Otherworldly Apprentice Lich and Foot Knight

"You can call me James." James wanted to come over, but Zhou Lingke took two steps back.

Zhou Lingke would rather be considered cowardly by others, and he did not want anything to make Xia En sad. He made a gesture of pushing his hands forward towards James, signaling him to stop where he was.

"Hello, James, you can call me Nick. I think it's good for us to keep the distance we have now." Zhou Lingke, who was originally determined not to give himself an English name when facing foreigners, was determined not to give himself an English name because of the "Come to drink porridge" incident. Still got myself one.

James sighed at Zhou Lingke's guard, but stopped at the same place as Zhou Lingke said: "I want to ask, are you going to settle down here?"

"No." Zhou Lingke shook his head, "We're just spending the winter here, and we'll leave when the weather gets warmer after the winter." There's no need to hide this, and besides, he will feel more at ease when he says he wants to leave.

Joy was evident on James's face: "Where are you going?!" He found that his tone was too impulsive when he asked, he pursed his lips and stabilized himself, "Sorry, if it's convenient, can you Bring another person..."

"Can I say it's inconvenient?" Zhou Lingke might even say he was a little angry, he thought He Mum was asking to take him with him.

"Uh...I...you misunderstood." James moved his feet, but when he saw Zhou Lingke took another half step back, he immediately stopped, and finally he took a deep breath, using a desperate tone Say, "As you can probably guess, I'm a runaway slave. But it's not just me, there are many, and... my partner. It's nice here, we're happy, but our baby was born half a year ago Yes, the birth of life is a good thing, but he is not a demihuman, but a normal person."

Obviously, what James hopes that Zhou Lingke will take away is not himself, but his child, a child of a normal person.He is an aquatic clam, and those who can fall in love with him and form a partner, even if they are demihumans, probably won't be terrestrial mutants, but are also aquatic.There is absolutely no way for ordinary human babies to live with them.

"You trust us so much?" Did they only meet once?Even if he has been spying on him and Xia En afterwards, they haven't gotten to know each other enough to entrust the child, right?

"You treat your demihuman very well. When you get along, you are completely a normal couple. No matter how you treat that child, it is much better than living with us."

James looked at Zhou Lingke hopefully, but after a few minutes of silence, Zhou Lingke shook his head almost cruelly: "Sorry, I can't agree."

He knew everything about himself, if the two of them were born and bred in another world, then he would agree to bring the child—it was not something to satisfy the shortcomings of a gay family. His father has a kind of rebellion, and at this stage Zhou Lingke himself thinks that Xia En's petting him alone is enough, and he doesn't want to find another one to share his favor.Taking the child away is purely out of love for a little life.

But they are visitors from another world, even if they have a goal, they just know that "Mangtan is very suitable for you" from the mouth of a super butcher old John.They don't know anything, they don't have any foundation, and for a long time, they will be the bottom struggling to survive.Take a child with you like this?

"We can't even take care of ourselves. Taking your child away is irresponsible to you, him, or ourselves."

James looked at Zhou Lingke, and finally had no choice but to nod helplessly: "I'm sorry, I asked too much."

"He can't go to Mangtan if he wants to." Xia En threw a piece of firewood into the water.

"You can be a sailor."

"Looking at the location of Mangtan from the map, it is inland. The need for the navy should not be so urgent. And the most intuitive function of the river clam is to make pearls. One is the ability that does not know when to use it, and the other It is the ability to create wealth directly. If Mang Tan was so pragmatic, it would be obvious what he would choose. Needless to say Mang Tan, if there were such people in our world, what do you think would happen to them? ?”

"..."

"Don't think about it." Xia En rubbed Zhou Lingke's hair, "Babies born half a year ago have passed the most dangerous and fragile time for newborns. This shows that although it is difficult, they are still capable of taking care of their children. You refused That's right, it's good for us. At most... you can send them some clothes."

"Yeah." It was the only thing they could do.

The next day, Zhou Lingke tidied up some clothes, because they were for children, so he picked out most of the soft ones from his own and Xia En's clothes, and forgot about cutting and the like.

In the afternoon, he took his clothes to the water's edge.

"James! James!"

"Have you changed your mind?" James didn't make another transformation to stimulate Zhou Lingke this time. When he emerged from the water, he looked like a human—at least the upper body.

