When passing by a sample display area, Xie Yun suddenly called out to Bai Chi.

Looking in the direction he pointed, the first thing that caught my eye was rows of fish scales of different colors, with red and blue being the majority and only one black scale.

Bai Chi looked at the mermaid scales in front of him. Not only those of the five of them, but also those of several mermaids before him, and those purchased from the mermaids who came ashore.

There are more than thirty mermaid scales in total, from more than thirty different mermaids.

But there was only one black one, and a corner was missing, so only one third of the piece was left.

Bai Chi stretched out his hand, but his fingertips could only touch the cold glass jar.

"Why is there a piece missing?"

What was replaced was a whole piece of fish scales.

It was just a casual question, but I noticed that Xie Yun's eyes were panicked for a moment, and then he quickly calmed down.

"The missing piece is for research. Xiao Chi, you know that you haven't differentiated yet, so only this piece of scale has been replaced, so this is the only way."

Bai Chi had his back to Xie Yun, and there was a security guard in the middle who was very obedient and kept Xie Yun away from him, preventing him from touching Bai Chi.

But Bai Chi's mental power had been paying attention to him, so he immediately realized that something was wrong.

However, he did not expose it. He just withdrew his hand and looked thoughtfully at the fish scales in front of him, especially his own scale.

Xie Yun, or the person behind Xie Yun, obviously had other purposes in choosing him. Black Mermaid, is there anything else special about him?

Bai Chi did not alert the enemy, but instead carefully checked the team led by mentor Xie Yun, which was the team that Xie Yun was mentioned to have done nothing about. After coming to the institute, he was only focused on luring the little mermaid.

Without paying much attention to Xie Yun who was chattering away, Bai Chi asked Xiao Hei to retrieve the information of the group tutor.

Sure enough, what this person was openly researching was the reproductive capacity of mermaids and whether it was related to their supernatural powers.

But in private, he is secretly studying the supernatural abilities of mermaids, and even trying to let humans have such abilities.

Bai Chi walked around outside and then shook off Xie Yun and went back.

"Keep a close eye on this guy, especially his communication with the team leader. I suspect these two are in the same group."

"Meow~ Okay, Master."

Xie Yun followed Bai Chi for an hour or two today, but didn't get a single smile from him the whole time, which made him very angry.

As soon as he returned to the laboratory, he heard everyone discussing Bai Chi and the eldest prince, and his face changed immediately.

"What do you mean by Xiao Chi and the eldest prince?"

This impolite questioning was very offensive, but considering his close relationship with the teacher, no one dared to show their displeasure.

But the smile is somewhat intriguing.

"You don't know about this, do you? It's all over the internet now. Have you seen the sapphire necklace that Young Master Yin is wearing today?"

Xie Yun nodded with a dark face: "So what?"

"You were in there all day yesterday, and you didn't even go online when you came out? That was a gift from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to Mr. Xiao Yin, it's worth nine figures!"

"Yes, that's worth hundreds of millions. It's a real gem with soothing properties, not some cheap gem that might rust if it gets in water."

Faced with his colleagues' sarcasm, Xie Yun's face immediately turned pale and he quickly turned on his computer.

There is no need to even look for it specifically; the first thing that pops up is the scene yesterday morning, outside the auction gate, where His Royal Highness the Crown Prince carefully protected the little mermaid.