Sara

He did see that huge and deformed arthropod in the churning clouds.

It has exoskeleton with layers of scales, and the appendages on both sides of the body swing regularly with the cruising of the body. I can't tell whether it is a crustacean or an insect. Perhaps in the era when it lived, these two types did not exist. the difference.

But its mouthparts are very different from those of ordinary arthropods. It looks like it can open its mouth wide, like a whale or a python.

It was given the name "Leviathan", which is indeed appropriate.

"We're here." Linshu woke up the little boy who was sleeping in his arms, "It seems that there are many... Your kind, like you, want to return to the mother's body ahead of time."

The same kind of little boy is probably the prototype of those human engineers in the outside world, but their birth methods are different.

The little boy groaned for a long time before rubbing his eyes and looking up, the cool wind from the top of the mountain shrank his neck.

On this open space that could be called a cliff, there are countless others of his kind entrenched, but most of their shells are dull or incomplete, and they seem to be wounded or sick or old and frail engineers.

Linshu believes that they are old and weak and unable to survive outside, so they want to return to their mother's body and be cared for.

"I'll go back with you, I hope your mother will welcome me." Linshu straightened the little boy's blond hair, "Are you sick? You look very depressed?"

The little boy blinked slowly, he seemed to have something to say, but in the end he still shook his head on Linshu's shoulder.

"Aren't you happy to see your mother?" Linshu asked.

"No..." the little boy said softly, "but...I..."

Lin Shu frowned, not quite understanding what he meant.

The Leviathan is gradually approaching, and the closer it is, the more Linshu can feel its hugeness. It seems to be bigger than the "Leviathan" copied by the empire, so that it just "swims" slowly, There was a violent gust of wind.

The arthropod appendages of the engineers held tightly to the ground to prevent them from being blown away. Linshu didn't have that kind of ability, so he had to grab one of the appendages of the engineers and rely on its body to resist the thrust.

Fortunately, the other party was quite friendly and did not refuse.

Leviathan has come to the bottom of the cliff, it sank into the thick fog under the cliff, and then rose from the bottom up, its mouthparts parted the clouds and fog, revealing a deep red mouth.

It seems to be accepting of its own kind.

All the engineers on the cliff suddenly became restless. They surged towards the edge and jumped down, like beans being poured out, falling into Leviathan's mouth one after another.

The one Linshu was clinging to was no exception. Although it lacked many appendages and stumbled when walking, it still crawled forward firmly.

It brought Linshu and the little boy to the edge of the cliff, Linshu hesitated for a moment, he let go of the other's hand, hugged the little boy tightly, and pressed the little golden head into his arms to protect it carefully.

"I'll jump down when it's closest, hold me tight and don't let go," Linshu said.

They are different from other engineers, they don't have a shell to protect themselves, and they don't know what the consequences will be if they jump off rashly.

"Hmm..." The little boy responded muffledly, and tightened his arms around Linshu's neck.

Just as Leviathan's mouthparts were about to pass over the cliff, Linshu bent his knees and took off at the right moment. The airflow blew across his body and cheeks, and everything around him instantly changed from bright to dark. After a few seconds of sharp fall, His back hit the soft cavity, which slowed his fall.

After skating for a while, maybe because Leviathan's body turned from vertical to horizontal, Linshu was finally able to stop.

He's already inside Leviathan.

There is clearly no light here, but Linshu can still vaguely see things, including the surrounding dark red muscles and the pulsating meridians on the mucous membrane, this seems to be a passage leading to a certain place.

He lowered his head to check the situation in his arms. The little boy was as unscathed as he was, and he was looking around with his eyes open. His expression changed from nervousness to obvious loss.

"What's wrong?" Lin Shu asked.

"This is not a lair..." The little boy's voice pursed his lips.

"We entered late, and we got stuck halfway. It would be nice if we walked in." Lin Shu thought it was because he was sad that he didn't make it home, and stroked his hair casually.

