forced guardianship

The little count and the lieutenant general came together, like a basin of ice water poured over Elena's heart.

But she quickly adjusted her mentality. Look, what the lieutenant general said: "I said I would come to visit the beautiful Miss Elena, but he insisted on making a fuss. Children are so ignorant."

Elena smiled dignifiedly, and glanced at the "little friend" who was looking around curiously from the corner of her eyes.

Jessica smiled and said, "Little Earl who is getting more and more handsome, how are you doing?"

Joshua said frivolously, "Thank you Madam for your concern, I'm fine. Oh, what's that?"

Jessica rolled her eyes and said, "That's the latest multi-dimensional interstellar map. The picture is made according to the ratio of ten thousand trillion to one. Do you want to see it?"

Joshua immediately said like a boy excited to see his favorite toy, "It must be cool! Ma'am, I want to see it, can I?"

Jessica smiled and said, "Of course, but the space here is too small. You have to open it on the grass outside to see the whole picture of the vast interstellar space."

Joshua turned to Sean and asked, "Can I go?"

Sean nodded and said with a smile, "Remember to say thank you to Madam."

Jessica gave Elena a look, got up and said: "Come on, good boy, let me explain to you what a beautiful and magnificent universe we live in."

After Joshua happily followed Jessica out, the atmosphere in the room instantly became ambiguous.

Holding a glass of rich and fragrant red wine in her hand, Elena gently touched the lieutenant general's calf with her toes. Even through the military boots, she could feel that the muscles there were full of masculine strength.

The lieutenant general smiled at her and said, "The red wine in the Sately family's collection is well-deserved."

Elena blushed slightly, and said, "Mr. Lieutenant General, there is more delicious red wine in my room, do you want to go up and taste it?"

Twenty minutes later, Joshua squatted behind a low garden shrub and asked in a low voice, "Are you sure you want to go upstairs?"

Fuxi twitched the invisible nerve thread, and said: "Although I can only sense its very weak mental power, that thing should be nearby."

This is already the deepest part of the Setley family's courtyard, surrounded by the shadows of plants. If there is really something hidden here, it can only be in this building.

but……

"I've searched all the buildings in Sately's house under your command, and I suspect that your sensing power has a glitch." Joshua quickly dodged out from behind the bushes, sideways. Entered the two thick gilt gates.

Fuxi denied it: "No, no, I have never had a malfunction, uh, so far."

Joshua leaned against the wall at the entrance and listened. The surroundings were dark and empty, and there seemed to be no one in the building.

He whispered, "Fuxi, let me tell you that if you don't get sick before the age of nine, it doesn't mean you won't get sick forever."

Fuxi: "...We clearly agreed not to mention my age anymore!"

Inserting the tiny communicator in Joshua's ear, Sean hissed: "Don't make noise, I think you should speed up, Jessica will catch a cold if she sleeps on the grass for too long."

Joshua asked, "What did you do to that beautiful Miss Elena?"

Xiao En chuckled and said, "Sleeping like her aunt. Beautiful is just an adjective. Is my baby jealous? Do you need me to promise that I will only use this kind of vocabulary on you in the future?"

Fu Xi interjected: "Little cutie, I don't mind telling you that he is thinking about some unharmonious pictures right now."

Joshua didn't understand, "Huh?"

Sean said: "Don't listen to this stupid mech talking nonsense, I'm just imagining your most beautiful appearance."

Fuxi's tone was a bit wretched: "It's just like his legs are not closed together by him."

Sean: "...shut up."

Joshua said seriously, "I don't think that would look good."

Fuxi let out a series of obscene laughter, and then said seriously: "There seems to be something strange in the first room on the east side of the third floor."

Sean asked, "What's weird? Is that what we're looking for?"

Fu Xi said: "It doesn't seem to be. I'm not sure what it is, but its spiritual power is also very strong."

Joshua paused on the stairs and said, "Wait a minute, shall we clarify the target? We're not looking for strange things now, and other things should have nothing to do with us except the target."

Fuxi hesitated and said, "But I think we should go and see what it is."

Joshua stopped in his tracks and said, "Sean, do you want to take a look?"

A few seconds later, Xiao En said: "Fuxi, I am the commander of this operation, give me a reason that can convince me."

Fu Xi said: "...the intuition of the mecha."

Joshua immediately said, "I want to go and have a look."

Sean said: "No, this reason can't convince me."

Fuxi thought for a while, and said: "There is no danger there, the little cutie will be safe."

Sean said with satisfaction: "Okay, let's go and have a look."

They finally came to the door of that room, and Joshua lightly pressed against the door to listen to the movement, and said, "No one is inside." He looked down at the door lock, and there was a thin layer of dust, "There is already a No one has been here for a long time, it is a fingerprint lock, can it be cracked?"

After a while, the little count felt something was wrong and asked, "Fuxi? What's wrong with you?"

Sean's voice was a little tense: "What happened?"

"I'm fine, I suddenly feel a little dizzy." Fuxi said with some difficulty.

Joshua looked at the locked door in front of him, and said, "Is it because of the things inside?"

