"How, doctor?" Jiang Yan put down his hand and looked at Lukes who was a little stunned in front of him with a smile.

In my heart, I felt a sense of relief that my body was finally free from the shackles of the mark that had entangled me for almost two years.

"Huh......" Lukes, who was reminded by Jiang Yan's words, came back to his senses and looked at the smiling black-haired boy in front of him with a strange gaze.

He asked in a deep voice, "The one just now, is it the 'key'?"

Jiang Yan nodded very dryly: "That's right." ”

"Really...... But it doesn't seem to be the same kind of "key" as it was original?" Lukes' eyes flickered, and he asked the doubts in his heart.

Although it was a sentence of doubt, there was no doubt in Lukes's words at all. No one knows better than Lux who applied the mark what the original "mark" removal technique looked like.

"It's really different, but the 'key' is still valid, isn't it?" Jiang Yan asked with a smile.

"That's true, I really didn't expect that there would be two keys that can be unlocked. Lux nodded in acknowledgment, then stared at Jiang Yan's eyes tightly and asked, "So, boy, tell me where you got this 'key'?"

The "Engraving" technique is a very important card that Lux uses to ensure that the combat subject does not get out of control, and now that it is clear that there is a means of dismantling that even he does not know, it is absolutely impossible for Lux to turn a blind eye.

Even if necessary, Lux didn't mind using extreme means to ask for information from Jiang Yan's mouth, even the face of Angus's old friend would not be useful at that time!

Unconsciously, Lux's gaze at Jiang Yan had a subtle hint of fierceness, and this gaze was completely captured by Jiang Yan's perception.

"Don't be nervous, Doctor. Jiang Yan's face was still a flat smile, and he didn't care at all about the dangerous aura that was invisibly exerted on him, he hugged Xiao Bai, who had a fried hair reaction on his shoulders again, into his arms and comforted him, and then said leisurely: "Since I dare to show the key in front of you, naturally I haven't thought about hiding it!"

"So, where did you get this 'key'?" Lukes saw this, and relaxed his momentum slightly, "Or rather, who taught you?"

"Why do you want to say that someone else taught it?" Jiang Yan shrugged and looked at Lux with a strange expression.

“...... Huh?" Lux narrowed his eyes and asked, "So, no one else taught you?"

"That's right!" Jiang Yan clapped his palms: "But doctor, I prefer you to call this an 'invention'." ”

In other words, it is not relying on others, this is the method of removing the engraving that Jiang Yan has studied himself.

...... What are you kidding! A ten-year-old boy actually deciphered the engraving technique that he had spent a lot of effort to develop?

"Are you serious?" Lux asked in a deep voice, staring at Jiang Yan's eyes with a hint of force, intending to find a weak heart in his eyes.

At the same time, Lux also gathered spiritual power in his eyes in front of Jiang Yan, and his eyes were directly covered with a layer of pale golden brilliance, and his gaze fell on Jiang Yan's body, giving him the illusion that all his disguises were being rudely revealed, and all ** were completely exposed to the other party's sight.

Spell: Pupil of Truth!

A special spiritual power fluctuation also faintly spread out from Lux's gaze and shrouded Jiang Yan's body.

Spell: Lie Detection!

Lux's behavior was not at all as subtle as Angus, who had tested Jiang Yan at the beginning, but was unscrupulous, and because of this, the effect of the spell was brought into full play! At this time, even if a strong man in the legendary realm came over, he couldn't lie in front of Lux without revealing his flaws.

Jiang Yan, who faced this kind of probing, felt the most profound, and he was sure that even if he used his ability, he would not be able to disguise himself like he had in front of Angus.

But it doesn't matter, there is no need to disguise this time anyway.

"Of course, I can assure that I have cracked it on my own, and no one else but me has this 'key' at the moment. For Lux's gaze did not shy away at all, Jiang Yan said without hesitation.

"......" Lux was silent, staring at Jiang Yan tightly, and the fluctuations of spiritual power appeared and disappeared from time to time.

Angus watched this scene from the side, also a little nervous, but he was also silent and silent, because he knew that it was best if he did not participate at such a time.

