Chapter 44

The photo of Marshal Cloverd holding a child was uploaded to Skynet for several days in a row, and it was so widely circulated that even the border town knew about it.

Such large-scale spread has led to speculation online about the child's identity.

Is this child the Marshal's? If so, when did he get married? Why does the internet still show him as single? If he had a child out of wedlock, who is the mother? Who has the power to take down the Marshal?

But if this child is not the Marshal's, then what is his relationship with the Marshal? Why would the Marshal hold him in front of everyone?

Or maybe the child was just a child rescued by the marshal from the gangsters, and actually has nothing to do with the marshal?

The Internet was in an uproar, with all kinds of speculations swirling. Some media even got the Marshal's terminal number from somewhere and sent a message to ask him.

Don’t ask me why I didn’t call directly. The reason I didn’t dare was because I didn’t dare!

The marshal ignored their questions at first, but just said that no one was allowed to check the child's information privately, nor was anyone allowed to disturb the child in real life.

After this statement was made, although the Internet stopped trying to find out about the child's information, the speculation about the relationship between the child and the marshal became more and more rampant.

The most widely accepted theory is that the child actually had nothing to do with the marshal. The marshal just rescued the child from the hands of the criminals and held him because he saw that the child was too young.

Originally, Cloverd turned a blind eye to all the online discussions until he saw a large number of comments online saying that he and Jiaojiao had nothing to do with each other. Then the light in his iris-colored eyes flickered slightly.

His gaze turned towards Jiaojiao, who was wearing training clothes, waving her hands, kicking her feet, and humming along with Melhos while practicing military physical training not far away.

"Daddy?" Jiaojiao, whose face was flushed from practicing, looked up at Cloverd who suddenly picked him up in confusion.

Cloveford carried Jiaojiao to the grass nearby. After controlling the camera on the terminal to fly into the air, he squatted down and looked at Jiaojiao. With a serious face, he asked, "What did you call me?"

Jiaojiao tilted his head in confusion. Although he didn't know why Daddy asked that, he still raised his little face and called out crisply, "Daddy!"

"Yeah." Cloveford raised his hand and rubbed his head: "Very good."

Jiaojiao smiled with her lips pursed when she was praised, and her dark eyes were filled with starlight in the sunlight.

Her bright eyes were very clear, the kind of clearness that was unique even among young children, like the spring water melting under the snow-capped mountains, or like the light penetrating into the deep sea.

When he looks at you with those wide, innocent eyes, you feel as if you're in a completely different atmosphere. For a moment, all the negative, chaotic, and overwhelming emotions seem to be stripped away from your body, leaving only comfort, laziness, and the ability to face happiness with ease.

The more chaotic, bloody, or battlefield a person is in, the more they can notice Jiaojiao's special point.

They felt no wariness or defense towards Jiaojiao, as if they were supposed to be so close, as if he was supposed to appear in their barren, desolate, bloody world.

Cloveford reached out and held Jiaojiao in his arms. The moment the little soft ball fell into his arms, he felt comforted.

"Big Daddy."

"Um?"

"It's raining."

Cloveford looked up and saw the drizzle falling from the sky along with the sunshine, bringing out colorful and dreamy colors.

Jiaojiao stretched out his hand to catch the rain. As soon as the cool feeling fell into his hand, he remembered what his father said about not getting wet in the rain.

Jiaojiao subconsciously put her hands behind her back and said, "Daddy, get out of the rain quickly. It's not good to get wet."

Cloveford, who had been strong since childhood and often walked in the rain in the Endless Sea, didn't understand why, but he still quickened his pace and went indoors to avoid the rain as Jiaojiao said.

When this short video of about three minutes was posted by Cloverd to his circle of friends, it was ecstatically released by the media lurking in his circle of friends, successfully sparking unprecedented heated discussion.

As Cloveford wished, the comments on the Skynet claiming that the child had nothing to do with Marshal Clow disappeared, but were replaced by another kind of comments.

"Friends, have you noticed that this child's profile looks similar to the child in the photo that was widely circulated online some time ago?"

"I also think it looks like a certain photo, but I'm not sure if it's the same photo you're thinking of."

'A code?'

'Sunlight'

'drizzle'

'Puddle'

'Little yellow duck raincoat.'

'Tall man, cute cub'

'Ah! I know which photo you are talking about.'

After the man finished speaking, he quickly uploaded the photo. In the photo, there was a tall man wearing a little yellow duck raincoat, bumpy streets and dilapidated houses, and a cub with eyes as bright as stars.

"No way, no way, my Marshal can't possibly wear such a cute raincoat."

"Nonsense, of course it's not the Marshal. Our Marshal has a cold white skin that won't get tanned even in the sun. This man is as tall as the Marshal, but he has a distinctly wheat-colored complexion."

'Cold white skin, wheat color...'

"I kneel down and admit my mistake. I'm sorry that my thoughts are tainted. I have tarnished our great marshal!"

"To be honest, I also..."

"I plead guilty..."

"I surrender..."

"I'm sorry, Marshal..."

