"I will investigate the truth myself, but Your Highness, please be careful with your words."
"I don't think you need me to teach you what to say and what not to say."
"Don't try to challenge my patience, and don't test my bottom line. You can't afford the price."
His tone was gentle, and it didn't sound like he was threatening at all.
She stood up, straightened her clothes, and continued with a smile, "Well, I'll be leaving now if it's all right. I wish Your Highness a pleasant evening."
There are some things that she doesn't need to ask, she already knows the answer.
At the door, Angus was still standing outside like a door god, his back straight, as if nothing could knock him down.
"Don't come to see him alone anymore." Angus held the man in his arms and spoke unhappily.
If he hadn't been really busy before, why would he let Xunmi go alone to meet that guy?
Xunmi nodded immediately, "Well, he and I have nothing to do with each other, so I will definitely not come to see him again."
"Besides, even if there is a relationship, he's not as important as my dear Angus, right?"
During this time, Xunmi has learned all the sweet words and is sure to coax Angus.
Sure enough, after hearing what Xunmi said, Angus became happy and the smile on his face became bigger.
Xunmi took the opportunity to repeat to him what Ansel had said. She was now a little unsure what role Angus's grandfather played in this.
After all, the first-generation dean of the Mermaid Academy was also involved in the deep-sea mermaid business. She didn't know how long Grandpa Andrew had been the dean, nor did she know whether he had a clean fortune.
If she really had to choose, she would ask her husband for his opinion.
"I'll go ask your grandfather for you." Angus said after thinking for a while after listening.
He could guess that Mi'er must be very conflicted now. As a good husband, how could he let his wife be embarrassed?
Xunmi breathed a sigh of relief and nodded with a smile, "Okay."
Holding Angus's hand, walking on this quiet and fashionable street, I felt like I was back in my own world, because the structure here is somewhat similar.
Apart from the robots coming and going, there seems to be no difference.
It was already late when the two returned home, and Angus sent a message to his grandfather on the way.
As a result, I didn't get an answer from the old man at that time. When I returned home, I found someone sitting in the living room.
It was actually Dean Andrew Ludwig whom they had been looking for. Xunmi and Angus looked at each other and walked in.
"You guys are back! It's amazing that you kept me, an old man, waiting for so long."
Andrew put down the teacup heavily, feeling depressed. He had been drinking water here alone for half a day and his stomach was almost full. He was not happy at all.
"You didn't say you were coming, and you didn't notify us when you did. How would we know you were coming?"
Angus spoke calmly, immediately blocking out his old man's dissatisfaction.
Andrew touched his nose angrily, glared at Angus fiercely, and couldn't help muttering.
"He really has forgotten his grandfather after getting a wife. He has no love between grandfather and grandson."
"I've never loved you, okay?!" Angus pushed Xunmi to sit on the sofa opposite, left a sentence that completely devastated the old man, and went to the kitchen.
After a while, he brought out a fruit platter and some chocolate that she liked, and fed her with skillful movements.
Regardless of whether there is a single elderly person who needs care here, he is simply ignored as if he were air.
Andrew was so angry that he jumped up and down. This brat is really not cute at all, not cute!
"Grandpa Andrew, is there anything you need?" Xunmi stopped Angus and asked with a smile.
She guessed that the old man probably came because of the previous problem, but she didn't know what his purpose was.
Andrew was suddenly awakened by the serious business and sat up straight with a serious look on his face.
"What does the news you gave me mean? Do you want to investigate the matter of deep-sea mermaids?"
Angus rarely saw his grandfather so serious. Once he became serious, it meant that the matter was very important.
Putting down the fork in his hand, he said, "Yes, Grandpa, you are the dean of the Mermaid Academy. What does it have to do with the former Mermaid Research Institute?"
His grandfather was also a top-level expert back then, and is now over a thousand years old.
But my grandfather has aged rapidly in recent years and probably only has another fifty or sixty years to live.
Andrew's eyes flashed with a hint of anger. "Why are you investigating deep-sea fishmen for no reason? That's already recorded in history."
"Do what you should do, and don't touch what you shouldn't do."
It was a curse, a curse for the deep-sea mermaid and him.
There is indeed no free lunch in this world, this is true for humans and deep-sea mermaids alike.
Xunmi suddenly heard hatred in Dean Andrew's tone, but it was very slight.
"Grandpa Andrew, I think you should know something. Can you tell me if you participated in the deep-sea mermaid research?"
"I don't need to ask about anything else, and I don't want to involve Angus. I just want to verify it."
In this way, I can do what I should do without any scruples, and the persistence in Xunmi's eyes will not weaken or retreat at all.
Andrew was stunned for a moment, then he looked at Xunmi with a trembling look, his eyes complicated: "You...you are a deep-sea mermaid!"
Unexpectedly, when he was about to accept his fate, he saw a deep-sea mermaid again. It seems that God is on his side.
Xunmi neither nodded nor shook her head, but her indifferent expression told Andrew that the answer was yes.
"Deep-sea mermaids, the darlings of the ocean, the continuation of life, but a disaster for mankind."
With a sigh of disappointment, Andrew's shrewd eyes instantly became cloudy.
"A disaster for mankind?" He wondered what was going on.
Why does she feel that things are getting more and more off track? Don't give her a twist in the end and say that everything is the deep-sea mermaid's fault.
Then she would really laugh, then directly bombard humans with a cannon and get out of here.
Andrew sighed and talked about something that happened long ago.
"I do know about the former Mermaid Research Institute and I participated in it, but it was on the Bai Experiment side."
"The laboratory is divided into white experiments and red experiments. The white experiments focus on human health, longevity, genes, etc."
"The Red Experiment targets mermaids. They transform girls into mermaids, increase their antibodies, and give them stronger survival power."
"Everything was fine until the first deep-sea mermaid to mate with a human gave birth to a child who didn't live past thirty. At first, everyone thought it was just an accident."
"But after the second and third...everyone realized something was wrong."
"Followed by this, those mermaids who were genetically modified using deep-sea mermaid genes also gradually encountered problems."
“It took hundreds of years of constant struggle before we finally understood the problem.”
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