mother of beasts

"This...what's going on..."

The woman took two steps back unconsciously, obviously unable to accept the facts in front of her.

Although the man's face was pale, it was much better than the woman's. He looked at his companions who were slowly approaching, and said: "Be careful, everyone, don't touch these mummy, pay attention to your surroundings, try not to spread too much open."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and they all formed teams to search for living creatures.

Suddenly, someone shouted out:

"Ah! These things are alive!"

Everyone's attention was instantly focused on the speaker. The pale-faced man and woman ran there quickly after hearing the words, only to see a mummified corpse lying on the door of George's car.

"This... this is alive."

The person who yelled just now pointed at the mummy on the ground, and yelled at Julie and the others.

With a pale face, Julie stepped forward cautiously, and the liveness detector in her hand beeped, confirming what the man said just now.

"He's still conscious!"

Julie turned her head and looked at the man behind her suddenly. The man frowned, took the instrument in her hand, and walked forward, but the instrument screamed again.

"Can you translate the meaning in their brainwaves?" The man turned around and looked at a group of researchers around him.

"a bit difficult."

Julie raised her head and said to the man.

"It must be translated if it is difficult! This is related to our research over the years! Maybe they know where the container went!"

The man suddenly yelled, then shook his head, looking a little tired and helpless, "Oh, Julie, you should know that the expected date of delivery for the things in the container is just two days away, and we have to give birth to that special beast." Destroy the container before, and let the little thing recognize our human as its mother."

He took two steps in the direction of the blonde woman, his eyes looked a little crazy, "This is the most important research result we have achieved in these years, if it succeeds, we will be developed, and we will become the most respected figure in this doomsday you Understand?"

The woman couldn't help taking a few steps back as he moved forward, then gritted her teeth and said, "Yes, I understand, we will translate these things as soon as possible."

These air-dried living mummies cannot move, and will immediately weather if they touch a certain part of the body, but research is necessary.

Although everyone was very careful, the corpses that still had consciousness were accidentally destroyed. In the end, only the mummy of the woman remained.

A bunch of precision instruments were transported here, and a group of people surrounded the only remaining mummy carefully analyzing the faint radio waves.

When everyone in the research institute was desperately analyzing the living mummy, Li Jia and the little monster had already walked away a long way.

Li Jia walked for a long time, and he didn't know where he went, but the surrounding environment has changed a bit.

It is no longer an endless ruin, and of course it will not be a green grassland, but at least there is a little bit of human habitation.

This seems to be a small village, similar to the existence of a slum.

Seeing the scattered stone houses, Li Jia was suddenly at a loss.

It's been too long since I've seen this kind of person who can talk to me. The little monster in my arms can't be called a person, and I can't give him the feeling of being with a living person.

But also because he hasn't been in contact with people for too long, he feels that his ability to communicate with people has degraded.

Stuffing the little thing into his arms and covering it tightly, he walked into the village and saw a few people walking alone on the road who didn't know how to talk to them.

Seeing that the sky was getting darker and fewer and fewer people were walking back and forth, Li Jia had no expression on his face, but was a little flustered in his heart.

If you can't find a place to live anymore, you will have to sleep in the open. Choosing to sleep in the open at night is definitely something an idiot would do. After all, the night is the peak time for strange beasts to act. If you are unlucky, you will not even die. Know.

Fortunately, at this time, a boy who was about his age watched him for a long time, and finally came over: "Hey, did you escape from the village in front?"

"Ah?" It took Li Jia a while to realize that the other party was talking to him, and he didn't know how to answer for a while, so he could only respond casually: "En."

The boy looked him up and down carefully, and then suddenly laughed: "I think you used to be a young master with a good life, you were thin-skinned and tender. Where are your parents? Didn't you escape from the strange beast raid a few days ago?"

Li Jia opened his mouth and was about to say something, but the young man didn't give him a chance to speak, and continued: "The strange beast raid a few days ago was amazing, I heard that a lot of people in your village died Well, several people fled to our village a few days ago. Fortunately, our village is far enough away to not be affected. At that time, nowhere was safe, only the imperial capital was better, at least the strange beasts could not attack there..."

The young man talked a lot, as if he hadn't spoken properly for a long time, and he was bombarded with saliva for a while.

Li Jia hugged the little monster in his arms tightly, standing there talking or not talking, seemed a little embarrassed.

"Almost forgot!" The young man clapped his hands, then asked Li Jia, "What's your name?"

