Crown Prince's Wedding Banquet

Early in the morning, Zhou Qin kissed Elias who was still asleep.

He put on his coat and did not dine in the manor.

"Xingyu, I will take Du Bin out today. I will deal with some important things in the outer court tomorrow, and the less important ones can be dealt with in your secretary's office." Zhou Qin said while putting on his coat.

"Okay, Your Highness." Ren Xingyu said, he sent Zhou Qin out, and watched him get on the shuttle with Du Bin and the accompanying bodyguards.

"Where is Your Highness going today?" Ren Xingyu asked him.

Zhou Qin paused, and said, "Imperial Research Institute."

"Lanxia, ​​are you awake?" Charin was like a little teddy, and the moment Elis opened his eyes, he threw himself on his bedside, wagging his non-existent little tail vigorously.

"What's wrong with me." Elis' voice was so hoarse that even he couldn't hear what he said.

Charlene quickly brought him a glass of warm water, and graciously helped him sit up halfway, and handed the water to his hand. When he finished drinking, his face turned red with excitement.

"I'm not dreaming!" Charlene said, "The major general drinks the water I poured!"

"What's wrong with me?" Elis felt a little better, the severe head pain from crying was still there, but at least he could speak clearly.

"I don't know about that." Charin said, "The little princess woke me up early in the morning and said that you were in a bad mood and asked me to go out with you to relax. She said that you can go wherever you want, anyway, I have to go along with you." You, I can't make you angry."

Then Charin asked him with bright eyes: "Xia Lan, where do you want to go? Take me with you, okay?"

Elise recalled what happened the night before. He had an emotional breakdown and couldn't stop crying at all. He cried until the oxygen supply to his body couldn't keep up, and he finally got a sedative before falling asleep.

He slowed down and asked, "Is there any place Master Charin wants to go?"

"Yes." Charin said with a blushing face, "The place I most want to go is your heart."

"Come on." Bai Rong pushed open the door, came in with a plate, and said indifferently, "I want to go to Lan Xia's heart, and Lan Xia's heart is not in traffic jam?"

"..." Charlene was speechless, "You, who are you?"

"Let me introduce you formally." Bai Rong said, "I am Bai Rong, the secretary of Crown Princess Concubine Lan. I will accompany you two when you go out today. I will also arrange for Cecil to bring a group of bodyguards under Lan. Team members, keep everyone safe."

Elis looked at the breakfast on the plate and felt no appetite.

"Where is Master Charin going, please accompany Bai Rong." Elis said, "I don't want to go out today."

"That's not okay." Charin said quickly, "I'm new here, and I don't know all the interesting things about Emperor Star. If you don't accompany me, what if I get lost?"

"I think what Master Charin said is right." Bai Rong said, "Besides, His Highness made it clear before leaving this morning, please go out and relax."

"In addition, His Highness also said..." Bai Rong said, "He will find a way to track down some of the things you worried about yesterday. Please rest first."

Bai Rong's last sentence was a bit of helpless pleading.

Elise looked at him in surprise.

"Although I don't know exactly what happened yesterday, you were taken back to the bedroom by His Highness, and you were given a tranquilizer to stabilize your mood. Everyone knows about this." Bai Rong said, "Butler Wu, Du Bin, Xingyu... Everyone is worried about you."

Charin nodded: "Me too, Mrs. Lan."

Elise felt her heart soften a little.

"Okay, I see," he said, "so shall we go out after breakfast?"

"It is a great honor for His Majesty the Emperor and the Crown Prince to visit the Imperial Research Institute unexpectedly." The director of the research institute, Van Anderson, only received the notice after Zhou Qin arrived at the research institute.

The emperor has not appeared in public for nearly half a month, and most of the administrative orders are issued by the crown prince after discussions with the cabinet.After Prince Qing ended his political career with his death, the crown prince became the emperor's spokesperson without any politeness.

Especially the recent big cleansing against the rebels, which made everyone in Dixing's political circle feel insecure, and let everyone see what kind of thunderous skills the crown prince who was despised at the beginning had.

No one dared to comment on the ability of the crown prince.

This sudden visit immediately brought some kind of ominous omen.

"Good morning, Mr. Anderson." Zhou Qin said, and had stepped into the gate of the institute unceremoniously. He took off his gloves as he walked and handed them to Du Bin.

"Eh?" Anderson's heart was pounding, and he didn't dare to hesitate to follow up. He bit the bullet and asked Zhou Qin, "Is your Highness here today for something important?"

Zhou Qin stopped, looked at him coldly for a while, and then uttered a few words: "Take me to the Department of Life Research."

Anderson groaned in his heart.

He forced a smile and said, "Your Highness, the Life Research Department has been closed after Kajiwara Kazushige was transferred to the First Army Division Fortress."

"closed?"

"Yes."

"Where are the materials inside?"

"Before Kajiwara Kazusei left, His Majesty the Emperor directly arranged for someone to seal everything up. We never went in again. All the materials are the same as Kajihara Zaishi."

"Take me there." Zhou Qin said.

"Your Highness, there is really nothing to see." Anderson said hastily.

