May you be happy and prosperous

"..."

Lu Shishiyu fell, but Fa Cai beside him didn't respond, he just raised his neck and stared silently at the little fox in the cage——under such gaze, the phantom beast that looked like a little fox let out a veil. He let out a low whimper, then turned around and walked slowly into the corner of the cage, curled up in the shadows, and refused to come out again.

Lu Twelve stood under the cage and looked at it for a while, and found that it was still trembling slightly, and its chin was wet from the saliva secreted from its mouth, which looked like motor oil. But for some reason, it relied on instinct to shrink in the corner of the cage as if it had seen something terrible, and refused to move even a little bit.

……How is this going?

Lu Twelve frowned slightly, puzzled, and turned his gaze back to look around, but he didn't see any threats from other phantom beasts in other cages around him - in fact, at this moment, they It is rare to lie quietly in his cage, staying quietly.

Around, the only phantom beast that seemed to be in high spirits was...

Lu Twelve looked suspiciously at Fa Cai next to him, who calmly turned his head and looked at him.

Lu Twelve lowered his voice and called tentatively: "Brother Cai?"

Fa Cai let out a "meow", jumped off his shoulder and landed lightly on the ground, turned his head, and uttered two more "meow" at him as if urging him.

Lu Twelve followed behind his phantom beast, turned and left under the cage of the little fox phantom beast, walked a few steps, looked down and realized that Fa Cai was taking a step with short legs As soon as he followed him, a pair of golden pupils were full of worrying interest - as if if he couldn't see it, its owner would turn his head and jump into the big water tank in the depths of C area As if drowning himself.

"..." Lu Twelfth stood still, and after being stared at by Fa Cai for a while, the momentary doubts in his heart disappeared immediately, and the worry returned to his face. He hesitated for a while, bent slightly, more like talking to himself Said to his Eudemons in a nonchalant manner, "Brother Cai, do you think that even if the owner of that little fox comes back now, it won't recognize it anymore?"

"?" Fa Cai narrowed his eyes slightly, raised his hind paws and scratched the fur on his face. The tickling movement went from fast to slow, as if he was seriously thinking about Lu Twelve's question. After a while, he put down his paws decisively and used Rubbing his furry head against his leg, he said, "Meow."

——Nonsense, didn’t you see that the skull was peeled off, the memory must have been damaged...Let’s not talk about the master, it probably won’t respond even when its mother comes to it.

Lu Twelve saw it "meow" with a serious face, and was instantly speechless - because he didn't understand what Fa Cai wanted to express at all.

"...how do I know what you're talking about when you meow like this, brother Cai, do you really think that my brain waves are on the same channel as your meow planet?" Lu Twelve showed a helpless expression , bent down and picked up the phantom beast that was rubbing against his legs - between his fingers was its fluffy and soft hair that was combed and washed every day, and in front of him was the picture of "Xiaojiabiyu who has been pampered too much" "Beautiful cat face" is a furry cat face that is developing towards "big cake face", Lu Twelve paused before continuing, "Speaking of which, since you can become... like that, why can't you still speak human words? You can clearly understand what I'm talking about, and you can surf the Internet..."

"Meow."

--surf the Internet?What kind of old-fashioned word is this, do you come from that era?

"..."

Probably feeling the look of disdain on the "handsome" face of his Eudemons, Lu Twelve finally gave up on trying to have a serious and serious conversation with a cat, and put With one hand on his waist, Fa Cai returned to the open space in Area C. He bent down and picked up the nutrition delivery tube that had been half-worked before, and was about to continue working... During this time, he accidentally caught a glimpse of him before he left and hadn't finished eating. After hesitating for a moment, he felt his stomach churning. He was obviously very hungry, but he had no desire to sit down and eat at all.

