Rules for raising elves [Interstellar Apocalypse]

Chapter 4 The planet turned into dust

Elf cubs are actually very easy to raise creatures most of the time.

As long as you give her a little food, or give her a toy or a book, she can stay quietly and motionless in one place for a whole day without any irritable reaction.

And his learning ability is very strong. Two days ago, I was confused about the language they spoke. But two days later, with some simple Cubs Learning Tools for Interstellar Language, I was able to understand most of their daily expressions and use some basic vocabulary. Communicate.

Although he always has a cute accent.

The elf's curiosity is very strong, and he obviously has a pampered appearance, but he behaves like an antique who has entered modern society for the first time.

Can't even use the shower.

Without holding on to it, the turned-on showerhead fell to the ground. The strong water flow caused it to twist crazily like a snake on the ground, spraying water everywhere.

Leo heard the noise at the door and rushed in. He saw the elf, who was splashed with water, like a golden retriever dog that had fallen into the water. He was looking at the dancing shower head with his big wet eyes open. Looks like he doesn't know what happened to it.

Ignoring his clothes getting wet, Leo immediately stepped in front, then quickly closed the valve and put the shower head back on the wall.

"Sorry about the clothes..." A small apology came from behind him. Leo lowered his head and realized that she was apologizing for his wet clothes.

Leo waved his hand quickly: "It's okay, Miss Xia. I'll do it soon. Just hope you're okay."

After saying that, I still felt a little guilty in my heart.

There were only men on the entire spaceship, so Leo could only verbally and carefully explain to the elf how to take a bath and apply shower gel, but he forgot to teach her how to use this outdated bathing equipment.

Nowadays, all the homes with moderate conditions are equipped with fully intelligent ones, but they are the only ones here who still use this obsolete mechanical model.

She skillfully turned the mechanical valve to adjust the water temperature to a suitable temperature. After a while, the shower head again sprayed water as gentle as a rain curtain. Sia looked up and couldn't help but let out a sound of admiration.

Obviously, Leo felt sincere admiration for subduing this uncontrollable and terrifying "iron snake" that sprayed water in just a few strokes.

Leo blushed suddenly, as if he didn't expect to be praised for such a simple thing. He stuttered a little when he spoke: "No...it's nothing serious. Can you wash it yourself? If you have any questions, you can ask me. I Waiting for you right outside the door."

Sia looked at the "iron snake" that had become docile after being subdued, recalled the method Leo had used to "subdue" it, and nodded solemnly: "I can do it."

After the door was closed again, Shia slowly took off the simple cloak, revealing skin as delicate as white jade, with a charming luster.

Walking under the water, feeling the warm water droplets splashing on her skin, pooling into water and slowly flowing through every corner of her body, Shia made a sound of satisfaction.

It turns out that this is what it feels like to be warmed by water.

Although elves have always preferred bathing with flower petals in the water, this seemed to be a good idea.

Humans are really a powerful race.

According to the method taught by Leo, first wet the bath beads with water, and then the delicate and small transparent beads will melt into your hands. After rubbing, there will be a lot of foam and a faint floral fragrance.

After rinsing, the "Iron Snake" stopped spitting water again and put on the clean men's shirt that Leo had prepared for her. The heat dyed her skin a light pink.

Like a rose covered with dew.

Sia was about to run around in the cab, avoiding the whirring blower in Leo's hand, revealing the rare naughty side of a cub.

"What is this?" Sia pointed to the holographic interstellar map unfolded in the cockpit.

"This is an interstellar map. I am determining the route for the last time." Caleb explained patiently, and then silently put the elf, who was running around barefoot, into the driver's seat.

"The ground is very cold." Caleb cast a disapproving look at Leo, who had been honored to be promoted to Sia's temporary nanny.

"I really can't find shoes that Miss Sia can wear, and Miss Sia doesn't want to." The black-haired boy's eyes were as gentle as gems, filled with grievances.

There was really nothing he could do to find shoes that a 10-year-old girl could wear in a spaceship full of men. Originally, he had spent nine years and two tigers trying to modify a pair of men's slippers. The elf was very proud to try them on, and then when he tried to run, he almost fell to the ground with the laces.

"Want to leave?" Sia twisted in the driver's seat curiously, turned her head and looked at Caleb with sparkling eyes. Her hair had just been blown dry, and she looked like a little animal with fried hair.

"Yes." Caleb drew a line on the three-dimensional interstellar map, and a luminous route slowly appeared among the large and small floating planets, all the way to the end of a brown planet surrounded by several asteroids. Shia let out another surprised "wow", which was extremely strange.

"We need to return to the outpost base of District 640, Planet Cassman first." The weather on planet M stabilized as scheduled two days later, and it was time to set off.

"You can play ball with Cal a little longer," Caleb said.

Sia nodded obediently, understanding that this was an adult meeting and she didn't need help. She rolled down from the driver's seat like a dexterous butterfly, took the yellow ball, and wanted to talk to the excited people beside her. The golden retriever went to the open space outside the spacecraft to play a ball-throwing game.

She was getting better and better at controlling her body.

"Protect Miss Shia and don't get hurt," Caleb instructed.

"Absolutely not! I promise!" The golden-haired boy slapped his chest.

It wasn't until Xia's figure disappeared from sight that Leo's expression gradually became serious.

"Captain, are you sure our choice is correct?"

Caleb's movement of sliding the interstellar map stopped.

"We have no choice. This planet has reached its limit." After saying that, he closed the map and motioned Leo to look at the ancient tree outside the cockpit window.

Looking at it, Li Ao discovered that this big tree, which was still lush and green when they arrived, had withered in just two days, and the yellow leaves on the branches were slowly falling down.

