There seems to be something wrong with his mermaid

The emperor's bedroom was originally supposed to be spacious and bright. Yu Zhao had been here countless times. When he was young and ignorant, he had run and played in this palace countless times. He didn't even know that he climbed onto the emperor's lap , Playing with his beard and hair, he didn't think so at the time, but when he became a little more sensible and recalled the scene at that time, he realized why the group of guards and palace attendants all looked at him with terrified eyes.

It wasn't until later that he understood the truth and was educated many times, and finally he gradually learned to get along with the emperor in a well-behaved way.

Afterwards, he made great military exploits, and when he returned here, he could no longer regain the feeling of the past. This palace seemed to have become much farther away, and he often came here, but it was just to talk about innocuous things with the emperor. , Discuss the future of the empire with others, and exchange weather and moods that are not of interest to you or to others.

Until now, he came here again, and it was only two years ago, but both his status and mood had changed.

And what he is facing now is no longer the majestic emperor of the empire, but an elderly man who is seriously ill.

Yu Zhao walked in front, his leather boots made a sound of kicking on the clean floor, while Yu Huanglin followed behind him, watching the reflection of the two of them on the floor, their footsteps sounded one after another, heading towards the open space. to the front of the palace.

Beside the big bed at the end of the palace, the snow-white curtain hung down, revealing the figure beside the bed.

The Emperor of the Empire is sitting in a wheelchair, looking at the scenery outside the palace by the window, a few breezes slid past his ears, blowing his gray hair, he coughed twice muffled while wearing a thick coat However, he turned his head and said to the two people who were walking, as if suddenly interested: "I know I don't have much time, so I think, if you are really still alive, then I can see you before I die." to your side."

Yu Huanglin followed behind, and frowned slightly when he heard this, as if he was slightly dissatisfied with the tone he spoke to Yu Zhao.

Yu Zhao walked towards the figure silently, stopped when he was about to approach, and bowed slightly to the wheelchair by the window.

This is a courtesy to His Majesty the Emperor. As a courtier, he has done this countless times, but this time the meaning is slightly different.

Because his current status should not be a courtier, but his heir.

The old emperor's skinny hands gently closed his coat

As if afraid of the cold, he saw Yu Zhao's bow clearly, but he didn't seem to see it, but he turned his head and looked out of the window, coughed twice and said, "The people I sent actually found a lot of you. Things, I also know what happened to you during this time, including the mermaid college you are in, and the fact that you have been to the mermaid base and met the mermaid leader. The eyeliner owned by the royal family and I know far more than you think There are more, I just didn't bother you, because I want to see..."

He laughed a couple of times, his eyes were tinged with twilight: "I want to see who among you can win in the end."

Yu Zhao said: "You want to see who can take this position in the end, don't you?"

The old emperor said in a low voice: "Not bad, but now it seems that you have won."

Yu Zhao frowned: "I never said I would come to this position."

The old emperor raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Probably this is beyond your control."

Before Yu Zhao could make a sound, Yu Huanglin suddenly asked curiously: "Your Majesty, do you want him to take this position?"

Yu Zhao also found it strange, after all, this person never seemed to have thought of letting him inherit the throne from the very beginning, no matter whether he sent Yu Zhao to Yu's family to be raised by others, or later he joined forces with others after Yu Zhao returned from victory. As for plotting against him, he seems to be hesitating all the time, and he can't completely hand over the empire to a mermaid descendant like him. Even if he has a little power, he will find a way to control him.

But what does he mean by saying this now?

Yu Huanglin didn't understand, and Yu Zhao couldn't understand either, but it didn't mean he was curious about the old emperor's thoughts.

On the contrary, he didn't want to know what this person was thinking at all, Yu Zhao said, "I just came here to ask you something."

The emperor raised his head, the smile was still on his face, even though his body had reached this point, and now he was being questioned to this point by Yu Huanglin and Yu Zhao who broke into the palace, he still looked like a king who had the chance to win, he said: "You want to ask me where he is?"

Yu Zhao nodded: "Yes."

They did not say who that "he" was, but both men maintained the same tacit understanding.

Yu Zhao refers to the ancient mermaid who fell into a deep sleep in order to give birth to him.

For Yu Zhao, his feelings for the ancient mermaid are very complicated. Although he knows that is his biological father, he almost made a huge sacrifice in order to give birth to himself. His strength was restricted and he was arrested. He was imprisoned, and even finally exhausted and fell asleep again after giving birth to him, but even so, it was still difficult for him to connect this mermaid with the image of his father.

He had a good childhood, I don't know if it was because he knew his status as the emperor's heir, or because he loved him in his heart, he was loved by Yu's family since he was very young, and there was no unpleasantness in his childhood Almost everyone accommodates him and loves him, so he is not the kind of person who lacks love so much that he has to find his real biological father. Bloodline is not that important to him.

