Abstinence Admiral Don't Bite, the Softer Mermaid Top Thug

Chapter 208 Laboratory Results
The person who came was Gu Lixi.

"General, I have something I'd like to discuss with you privately—"

Jing Weimian could tell that what he wanted to tell her was probably quite urgent.

But at this moment, all he could think about was Jing Xiaoyu's safety, so he had no time to worry about anything else and could only hurriedly tell Gu Lixi:
"We can talk about this later; I have more important things to do right now."

Without waiting for Gu Lixi's reply, she turned and walked towards the monitoring room.

Gu Lixi paused for a moment, then caught sight of people coming from the other side of the corridor. Her gaze sharpened, and she quickly caught up with them again.

"General..."

"Didn't I say I have something more important right now..."

Hearing Gu Lixi chasing after her, Jing Weimian frowned and turned her head. Before she could even finish speaking, she saw Lu Lianbai being brought over by the investigation department personnel from the other end of the corridor, and her expression froze.

When he came to his senses, the investigators had already brought Lu Lianbai to him.

The two personnel from the review department first greeted General Jing, presented the review report, and said:

"General, after yesterday's comprehensive interrogation process, including the pollution source numerical test report, the review results show that Dr. Lu did not have any indirect contact with or harbor D677."

As the investigators presented the report to Jing Weimian, Lu Lianbai's gaze kept shifting back and forth between Jing Weimian and Gu Lixi, who was standing beside her, and his eyes grew increasingly cold and indifferent.

It wasn't until Jing Weimian casually flipped through the report that she indicated she knew.

After the first-level investigators left, Jing Weimian looked up at Lu Lianbai, about to speak, but Lu Lianbai spoke first:

"General, where is Xiaoyu?"

“I was just about to tell you.” Jing Weimian had another subordinate escort Gu Lixi away first, then had Chen Yan lead the way, and on the way, she told Lu Lianbai about the whole thing from beginning to end.

"Just like last time in the ward in the medical department, Xiaoyu disappeared suddenly."

As Jing Weimian spoke, she had already entered the monitoring room.

With Chen Yan's assistance, Lu Lianbai and Jing Weimian reviewed the office building's surveillance footage together. Apart from the window in the break room that had been suddenly broken open, they found nothing unusual.

"Deputy General Chen, I'd like to ask, around the time you discovered Xiao Yu's disappearance, were any officers with mental impairments allowed to enter the office building?"

Chen Yan was stunned for a moment. Although he didn't know how this had anything to do with the missing Xiao Yu, he quickly remembered:
"...Yes, an instructor from District 7 came to report on his duties. That instructor was indeed injured during an exercise recently."

Thus, Lu Lianbai roughly understood what was going on.

He quickly regained his composure and then asked, "Where is the water source nearby?"

Chen Yan scratched his head in confusion, then looked at Jing Weimian. Receiving a nod from their general, he replied:

"There's an artificial lake behind the base, but ordinary personnel can't enter it without authorization..."

As soon as she finished speaking, Jing Weimian said directly to Lu Lianbai, "I'll take you there."

Lu Lianbai glanced in the direction of the long corridor he had just passed and said in a low voice.

"No need, just let Vice General Chen take me. Isn't the General's fiancé, Mr. Gu, still waiting for him?"

The atmosphere suddenly became a bit cold.

Chen Yanhou, standing to the side, noticed the tense atmosphere between the two men.

After a brief silence, Jing Weimian suddenly stepped forward, grabbed Lu Lianbai by the collar, and asked in a cold voice:
"What do you mean? You think I've been too busy spending time with my fiancé to take good care of your child?"

Chen Yan quickly stepped in to explain:
"Dr. Lu, you've really misunderstood the General. He's very good to Xiaoyu. He even..."

Jing Weimian interrupted him directly, "There's no need to explain so much to him."

As she spoke, she released Lu Lianbai's collar, her face growing even colder: "Once we find the child, you can get out of here."

Lu Lianbai stared at her and said, "I know."

When they arrived at the artificial lake behind the base, Lu Lianbai immediately smelled the scent emanating from the little fish. Worried that Jing Weimian and the others would notice something amiss, he headed towards the lake, where the scent concentration was steadily increasing.

Soon, they found the baby mermaid unconscious, with its tail curled up, under the rocks on the lake shore.

Hearing the footsteps approaching from behind, Lu Lianbai bent down first, picked up the little guy, and wrapped him inside his long coat, leaving only Jing Xiaoyu's head sticking out to rest against his neck.

"Baby?"

He looked down and touched Jing Xiaoyu's head. The little guy's forehead temperature was not normal, clearly indicating that he was still in a drowsy and uncomfortable state.

When Jing Weimian came over and saw the little guy wrapped up tightly in Lu Lianbai's arms, she couldn't help but frown.

Despite having just argued with Lu Lianbai, I couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with Xiaoyu?"

"fine."

Lu Lianbai naturally couldn't show the baby, whose little tail was now peeking out, to Jing Weimian. He could only lower his eyes and say, "He just has a slight fever. I can take him back and take care of him myself."

"Are you sure? It would be best to take Xiaoyu to the medical department for a thorough examination."

"No need, I am a doctor myself, I know the child's condition."

He paused, then turned to meet Jing Weimian's gaze, and finally softened his tone as he spoke:
"I still want to thank the general for taking care of the baby for me all day. If there's nothing else, I'll take the baby and leave now."

Jing Weimian stood motionless on the shore of the lake, but her brows furrowed even more deeply.

She didn't make a move until the man was completely gone.

This prompted Chen Yan, who was standing guard behind, to call out, "General?"

"Don't you think it's weird?"

"what?"

"How did Lu Lianbai know the child would be here? And how did Jing Xiaoyu bypass the system to enter this place without authorization?"

All of this is so strange.

Jing Weimian composed himself, leaving Chen Yan still bewildered, and then also left the back mountain.

She became inexplicably more irritable and had no interest in dealing with Gu Lixi. She sent Chen Yan to dismiss him and then drove back to her residential area.

That night, the Marshal's Mansion called with great anticipation to ask what time she would bring Jing Xiaoyu home, saying they had prepared many delicious and fun new toys for the child.

But he received a cold reply from Jing Weimian: "I'm not going back tonight."

She hung up the phone, went into the bathroom to take a shower, and before coming out in her bathrobe, she looked down and saw the faint blue scale mark above her heart.

It's been so long already.

I should have been used to this mark by now.

But for some reason today, she recalled the image of Lu Lianbai carrying the child as he left in front of her.

She felt as if her heart had been suddenly choked, producing a dull pain.

It was as she stared at the mark on her heart, and as she inexplicably reached out her fingertip to gently touch it, that her communication bracelet rang.

Jing Weimian snapped out of her daze and answered the call.

The call was from Professor Xiya.

"General Jing, the test results for the pearls you asked me to analyze last time are in. Those small pinkish-blue pearls perfectly match what the gene bank shows: pearls formed from mermaids from an ancient star field."

"Furthermore, judging from the delicate appearance of these pearls, they should be pearls formed from 1-2 year old mermaid babies."

"Hello, General, are you listening?"