mother of gods

The Zerg wantonly used their sharp tentacles and fangs to drill into the internal organs of humans—the twisted bodies of the corpses and the scratches of human nails on the walls proved that nearly a hundred people had tried to leave, but they would never be able to do this. .

"--what is this?"

Mei squatted down to pick up a statue of the Virgin Mary with Child that fell in the blood, but Ivan's pupils shrank tightly.

"Sean Sean! Come and see!"

Sean slowly moved to his side, then raised his eyebrows knowingly: "Alice's?"

The black-haired, blue-eyed young man nodded hesitantly, trying to find a petite woman in the corpse mountain, but since all the corpses were in a highly decomposed state, it was unlikely that he would gain anything.

"It seems that your little friend died 20 years ago." The captain said coolly behind him.

"Speak less sarcastic words, will you gain ten kilograms of meat?"

"No, but I am happy."

"................."

"Women who are in love, tsk tsk, 90.00% [-] may still be unrequited love, after all, when the experimental subjects went on a killing spree, they didn't even notice her—wait a minute, boy, show me what you have in your hands."

He snatched the Madonna from Ivan's hand by virtue of his height advantage and then turned it over, so under the bright light, Ivan and Sean saw the engraving on the base together:

Glory to Sergeyevich forever.

The author has something to say: The pre-received article "Long Live the Emperor" is in the column, CP: The perverted prince Gong with a dark heart × the thief who was sold and gave you change, if you are interested, you can bookmark it~

☆、Chap.21

As a country bumpkin whose family has been in decline since he was born, Ivan was shocked.

"Our family actually has something like a tribal language??!"

"Thousands of years of inheritance, do you think it's a dream? It's forbidden to show that expression of 'ah, I'm so happy that I won the lottery', idiot, our family may be completely cut off from your lineage."

"Why?"

"Because you are a little gay? Last time I heard you yelling the name 'Azathoth' with a lascivious face in a dream... It sounds familiar. Are you a classmate in your class? Why don't I know him?"

Ivan's egg hurts: "No."

"Yes, it doesn't look like a good product after listening to this name."

"................."

"Tsk tsk, 'Azathoth', which parent has such a big heart to give their child such a natural and unlucky name."

"......"

"To get a Maitreya Buddha tattooed on your body, you have to weigh whether your own life is enough. Now people are the evil god of doom at the beginning. Hey, the world is going downhill."

Ivan: "It's better than shouting 'Shawn' to nine out of ten people on the street."

"To shut up."

Okay, you're old and you're right...wait——

Ivan realized something, and his eyes glowed with joy: "Sean, are you jealous!"

"................................."

"Silence is a guilty conscience, Captain."

"................................."

"Wow, Mei, come here and smell it, do you feel the vinegar smell that is not clean on Captain Dog's body?"

"Impossible, I don't, don't talk nonsense."

"Don't deny it, it's normal for a brother to have possessiveness for his younger brother! It's normal, hehe."

"Idiot, the stupid aura exuding from your body almost blinded my eyes."

"Oh, I'm so sorry."

Ivan found a rare opportunity to sound his horn to fight back, and was about to continue to taunt a few words to repay the oppression of the past.

But he suddenly paused as if remembering something, and then said with hesitation and tangled face: "Speaking of which, I remember that in Alice's diary it was said that Experimental Subject 0899 gave her a statue of the Madonna."

"Yeah, what's the matter." The absent-minded man replied.

"By coincidence, we found the same Madonna again here."

"......" The man narrowed his eyes slowly.

"Our family language is also engraved on the bottom."

"And Dad disappeared at the same time."

May: "So Subject 0899 is Mr. Sergeyevich?"

This sentence was very short, but it was like a thunderbolt hitting the only junior in the Sergeyevich family——Ivan opened his eyes wide, and the captain pursed his lips in an elegant way.

The room suddenly fell silent. Under the bright lights, the snow-white walls were stained with blood, and the highly decomposed corpses were piled up by the door in twisted postures. The smell of blood quietly created a terrifying and disturbing sense of oppression.

Therefore, even the nervous girl knew that she had said something wrong: "Of course this is just my guess. It is possible that Mr. Sergeyevich died in the riot 18 years ago and someone stole it. His statue of the Virgin Mary—don’t be too sad, many people died during the war, my great-grandmother was blown up to ashes by a bomb, although my great-grandmother’s husband was snatched away by my great-grandmother in the end, but it’s okay to die early It's better than being used as a science experiment..."