Turn on the switch of the delivery tube, and carefully pour the nutrient solution into the bowl of the phantom beast as Dr. Edward instructed as before, but this time, Lu Twelve did not simply complete the task. When he came to a certain cage from far away, the phantom beast that was quiet for a moment seemed to remind him of the somewhat abnormal reaction of the little fox just now. Lu Twelve frowned and relaxed quickly. When he realized it, he Only then did I realize that my attention, which was finally distracted, actually started to care about this matter again——

And this time, he seemed to really notice something different.

For example, Area C of the entire Phantom Beast Recycling Station is obviously very noisy, with restless phantom beasts hitting the cages and roaring non-stop - but the strange thing is that no matter how violent the Phantom Beast is, when he walks to the When approaching the phantom beast's cage, the phantom beast immediately quieted down, and its cry changed from "嗤嗤嗤" to "嘤嘤嘤" very strangely. Basically, every phantom beast had time to see their appearance clearly before Lu Shier Before that, he had already turned his head and retracted into the corner of the cage with his tail between his legs.

Their performance is the same as that little fox-like phantom beast.

If only one or two phantom beasts behaved like this at the beginning, Lu Twelve could barely regard them as a coincidence, but when Lu Twelve fed them one by one in the cage, all the phantom beasts behaved in the same way When "working together", no matter how careless Lu Twelve was, he still felt something was wrong——

It was as if those phantom beasts suddenly became quiet because of his arrival.

...If you think about it carefully, it seems that even the terrifying first-generation phantom beast Sabac suddenly and without warning moved away its murderous eyes? ...Although it didn't run away with its tail between its legs, screaming, but for that level of Eudemons, it was probably an obvious move to give in to something, right?

The question is what is it escaping?

I?a human?How can it be.

This is too strange, isn't it?

Lu Twelve was puzzled, turned his head, and glanced at the phantom beast squatting on his shoulder at the moment: "Brother Cai?"

Fa Cai: "Meow?"

--what?

Lu Twelve: "Have you noticed that these phantom beasts seem to be acting a little strange?"

Fa Cai: "Meow."

--No.

The young phantom beast caught between Lu Twelve's arms and waist shook its head, its small ears "snapped" on its head, and sneezed a little by the way.

It's a pity that Fa Cai's unhesitating negative answer did not stop Lu Twelve's determination to carry forward his spirit of exploration and discovery—in order to prove the phenomenon he discovered, after completing the remote nutrient solution infusion, he did not let him Fa Cai continued to be responsible for transporting the meat, but went back and forth between the bucket containing the meat and the cage, and put a piece of meat into the phantom animal food bowl in the cage...

During the whole process of back and forth feeding meat, Fa Cai changed from being clamped by Lu Twelve's waist to lying on his body, the fluffy young phantom pricked up his ears wholeheartedly, a pair of The big golden eyes are staring at the phantom beasts in the cage.

And as his master, Lu Twelve threw those pieces of meat into the cage of the phantom beast one by one, from the very beginning to shoot a three-pointer carefully three meters away from the cage of the phantom beast——to two meters away from them Get some free throws -- and in the end, it becomes a three-step layup.

The whole process of placing meat is surprisingly safe.

When he reached the bottom dozens of cages, Lu Twelve dragged the big bucket with few pieces of meat all the way over, and stood there directly as if he opened a pet shop to pour pet food for dogs and cats back then. Food is gently tossed into well-wiped bowls at a normal distance in front of the cage.

After a few minutes.

When Lu Twelve put the last piece of meat into a phantom beast cage with the appearance of a wolf, he had completely dared to stretch his hands into the cage instead of throwing it in from afar—because he You know, that phantom beast that looks very aggressive will never come to touch him even once.

Lu Twelve stared at the right leg of the phantom beast in the cage that was replaced by a bracket for a while. This phantom beast was not as irritable as before. When Lu Twelve came to its cage, it immediately became quiet. When the latter boldly stretched his hand into the cage to put the piece of meat in place, it just limply stood up, quickly grabbed the not-so-fresh piece of meat and retracted it into the corner, and then Opening the beast's mouth full of fangs, it seemed to bite a large piece of bone in half with a "click" sound.

