The world is broken, the cubs mend it

"Nothing, I just thought of some past events. Let's continue to talk about cooperation."

Vitelin withdrew her gaze. Although the mermaids did not participate in interstellar politics, they had a certain understanding of interstellar laws and the movements and private affairs of most celebrity politicians.

As the strongest major general among the exiles, he naturally attracted much attention.

But this child reminded her of Yuanyuan, the leader of the mermaid tribe.

It is recorded that she also descended from the sky, but had the same appearance as the Vitalia leader.

"Why did you agree to cooperate with us so quickly?"

Yuga has basically put forward all the necessary conditions. All that needs to be done is to draft a written contract and have both parties agree to sign it.

He had no dealings with the mermaids before, and he was aware of the pros and cons, but it was too smooth which made him think too much.

Especially what she said just now, which always made Yuga feel that there was something else behind her words, as if she knew something.

"I have read the proposal of the former leader of the M-3 galaxy on purifying pollutants, as well as his application to resist the discharge of highly toxic pollutants. I respect him, and I think our goals are the same."

Vitlin had long wanted to contact the exiles, but he had no opportunity and no one knew where they were hiding.

The emission of photonuclear pollutants into the mermaids' territory will benefit everyone in the galaxy. No one will protest or speak up for them.

This answer was quite satisfactory to Yuga, as it coincided with his thoughts.

The former leader died in that invasion campaign when his father was the military commander.

My father was responsible for protecting the transfer of all the people. After the previous leader died for his country, my father was elected as the new leader.

His father and the former leader were close friends, just like him and Lavan. During that period of time, his father would always sit alone in a daze.

If Raven died one day, he thought he would be very sad too.

"..."

Raven met Yuga's gaze on him, and a chill ran down his spine.

Why does the major general look at me strangely?

The general terms of cooperation were agreed upon, and Yuga and Vitlin discussed the remaining details and met to finalize and sign them.

After the video call ended, Al hand-drew the military defense map of all the planets in the B-163 galaxy.

Drawing the blueprints by hand would take some time, so Raven took him to a separate meeting room where there was plenty of light.

"time to go."

Yuga patted the child's head and planned to take her away.

"Father, I want to see paintings."

Yuanyuan stood on a chair beside the table and watched Al draw the map.

She reached out her hand curiously to push his pen, but was patted on the paw. She withdrew her hand with a pout, and secretly pushed it again when he wasn't paying attention.

"..."

In this situation, Yuga suspected that the child was a spy sent from the stars, so he told her not to make trouble and went to work.

"Um--"

Al looked at the evil little hand that was secretly reaching out to the back of his hand, and made a cold and fierce nasal sound in his voice, then lowered his eyes to look at the child's furry head.

"..."

Yuanyuan looked up at him guiltily, her ears folded into airplane ears, and her little hand gently touched the back of his hand.

"There's dust here, let me wipe it off for you."

"Go and have some fun by yourself, and in a day or two you can go see the underwater world with your father."

Al looked at the animal claws with awkwardly retractable nails sticking to the back of his hand, and his thin light pink lips curled up slightly. The little guy was a little naughty but not annoying.

"Then draw me an underwater world."

Yuanyuan brought a new piece of paper and placed it next to him, then patted the table excitedly.

"I'm busy now. I'll draw for you next time I have a chance."

Al pressed the paper she brought under other papers. This naughty little wolf knew what was important.

Seeing that he was really busy with something important, he sat aside and licked his paw.

After licking him, he stared at him for a while, then went to find his father alone with his tail up.

Yuanyuan still prefers the beast form because she feels more comfortable. When her father and Uncle Laven are busy, she likes to curl up on the soft sofa and take a nap, or play some games.

Uncle Laverne had recently taught her to recognize some simple characters and some of the software on the watch, and she could roughly guess what they meant based on the vague half of it.

"..."

When Yuga is tired, he will look at the child for a while to relax his eyes.

The little guy curls up in a ball when he sleeps, opens his arms halfway through his sleep, and turns over on his belly with his legs up in the air.

The child's carefree look always made him feel fulfilled.

In an instant, it seemed as if the difficulties of survival and the tense situation disappeared, leaving only the quietness and serenity of the moment.

Yuanyuan twisted her body in her sleep, and her head tilted and hung from the armrest of the sofa.

