CH 81.2

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As they said, Xue Chen now really felt that he was left out in the cold.

He was standing next to Clarice. Naturally, he didn’t miss what Clarice had just said. He also saw Ji Mingjiang’s expression after hearing those words.

Wearing a snow-white ski suit, the silver-haired mermaid has light eyebrows and eyes. When he was motionless and when he didn’t move, it was as if he was going to blend in with the vast snowy mountains behind him. However, when he heard those words, his dissatisfied wrinkled eyebrows and gesture of hitting someone instantly broke this sense of detachment and coldness. His whole person appeared to be vivid and lively.

Clarice, whose external image had always been tough, belligerent, and unsympathetic, looked very relaxed when talking to Ji Mingjiang. Even when the mermaid’s soft and boneless hands pinched his neck, His Majesty still maintained his stooping-down motion, and his tone of voice contained a smile as he gently patted away the snow clumps on his body.

It wasn’t until the last bit of snow on the shoulder was brushed off that the two people who were whispering raised their heads. Only then did Ji Mingjiang notice Xue Chen, who had been standing next to him for some reason without saying a word.

“Boss Xue, why are you here?”

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[Hahahahaha, damn, Cub Jiang’s genuine expression of doubts without any trace of hypocrisy really made me laugh. ]

[The boss is always here, silly boy, hahahaha. It’s a shame he even said he would waive the bill for you. ]

[Very good, the love that goes in both directions; I’ve tasted it again! (Secretly taking a piece of candy, hoping not to be targeted.jpg)]

……fine.

Xue Chen, who was really angry just now because of Clarice’s “free-range” attitude, now looked numb.

He’s too lazy to look at the light brain now, but he can guess that everyone on the barrage is definitely laughing at him.

Just laugh it off. Maybe being excluded is his fate.jpg

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“…… You all say I’m a genius now; isn’t it normal for geniuses to do whatever they want?”

The clear voice of the mermaid sounded in the empty room, and it seemed a bit distorted because of the old equipment and the large space.

“You are still watching, Grepa.”

Shi Yi, who was forever carrying that teacup, suddenly appeared behind Grepa Ochre again. The freshly brewed tea leaves floated on the water, creating ripples with Shi Yi’s movements.

Sighting past the palm on his shoulder, Grepa remained looking straight at the hover screen in front of him without turning around. He relaxed and leaned back on the chair, his tone full of conviction.

“Of course! This is the job I love, and it’s also the group I want to protect the most. I really can’t stop worrying about this mermaid, Ji Mingjiang. His behavior since he was picked up by His Majesty has pretty much stepped on the bottom line of the protection center. I really doubt if this is His Majesty testing something.”

The hand on his shoulder had not yet moved away, which made Grepa sigh in relief.

He was sort of afraid of this Shi Yi.

Every time, he was the one who started the conversation and then disappeared unexpectedly when he was showing his loyalty, leaving him alone here talking like a lunatic. His colleagues in the surveillance room have been concerned about his behavior, both openly and secretly!

It’s really tiring.

After taking a deep breath, he calmed down and raised his hand to point to the screen in the live broadcast room in front of him. Ji Mingjiang had put on his ski equipment and was eager to slide down from the top of the mountain again.

The camera ball flew into the air at this time. Looking at it from an overhead perspective, even people who are not afraid of heights feel a little scared.

Grepa paused for a moment before continuing: “Look, it has only been a few days since Ji Mingjiang was able to transform into a human form. Even if he really adapted to the human body, I don’t think he can be brought to play this kind of extreme sport right now.”

Shi Yi retracted his hand from his shoulder. Grepa reflexively raised his head to see Shi Yi rubbing his chin, finally thinking seriously about his words.

Grepa was delighted.

Then he saw this guy wave his hands very considerately and turned his head to comfort him. “I don’t think this is appropriate either, but I have told you many times, Grepa. The mermaid’s feelings are the most important. You see, Ji Mingjiang looked very happy, and his skiing movements are also very standard. With His Majesty and the staff watching over him, he won’t be injured, so relax.”

It was still the same old rhetoric, and the corners of Grepa’s lips that had just been raised were quickly flattened.

Damn it, why can someone with this philosophy still become a minister? I’ll get you down sooner or later!