But it was still hard for him not to care about that ancient mermaid, that mermaid used him as a bargaining chip, as a backhand, as a tool for the game between mermaids and humans, a weapon of the mermaid clan, he seemed to not care about anything at all , in order to achieve the goal at any means, sacrifice oneself to sacrifice the unborn child.From his own point of view, Yu Zhao has no way to have a good impression of this mermaid, but now he is also a member of the mermaid, but he knows how helpless and difficult the other party is, and what he has done means to the mermaid. What.

He really should see the mermaid, and when he was discussing cooperation with the mermaid leader before, he did promise to save Chaolu for the mermaid leader.

He originally planned to go to the mermaid mansion to find the mermaid who had been sleeping for many years, but he didn't expect to hear the news of Chaolu here, and according to the emperor's wishes, Chaolu was obviously not in the mermaid mansion.

Where would he be then?

His Majesty the Emperor laughed again, even though his lungs were ringing like a dilapidated bellows due to lack of breath, he said: "You don't have to bother to guess, since I have said so, I will naturally tell you where he is."

Yu Zhao frowned: "You already..."

The emperor smiled and sighed: "I am old, as you can see, I have kept him for so many years, and now I have no way to continue looking at him."

Yu Zhao gradually understood what the emperor meant, but he couldn't help being slightly shocked.He knew early on that even if the emperor and the ancient mermaid had him as his heir, in fact they didn't have any extra affection. In the narration of the mermaid leader, there were only a few short encounters and confrontations between Chao Lu and the emperor. , the two of them didn't even have a complete conversation a few times, and in the end they were able to have offspring, but it was only Chao Lu who used some technology to force the embryo into his body. He and this majesty had nothing. Had.

But now it seems that the truth of the matter does not seem to be the case.

Yu Zhao never thought it would be like this: "Are you against Chao Lu?"

"Is it hard to imagine?" When the emperor smiled, there seemed to be a gleam in the creases of the corners of his eyes, and he raised his head nostalgicly and said: "It is not incomprehensible that a being as dazzling as him will fall in love with him. "

Yu Huanglin listened quietly, and nodded his head with a smile of approval: "It is indeed so."

The emperor said: "I have never seen such a special existence like him. He has the strongest fighting ability in the world, but he is as beautiful as a fragile work of art."

Yu Huanglin naturally followed the emperor's words: "No matter where he is, he is always the most special one. Even if his appearance is covered up, that special thing about him will still attract everyone around him."

When the emperor heard this, he looked at Yu Huanglin in surprise, and Yu Huanglin met the emperor's gaze calmly. The two seemed to see something in each other's eyes, and even shook their heads and laughed.

Yu Zhao: "..."

He didn't know how these two people suddenly seemed to have a common language.

The emperor sighed again: "It turns out that's the case, so I don't seem to have anything to worry about."

After saying this, he looked away from Yu Huanglin's body, put his hands on the armrests on both sides of the wheelchair, and tried to steer the wheelchair, but soon he found that he didn't even have the strength to do so, so he turned his head to face Yu Zhao said, "May I ask you to do something for me at the end?"

Yu Zhao silently came in front of the emperor, putting his hands on the back of the wheelchair.

The moment his hands landed on the wheelchair, Yu Zhao felt a strange feeling in his heart. He used the image of a mermaid for a long time before, and it was inconvenient for mermaids to walk on the ground. He used to be pushed and moved in a wheelchair, but Now he's the one pushing someone else's wheelchair.He ignored this strange feeling and asked aloud, "Where are you going?"

"It's in this palace," said the emperor.

He raised his finger to point in a direction, and Yu Zhao and Yu Huanglin pushed the wheelchairs to find that direction, and soon found the mechanism hidden on the wall.

The mechanism was cracked open by them, revealing the elevator behind the wall.

I don't know where the elevator leads to, but the equipment here should have been built for many years. Yu Zhao pushed the wheelchair into the elevator, and Yu Huanglin followed immediately. The elevator doors closed quickly without making any unnecessary noises. Then they followed the elevator down to the secret room below the palace.

Compared with the palace above, this secret room is much narrower, but the decoration inside is extremely exquisite, just like the golden gauze curtain and the

Under the dim light, Yu Zhao pushed the emperor's wheelchair to the side of the big bed in the center of the room, and then opened the bed curtain.

Lying on the bed is exactly the ancient mermaid Chaolu that Yu Zhao has always heard about from various sources during this period of time.

Yu Zhao has never seen him before, but looking at the sleeping mermaid on the bed, he can be sure that this is Chaolu.Even if he thinks that the blood relationship doesn't have much influence on him, there does seem to be a special connection between the blood of the mermaid, which allows him to immediately perceive the identity of the other party.

Chaolu and his appearance are very similar, not only the eyebrows and eyes, but also seems to have a similarity carved in the bones.Even Yu Huanglin, standing not far away watching this scene, had the same feeling.

"You have found him now." The emperor approached Chaolu with difficulty, leaned over and gently stroked the sleeping mermaid's cheek with his fingertips, his voice trembling slightly, but he did not stop smiling, "Take him away."