Her small body was sleeping very steadily, with her head hanging in the air, and her lips were smacking but there was no response.

Even though he knew the child would not fall easily, every time he saw such a scene, Yuga's hands hanging by his side could not help but move.

After a while, the child turned over, and his head automatically raised up and curled up in the sofa.

evening--

The weather today is particularly weird. It was inexplicably hot in the afternoon. There was no sunshine but people were sweating. When it got dark, it suddenly became cold.

As environmental pollution intensifies, short-term extreme cold weather will occur.

The psychic who had no thick fur hugged his arms and relied on his body's supernatural powers to dispel the cold.

Yuanyuan has thick fur, but he still feels cold, especially the tip of his nose.

"Dad, it's so cold."

Yuanyuan rubbed her hands and put them into her father's neck. The warm feeling made her feel much more comfortable.

"Hide your head, and you won't be cold when you go to Grandpa's place."

Yuga wrapped the military uniform around the child tighter. He would take the child to the mermaid tribe's territory the day after tomorrow and visit his father tonight.

Phips knew about the cooperation with the mermaids and agreed with his decision.

The cold air inside the room is blocked, making it much warmer than outside.

Yuanyuan stood on tiptoe to look at the roses on the balcony. There were only a few green stems and petals left. The roses would wither after their flowering period.

"Grandpa, the flowers are about to wither."

A pair of rough, wrinkled hands gently stroked her head. Phips lowered his eyes and looked at the rose in the glass cover: "If you cultivate it well, it will produce flower buds again next year."

"Is it still alive?"

Yuanyuan's eyes of regret suddenly brightened, she thought it was going to die.

“As long as the roots are in the soil, life can continue.”

Phelps collected all the fallen petals, dried them completely and made them into bookmarks. The pages that were stuck left a faint floral scent.

At night, a strong wind started to blow outside. It shouldn't have snowed, but it was snowing heavily outside, and the falling snowflakes were very dark in color.

The father and daughter stayed here for one night with Phips after dinner. If they went back with the child in such severe cold and snow, they might catch a cold and have a fever.

The fireplace in the bedroom emitted a warm glow, making the night not too unbearable.

This fierce and heavy snow lasted only until the second half of the night, and the sky seemed to be suddenly blocked and not a single snowflake fell.

The snow had melted away in the early morning, leaving only a few patches of snow on the roadside, proving the heavy snowfall last night.

Al continued drawing until late at night. The heating system in the base was well-equipped and he was not affected by the cold wave.

But Laven was so cold that he wanted to hibernate. He curled up in bed last night and turned the indoor temperature to the highest before he could barely fall asleep.

Considering that many psychics cannot tolerate the cold, Yuga canceled today's morning training.

All military defense maps are scanned into the light screen and automatically generated into electronic versions, corresponding to the real-time images of the maps of each planet collected in the system.

“Are there any omissions?”

Al slept on the table all night, rubbing his sore shoulders and asking.

His eyes and brain can be likened to cameras, and the drawings he draws can still be accurate to the last detail after such a long time.

"Not yet."

They also had spies sent into the galaxy who had obtained some blueprints about border military layouts. His drawings were detailed and completed based on those drawings.

Seeing that he was not in a good mental state, Yuga arranged a room for him to rest.

Before leaving, Al took out a piece of straw paper and handed it to the child. It was a hand-painted cartoon of a mermaid shell house and a few cute little mermaids.

“Are mermaids’ tails colorful?”

The painting was in black and white. Yuanyuan poked the fish's tail with her finger and she could imagine the upper body based on Al's appearance.

“Have you ever seen a colorful fish tail?”

Al looked slightly surprised, maybe she just had a rich imagination.

"The candy tails my father bought are colorful."

"Did you buy it at the candy house on Cartas?"

"Yes."

Yuanyuan nodded. The taste of sea salt and lemon was a bit sour, but acceptable.

"I made that candy based on the sculpture of Chief Vitalia. The tails of the other mermaids are blue."

While Al was lurking in Katas, his daily job was making candies at the candy house.

He had nothing to do that day, so he made a candy in the image of Vitalia, and the clerk put it in the window.

I didn't expect that they bought it. It seems like we are really destined to meet.

"Why is his tail colorful?"

