I became a mermaid egg and saved the Imperial Marshal

Chapter 157 Man in Black Robe

"Daddy?" Qi Yan exclaimed.

Li Jia frowned and glanced at the alley, then lowered his head and looked at him: "What happened?"

Hearing this, Qi Yan looked again at the place where the man in black disappeared, and thought: "I seem to see someone I know."

"Do you need Daddy to help you investigate?"

Qi Yan shook her head: "It's possible that I saw it wrong."

Li Jia rubbed his head and said, "Let's go home."

When Qi Yan heard this, she remembered her initial doubts, hugged his arm, and asked, "Daddy, why are you here? Didn't you go back to the Giant Whale Constellation?"

Li Jia and Jun Yan left only one day earlier than Huo Linyuan. Given the distance to Cetus, it was impossible for them to come back so soon.

His guess was correct. Li Jia actually returned halfway. As for the reason...

"Because some annoying guy is worried about you being alone."

"A Yuan?" Qi Yan was stunned, and then a sweet feeling arose in her heart.

"Are you so happy when I mention him?" Li Jia deliberately frowned and looked at him with disappointment.

Qi Yan blushed, buried her face in his arms, and said cunningly: "No!"

He was still angry about Huo Linyuan abandoning him!

Although he thought so in his heart, the corners of his mouth that couldn't help but rise betrayed him.

Seeing that he was saying one thing and thinking another, Li Jia did not expose him, but instead recalled his previous conversation with Huo Linyuan.

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"I have to leave for a while. Yanyan is on the second planet. I..."

Li Jia interrupted Huo Linyuan before he finished speaking.

"You actually left him alone?" Li Jia narrowed his eyes.

This is why Li Jia is worried about Qi Yan being with him, because Huo Linyuan is not only Huo Linyuan, but also the Marshal of the Empire. He belongs to the entire galaxy and will never belong to just one person.

So even though he knew that the other party did this to protect Qi Yan, Li Jia's first reaction was still dissatisfaction.

But he didn't know that today's views would be completely overturned in the future.

Huo Linyuan did not explain too much, but said: "The mastermind behind this has not been arrested yet. There are some things that the military is not convenient to intervene in now."

"Yanyan is my son. I will take good care of him without you telling me." Although he was dissatisfied, their goals were the same after all, so Li Jia did not make things too difficult for him.

"Thank you!"

-

After regaining his consciousness, Li Jia took Qi Yan's hand and started walking back.

At this moment, Qi Yan suddenly remembered something. He looked at Li Jia and said, "Dad, there is something I want to ask you for help with."

Li Jia raised his eyebrows. This was the first time Qi Yan took the initiative to seek help from him, which made him curious.

Qi Yan frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "I would like to ask you to help delete a post on Starnet."

Hearing this, Li Jia's face darkened. Without asking, he knew that Qi Yan must have seen the post.

He originally wanted to deal with it quietly before Qi Yan knew about it, but he didn't expect that Qi Yan would see it anyway.

However, Qi Yan's request made Li Jia frown.

He confirmed: "Just delete?"

Qi Yan nodded affirmatively: "Yes."

Hearing this answer, Li Jia once again showed an expression of disappointment and poked his forehead angrily: "You consider everything for him, sooner or later you will be eaten up without leaving anything left!"

How could Li Jia not see his little thoughts? He asked for the post to be deleted not to pursue responsibility, but simply because he didn't want Huo Linyuan to see it.

Qi Yan chuckled and thought: A Yuan wouldn't do that, he can't bear to do that.

Li Jia saw that he was being bitten by Huo Linyuan so hard that his teeth were almost broken, but he was helpless.

Finally, he sighed and said, "Daddy will take care of this matter, so don't worry about it."

Qi Yan was stunned for a moment, then she realized that Li Jia already knew about the post.

He laughed, "Thank you, Daddy."

Li Jia pinched his face, and all his anger at his lack of fighting spirit turned into one sentence, "Silly child", which sounded both angry and doting.

-

Motiya, Lord's Mansion.

"After Sascot escaped, I ordered a thorough search of this place, but nothing unusual was found." Ling Qing followed behind Huo Linyuan and explained.

He was a little puzzled as to why Huo Linyuan rushed here first. After all, the rebels were still eyeing them covetously, and they had already checked this place many times.

However, he did not get an answer, and soon the two of them came to the room where Huo Linyuan and Qi Yan had stayed.

Huo Linyuan walked straight to the window, lowered his head and clicked twice on the terminal, and then a black electronic bird appeared in the corner of the windowsill.

Ling Qing was shocked: "What is this?"

Huo Linyuan took back the Night Falcon without explaining, but motioned to go back first: "Let's go."

Back at the 12th Army Headquarters, Huo Linyuan scanned Night Falcon's memory chip.

He projected the scanned exploration images into the room, which mainly recorded some of Sascott's daily situations in the lord's mansion.

Most of the previous content was about trivial matters of life, and Huo Linyuan skipped over them directly until a man in a black robe appeared in the video.

The man was covered in a black robe, with his back to them, so his face could not be seen.

"Safety controls have been tightened everywhere recently, and it's become very difficult to get fresh goods." This is Sascott speaking.

The man in black robes remained unmoved, and Sascott looked distressed: "I have already tried what you asked me to test, and I can't see anything unusual."

"They seem to have noticed something and deliberately leaked the doubts to attract my attention. But because of this, I feel that the rumors are true. His mental strength is indeed damaged."

"And Lin Ke has been in rebellion for a while. His will to resist seems to be very strong recently."

The more Ling Qing listened, the more frightened he became. Sascot mentioned goods here. There was no doubt that the "goods" here referred to experimental subjects, that is, the people who had frequently disappeared in recent years.

He also mentioned temptation and mental damage, and it was obvious that he was referring to Huo Linyuan.

But he mentioned Lin Ke at the end. Is Lin Ke in the same group as them, or is Lin Ke already under their control?

At this time, the black-robed man who had been silent all this time spoke up: "I don't want to hear excuses and speculations. Now that the second batch of results has made a breakthrough, if we don't want to fail, we must collect the superior mermaid gene cargo as soon as possible."

His voice was low and cold, but it had a strong electronic tone and was obviously specially processed.

When Sascot heard his words, his expression became a little excited, and then he nodded vigorously: "Yes."

After saying this, the man in black robe disappeared into the darkness, and the Night Falcon followed his figure silently.

Finally, when passing a corner, the light from the corridor shone on the man in black robe, and his face turned at the same time.

Ling Qing couldn't help but hold his breath. Although Huo Linyuan's expression didn't change, his eyes darkened.

However, the scene they expected did not appear. The man in black robe had a black mask on his face. He was so fully armed that it was impossible to catch any details.

Ling Qing was a little disappointed. At this moment, the black-robed man in the image suddenly stopped and looked up into the void.

The direction he was looking at was exactly where Night Falcon was, so from Ling Qing's perspective, it seemed as if the man in black was looking at them at this moment.

Although this was an image from a long time ago, the inexplicably strange scene made Ling Qing break out in a cold sweat.