Defeat the system! Kiss my little monster!

After speaking, Yu Chengyang was silent for a moment. He looked directly at Yu Zhuo, which was rare for him. Yu Zhuo was not afraid at this time. He just stood behind Zhou Yanshu and looked directly back at Yu Chengyang.

Yu Chengyang's tone was ambiguous: "You can find it?"

"Just let me try. It's only for a day anyway. If it doesn't work out, you can take me away when the time is up. I can't escape from here anyway," Yu Zhuo said.

Yu Chengyang pondered without taking any action. He glanced at Yu Zhuo and Zhou Yanshu twice, then raised his eyebrows and said, "I can give you one day, but let me make it clear in advance that if you have nothing by the time it's over, you'll have to come with us."

Yu Zhuo nodded: "Okay, no problem."

"What does the Earl think?" Yu Chengyang put away his pistol and smiled at Zhou Yanshu. "Your young husband, who is not yet twenty, has already agreed to my request. I think you shouldn't have any objections?"

Zhou Yanshu stared coldly at Yu Chengyang for a few seconds, then closed his eyes and said, "Of course not."

"That would be best." Yu Chengyang gestured to the guards behind him, who quickly put away their guns and dispersed to guard the entrances and exits of the various staircases.

"Young Master Yu Zhuo, please." Yu Chengyang turned to the side, seemingly deliberately trying to make Zhou Yanshu uncomfortable by using some strange words in his address.

Zhou Yanshu's expression was unfriendly. Yu Zhuo gripped the handle of his wheelchair and said, "I'll go with the Earl."

Yu Chengyang paused, smiled, and withdrew his hand, saying, "Okay."

All exits of the hospital were sealed off. But given its special location, countless patients sought medical treatment there.

Considering the current situation, Yu Chengyang ultimately decided to lift the ban first, but only required the guards to conduct a full-scale inspection of people entering and leaving.

Yu Zhuo and the others chose an empty room in the hospital and went inside. The room looked like it had just been vacated and was filled with a strong smell of disinfectant alcohol.

Yu Zhuo asked roughly, "What does a deep-sea gemstone look like? Is it different from the gemstone in my hand?"

“The difference is huge.” Yu Chengyang poured two glasses of water. He politely placed one glass in front of Zhou Yanshu, while holding the other glass to warm his hands.

Yu Zhuo pretended not to notice his obvious preferential treatment. He sat down in the chair and turned his head to see Zhou Yanshu push the water glass in front of him.

"I'm not thirsty."

Yu Zhuo's face immediately fell: "You're not thirsty, but I am? Don't give me everything you don't want."

He then pushed the water glass in front of Zhou Yanshu.

Outside, dark clouds loomed, with occasional flashes of lightning and thunder. Even indoors, Yu Zhuo could feel the growing chill and dampness. He glanced at Zhou Yanshu, who silently held his water glass, head bowed, saying nothing.

Yu Chengyang leaned against the window, frowning as he looked at the two people in front of him, wondering what they were suddenly trying to impress him with.

Yu Zhuo steered the conversation back on track: "Are these two gemstones very different?"

Yu Chengyang looked away and said, "That's right, a deep-sea gemstone is comparable to an island. You've lived on land for many years, so naturally you don't understand how important this gemstone is to us."

Deep-sea gemstones, found hundreds of thousands of meters below the seabed, are gems formed by thousands of years of tectonic plate movement. These gemstones contain natural pheromones, resembling luminous pearls that glow even in the dark, and are said to have miraculous healing properties.

However, due to its unique location, deep-sea gemstones cannot lose the protection of seawater and need to be kept at low temperatures to maintain their original state. Once removed from the water, the pheromones in the gemstone will be rapidly lost, eventually turning it into an ordinary little gemstone.

Yu Zhuo seemed to be deep in thought. He fiddled with the small silver-white gemstone on the table and said, "So you don't know what a Deep Sea Stone looks like without its pheromones?"

Yu Chengyang choked for a moment, then said, "This kind of thing is not something people of our status can see. The gift that the prince presented to the Mermaid King has always been seen only by members of the royal family."

“The royal family…” Yu Zhu thought, then shifted her gaze to Zhou Yanshu, “Have you ever seen them? Weren’t you…”

Yu Zhuo pointed upwards.

“I’ve seen it,” Zhou Yanshu said. “After the deep-sea gemstone loses its pheromones, it becomes no different from an ordinary gemstone. Because of the loss of energy inside, the surface of the gemstone is covered with cracks.”

The first person to discover this gemstone was Gouqie, who felt that these gemstones were unusual and extraordinary. On Valentine's Day, he gave one to Zhou Yanshu in a mysterious way.

It shattered into pieces the next day.

While trying to survive, he unculturedly named this stone "Pretty Glowing Stone That Often Cracks Small Strange Stone".

Later, the civil official felt that such a title was too...high-class, so he privately made a different note in the book.

Deep-sea Akashi (also known as: beautiful, shiny, often cracked, oddly shaped stone)

Today, unsurprisingly, people only remember the name Akashi Fukakai. As for the other one... nobody wants to remember it.

Yu Zhuo remained unmoved by Zhou Yanshu's description; he had long forgotten these things. He then asked, "How did Prince Ruili keep these gems safe?"

“Prince Rayleigh put all the gems into a safe, which had compartments and was filled with seawater,” Yu Chengyang said. “The thief couldn’t find the key, so he just took the safe.”

Yu Zhuo: "..."

"The safe is small?"

"No, it's about the same size as a book storage box. He didn't carry it around." Yu Chengyang put the water glass on the table and spoke after a moment of silence.

“I watched the surveillance footage before. He’s very good at disguising himself. He stuffed the safe inside his jacket… He left through the front door disguised as a pregnant woman.”

Yu Zhuo: "...That's quite a good disguise."

"Heh, that's all he's good for." Yu Chengyang was quite disdainful of this. He had been tracking the thief for a week and had already figured out about 70-80% of his situation. "His level isn't very high. I shot and wounded him before, so he can't get too far."

"It's also very likely that he's still in the hospital."

Yu Zhuo remained silent, watching the steam slowly rise from the water glass, pondering all the possibilities.

When did the thief steal his belongings? So silently, without even attracting his attention.

If he wanted to find a scapegoat, Yu Zhuo could understand, but why did he steal his phone?

Yu Zhuo's phone has very little content, nothing important, it's not a big brand, and it's not valuable.

However, the black heart inside the phone is a hidden system created by Yu Zhuo. He relies on it to connect with other worlds, especially with his previous hosts.