CH 53

TL: Hua

The door of the isolation room is made of a single piece of rare material from a remote ore star. In order to prevent the door lock from being damaged by the beastmen inside, traditional keys and locks were not installed. Instead, the mental power lock invented by the research institute was used.

The mental power that has been included in the access list by the system is put into the sensor, and the door won’t open until it detects the correct mental power wave.

Listening to Rowlett’s explanation, Ji Mingjiang frowned slowly.

This description…why does it sound so similar to the method of opening Clarice’s secret room?

However, before he had time to think about it, Rowlett suddenly withdrew his mental power, and a barely audible “click” came from the door.

“Your Highness1Rowlett used to call Ji Mingjiang Mr. Ji. I don’t know why the author suddenly switched to his highness., just push the door and go in.” After confirming that the person inside was still immersed in his own world and didn’t notice the door opening, Rowlett lowered his voice and said to Ji Mingjiang.

At the end, when the mermaid’s hand was about to touch the door, he still somewhat uneasily instructed, “His Majesty has been in this situation before; even if we leave him alone, he’d still be able to pull through as long as you provide him with spiritual counseling later. Therefore, your own safety is the most important thing.”

Looking at the worried chief steward, Ji Mingjiang nodded gently, then quickly opened the door and walked into the isolation room.

The silver-gray door slammed shut from inside, and the roar that had just emerged from the crack was all hidden behind the door. Rowlett’s eyelids trembled, and after suppressing the worry in his heart, he turned to look at Zhang Cheng, who had a ghostly expression on his face.

“Tell me what His Highness Mingjiang said about you being related to His Majesty’s sudden mental riot and what happened when you sneaked into the palace to assassinate His Highness. Before His Majesty and His Highness come out, this old man will help them solve this problem first.”

Zhang Cheng’s lips twitched. He really wanted to shake the old steward’s shoulders back and forth and tell him that, aside from that tyrant Clarice, Ji Mingjiang, who can jump off a nearly 4500-meter watchtower with someone, absolutely doesn’t need you to help him solve his problems!

But in the end, as the smiling eyes on the other side became increasingly dangerous, Zhang Cheng swallowed those words back and chose to quickly convict himself within a limited time: “I really didn’t come to assassinate him! Why would I assassinate a mermaid?! Someone hired me to take Ji Mingjiang away!”

Damn, these people are very insidious and cunning. If he knew this mermaid would be so different from common sense, he would have had to decline this mission even if he had to kill his employer back!

After the insidious and cunning Ji Mingjiang entered the isolation room, he just closed the door when he felt a gust of wind blowing towards him with killing intent.

As soon as he entered the pitch-black room from the bright outside, before Ji Mingjiang had time to adapt to this strange environment, his body bent over and turned sideways faster than his mind, dodging Clarice’s palm.

After distancing himself from Clarice, Ji Mingjiang finally saw the other person’s current appearance clearly.

Oh sh*t.

Looking at the other party’s eyes, which were still bright in the dark but soaked in violent emotions, Ji Mingjiang silently opened his mouth.

It has completely turned into the same eyes as that black dragon. You interstellar people are amazing.

For the first time in front of Ji Mingjiang, Clarice, who had completely lost his mind, demonstrated his strength as an emperor who could lead an army to take back those energy stars from the mouth of the Federation. His moves were fierce and powerful. The room is quiet and has an excellent echo, so the sound of the collision between the two during the fight was clear and audible.

Dark golden eyes stared fixedly at Ji Mingjiang, who was in a relaxed state. Without any thinking ability but only fighting instincts, Clarice saw the person in front of him, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes.

But this very subtle emotion disappeared very quickly, and before Ji Mingjiang had a chance to figure out if Clarice was wondering how the fish he raised had suddenly grown legs or if he was wondering about something else, the man swung his fist at him again.

“…You really can’t defeat me; just give up.” Ji Mingjiang evaded again, helplessly. Although he really wanted to have a good fight with Clarice, that was definitely not the case when the other side lost all reason and couldn’t use any combat skills.

Reluctantly reaching out to block the arm that was hitting him, Ji Mingjiang kicked Clarice’s ankle very precisely. He then grabbed his other arm when he was about to fall to the ground due to his unstable center of gravity, pinned his hand behind his back, and pressed him to the ground.

