Chapter 29
Everyone looked over when they heard the sound and gasped.
The missing little cub appeared in the middle of the seat at some unknown time and by some unknown means. He looked at this and that, and finally chose the most important and highest-ranking one among them without any guidance.
Li Jue tugged at Elder Joe's trouser leg as he usually did to Finks, and when he received no response, he took the initiative to climb onto the old man's lap, turned around flexibly, moved his little butt, and found a comfortable sitting position.
Elder Qiao has been in power and high position since he was young. It is not an exaggeration to call him the leader of the dragon clan.
Not to mention a strange cub, even Elder Qiao's grandchildren, and even her eldest son and daughter going back further, did not dare to do such an overreach in their childhood.
This scene completely shocked everyone. For a moment, there was not even a dragon who came out to dissuade them or take the little guy away.
It was rare for the Golden Dragon family to wish their eyesight could be worse so that they wouldn't be able to see the entire process happening at the meeting table so clearly.
It is well known that Elder Qiao does not like cubs. What consequences will arise if the baby cub does this?
Even the fearless Golden Tyrant broke out in a cold sweat.
He let go of Qian Xing and looked at the latter.
At this moment, the two showed amazing tacit understanding and unanimously decided to put aside their previous grudges for the time being and return to the cooperation they had originally reached: if Finks could not protect Li Jue, then Qian Xing would take him away immediately.
Finks gritted his teeth, his eyes roaming among the people on the stage, quickly assessing the strength of each dragon.
He is confident in fighting anyone alone, but what if he is fighting against many people alone?
The Presbyterian Church is the Presbyterian Church not because they were randomly selected.
More importantly, what if they use Li Jue as a bargaining chip?
If you have concerns and worries, you will become weak.
This is a universal theorem in the universe, and it is also one of the reasons why the dragon race is emotionally indifferent.
However, Finks thought that he had broken his vow after all and raised a cub wrongly, ridiculously, and with great care.
He turned his head slightly, without extending his gaze, but Lin Wang and others immediately understood what he meant and nodded.
The elders were still in the confusion of realizing what had happened, and no one noticed the departure of several members of the Golden Dragon Family.
Finally, a dragon reacted and slapped his thigh in anger and sorrow:
"Look at the kids Finks raised!"
"As rude as him..."
"I knew it would be like this."
"That's disrespectful! That's disrespectful!"
"Quiet!"
Elder Qiao's orders were in ancient dragon language.
In an instant, the huge space fell into complete silence, and even the sound of dragon scales falling off could be heard.
The elder looked down at the little cub sitting on her lap, his soft little hands unconsciously grabbing her sleeves, and his pink beret made him look like a sweet and delicious little strawberry.
It is warm and soft, completely different from the dragon form.
It was a...little cub that she should have looked down upon.
Li Jue has a strong ability to adapt. When he was first brought to the elders' house by his parents, he was a little timid facing the overly empty building and so many strangers, but he quickly got used to the new environment in a short period of time during the game between adults.
He still remembered that his brother asked him to say hello to the old lady.
Since you've said hello, then he's someone I know.
Little Li Jue was no longer afraid of giving birth. She tilted her head back, revealing her cute dimples, and took the initiative to introduce herself: "Hello, grandma, I'm your baby!"
When he first greeted him from below, his voice was too soft for the dragons in the seats to hear clearly.
This time it was clear enough.
But such a soft and baby voice... can it really be made by a dragon cub?
Dragon cubs learn to talk, fly and breathe fire almost at the same time. For their parents, they are only vulnerable at the moment they break out of the shell. After hatching, they become invincible dragons. There is no such thing as a weak stage, let alone such stupid and useless behavior as acting coquettishly to their parents.
However, for the little fellow sitting on the elder's lap at this moment, acting like a spoiled child was as natural as eating and drinking.
If other dragon cubs are trained to be little cannons and rockets for fighting, then this little guy in front of us is born to be a little candy that is held in the palm of everyone's hand and loved.