Lu Twelve: "..."

After a moment of silence, the black-haired young man turned his head, but happened to meet the young Eudemons who was squatting on his shoulders at the moment, staring at him with a pair of eyes full of disapproval—as if Fa Cai was dissatisfied with him. Recklessly, he stretched his hand into the cage of an unfamiliar phantom beast. When Lu Twelve and Fa Cai looked at each other, the latter let out a soft cry, his ears fell back, and he stretched out his claws. The black-haired young man pressed his nose quickly.

Lu Twelve thought for a while, turned his head and glanced at the strange phantom beast in the cage that quickly ate up the stale pork but ignored his hands completely, then pushed his head back and looked at Fa Cai. .

After a few seconds of silence.

The black-haired young man suddenly felt that he had come to an astonishing and terrifying conclusion: "Brother Cai, they are not afraid of you, are they?"

Fa Cai: "...Meow?"

For a moment, a blank expression appeared on Fa Cai's furry face.

Lu Twelve's eyes widened slightly: "...Thinking about it carefully, it seems to be the case. Think about the first time I took you to the Phantom Beast Research Institute for examination, those phantom beasts also buried their heads in the There was no sound in the master's arms, I thought you had ADHD..."

Get rich: "..."

Lu Twelve continued to babble and start counting: "Imagine coming to JAY's house later, JAY said that A boy is the boss and is very fierce, but in the end you still grabbed him, rubbed him into a ball and flattened him... Then he was in area A yesterday, and today he is in the house." Area C... No matter where I go, people will always remind me that this phantom beast is very fierce, and this phantom beast cannot be approached. As a result, they all behave like docile kittens. I thought It’s because I have a good affinity—now that I think about it, it’s not an expression of intimacy or shyness at all—it’s just fear at all?!!”

Fa Cai: "Meow?"

——SO?

"..." Facing the inexplicable face of his phantom beast, Lu Twelve suddenly became quiet. He pulled Fa Cai off his shoulders, and at the same time looked around like a thief, slowly Tun moved to a relatively large cage and sat down next to the cage. The black-haired young man lowered his voice and frowned slightly. The young Phantom Beast said, "Brother Cai, it's actually very strange that you can become a human. How do you feel that you have a new ability now?...JAY said that only the first generation Phantom Beasts are born with the ability to lead other Phantom Beasts Their ability to lead with sincerity—”

Fa Cai tilted his head.

Lu Twelve showed a look of happiness or displeasure, and finally twisted it into a disgusted expression: "You can't really be the first generation of Eudemons, can you?"

Fa Cai paused for a moment, as if he didn't quite understand what the black-haired young man was talking about—but it still understood the disgust on the latter's face, so it stretched out its paws without hesitation to write on the paper. I scratched my disgusted face!

Lu Twelve was slapped so abruptly, and he gasped in a "hissy" breath. In order to prevent himself from being disfigured by the beating, he took the restless and irascible creature away from his face without much hesitation. After thinking about it for a while, he put on a serious expression: "Brother Cai, I think I need to discuss something with you - after you say it, you must promise that you will not kill me."

Get rich: "..."

—Okay, if you say it, it won't kill you.

Fa Cai solemnly nodded his chubby head, and raised his head to look around - very good, the shit shoveler chose a good corner, where the surveillance cameras couldn't see it, so after a burst of dazzling white light, the tall blond man His figure completely enveloped the black-haired young man who was leaning against the cage at the moment.

Two adult men squeezed into the small gap between the wall and the cage, it was really a bit crowded... At this moment, Lu Twelve only needs to raise his head a little, and he can kiss the perfect curve of his brother Cai's jaw And a tight jaw.

Lu Twelfth: "What about the agreement 'I will definitely not kill you if I say it'?"

The man stretched out his arms to support the sides of the black-haired young man's head, trapping him between his strong chest and the cage. After thinking for a while, he raised his hand and touched his head with a friendly face: Really I won't hit you, just say it.

