overnight evolution

A mouse scuttled past the corner.

I lowered my head and glanced at the dark rodent, shrank my feet, went around my back with my right hand and gently patted my sore waist, not daring to make too much noise.I think this might be the last chance to figure it out, because everyone likes to keep mysteries behind my back, and they never seem to have expectations of my IQ.

...so much so that even I felt that this was the way things should be.

Seeing that I didn't move, the glistening black mouse stopped, straightened up and squatted on its hind legs, its front paws retracted in front of its body, and its black eyes turned around.It looked at the corner of the wall, at the door panel, at the stairs, and even at the boy who was avoiding his father's palm with a pale face, but didn't look at me.

...It turns out that Lao Tzu's sense of existence has become so thin that even a mouse can ignore it.

I narrowed my eyes, lifted my toes maliciously and quickly, and kicked the floor, and the result——

The mouse shook its beard calmly, and squatted on the spot without moving.

I:"……"

The world has changed, and mice are not afraid of people.

The wind ran from one end of the ground to the other, then turned back, and blew back to the roof, blowing away a group of worms of light hovering above.The blood splashed on the boy's body gradually dried up in the wind, and the purple blood coagulated on the broad sword he held tightly in his hand, making the entire blade extremely mottled.

He took a step back and stood still, with wavering in his eyes, but he still tried his best to straighten his back.

"No, that's not the case." The clear voice had become hoarse due to exhaustion. "I don't know why my father chose to leave Atlantis and go back to the Zerg, and I don't know why I was born when you are already facing life and death—"

The boy stopped, thought for a while, and then continued, "But I think, since I'm back here, if I don't do something to change everything, I can't rest in peace even if I die. You see Ah Feng's smiling face every day, so don't worry about it. I will understand how I feel. If I hadn’t seen him at the age of sixteen or seventeen, I wouldn’t have known that he was so carefree.”

I watched him stretch out his hand slowly, covering his chest, and then subconsciously did the same.

"I want to see Ah Feng's smiling face all the time, so I don't have to rummage through the only memories I have..." Let go of the five fingers that were holding the skirt of his clothes, Xi pulled the corner of his mouth with difficulty, and opened his palm for Xiu in front of him to see , "Look, dear father, even if you look for it so earnestly, it's still empty——"

I am silent.Speaking of this, if I say that I didn't understand who Xi's son was, someone would probably charge over with a knife and chop me up.

I stared at him, alive, my son!

——Speaking of it this way, it feels quite similar, those eyes, those noses, if the feeling of melancholy is removed and replaced with a heartless smile, it will be even more similar.Hey, my son, I can't help looking at him with a little fascination, this is the best thing in my life...

No, where is the point? Hey! !What kind of trouble did you want to make by suddenly changing the plot from a family ethics drama to Dragon Ball? !

The belated surprise made me touch my stomach with trembling hands, and then I breathed a sigh of relief, because the stomach was still bulging, which meant that my son was still inside. ——But the one standing on the roof is my son again, I, how can I have so many sons?I'm just joking about six kids, you can't be serious with me, dear!

What does it mean to have one in your belly and another standing in front of you? ——It means that one day in the future, I will have to conceive a second egg, and the one hatched from that egg will be Qi...

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I said that if my youngest was a boy, he would be named Chi.

He will have black hair, black eyes, and may be very quiet or mischievous, but he must like to act like a baby to his father and me.Not for anything else, just because he will be my most beloved child, and I will send the best things in the world to him, and there will never be any shadow in his eyes.

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The bond of blood is amazing, and the blood of Atlantis seems to make this connection more clearly magnified on her people.A child who never had, it sounds unbelievable, but I know he's not lying.

My youngest son, he stood in front of me, his long black eyelashes trembling slightly like the wings of a wounded butterfly, and his emaciated back was so heavy that I didn't know how to straighten it.I don't know where he came from, where he is going, and what he has experienced in places I can't see.

He stood two meters away from me with his head down, and as long as he opened the door and took two steps, he could hug him.However, I didn't move, and I completely forgot the existence of the legs.A little imperceptible watery light overflowed from his eye sockets under the cover of his long eyelashes, and was quickly blown away by the wind.I stood there and felt that my eye sockets were so painful that they were about to burst. When I reached out to touch them, tears streamed down my face, and I was blown cold by the wind.