The accumulated mental power poured out instantly and rushed towards Clarice’s tattered mental barrier. With a tough stance and the form of the ocean, it completely submerged Clarice’s spiritual sea, which was in the middle of destruction and regeneration.

“?”

“Rawr? Rawrrr?!”

The black dragon that was hovering in mid-air and wreaking havoc just now was caught off guard by the waves and was swept to the bottom of the ocean. Although the ocean formed by mental power would not drown it, and although Ji Mingjiang’s spiritual power made it feel very kind and familiar, the black dragon that floated to the surface still blinked its wet golden eyes and howled in anger and aggression.

Clarice, who was pressed to the ground by Ji Mingjiang with one knee, also gave up struggling, and his violent eyes began to gradually recover.

Feeling that Clarice’s recovery speed was still a little slow, Ji Mingjiang thought for a while, and with the same intensity of mental power erosion, he stretched out his fingers and poked the acupuncture points that can quickly wake people up.

—Once again, I would like to express my high respect and sincere thanks to the all-inclusive learning package of the system.

“hiss……”

The body under his knee was completely motionless, and the originally tense muscles were also relaxed. Seeing that Clarice was completely sober, Ji Mingjiang slowly moved his legs and sat down casually on the ground.

The work of repairing the barrier of Clarice’s spiritual sea and appeasing the black dragon is still going on in an orderly manner, but Ji Mingjiang seems to have not been affected in any way. He lowered his head and caught sight of the confused golden eyes that had not yet figured out what had happened.

“Ji Mingjiang?” Seeing this familiar face at first glance, Leiden hadn’t reacted yet. “Did Rowlett bring you out of the palace? Didn’t I tell him not to…”

Before he could finish his sentence, as Ji Mingjiang’s mental power gradually withdrew from his spiritual sea, leaving only a small river, Leiden’s mind seemed to be drained along with Ji Mingjiang’s movements. Finally, he realized there was a problem.

That is—

How likely is it that the person who unilaterally suppressed him just now was Rowlett?

The answer is obviously zero.

In the darkness, Ji Mingjiang’s steady breathing was just above him. After the sluggishness faded, Leiden quickly straightened up, and as his palm supported the ground, his wrist accidentally touched Ji Mingjiang’s body next to him.

Although it can’t be seen clearly in this room where even the moonlight can’t penetrate, according to the hard touch felt on the wrist just now…

“…”

“Rowlett found you a prosthesis?”

Hearing what Clarice said, the corner of Ji Mingjiang’s mouth twitched. Ji Mingjiang wondered if he had dumped too much water in Clarice’s head just now.

With a little force on his feet, he stood up and asked, “What prosthesis is so powerful that it can coexist harmoniously with a tail?”

Before Clarice could answer, he walked first towards the door and said, “Your mental state should be fine now; let’s talk about it when we go out. Mr. Rowlett has been waiting for us.”

The moment the heavy door was opened, the bright lights in the corridor outside passed over the figures of the two people and shone into the dark isolation room. Only then did Ji Mingjiang realize that the walls made of the same material as the door had turned into potholes. It was full of scratches, and there were a few sporadic drops of blood in several places.

His eyes were withdrawn from the room and shifted from the wall to Clarice’s blood-stained hands. Just as the hands showed signs of shrinking back, Ji Mingjiang naturally looked at his own white hands, which had not been stained with a single speck of dust.

After a moment of silence, he quickly hid his own hand in his cloak.

The mermaid’s sudden growth of legs was enough to shock the three people present, and if they know that Clarice, who could break the specially made wall into that kind of state, was easily stopped by him, ….hmmm let’s hide it for now.

After appeasing the worried Rowlett, Leiden glanced over at the man in night clothes squatting in the corner, paused for a moment, and then looked at Ji Mingjiang, who was standing firmly beside him with a straight figure.

The dark blue cloak that just reached knee length and the long silver hair messily scattered behind made the other party’s already not-so-exaggerated figure even thinner.