... Ivan was silent.

Because for a while, he really didn't know which sentence Mei said sounded more sloppy: the so-called darker and darker was talking about this kind of person who has no emotional intelligence at all.

"Anyway, we have to go out and have a look." Finally, the captain made a decision.

"Isn't it good to stay here?"

"not good."

"why?"

"Ha, so you want to wait to die and let the next batch of mining personnel who don't know how many years later come here by mistake and see your smirking skull face, and then make some mentally retarded remarks?"

"I do not have!"

Sean was expressionless: "Maybe at that time you had already kept Harazi and reincarnated as a pig, but as the captain of the Explorer, I will definitely be pissed off."

Ivan: "........."

Ivan couldn't believe it: "Damn it, you are so sensitive. Is it because your uncle is here or is your menopause early?"

"The sense of responsibility of the Sergeyevich family forced me to make the right choice."

"Need me to remind you that the three of us have been honored as dogs under your right choice with a sense of responsibility that blinds people and dog eyes?"

Sean moved the corners of his lips: "There is no free lunch in this world, stupid boy, if you want to know the answer, you have to pay God something."

"What answer do you really want to know?" Iwan looked skeptical, "Before I told me that I wanted to find my father from thousands of miles away, I believed you for the sake of being a sensitive girl at heart, and now you put on such a stinky face again, Why, God told you 'yes, our dad was used as a test subject', aren't you satisfied?"

Sean showed an expression that made Ivan furious—it was exactly the same as when an adult told you lovingly when you were a child, "You are still young and you don't understand such things, so don't meddle in children's business".

"It's none of your business, idiot."

"The business of the Sergeyevichs is my business."

"Oh, then don't you care who I sleep with?"

Ivan was slightly puzzled: "Could it be that you ran so far because you wanted to sleep with bug Andre?"

Sean: "........."

In response, the bear boy got a chestnut from the captain—as Sean's suitors said, Ivan always has the ability to make a man who is always elegant (?) as violent as their black back , tsk tsk.

Ivan blinked: "Tell me, I'm very tight-lipped."

"Do not."

"There are only me and Mei here, do you not trust Mei or me?"

"Don't confuse concepts with me." The man sneered.

"Tell me, brother?"

"................................"

"Brother, brother, brother???"

"................................"

"Brother, brother, brother, brother??"

Sean: "........."

The captain could not bear to be harassed by the stubborn brat, and finally he was willing to reveal a little bit of information, although that little bit was indeed a little bit.

"Do you know why the United Nations built a laboratory on planet β-225?"

Ivan guessed: "In order to stay away from the people?"

"It's not just that."

"What else?"

Ivan opened his sparkling dog eyes, and Mei quietly pricked up his ears.

"Because they detected the fluctuation of God here." Sean said paralyzed.

☆、Chap.22

Ivan: "...Wait, is there really a god in this world??"

Sean: "You don't believe me?"

Ivan shook his head immediately.

Sean: "Then what are you talking about holding that cross every day?"

Ivan: "Psychological effect, just like I don't need a cheat sheet in the examination room, but having a cheat sheet is always more at ease."

Sean showed a mocking smile, and it was only then that Ivan noticed that he had slipped his mouth.

"Remember, go back and tell you Professor Wang."

The young man muttered in a low voice: "Whether you can go back or not is still a problem."

So in the next second, the back of his head was hit hard by his brother.

"What?!"

"unlucky."

While talking, the man picked up the two corpses blocking the road without changing his expression, and threw them at Ivan's face—a rotten trail even fell out from the shattered glass hood of one of the corpses. The arm under the bone——the latter let out a sneer, and then put the corpse aside with a serious face.

"Don't try to interrupt, Captain, you haven't explained how they discovered the wave of God." Ivan stood up and wiped his hands.

Sean's face was blank for a second or two: "I don't?"

"No."

"I thought I had." The captain tried to muddle through.

"No, you're not, I'm not deaf."

So next, when Ivan was moving the corpse, Sean explained the truth in a slightly irritable manner-it turned out that one day 25 years ago, the International Observatory was suddenly on the edge of the centaur system, which is the distance β- A huge energy fluctuation was found not far from planet 225. If the unit of star explosion is taken as the unit, then the energy wave released by that event is the star explosion multiplied by 100. Unfortunately, no civilization has been found to have such a wave. This kind of advanced technology, so they called the medium that caused the unidentified energy fluctuation "God".