"No, I'm just... these clothes, I think they should help you to some extent, I put them here." Zhou Lingke put down his clothes and was about to leave.

James jumped up from the water: "Nick! Wait! It's only this winter, can you please take care of the child? I swear with my own life and the life of the child, I will never abandon the child just because of this, it's just one winter! "

The sound of water sounded, and another social you emerged from the water. It was a murloc, and his body was also covered with scales, but it was completely different from Xia En's scales.In contrast, Xia En's scales are more slender, and the scales of the murlocs are exactly the kind of fish scales, very round.

No wonder Zhou Lingke only paid attention to the scales of the murloc, because the murloc only showed a head, no hair, only scales and a dorsal fin cut across the top of the head.However, even though what Zhou Lingke saw was only a head, which didn't look pretty, and was even a bit ugly according to human aesthetics, the murloc didn't make him feel disgusted or uncomfortable.

The murloc leaned against James, and when he opened his mouth, he made a voice like that of a dolphin in a nature documentary, and the voice was very pleasant.Zhou Lingke couldn't understand it, but he could feel the anxiety in it.

It was found that Zhou Lingke had stopped and did not leave.James immediately continued to persuade: "I am about to enter hibernation in winter, and Jens is also going downstream to spend the winter. He is already a long time late on the road. If he doesn't leave, he will freeze to death on the way. But if he leaves, we will have no People can take care of little John."

"You are all here, then your children..."

"A little upstream, there is a group of friendly orangutans who are willing to take care of John occasionally. However, the orangutans are leaving too. They can take John away, but John is a human being, not an orangutan."

Chimpanzees?Zhou Lingke couldn't help but glanced at the huge orangutan skeleton beside it. There were dead orangutan skeletons here, which meant that those orangutans either lived here or had a tragic battle here.But why can't he and Shane see one?Or let alone orangutans, they have never met any of the larger beasts here, especially carnivores, and all they encountered were herbivores the size of goats on earth.

"Actually... have you thought about taking John out of the forest and quietly placing him outside a certain human village?"

"We thought about it, but the chances of meeting kind-hearted people are too small, and orphans with unknown backgrounds always have a hard time surviving."

"So you still brought him and his nurse back?" Xia En poked the ball in Zhou Lingke's arms, and at the same time glanced at the animal he was leading. It has grown two times and is blind in one eye. Now it squats docilely at Zhou Lingke's feet.

"I'm sorry." Zhou Lingke lowered his head guiltily, but the baby in his arms didn't know what was going on outside. He happily waved his fat little hands and grabbed Zhou Lingke's collar.

"No, if I had been there at the time, I would have done the same thing as you." Xia En shook his head. Although the responsibility was not theirs, but in the face of such a situation, it was indeed not theirs to choose to let go and not help, especially It's not Zhou Lingke's character, "But, we have to be prepared."

"What?"

"Be prepared for those two people to never come back. It doesn't necessarily mean that they didn't keep their vows. It's just that some things have many changes. The wild is too dangerous."

"Have you ever encountered a dangerous beast?"

"No."

"The animals here are not very docile, right? No, they obviously have bones." The gorilla outside squatted there when Zhou Lingke didn't care about it, basking in the sun, taking care of the hair that didn't exist on his body, catching Looking at the more non-existent lice, "What are you looking at me for?"

"Animals are more sensitive than humans, but sometimes this sensitivity can go wrong, for example... treating an apprentice necromancer who can only summon skeleton soldiers as an extremely dangerous lich or something."

"The animals left because of me?"

Sean gave him a "you're so late" look.Suddenly, Zhou Lingke patted his thigh, which startled Xia En: "What's wrong?"

"I just remembered that when James called his other half, he used 'he'. Although I still don't know whether James is a man or a woman, but... Is this the kind of world where men can have children? I have always No contraception!" Zhou Lingke looked at Xia En in horror.

Xia En immediately slapped him on the forehead: "Don't think about those messy things!"

"But, if you do, God..."

"Don't even think about it!" Xia En gave him another slap. "One of them mutated into shellfish and the other into fish. It is very likely that one of them is hermaphroditic, or even both. The two of them are special cases."

"That's good, that's good..." Zhou Lingke breathed a sigh of relief, if he and Xia En really killed each other under such circumstances, it would really kill them both.