Chapter 245 I'll Go for You

There was a moment of silence in the air.

Yu Xiangwan's expression was almost unbearable. He pinched the thin rope at the base of his thumb and said coldly, "Yu Zhuo, what do you mean?"

Alpha is naturally strong and cannot be provoked. Yu Zhuo's actions are tantamount to provoking him in person.

Yu Zhuo felt something was wrong after he finished speaking. He had been away from this world for a long time, and many things seemed strange to him. In addition, he was deeply influenced by the previous hosts, so he said this completely subconsciously.

Yu Yuanshan came out to smooth things over when he saw this. He said, "Now is not the time to quarrel, Yu Zhuo. You are too young to understand. This is a completely unprovoked disaster for us..."

The Yuzhuo tribe returned to the Hermia region, close to the deep sea. Today, the entire sea area, including the nearby continents, is ruled by the mermaids in the sea, the Qirui Milu tribe.

The Yuzhuo clan is not good at water and, in the final analysis, they are just vassals of the mermaid clan.

Mermaids have a lifespan of thousands of years. The last leader was seriously injured five hundred years ago and has been in a coma ever since. Later, the mermaids elected a new leader, but the new king was extremely incompetent and often invaded other tribes' territories, causing countless riots.

The mermaid royal family was immediately filled with resentment. Words came from nowhere, saying that if the previous king were still alive, he would definitely not be as useless as the current king.

Unexpectedly, the current king was not angry after hearing these words. He was so absurd that he just continued speaking according to the rumors.

He wanted to hold a grand resurrection ceremony for the late king - the so-called ghost marriage, to awaken the late king who had been in a deep sleep.

As everyone knows, the previous mermaid king had been married five hundred years ago. After the death of his husband, the previous king was also deeply traumatized and fell into deep sleep in the abyss.

Five hundred years later, his body had long been stiff as iron. Although he was still alive, his mental consciousness was so weak that it was almost non-existent. He was obviously a living dead.

Now they have to select a suitable Alpha from other races to marry the late king.

The so-called resurrection ceremony is nothing more than injecting the remaining Alpha's pheromones into his glands, activating the cells through rejection and pain, and stimulating the human nerves to wake him up.

Temporary marking is still acceptable, but permanent marking... is tantamount to allowing people to rape a corpse.

Yu Xiangwan was the unlucky one chosen by the Qi Rui Miluo royal family.

He had only been in the military academy for two years, and his grades were outstanding and his rank was extremely high. Not surprisingly, he became the royal family's first choice.

Yu Zhuo was listening on the side. He held the water cup in his hand and silently tightened the edge of the cup: "The former king of the mermaid tribe... Zhou Yanshu?"

"You know?" Yuyuanshan was a little surprised. What happened five hundred years ago was too long ago for them. They didn't expect that Yuzhuo actually knew something about it.

He sighed, "That's him. Your great-grandfather had collected photos of the late king a long time ago."

After all, their life span was not as long as that of the mermaids, which was only less than a hundred years. In the past five hundred years, they had already gone through four or five generations.

Yu Zhuo's breathing stagnated and he almost couldn't hold the cup steady. He felt the warm water inside was so hot that it almost burned his skin.

"No!" Yu Zhuo stood up quickly, his eyes flashing and fixed on Yu Xiangwan's face, "You can't go."

Yu Xiangwan glanced at him and said, "It's not like you can't do it just because you say so."

Yu Zhuo bit the soft flesh of his mouth silently. He was silent for a moment and quickly sorted out his confused thoughts: "Brother, you still have to go to the military academy to continue your studies. Once you enter the sea, you will never get out again."

He frowned and said with difficulty: "I'll go for you."

Yu Xiangwan's eyes flashed with surprise, and he asked hesitantly, "...You'll go for me?"

"You and I are brothers, I am willing to go for you." Yu Zhuo said one sentence after another, "I won't expose you."

Yu Xiangwan was silent for a moment. He looked at Yu Zhuo, his eyes slowly moving from his parents' faces: "But you and I look nothing alike."

He deliberately emphasized the tone of some words, causing the expressions of the two elders sitting in front of him to change slightly.

Yu Zhuo not only looked different from Yu Xiangwan, he also looked completely different from Yu Yuanshan and his wife. From a thousand years ago to the present, the most notable feature of their people was silver hair and blue eyes, and even if there were mutations, the color would not be too different.

But Yuzhuo, this weirdo, had white hair. Not only was his hair different, but his eyes were also pure gold, and he didn't look like the same race as them at all.

Yu Zhuo didn't understand the meaning in Yu Xiangwan's tone. His mind was elsewhere. He just said, "I can disguise myself. I have also learned makeup techniques."

Yu Xiangwan: "What about the level?"

"Just fake the test data. Once you get in, they won't pursue it too much." Yu Zhuo lowered his eyelashes. "The new king is just playing around. Even if you are 3S, you can't mark the previous king."

As it got darker, he frowned and remained silent.

Of course he knew that the new king was just playing around, and Zhou Yanshu was just a living dead. The new king's actions were undoubtedly humiliating everyone.

Yu Zhuo saw that Yu Xiangwan's attitude had softened, so he turned around and looked at Yu Yuanshan and his wife: "Dad, Mom, what do you think? I'll go in my brother's place."

"But..." Yuyuanshan was quite hesitant. Just as he opened his mouth, the woman next to him pinched his arm suggestively.

Yuyuanshan sighed, looked at Yuzhuo, and said after a while: "Then you have to be careful."

Yu Zhuo nodded: "Don't worry, I will pay more attention to it myself."

He secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

The evening conversation did not last long. Yuzhuo was in poor health and could not stay up late for a long time. After a brief conversation with Yuyuanshan, Yuzhuo went upstairs.

He stopped at the staircase, leaning over the carved railing and looking down. The incandescent light below was turned off, and the surroundings were silent except for the occasional sound of footsteps.

Yuyuanshan also arrived at the staircase a few minutes later. When he saw Yuzhuo, he subconsciously took a step back and said, "What's wrong, Xiaozhuo? Is there anything else?"

Yu Zhuo hummed, and then he asked, "Dad, you said before that your great-grandfather once collected photos of the late king. Can you show them to me?"

After he finished speaking, he saw Yu Yuanshan's suspicious expression, and added: "I will be going there in a few days, and I want to see what Zhou Yanshu looks like in advance. Mainly, I have never seen him, and I am afraid that I will be scared when the time comes."

Yuyuanshan rubbed Yuzhuo's head and said, "I have your great-grandfather's relics in my room. Do you want them now?"

Yu Zhuo smiled and said, "Yeah."

Yuyuanshan didn't say anything more. He went back to his room and rummaged around for a while. Soon he took out a photo album.

"They are all in there, but there is only one. The rest are photos of your great-grandfather."

Yu Zhuo reached out to take it. He pressed his fingertips on the thick velvet cover of the album and could already feel the heaviness of the album.

"Thank you, Dad." Yuzhuo picked up the photo album and turned back to his room.