Phinx is a rather unique dragon, and that's clear to all.
The cub of Phinx also looks different from other dragons.
The problem is that this sweet and soft personality doesn't look much like Finks.
...Could it be that he inherited it from another father?
The dragons all looked at Qian Xing suspiciously.
As for the Siren King, he was immersed in thought.
He had already observed that there were no stairs or elevators in the hall leading to the platform.
The elders at the table either entered from somewhere else, or there was some hidden switch.
However, Li Jue suddenly appeared there without telling anyone. Most likely, he did not take the usual route, but took advantage of the system's permission to enter and exit any location in the sub-world at will.
Most likely, even the little cub himself didn't know how to activate the "teleportation". Maybe he was just looking at the platform, muttering to himself "I really want to go and see it", and the next second he was there.
Qian Xing was about to tell Finks about this guess, but found that everyone was staring at her with analytical and scanning eyes.
Qian Xing: “…”
What is going on again.
It's so tiring to get along with creatures like dragons.
Elder Qiao didn't care about other people's reactions, her attention was all on the child.
Subconsciously grabbing my own hand as if to gain a sense of security;
Smooth and delicate skin with no tendency to scale;
Even though I haven't received any response yet, I still maintain that sweet smile.
A somewhat strange name, baby.
This is probably not his real name, Joe thought, but it is a good name anyway.
The elder had a blank expression on his face. Long, who was perceptive, bent down and said, "Elder, let me handle him."
It was obvious that they were here to catch the child.
The young cub's eyes widened, his hazard lights beeping, and he scurried for the nearest protection.
Everyone watched helplessly as the daring brat from Huang Jinlong's family, who dared to sit on the elder's lap, became even more outrageous, and this time he even hid in the elder's arms!
As she crawled, she shook her head with a faint cry in her voice: "Grandma, the baby won't go with him, won't go with him, grandma, save the baby..."
With both words and actions, the brat completely crossed Elder Qiao's bottom line.
Dragon Soul, it has been many years since I saw our ancestor, who has been cultivating himself and nourishing his mind for many years, get angry.
What kind of indiscriminate wrath of thunder will it be this time?
The dragons became nervous.
What was shocking was that Elder Qiao's loose, wrinkled facial muscles twitched several times, and finally settled into a strange, cautious expression, as if afraid of breaking something.
"No need." She didn't even take her eyes off the cub for a second. As if she had just unearthed a treasure, her bony hands trembled as she gently stroked the little guy's back. It was like she had never done such a thing in her life. She almost murmured, "...Don't scare him."
The dragons were stunned, thinking they were hallucinating.
Elder Qiao paused for a moment while patting the child's back, then raised his hand and wiped the tears from the child's eyes with his fingertips. His voice to Li Jue could be described as gentle: "No."
No.
Won't let them take you away.
Zizi understood the unfinished words and felt relieved. He hugged her wrist with his little hands and smiled through his tears: "Thank you, grandma!"
He didn't know if it was his illusion, but when the little cub smiled sweetly at him, Elder Qiao seemed to see many delicate pink and white pear blossoms blooming all around him, as if they were a background specially arranged for the cub.
...It turns out that I'm old and my eyes are blurry.
The dragons who witnessed this scene all widened their eyes, as if they had seen a ghost.
What happened? Is this still their unattainable ancestor?
How come she suddenly looks like an ordinary grandma enjoying family happiness with her grandchildren?
This brat...did he use some kind of witchcraft?
Xiao Lijue bit his fingers and looked at them, his beautiful light golden eyes blinking innocently.
What kind of little thoughts could a baby have?
After seeing Finks rushing over, her round eyes curved into crescents and she said in a soft voice, "Brother!"
The double attack of the address and the smile was like an arrow shooting into the heart of every male dragon present - who could not regard the word "brother" as a call to themselves?
Like Elder Qiao, they saw the illusion of countless pear blossoms blooming and falling, and the fluttering snow flooded the Elders' Hall. The comfortable coolness also calmed their previous restlessness.
