Not only that, the most important reason, Zeno and Silva both knew, was that Illumi's focus was not on the Zoldyck family.
The most obvious point was that he only came home once a year, usually didn't contact his family, and even owned a multinational monopoly outside.
Many times, Silva and Zeno couldn't even track Illumi's whereabouts.
This exceptionally gifted Illumi, who was constantly distancing himself from them, caused them much worry.
However, every time Illumi returned home, Silva and Zeno could feel the growing strength of his aura.
"Alluka."
Illumi suddenly looked at Alluka, who was standing to his right, and frowned.
At this moment, Alluka's eyes were wide open to their limit, his jet-black pupils also dilated to the maximum. His aura was calm, but Illumi could see his emotions: a dense greed surged from within him, enveloping his body and mind.
This gave Illumi a premonition that Alluka would, in the next moment, suddenly act out some perverted behavior towards the infant in front of him.
Illumi extended his right hand and "thwack," placed it on Alluka's left shoulder.
Alluka's inexplicable state was interrupted. He blinked, returning to his usual state, his eyes empty and lifeless.
"What's wrong, Illumi?" Alluka turned to look at him, his eyes filled with confusion.
"Nothing." Illumi gently shook his head, retracting his gaze. In his mind, he thought: Even he hasn't realized that he has a controlling tendency.
Southern part of the human-developed sea area, open waters outside the southwestern territorial waters of the Ozma Federation.
"Gurgle, gurgle..."
A colossal creature, over a thousand meters long, silently swam through the deep sea at an incredibly fast speed.
At this moment, a nuclear submarine of the Ozma Federation was navigating underwater in the southernmost open waters of the human-developed sea area.
"Sir, we've detected an unknown target, speed 60 knots."
"60 knots?" A middle-aged man in his forties, dressed in a military uniform, was bent over a table drawing a sea chart. Hearing his subordinate's report, he immediately stood up and subconsciously said, "Impossible, the Pegaross doesn't have a submarine that fast."
The middle-aged man's name was Antonio. He was the highest commanding officer of this strategic nuclear submarine, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
He quickly put down his pen, stood up, and went behind a radar reconnaissance officer in the sonar department. The officer took off his left hand and slightly pulled away the left side of his headset so he could clearly hear Lieutenant Colonel Antonio.
"I've checked twice. It's a very unique signal." The officer in charge of radar sonar operated the instrument, and at the same time responded, "There's no cavitation from propeller propulsion, no reactor sound, it even..."
The officer paused mid-sentence, shaking his head with a look of disbelief. "...It doesn't even look like a submarine at all."
Antonio looked at the radar image and the 2D image obtained from the sonar scan. The readings indeed didn't resemble a submarine. Lieutenant Colonel Antonio frowned, his expression deeply puzzled.
"What could it be?"
"I can only tell you what it's not," a voice echoed in Lieutenant Colonel Antonio's ear. He turned to look at the officer standing to his right. The officer also turned to stare at him, shaking his head. "It's not our vessel, nor is it any other country's submarine."
"Sir, the target has changed direction and is coming towards direction 214," the radar officer suddenly reported, noticing the target's change in heading.
But when he looked up at the radar image again, his expression froze. He swallowed hard, then said in disbelief, "Speed... 80 knots."
"80 knots..."
The officer repeated the speed. Lieutenant Colonel Antonio stared at the image, then walked expressionlessly to the command console and unfolded the sea chart on the table.
"Still diving, depth 300 meters." An officer wearing a headset came to Lieutenant Colonel Antonio's side and reported to him, "Starboard distance, seabed cliff width 50 meters."
"It's getting narrower," the officer beside Antonio said, pointing at the cliff on the sea chart, his face grim.
"Turn right 069, descend five degrees."
"Port distance from seabed cliff, width 42 meters, will narrow to 25 meters."
"Sir, the target is approaching the alarm light."
Lieutenant Colonel Antonio listened to the reports from the surrounding officers, his face expressionless. At this moment, he was deep in thought.
"It's too close, we need to pull back," the officer wearing a baseball cap beside Antonio suggested.
"Sir, the target is already within 70 meters. The target has reached coordinate 260. Speed increased to..." The officer who was reporting paused again for a moment, cold sweat on his face. "Speed increased to 130 knots, sir!"
Lieutenant Colonel Antonio instantly looked up at the officer who was reporting. "No vessel can reach 130 knots!"
"Sir, the target is already within 40 meters." The officer pointed at the rapidly moving dot on the radar and sonar 2D image, his face panicked. He took off his headset and continued reporting.
"80 yards... 60 yards... We're going to collide, sir!"
"Boom!!!"
As soon as the officer's words fell, a jolt shook the entire nuclear submarine. The submarine began to shake violently. The many officers in the command room, including Lieutenant Colonel Antonio, swayed left and right, unable to maintain balance.
If someone could see the scene outside the submarine at this moment, they would surely be scared out of their wits.
At this moment, a colossal creature, like a giant python, swam past the nuclear submarine. Its massive body, swaying, seemed to have unintentionally bumped the submarine.
The hundred-meter-long "Sea Dragon" class nuclear submarine was like it had hit a meteorite. With a violent tremor, it plummeted towards the seabed cliff.
"Jack, stop, full rudder right." Lieutenant Colonel Antonio grabbed a fixed object nearby, and at the same time shouted to the command room.
"Boom!!!"
But before his subordinate could execute his order, the submarine was jolted again with a loud crash. The entire submarine shook even more violently.
"Collision! Collision!"
Someone in the command room shouted repeatedly. It turned out that the submarine was already extremely close to the seabed cliff. Under this unknown impact, it directly hit the bottom, crashing head-on into the seabed cliff.
Immediately, electricity sparked, and fire flew everywhere within the submarine. Seawater, flames, and electricity filled the command room.
"Turn right! Quickly turn the ship right!" In the chaos, Lieutenant Colonel Antonio continuously shouted.
In this chaotic moment, the officer responsible for radar and sonar looked at the light dot on the image that was turning back, and said his last words in this life with a blank expression: "No, oh my god~!"
At this moment, the colossal creature, which had already moved away from the nuclear submarine, was swimming at an extremely fast speed towards the seabed cliff. Its thousand-meter body slowly swayed as it approached the already sunken "Fish Dragon" nuclear submarine.
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