"I... Li Jia, you can just call me Li Jia." Nodding slightly, Li Jia said.

"Li Jia, do you have a place to stay tonight?" The young man looked at him with a sly look in his eyes.

Holding the little monster in his arms, Li Jia didn't know how to answer. He naturally caught the playfulness in the young man's eyes, but how should he answer?If he accidentally said the wrong thing and offended the young man in front of him, he would have to sleep on the street tonight.

Perhaps seeing Li Jia's embarrassment, the young man smiled, and simply stretched out his hand to take Li Jia's hand: "Let's go, I'll rest at my house tonight, although it's a little rough, it's better than sleeping in the open. "

Unfortunately, just as the boy's hand touched Li Jia's, something snapped it back.

Quickly withdrew his hand, he looked at the faintly protruding thing in Li Jia's arms and asked in surprise: "What is this?"

Li Jia patted the little thing in his arms, causing a soft cry of grievance. He raised his head and heard the young man's words, and could only say helplessly, "It's just a little pet. It's a bit disobedient. I'm laughing at it."

The boy's eyes widened:

"That's amazing! Your family must have been rich before, right? I've only heard that some rich people in the imperial capital have the habit of keeping pets, but I didn't expect you to have it too."

Li Jia didn't know how to answer, he couldn't say that the little monster in his arms jumped out of his belly, so he could only laugh dryly, which was a tacit consent to the boy's words.

The little thing in his arms didn't know how much trouble he had brought to Li Jia just now, it just didn't want creatures other than itself to touch him, but it didn't dare to defy its mother's authority openly, so it could only lie down obediently. Be silent inside.

Seeing that Li Jia didn't say much, the young man was embarrassed to say anything more, so he smiled and walked ahead to lead the way.

Li Jia breathed a sigh of relief, and followed quickly. To be honest, he really didn't know how to face so many young people.

After all, even when he was at home, his parents, brothers and sisters were relatively indifferent, and he had never seen such familiar people.

There are not many houses in the small village, but because they are spread out a bit, the road looks very long. Li Jia held the things in his arms and followed the young man in front of him while looking at the surrounding environment. He felt that this place was really unusual. dilapidated.

"Here we are." The boy's voice came, Li Jia stopped, followed the boy to open the door and walked into the room.

At this moment, it was almost dark, and the room looked a little dark, which could barely be called as if you couldn't see your fingers.

The boy walked in first, and after a few slight noises, the room suddenly lit up.

It is said to be bright, but in fact it is not. It is just a little more dim yellow light, which is a little brighter than the original complete darkness.

Li Jia frowned, stepped into the room carefully, then looked at the environment under some dim light, looked at the source of the light in the boy's hand, and said, "Why don't you use a better light stone? Look at the brightness, the energy in this light stone It's almost exhausted, and it won't last long."

The young man smiled bitterly when he heard the words:

"Young Master, you think I don't want to change it. There's no way. I don't have the money. Just this stone, it was a year ago. Usually, I'm not willing to use it. If you didn't come today, I still don't want to take it out. "

Hearing the slight sarcasm in the young man's words, Li Jia was even more embarrassed. His family never lacked such things, so he didn't think much about it when he spoke, but he didn't expect the young man's family to be so barren.

Lowering his head and coughing lightly, he looked at the boy:

"Why don't you see other people in your family? Where are your parents?"

The expression on the young man's face was a little stiff, and Li Jia felt a little annoyed, feeling that he was getting worse and worse at talking to people, but just when he thought the young man would not answer, the young man's voice came faintly from the side: " On the way out to help deliver goods two years ago, I encountered strange beasts and were killed..."

Li Jia blushed a little, and he poked someone's sore spot again.

"However, it's fine if they're gone, and I can live easily by myself. It's great to be free." The young man smiled, as if he didn't care at all.

Often the less you care on your lips, the more you care in your heart, Li Jia thought to himself.

But he is not good at interfering in other people's affairs, everyone has their own way of life, he has no right to comment, it is enough to manage himself.

The young man shook his head, cleaned a chair, and beckoned Li Jia to sit down, then looked at the little thing in his arms with only half of its head exposed: "What about you? Where are you going to go with your little pet next?" ? Are there any living relatives and friends outside?"

"I... I'm going to the imperial capital, there... there are still some uncles who can go to..."

He was absolutely not lying. His parents, siblings, uncles, nephews and nephews were all in the imperial capital. Speaking of which, he could be considered a son of a rich family.