The little boy lowered his head and said nothing.

Linshu walked along the passage, and found many mutilated limbs of engineers along the way, maybe they jumped off and were injured.

The thinking of non-human species is just different from that of humans.

The passage got wider and wider as he went forward, but Linshu also felt more and more that something was wrong—the surrounding mucous membrane became more and more moist, and he even stepped on a pit, and the pit leaked liquid.

He didn't pay attention at first, until he felt a slight burning sensation in his feet, and he didn't realize what the liquid was.

Sour, that should be sour.

And the farther forward, the higher the concentration of acid.

"Can your shell resist acid corrosion?"

Linshu couldn't help but stop and asked the little boy, "I mean, will this liquid melt your shells?"

The little boy who was silent all the way lowered his eyes and shook his head: "No."

Lin Shu couldn't understand.

If their shells can't resist the corrosion of acid, the fragile core inside should be even less able to resist. If they want to come in under such circumstances, wouldn't they be sent to death?

No, what is more puzzling is why there is acid here?

"This is not a lair." The little boy pushed away Linshu's hand, jumped out of his arms, and walked forward with his bare feet stepping on the acid, "There are two openings in the mother's mouth, one leads to the lair, and the other leads to the lair." Past……"

Linshu followed behind him.

At a certain moment, everything in front of their eyes suddenly became clear, and there was a wide chamber ahead, and all the sappers who entered the Leviathan were here.

They lay quietly in the acid that covered their appendages, waiting to dissolve, to be digested.

The little boy stood at the entrance of the chamber, and softly finished his words: "Stomach, this is mother's stomach."

"It doesn't want us to go back, our entry into the nest will only bring a burden to the mother...so..."

Lin Shu looked at the weakened engineers. They should have known their end a long time ago, and they might even gather there to provide energy for Leviathan.

For most species except humans, ethics and morality are unimportant, and it is normal for Leviathan to eat his own offspring.

And its engineers can all accept this "sacrifice".

Including the little boy who didn't realize that he was rejected by his mother until now. Although he looked very disappointed, he was still able to calmly meet his end.

"I'm sorry... I thought we could go back to the nest..." The little boy rubbed his eyes, his voice was so low that he couldn't hear clearly, "I thought mother would take care of us..."

Linshu withdrew his gaze and hugged him up to avoid more serious corrosion: "Let's go out."

"Go out?" The little boy asked back in surprise, and then refused, "You can't go out, this is the mother's decision, we were born to be driven by the mother, the mother wants to eat us... we should be obedient..."

He was right.

He obeys Leviathan's wishes.

He is out of the shell, and he is still not free.

No one, no thing, tell him you can say no, you can pursue what you want.

"Do you want to live?" Linshu asked.

The little boy was stunned for a moment, his bright eyes blinking slowly: "I don't know, mother wants us not to die when we go out...but now mother..."

"Do you want to live yourself?" Lin Shu asked again.

The little boy opened his mouth, and he grabbed Linshu's collar: "I don't know."

"So, what do you want?" Linshu patted him on the back with a gentle tone, "Tell me, what do you want? Do you want to eat delicious food? Do you want to go out to play? Or do you want to make friends?"

Linshu gently and gently guides the child.

In such a dark and dangerous place, guide the other person to imagine beautiful things, and ask him to use his shallow knowledge and experience to outline things that are worthy of nostalgia for him.

Children are always easier to coax than adults.

The acid burned through the soles of Linshu's shoes and gradually burned his skin. In the deepening pain, he heard the cry of the little boy.

"I want to go out, travel, eat cakes, play games, go shopping, watch concerts, see a lot of scenery, go to the beach for vacation, and make friends..."

Tears welled up in his eyes, he choked up, and continued.

"I still want to continue listening to your story..."

His hoarse, immature voice knocked into Linshu's heart.

Linshu wrapped him tighter with his coat, and kissed his forehead through the hood.

"The premise of all this is that you have to live. Only if you survive, will you have what you want in the future."