"According to scientific common sense, an explosion of this intensity will not only directly destroy the entire centaur system, but also our solar system will be devastated," Sean said quietly, "while the place we are standing now is still intact Lossless, that speaks volumes."

"...Could it be that the researcher at the time wrote an extra 0?"

"Do you think they are just like you, idiots who never write the decimal point correctly in physics exams?"

"Okay, I won't interrupt, you continue."

"Countless history tells us that human beings are immortal creatures. Half a year later, Lin Yizhi, who was still a professor of biology at the United Nations University at the time, had a dream - a slender figure hidden behind the mist inspired him. The key point about gene fusion. This project has been highly valued by the government, so they decided to set the address of the laboratory on planet β-225. On the one hand, they can scatter ducks away from the crowd for experiments, and on the other hand...they want to research out What the hell happened here."

Ivan: "But they didn't succeed?"

"No...they succeeded, and it was a huge success," the captain touched a cigarette from his pocket, and the white nicotine smoke blurred his unpredictable handsome face, "for the first purpose , the Andre Zerg you saw is their 'masterpiece', as for the second purpose..."

When he paused, Ivan and Mei had already cleared away the corpses blocking the passage like bees, so the blood-soaked door finally revealed its indestructible body naked after many years. .

"If you say half of it, you will be struck by lightning." Ivan dragged the last corpse and turned his head.

"Don't be so impatient, brat, I'm not even sure what to say next."

"It's ridiculous?"

"Very bullshit."

"Tell me, I won't laugh at you if I tell you."

Sean sneered, and touched the cold body of the machine gun a few times absently: "This is the top secret of the last United Nations."

"Then how did you know?"

"Because my connections are much more advanced than those of you who sit at home holding french fries and coke while yelling 'Ah Kiyana my wife'."

"...Just say it, there is no need for personal attacks."

Sean hooked his lips enough to say "I have read it", then he leaned against the wall, lazily changed to a more comfortable position: "They discovered that before the big explosion code-named 'God', here There are actually three stars."

"...It feels a bit like a certain famous myth in Tianchao...what's it called, Hou Yi shot the sun or Qian Yi shot the sun?"

Mei: "Hou Yi shot the sun."

"Oh, thanks, dear."

The captain showed a benevolent smile: "Don't interrupt, do you still want to hear a story?"

Ivan's back shivered when he saw that smiling gaze, so he immediately raised his hand and surrendered: "Think about it, Dad continue."

"Hey, good boy," Sean flicked the soot, and continued casually, "As I said before, first, the energy emitted by the big bang is far greater than the energy emitted by the star explosion itself. Second, the centaur system itself It’s about as long as the lifespan of the solar system, and it’s unlikely that stars will evolve into supernovae and then explode. Third, they haven’t even seen a single piece of wreckage, so at this time, the subtraction that even elementary school students can do comes out.”

"I don't understand."

Sean is very tolerant: "I can understand you, a kindergartener, so you only need to know one guess to forgive me for wasting 20 minutes of time-in simple terms, the scientists of the United Nations believe that there is a life living in the stars, In other words, the star itself is the sleeping place of that living body. In the big bang 20 years ago, the living body broke free from the shackles of the star, thus emitting a huge energy wave detected by human beings."

"The stellar explosion must have wreckage."

"Ha, the explanation they gave is: because the living body is a little hungry, like a chicken always needs something to eat when it gets out of its shell, so it sucked up the star remnants."

Ivan: "........."

Ivan: "This conclusion made me suddenly have an illusion that I can do it myself."

"Don't doubt it, that's your illusion."

Ivan raised the corners of his mouth suspiciously: "No, to be honest, where did that life body as big as a star go?"

"Ghost knows, maybe you're stepping on it right now."

Ivan jumped up and down on the spot reflexively, making the speechless captain smoke a cigarette, and suddenly had an urge to beat him up—tsk, why is my younger brother so stupid and stupid, I will really look for it in the future A man, isn't he being led by the nose by others and then coming home miserable and calling "Brother, I made a mistake, help me"... Evil.

Ivan didn't know that his brother's mind had already developed to the point where when he took his boyfriend (?) back to his mother's house, how should he gracefully make things difficult for that malevolent boyfriend and let him learn to retreat in spite of difficulties, so The young man showed a friendly smile: "No matter what, we should use something to blast the door open now."