Before I became a father, I wanted to let my children always have a pair of clear eyes and a carefree smile on their faces.Yet when my youngest son stood in front of me, his face was tired and his eyes were full of sadness.He came back here from a certain time in the future, guarding this secret, watching us alone from a distance.

Alone, quietly, looking at this time that does not belong to him.

The mouse in the corner finally got tired of squatting, shook its beard, and ran away rustling.

When he heard the movement behind the door, his eyes suddenly became fierce like a wolf, and instantly penetrated the almost stagnant air——

"Who?!"

What came before this violent drink was a scorching sword light and a violent murderous aura.

The picture becomes frozen in front of the eyes, and the trajectory of the flying particles of light is clearly discernible.In his eyes, he could clearly see how the door panel in front of him was torn apart by the red sword light, and how the mouse at his feet squeaked and blew up like an inflated balloon.

For a moment, I thought I would die under his sword, but the scorching sword light hit the sky and covered the sky, shaking the space faintly, and tiny cracks appeared.Unable to dodge in time, even his voice was blocked in his throat, and he could only watch the sword light explode in front of his eyes like fireworks, shattering into countless streamers of light passing by his side——

Then, none of them fell on me.

The breath he inhaled before he was discovered was held until the smoke dissipated before he exhaled again. He broke out in a cold sweat, and his feet were so weak that he almost couldn't stand still.The wall behind me was not as lucky as myself. Even if I didn't look back, I knew how hideous traces were left on the wall.Flames trickled down cracks in the wall, devouring everything they touched, with occasional soft crackles in the still air.

... Xi's ultimate move passed me and hit the wall behind me, smashing them to pieces.

It took me some time to digest this fact the hard way.

It's hard.Because I was standing right in front of this wall, no matter what, the sword light should fall on me first, instead of passing by as if it didn't see me.

Could it be that Jian Guang also has eyes and knows how to turn?

In any case, without the cover of the door panel, I was exposed.

The wind blowing unobstructed on my face made me feel a little weak, and if they asked me how much I heard, how would that explain it?

But Xiu stood where he was, and his eyes didn't fall on me from the beginning to the end, as if I wasn't the only one standing by the door.He walked forward silently, put his right hand on Xi's left shoulder, and said in a low voice: "You have lost your sense of normalcy, you can't even notice what is hiding behind the door—"

Like all strict fathers, he frowned dissatisfied with his son, "In this case, how do you keep your vow?"

I heard this in the rejoicing of the rest of my life, and I subconsciously looked in the direction of Xi.In the smoke and dust, only the boy's movement of putting down the broadsword was very clear.The hostility between his eyebrows has not completely dissipated, as if he didn't see me, he said in a hoarse voice: "I will pay attention next time." After that, he hesitated for another two seconds before calling out the unfamiliar name He closed his mouth, "—Father."

"There is no next time on the battlefield." Shaven put down his hands expressionlessly, and said coldly, "You can't keep calm all the time, the only thing waiting for you is death. As a soldier, you don't need weaknesses."

The melancholy that I was familiar with appeared in Xi's eyes again: "I... can't let Ah Feng know about me." He pursed his lips stubbornly, "I don't know why I want to kill his most important person, at least I have someone Can make him hate."

After a long time, he whispered again, "I hope that there will be no such opportunity. Being hated by him will make me feel worse than death."

I held on to the half-cracked door frame, and suddenly felt that if such a caring child could be hatched from the next egg, it would not be so unbearable to be pregnant again.Although people were completely ignored, and he didn't look at me at all when he said such words, I still felt very happy...and very sad.

It's really annoying to have to face the facts.

After brewing for a long time, I finally plucked up the courage and decided to go out, but someone broke the warm and heavy atmosphere one step ahead of time.The silver-haired man who stayed silent for a long time rubbed his chin, and suddenly said: "It seems that your hope is about to fail, even if you kill us all, your father will return to the Zerg territory one day " He folded his arms, he had fully recovered, and was looking at Xi with pity, "No one can stop this from happening, no one can do it."

When he said the last sentence, his gaze fell on Xiu vaguely.

Xiu glanced at him, turned to Xi indifferently, and said, "If there is a day, you can kill me."

Because of this sentence, Xi's pupils shrank slightly, and even I, who was standing in the shadow, was startled. What does this mean?