Zhou Qin's scrutinizing gaze was like a sharp knife, sweeping back and forth on him.

Anderson bit the bullet and endured it, feeling that the few seconds of silence felt like a century.Those fluke thoughts that should not have been in his mind, he honestly pressed them back.

"Director Anderson, he has worked in this institute for more than 20 years." Zhou Qin asked.

"Yes, Your Highness."

"Then...when the former major general of the Empire, Ellis Christian, was studied here as a live experiment subject, were you also the director?"

Van Anderson's back was bent as if it was going to be buried in the soil. His head was sweating profusely, his lips trembled for a long time, but he couldn't form any useful words: "His Royal Highness... Your Highness... Your Highness... Your Highness..."

"Your Highness, I'll take you there right now." He finally gave in and said in a compromise, "Please follow me."

At both ends of the corridor are unchanging study partitions, separated by tempered glass doors.Looking into each partition, it seems that there are infinite secrets hidden.

Only the sound of a group of people's footsteps stepping on the blue-gray floor can be heard.

The Department of Life Research is at the end of the whole institute.

Its door has not been opened for a long time, not to mention the automatic door is closed, and a laser lock is set on the outside to seal the door of the Life Research Department.

Since Kajihara left more than three years ago, no one has entered here.

"Open the door."

"Your Highness... It is His Majesty the Emperor who gave the order to seal it up. Opening the door without her order... This is not very good..." Anderson still tried to struggle.

Zhou Qin didn’t even look at him.

His spiritual strength increased sharply in an instant.

The automatic door in front of him seemed to be grasped by a pair of invisible hands, and it began to twist and deform, making a sharp and piercing "creak" sound. The whole door was split in two, and the metal twisted and deformed to both sides. The pathway to the Department of Life Research.

Anderson looked at this scene with a pale face.

Involuntarily retreated to the side.

"Watch him," he said to Dupin. "I'll go in myself."

"Understood, Your Highness."

Everything in the Life Research Department is old, and in the dark environment, spider webs are crawling all the places that can be reached.But everything is furnished as if someone was here just now.

There are signs of wear and tear on the casual clothes hanging outside the disinfection room; the white coat in the laboratory still has the name tag of the staff sandwiched; the cup of coffee may have just been poured, with only a circle of tea stains left; The page on the flexible screen of the book is cracked, and the battery has long been out of power...

There are many rooms in the Life Research Department, more than Zhou Qin imagined.

The numbers starting with A and B are all small single rooms, looking in from the window, it looks like a ward.

The rooms numbered at the beginning of C and D are rooms for 15-25 people, and there are rows of single beds inside.

Their common feature is to lock from the outside.

The neat and rigid room settings make people wonder what the people in these rooms have experienced and where have they gone?

"I have hacked into the network here..." Chen Cang said, "The power supply is expected to be restored within a minute."

He passed a single room numbered A17.

"This room?"

"Yes……"

Zhou Qin stood quietly for a while, and then he continued to walk in. When he pushed away the No. [-] laboratory, the electricity came, which did not make the depression of the Life Research Department any better.

The fluorescent lights flickering in the dark environment added a bit of eerieness to this uninhabited area.

In the No. [-] laboratory, there is a whole row of things similar to force field controllers. According to a rough estimate, there are about two hundred of them.

"Chen Cang, can you analyze what this is?"

It only took Chen Cang a short time to find the corresponding equipment instructions on the memory of the Life Research Department.

"The terminal of the psychic spy." Chen Cang said, "By swallowing the psychic stalker, the experimental subject participates in the experiment in the spiritual field and completes the connection of psychic forces at the physical level. When the power of the psychic stalker is turned on to the maximum, it can reach Complete stripping of the experimental body's mental power within a short period of time."

Zhou Qin was silent.

"The main function of this terminal is to restrain the spiritual power to prevent the spiritual power from flowing back." Chen Cang said, "Its main principle is to use the dark matter property to isolate the spiritual power."

Chen Cang paused and said: "Your Highness, I hope you can calmly control your mental power. Otherwise, if your mental power continues to rise, I will die."

Zhou Qin took a deep breath.

He forced himself to calm down—it wasn't easy.

Even if you haven't watched Kajiwara's video, just thinking about how Elias collapsed yesterday, you can tell what kind of severe pain he has suffered.

In Chen Cang's calm description, Zhou Qin felt that he couldn't breathe.

"I only come here for two purposes." Zhou Qin said, "to look for materials related to the dark, and to search for clues about the person who talked to Kajihara from the internal network. Others...don't read."

"The dumb information is in the computer in Kajiwara's office." Chen Cang said, "Go forward, the third room is there."

When Zhou Qin entered, the old computer on Kajihara's desk had already been turned on by Chen Cang. Zhou Qin swept the dust away and sat in front of the computer.

Five years ago... Kajihara recorded video archives here?

Zhou Qin thought.

Let him die in the universe, it's too cheap for him.He should be thankful.

Dumb, a pure energy.

A rare substance brought back from the core realm of the galaxy during the emperor's personal conquest.

What else?

The monitor was turned on, and Chen Cang had already begun to search for related information in the memory.Those documents were quickly opened and presented to Zhou Qin.