All it takes is a smile from you.
A smile can make the impulsive and irritable dragons become as docile as kittens with their claws retracted.
This is a big victory for the cub~!
Finks was both a spectator and an eyewitness.
The first time I felt Li Jue's soothing ability was when a baby accidentally entered the confinement room and calmed my still fluctuating mental power.
Later, I witnessed time and again that the little cub was like a cheerful rain, extinguishing all the dragons' restless anger.
He was very sure that this situation was no accident. The baby had an extraordinary ability to soothe - and this was not something that an ordinary boss communication system could do.
In other words, Li Jue... is definitely not just a communication system.
The boss's mental strength is directly related to the stability of the "core" of the sub-world. In the past, there were also special positions for healing and repair systems.
However, after the "great chaos" came, the bosses' anger reached an unprecedented peak, and this position was directly abolished, leaving the bosses to do whatever they wanted and fend for themselves.
Could it be that the baby also serves as a repairman?
I've never heard of a system that can handle both responsibilities at the same time.
Moreover, if Finks remembered correctly, the repair station system required special props to be effective, just like a doctor always had to use medicine to treat an illness.
But Li Jue doesn't need any of that messy assistance at all.
Li Jue only needs a smile.
What is the little guy's true identity?
Huang Jinlong had suspected this a long time ago, but the cub was too young and knew nothing except his own name; he couldn't get any information from the system assistant No.Bα3L82γk either.
If you want to find the truth, you have to dig it out yourself.
"Golden Dragon, Son of Cerny, Phinks."
Elder Joe's voice regained its dignity and brought Finks back from his thoughts.
The young dragon looked at the old lady who was much smaller than him but had an imposing aura. She had the ability to make all those taller than her bow their heads obediently: "Elder."
"prove."
She still held Li Jue, who was sitting on her lap, in one hand and rocked him gently, completely unaware of how horrifying her behavior of coaxing the cub seemed to the other dragon sons and grandsons.
The old man spoke slowly but with great force.
"Prove to me that you are capable of raising... him. If you pass, I will allow you to keep him by your side. Otherwise, I will teach him myself."
*
Lin Wang found Qian Xing on the terrace.
Except for the Elders' Council, most useless lights in Lincheng are forced to be turned off after dark. Without light pollution, the night sky is exceptionally clear.
Qian Xing looked at the scattered stars in the distance, which looked like bright pearls on the seabed.
He rarely left his own sub-world, even the sea where the palace was located.
The feeling of homesickness was very unfamiliar to him.
At this moment, seeing the pearls in the sky or the stars under the water is just a memory.
...How long will it take to go back?
"A stopgap measure," was what Finks called it.
Whether it was declaring themselves his mate without warning in the hall, or agreeing to the old man's test, proving that they were qualified parents who could raise cubs independently.
"Help me get through this." The taller man stared at him, his gaze so intense it seemed to burn his skin. "I can unconditionally grant you one request—anything—and you know a dragon's promises never go unfulfilled."
What Qian Xing couldn't understand even more than the man's escalating behavior was that she actually agreed to it.
Why?
If you just want a small system, there is no need to go through so much trouble.
In fact, Li Jue can't stay in Finks' sub-world for long. Once the countdown is over, the little guy must leave even if he is reluctant.
It’s not impossible to take Li Jue away in advance. After all, if he returns to his own territory, even if Finks comes to snatch the cub, he will not be his match.
The power struggles and intrigues among the dragon clan have nothing to do with him.
Even if this sub-world collapses due to the outbreak of a world war, it will not affect him at all.
...That's the truth.
So what went wrong for me to agree to pretend to be a partner?
The Siren King thought seriously that it must be because the magnetic field of this sub-world was too chaotic that made him feel so weird.
It seems that dragons and I really don't get along.
I won't come again next time.
"--Hi."
The sudden sound made Qian Xing's fingers tremble, and she almost dropped the glass in her hand.
He caught the drink in his glass just in time to prevent it from spilling awkwardly.