Xiu didn't stay any longer, turned around and walked towards the stairs, "After killing your own father, you will truly grow up, my son." I stood by the door without moving, racking my brains to think of what to do. How to face Xiu's accusation, but he passed through my body without squinting.

——Wait, passed through?

He passed through...

Just passed through...

Absolutely wave your sleeves without taking away a single cloud...

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It wasn't until the sound of Xiu's footsteps disappeared in the darkness that I mustered up the courage to look down——

The body is complete, no holes.If there was anything wrong with it, it would be that the crystal hanging around his neck had slipped out of his clothes and was floating in the air.The white light that I had seen in my dream was rippling away like ripples, separating the world centered on it from the outer space.

I'm looking out at the world outside, but people outside can't see me.

The elegant fragrance that belongs to women surrounds me from behind, and I hear the gentle voice in my dream asking softly: "How does it feel to be no longer deceived, my child?"

Surrounded by her fragrance, I couldn't move, and the corner of her white dress was reflected in the corner of my eye.

She stretched out her white arms, her soft fingertips caressed the corners of my stiff eyes lovingly like a mother, her palms covered my eyes with the gentle warmth of a woman, covering the figure of Xi passing in front of me , covering the smile on the silver-haired man's lips——

"This is just the beginning of everything, I will let you see more, more..."

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I dreamed again, this time it was the battlefield under the setting sun, the soil under my feet was soaked with too much blood, showing a black and red color.The wounded roar of beasts echoed in the open field, and the broken limbs and arms of the Zerg were stuck in the mud, still twitching from time to time.

The sky above the head was covered with thick clouds, which was illuminated by the setting sun into a blood-red color. Looking around, I was still the only spectator.The battle has ceased, both the living and the dead fell to the ground, except for me, an outsider, the only ones standing were a man and a woman in the middle of the battlefield.

A woman with gorgeous red hair is holding a heavy weapon that is even more exaggerated than Qi's broadsword. The golden armor outlines the perfect body curve in a heroic and full of temptation. The waist-length hair is flying like a dancing flame. in the wind.With a thought in my mind, I immediately shifted from where I was standing to face her, and finally saw her face clearly.

...It was so touching, and it didn't disappoint me at all.

Whether it's the glamorous and aggressive facial features, or her aura that combines warrior heroism and femininity, people can't take their eyes off her.Beauty, what a beauty, what a beauty that cannot be seen in hundreds of years——

But why does this beauty make me feel familiar?

After pondering secretly for a long time, but failed, she turned her head to look at the person facing her.I almost couldn't hold it at this sight—beauty, it's a very familiar beauty again!Although he looked even more paralyzed than Xiu, his appearance was really unreal, and it was even more breath-taking than the beautiful woman in golden armor opposite him.

bang.

I turned my head and saw the red-haired beauty throwing the sword in her hand to the ground, showing a tired expression: "Forget it, I don't want to go on anymore. If you remember it today, you will still forget it tomorrow."

She brushed aside a strand of red hair that was blocking her eyes, and looked at the person opposite with her dark blue eyes, "You kill me."

The man narrowed his silver eyes slightly, and his low voice slid through the listener's heart, causing a tremor: "We... have loved?"

She waved her hand in a disinterested way: "No, nothing."

Paused, seemed a little unwilling, and said in a low voice, "Anyway, you won't remember it after I told you. Even if I tell you again today, I will still have a fight when we meet tomorrow. My son broke his shell today, and his face is so handsome. Like you, but originally a griffin."

"Why do you still tell me this?" Although the expression didn't change, the coldness in the eyes belonging to the foreign race has faded a lot, "Didn't you say that tomorrow I won't remember anything?"

The red-haired beauty cursed twice in annoyance, and then compromised: "I don't plan to bring my son to you, so I ask you to name him."

The tall man thought for a moment, softened the corners of his mouth, and said softly, "Since it's a boy, let's call it Xiu." After speaking, a deep laugh came from his throat, and a faint smile appeared on his lips, "Even children Born, it seems that we did love."

She bent down to pick up the sword on the ground, and as soon as she looked up, she saw the tall man on the opposite side stretching out his right hand wrapped in a black leather glove towards her. She frowned and brushed the drooping red hair towards the back of her head rashly with her fingers: "what?"

"Once again." The man maintained the posture of reaching out, and his broad shoulders looked very reliable, "Remind me."