"The Marshal is the attacker..."

'How do I withdraw the barrage? How do I withdraw the barrage? Help me...'

'six……'

"There's no going back, let's quickly choose a beautiful cemetery!"

'A moment of silence.'

'A moment of silence.'

'A moment of silence.'

Yin Zheng, who was sending Jiaojiao to school, didn't know that after his identity as the father of his child was almost taken away, he had another unspeakable identity.

This time, Jiaojiao did not go to Bell Kindergarten, but to another Jiale Kindergarten which was not far away. However, this time, Jiaojiao did not go to school alone, but with Fang Xingqiao, who was four years old in intelligence and twelve years old in physical age.

This was Ji Zang's idea. Although Fang Xingqiao's intelligence was only that of a four-year-old, his body was that of a twelve-year-old and with the Ji family's training over the years, his fighting power was very strong and he was more than capable of dealing with a group of children.

With him around, no naughty kid would dare to bully Jiaojiao!

In this way, with Ji Zang's strong matchmaking, the twelve-year-old Fang Xingqiao carried a small schoolbag and became a classmate of Jiaojiao.

"Dad, goodbye!" Jiaojiao waved her little hand and said goodbye to her father at the kindergarten gate, then pulled Fang Xingqiao's clothes and walked in.

Although she still looked back every few steps during the process, Jiaojiao stopped crying this time because she had a familiar friend by her side.

After watching Jiaojiao go in, Yin Zheng found a place to squat outside Jiale Kindergarten as usual. He did this for several days in a row until he was completely sure that Jiaojiao was safe and happy there. He stopped this behavior and returned to the mecha arena.

What Yin Zheng didn't know was that since he stopped guarding outside the kindergarten, a group of baby-stealing people led by Cloveford had started their baby-stealing operation.

Yin Zheng had just sent Jiaojiao there in the morning, and around eleven o'clock at the latest, Cloveford came in and took Jiaojiao out of the kindergarten openly.

When Cloveford was too busy, Melhos, Colo, Gu Yu and the others took turns to take Jiaojiao back to St. Vincent's Hospital, and then sent her back in the afternoon when school was about to end.

Sometimes when they are having fun and there is no time to send them back, they just say that they were just picked up from kindergarten.

Luo Andeli felt completely justified in responding to Ji Zang's accusation that they were taking their children to skip school.

It's just enlightenment, they can teach the same things as in kindergarten. If they were not afraid that Jiaojiao would have psychological problems due to not having peers to accompany her, they would never let Jiaojiao go to kindergarten.

But the company of peers for one morning is more than enough, so why waste a whole day in kindergarten?

This group of big guys, who were originally a little guilty, gradually felt at ease about taking Jiaojiao to skip school under Luo Andeli's twisted logic.

Even though Ji Zang blamed Luo Andeli, he had actually also been vying for the position of who would take Jiaojiao out of the kindergarten today.

There was no way around it. The little guy was really good at capturing people's attention. If he wasn't around for the whole day, everything would feel awkward. Even he was thinking of just staying in St. Vincent's Hospital to avoid running back and forth.

And if you think about it carefully, what Luo Andeli said is indeed right. They can teach everything that kindergarten can teach, and they can also teach things that kindergarten cannot teach. So, you should escape from this school!

However, no matter how righteous they were, these rarely childish bosses still had some normal rationality. They took Jiaojiao to skip school without telling Yin Zheng.

The people in the kindergarten had a hard time. Not only did they not dare to stop Marshal Cloverford and his men, they also had to help them cover up their lies in front of Yin Zheng.

Half a month has passed in the blink of an eye. Although Jiaojiao is not in kindergarten most of the time every day, he is still very popular. The children like to take him with them when playing games, and sometimes they even quarrel about which side he belongs to.

The children’s favorite game is a game called Defend the Blue Planet. The game is divided into two factions, one plays the role of aliens and the other plays the role of brave mecha masters.

Today Jiaojiao was assigned to the upright faction. She was sitting cross-legged on the ground, raising her fist and shouting slogans with the other children.

"Defeat the aliens and protect the blue planet!"

But unlike the slogans shouted by the other children, Jiaojiao shouted: "Defeat the aliens, protect Daddy."

Hearing this slogan that was different from everyone else's, the children turned around and looked at him.

Jiaojiao tilted his head in confusion, not understanding why the other children suddenly turned around and looked at him: "What's wrong?"

"Ah." The leading child was worried about his comrade who couldn't even shout the slogan. He walked forward and made a roc-wings-spreading gesture in front of Jiaojiao. Then he looked at Jiaojiao and said, "Follow me and shout! Defeat the aliens, defend the continent, and defend the Blue Planet."

Jiaojiao, who had supported herself on the ground, staggered to her feet and imitated his movements. Then, she opened her mouth and shouted softly, "Defeat the aliens, defend the continent, defend Daddy!"

"There's no defense of Dad, only defense of Blue Star."

"But daddy also needs Jiaojiao's protection?" Jiaojiao asked puzzledly, scratching her cheek.

Jiaojiao feels that her father, who can get hurt and sick, also needs protection.

