In the pool of the Abrodius Leisure Cabin, Renault swam quickly in the water with his arms swinging vigorously, and the speed was extremely fast. I swam back and forth more than twenty times until a pair of slender legs appeared on the shore. Renault plunged into the water and sneaked all the way to the shore before he surfaced.

With one hand on the edge of the pool, Renault was already sitting on the shore.

A cleaning robot slid over, stretched out a small nozzle, and blew out a large amount of high-energy adsorption particles, blowing through Renault's body, taking away all the water from his body and swimming trunks, but not touching the water in his body.

"Thank you Jinli, but I still like the original way." Renault took a towel and wiped it on himself: "The result of too many robot functions is that we don't have to do anything, which leads to the degradation of people's hands-on ability." From this point of view, the academy was right in the first place, thankfully they were not allowed to use any robots. ”

"You're really laid-back." Claire came over and said.

"Just taking some time to relax, I like the feeling of being in the water, it's like going back to the mother......" Renault replied casually. He wiped off the water stains on his body and waved his hand: "Purify, close, restore the starry sky." ”

Layers of decks extend over the pool, turning the pool back into the ground while the pool begins to be purified and disinfected. The sterilized pool water can be used directly for drinking.

At the same time, the blue sky and white clouds on the ceiling subsided, replaced by a transparent glass that could directly see the starry sky overhead, and several mobile tables and chairs automatically stretched out from both sides, so that the pool became a stargazing platform.

Located on the outermost edge of the starship, it offers a beautiful view of the starry sky outside, and serves as a buffer zone for the outer part of the battle, covering more important facilities inside.

Renault found a chair and sat down, and a roller robot had already glided over, opening his round body, revealing the various drinks inside.

"Well, it's still Blue Star Agate." Renault thought for a moment and said, then looked at Claire: "What about you?" ”

"Vanilla lily."

The roller robot serves drinks to the two of them, then retreats.

"So, what's going on?" Renault asked.

"Our detectives are working hard." Claire replied, "But I doubt he will." You must know that this is not looking for the real culprit, but to explore the secrets of the universe that the New Federation has not been able to discover for 200 years. ”

"We already have the answer, but we accidentally lost it somewhere, but I know it's there, and all we have to do now is to rediscover the brightest jewel in the crown of cosmic truth." Renault replied slowly: "I trust Hill, as long as he shows the strength to doubt me, he can find the truth." ”

"Maybe not the brightest one." A voice suddenly sounded behind him.

Looking back, Nora was standing behind them.

There was also a little boy standing beside her.

Adam.

Seeing Adam appear, Renault couldn't help but froze, and immediately understood what Nora meant by "not the brightest one", which obviously meant this little boy.

After bringing Adam back, Claire ran a series of tests on Adam.

But like the Santiago family, they didn't actually find anything of value.

Despite this, as the only boy in the human race who did not receive special abilities through a holy relic, Freeheart took him in.

Perhaps because of what happened to him, Adam was a non-talkative child, and he was silent most of the time.

Renault had tried to leave him in Claire's care, but it turned out that Claire's motherly glow had little effect on Adam, and the always cold Nora seemed more attractive to Adam.

On one occasion, Renault inadvertently gave Adam to Nora to look after for four hours.

During those four hours, Nora completed a high-intensity physical workout, three hundred consecutive over-range shots, and an overdraft ability drain exercise, and Adam watched silently for four hours.

Ignore each other.

That was their only official contact.

A few days later, when Renault half-jokingly asked who would be between Claire and Nora, Adam did not hesitate to point to Nora, which made Claire sad for several days.

Nora is surprised by Adam's choice herself, but she's the kind of woman who will accept whatever happens. So when Adam chose to follow her, she didn't care, just continued to be ruthless. Adam doesn't care, he's like the little tail behind Nora, and wherever Nora goes, Adam will be there. Anyway, in this era of highly developed technology, food and use are automated, and the minimum standard of life can be met through technological automation, even a child can live alone. Find an adult to watch him, more because he is afraid that he will do something that he doesn't know how to do, such as looking at a certain joystick and being curious, pulling it down by the way, and giving the starship a power outage or something.

But Adam was a very sensible child, he never touched things he didn't understand, and he didn't seem to understand anything. He is far more sensible than one might think. So when this silent big and small live together, it's surprising to worry.

Maybe that's what Adam likes—he has an instinctive headache with Claire's motherly hush.

Seeing Nora and Adam appear, Renaud also froze, and then he laughed: "You are right, Nora, there are many pearls in the crown of cosmic truth, and perhaps the free heart has more than one. Unfortunately, no matter which one you have, it doesn't look so easy to get. In a way, it's harder for the one around you. ”

"But you brought him anyway."

"I just don't want him to become a tool for enriching those big families, at least here, Adam is free." Renaud beckoned to Adam, "Hey, kid, I hope you enjoy it here." ”

Adam, who had always been silent, suddenly said, "If you don't call me child, I might like you." ”

Renault froze, and he chuckled and looked at Claire: "That's probably why he chose Nora...... He doesn't like people to treat him like a child. ”

Then he turned to Adam: "Okay, I promise, I don't think of you as a child anymore." ”

"In the true sense of the word." Adam replied.

"Really?" Renault didn't understand it at once.

Adam had pulled something out of his back.

A gun!

At that moment, Renault and Claire all stood up, and the instinct of years of training allowed them to avoid the muzzle of the gun for the first time, even though the gun was not actually pointed at them, but at the ground.

Renault raised his hand directly and used his telekinesis to control the gun to float into the air.

Claire exclaimed, "Where did you get the gun?" ”

"Oh, that's mine." Glancing, Nora replied lightly.

"God, how can you give him a gun!" Claire shouted.

Her expression now has absolutely nothing to do with gentleness.

"I didn't give it to him, he took it from my bedroom himself." Nora replied, "I'm in the rare mood to take him out for a walk and add some affection to you." Before leaving, he said to go get something...... I didn't expect it to be a gun. ”

Nora's answer showed that she had just knew, but that casual tone made it clear that she didn't take it seriously.

Renault was stunned, he summoned the pistol with his telekinesis, looked at it, and said, "He dropped the energy cartridge." ”

Claire looked at Adam in surprise.

Adam's face was expressionless: "Really." ”

Now they understand what it means.

"I wanted him to get acquainted with you a little more, but it seems that he failed." Nora said with a shrug.

Adam said, "Some people are inherently ill-suited to have friends. ”

"That's right."

The two turned together and walked out of the cabin, leaving Renault and Claire looking at each other, and neither of them knew what to say for a while.

After a while, Claire said, "I always felt like it was going to be a big problem to keep them together...... That kind of either it doesn't come out, and once it comes out, it's a big problem. ”

Renault corrected: "It must be big, but it doesn't have to be bad." That kid was much more sensible than we thought. ”

"Don't call children."

"In the true sense of the word."

The two looked at each other and smiled.