The red-haired beauty moved her lips, uttered a swear word silently, and complained viciously: "It's the same sentence every time..." Saying so, she still sealed the weapon back into her palm, and moved The long legs walked towards the king of the alien race, letting him hold her.

Still stained with blood on their hands, the two standing in the opposing camp gradually walked away in the setting sun.

I stood on the high slope and watched them go away, and I could hear their voices coming intermittently—

"...I remembered, Arya." The man said in a low voice, "I seem to love you very much."

"You've said this to me no less than a hundred times, and you still don't remember it the next day." The woman's voice was disdainful.

First there was a muffled laugh, and then something like a promise: "I will remember your smell."

The first reaction of those who heard this was——

"Go away, all you have in your head is the smell of food."

"As long as my memory lasts, so will my love for you." The gentle male voice didn't seem angry.

"……I know."

"sorry."

"No, I love you."

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Open your eyes and see the ceiling.

It was very warm in the quilt, but I still curled up in Xiu's arms, with my head on his arm and my back against his chest.In this posture, I don't even know how he got up from the bed and left without anyone noticing.After thinking for a moment, he moved his neck, turned to face him with difficulty, and stared straight at his face.The nose is straight, the eyelashes are long, and the face is long. Like his parents, they are beauties born hundreds of years ago——

Although she always spoiled her good looks with a blank face, she was still a beauty, and no one could deny it.

I leaned forward and took a bite on his chin, leaving two rows of teeth marks.

Put a stamp on him, and then the person belongs to me, and no one will give it to anyone who robs him.

... This is the case now, what can happen later?

In the darkness, Xiu slowly opened his eyes, without a trace of haze that should have just woken up: "Can't sleep?"

I thought about it, but didn't tell the truth: "I had a dream, dreaming that you left Atlantis with those people, and then woke up."

Xiu was silent for two seconds, put his hands on my back, and his deep and moving voice sounded like a cello in the darkness: "Griffins exist to protect Atlantis, and I will not leave here."

I moved my lips, said nothing, and finally compromised: "Well, I may have thought a little too much." Then I added, "Besides this unpleasant thing, I also dreamed about my son. In the dream He looks as big as me, but I can't see who he looks more like."

Carefully turning over, he moved closer without pressing his stomach, took a breath, and said in a low voice, "I don't feel very at ease, so... don't hide anything from me."

Xiu didn't hear my implication, but just hummed lightly and stroked my hair: "Go to sleep."

I was a little disappointed, and said again: "I will grow up, and I can't always hide behind you."

This is not the first time I have said this, and his answer remains the same: "I know, but I also said that you don't have to graduate from here for the rest of your life." After a pause for a few seconds, he said, "Sometimes, long Being big is not a good thing, and there are some things I hope you never have to face."

I lay back silently and said nothing more.I didn't fall asleep until dawn.

The Zerg in the periphery all retreated because of Xiu's words on the roof, not even the patrolling soldiers on the bottom of the sea.Without the pressure of the enemy to fight, the elders probably breathed a sigh of relief and did not continue to gather troops, so the mobilization of troops in the underground world has been much less in the past two days.To my surprise, they didn't even adopt the tactic of pressing man-marking again, and I don't know whether Grandpa had negotiated with them or was planning some kind of conspiracy.

Either way, it's a good thing.I met Xi when I went to the restaurant for breakfast in the morning, and asked him why he came here, and he casually made up a perfunctory reason.I looked at him with mixed emotions. He changed his clothes, his eyes were bright, and he had a simple smile on his face. He looked more than a hundred times better than his tired appearance last night.Knowing that he couldn't tell me the truth, I was happy to pretend to be confused, but I couldn't help but stare at him.

The sense of familiarity he gave me, the aura similar to Xiu's, the melancholy in his eyes, the smile on his lips, the words he said, and the things he did, all of them have the answers at once.Even though I knew he didn't want me to discover his background, I still couldn't help but keep looking at him, thinking about how he was born and how he grew up in that unknown time.

I was so dazzled that I didn't even know what I ate.

Xi didn't notice my abnormality, because he was staring at my stomach all the time, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Both of them were in a trance all morning, stirring up the things on the plate everywhere.When I left the table, the waiter gave me an indescribable look, as if he wanted to blame the guests for wasting food, but he felt that this kind of thing should not be done to a pregnant woman (…).After leaving the hotel, the group continued to head towards the center of the underground world, the King City. The purpose of this trip was to meet Xiu's confidante. =mouth=

...Hey, I'm not jealous, absolutely not.

