Cub Raising Association

On the quiet night of the Nessera Festival, a bright moon hangs high in the sky, and the frosty moonlight quietly falls on the streets of Sailuo City.

The small balls of light that had danced like fireflies in the streets gradually dimmed and disappeared one by one, which also represented the end of the Nessera festival this year.

In the hotel room, the two adults and one cub lying on the same bed have already fallen asleep, except for the mermaid cub sleeping in the middle, nestled in the young man’s arms, which occasionally moves its tail fin. Nothing else happened.

The darker the night, the more conspicuous the faint brilliance of the moonstone will become. This oval gem, which Xie Tao carried in his clothes pocket, is now showing a faint gleam, which contrasts with the frosty moon outside the window. Hua seems to form a kind of echo.

In the legend of the mermaid race, the moonstone will play an incredible role when given to lovers as a token of love.

Xie Tao had heard this rumor, but like everyone else, he only regarded it as a story that bestowed a beautiful meaning on gemstones, but now he seems to have actually experienced something unexpected.

After lying on the bed and falling asleep, when Xie Tao opened his eyes again, what he saw was not the familiar scene from the original world, but an extremely dilapidated and desolate scene.

There are ruins all around, and the buildings are so damaged that they can't see what they looked like originally.

The sky was too dark to see a trace of blue, the wind blowing across the city brought up waves of dust, and the barren scene stretched as far as the eye could see...

It's like the planet is dead.

In this dilapidated scene, Xie Tao stood still for the time being. He hadn't figured out what was going on until he saw a white cub lying alone in the ruins.

Xie Tao recognized this cub egg.

Although the cub egg was white and different from the color he remembered, Xie Tao could still recognize it.

And just because he recognized him, Xie Tao had some clues about his current situation.

Xie Tao couldn't touch the white baby egg when he got close to it, he could only stand here as a bystander.

But the moment he approached, Xie Tao was suddenly filled with a strange feeling, which didn't belong to him, but belonged to this baby egg.

As if sharing the perception of the world, Xie Tao can now indirectly experience all the feelings of this cub egg, including being alone in this barren ruin...

It's a very indescribable feeling.

This cub born inside the eggshell has already been able to perceive things in the outside world. Although the shell has not yet broken, this cub egg is conscious and has a very clear perception of the outside world.

The dozens of layers of defense devices protecting this baby egg have completely failed after withstanding the severe impact. Next to this baby egg is a string of silver necklaces of unknown material. Xie Tao lowered his head and just saw this necklace. The ring attached to the necklace is engraved with the word "Yai".

Still in a state of ignorance to the outside world, this cub egg can only wait very quietly in this ruined ruin.

Waiting for the shell to be born, or for someone who will come to the place and pick it up.

Never knowing that this cub egg has a clear perception of the outside world since then, Xie Tao wanted to pick up this lonely cub egg and touch it, but he couldn't do it.

This place should be the spiritual domain of this Knox. This is Xie Tao's judgment based on various conditions.

As for why he entered here, Xie Tao thought about it, and now he can only think of the legend about the moonstone in the mermaid race.

This cub egg stayed in this barren ruin for a day or two...

After waiting quietly for a long time, this planet that can be said to have become a relic ushered in a group of visitors. At the same time, it was also the Covenant troops who searched for the cub egg from the ruins.

Being found should have been a good thing for the baby egg, but since the baby egg was found, through shared perception, Xie Tao gradually felt more and more negative emotions.

Heavy, shrouded like a shadow, weighing heavily on my heart.

The perceived negative emotions towards him from others will gradually transform into something extraordinarily cold. With the accumulation of this negative emotion, Xie Tao saw that the shell of this baby egg gradually changed from white to black.

Time flow speeded up unknowingly, Xie Tao looked at the later experience of this cub egg almost like a slide show, but he couldn't see the end.

Because watching and watching, the world in front of Xie Tao's eyes kept getting darker, and finally fell into the darkness of invisible objects.

This blackness is the darkness that resides in the heart of this Knox.