The wind blowing along the corridor lifted up the corner of the cloak, revealing a somewhat familiar shirt embroidered with silver-gray dark patterns inside, and the black trousers that had been put away for a long time wrapped neatly around Ji Mingjiang’s slender legs, outlining those powerful and graceful muscles.

After repeated glances but failing to see the familiar blue tail, Leiden pinched the center of his brows and was just about to say something when his attention was stolen by the …… tuft of burnt fluff that brushed gently across Jimingjiang’s jaw.

The contrast between white and black was too obvious. Leiden was stunned for a second before giving up the question he was going to ask just now and frowning, “What’s going on?”

Ji Mingjiang brushed off the scorched fluff indifferently, twisted it with two fingers, and a handful of ashes slowly fell to the ground.

After picking the ashes on the ground with his toes, Ji Mingjiang turned his head and looked at Zhang Cheng, who was shivering in the corner. “It was him. I don’t know what kind of sinister plan he had, so I knocked him out and brought him here.”

Hearing Ji Mingjiang’s words, Zhang Cheng quickly stared at Ji Mingjiang, who was standing beside Clarice, with wide eyes and a face that said, “How can you turn black and white upside down for no reason?”

Sinister plan? No matter how many sinister plans he had, could he be more sinister than these few people? You let the mermaid livestream with a delicate and weak appearance, but hide his true strength. You guys are the ones laying traps!

Rowlett had already asked about the general situation and explained to the two when he saw this: “He said that he didn’t come to assassinate, but was ordered by… to take His Royal Highness Mingjiang away.”

When mentioning the person who was giving orders behind the scenes, Rowlett glanced at the surveillance camera above his head and skipped over with a vague tone.

“The exact cause and effect are a bit complicated, so we can wait until we get back to investigate.”

“Ah!” Speaking of this, Ji Mingjiang suddenly exclaimed, and he said with a complicated expression after Clarice cast his gaze over, “I made a big commotion when I was dealing with Zhang Cheng, and it drew the guards outside the palace over…”

“What is the subjective initiative of your guards? Will they break into the room without your command?”

After the three of them looked at each other, Rowlett stroked his beard and said with a smile, “Then your majesty and His Royal Highness Mingjiang will go back first. I will go to the person in charge here and ask them to delete the monitoring, and in the meantime, take care of the piece of special glass that Your Highness broke and the subsequent matters.”

“What glass?”

Deleting the monitoring is also under Leiden’s consideration, but what is the glass broken by Ji Mingjiang?

“If I remember correctly, the glass in the protection center should be made of special synthetic materials and some extremely stable ores, right?”

He looked at the person standing beside him with an indescribable expression.

Zhang Cheng in the corner of the wall probably felt that he was going to die anyway, so he courageously chimed in when seeing Clarice’s shocked expression: “That’s right, it’s that kind of glass; that mermaid next to you broke it with a single punch, haha.”

After complaining about Ji Mingjiang, he began to complain about Clarice in his heart.

As expected of a tyrant, he dares to keep such a mermaid with him. Listening to Ji Mingjiang’s question just now, it appeared that they even live in the same place. It’s f*cking unbelievably appalling.

Ji Mingjiang glanced at Zhang Cheng, who acted like a cornered dog, and hooked the corners of his mouth with a sly smile. He then looked at Clarice confidently and said, “You won’t let Chief Steward Rowlett tell me your situation. No one responded to the message I sent, so I can only find you myself. Besides, I can’t get into this damn place through the proper channels. Will you blame me?”

“……It’s my fault.”

Knowing that he was wrong, Leiden quickly admitted his mistake, then looked at Ji Mingjiang, who was striding forward vigorously, and felt some belated headaches.

How did things become like this?

The mermaid he brought back suddenly grew two legs one day and walked very naturally. Then, without any prompts, he accurately found his position and rushed over within half an hour. Later, he effortlessly controlled him, who was in a state of mental riot. The fishmonger who sneaked into the palace was also packed and carried over by him…

In the spiritual sea, the black dragon, who was slowly playing with the water by the stream, straightened up its hind legs and looked at the suddenly fluctuating sky. After a lazy snort, it casually returned to its knees, its golden eyes narrowing wearily.

“Rawr.”

——It’s so cool and comfortable, and I like it so much, rawr.