Yuanyuan thinks the colorful tail is more beautiful than the blue one.

"It's a long story. I'll tell you slowly when I have the chance."

Al now needs a flat place to lie down and have a good rest, relaxing his mind and body.

Looking at the bruises under his eyes and his depressed spirit, Yuanyuan waved goodbye to him.

"Vitalia?"

Yuga slowly uttered these four words. Although it was the first time he heard them, he felt they were particularly familiar.

This name cannot be found in the interstellar documents about mermaids. They should have been their leaders in the solar system, which is quite a long time ago.

"Father…"

"what happened?"

His thoughts were brought back to the child. Perhaps he had heard a similar name before, so it sounded familiar.

"hungry…"

Yuanyuan hasn't had breakfast yet, so her stomach is now empty. She clapped her hands and felt like it was about to deflate.

"Let's go eat and see what delicious food we have today."

Yuga picked up the child and headed towards the cafeteria, saying that he was also hungry.

The trip to visit the mermaid tribe included Raven and an accompanying army, in addition to Al who was sent back.

Raven showed the finalized cooperation agreement to Yuga for review. Like the cub, he was curious about the mysterious territory of the mermaids.

Mercury is a lonely planet floating in the universe, hidden in an inconspicuous corner, far away from the interstellar space.

The defense barrier above opened a small hole as they approached, and through the defense layer, they saw a vast blue ocean.

Beautiful seagulls were circling over the sea. On the distant coast was a towering white castle, with its blue spires blending into the sky.

The spaceship landed in the open space in the center of the castle, and a huge sculpture stood in the center of the fountain in the central square.

The majestic mermaid's body is covered with scars of varying depths, and beautiful colorful simulated fish scales ripple in the sunlight.

Next to him was a slightly shorter female mermaid, whose tail was blue like the other mermaids' tails. The two mermaids had similar faces.

Yuanyuan jumped off the spaceship and looked around curiously at the sea view, looking up at the castle towering into the clouds.

There is not as heavy a sense of technology here as on Katas Planet, which makes people feel peaceful from the bottom of their hearts.

"Father, colorful tail."

Yuga saw this pair of exquisite and eye-catching sculptures the moment he raised his eyes.

"The one with the colorful tail is Vitalia, what about the smaller one?"

The big one and the small one look a bit like father and daughter, and judging from their faces they must be relatives.

Queen Vitalin came to greet everyone in person, and her attendants led the way. Seeing that he was interested in the sculptures, they began to introduce them.

"These are the two most outstanding leaders of the mermaid tribe. The one with the colorful tail is leader Vitalia, and the one with the blue tail is leader Yuanyuan, Vitalia's daughter."

"What's the younger one's name? Yuanyuan?"

Yuga recalled the scene when Al called the child's name skillfully when they first met.

Same name, no wonder...

"Is there anything wrong?"

His reaction was so unusual that Vitlin looked at him with confusion.

"Master Chief, you may not know that Major General Yuga's daughter is also named Yuanyuan. It's really fate."

Al interrupted and explained his reaction, saying that he had not revealed the similarity of the names to Yuga in advance.

"So that's how it is. It's really fate."

Vitlin's gaze fell on the child, there was a hint of inquiry in her blue eyes, and the answer in her heart was about to come out.

"fate…"

Yuga picked up the child who was looking around, turned around and looked back at the sculpture behind him.

The interior of the castle was luxurious and gorgeous, with a red carpet extending all the way to the feet of the throne and countless underwater treasures used as decoration.

Behind the throne is a huge portrait. In the portrait, Vitalia is holding a little mermaid, which should be Yuanyuan's appearance when she was a child.

Yuga stood at the top of the red carpet, looking straight at the portrait in front of him.

He and the mermaid in the painting held their children in the same posture, as if they were staring into each other's eyes across thousands of years.

"The portrait is placed in such a prominent position. I think this father and daughter have made great contributions to the mermaid tribe."

Raven has a strong desire to explore the mermaids, whom he rarely comes into contact with. The documents and history that cannot be found make him even more fascinated.

"Father, they are just like us."

Yuanyuan thinks the people in the painting look like her and her father. The child in the painting is very cute, and the mermaid father in the painting is handsome and beautiful.

There was no other meaning in the little fellow's words, but they revealed the secret with a double meaning.