Seeing that the heat in the teacup gradually became less and less, and estimating that it wouldn’t be too hot in the mouth now, Shi Yi slowly turned around and returned to his office after patting Grepa’s shoulder.

There was the sound of a door slamming behind them, and Grepa turned his back on the monitor, his face grim.

At this moment, the communicator he had always carried but rarely taken out vibrated in his trouser pocket. The sound was so small that it might have been missed if it wasn’t pressed against his thigh.

Grepa’s eyes narrowed. He sat quietly and continued to watch Ji Mingjiang, a freak, ski happily. After about ten minutes, he got up and walked to the toilet calmly.

After closing the door of the cubicle, he took out a communicator as thin as paper from his trouser pocket. The red light representing emergency messages flashed faster and faster.

After fingerprint and iris double verification were unlocked, he opened the message. It was from his useless boss, who always failed to live up to expectations and would be kicked out sooner or later.

Before reading the specific content, Grepa raised his eyebrows when he saw the name Andrew and looked at the screen in a daze for a short time.

Let’s start with when he was sent to the empire. It has been several years, but is Andrew still a minister of foreign affairs? How understaffed Mr. Speaker is.

After all these years, Clarice is still living a good life, despite his reputation. Although the people of the Empire are afraid of their emperor, they still believe in the same thing when it comes to important matters. It’s better to quickly let him finish this useless mission with no future and return to the Federation. By then, he will definitely do better than Andrew. No, everyone can be better than Andrew, but he’s confident that he’ll be the most suitable candidate for the job.

There was no telling what he was being asked to do again, so he hoped Andrew would be more reliable this time and wouldn’t set him up with any more tasks that were simply impossible.

The last one, for example, helping him search for good-looking people, was simply off the mark.

Tapping on the message absently, Grepa’s demeanor quickly straightened as the first line caught his eye, and he quickly looked down the page.

“The following is an order personally issued by Speaker Wilson. Be sure to pay attention to it. The Federation’s research on mermaid form transformation has not been going well. The Speaker suspects that Kiro Clarice and Ji Mingjiang are exceptions. We need you to find the opportunity to catch these two mermaids, and someone will cooperate to take care of you. After completing this task, you can directly return to the Federation. The infiltration work is over, and the previous plan can be discussed again.”

After reading this, Grepa’s eyebrows furrowed tightly, but his eyes became brighter and brighter.

The frown was naturally because he didn’t understand this task very well. First of all, it was difficult to complete. Bisnar Orfield was suddenly captured two days ago. It was also at that time that Ji Mingjiang said that he could transform between human form and mermaid form. Although he still has no clue about the relationship between the two, his intuition tells him that Ji Mingjiang definitely has a secret and is very dangerous.

The second thing is that he doesn’t see the significance of this task. If it’s just to find out the root cause of the mermaid’s transformation into human form?

After all, it doesn’t affect the level at which mermaids perform spiritual counseling.

Of course, more obscene speculations also flashed through his mind, and Grepa even felt that he might have vaguely guessed the truth.

If it’s for that purpose, of course it would be more convenient to have a mermaid that can transform into a human form.

When the time comes, the auction price for a mermaid who can provide spiritual counseling and provide additional services to satisfy the alternative fetishes of some big shots should be more than double what it is now.

“Ah, they really have such a vulgar and boring purpose.” Grepa, who was only interested in power and money, didn’t understand these people and curled his lips in disgust.

If it weren’t for his own future, he wouldn’t want to take on this mission and face a mermaid who is known to be very mentally aggressive and has other unknown abilities. There is a 100% possibility that he will be directly issued a wanted order and attacked by a military combat-type starship from Clarice.

But…

His eyes shifted to the line at the end: “After completing this mission, you can go back to the Federation directly. The infiltration work is over.” Grepa sighed.

Forget it; after completing this task and returning home, he will definitely get a promotion and a salary increase. Maybe he can kick the unreliable Andrew down and take the position himself, so he’ll just bite the bullet and do it.

“Received, I will give an action plan report before dinner; please pay attention to checking it then.”

Not being able to stay in the toilet for too long, Grepa quickly pressed his fingers and sent the reply.

“Too slow! I have to see it half an hour before I get off work!”

The message from the other side came back quickly. It seemed that he still took the Speaker’s task seriously and replied to him after the first message.

But the content is really unpleasant.

Grepa twitched the corner of his mouth with a smile. “Copy that, I understand.”

