"Sorry, I'll let you wait for a long time."

Looking at the little boy talking to the girl as if no one was around, Finn felt unhappy.

Where did the little brat come from so ignorant? Didn’t you see your brother chatting with the girl?

"Yes." However, before Finn could scold him, the girl who had always ignored him before turned around and looked at the black-haired boy, and nodded in response.

Hey? It seems that they knew each other?

Seeing this, Finn immediately stopped the words he was about to say and began to observe the black-haired boy who appeared in the middle of the journey.

Age...it looks like eleven or twelve years old, and it's a real brat. What's the clothes...well? Wait! This seems to be a uniform for researchers in the research institute?!

Why do researchers wear uniforms for such a young boy who is only 11 or 2 years old? It is impossible that the boy who is so young is actually a formal researcher, right?

Finn knows that to become a formal researcher at the top research institute of this empire, he must at least have the title of "Junior Bachelor". He himself is already very outstanding, and he was only eighteen years old.

Those who have obtained the junior bachelor's title!

Finn felt that he was a genius at all ages, but he had never thought about the fact that he had passed the junior bachelor's degree in his early teens. Could this little boy in front of him do it?

This is impossible!

After instantly extinguishing the thought that had just emerged, Finn looked at the black-haired boy and couldn't help but frown deeply, secretly guessing the identity of the black-haired boy.

This institute has various regional restrictions and patrol guards. No matter who walks in the institute, you need corresponding authority. External idle people cannot act at will.

Jiang Yan didn't know the doubts in Finn's heart at this time. He ignored Finn's existence, glanced at the timer in the leisure hall, and said to Lily with a smile: "It seems that there is still a lot of time, my side is here.

There is nothing to be busy with for the time being, where are you?"

"Today..." Lily tilted her head and thought for a while, then replied, "It's okay for the time being."

Jiang Yan continued to ask, "You are now studying at the Elf Instrument Academy, right? So when will you go back at the latest?"

Lily shook her head: "I don't know, the doctor didn't say it."

"you do not know?"

"In the past, it was arranged by the doctor."

"Okay, Lily, it seems I have to tell you a good news first." Jiang Yan shook his head and said with a smile: "Lily, you can no longer listen to the doctor's orders."

"Don't you have to listen to the order?"

Looking at the girl's confused expression, Jiang Yan reached out and patted her head: "Don't you understand yet? It means that you are free and you don't need to listen to the doctor's orders in the future."

Lily was obviously stunned when she heard this. As one of the experimental subjects of the Dragonborn Project, she certainly knew her own situation, but now Jiang Yan told her that she was free now?

After Lily was stunned for a while, she came back to her senses and looked at Jiang Yan carefully for a while before asking, "...why?"

Since seeing that Jiang Yan's reaction was not like a joke, Lily did not doubt Jiang Yan's words, she naturally believed him, and then asked her own doubts.

Jiang Yan explained casually: "I just made a small deal with the doctor, and he has agreed."

"..." Lily looked at Jiang Yan blankly, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Although Jiang Yan said it very lightly, Lily knew very well that it would be difficult to get Dr. Lux to agree to let her dragonborn experiments like her. It would definitely not be possible to trade it in a 'slight' way.

It's reasonable.

After thinking about it, Lily finally said softly: "Thank you."

Then there was no following.

She is not very good at speaking, but she can only thank her so bluntly. Although it is simple, the subtle tone fluctuations in her words made Jiang Yan, who had known each other for a long time, easily hear the uneasiness in her heart.

.

The girl unconsciously pinched the plush doll made of Xiaobai in her hand, and she calmed down for a moment, with a little confused look in her eyes from time to time.

"What are you thinking?" The careful Jiang Yan saw the confused look in her eyes and asked.

"I don't know..." Lily was silent for a few seconds before she said in a daze: "What is freedom...?"

"Uh..." Jiang Yan was stunned when he heard this question.

But after seeing Lily's confused eyes, he immediately understood.

As artificial experimental subjects born directly from the training tank and born without parents, Lily and Hal grew up in the training and education of the institute since childhood.

The knowledge, three views, ideals, and understanding of the world of these experimental subjects are actually very empty, and most of them are just the colors that the institute has graffitied for them.

It has to be said that the institute’s ideological education for experimental subjects is quite successful.

For example, Lily is now like this. She has been bound by the institute since she was a child. She is used to following the orders of the institute, but she never thought about what the so-called "independence" and "freedom" are like.

Because she didn't have that kind of concept in her mind!

The word "freedom" is too far away from her before.

