mother of beasts

Only then did everyone come to their senses, and hurried to the mansion.

Li Jia followed behind Li Ying, raised his head slightly and walked inside, trying to keep a certain distance from everyone.

The house is still the same, with the same house and the same path, and even the surrounding environment has not changed a bit, but Li Jia only feels strange after seeing it.

After turning several roads, I arrived at the hall. The huge dining table was filled with all kinds of food. Except for some meat and artificial nutrients, there were even some precious plants!

During this time, Li Jia, who was used to eating picnic food, was a little unnatural, but he still sat down.

The other brothers and sisters also sat down, with their heads lowered, not daring to look in Li Jia's direction.

Li Ying announced that dinner was served, and the whole family moved the tableware and ate slowly. Everyone ate very elegantly.

The food looked very good, but Li Jia didn't know how to eat it. There were too many "strangers" around him that made him feel particularly insecure, but it was not good to just leave, so he could only barely eat.

Although the movements were slow, the speed at which they finished eating was not slow at all. After a while, everything on the table was eaten up.

The Li family has a family motto that doomsday food is precious, and there must be no leftovers.

Some servants stepped forward skillfully to clean up the mess on the table, not daring to neglect a bit.

In fact, these trivial tasks did not require manpower at all. Although the resource environment of the doomsday has been completely destroyed, the high development of science and technology is also staggering. It can be said that the wisdom of millions of years of human beings has been brought into play here.

It's just that some of the robots that were used as slaves in the past few years have mutated for some reason. They forgot their mission of being born in the doomsday, killed countless humans, and passed on the rebellious emotions belonging to humans to other humans at an alarming speed. Robots, so that the government had to order the destruction of all robots.

Since then, the servants of the Li family have been replaced by hired civilians.

Li Ying, who hadn't seen his youngest son for nearly a year, was very excited. After eating, he wanted to hold Li Jia to talk about something, but Li Jia really didn't want to tell the unbelievable things that happened to him, so he shrugged off. tired.

Li Ying couldn't bear to force it, so Li Jia fled back in embarrassment under everyone's gaze.

Although the memory is a bit fuzzy, his body has spontaneously remembered this place where he has lived for more than ten years. With the natural reaction of his feet, he slowly walked back to the room.

At this moment, the night was already deep, and the night in the imperial capital was very quiet, just giving people a space to sleep and think.

Lying on the bed, feeling the soft quilt under his body, Li Jia pulled a pillow and hugged him in his arms, and fell asleep in a daze like he had spent dozens of nights.

Not long after Li Jia left, the hall sank into a suffocating silence.

After a while, a sharp female voice sounded:

"A Pai, look at what stupid things you did! He was chosen by the Senate, why did you bring him back!"

After a voice appeared, noisy arguments followed one after another. Many brothers and sisters pointed and began to accuse Li Pai of his stupid behavior.

Li Pai blushed, frowned and wanted to refute, but he did bring Li Jia back. He really couldn't find any reason to refute himself, so he could only lower his head slightly and let them Said, regretting the stupid thing I did for a while in my heart.

Just as the debate and accusations of the crowd intensified, a vigorous and powerful voice sounded: "Okay, stop arguing! What does it look like to be so noisy!"

The voices of the crowd immediately became quieter, and although they were unwilling, they did not make another sound. Li Ying looked at them and continued: "Anyway, Xiao Jia is my son and your younger brother! What happened before was originally ours. I'm sorry for him, since he is back now, he is still a descendant of my Li family!"

"But father—" The woman who spoke hastily opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but was interrupted by Li Ying's sharp eyes: "But what! Do you really want to push your brother into the fire pit again!"

The woman fell silent for a moment, and the others looked at each other, bowed their heads, and said nothing more.

Li Ying scanned them, sighed, and turned his back to them: "You all go down, remember, nothing happened today, your younger brother was taken away by the Senate long ago, and now I, Li Yinggang, are the only ones at home. My son, do you understand?"

"...Yes, father."

Everyone didn't dare to object, they all agreed, and then retreated one by one.

Li Huai was the last to leave the door, thinking about the tone of her father's reprimand, she felt uncomfortable for a while, gritted her teeth, she called a servant beside her, and gave him a few instructions.

Surprise flashed across the servant's face, he looked up at Li Huai, and asked softly: "Miss, is this not good, young master..."