Just according to Jess, the baby will be born soon, and we are still traveling.

When she said this to me, I just listened calmly, as if the one to be born was not me.

Probably because she is used to seeing my frightened face after every routine inspection, she is not used to seeing my calm expression, so she asked with a smile: "Why haven't I seen you today, cutie?"

...Who said I'm not afraid, I'm just not obvious, and besides, can this kind of thing not happen if I'm afraid?

And most importantly, living in the house, his dark eyes have been watching here.At this time, if I still hold on to Xiu as before and ask him to promise that he will never be born again in the future, what is the difference from saying that I want to kill Xi?Besides, I never thought that I could overwhelm Xiu and let him give birth to me.

Hey, Xiao Qi, look at how kind your father is to you...

Stopping and stopping for another ten days, during the day I was busy cultivating the relationship between father and son with Xi, and at night I kept dreaming. The years since the sinking of Atlantis, fragmentary fragments appeared in the dream like a movie.After going around a few times, I met all the previous ten keys, watching them suddenly awaken like me, and step by step towards the top of the mainland.

No matter how you look at it, I am the worst one.

Occasionally she would appear in dreams, telling stories about what happened in various corners of the continent as bedtime stories.I still haven't figured out who she is. The mother goddess has passed away for many years, and the intelligent optical brain has no feelings of its own. The only thing that is certain is that she is the one who traded with me.

I pay the price, and she gives me strength.

For the first time, she woke me up.The second time, she let me temporarily gain power that didn't belong to me.There may be a third or fourth time in the future.I have a faint feeling of being trapped. Since I started on this road, there is no turning back.There is no free lunch in the world, and she didn't ask for a price from me, and she will take it from me one day.

When I finally arrived in Wangcheng, my stomach was so big that I couldn't bend down to put on my shoes.The queen of the ant tribe stood on the city wall to greet her in person, with a beautiful face and a proud expression, and her slender waist was even more attractive by the classic dress.Facing the bucket waist that was bloated compared to myself, I silently moved behind Xiu.

Xiu held my hand slightly tighter, and turned to look at me: "What's wrong?"

"...It's nothing, just feel ashamed."

His gaze flitted across the city wall, then fell back on me, stayed on my waist for a few seconds, and then moved away.

...Although the wavelengths are always different on emotional issues, they are surprisingly compatible in these matters. He understood before I said anything.

Jess covered her lips with a chuckle and said, "You don't have to feel inferior, cute, maybe people are jealous of you." Probably women I know like to compare each other when they meet. The outside is enchanting, and the long black dress has been dragged to the ground.

Surrounded by guards, Her Majesty the Queen walked down the city wall and gave Jess a piercing stare as soon as she met her. Then her gaze passed over me, and finally she focused on Xiu.The long stare, the emotion contained in it, I can't ignore it when I stand beside it——

So, is it definitely an old lover...

After a long time, the Queen's enchanting red lips spat out a name: "Xiu—"

Jess chuckled twice, stood up and cut off the words behind her: "Xiu, cutie can't stand for too long, how about finding another time if you want to reminisce?" The second half of the sentence was addressed to the queen of the ant clan.

Two enchanting beauties with red lips stood opposite each other, their eyes intertwined, and the blue lightning crackled.

After a long time, the one on the left nodded coldly: "Long time no see, Jess."

The one on the right smiled back at her like a spring breeze: "Long time no see, Eve."

I watched from the side for a long time, tugged at Xiu’s sleeves, and complained: “I found that your taste is very single.” All red lips, black hair and fair skin, “It’s not good to do so much, it’s easy to get tired of aesthetics.”

Xiu raised his eyebrows and ruffled my hair in a funny way, as if his two old lovers were transparent.

I continued to say: "You should learn from me, the sea is open to all rivers, taste more—" The last word stuck in my throat, cold sweat began to break out on my forehead, and there was a buzzing sound in my head, and I hugged my stomach and went limp.

Xiu caught me, his expressionless face finally changed color: "What's wrong?"

I grabbed his collar and panted heavily. If it wasn't for my severe stomach cramps, I would probably have laughed out loud.But in the end, I could only take a breath before the colic after another submerged me completely, and then howled with all my strength: "I'm going, your son is coming out——!"