Sean snuffed out the butt of his cigarette: "Tsk tsk, it's rare that you said something meaningful—May, go and try our B-35 grenade."

"learn!"

☆、Chap.23

Bang!

When Ivan rudely knocked open the door with the butt of his gun, he suddenly had a very bad feeling in his heart—as if you were uploading a cheat sheet in the examination room and the teacher suddenly found out that there was another person who kept posting it. Your ears gloated and repeated "you're going to be over, you're going to be over, you're going to be over, haha".

A familiar voice appeared from behind: "Fool, what are you doing here?"

"Fuck you." Ivan twisted his head and gestured his middle finger. His childish behavior received a warning look from the captain.

"Pay attention to civility when speaking, idiot, deduct half of the salary this time, and it won't be so easy to talk next time."

"Shit."

"Great, you don't have to count on this month's salary when you go back."

"...I don't remember this clause in the contract I signed."

The man showed a slightly puzzled expression: "Isn't there? Then there is now."

Ivan: "......"

After passing through a narrow corridor, the team was presented with a gothic steeple hall sleeping in darkness.In this air that has been dusty for several years, one after another gorgeous stained glass is surrounded by hazy dark mist, and the pointed rib vaults extend row by row to an unknown place in the distance, and there are a large number of religious reliefs carved on the walls , a large transparent glass chandelier reflects the pale light of the flashlight to the painted ground mottledly. The towering and magnificent space is dreamy, empty and blurred, but there is a lingering ghostly feeling.

"'The Lord's judgment will come soon'," Ivan read aloud from the relief that he stepped on, and said as if he had seen a ghost, "With this time, they might as well make better emergency escape routes."

Mei nodded vigorously in agreement.

"Shut up, Ivan Sergeyevich, you make yourself sound like a country bumpkin," Sean thoughtfully glanced at the huge group of reliefs on the wall, was silent for a moment, and then suddenly said, "So Speaking of which, I once met Lin Yizhi by chance when I was young."

"Wow, big shot."

The captain moved his lips, tolerantly ignoring the young man's eccentricity: "Although he has an oriental face, he does look like a devout Christian. Anyway, it's hard to believe that people like them would devote themselves to living things. science."

"Okay, so what does that devout Christian look like?"

"Wearing a deep black cloak coat, the cross reflects the blinding light of the sun, 34 years old looks like 74 years old, with scars on his face, do you know why?"

Ivan shook his head without any psychological burden: "I don't know."

"Guess you can't possibly know."

"Then why are you asking me for fun?"

"That's right, silly boy."

"................."

"Forget it, I shouldn't expect anything from you," Sean looked at the huge silent statue of Jesus in the dark, his eyes indifferent, "It is said that the most extreme Christians love self-punishment—once they feel that they have done something that is sorry for God thing, they would kneel in front of the statue of the old man and whip their bodies with salt water soaked in whips."

Ivan followed Xiao En's line of sight to look at the statue, and made a feeling of sudden realization: "Wow, that's how it is."

"So what?"

"...I was wrong, don't interrupt, you continue."

"Look carefully, this is a prayer room, idiot, and I really doubt how much area Lin Yizhi needs to have such a large room where he can beat himself with the whip."

Ivan blinked.

Then the captain raised his eyelids in disgust: "You look so stupid."

"I'm all ears, go ahead."

"......"

"Keep going."

"... Put away your stupid look," Sean casually picked up a spiked whip with the muzzle of his gun, "In my opinion, this guy looked at his test subjects be a sinner."

"It's kind of like an adult game." Ivan commented.

"Shut up for me and listen carefully."

The young man makes a gesture of surrender.

So the captain lazily continued to speak: "If my guess is correct, our respected Professor Lin Yizhi conducted experiments on the experimental subjects that are unforgivable and contrary to God's will, and in order to atone for himself, He tortured them, whipped them like brutes...that even included our dad-"

"Is he crazy?"

"Maybe... Anyway, this crazy person deserves death."

The man shone the flashlight to the south of the hall, where there was a weathered corpse in a kneeling state. With the pale light, Ivan had excellent eyesight and could see the mottled nameplate on his left chest: President of Honeycomb Laboratory The person in charge, Professor Lin Yizhi.

"................."

The air fell into a dead silence.

——However, at this moment.

Swish, Swish, Swish,

click, click,

Ivan, who had his ears stretched out, came back to his senses tremblingly: "Sean Sean! Did you hear anything?!"