Lu Twelve raised his eyelids and glanced at him with a look of "I don't believe it": "...Then what are you doing when you transform back?"

Touch your head again: It's convenient to talk, it feels strange to look at you and talk to you just now with your neck up.

Lu Twelve took a deep breath and tried hard to organize his words. At this time, he felt that Fa Cai had put a holster in his pocket, took out his ID card, entered the notepad page with ease, and quickly touched the screen with his fingers. Swipe up and down, and then turn the screen to face Lu Twelve—the latter subconsciously lowered his head to look at the electronic screen with fluorescent lights in front of him, and then saw a line of words in the center of the screen: 【Say , do not hit the mud. 】

... Fortunately, he could think of such a way of communication.

"...Although I want to express my praise and praise, how smart you are to communicate with me in this way, it's really witty," Lu Twelve pointed to the last word on the screen, "But Brother Cai, there is a typo here... "

When Fa Cai heard it, he grabbed the screen back, took a look at himself, then crossed out the word "mud", thought for a while, and wrote "you" again, and then stuffed the screen into Lu Twelve's eyelids again Bottom——Lu Twelve glanced at it and praised, "This time it's written correctly", and then suddenly realized that he seemed to have missed the point at all and had strayed far from the topic just now.

Fortunately, Fa Cai has a good temper, and he also digresses casually, wishing to go to the west to learn Buddhist scriptures. If it were someone else, he might have thrown this ID card in his face.

Lu Twelve raised his hand in embarrassment and touched his nose. He had been beating his stomach countless times before but still didn't know how to speak. started talking--

"Brother Cai, let me be frank. From the time I knew you could become a human, I didn't think you were... an ordinary breed. Although the machine tested your total four-dimensional value to be very low, I am not either. Idiot, you burned such a big hole through the thorn bushes in area C of the ancient battlefield, no matter how you look at it, it can’t be a feat that a phantom beast with a four-dimensional total value of single digits can do, so in fact, I don’t really know. I think there is something wrong with your abilities... There must be something wrong in the middle that makes people misunderstand that you are a garbage Eudemons that failed to evolve, but to be honest, I don't really want to know what went wrong..."

Fa Cai took out the ID card that Lu Twelve was holding in his hand, and wrote two words expressionlessly——

【continue. 】

"Originally, I wanted to keep pretending to be stupid until the day I couldn't do it anymore... But I didn't expect this day to come so soon. Today, in Area C, I saw these things because 'researchers are interested, so I became like this 'The fate of the Eudemons, I think we need to talk about this issue."

"..."

Lu Twelve touched the tip of his nose, a little afraid to raise his head to look into the eyes of the tall man squatting in front of him at the moment, but lowered his head, muttering like a child who admitted his mistake: "A few days ago JAY asked Did I intentionally refuse to take you for pedigree identification? Time will cause a sensation all over the world. Who doesn’t want good things? What if other people spy on you? I have no money, no contacts, and even less influence. If there are bandits and robbers who want to snatch you away, I can’t beat them— —”

As Lu Twelve said, he was so ashamed to play that he couldn't continue. At this moment, he felt a big hand land on his head, touched his head, and messed up his hair a little.

This comforting action made Lu Twelve even more irritable. He didn't block the man's hand, but kept his head down and his brows frowned even tighter——

"I thought that if I let you live foolishly until I couldn't hide it any longer, then I would understand the world better and maybe be richer, so I could protect you—but these two days, after the illusion Regarding the matter of the animal recycling bin, I found that I seemed to be thinking too naively, and I began to feel uneasy." Lu Twelve said slowly, his voice getting lower and lower, "I suddenly thought that no matter how much I have Money, no matter how powerful you are, can never be tougher than the power of the government. If those researchers want to take you away in the name of the government, use you for experiments, and turn you into these phantom beasts, even like that little fox Forget my master like you forget me..."

Lu Twelve felt the hand on his head stop.

