Zerg: Cold and aloof Major General, stop pretending to be innocent, I have a headache!

Jiang Mian didn't move, but gestured with his chin toward the desk in the center of the study: "Go get it yourself."

"..." Jiang Xu glanced at him sideways, "Is this how you treat the protective talisman?"

Jiang Mian smiled, propped his head up, and asked him, "You actually believe that?"

He glanced at Jiang Xu, who was lounging on the sofa, sighed, got up, walked behind his desk, opened a drawer, took out the butterfly jade, and tossed it directly at Jiang Xu on the sofa.

Jiang Xu froze for a moment, then instantly leaned forward and caught the butterfly jade, staring at Jiang Mian in disbelief. "Are you crazy?!"

He had previously shared his conjectures about this thing with the other party, and now, with everything still unclear, he dares to throw it at them so directly.

"Why are you so excited?" Jiang Mian laughed when he saw his frightened look. "Don't worry, I accidentally dropped this thing on the ground a while ago, and it didn't react at all."

Jiang Xu was slightly taken aback; this statement effectively overturned his speculation once again.

Fortunately, he made another discovery during this trip.

Jiang Xu raised the butterfly jade pendant above his head, and the sunlight streaming in from the window fell directly on the object in his hand.

The butterfly jade's jet-black eyes slowly began to let in light, gradually turning into translucent beads.

At this moment, Jiang Xu clearly saw something slightly reddish under the bead, which was slowly and faintly flashing.

"Come on, take a look at this." He lowered his head and called out to Jiang Mian, who was not far away, "Let me show you my new discovery."

"What did you find?" Jiang Mian asked, but his feet moved quickly toward him.

"Come to my position."

Jiang Mian glanced at Jiang Xu with a puzzled look, but still followed the other party's instructions and made all the preparations step by step.

Immediately afterwards, a faint red light entered his eyes.

He paused for a moment, then lowered his hand and looked at Jiang Xu: "There's something in here."

Seeing his reaction, Jiang Xu curled his lips and teased, "You've been carrying it around in your pocket all day, how come you haven't noticed this?"

"..." Here we go again. Jiang Mian said speechlessly, "You're amazing, alright?"

Who would have thought that something else could be hidden in those dark eyes?

Moreover, this butterfly jade is only five or six millimeters thick.

Jiang Xu raised his chin, took it back from his hand, and weighed it in his hand: "Although I didn't find anything else, I did look through most of the Jiang family's record books."

He beckoned to the other person with his chin: "Do you know why this thing is called 'Jue'?"

Jiang Mian paused for a moment, then understood what he meant: "You mean, there's another one like this?"

"That's right." Jiang Xu put away the butterfly jade pendant, stroking the patterns on the metal with his hand. "Do you remember that metal lump in the center of the Jiang family's small gathering hall?"

"I remember." How could Jiang Mian not remember? He'd played with that thing since he was a baby and was already tired of it. "Didn't it break a long time ago?"

"Don't you think...?" He drew Jiang Mian's attention, paused for a moment, and under the other's questioning gaze, pointed to the instrument in the corner, "They are made of very similar materials."

Although the colors were slightly different, Jiang Xu had touched them all by hand, and the feel of each item was roughly the same in his hands.

Jiang Mian turned to look at the instruments in the corner. Without hesitating for a few seconds, he got up and walked towards the corner until his toes were almost touching the instruments before he stopped.

He bent slightly forward and reached out to touch the instruments.

The instrument's surface is very old, clearly indicating that it has been used for many years. Upon closer inspection, one can see scratches of varying depths near the bottom, likely from frequent moving.

"You mean these three things come from the same place?" Jiang Mian straightened up and asked Jiang Xu behind him.

"Although it's just a suspicion, I'm already 99% certain."

Although Jiang Xu didn't find any direct evidence in the documents he went through at the Jiang family's house, he was able to make a basic judgment based on the records and his deductions.

Jiang Mian silently walked to the sofa and sat down: "Could there be a mistake?"

"No." This time Jiang Xu answered very confidently, "Jiang Bian told me that he had seen records about the butterfly jade before."

He may not remember it well, but according to him, those records existed before you discovered it.

Based on that, the two missing pages must have fallen after he had viewed them but before you searched for them.

He recalled the details in his mind, and after a moment asked, "How old were you when you started looking for these things?"

"One and a half years old."

How could he possibly accept the fact that he had been transformed from a human into an insect? Naturally, he would try every possible way to return.

At that time, the Jiang family kept a close watch on him, and it wasn't until he was about a year and a half old that he began to shakily sneak out of his living area.

And look, there's that big butterfly-shaped metal piece in the center of the small gathering room!

"One and a half years old?!" Jiang Xu was somewhat surprised. He imagined Jiang Mian's little arms and legs rummaging through the bookshelf, and the corners of his mouth curved slightly.

"Were you even as tall as a table leg back then? How could you possibly have read through all those record books in that position?"

Jiang Mian smirked: "When you were flipping through it, did you notice there were a lot of loose pages?"

"..." Jiang Xu instantly understood the meaning behind his words, "You really have a lot of free time."

Jiang Mian raised his hand and smacked him on the head: "You think I wanted to? I was too young back then, I didn't know many words, and all I could recognize were those insect teachers who protected me."

In addition, he was young and prone to sleepiness, so the only way he could think of was to hide in his bedroom little by little.

A tiny insect, no bigger than a bean, would bring a few pages of paper back to his bedroom every day, asking Helan to tell him stories, and then he would compare the story content with the words in the book.

He had never done anything so physically and mentally exhausting in his life, and the workload was enormous.

Fortunately, he eventually found it, but there was only a similar pattern on it. At the time, he only had a vague impression of the butterfly jade at home and was not sure if it was the right thing.

"When I got a little older, I checked those pages again."

For Jiang Mian, this matter was no longer important, and at that time, he had completely lost the desire to go back, and could only look at it casually for fun.

Jiang Xu could actually imagine what he looked like back then, inexplicably trapped in a strange place. How could he not be afraid? "Yes, you were too young back then. It's only natural to be afraid. I understand."