Sean spoke quickly: "Stop the operation, come right back!"

Joshua said: "No, no, there is indeed no danger here. Hurry up, Fuxi, and crack the fingerprint lock."

Sean said angrily, "Joshua, please obey the order!"

Joshua stared at the door lock and said, "Dear Sean, please trust me, I will go back safely."

Fuxi hesitated for a moment, several nerve threads reached the door lock, half a minute later, the fingerprint was deciphered.

In the micro-communicator, Xiao En also heard the slight sound of the door lock being opened, and said helplessly, "Baby, be careful."

Joshua raised the corners of his lips and said, "I will."

He gently pushed open the somewhat heavy door, and the scene in the room made his eyes widen: "Oh, unbelievable..."

Sean asked, "What the hell?"

Fuxi said in a muffled voice: "I'm going to faint, its mental power is too strong."

Joshua said excitedly: "Sean, you must not have guessed that this is actually a mech laboratory!"

Sean: "...Open the [-]D screen of the communicator."

In this room of less than [-] square meters, there is a row of special glass cabinets on the inner wall. There are dozens of small mechs inside. The experimental table in the middle of the room is a bit messy. It is full of tools and materials for making mechas. There is a semi-finished one. The mech stood beside the test bench, only the steel arm was left uninstalled.

The powerful mental power that made Fuxi dizzy came from the other side of the room, an oval crystal tank half the height of a person, which was filled with high-concentration energy liquid.

Joshua asked curiously, "What is this?"

Xiao En said: "Intelligent petri dish, Fuxi, what's in it?"

Fuxi replied half-deadly: "Smart chip."

Sean asked, "Level 3S?"

Fu Xi replied: "No, it is stronger than 3S class."

Joshua's eyes lit up and he said, "The Sately family actually has a great data engineer? Is that his name?" His finger pointed to the base of the crystal tank.

It was dusty, but there was still a clear name—Philip.

After a while, Sean said, "Little baby, bring the chip back."

"Ma'am, wake up." Joshua bent down and helped Jessica up from the grass.

Jessica pressed her forehead and said in a daze, "What's wrong with me?"

Joshua pursed his lips, and said, "I think you probably have a bit of hypoglycemia, which is why you fainted suddenly."

On the steps not far away, Lieutenant General Kent said, "Mrs. Jessica, are you all right?"

Jessica was startled, and said, "Ah, I'm fine, Mr. Lieutenant General... Isn't Elena with you?"

The lieutenant general came down from the steps, and said with a half-smile, "I think Miss Elena probably doesn't like me very much. It's really a pity."

Jessica said in amazement: "How is this possible? She has admired you for a long time."

The lieutenant general rubbed his nose and said with a smile: "Ma'am, the kid can't sleep too late, I'm going to take him back, thank you and Miss Elena for your kind hospitality, I will remember the taste of the fine wine from Sately's house. "

Jessica forced a smile and said, "The lieutenant general is too polite."

The little count looked down at the half-opened interstellar map, and said, "Madam, can you give this to me?"

Jessica: "...Of course."

On the aircraft returning to the Marquis's Mansion, Fuxi turned into a robot ladybug lying on the console, deliberately avoiding Joshua who was carrying the chip, and said bitterly: "I really hate that thing."

Joshua put the smart chip in a small photon energy ball, observed it for a moment, and said casually, "Sean, this is a windfall? We weren't looking for it, were we?"

Sean sat next to him, his eyes fell on the ball, and he thought thoughtfully: "Maybe..."

Joshua suddenly looked at him vigilantly, and said, "Mr. Lieutenant General, if it's something you can't tell me, don't say it."

Sean laughed and said, "Are you really not curious at all?"

"No, I'm very curious. But there are many things in this world that make people curious." Joshua pointed to the closed multi-dimensional interstellar map on the console, and said: "Even the [-] trillion scale The interstellar map is already so vast, not to mention the real vast universe, this world cannot be completely understood by me. What's more, you said that this is a top secret."

Sean propped his chin with one hand, and said with a smile: "Then did I tell you that you look really cute when you're serious?"

Fuxi raised a steel leg and said, "You said it, I've heard it many times!"

Joshua shrugged and said, "I thought the only ones who could be called cute were children under ten years old, including nine years old, of course."

Fuxi quickly lay back on his stomach.

Joshua lifted the energy ball a little higher, and through the light on the cabin ceiling, he could see the translucent disc with a diameter of less than one centimeter inside. The complex texture structure showed the exquisite and high-end skills of the data engineer who made it.

He couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "This data engineer named Philip is really great!"

Sean said: "Yes, he is the best statist in the history of the league."

Joshua was a little surprised and said, "You know him? Uh, can I know?"

Xiao En smiled and said: "This is not a secret. Many of the mecha data professional textbooks you will use are written by him."

Joshua blinked and said, "Then he is now?"

Sean seemed to be dazed for a moment, and said in a low voice: "In 929 of the Galactic Era, during the Lenaye counterattack, Philip was hit by a stray bullet and died for the country while repairing the severely damaged 3S-class mech Pangu."