According to information obtained by Angus, the by-product of the 'pure-blooded Dragonborn Reappearance Project' of the current 'Mass-produced Military Artificial Elf Project', because of the Empire's increasingly tight military needs for foreign wars, has been regarded as the Empire's highest priority development project, and the priority is no lower than its original main plan.

In order to ensure the controllability of the test subjects by a large number of artificial spirits, techniques such as "engraving" are one of the insurances.

Therefore, as one of the original test subjects, Jiang Yan was able to remove the engraving by himself without the permission of the Empire, which was already related to the secrecy of the "engraving" technique, and Dr. Lux could not pay attention to it.

There is no doubt that the purpose of the military artificial elves is to be used as a tool of war, referred to as high-grade cannon fodder, and if there is a problem of getting out of control, the consequences will be unimaginable.

"You can take my word for it, Doctor?"

After being observed by Lux for a full ten seconds, Jiang Yan turned his head, shrugged his shoulders, and said with some dissatisfaction: "To be honest, I'm really a little uncomfortable to be stared at like this by you. ”

“...... I'm sorry about that. The spiritual power was retracted, and Lux withdrew the scrutiny in his gaze, and then looked at Jiang Yan with surprise and inquiry in his eyes: "Tsk, boy, you really gave me a surprise! You must know that the "Engraving" technique is not only the result of my own research, but also draws on some secret knowledge inherited by the imperial family, even if it is difficult for several court magicians to jointly crack it! Now, it is actually done by a little ghost head alone? If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it easily. ”

"That's a big deal, I've actually spent nearly two years of painstaking research to achieve the results. Jiang Yan shook his head and said, "I think if it were you, maybe it would be able to do it in less than half a year, right?"

In fact, it was not really two years, in fact, Jiang Yan had only studied for more than a month, and this month was not used to invent a new method of removal from scratch, but to the time spent when he integrated the imprinting knowledge copied from Lux and then deduced a new solution on the basis of the original imprinting solution.

After all, although he got the solution of the engraving, if Jiang Yan directly used the old solution to remove the engraving in front of Lux, there was a high probability that Lux would suspect the origin of the solution.

Like the high-intensity detection spell that Lux used when he asked just now, if he was asked about the origin of the old solution, could he still tell the other party in front of him that it was a lie that he had cracked alone?

This is why Jiang Yan had the foresight to go to great lengths to create a new solution.

"Two years...... Hehe," Lux chewed on the sentence, and then suddenly smiled, "Actually, now that I think about it, I am not very surprised by your performance in the institute at the beginning." ”

When Jiang Yan was in the research institute, before he exposed the flaws attached to the true spirit's injury, he was the best performer among those experimental subjects, and Lux knew this best. Lingzi control, spiritual power sensing, spell construction, wilderness survival, fighting skills, gun operation...... No matter what kind of course or knowledge, this kid can learn and master it to perfection with far more efficiency than other test subjects.

Now that I think about it, if such a guy really has extraordinary research talents, Lux is not so surprised to find that he finds out.

"So, is it just to show your talent to show me the new solution of this engraving now?" Combined with Angus's previous proposal, Lux had already understood at this moment why Jiang Yan had to lift the purpose of the engraving in front of him just now.

Jiang Yan smiled and said, "Just like what you said before, Doctor, you don't collect waste, so what do you think of my current performance?"

Looking at the confident yet steady smile on the little boy's face that was suitable for his age, I have to say that Lux is indeed moved.

As the director of the eleventh research institute and the most senior researcher in the institute, it can be seen from the number of the institute that Lux is actually ranked in the lower position.

Competition within the empire was fierce, the closer it was to the upper echelons, and the contemporary Wille the Great was more than willing to promote this relatively healthy competition, preaching the law of the jungle from top to bottom. As a researcher, Lux has achieved the highest title of 'doctor', but he is not the only doctor in the empire.

At first, he was just a commoner, but if it weren't for his excellent knowledge and technology, as well as the support of his old friends who were marquis nobles, he would not have been able to sit in the position of director of a research institute for so many years.

