Starship: Traveling with Monsters

In the end, Lei Xiao couldn't resist his brother's entreaties.Lei Yu had a runny nose and tears, and stared at his brother with tears in his eyes for a long time, so Lei Xiao finally couldn't take it anymore, and with a wave of his big hand, poor Ah Zi flew out, Lei Yu hurriedly pounced, He grabbed the little monster back into his arms.

Ah Zi was bullied miserably, and when she climbed into Lei Yu's arms, she cried out pitifully, and Lei Yu patted its little head comfortingly.The little guy who was comforted was immediately satisfied, turned his head and waved his paw at Lei Xiao in a demonstrative manner, but Lei Xiao snorted coldly, and directly ignored the little thing's provocation.

"Not locking it up is my biggest concession, but this thing must be inspected by me." Lei Xiao made a further request: "Its body structure is definitely different from that of humans, and I'm not sure if it will hurt you, so I'm sorry His inspection and research cannot be avoided...Xiao Yu, you must not be willful on this point."

Lei Yu was a little bit reluctant because his Ah Zi was still very young... But after thinking for a long time with his head down, Lei Yu finally agreed to Lei Xiao's request.Although Lei Yu likes this little monster very much now, his elder brother is right, Ah Zi is still not a real human being, and he can't have [-]% trust in this kind of little thing——Lei Yu can't say, "It's not my race." His heart must be different', but he must admit that the words of his ancestors always have his reasons.

"But, bro...do you want to start the inspection now?" Lei Yu hugged little Ah Zi tightly.

"There's no need to be in a hurry. You haven't eaten anything since you woke up just now." Lei Xiao began to ease the atmosphere. He lowered his head and frowned at the little thing in Lei Yu's arms: "Say, What does this little monster eat?"

What does Ah Zi eat - this is actually a very important question!

"It has teeth, so eating meat shouldn't be a problem, right?" Lei Xiao reached out and opened Ah Zi's small mouth.

"Wow-wow--" Ah Zi kept scratching Lei Xiao's hand with her paws, it really hurts her self-esteem to be rudely opened her mouth.But I don't know the reason, Ah Zi's sharp claws didn't leave any scars on Lei Xiao's hand, but Lei Yu frowned at the sight, of course he knew how sharp Ah Zi's claws and teeth were, Afraid that he would hurt his elder brother, and that Ah Zi would feel uncomfortable, he quickly hugged the little guy.

"Brother! At least be gentle!" Lei Yu rubbed Ah Zi's flushed face, and complained dissatisfiedly to his elder brother.

"This is really..." Lei Xiao clicked his tongue twice: "If you have a child, you will forget about your elder brother, right?"

"How could it be?" Lei Yu shook his head, "Speaking of which, it's still too young to eat meat!"

"No... that's not necessarily the case," Lei Xiao said, "It's a monster, and I guess... the ability to adapt to the environment of this thing must exceed the limit of human imagination, and it's a terrifying ability that we can't predict."

Lei Yu frowned, and lifted Ah Zi in his arms: "But it's still so small..."

"You will grow up soon." Lei Xiao said: "Before——before you were snatched away by the group of lunatics in the center, we originally planned to operate on you to take the monster out. At that time, we used X-ray scanning Take a look at the shape and structure of this little thing in your stomach, and read its data, how should I put it... Its metabolism is very fast, and the speed of cell proliferation and death is several times that of our humans."

"Then... what does this mean?" Lei Yu seemed to understand.

"This may represent two situations. First, his growth rate is very fast, and he may grow into a mature body within a few to a few weeks, but this also means that its lifespan will be very short. , will die within a few months..."

"Ah?" Lei Yu's eyes widened in disbelief: "Are you going to die so soon?"

"No, on the contrary..." Lei Xiao frowned: "Although his metabolism is very fast, his growth can be completed in a short period of time, and his lifespan is also very short-but this does not mean that it will die so early, because it It is likely to have evolutionary abilities unknown to us humans, so I guess that every death of it is the beginning of a new life."

Every death, is a new life?

Lei Yu's eyes widened, and while he was scratching his hair, he was confused: "I'm dead, can I still come back to life?"

"Yes, I can come back to life." Lei Xiao nodded and said, "Didn't this little guy form a cocoon to wrap you with it before, that kind of look, like——right! It's like a caterpillar , or... silkworms?"

"Caterpillar? Silkworm?" Lei Yu was even more confused.

"The caterpillar forms itself into a cocoon, and when it breaks out of the cocoon, it becomes a beautiful butterfly—in short, this is evolution!" Lei Xiao poked Ah Zi's face with his hand: "It will die, but Death is not the end, but another new beginning."

"You say that, I seem to understand a little bit." Lei Yu nodded half-understanding: "That is to say, Ah Zi will continue to evolve... the process of cyclical death and resurrection, it is very likely that its lifespan will last as long as Will it be the real thing in the legend—eternal life?"