Amazing speed.

"Did Duck and his team's search yield any results?"

"There's nothing special, except that there are some recyclable metals and energy stones in the wreckage of the spacecraft around here. The buildings we saw on the road have been weathered for a long time, and there are no traces of biological activity left. Except for this,"

Leo opened the photo sent by Duck and the others and pointed it at Caleb: "These dry river beds and degraded mountain walls show that there used to be an environment suitable for species to survive here, but for some reason they all seemed to have disappeared out of thin air. Same. No bones and no graves, which is so weird."

As soon as the words changed, his hand drew out some other pictures that he cared more about: "After Dak and the others cleaned up the debris around them, they discovered that there are actually many strange patterns and words in the circle where we are. I don't know. Is it related to the reason why many aircraft crashed near here?"

Caleb observed these pictures carefully. The patterns resembled many overlapping hexagrams, but the dense text surrounding these hexagrams did not resemble any interstellar language he had come into contact with. It reminded him of the strange patterns and carvings carved on the trees. A small sign with Sia's name on it. He had a vague feeling that they might be part of the same system and belong to another civilization.

"Is it the language of ancient humans?"

"It's not certain yet... because there are many types of ancient human languages, and it's not yet fully deciphered how many there are. Maybe they haven't been discovered yet." Leo felt a little worried about this.

"Can we really... still help Miss Shia find her family? Will..." He couldn't say the next words. If it is true, then how sad Miss Shia must be.

"It doesn't matter." Caleb used a rare gentle tone towards the dejected black-haired boy: "If we can't find her family, then we will be her family."

Leo suddenly raised his head, somewhat in disbelief. He murmured in a low voice: "Are people like me... qualified to be Miss Shia's family?"

His bloodline gene is only D-level, and he is a hybrid of dolphins and killer whales... apart from being smarter, better-looking, and eating more than his peers, he has almost no other advantages. When people like him left District 9, there were a lot of orcs who were stronger and more powerful than him. Not to mention females like Miss Shia, even if an ordinary female chooses a family, it is impossible for him to get his turn.

Caleb seemed to feel Leo's unspoken inferiority complex, and his words were very powerful: "As long as you believe in yourself and try your best, you will definitely do well. Leo, you are better than you think." Be strong."

After that, he patted the young man on the shoulder and said, "Don't think too much. Let Karl come back with Miss Shia in a while. We should leave."

-

Good times are always short-lived.

After receiving Leo's message, Karl, who happily played several rounds of ball-throwing games with Sia, looked unsatisfied, but reluctantly put down the ball and prepared to take Sia away from the open space he had specially cleaned for playing games. Get into the spaceship.

Wow, the precious alone time with Miss Shia passed too fast. He felt that he could run many more times!

Yes, the ball-throwing game played by Sia and Karl was literally a game in which Sia was responsible for throwing the ball and Karl was responsible for picking it up. Sia didn't understand why she was so happy just picking up the ball, but Carl obviously enjoyed this sport very much.

"Let's play again later, okay?" Sia comforted the golden-haired boy by tugging on his clothes.

Karl then instantly shook off the little bit of dissatisfaction in his mind and nodded crazily. The big dog's mind is so simple.

But just when she was about to enter the spaceship, Shia's steps stopped hesitantly.

"Miss Shia, what's wrong?" Karl lowered his head and asked. Then I found a leaf falling gently into Xiao Jin's golden hair.

"Goodbye, Shia. May the stars be with you."

Xia gently picked off the leaf, looked back at the old tree, and felt a little inexplicably sad in her heart.

"Goodbye." Shia said in Elvish.

Although Karl didn't understand what Sia said, he seemed to know that she was saying her final farewell. The golden-haired boy bent down and gave Sia a warm hug.

"Miss Shia, don't be sad." He comforted.

Sia nodded slightly, looked behind her one last time, and then followed Karl into the cabin.

The cabin door of the spaceship behind her slowly fell, and her figure was quickly hidden.

The ancient trees made a rustling sound, as if they were also using their last strength to respond to the elves.

Legend has it that elves were first born from the Tree of Life, although later most elves were able to give birth to offspring through natural reproduction and no longer relied on the Tree of Life. But as the last tree of life of the elves, it has still spent hundreds of millions of years here, witnessing the planet where the elves once lived, from prosperity to decline.

Finally all the elves left, they all came here to say goodbye to it softly.

It has been accompanying the elves for a long enough time, but it chose to reach an agreement with this decayed planet in its last moments.

Soon after, the yellow gravel spread out, and with a roar of engines, the silver spacecraft slowly rose, passed through the sand layer above the head, and returned to the sky.

1000 meters, 2000 meters, 5000 meters... The spacecraft left the atmosphere and entered the deep and quiet universe.

Sia was firmly wrapped in Leo's arms and fixed on the seat. She turned her head and watched intently as the yellow planet became smaller and smaller, and then when it became the size of quinoa bread, the junk star called M640 suddenly dimmed in color, as if it had suddenly lost it. The last power, then silently, turned into fine dust and slowly scattered into the universe.

As if wanting to follow her departing footsteps one last time, the dust from these planets formed a shimmering trickle and followed the ship. Until I watched the spacecraft pass through the small meteorite belt and turned into a small black dot.

"Our mission is over." That ancient tree, that planet, and the will of those who have departed all fell asleep together with the vast starry sky in their finally satisfied form at this moment.

Perhaps the young elf will never return to the homeland where she once lived, and will never meet those who are looking forward to her birth, but in her mind, she will vaguely remember that there once was a tree and A planet that once loved her with all its strength.

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