge, and those researchers are the ones who are in trouble. I'm afraid the mermaids are here to get back their sons." He and his team They were soldiers brought up by Mackins, so the information they got was more detailed. Those mermaids seemed to be looking for something, not just the little mermaids who survived the biological laboratory.

Now take the initiative to retreat, have you found it?

He recalled the way JB laughed, and his heart ached unbearably, and he hated Sharman even more.

"Let's retreat," he looked up at the cloudless sky, and spat blood on the ground: "Go back and rest for a while, I guess there is still work to be done when someone from Central City arrives."

Several team members nodded silently, and went to join other teams in Juxie Station.

The Military Science Institute is also a mess. Originally, the Military Science Institute and its subordinate Military Industry Institute specialized in the design and manufacture of weapons. At the same time, the starships used by the Imperial Army are also designed and manufactured by them. Usually, their underground workshops are so tight that they do not exist. Questions like what kind of aquatic organisms invaded.It's just that some time ago, we cooperated with the Institute of Biotechnology to manufacture a bionic underwater detection ship, so we re-opened a pool connected to the water vein underground.

That's where the problem goes.

"How about the statistics on the number of casualties?" Russell asked, leaning back in his chair with a gloomy expression.

"The strange thing is this..." Assistant Mitri looked at him: "There were no casualties in our camp, only a few soldiers serving as guards were slightly injured... It seems that even the sandman mermaids are showing mercy to us... "

"Be merciful!" Russell sneered, with a bit of self-mockery in his eyes.He thought of the empty pool in the private laboratory, and he didn't know what it was like... Sure enough, it was because he was raised since he was a child, so he inadvertently put down his guard.

Such a result can be regarded as a lesson for him...

"Boss, how do we report to them?" Mitri asked him worriedly: "If those soldiers know that only our Military Science Institute has no casualties..."

"So what?" Russell heard himself say impatiently: "My three experimental workshops were all flooded by sea water, and all the instruments were covered with a layer of salt crust. Isn't this a loss?! And I The super asteroid fortress plan at hand, who knows if there are any spies taking advantage of the chaos to steal the plan?"

He knew what Mitri was worried about. The Military Science Institute was under the name of the military department, but in fact it was all his people inside. In addition to developing the latest weapons and equipment for the empire, including ships, fighter jets, mechs, and now Super asteroid fortress, etc. In private, of course, they also want to earn some extra money, such as providing private, mostly anonymous customers with some design and manufacturing projects for private ships and even weaponry.If the military department or the government are alerted to investigate because of this incident, I am afraid they will have some troubles.

But so what?The super asteroid project still needs his team to participate, and those private business dealings are hidden deeply by them, so the trouble may not necessarily turn into a real crisis.

"Then...then I'll go out first, maybe they have already arrived." Mitri saw that his boss was in a bad mood, but he didn't have the courage to ask what happened, so it was better to leave quickly.

Russell leaned back in the chair, and the surroundings returned to silence, but this silence made him feel extremely tormented.He had to admit that he did have real feelings for Isaac, otherwise he wouldn't lose his composure because of his sudden disappearance.He was silent for a few minutes, then stood up and walked towards his laboratory.

His private laboratory didn't seem to be affected by the mermaid invasion this time, the experimental equipment was intact, and so was the living room separated by a wall.Russell quickened his pace and walked into the bedroom, and then picked up the small incubator placed by the bedside. Inside, two round eggs quietly floated in the yellowish liquid, occasionally rolling a little.

The purple-haired researcher couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief, with a smile on his face.

At that time, when he found that Isaac was missing, he immediately thought of the two dragon eggs. When he rushed into the bedroom, he found that although the dragon eggs were still in the incubator, the box had been moved from the bedside table to the bed—— It looked like someone was going to take them, Isaac or something... but for some reason, the eggs ended up ok in his bedroom.

Russell carefully observed the condition of the balls, and checked the data on the small screen on the side of the incubator. They have grown several times compared to a few months ago, and the two of them alone are almost as small as the small incubator. It is full, and the gloss is not the same as before. There are gorgeous silver-gray lines growing on it, and even the beating of the heart has become much stronger.At this stage, the gender of the baby dragons can be identified. As Levi said, both are males. Before that, Russell was somewhat suspicious of the little pink guy.

