Veteran Cadre and Bug Chief [Interstellar]

When talking about "died of illness", the template-level smile on Colin's lips finally disappeared.

The disappearing smile was like a signal, causing his finely crafted mask to collapse instantly.

Every inch of Colin's muscles fixed on the "perfect smile" is alive and active. They are awakened by the keyword and the female insect in the photo, and reassembled into a face that hates to chew blood through the gums. A ghostly flame ignited in his eyes as he stared at the medical examination report, his eyes seemed to be able to burn through the floating screen until he caught a glimpse of the photo at the end of the "document array" from the corner of his eye. For a moment, Colin's expression softened, and his tensed body relaxed a little.

"Feel sorry."

Young Master Ke took a deep breath, and saw his distorted reflection in Qi Fei's eyes staring at him calmly: "I lost my composure."

Qi Fei didn't answer, but shook his head slightly, giving Ke Lin enough time to sort out his emotions.

Although judging from all kinds of information, the young master Ke opposite him is indeed a powerful "acting school", but Qi Fei intuitively felt that at that moment just now, Ke Lin who was almost overflowing with hatred It is true.

As if he was not used to Qi Fei's attitude towards him, Ke Lin staggered his gaze from Qi Fei's and lowered his eyes to look at the table. After a while, he breathed out slowly and rubbed the center of his brows: "I'm sorry, let the two of you Wait."

Having said that, Colin raised his head, and he adjusted the proportion of the floating screen to make the "file array" arranged above look clearer.

Qi Fei quickly browsed through all the files that Ke Lin called up again, and continued the previous topic: "You just said that these are the truth about your biological female father's 'died of illness'?"

"That's right." Mentioning the female father, Colin's eyes were faintly bloodshot again, but his emotional self-control ability has improved a lot at this time, and he saw his chest rise and fall sharply twice, and the hatred was suppressed by him. Paying attention to Qi Fei's line of sight, after the black-haired male had reviewed all the documents again, he began to zoom in on a single document from the medical examination report ranked first in the "document array".

"My female father didn't die of illness at all. When you investigated me, you should have also found obvious traces of manipulation in his death report—his entire medical file has been emptied and data replaced."

If you want to clear the medical file of a legal citizen and fill it with carefully compiled and forged data, the worm who can do this must not only have a certain wealth background, but also must have a strong relationship. You must have all the joints involved. Only by opening up can we be silent.

While listening to Ke Lin, Qi Fei scanned the physical examination report line by line that was completely different from the one that the investigator had taken out from the system before. Item and result frowned.

Yan happened to be focusing on the same place as him.

"The parasitic flower seed of Dorosa flower?" Chief Insect said in a low voice, with two points of disbelief in his voice.

Among the three insects present, only Qi Fei is not familiar with the term "Dorosa Flower", but even if he doesn't know what it is or what it looks like, he can still judge it through "parasitic" and contacting the medical examination report. This is a very harmful item to the body of the Zerg.

Living together and benefiting each other is called "symbiosis", and only one party benefits and the other party suffers is called "parasitic".

"The Dorosa flower itself is poisonous, and it is a highly poisonous plant. If it is only accidentally contaminated with its venom, the toxin entering the body will certainly cause pain to the insect, but it will not endanger life. But if it is unfortunate that its parasitic flower Once the species enters the body, the nature will be completely different." Colin closed his eyes and switched to the next document.

The two lines of "internal failure of body functions" and "further expansion of the erosion range of parasitic flower species" immediately hit Qi Fei and Yan's eyes.

"The female father's so-called 'disease death' is actually the result of the joint action of Dorosa flower's body toxin and parasitic flower species." Ke Lin said, "The toxin is destroying his internal functions and destroying the functions of his body's various systems. Normal operation, the parasitic flower seeds are constantly developing and growing in his body, plundering nutrients, and slowly attaching branches to his organs as they grow... The day of his death was the day when Dorosa officially bloomed."

"Blossom", a word that should be easily associated with blooming and beauty, but because of the completely wrong place of rooting and sprouting, it is shrouded in a layer of eerie blood.

For the first time, Yan hoped that his associative skills would not be so high, he felt uncomfortable for the scene that flashed into his mind in an instant.

Qi Fei clearly didn't tilt his head, but it seemed that there were eyes growing on the side of his head. Before Chief Worm felt uncomfortable for a few seconds, the bug claws that he naturally placed on his legs were quietly held,

Covered by the tablecloth, Qi Fei quietly held Yan's hand, and patted the slightly stiff back of the female's hand.

Ke Lin didn't notice the small movements of the two worms on the opposite side. He was completely immersed in his own memories. The hatred on his face was no longer detectable, and he only showed the sentimentality from the bottom of his heart: "The parasitic flower species can only be absorbed when it has absorbed enough nutrients and believes that the current environment is no longer enough. It will bloom when it cannot provide more nutrients, and I was born on the same day as the death of the female father."