The man with a high ponytail easily jumped over the railing and walked up to him: "Sir, can I sit here?"
The proud golden tyrant would never use such a polite name.
Seeing that the person coming was not Finks, Qian Xing breathed a sigh of relief.
A vague sense of loss flashed through his heart, but he didn't care.
After spending these few days together, the Sea Monster King had a general understanding of the top leaders of the Golden Dragon Family.
Lin Wang is Finks' most trusted deputy and the first dragon who wanted to join him.
If you look at it from an alien's perspective, Lin Wang really doesn't look like a dragon.
He does not have the arrogance of other dragons and is a rare moderate.
To put it nicely, his style of behavior is easy-going; to put it bluntly, he is a scumbag.
To be honest, he is more like a human being, a human in his subconscious cognition.
He was actually a little curious whether there were really humans in Lin Wang's bloodline, but this question was tantamount to an insult to Long.
In addition, Qian Xing also knew that Lin Wang was also a black dragon - just like Hubbard, the old rival of Finks who made him upset just by looking at him.
The most trusted confidants and the most hated enemies are people of the same clan.
This is very interesting.
With Qian Xing's tacit consent, Lin Wang sat next to him, holding a soda that only children would drink and a long, curved thing that could hardly be called a straw.
He held the straw in his mouth and leaned comfortably on the recliner: "Don't worry about me, just pretend I don't exist."
Qian Xing: “.”
The hotel they stayed in had only this one terrace, which was completely unobstructed and within reach of the stars.
Since it is public, there is no reason to drive others away.
Qian Xing sighed that her peaceful time of enjoying the scenery had been interrupted. She didn't bother to prepare anything and went straight to the point: "That family, they must be yours, right?"
Of course Lin Wang knew what the Siren King was talking about.
He shrugged, a gesture that made him look a lot like Finks. "Yes, they are. I'm just unlucky enough to have the same dragon scales as them. They are not my relatives. I'm an orphan. The crew are my family."
He was loyal to Finks and had no sense of belonging to his own tribe. He was not caught between the two forces as Qian Xing had imagined.
Qian Xing was thoughtful: "Do you know who the traitor is?"
He was referring to the spy sent by Hubbard who was hiding among the crew and had taken the photos of Finks and Li Jue.
"I know. I'm ashamed of him. But since the boss doesn't care, we didn't expose him. It wouldn't cause any trouble anyway. After this operation is exposed, he will most likely be recalled by Hubbard and then withdraw from our starship with various excuses."
Lin Wang bit the straw lazily.
"But you—I have to say I'm very curious, why did you agree to a fake marriage with our boss?"
Qian Xing choked: "...We are just pretending to be partners, we are not married."
"Really?"
Lin Wang's tone sounded completely unconvinced.
Qian Xing: “…”
He wasn't the type to argue to the end if he was misunderstood about something, but an ordinary misunderstanding and being mistakenly believed to be marrying his nemesis were simply not on the same level.
Before Qian Xing could say anything, Lin Wang suddenly sat up and stared at him carefully: "I thought you hated our boss."
Qian Xing didn't like being scrutinized like this, frowning and turning her head away: "Indeed."
Lin Wang keenly noticed the other party's displeasure and raised his hands: "Sorry, sorry. I just want to say, since you act like you hate the leader so much, but you are still willing to agree to his request, is it because you actually like him in your heart..."
He deliberately did not finish his words, and sure enough, he saw the ear fins, which were still gorgeous in the night, move, as if seeing through the Siren King's heart that was lifted up by these words.
"——I really like our baby." Lin Wang finished his long breath leisurely, and then added a sharper sentence like throwing a javelin, "You didn't mistakenly think I was talking about the leader, right?"
In a place where the Black Dragon couldn't see, a small vortex had already formed in the Siren King's wine glass, which represented his uneasy state of mind.
Qian Xing has been trained as the successor to the royal family of the ocean since childhood. He considers himself to be much more cultured than these savage winged creatures and cannot get angry with them easily, otherwise it would be tantamount to dragging himself down to the same level.