"You don't need to say that I have ears—they all spread out in a fan shape, each looking for cover."

"Yes, Captain."

clack clack,

Swish, Swish, Swish,

In the thick darkness, the tall Jesus looked down on all sentient beings without emotion. The cross nailed his hands and feet. Dark red blood flowed from the pure white skin. God's eyes looked strange and terrifying at this moment.

"There's nothing southwest."

Mei pursed her lips and reported: "The direction is also true north, everything in the passage is clean."

"Very good, Ivan, report your situation."

"........."

"Ivan, it is forbidden to play tricks."

"........."

"Ivan?"

After a while, Ivan finally answered in a wrong way: "Sean...do I have any eye diseases that I don't know about?"

"No, but your brain is a little sick, what's wrong?"

"...well...don't scold me...because I seem to see a...a corpse that should have been dusty for 20 years...moving its head."

After the young man finished his difficult speech, he bent down and quietly took out a grenade from his backpack.In front of his eyes, that is, the direction where the flashlight was shining, "Lin Yizhi" who was kneeling under the huge god statue slowly moved his head, twisted his body, then swallowed the gun and committed suicide. There was a big bloody hole in the side face, and even the face of the broken skull could be seen... all in front of him.

Rustle, rustle, click,

Puchi, puchi,

—A tentacle protruded from it.

Ivan's scalp was numb: "Everyone, I think we are in trouble."

Drop drop drop!

Drop drop drop!

During the rapid system prompt, Mei slowly lowered her head and looked at the countless small green dots approaching on the topographic map—there were so many green dots that they almost formed a green prairie, then she pursed her lips and corrected: " No, it should be said that we are in big trouble."

"Aha, thanks for the correction."

In the next second, the grenade was thrown from Ivan's hand, followed a perfect parabola and landed next to "Lin Yizhi". The red light flashed twice on the ground, and a gorgeous explosion occurred on the spot. The hive laboratory revealed Its long-lost, gigantic tusks are hidden beneath the surface of the water.

……

Da da da da, da da da da!

Rumble, boom!

The Mk-147 machine gun in Ivan's hand continuously fired dazzling flames, and the bullets shot at the oncoming Andre bugs with thunderous force, but the extremely advanced explosive energy could only delay them a little in the air Well for a second or two.

He didn't know how long it had been, anyway, the tentacles kept falling from the sky like rain, and then tried their best to drill into his body, dense red eyes and pink suction cups covered the sky, and they slammed Swinging is a creamy and cold touch. If he accidentally touches a suction cup, he can even feel the wrapping of the flesh.

——This is not only physical torture, but also spiritual torture! ! !

Xiao En didn't know where he went, and Mei didn't know whether he was dead or alive. The black-haired and blue-eyed young man was forced all the way to the depths of the prayer room by the swarm of insects. He had already decided not to give himself a bullet Being stuck in the throat by tentacles - he just brushed past that risk, a slimy bug fell from the sky with a "snap" on his helmet, the compound eyes of mental torture and the black slippery skin powdered The white sucker almost made him spit it out on the spot.

Da da da da!Da da da da!

Rumble!

The young man threw a grenade, then tried to call back reinforcements at the top of his voice: "Sean!"

He was answered by waves of wriggling worms like ocean waves.

"plum!"

His answer was still wave after wave of wriggling worms.

"Bastard captain! If you don't come, you won't see your brother!!"

He stomped on the ground and fell into a deep hole of unknown origin.

The author has something to say: there are still one or two chapters to go back to the explorer, happy!

☆、Chap.24

Ivan had a dream. In the dream, he was sleeping and the weather was very hot, so he showed his foot outside.Waking up in the middle of the night, he found tentacles protruding from under the bed tightly clutching his ankles. He looked down, and a human face wriggling in the black flesh smiled faintly at him...

Then he woke up, startled awake.

Fortunately, there are no female ghosts under the bed or old corpses behind the bed in the real world, but the cruel world is more depressing and hopeless than that—a dim light enters from a distant to a vague hole, and the surrounding steep The walls are smooth, the bloody cold wind howls past, the silent and dark bottom of the cave and the memory not long ago seem to be two worlds.

Ivan shouted at the top of his voice: "Sean Sergeyevich!"

"................."

"plum!"

"................."

"...Very good," the young man twitched the corners of his mouth, trying to move his neck, "I am the only one now...it hurts..."