The force of pressing his fingers on the screen seemed to crush the communicator.

“I’ll wait; don’t be lazy.”

Without replying to Andrew’s message, Grepa stuffed the communicator back into his trouser pocket and pressed the flush button. While washing his hands, he greeted his colleague, who happened to walk in after opening the door, and then returned to his room. At the workstation, he gathered up the hem of his coat and looked at the light screen with a serious expression, as if nothing had just happened.

On the surface, he is still working seriously. People passing behind him will slow down when they notice him so as not to disturb this workaholic.

However, in fact, if they walked around to his work station and took a look, they would find that Grepa’s eyes were clearly unfocused when looking at the floating screen in mid-air, and his mind was completely empty.

One plan after another flashed through Grepa’s mind quickly and was rejected by him in succession.

Directly rush into the palace to capture them? No, this can be said to be completely whimsical now. Recently, the patrols in the palace have been so tight that birds passing by are shot down to see if they are spy birds.

Use netizens to invite Ji Mingjiang out? It’s even more impossible. According to the information he collected from major forums and observed by himself, this guy, Ji Mingjiang, has no self-consciousness as a livestreamer at all. He has tens of thousands of private messages and comments but has never replied to one.

Just as Grepa thought about this task and became more and more irritated, the communicator that was put back in his trouser pocket buzzed and vibrated twice more. Grepa’s eyes moved, but he still crossed his arms on his chest while looking at the screen in front of him.

It seems that Andrew’s brain is really not working properly. He should be able to imagine that he can’t find a chance to take out the communicator for a period of time after just replying to his message.

Just as he was thinking about what more reasonable behavior to use as a cover for himself, Grepa’s originally somewhat sloppy expression suddenly focused, his face was ashen, and he almost gritted his teeth and stretched out his right hand that was wearing the light brain.

A constant beeping sound was coming from the black screen on his wrist.

This idiot, Andrew, actually sent the message directly to the light brain he uses every day! Is he crazy? !

After observing the surroundings calmly, Grepa turned his wrist and slid away from the message. After reading it, his face became gloomier again.

“Contact them if you need anything. This is the one in charge of picking you up. They’ve left for the Empire now. I sent you this number because your comm didn’t get back to me. I hope you don’t let us down.”

There were two pieces of contact information attached to the message. Grepa glanced at the prefix and knew that this should be someone from the Emergency Operations Department.

So regardless of their original agreement, he sent a message to his light brain without taking the initiative to contact him just to talk about such non-urgent matters?

Grepa almost laughed in anger.

There was no reply to Andrew’s message. His sleeves drooped, blocking the light again. Grepa felt much more relaxed at this time.

He slowed down after learning that the person in charge of receiving him would go directly to the empire from the beginning instead of receiving news from him. The idea that he had brushed aside was brought back to him again.

Anyway, after this mission is completed, he won’t be able to hide his identity anymore, so he no longer has to worry about the impact. When the time comes, he can just kidnap people while they are not paying attention. As long as he can return to the Federation in time, everything after that will be what Abbott Wilson needs to deal with.

Before that, what he had to do was find out the itinerary of Clarice and the current patrol patterns in the palace, and at the same time find out the hobbies of Ji Mingjiang and Keruo and their future travel plans…

Since they can already transform into human forms, it would be strange not to go out and see the scenery of human society in person.

The idea in his mind gradually took shape, and the expression on Grepa’s face became more and more relaxed. At this time, he raised his eyes again and looked at the picture of the camera in front of him that was still changing. The dissatisfaction of having to work two jobs and seeing the target happily ski has dissipated a lot.

Looking at the two figures that crossed and sometimes paralleled, with the snowboards crossing together and raising fluffy snow in the air, Grepa leaned forward, picked up the cold coffee on the table, and took a sip.

The deformed latte art was swaying on the liquid, and Grepa’s eyes were filled with anticipation.

Seeing that Clarice, the ever-unsympathetic tyrant, was getting along quite well with Ji Mingjiang, the freak, when he completed his mission and patted his ass, this emperor’s expression would definitely be very nice to look at, wouldn’t it?

However, this plan cannot be implemented in a short period of time. He should worry about his initial mission now. It would also be a good thing to go back and count more achievements.

With this in mind, Grepa turned his wrist and started to contact people.