[Rebirth] Alien Royalty

Chapter 39

These words made Lu Xiao unable to walk again.

He stood at the door for a few seconds in silence, then walked in without saying a word.Arnold then closed the door.

Carl squatted on the ground, facing Fury.

"Fry, right foot!"

The big black dog raised its right front foot obediently.

"Switch!" Carl said happily.

Fury obediently withdrew his right front foot and raised his left front foot.

"Furry, stand up—" Carl got excited and stood up suddenly, but suddenly coughed.

"Carl?" Lu Xiao frowned.

Carl coughed twice and then stopped, turned around and smiled at him: "I'm fine!"

Lu Xiao opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything.

He stared blankly at Carl who was playing vigorously for a while, then turned his head to Arnold and whispered: "Does Carl have no idea?"

"He doesn't know what it means," Arnold said softly, watching the boy. "Hair fell out, turned white, and his face became ugly. Just tell him it doesn't mean anything, and he will only be curious." That's all."

"But other people will know it at a glance, right?" Lu Xiao said, "It's impossible to hide it forever, just like the identities of the two of you, as long as you guess and spread it casually, everyone will know. It will reach Karl's ears one day!"

"But when do you mean 'someday'?" Arnold turned to look at him with a helpless smile on his lips.

Lu Xiao was taken aback.

"How to tell Karl how he was born is indeed a problem. I originally planned to think about it slowly, but I don't think it is necessary for me to think about it now."

"……What's the meaning?"

Arnold just smiled at him, as if he didn't intend to explain.

Lu Xiao's Adam's apple rolled down, staring at the person beside him, he said slowly: "The speed of Karl's change...is it very fast?"

"Ah."

So how much time do you expect to live?

Lu Xiao wanted to ask, but couldn't ask.

The two leaned against the window and remained relatively silent for a long time.

Carl stopped suddenly, groping through the fur of the big black dog, and then turned to them and said, "Brother, Fury's fur is knotted!"

"Then cut that piece off with scissors?"

Karl nodded, but did not leave immediately after standing up, but lowered his head and looked at the big black dog.

Fury sat upright on the ground, raised his head slightly, his round eyes were hidden behind the long hair, but he looked at the boy with radiance, and his eyes were shining brightly.

Carl cupped Fury's face with his small hands, and said abruptly, "Fury, let me take a bath for you!"

"Brother, let's give it a bath, Fury looks so dirty!"

Lu Xiao and Arnold exchanged glances.

The dark-haired man smiled and said, "Then let's help wash Fury clean."

There is an independent bathroom in the room, which is not too big or small, and it is a little crowded for three people and one dog to enter.

Fury was very resistant to entering the bathroom, probably because he felt a sense of crisis about the unknown, so he desperately lowered his body and pawed on the ground.

Cal wanted to push Fury into the bathroom—Frey would be taller than Cal if he stood up, and there was still a gap in strength between the boy and the big black dog—so he failed.

Lu Xiao stood behind and watched, obviously wanting to help, but when he saw Carl's half-white hair, his mood was very complicated.

Instead, Arnold stepped forward, pointed at the bathroom with a smile and ordered Fury: "Fury, be good, go in by yourself."

The big black dog trembled all over, glanced back at Arnold, and yelled pitifully twice, but he couldn't see the other party's expression, so he had to move into the bathroom in a desperate manner.

While bathing a dog isn't as difficult as bathing a cat, a misbehaving dog can still cause a mess.Every time Fury showed signs, he was always frozen by Arnold's smile before the real damage was done, so the whole process was superficially harmonious.

Wet the big black dog with a shower, and rubbed the big black dog's hair into bubbles with Arnold's usual body wash in the bathroom, and finally cleaned it with warm water.

The boy happily stroked the big black dog's head, boasting "so good", the big black dog could only whimper softly.

When the washing was almost done, Carl awkwardly dried Fury with a towel, and then found a pair of scissors.Just as he was about to squat, he caught a glimpse of Lu Xiao and Arnold, raised his head and smiled at them, "I want to do it by myself, brother, go out and play!"

"Call me if you have any questions." Arnold said with a smile, then turned and walked out of the bathroom.

Lu Xiao glanced at Carl.

The boy smiled at him, the wrinkles around his mouth deepening a little.

Lu Xiao also walked out of the bathroom, and Arnold poured him a glass of water, and the two leaned against the wall again, silent.

Lu Xiao's peripheral vision slowly scanned Arnold's side face.

The fine black hair fell on the forehead and cast a shadow over the eyes.The dark green eyes are hidden in the shadows, the color becomes thicker, and the look in the eyes becomes more mysterious.

Straight nose bridge, light-colored lips, even when not smiling, the corners of the lips seem to be slightly upturned.

"You will misunderstand me if you look at me like this." The man's voice was slightly lower than usual.

Lu Xiao withdrew his gaze and murmured, "Karl and you really look alike."

They obviously look alike, and no one will doubt that the two are brothers after seeing them.

But the boy in the bathroom had changed.

There was a trace of guilt in Lu Xiao's heart.

Because when he saw Carl smiling at him just now, the boy's appearance made him feel a little scared.

Even if it was just a little bit, it made Lu Xiao feel guilty.

"Deformed existence" - he suddenly thought of what Arnold told him, Luna's view of hybrid genetic people.

It was a creature created by Bazel.