However, he still understood something from the gradual words.
Qian Xing glanced at Lin Wang and said, "Did he send you to test me with these words?"
After all the twists and turns, I just want to know why he agreed to pretend to be a couple and whether he is "loyal" to complete this task.
It was exposed so easily.
Lin Wang smiled awkwardly: "...You blamed my boss, but you can't blame me anymore."
Qian Xing took a deep breath and calmed herself down.
He is the mighty Sea King, so he would not get angry with a dragon, especially a dragon's little brother.
"Brother Yaoyao! It's Brother Yaoyao—and Wangwang is here too!"
They both heard a familiar child's voice at the same time and turned their heads to look back.
Finks stood at the entrance to the terrace, holding the cub in one hand and the other in his pocket, smiling at them under the stars.
To Lin Wang, this smile was no different from usual, he was still the handsome, unrestrained and uninhibited boss.
But in Qian Xing's eyes, especially since he was just annoyed by the other party's various temptations, his eyes were full of ambiguous meanings. In short, he just felt uncomfortable no matter how he looked at it.
However, Li Jue did not give him the chance to express his dissatisfaction. He let go of Finks' hand and ran towards him happily.
Normally, if a cub makes this gesture, no matter who is on the other side, he would open his arms and wait for the baby to rush in.
Unfortunately, the Siren King is not an ordinary person.
He was originally half-leaning on the recliner, and after his conversation with Lin Wang became increasingly unpleasant, he sat up and did not stand up now.
The little cub was already in front of him, but the handsome brother still had no intention of hugging him.
Li Jue raised his little face and looked at him in confusion.
Then he raised his little arm to signal.
Hold the baby, hold the baby quickly!
Qian Xing didn't fail to understand his crazy hints, she just didn't want to pay attention to him.
He has not yet reached the level of the dragons, whose minds are filled with only pampering their cubs.
The Siren King is very resistant to cute, sweet, milk-smelling little cubs.
Li Jue waited and waited, but the handsome brother remained unmoved.
The charm of the cub is resisted!
This is intolerable!
Xiao Lijue took the initiative to pull the hand under Qian Xing's cloak and touched the cold and moist webbed fingers, which felt completely different from those of dragons or humans.
If someone else had done something so disrespectful, they would have been chopped off their arm by the Siren King's water blade.
But Qian Xing was not angry. She just lowered her eyes and looked at him calmly, waiting to see what tricks the little guy would come up with.
The cub grabbed the adult's arm with its two little hands, lifted it up, and touched the top of its head with its brother.
While touching him, he praised himself: "Good boy, good boy."
There was no one else here. The cub had taken off his beret, and his light golden cat ears trembled several times because of the itch.
Qian Xing was amazed by the touch which was completely different from that of marine creatures and scaly creatures.
Fluffy and soft.
Fluffy, dry and warm.
Whether it is his tribe or the Phinx's kind, they can never find the same species.
There are no cats in the dragon world, but there are some in Qianxing's ocean world.
It’s just that fish have a natural fear of cats, and the Siren King stays on the seabed for a long time, so he rarely has the opportunity to interact with cats.
So... this is how kittens feel.
No one can resist being attracted by furry things.
At first, I was guided by the cub and touched tentatively.
Soon, I couldn't help but rub it again and again.
Then again.
Soon I felt that this was not enough, so I simply picked up the kitten and pinched its ears, and even rubbed its tail.
Li Jue's eyes curved as she sat on her brother's lap, swinging her short legs contentedly.
The baby’s wish to be hugged has finally come true~
The little guy was enjoying himself very much, meowing and humming a tuneless song of his own making.
From time to time, he would look up at Qian Xing, without saying anything, just looking at him with a smile.
Even the frosty Siren King couldn't resist this attack.
All right.
Qian Xing thought reluctantly that he was not completely defeated by the system cub.
He just... just gave in temporarily.
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