CH 31

TL: Hua

Bernie Lavender didn’t react when he was forced off the field until the system announced it from the cockpit.

[Player Bernie, 49 wins, 98% win rate; would you like to proceed to the next match?]

“Matching my ass!” Bernie cursed and clicked the cancel match button, then directly exited the holographic space.

After he got out, his big brother gave him a weird look with an expression that seemed to say, “How come you’re back from the advanced field so quickly this time?”

If it were normal, Bernie would surely start bragging about how strong he is, how weak the matched opponent is, or even if the opponent is strong but not strong enough to be his opponent.

But this time, Bernard found that his younger brother, who had always been so arrogant, was looking for the game replay with shame on his face.

Ah, this is a bit interesting. Who was so good that his brother could be beaten this badly?

Bernard, who had some rare interest, came over to Bernie’s side and watched the battle replay with him.

—Then saw his younger brother’s mecha being punched into pieces by the opposite mecha.

“Wow.” Bernard raised his brows slightly, let out a taunting exclamation, and then looked at Bernie.

Sure enough, the next second.

“F*ck!!!”

In Lavender Mansion, the boy’s roar resounded through the sky.

“Brother! He’s cheating!!!”

“Calm down, Bernie.” Bernard glanced at him and comforted him by saying, “You know the game in the light brain cannot be cheated, so the only possibility is that their physical fitness is much stronger than yours. The fight is fair.”

“I have said earlier that you cannot be too complacent with the current situation. When your military academy opens next year, there will definitely be many with higher physical strength and faster reaction speeds than you. You must…”

“Got it, brother!” Listening to his brother’s comforting words and the clichéd advice that followed, Bernie suddenly raised his voice and interrupted him.

Then, under Bernard’s quiet gaze, his cheeks, which were already a little red with annoyance, quickly flushed. He only dared to raise his voice for a moment. Then, as if a mosquito was buzzing, he said, “I know; I’ll start working out with you tomorrow.”

“And don’t slack off while I go to work. Mr. Butler will supervise you for me.” After hearing the answer he wanted, Bernard nodded slightly in satisfaction and prepared to go back to the study with the documents.

“Wait!” A flash came to his mind, and Bernie suddenly called out to his brother, and when he turned his head to look at him, he coughed lightly, his eyes wandering, and asked,” Can you help me find out who that person is?”

As if he were afraid that Bernard would not agree, he hastily added, “Only the nickname he used is fine!”

Bernard nodded thoughtfully but still warned him.

“To be able to cultivate such a person, the family behind him must be very strong. I may not be able to find out. You’d better not have too many expectations.”

Only after confirming that Bernie had taken his words in, did Bernard return to the study.

After pondering for a while, he still dialed a communication number and, at the same time, sent the video of the battle just now.

“Pero, it’s me. Help me check the information on the person who is fighting Bernie in the video. Find out as much as you can.”

After hanging up the communication, Bernard originally thought that he would have to wait at least a day or two before getting the information he wanted. To his surprise, Pero contacted him after only half a day.

Could it be that he guessed wrong? Does that person actually have no background and is purely talented? Then the Lavender family might want to consider recruiting him and cultivating some military power…

Thinking of this, he connected to the communication and then heard a dry voice on the other side.

“Mr. Bernard, there have been several posts in the game forum about this person you want to investigate. I have summarized his common attack methods and styles from the posts and sent them to you.”

Pero guessed Bernard’s intentions after seeing the video. It wasn’t difficult for him to summarize these things. He did not feel afraid because of his abnormal physical condition. What really made him afraid to investigate further was….

“Based on the battle time revealed in the forum, I finally locked an account and tracked his IP address.”

Speaking of this, Pero’s voice trembled before continuing: “His IP is displayed in the central area of the capital star. I…… do I have to keep checking his identity?”

There is another thing that he didn’t tell Bernard, that is, after he successfully located the palace, his spiritual sea was attacked.

Although it was just a warning, not an attack, he dare not continue to challenge His Majesty’s bottom line.

The central area of Capital Star…

Bernard’s expression was blank for a moment.

There’s only the palace there! Did Clarice not have enough fight on the front line and begin to abuse people in the game? Your character setting has collapsed!

His intuition told him that it was impossible, but his reason was analyzing them one by one.

The style of ending a fight with a single punch fits well with Clarice’s increasingly uncontrolled mania.

Excessive physical fitness… It’s not surprising that His Majesty, who personally went to the front line to repel the Federation army, has such physical fitness.

More importantly, the few people with blood relations to Clarice’s family are mostly isolated from the independent government, and only a few children can be temporarily accommodated in the palace.

Moreover, there has not been any news about the establishment of a queen recently. Now there are only a few attendants in the palace except for Clarice and the old chief steward!

Eliminate all kinds of impossibilities, even if the remaining one is unbelievable…

“There’s no need to search any further.” Bernard said after a moment of silence.

After hanging up the communication, he rubbed his forehead with some headaches. Is it because His Majesty’s mental state is becoming more and more out of control, or is there really something in the palace that he doesn’t know about?