Sitting directly opposite to Ke Lin, Qi Fei realized that Ke Lin's gaze had lost focus.

Young Master Ke's gaze seemed to pass through Qi Fei and Yan who were sitting, and extended to the panoramic window. He continued dreamily: "The news that my female father passed away not long after giving birth to me was actually deliberately guided. Misinformation, in order to make his weak and sick death look more real, they postponed the announcement of his death. After experiencing the flowering of the parasitic flower species and my birth, the body of the female father had reached its limit at that time. He couldn't hold it any longer, but he still managed to look at me a few times with the last bit of strength left - no more than three rounds at most, he finally touched me through the eggshell, and tried to smile... Then went."

The beginning of a new life is intertwined with the end of the gestator, and Colin's life is overshadowed by the unfortunate death of his father when he set out.

His sentimentality does not seem to be fake, and his narration about the "last side" is detailed and vivid... But it is precisely because everything he expresses is too true, the contradictions in it are more abrupt.

Striking to the point of almost glaring.

Unable to ignore this strong sense of disobedience, Qi Fei moved his other hand, which he did not reach out to comfort his partner, to the table. He bent his knuckles and tapped the table lightly.

Ke Lin tried his best to recover from this gentle reminder. He looked at Qi Fei, and before Qi Fei could speak, he suddenly smiled as if he knew what Qi Fei was going to say: "You want to ask me why? These are obviously things that happened when I was born, at that time I was not even a little bug cub, but I could see every move of the female father through the eggshell, right?"

This is indeed what Qi Fei felt quite disobedient, he nodded slightly: "That's right."

The memory is as good as Qi Fei himself, he can recite many events that happened between Zuo Sa and his young self backwards, but for the things in the worm egg period, let alone remember one or two things, he even had the "worm egg period". "I have no impression.

But Ke Lin even remembers clearly the details that the female father reached out to touch himself through the eggshell and tried to smile before he died.

"Do you know about the 'Awakening of Ability'?" Without directly answering Qi Fei's question, Ke Lin asked a question that seemed irrelevant to the topic at first glance, "This concept was proposed in the early days of the new empire. Yours Parents should be familiar with it, the civil war had just ended, and the first batch of new-generation cubs born after the war were still very young, and it was the era when there were endless cases of power awakening."

Without asking why the topic suddenly changed, Qi Fei answered Ke Lin's question in the affirmative. He not only knows what "Awakening of Ability" is, but also happens to have a living example around him—Zuo Thirty is a person who has awakened an ability.

"Awakening of abilities" sounds good, it sounds like the ordinary youth in the story will open a new copy of the life of a superhero once he acquires superpowers, but in fact, this so-called "awakening of abilities" is nothing but radioactive A glorified term for the sequelae of a substance infection.

During the civil war, bugs from different camps tried their best to increase their own combat power, and a large number of dangerous weapons were forced to lift the ban. A considerable number of soldiers were infected by radioactive substances, and civilians were inevitably affected. Some of them were directly infected by Their body functions were destroyed and they died, and some infected people did not see any signs of infection at the beginning, until they got married and had children after the war, and after giving birth to cubs, they realized that they were still healthy, but the little ones were absorbing the blood in their bodies. Harmful substances develop and grow.

Various gene mutations appeared in this batch of worm cubs who were born with the influence of radioactive substances.

And even with genetic mutations, luck can be divided into good and bad.

The unlucky cubs were born with lifelong physical disabilities due to the influence of radioactive substances, while those cubs with better luck, such as the one on the left, not only had no physical impairment at all, compared to ordinary females, There is also an additional ability to freely hide the worm pattern.

It was precisely because Zuo Sa was able to hide his worm marks that he was able to successfully conceal his alien features, disguised himself as an ordinary young man and mixed into the crowd, and lived on Earth with the young Qi Fei for a long time.

"The awakening of supernatural powers is latent. Once infected by the corresponding energy, it cannot be eradicated easily. It can even be passed down through multiple generations. The chaotic energy will always be hidden in the insect body. Although it will follow the bloodline from generation to generation. However, as long as there is still a ray of energy absorbed by the newborn cubs, this ray of energy may cause the cubs to awaken their supernatural powers. The specific probability of this happening is completely unknown, and it all depends on luck. It is not uncommon for the energy that has not been activated to be awakened after entering the new generation of cubs."

When Ke Lin said this, he paused, and he met Qi Fei's enlightened eyes: "You have already guessed something, right?"

"Your female father left such a ray of energy passed down from generation to generation."

"You guessed it right." Colin nodded, "Probably not long after the parasitic flower seed entered the body of the female father, I can't say what kind of feeling it was like, as if after a long sleep, I suddenly woke up There was danger around me, and I woke up from a dream with a jerk, and I awakened consciousness in the middle and late stages of my pregnancy, and began to clearly perceive the female father and the outside world, and even 'see'."