"Yes." Lei Xiao agreed with his younger brother's point of view: "But this may also be a conjecture of mine. Before there is no definite evidence, this little thing is still full of mystery... But, Xiao Yu, there is one thing I want to tell you in advance, if this little monster cocooned you and itself in it last time, the same situation may happen next time."

"Brother, can you make it simpler, I don't understand." Lei Yu was puzzled: "Last time this guy wrapped me into a big cocoon, and I was trapped in it for several days, but..." Lei Yu rubbed his chin: "In there, this little guy seems to be healing my wound. Anyway, without its treatment, I would probably die."

"Oh? Really...?" Lei Xiao seemed to have thought of something, thought for a while, and then said: "Then my conjecture may be established-this little monster is likely to use the power and opportunity of its own evolution , were used to save your life!"

Lei Xiao's words surprised Lei Yu.

"Save... my life??!!"

"Even if it is a monster, it hardly has much power when it is just born, so I guess, this kind of monster can choose to evolve as soon as it is born, so as to obtain stronger power to protect itself. But it is still so soft now. So... all I can think of is that in order to save you, it gave up its first chance to evolve, and it has to wait until it grows, and it seems that it will have to wait until the next time."

"No! No!" Lei Yu shook his head vigorously, and said to his brother: "It was just born at that time! It was just born! It didn't even grow all the hair...a little thing smaller than my fist! And it's not Human, brother... why do you think it has the ability to save me? And, how could it be so smart that it knew how to save me from birth?!"

Lei Xiao sighed, and looked up at his younger brother: "Xiao Yu, in the days when you were caught, I have been secretly collecting information from the federal government, as well as all kinds of experiments those researchers have done on you. They all learned from Xiao's information that probably, no matter how crazy the central researchers are, they are mentally abnormal... They are indeed the most powerful group of scientists on the earth. They have established a series of plans for this monster. This monster, because of its super-fast growth, even has extraordinary intelligence and has a very high learning ability... Although there are no specific examples to verify these hypotheses, just judging from your experience and the reaction of this little monster, I have to admit that many of what these lunatics said are correct."

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Lei Xiao's guess surprised Lei Yu for a while. During the period, he checked the little monster in his arms several times, but he didn't see anything particularly powerful about Ah Zi.Squeezing Ah Zi's body and tail vigorously, he found that it was really as soft as his brother said.Ah Zi seemed to enjoy Lei Yu's comfort, rolling and rubbing against Lei Yu's palm.

"Brother, I just don't understand why it is so clingy to me that it could give up its strength and choose to save my life from the very beginning."

"Hmm..." Lei Xiao stood up and leaned against the wall: "Have you ever heard that some creatures will regard the first creature they see as their mother when they are born, I think... well, that's the principle Right. Besides, you are its mother..."

Lei Yu didn't like words like his brother saying that he was Ah Zi's mother, but soon he basically accepted his fate, anyway, he was born by himself, but soon he didn't understand: "This is not normal. Ah, I was just forcibly implanted with the embryos of those monsters. I thought that such a horrible creature would eat the mother's body as nourishment as soon as it was born."

"Who knows, I don't really understand." Lei Xiao shook his head and said, "I'm done talking nonsense, I'll get you something to eat, you haven't eaten for days."

Lei Yu is very happy that he has a considerate elder brother. The two brothers haven't seen each other for a long time, and they have a lot of things to talk about at the dinner table.Lei Xiao ordered takeaway, and the delivery boy arrived 10 minutes later, paid the money, and brought a bag of things to the dining table.

Lei Yu was already hungry, lying on the dining table and staring at his brother pitifully, what's interesting is that Ah Zi also lay beside Lei Yu, staring at Lei Xiao with the same eyes.Lei Xiao couldn't stand the big one and the small one a little bit, touched his nose and took the takeaway out of the bag.

"Your body has just recovered, so you can't eat greasy food. It's enough to drink some porridge and some vegetables." Lei Xiao took most of the delicious food in front of Lei Yu's eyes, so Lei Yu could only pity him Xixi holding a bowl to drink porridge.

Lei Xiao narrowed his eyes and glanced at Ah Zi again, put a plate of roasted golden and tender Dongpo meat in front of it, and muttered to himself while observing carefully: "This little thing probably eats a lot, right?"

Ah Zi walked around Dongpo Meat twice, and sniffed it with her nose, stretched out her paws and grabbed the meat on the plate as if facing an enemy, the paws were all greasy, Finally, he licked his paw with his tongue, as if he had tasted the sweetness, so he pounced on it and began to eat big.

"You don't eat well, your whole body is full of oil." Lei Xiao helplessly stared at the little monster on the table circling around Dongpo meat.

Lei Yu looked at his Ah Zi happily.Reach out from time to time and let the cute little guy lick his fingers.