"Tell me, do you want to live?"

The little boy poked out a pair of scarlet eyes from under the brim of his hat. He wiped away his tears and said hoarsely, "I want... to live with you..."

As soon as he finished speaking, all the engineers in the chamber became agitated at the same time, individual wishes were fed back to the group, and the self-will of passive obedience and neglect was sprouted at this moment.

These insect-like monsters have their own selves that are equivalent to human beings. They push each other with their incomplete appendages, and move towards the entrance violently.

The Leviathan let out a deafening scream, the wall of the cavity squirmed violently, and the acid was shaken and fell down.

Linshu staggered and ran out with the tightly wrapped little boy in his arms, and the engineers quickly overtook him, crowding around the mouth and struggling to break through.

The force of the group quickly damaged and then tore that layer of diaphragm, Linshu followed the engineers to the mouth, Leviathan screamed again, the mouthparts fully unfolded, and the engineers jumped off again as they entered.

Linshu climbed to the entrance and looked down, there was a piece of sea below.

"I remember you said you wouldn't die in the water?" Linshu asked.

"No." The little boy pushed aside his torn clothes and looked down at the sea.

"No, it's still too risky, this height..." Linshu was thinking about how to let him leave safely, when his arm was grabbed by an appendage that suddenly protruded, he glanced sideways, and an engineer opened his arms at him. Opened the mouthpart.

To be precise, he opened his mouthparts to the little boy in his arms.

Linshu and the little boy looked at each other and understood the other's intention, he let go of his hand so that the little boy could climb in directly.

"I have to go back to see him, so be careful."

The little boy was about to accept the kindness of his kind, when he suddenly turned around and pulled Linshu's finger: "I..."

"All your wishes will come true." Linshu smiled and answered his unspoken question.

The black engineer disappeared from Linshu's sight, the light became dim again, Linshu turned and walked deep.

The mouth leading to the stomach had been broken, and the other mouth would undoubtedly lead to the lair.

Most of the clothes on his body have been corroded, a lot of skin was burned to a bloody mess, and even the white bones can be seen.

In the constant pain, he found the passage to the lair, and the mouth opened for him without any hindrance.

He leaned on the inner wall and stumbled forward.

If it is a reality, with this degree of injury, it is absolutely impossible for him to take a step forward. Fortunately, the spiritual world is not so strict about the rules. As long as his self-control is firm enough, he can still have the ability to act.

I don't know how long it took, but the passage has come to an end.

Linshu saw the so-called lair.

There are countless convex and concave cavities on the inner wall, and there is a vague shadow in each cavity. Outside these cavities, countless engineers are busy, running back and forth.

They didn't seem to see Linshu, or didn't care about him at all.

When Lin Shu approached, they would give way in a friendly manner.

Coming to the bottom of the pile of cavities, Linshu closed his eyes for a while, then he determined the direction, squeezed into the gap between the two cavities, and with his fingers exposed, he tore apart Leviathan's flesh and blood tissue, creating an opening .

Linshu squeezed in through the hole he had torn. It was a long and narrow space, even for a small human like him.

This passage will soon come to an end.

Linshu saw that person.

He has long golden hair, a beautiful appearance, and a slender and fair body surrounded by dark red tissues.

As Linshu approached, he gently lifted his eyelashes, revealing a pair of penetrating red eyes.

Those eyes are exactly the same as those of the current emperor, but there is a complete difference in their demeanor.

After more than four years, Linshu finally saw the fragile, sensitive, and even naive Princess and the Pea again.

Zachariah Jehofasa has never been a sensible adult, he likes to make trouble without reason, and he doesn't know how to accommodate and tolerate.

If you keep him waiting too long.

He will cry.

It's hard to coax that well.

Linshu stretched out his still intact left hand, and gently wiped his cheek.

Looks like it's really going to take a long time.Special thoughts...

So long that his limited life can probably only be used for this one thing.