"If you are told to go, go, what are you talking about!"

The servant didn't dare to say anything more, so he hurriedly ran away.

Seeing his figure gradually disappear, Li Huai smiled, turned around, and walked gracefully back to his room.

It was late when Li Jia woke up, and after saying goodbye to his family members, he had nothing else to say, so he froze in place. Li Ying also saw his embarrassment, and stepped forward to pat him on the shoulder: "Xiao Jia , I haven’t been home for a long time, and I’m separated from everyone, aren’t I? Just stay at home for a few days, let’s communicate and exchange feelings, and don’t go out, the current imperial capital is not peaceful.”

Li Jia looked up and met his apologetic eyes, but he was a little embarrassed. Anyway, he didn't really want to go out, so he nodded and said, "Yes, I understand, father."

The days that followed were simple. Li Jia stayed in the room and only went out during meals. Although Li Ying asked him to communicate more with other people, Li Jia really couldn't talk to people he didn't know well. , It's awkward to meet.

However, such days did not last long. Since he woke up from being shot that time, his heart always had a dull pain for some reason, as if someone was gouging out the flesh in his chest.

He endured it all the time and didn't tell anyone. Even Yingcun didn't notice anything wrong. Recently, the pain in his heart became more and more real. On the eighth day when Li Jia returned to Li's house, he finally had some pain. Unable to hold back anymore, he folded his hands on his chest and fell onto the bed.

In the evening, when Li's family found out that he was unwell, he was already sweating and was about to pass out from the pain. Li should make a quick decision and call the family doctor.

Dr. Hu gave him a general examination, and told everyone that the young man had been confined in the house for too long, so that he fell ill, and he should go out for a walk to relieve the depression in his heart.

Li Ying thought about the hardships his youngest son had suffered outside these days, and his eyes were sore. Before he could think about anything, he asked the two servants to take him out for a walk after Li Jia woke up, to relax.

So when Li Jia woke up, he was forcibly taken out.

Knowing that it was his father's kindness, he couldn't bear to be disobedient, so he went outside for a stroll.

The market outside was as lively as ever, Li Jia didn't want to get too close to others, and tried to avoid it as far as possible, and the two servants were also smart people, carefully guarding him and not letting others touch him.

Some commoners who bought and sold things in the market naturally saw that this handsome young man was not to be trifled with, so they just took a peek or two, and did not dare to approach him, which made Li Jia happy.

Just as he was about to walk out of the market, when he went to the front to have a look, there was a sound of laughter not far away, which suddenly stopped his footsteps.

Stopping, he turned his head to look there, a group of people surrounded there, it looked lively.

As if caught in a nightmare, Li Jia stared blankly and walked in that direction involuntarily.

It seems that something important is there, the heartbeat is fast, fast...

The two servants didn't know whether they should run up to stop him, but in a blink of an eye, the young man had already run into the crowd, and without any hesitation, the two quickly chased after him.

Relying on his thin body to easily squeeze into the crowd, Li Jia wanted to see what attracted so many people, but when he raised his head, he was intimidated.

Its fleshy body has some sparse short hairs on it, a pair of fleshy wings on its back are pitifully small, and its whole body is shrunk into a meat ball...

What a strange appearance, what a strange beast cub, but that strange shape made Li Jia feel extremely familiar.

little monster……

Li Jia stared at the meat ball intently, silently murmured a nickname that belonged to a certain creature, and remained motionless.

As if hearing his call, the strange creature that was originally curled up into a ball suddenly raised its head and opened its eyes. When it saw Li Jia, it was startled for two seconds, and suddenly rushed towards Li Jia like crazy.

It's just that the little thing was locked in a strange iron cage. Although it scratched desperately with its claws, it still couldn't struggle out of it.

Wanting to pounce but couldn't, the little thing couldn't help yelling at Li Jia.

It was still the familiar whisper of a beast, with a feeling of pitiful whimpering, but it was strange that this time, it couldn't understand what it was screaming!

It was a very strange thing, but at this moment Li Jia didn't have time to think so much. The little monster who thought he was dead suddenly appeared in front of him alive. The feeling of joy from the bottom of his heart was simply indescribable.

Without thinking about it, he stepped forward, bent down to open the cage, Li Jia opened his hand, and the little meat ball jumped directly on him the moment the cage opened.