Even if you understand what "freedom" is from the knowledge you learned in the book, it is just simple and pale, limited to the meaning you learned literally. Lily actually has no real feeling about the so-called "freedom" in her heart.

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It’s not her fault. Lily is only twelve years old now! You can’t expect a girl of this age to have such mature thinking, right?

"Okay, this is my negligence." After understanding her thoughts, Jiang Yan smiled helplessly and said, "Lily, since you don't understand, don't think too much. That's not a big deal.

It doesn’t matter if you can’t think of something that is tangible now, but you will naturally understand it in the future.”

"Will you know in the future?" Lily asked blankly.

"Yes." Jiang Yan smiled. Seeing her confused expression, she couldn't help but reach out to pinch her fair and delicate face with amusement, and said again: "Believe me."

As soon as Jiang Yan's words "Believe me", the girl's eyes changed. After she looked at the gentle color in Jiang Yan's eyes that were as bright as the night sky, the gem-like eyes.

The confusion gradually disappeared.

"Oh." The girl nodded slightly and responded, and then she really stopped worrying about the topic of freedom or not.

Jiang Yan smiled with satisfaction, then thought for a while, and suddenly asked, "Since you don't need to listen to the institute's arrangements in the future, then Lily, do you have any plans next?"

Since Jiang Yan helped Lily gain freedom, of course he would not just let her die without permission. He planned to help others to the end.

After all, Lily's identity is an artificial experimental subject. She does not have the real existence of her parents and relatives. After leaving the constraints of the institute, the institute will certainly not raise her who has been separated from her relationship.

The girl always needs to have a solution in her future life. Jiang Yan can't let her sleep on the streets, right? With Lily's personality, Jiang Yan suspects that if she really lets her go, she will leave herself alone, this girl may be in minutes.

You have to be kidnapped by others to sell blood and money, or even sell yourself and your life...

So Jiang Yan planned to ask Lily about her personal thoughts and then make some arrangements for her. With the power and status of Angus Slintner's Marquis of the Empire, she can basically meet the life needs of most individuals.

"...Next?" Lily murmured, then shook her head for granted.

Since she doesn't even understand "freedom", she certainly doesn't have any independent mentality, and she has never considered future events.

Jiang Yan was not surprised to see this, but smiled understandingly and asked again: "Then let me change the question, Lily, do you have anything you want to do in the future? Or, is there anything you want to complete.

A dream?"

"Dream..." Faced with this question, the girl fell into hesitation again. This seemed to be a bit unfamiliar to her...

"For the Empire, for His Majesty the Emperor... allegiance?" After thinking for a few seconds, Lily said in a somewhat uncertain tone, and finally added: "...probably?"

Jiang Yan was immediately a little amused and cried, then shook his head at her and said, "This doesn't count!"

"Don't it count?" Lily tilted her head and wondered, because she had always answered this way if someone asked about her dreams before. At that time, both the person who asked the question and the others who attended the audience were very satisfied with her.

This answer is like this.

"Hey, don't use questions." Jiang Yan sighed and said, "Look at the tone of your answer, it's obvious that you are not sure about it yourself! What kind of dream is this?"

"Then..." Lily lowered her head in distress and thought about it again, then simply said, "I don't know."

The so-called "dream" such as "for the empire and for His Majesty the emperor" is naturally the result of the deliberate education of the institute. Of course, Lily has no real feeling about this "dream" indoctrinated by others.

"Forget it." Jiang Yan, who knew that this question was also a bit difficult for the girl, could only ask again: "Then Lily, think about it carefully, do you have anything you like and what you want?"

"What do you like...thing?"

"Or it's okay to have a hobby," Jiang Yan guided.

Then, he saw the girl thinking for a while, his eyes lit up.

"I like... delicious!"

"..." Hearing this answer, Jiang Yan was speechless.

Well, asking a foodie question is nothing more than that.

Girl, you are also an elf envoy who is a sub-dragon genus. With extraordinary qualifications, you will basically be able to become an army-level elf envoy in the future. Even if you are a little master in this empire, can't you have any more

A high-spirited pursuit?

"Apart from delicious food, do you have nothing else to do?" Jiang Yan continued to ask unwillingly.

"Um..." Lily thought about it again, her dark eyebrows slightly frowned.

Looking at her seemingly distressed appearance, Jiang Yan shook his head, suddenly raised his hand and stuck out a finger, and gently tapped Lily's frown brow.

"...Yan?" Lily looked at Jiang Yan in surprise.

"Forget it, Lily, don't think about it." Jiang Yan moved his fingertips lightly, softening the girl's brows, then smiled gently, and said, "Just be a foodie, I can't afford to support it."
To be continued...