More adequate research funds, better equipment and equipment, more research materials and resources...... Even as a logistical scientific researcher who is not very involved in political affairs, he still has too many things to strive for! All of this requires more achievements to be obtained.

For this reason, more excellent talents are needed.

Jiang Yan is now very much in line with his requirements.

In terms of 'talent', there is no need to say much, Lukes, who knows Jiang Yan well (on the surface), knows very well that this kid is almost an all-rounder. The other party has talents in memory, calculation, fine operation, etc., which is completely the best foundation for a researcher. And cracking the engraving alone has proved that the other party's innovation ability is not bad.

In terms of identity, Jiang Yan, who grew up from a ball of embryos in the culture tank of his own research institute, is also absolutely 'innocent', even after leaving the research institute, he was transferred to his old friend's subordinates, and there is no problem with interpersonal contacts, and now he is adopted by an old friend as an adopted grandson, and there is probably no problem in terms of trust.

Lux thought about it, but didn't find anything to refuse.

So, he glanced at Angus and then looked at Jiang Yan, nodded with a light smile: "Very good, I agreed." ”

Don't worry about the transfer procedures or anything, stuffing a new person into your own research institute is not difficult at all for Lukes, who has the highest authority in the research institute, as long as Jiang Yan himself agrees, and Angus, the assassination minister who is still Jiang Yan's boss, also agrees, then there is no problem.

Subsequently, Lukes, who confirmed that Jiang Yan would be working in his research institute, began to study Jiang Yan's current knowledge and basic skills, and he had to have a detailed understanding of the abilities of this new subordinate.

Although Lux did not secretly collect information about this kid's experience after leaving the institute, the shallow information on paper may eventually be missing, and it is better to study it in person.

First of all, there were questions and answers, ranging from the quenching and separation methods of the remnants of the spirit son, to the extreme ratio of the compression rate of the spirit energy of different quantities, or the characteristics and composition of the new armor alloy...... From easy to difficult, there are all kinds of problems.

Most of Jiang Yan's answers were fluent, and only some questions that involved relatively remote or difficult knowledge were not answered.

In fact, if he really wanted to answer, Jiang Yan couldn't answer it, but he still relented - because that was not the knowledge he should have come into contact with in the intelligence data of people with intentions, including Lukes.

The things about the supernatural abilities and the things about the daughter network are all secrets that outsiders don't know about Jiang Yan. On the bright side, Jiang Yan was just a young genius who was kicked out and sent to the Imperial Assassination Department as a rookie assassin after receiving a few years of accelerated basic education courses in the research institute.

If Jiang Yan shows knowledge that he should not know in his current status, it is easy to see that there is a problem.

Therefore, when to behave and when to hide, Jiang Yan must grasp the degree here.

After the knowledge on paper was examined, Lux nodded with satisfaction: "Yes, the basic skills are very solid, it seems that even if you leave the research institute, you will not waste your talents." ”

The old fox who asked knowingly!

"Yes, in my free time outside of assignments, I often read the information books in the civic library on weekdays. Jiang Yan secretly rolled his eyes, and replied humbly. - Although, he often memorizes them all by scanning them with his abilities, and the superficial flipping through them is just for the sake of showing them to the spying watchers.

After the paper knowledge inspection, Lux began to test Jiang Yan's hands-on ability again, the way was very simple, directly using spiritual power to build a three-dimensional technique model equivalent to a 'lock', and then let Jiang Yan build the corresponding 'key' type technique within a limited time to unlock it.

Of course, Jiang Yan was difficult in this regard, and in his clumsy state, he also behaved very satisfactorily to Lux.

"That's it. After about ten minutes, Lux stopped his investigation, nodded with satisfaction, and said, "Wait for me to go back tomorrow to deal with the formalities, you can come over as soon as possible, position...... Let's act as my assistant for the time being. "I can't find the latest chapter of the book I want to read?coughcoughcough, it's not a problem, I recommend a public account, there is a young lady here to help you find the latest chapter, and chat with you!