There is insufficient lighting, a slightly dark small bar, located in the most remote corner.
The faint oil lamp shone on Tang Ling's side face, combined with his somewhat excited expression, and Su Yao who was beside him with a calm expression and an unknown smile at the corner of his mouth, like a picture with rich colors, deep background and vivid characters. An oil painting with an unknown theme.
The bar owner looked at this scene and raised his head with a deep look in his eyes. Then he lowered his hat, lowered his head, folded his arms and leaned against the bar to take a nap.
"Sit down." Su Yao looked at Tang Ling and shouted.
Tang Ling took a deep breath and sat down.
"Now that I've told you, let's be more direct. The seed in your body is a precious gift. You don't have to make a fuss about it. You should even accept it calmly and emotionally."
"You can understand it this way. A hunter has a loyal hound next to him. How can a hunter reject the hound that has grown up with him?" Su Yao did not ask for any more wine, but spoke in a deep voice with an inexplicable meaning of time. He said this to Tang Ling in a different tone.
It feels like 'A long, long time ago, you received a gift'
Tang Ling's mood calmed down inexplicably. Almost subconsciously, he gently pressed his chest.
The loyal hound he grew up with? No, it needs to be even more intimate, it lives in symbiosis with itself!
But, whose gift could this be? Tang Ling even thought of Kun, the owner of the mysterious shop. He vaguely mentioned that 'it' in his chest was an interesting thing.
The 'it' that Kundu noticed is very precious, right
"Don't ask me about who gave it to you. I'm only responsible for answering the question about the seeds. I'm not responsible for appeasing your curiosity." Su Yao didn't even raise his eyes, lowered his head and said directly, as if he had seen through Tang Ling. .
"Uncle" Tang Ling called out, and then said weakly: "Okay."
Tang Ling knew Su Yao well, and he wouldn't reveal it at all unless he said it was true.
"Then you mentioned me before, and you didn't care about my unhappy growth." Now that you know it is a seed, it is necessary to know more, because the other side of symbiosis can also be explained as doing each other. To survive together as a community.
How can you know nothing about 'it'
"Not everyone can afford a precious gift. It's like a precious weapon with extremely lethal power. You can't give it to a child. It will harm him." After Su Yao said this, he called out to the bar owner. .
The boss slowly stood up and brought another glass of vodka with a bad attitude.
I don't know if it was because of his conscience, but he also brought Tang Ling a glass of apple juice.
"I don't want it, I won't be able to pay the bill." Tang Ling refused directly.
"As a gift." The boss said a word and left directly.
"What a weirdo." Tang Ling muttered, and Su Yao chuckled and said, "It's not a bad thing if you eat and drink more. To put it bluntly, no matter what you eat or drink, what you transform into can strengthen your own energy. Most of the energy will always be given to the seeds, do you understand now?"
'Pfft', Tang Ling, who lowered his head to drink the juice, choked immediately. He coughed repeatedly and looked at Su Yao to say something, but couldn't say anything for a while.
"You are really slow. Don't you feel it? With the eating technique I taught you, your growth rate is still limited. Your 'precision instinct' has the ability to observe and calculate. Although you are immature now, you are not aware of the subtle changes in your body. You don't observe enough, but you always have feelings, right?" Su Yao's eyes were narrow-minded.
"I feel it. I also know that 'it' can be eaten, but I really don't know. It can't be said to be a robbery. Anyway," Tang Ling didn't know how to describe it.
"To raise an excellent hunting dog, you also need to provide the conditions for it to grow. The same is true for your seed, except that what it needs is the same as what you need. If you are not perfect but have average talents, then this gift will be good for you. It's a tragedy for you," Su Yao said slowly.
"how to say?"
"It's very simple. In its infancy, it will just devour everything. Just like a human baby, it cries for milk in order to grow up. It is impossible to know and understand that its parents are poor. The conversion rate of energy absorbed by people with average talent Generally, it will completely rob it and even 'suck' the host dry when it is not satisfied."
"The good situation is that the host will not get any growth and progress throughout its life. The bad situation is that it will be sucked dry, and then 'it' will also die. Don't you think this is tragic?" Su Yao put an extremely dangerous thing into his hands. That's an understatement.
But Tang Ling broke out in a cold sweat. He couldn't help but ask Su Yao: "What if I?" As he spoke, Tang Ling glanced at the bar owner, but was speechless to find that the bar owner just let him and Su Yao stay in the store. , he himself no longer knew where he was running.
But this also made Tang Ling breathe a sigh of relief and said directly: "Then what if I am not a perfect gene chain? Uncle, were you sure that I was a perfect gene chain from the beginning! You knew the existence of the seed from the beginning! "
"Don't deny it, I'm sure."
"Really, it's not a good thing for a person to be too smart." As he spoke, Su Yao shook his head: "How can I be so omniscient and omnipotent? Without instruments, I have no way to confirm your talent. I can only guess at your talent. The talent is not bad.”