Facing Jiaojiao, the four-year-old leading child named Servis was speechless for the first time in his life.

Before they could figure out what to say, the teacher who was watching over them waved and said, "Little Jiaojiao, someone is looking for you."

Jiaojiao followed the teacher out and saw Luo Andeli standing in the office. Her eyes curved immediately and she ran forward and looked up: "Uncle Luo An."

Luo Andeli bent down and held him in his arms: "Let's go, let's go watch your dad's game."

"Dad's competition?" Jiaojiao tilted her head in confusion.

Luo Andeli tapped his little nose and said, "Your father has a special ring match today. I'll take you to see it."

Jiaojiao, who had never seen her father compete, clapped her hands happily and said sweetly, "Hello, Uncle Luo An!"

Luo Andeli laughed out loud, the little guy is good at coaxing people!

This match for Yin Zheng was indeed special, as he was playing against his half-brother.

Yes, and his half-brother!

A lot of things happened to Yin Zheng in the past half month. Luo Andeli and the others only then found out that Yin Zheng was the son of Yin Changshan's original wife from the Yin family.

The cause of this incident was actually the incident at Bell Kindergarten. At that time, Cloveford's appearance attracted a large number of onlookers and live broadcasts, and Yin Zheng was also caught in the camera. Then he was seen by Jia, who found that Yin Zheng looked a bit like her father's friend Yin Changshan, so she told her father about it.

Her father then told his good friend Yin Changshan, who had been looking for his son for more than 20 years.

His friend had risked everything to find his eldest son. Ten years ago, upon hearing the news, he personally went to the border town, but ended up in an accident that resulted in the loss of both legs. Even so, this did not make him give up the idea of ​​finding his son.

However, the confirmation process was a bit complicated. After all, Yin Zheng's personality obviously would not cooperate with them. After going through a series of events, it was finally confirmed.

Yin Zheng was indeed Yin Changshan's son. This man, whose temples had turned gray after searching for his son for almost twenty years, cried bitterly at that time.

Yin Zheng had no intention of returning to the Yin family, but his stepmother and younger brother did not think so.

Yin Zheng's appearance was ruined and he was blind in one eye. He had never been to school in the border town for so many years. It was unlikely that he would inherit the Yin family. However, Yin Changshan's crazy attitude towards Yin Zheng still made the mother and son feel a sense of crisis.

So this mecha competition came about. Adenian wanted to defeat Yin Zheng in public. In this era of admiring the strong, as long as Yin Zheng was completely defeated by him, even if his father really wanted to hand over the Yin family to Yin Zheng, other people in the family would not agree.

Adenian did not take the surname Yin. The reason he took his mother's surname was that Yin Changshan did not want his son, who was born by accident, to take the surname Yin.

Adenian has always been brooding over this.

It was this series of events that distracted Yin Zheng's attention and prevented him from discovering that they had abducted Jiaojiao to skip school.

There was a huge crowd of people watching the mecha arena, and there were four or five live broadcast cameras flying around the arena in the air.

"It seems that Adenian has done a very good job in promoting this competition." Luo Andeli said to Ke Luo who was dressed up beside him while holding Jiaojiao.

Ke Luo, who was wearing a purple wig, took Jiao Jiao from his arms and sneered, "He is confident and not afraid of falling into Yin Zheng's hands."

"This is inevitable. After all, Yin Zheng's performance in the mecha arena some time ago was really not very good." Melhos, who was wearing sunglasses, took Jiaojiao from his arms.

"Stupid." Cloveford spat out a word and hugged Jiaojiao in his arms.

I don’t know if he was referring to Adenian or Yin Zheng when he said he was stupid.

Compared with Kolo, Melhos and others, Clove's outfit was more serious. He not only wore a hat, a mask, sunglasses, but also wore colored contact lenses. He was dressed up thoroughly.

There is no way. If they appear in the mecha arena, then the competition may not be able to continue.

After all, everyone present was a mecha enthusiast, and they had all reached the pinnacle of the mecha field. It was no exaggeration to say that there was almost no one present who did not admire them.

This time the mecha arena competition was held in a high-end venue. After all, Adenian was a cadet who was about to graduate. Although he was not a cadet from a top military academy, he was still very impressive.

The scene was very lively, and since there was a protective shield in the ring, there was no need to worry about the ball hitting the audience.

"Dear audience friends and mecha enthusiasts, welcome......"

After the commentator gave a series of opening remarks, the game finally officially began.

Two mechas, one blue and one black, appeared in front of everyone. According to the introduction, Yin Zheng was driving a black level three mecha, and Adenian was driving a level four mecha.

The whole audience was shocked when the introduction came out. This wasn't a competition of the same level?!

What do you think about the crushing game at a higher level?

Want to see another mecha show off its skills?

To be honest, if the tickets for the high-level competitions weren't a bit expensive, there would have been a large-scale withdrawal.

To be honest, if I had enough time, I would have written this plot anyway~ I really want to finish writing this world quickly, otherwise I will let down my label of being a fast-paced writer~