Chapter 232 Is he your illegitimate son?
Just then, Xiaobai's video call came through. Zuo Shan glanced at the already dead gray whale shark, casually clicked to answer, and pointed the screen at Achen.
What came into Xiaobai's view was an excited baby clapping his hands. He was laughing very happily, and his bright blue eyes were sparkling, echoing the vast blue ice surface around him, making him look just like a little ice sprite.
"Ah Chen! Do you miss your godfather?" Xiao Bai smiled gently at him and reached out to try to touch the large ears made of mutated rabbit fur on his hood through the air.
This was made from scraps of material that Pan Duole asked Master Liu for. It was sewn onto the hood of the baby's winter coat, making an ordinary winter coat vivid and beautiful.
"Yay!" The baby was happy, and was just as enthusiastic when he saw his number one enemy.
Ah Chen has now gotten used to him sending holographic projection videos every now and then, and can't sense any danger or malice from him, so he's no longer wary of him.
When Xiaobai saw the thick sea ice around him and the prey on the ice, his face immediately darkened.
"Miss Zuo, why are you taking the baby hunting again?"
The familiar reproachful tone made Zuo Shan involuntarily shrink back. She had very few acquaintances and friends in this world, and Xiao Bai was a very special friend.
Normally, it would be understandable for a friend to complain a bit if they saw her taking a baby less than six months old to the countryside; she might have done the same if she were in her shoes.
"This is an official sea winter hunt, with high-level superhumans in charge. They will intervene at any time if danger arises, so safety is guaranteed."
"Besides, the baby has hardly ever been out and about. This is just to let him see the sights and broaden his horizons," Zuo Shan explained with a smile.
"What level are you referring to as a high-level ability user in charge?" Xiaobai's expression remained unpleasant.
“There are dozens of fourth-tier experts, and they take turns overseeing things, so there shouldn’t be any problems,” Zuo Shan said.
"You call the fourth order a high-order one? Do you know how deep and wide the ocean is? How many unknown dangers are hidden in it?"
The sea beasts of the fifth rank and above, born from the ocean, are enormous and incredibly powerful. Even a sixth-rank human ability user might not be able to escape unscathed from an encounter with them!
Xiao Bai's tone was somber that Zuo Shan almost wanted to immediately admit his mistake and back down.
"Okay, okay, I know! I just happened to get two invitations this time, and it was a rare opportunity, so I came. I definitely won't do it next time."
"Oh, by the way, I took some pictures of the baby on the ice, do you want to see them?" Zuo Shan quickly changed the subject.
Xiao Bai knew she was deliberately changing the subject, but she couldn't resist the urge to see the baby's photos, so she nodded with a gentle expression.
Zuo Shan quickly sent over a dozen photos, then hurriedly added, "The signal is bad here, take your time looking at the photos, I'm hanging up!"
Looking at the scene that suddenly disappeared before his eyes, Xiaobai: ...
However, he still took off his mask and began to examine the photos one by one.
The photos were taken at great angles, capturing vivid scenes. The baby was laughing heartily one moment, then looking at everyone eating barbecue with a pitiful expression the next, and then sitting in the stroller reaching out to grab the baby's fluffy ears.
Modilan looked at these photos over and over again, reluctant to turn them off.
Suddenly, a familiar voice came from behind: "What are you looking at? Why are you so focused?"
Modilan instinctively reached to turn off his wristwatch, but his finger trembled and accidentally pressed the projection button, revealing an enlarged photograph of a baby that clearly occupied the entire wall.
Upon seeing this photo, Kaiserland was momentarily dazed.
Since his daughter-in-law passed away, his grandson's personality has changed drastically. The once lively and mischievous little boy has become indifferent and withdrawn, keeping his distance from everyone.
Even towards his grandfather, the respect was limited to that.
At first, he slept with the photo album his mother had left him every night, and he did this for a whole year. One day, he was bullied by one of his cousins, who even mocked him:
"You little brat who'll never be weaned! Even if you sleep with your dead mother's picture every night, she won't come back to life!"
From that day on, he put all the photo albums into a safe, then put them into the spatial key left by his mother, and never took them out again.
But the child in the photo clearly looks like him as a baby.
Having not seen photos of him as a child for over a decade, Kaiser Landon couldn't recall whether such a photo had actually been taken of him as an infant.
Did he suffer some kind of shock again, causing him to take out his old photo albums and remake them?
He didn't dare ask why, afraid of upsetting him, so he tried to speak in a gentle tone: "You had such a cute smile when you were little, like a little sea sprite."
"Grandfather, are you getting old and your eyesight is failing? Look closely, this isn't me at all!" Modilan said irritably.
Although he liked Ah Chen's appearance very much, it was still embarrassing to be mistaken for someone else by his own grandfather.
"What did you say?! He's not you?!" Kaiserland's eyes widened in shock, and he even leaned close to the bottom right corner of the wall to see when the photo was taken.
Sure enough, the photo was taken yesterday, not a picture of my grandson when he was a child.
Who could be a child who looks exactly like him when he was a child? The answer seems obvious.
"Is he your illegitimate son? Has he been tested? Does he have any special abilities? It doesn't matter if he doesn't, the bloodline of our Lan Dun family will awaken special abilities sooner or later." The dignified old man muttered excitedly to himself.
“Grandfather, you’re mistaken! He’s not mine, but I sensed the bloodline of the Lan Dun family in him, so I guess he must be the illegitimate son of one of my cousins,” said Mori Lan Dun.
He had been hesitant about whether to tell his grandfather about this, but since he had seen Ah Chen's photo today, he might as well just tell him first and test his attitude towards the baby.
"Not yours? Impossible! Look at his lips, small and round, bright red, they look exactly like your mother's."
"We, the Lannister family, all have thin lips and pale lips. It's been like this since my great-great-grandfather, and it's the same for me, your father, and yourself," said Caesar Lannister.
“But didn’t you just treat him like I was when I was a child?” Morti Lann retorted without any politeness.
"I mean... well! Anyway, anyone who looks at this child will think he looks a lot like you."
"If you don't believe me, bring him back to our Lan Dun family's Awakening Pool. He definitely won't be rejected there," Caesar Lan Dun said.
“But if he were a descendant of my cousins, the Awakening Pool wouldn’t reject him either. Besides, I’ve never slept with a woman, so where would I get an illegitimate child?” Mortilan Shield retorted.
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