When Ji Mingjiang exited the holographic mode, he didn’t know that his behavior just now caused an uproar in the game: the game forum was only set in the normal mode, and he hadn’t entered it yet.

He just felt that Clarice looked at him a little strangely, as if he had a headache, and as if he were asking, “What have you done when I was out for a few hours”.

Facing his gaze, Ji Mingjiang’s tail stirred up waves underwater, feeling very puzzled.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

Then he saw Clarice sighing and asked with the same puzzled expression, “I also want to know what you did this afternoon.”

He saw the deduction reminder on the Star Card and probably guessed that Ji Mingjiang was playing the game in holographic mode, but…

“What happened when you were playing the game? Why were you being tracked all afternoon?”

His meeting this afternoon was important, to say the least, but it was also quite boring.

The attending members were a group of elderly nobles with centuries or even thousands of years of foundation in the Empire. They criticized his support for the new nobles and his suppression of the old nobles in recent years, but they dared not say anything tough due to his previous reputation for bloodwashing the Cod family.

In this kind of meeting where it didn’t matter if he didn’t listen, Leiden naturally had the leisure to type out a large dictum just as Ji Mingjiang’s news came through.

Naturally, he could choose to immediately suspend the meeting and go out to pick up the communication when the palace security officer called him.

So he knew immediately that someone had traced an IP address to the palace.

“The Lavender family probably got here by checking your light brain account. I have someone give some warnings, and they probably don’t dare to check again.”

So what have you done?

I’ve taken care of the aftermath for you, so you can feel free to tell me.

After hearing this matter, Ji Mingjiang then extracted the meaning from Clarice’s word.

But it’s not a big deal after all; there’s nothing that can’t be said.

“It should be the mecha battle game. In the first match, I was matched with a very arrogant and talkative person. If there is a dispute in the game, it can only be him.”

After all, other people really don’t have that much to say. And if he’s a young master of an aristocratic family, then the contempt for remote star people revealed in his words fits his personality very well.

“But the Lavender’s? Why did this sound so familiar?” Ji Mingjiang, who didn’t know much about these families, raised his head and modestly raised his own questions to Clarice.

“…On your matching day, one of the matches was the youngest son of the Lavender family.”

The reason why Leiden can remember this is because when Chen Yuanchuan mentioned Match Day to him, he inadvertently complained that the youngest son of the Lavender family named Bernie had not learned a bit of his older brother’s stability. He was obviously going to enter the military school soon but still seemed to be completely childish.

“Ah, it’s him.” Hearing what Clarice said, Ji Mingjiang matched the face with the name from his memory.

“No wonder he sounds a little familiar.”

He still has a certain impression of this young master; to put it simply, he is a child who has not yet grown up and is spoiled beyond measure.

He still remembers some of the words and behaviors that Bernie Lavender child said and did after he entered the mermaid center. Although it wasn’t bad compared with other adults, he is indeed a little unrestrained.

Seeing that Clarice was still a little curious about what happened in the game, Ji Mingjiang explained to him while pulling out his own game video from the light brain.

After watching the scene that was beyond common sense and could be described as literally crushing, Leiden was silent for a moment, feeling a little regretful while being shocked.

“It’s such a pity. If you are not a mermaid, I can directly write you a recommendation letter and send you to the First Military Academy.”

Maybe Ji Mingjiang’s popularity in the military school will even overshadow his own at the time.

—No, it’s not that he may, but he can definitely surpass himself.

As soon as he had this thought in his mind, Leiden quickly corrected it.

Moreover, after seeing the video in front of him, Leiden suddenly remembered the legend of mermaids that his parents mentioned to him as if they were telling stories when they were still around.

In the same room, the gentle but heroic empress was holding a biography in her hand and telling Little Leiden a bedtime story.

The empress flipped over the page with her pale white finger, then suddenly closed the book after seeing the content. She then talked about the mermaids as if she were telling a legend she had heard.

“She said that at the beginning of the establishment of diplomatic relations between mermaids and humans, those mermaids were still the most beautiful and elegant creatures in the universe, but their claws were very sharp, and their flapping tails could break the bones of humans wearing padded clothes.”

“Both my parents unanimously said that the mermaids at that time were the darlings of the universe. Beauty and strength were perfectly integrated into them.”

Leiden frowned and looked at Ji Mingjiang in front of him. He did know that the mermaids of the past were different from the delicate mermaids of the present. But for his parents’ words about how powerful the mermaids back then were, he had always taken it as an exaggerated version of a bedtime story.

but now……

Leiden couldn’t help but think of the first night when Ji Mingjiang relied on the power of his tail to part the indoor pool and turn it into a wavy beach.

Is what they said true?

The author has something to say:

The first batch of mermaids in this world were actually very powerful, just a little weaker than the mermaid ancestors mentioned in the first few chapters.

Of course, the order of combat power is still Jiangjiang > deep-sea mermaid ancestors > mermaid ancestors in the interstellar world.

After all, Jiangjiang’s mermaid gene is a reward from the system. My cub’s golden finger is the biggest, brightest, and most perfect in the universe, hehe qvq