After falling from a high place, his whole body felt as if his bones were dismantled and then reassembled. The pain was so painful that Ivan even felt that he was going to die in the next second.Fortunately, the Mk-14 machine gun lay quietly in the hazy fog not far away. He took a few deep breaths and gave up his completely immobile calf, trying to move to the only thing that could give him a sense of security.

There was silence beside his ears, and the hail of bullets above his head seemed to be separated by a layer of water. Every time the young man took a step forward, the black stones on the ground would make a low "rustling" sound, and the blood flowed from his body. The blue sea-like eyeballs flowed out, and the fair complexion struggling in the darkness was seen by another creature...

——It looks like a sleepy bird that has broken its wings but is still unwilling.

"S...Shub..."

"Shub...Shub..."

The voice of the unknown life was very soft, so Ivan didn't know anything about it. In fact, all his energy was concentrated on the machine gun that didn't know whether it was scrapped or not. The artificial paint smell from that thing made him suddenly With the illusion of facing a savory Thanksgiving roast turkey - so he was able to move forward like a snail despite the pain that was enough to make him cry.

step...

two steps...

Three steps...

Good, it's a little closer, let's do it again.

step...

rustling,

click, click,

Two...shit!what sound? ? ? ? ?

He put his ears up and raised his head quickly, the strength was almost broken by his own neck.

"Who is there?"

"........."

"Don't play tricks, I don't like that."

"........."

Soundless silence enveloped everything, the ghostly rocks were motionless, and the cold wind blew through the young people to stand up and sing the national anthem.

"Sean? Captain Dog? Are you down?" He lowered his voice.

"........."

The long-lasting lack of response made the young man feel that everything was caused by auditory hallucinations, so he left behind the many horror stories he had made up in his brain, and moved forward at a snail-like speed with fear in his heart, two steps, three steps, until turning a corner——

The moment his vision widened, a huge underground cave appeared in front of him.The wriggling, light white worm pile is full of dense egg sheaths, and the warm and moist golden yellow secretion is sticky and sticky all over the surroundings. The air is filled with a high concentration of musk. The sea of ​​worms comes in waves, sometimes in several clusters. The tangled maggots are squeezed out of the cave, and the circles of dark black lines will be twisted vigorously, like earthworms hung on a fishing rod.

Tick, tick, tick,

Ivan felt one or two drops of moist liquid dripping onto his cheeks. The young man who was completely unprepared swallowed, and raised his head in a daze - the top of the cave was a mass of dark flesh, Barely recognizable in human form, but has basically become an insect.The swollen body with weird proportions is surrounded by tentacles, a pale human face is placed on the head, with dense compound eyes, mouthparts instead of lips, and the two drops of greasy saliva flowed from the mouthparts.

"......"

The moment Ivan focused his gaze, his pupils dilated in disbelief.He wasn't freaked out, well to be honest the scene was disgusting and scary but...that's not the point.

——Because the face that could barely be seen... belonged to his father who had been missing for many years and had been stamped dead! ! !

"Shit...it can't be..." Ivan's trigger arm was exposed with blue veins.

Although he has always been mentally prepared that the legendary experimental subject 0899 is the man with a gentle smile in the photo that his mother told him to look at for 10 minutes without blinking, but this strong visual impact still made his stomach ache. Overwhelmed, I can't wait to hold the trash can and throw up for 10 minutes.

Ivan tentatively said, "Old...Dad...?"

Originally, he didn't expect to respond, but after a while, the pair of horrified compound eyes on the top of his head suddenly turned around, and then looked straight at him.

"......................"

"dad?"

"......................"

"father?"

"...hiss..." The vibrato of the mouthparts was as obvious as cicadas, "...you..."

Ivan subconsciously replied in horror: "I am Ivan Sergeyevich."

The one above his head answered very slowly, like an old man in his 80s who needs to slow down to realize the message conveyed, but at the moment it reacted, Ivan could swear that the compound eyes of the insects Suddenly some very complex emotions flashed, human emotions.

"Ivan..." The voice was very soft.

"Yes, I am Ivan."

"Ivan . . . Sergeyevich."

"Yes."

The weary voice was light as a feather and very hard: "...you are my son... Ivan Sergeyevich."

Ivan nodded with complicated emotions.

"You are my son...you are Ivan..."

"...you are Lily's son..."

Just when the young people thought that a bloody father-recognition ring was about to be staged...