He raised his head, and a pair of dark pupils looked into the golden pupils at this time: "I think I may not be able to watch you become like them."

Surprised eyes flashed across those golden pupils.

But soon, they returned to their original calm—the man stared at the black-haired young man in front of him for a while, and then, when the latter didn't expect it, he put a hand on his ear, and said In the narrow space, he lowered his head and kissed his lips with difficulty and quickly.

While Lu Twelve was in a daze, the blond man withdrew slightly and left, took out the ID card in his hand, and quickly wrote a short line of words——

[They can't do it either. 】

Lu Twelve: "..."

Lu Twelve didn't quite understand the meaning of this line. If it was understood literally, making a fortune should mean that no matter whether he was from the government or not, it was impossible to take him away from him?In other words, no one can turn him into such a miserable, half-dead appearance like these phantom beasts?Or is it……

A few seconds later, Lu Twelve finally didn't want to continue to guess what the words written by Fa Cai on the ID card screen meant, he just sighed wearily: "Brother Cai, this matter cannot be solved by self-confidence— ——You are the phantom beast that I bought back with thirteen hundred gold coins, and I don't want to let anyone take you away from me."

Get rich: "..."

Although this sentence is true.

But I always feel that in this atmosphere at this time, when I hear this sentence, I suddenly want to take back the promise I made before, "I will definitely not kill you".

Fa Cai snatched the ID card back from Lu Twelve's hand viciously, and quickly wrote a line——

[They can take me away if they give you 1300 gold coins? 】

"...Brother Cai, there is a typo."

【Say. 】

"...Of course not. Why are you so fierce? It takes money to raise you. You only eat a few cans for a meal, and the most expensive cans cost three or four gold coins..."

[It turns out that you can take me away if you give you 5000 gold coins. 】

"That's not true, oh, why are you messing around like a little girl? Don't I waste my energy raising you so big?" Lu Twelve felt that he was about to be forced by this serious-looking giant juvenile phantom beast. Dead, "Look at you now, you are fat and strong, and you look like a dog. Isn't it because you grew up drinking my blood! So you don't sell it, and you don't sell it for how much money—"

"..."

Although I have reservations about the statement of "growing up drinking your blood", but for the rest, you can barely pass the test-although I don't think what I look has a lot to do with your "cultivation" By the way, you said it yourself, I was born like this.

The man's face was paralyzed, and he stared at the black-haired young man in front of him for a while. After a while, his suffocatingly serious handsome face finally relaxed a little. The two sat down opposite each other, grabbed their ID cards, thought for a while, and then took the initiative to write down a query——

【That's all you want to say? 】

There was a momentary blankness on Lu Twelve's face - to be honest, it made him look guilty.

【Say. 】

"...Look, Brother Cai, although we don't know what you are... er, although we don't know what kind of species you are, but now we can confirm that you are so extraordinary, and you have the ability to deter other Eudemons. I was able to discover your ability today, mainly because the phantom beasts in the phantom beast recycle bin are relatively concentrated, and the environment itself is relatively noisy and chaotic—I can discover it, which means that other people must also be able to find you various features of…”

【so? 】

Lu Twelve took a deep breath, ready to be beaten to death: "So I want you to huddle up a little bit, if it's not a special situation, please act a little bit like someone with a total value of 16D only '16' Phantom beast, do what a phantom beast with a four-dimensional total value of only '[-]' would do."

[Then do nothing? 】

"..." Lu Twelve blushed, bent his knees, nodded quickly, and said in a low voice, "Before I earn enough money and at least have the ability to protect you in front of ordinary people, I will temporarily feel wronged you?"

Lu Twelve words fell.

He felt the man on top of his head staring at him for a long time—this was like a century of silence for Lu Shishir. He raised his head and looked at the pair of eyes hidden in the shadows. With golden pupils, just when he thought that the silent opponent would reject him without hesitation, he did not expect that the opponent nodded slowly with an extremely serious expression.

【Can. 】

【This time, listen to you. 】