The maturation cycle of the dragon egg is longer than he expected, but it is about to hatch at this time...Maybe he should find a way to get Li Wei here. If he misses the hatching of the dragon egg, Li Wei will definitely die for life regrettable.

And in the evening five days later, a small spy reconnaissance ship slowly landed on the vast ice field in the north of Jialai Vance. Claude stood a few meters away in a long military uniform and looked up at the blue metal ship in the sky. , silver hair fluttering in the wind.

"It's finally here..." No. [-] and No. [-] guarded not far away with their personal guards, raised their hands to cover the strong wind with hail, and looked at the blue scout ship curiously.He has never seen a mermaid with his own eyes, especially a male one. Forgive his stereotyped thinking. In his cognition, a mermaid is said to be a beautiful creature, but as a male... is it a little, um~~" I can't control your expression." No. [-] was speechless and couldn't help but speak.

"My expression is that of a normal man who is curious about the rationality of the magical creatures that he is about to see." Number One shrugged and restrained himself a bit: "But they are really quite confident."

"Keep your voice down," No. [-] pinched him expressionlessly, "I heard that mermaids have very sensitive hearing... They have news about the two Highnesses, so they are confident."

"I said it's been so many years, can you call those two boys differently?"

……

"As the king of a land, you look much younger than I thought..." The man wearing a white fur hooded cloak slowly got down from the ship, his posture appeared calm and elegant, "It's the first time we meet, Your Excellency the Prince."

"I am also very honored...Your Excellency." Claude raised the corners of his mouth slightly, watching the other party's slender hands lift the hood, and scattered a head of pure golden long hair that was as bright as weaving gold, as well as those pair of eyes that shone in the dark. The golden eyes are terrifying.

From the pair of golden eyes with almost invisible pupils, and the scales emerging from the side of the white face, it can be known that this is... a Sharman mermaid, to be precise, the golden Sharman royal family.Gold, the color that most of the shapeshifter galaxies belong to the pure blood can only show on the surface. Although the Jialaiwansi people have always regarded Shaman as an uncivilized monster in the sea of ​​​​death, these "monsters" do have their own A civilized system.

It seems that the difference between the superior and the inferior, the strong and the weak, is deeply rooted in their bones even for the Sharmans who are far away from the shapeshifter galaxy.Not only Sharman, but also the royal family of Jialaiwansi whose ancestors also came from the shapeshifter galaxy. In the Jialaiwansi stars occupied by humans, the royal family as the rulers is actually a different kind, an outsider.

Claude's smile deepened, and he turned sideways to signal the soft carpeted road under his feet.

The Mermaid King Siren didn't move his eyes, but his expression was somewhat satisfied. He then moved his body slightly, and descended from the last metal step to the carpet. At this moment, his face even showed a little satisfaction. Where his feet were exposed, his tall body was supported by his caudal fin like a golden yarn.

"Be careful with Isaac's box." He stood still on the carpet, then turned his head and told the clansmen who got off the small ship: "Be gentle, he finally fell asleep."

Claude raised his eyebrows, shouldn't Isaac be the descendant of the mermaid king?box?

He didn't look at it casually out of courtesy, but soon, two mermaids who were also hidden under the cloak came down carrying a small box, and the box was gently placed on the siren together with the base below. Beside him, the siren was about the same height as him, and the box and the base did not reach the opponent's waist.

The siren noticed the curiosity in Claude's eyes, lowered his head and gently lifted a corner of the polymer blackout fabric covering the box: "This is my son, Isaac, he is still young..."

Claude saw a small mermaid cub sleeping in the light blue liquid. Even in such dim light, he could still see the cub's golden fetal hair shining brightly, and its tender tail moving from time to time.

Why in the message sent by Dominic, the siren's son has grown up?

Just thinking about it, Dominic, who was also wearing a military uniform, finally got out of the ship, and he was very excited when he saw Claude's face that had been silent for a moment.