"—"

At the moment when his vision was completely plunged into darkness, like a long dream, Xie Tao finally returned to the original world when he opened his eyes again.

Letting out a breath, Xie Tao sat up from the bed.

Ever since he passively established a spiritual link between the two worlds, Xie Tao has become more and more nerdy in the original world.

But anyway, with Xie Tao's current reputation, even if he only receives one drawing every month, he still has a lot of spare money to spend, freelance work, it can be said that he can live in whatever he wants.

The trip every two or three months was also cancelled. Since Xie Tao didn't live with his family, the only thing that caused Xie Tao's reclusive life in recent times was to treat him like a brother.

In fact, Lu Yuan didn't pay much attention to this at first, but he always remembered that on the day of the winter solstice about two months ago, when he was sent by the elders of his family to deliver dumplings to the young people, the other party asked him if he could stop by the bookstore next door Buy a copy of "Parenting Book"——

If it was to give a gift to a friend who had a child, Lu Yuan felt that it should not be a gift of "The Book of Parenting", let alone a gift to a relative, which made Lu Yuan feel very complicated at the time.

If he hadn't seen the young man's calm and natural expression when he took the book, Lu Yuan would have almost blurted out and asked if the other party had something to hide from him.

After getting up and tidying himself up, Xie Tao sat down in front of the computer desk, opened his Weibo while using the drawing board.

In addition to the artist's sketches, Xie Tao usually completes some sketches according to his own inspiration or personal preferences, and uploads these paintings on Weibo.

"My wife recently draws all cute things. I have no resistance to fluffy things. Of course, the little mermaid and crayfish are also very cute. I call my wife every day!!"

"I always feel that Da L's painting skills have improved again. I don't know how to say it, but I feel that the recent paintings are very lively..."

"Squat down, I want to see more cuties."

When Xie Tao saw the word "cray lobster", his hand holding the sensor pen couldn't help shaking slightly. He knew that this comment was actually about the cub Muka.

Of course this cub looks different from a crayfish, but when he saw the address, Xie Tao had to admit that there was a part of the similarity.

Some time ago, when Xie Tao returned to the original world, he would often use a drawing board to draw the cubs in the branch.

Originally, Xie Tao just uploaded non-commercial manuscripts to Weibo habitually, and didn't think about doing much, but his Weibo fans unexpectedly liked it.

In addition to depicting the appearance of the cubs, many of the pictures Xie Tao drew were of commemorative significance. The picture of the chest is another example of the picture of the Kuti cub being carried by its father for parent-child activities.

This time, Xie Tao originally wanted to draw a scene of a little mermaid with an ice-blue fishtail and light blonde short hair singing on the reef, but because of the unexpected incident just experienced, Xie Tao finally drew on the digital screen. A round, fluffy cub with two small horns on its head.

The vertical pupils are also round. This cub looks very round and easy to touch. The posture of its body makes this cub look very obedient, and the two small horns on its head are also very cute.

This is not the first time Xie Tao has drawn this Knox cub. After he finished the drawing, he uploaded this drawing to Weibo, and Xie Tao quickly received a series of new comments.

"It's so good. I liked it the last time I saw this cute little L painting."

The subsequent comments were also similar to this. Xie Tao looked at the comment section of this Weibo, and his eyebrows were really relaxed at this moment.

Although a world away, these kindnesses may not be able to be conveyed to the other party, but they still exist.

I still want to convey these kindness indirectly. When Xie Tao woke up in the hotel room in Cerro City, he first hugged the mermaid cub that was still nestled in his arms but was already awake and looking at him with blue eyes. Put it back into the small pool to restore its functions, and then Xie Tao walked to the silver-haired Knox who was standing nearby.

Without speaking, Xie Tao just stood still and gently hugged the person in front of him.

Before responding in action, Yayi's vertical pupils narrowed slightly, and he wrapped the silver tail around the young man's waist. This was the Knox's most instinctive reaction.

Emotions appeared on the indifferent and handsome face. This Knox lowered his eyebrows slightly, and carefully hugged the human youth in front of him.