Lu Xiao originally thought that no matter what Bazel's original intention was, at least he gave Arnold and Carl life.As long as life is created, even if the starting point is not pure, it is always a good thing.

But is it really a good thing...

"I don't think Karl really doesn't know what the changes in him represent." Lu Xiao lowered his eyes.

For a moment he believed Arnold's words.As long as you don't tell Karl anything, Karl won't understand.

But looking at the boy's smile just now, he suddenly realized that the other party didn't understand at all.

What is Carl really thinking?

Lu Xiao felt that he couldn't imagine it.

Or maybe he just couldn't imagine it.

"You earthlings, do you treat everyone like this?" Arnold asked suddenly.

Lu Xiao was taken aback for a moment, then turned to look at him in puzzlement.

Arnold tilted his head and said to him: "Didn't you just know Carl for a few days? Sammy was the same at that time. When he had an accident, you were 'reborn' for a few days, right? You only knew him for a few days, Can you make you worry so much about them?"

Lu Xiao was taken aback by Arnold's question.

"It is true that we have known each other for a few days, but even if it is only a few days, they are not strangers to me," Lu Xiao said, "Do you think that people on earth are all saints? Sad? The life and death of strangers has nothing to do with us, but Sammy and Karl are not strangers, are they?"

"Hmph...but will it be like this as long as we get to know each other?"

"It's not that it will definitely be like this... But anyway, if someone you know dies, it will always be a little sad to hear such a thing. If you die in front of yourself, of course it will be even more sad."

"Is it because the death of someone you know makes you more aware of the loss of life?" Arnold looked away, speaking lightly, "You people on Earth really have complicated emotions."

"Huh?" Lu Xiao frowned, "You won't tell me that Carl is like this, you don't feel anything, do you?"

"..." Arnold seemed to be lost in thought, and didn't answer for a while.

"You can't do it! I thought you really regarded him as a younger brother. If the whole family dies, it's impossible to have no reaction at all!" Lu Xiao couldn't believe it, paused, and said in a low voice, "It's okay It's too cold-blooded!"

"...Cold-blooded?" Arnold looked at the void and said slowly, "I don't feel it at all, but I think it should be different from yours. After all, it's not the first time I've seen people Dead. Carl was a bit special to me, but..."

He didn't finish his words.

Lu Xiao waited for a long time, but before the second half of the sentence, he said, "You said he was your 'brother' verbally, but it turns out that's not the case at all."

Arnold glanced at him.

"I, unlike you, have no idea what 'family' is like."

Lu Xiao almost understood.

This guy has been with Bazel since he was "born", and has been living in this environment. It is normal to have no family concept, and it is understandable that his relationship is different from ordinary people.

"But I think everyone else in this base gets along like a family," Lu Xiao recalled a series of things that happened after he came to this base, "Although Luna and the others didn't treat me very well, but Objectively speaking, Luna also regards you as her family."

Luna is very dependent on Arnold, and Lu Xiao can still see this.Not only that, that woman Luna should regard the entire base as her home, that's why she resisted him so much.That woman probably thought he would destroy this "home".

"Luna?" Arnold paused, and said, "Well, I just said 'go home' once, and she seemed very happy."

Luna's thoughts are too easy to understand.

So when she asked what he would do if the base was discovered and destroyed, he would tell her about Carl and divert her attention.

Luna should be very concerned about Karl.After all, Karl has a face similar to his, and was born in the same set of experiments as him.

Just taking her to Carl and letting her hear the word "home" should make her less disturbed, and make her stop asking those questions.

"You...don't take this place as your home?"

A hesitant voice came from beside him.

Arnold looked aside.

The blond man watched him.

This is also his confusion.

Is this home?

True, he has lived here since "birth".Although these bases have changed a lot before and after Bazel left, he really never left here.

Used to be following Bazel through the corridors, through the doors crowded with crazy faces.He was bored listening to Bazel giving orders to his subordinates, and looked at the fearful eyes of those researchers who looked at him indifferently.Now he is watched with admiring eyes by the people around him, followed by those who followed him.

"Want to occupy this experimental field" - when did this idea first come into being?And because of what?

Now, if this base is discovered and destroyed, what will happen to him?

If it doesn't matter--

"What about you? Do you think this is a place you can call 'home'?" He threw the question back.

The blond man was stunned for a while before replying, "Of course it doesn't count for me, but if it's you..."

"Hmph..." Arnold raised the corners of his mouth and joked, "Because I've lived here all the time, so I have to regard this as my 'home'?"

In other words, doesn't it mean that he has no other place to return to besides here?

Arnold was about to say something, but suddenly raised his head and glanced at the door.

"What's wrong?" Lu Xiao followed suit.

After a few seconds of silence, Arnold said lightly, "...it's nothing."

Slowly entering the night, the main road was quiet, except for a shadow walking chaotically on the side of the road.

Luna clasped her hands tightly, the veins on the back of her hands protruding.

She gritted her teeth tightly, raised her hand to cover her mouth as she walked, and her hair fell to her forehead in embarrassment.

——Arnold didn't take this place as home at all!

"Going home" or something, is it just lip service?

The people here obviously regard the base as their home, especially Arnold as an important family member, and she treats him even more... But all of this is their wishful thinking, are they the only ones who think so?

She stopped and held onto the lamppost with one hand.

His heart was beating violently, and his whole body was chilling. What he felt more clearly was the disappointment and pain welling up from the bottom of his heart.

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