"My only basis is the conclusion I drew when I took you to measure your growth. But that conclusion was not accurate because your seeds had just awakened at that time."
"Just woke up?" Tang Ling was weighing the meaning of waking up.
"Well, you just woke up. You just woke up after being strongly stimulated! Before that, it was in the 'shell breaking' period. In the sleeping state, it only requires a small amount of energy."
"There will only be two situations for it to wake up. First, the host has suffered a life-and-death crisis. However, its power at that time was also very limited. If you repeatedly encounter life-and-death crises, it may 'consume' it alive. "
"Second, when it is hungry and needs energy to continue sleeping, it will ask you for food. Do you understand?" Su Yao seemed to know a lot about seeds, so he told Tang Ling in great detail.
Of course Tang Ling understood. He had encountered a life and death crisis once, when he was surrounded by black-toothed rats in a settlement.
Tang Ling knew better about being hungry. Under such a difficult life in the settlement, he would turn into a 'devouring monster'-like existence at certain intervals.
But compared with now, there is a difference.
Now, he must consume a certain amount of food every day to meet his own needs. Is this what is called 'waking up'
"Have you experienced the difference after waking up?" Su Yao's tone always had a hint of schadenfreude.
Tang Ling ignored Su Yao at all and asked back the question he just asked: "Uncle, you haven't answered my question yet."
"Well, the answer is that I wasn't completely sure about your gene chain talent before. I'm also prepared. If you don't have a talent of seven stars or above, I will find a way to take it out." Su Yao It was said easily, even as a joke.
But Tang Ling didn't think Su Yao was joking at all. He would really do this. However, if you think about taking out a seed from your heart, would you still be alive
"Actually, the real situation is that I don't trust the instruments in Security Zone 17. My plan is that if the test results are not satisfactory, I will take you out of here immediately. First, find a reliable instrument and test again. At that time, you After the assessment, I had already planned this, but you told me about the abnormalities, and I was surprised to know that you are a perfect gene chain."
"Second, assuming that after I find a reliable instrument, your test results are still not ideal, then there is a way to remove the seed from the place I took you to. Of course, I won't do it myself."
It was so dangerous. Tang Ling took a long breath. Fortunately, he didn't have to be disemboweled and it was still there.
But the next second, Tang Ling seemed to think of something: "Uncle, where were you going to take me?"
This is purely a boy’s curiosity. Who doesn’t yearn for the vast world outside
"Why are you asking about something that didn't happen?" Su Yao rolled his eyes at Tang Ling, and then said: "Instead of being curious about this, you should worry about your current troubles. You must ensure that your own growth cannot be too slow, and you must also ensure that the seeds grow. "
"This is a test that life gives you, and you must deal with it." Su Yao said seriously, and then he didn't know if it was a joke or not, and suddenly stuck out his tongue at Tang Ling: "You know? You are a monster, consuming resources. monster."
Tang Ling's face turned ugly, and he was unable to refute Su Yao's words. Indeed, he was consuming more and more resources day by day.
"But it's not without good news." Su Yao felt very happy and touched Tang Ling's head and said, "Effort and reward are directly proportional. When the seed grows, it will give you great power. It is just like you The same, it will improve and change due to growth, rather than remaining static.”
"I thought about it." Tang Ling deliberately didn't make Su Yao proud. The fact was that he just guessed that the seeds would become stronger, just like the 'amplification' effect would also become stronger.
"It's really boring." Su Yao hates mature children. It is really difficult to find a sense of accomplishment in such children.
But Su Yao still decided to win the game. He looked at Tang Ling and said, "Then do you know that it is only the first state of the seed? Its state determines your state?"
"What?" This matter is very new. The implication is that Tang Ling is now in the state of a muscular man when he transforms.
As the seed grows, it is likely that he is no longer a muscle man? Tang Ling cared about this, because he was a good boy who was 'saving'. Is it too wasteful to consume a set of clothes for every outbreak
"Well, I'm just telling you that this is the case. You have to find out the details yourself." Su Yao smiled very proudly.
In fact, it is too early to tell Tang Ling more about the status of the seeds.
Because the previous owner said that it has undergone these changes, but whether it can grow to this point is a matter of doing its best.
The greatest possibility is that it will always be in the first form, because as it grows, the resources required will increase exponentially.
In the later stages, there are even greater requirements for the quality of resources, and it is no longer possible to completely make up for the quality by just stacking quantity.
That will cause it to grow very slowly.
What that person said was always right. It was so annoying at the time, but it is so missed now.
Su Yao inevitably fell into memories again.
As for Tang Ling's continuous questions in his ears, he pretended that he didn't hear them at all.
"Uncle, what form will it take?"
"If it is going to evolve, what are the signs?"
"Is its evolution just a form? What about wisdom? Will it also grow in wisdom? By then, won't I often have to talk to it?"
"Uncle, don't be so stingy. Tell me, how can I establish a 100% connection with it at this stage?"
Tang Ling was like a noisy parrot, talking non-stop. He began to get excited about the seed. From the moment he accepted its existence, he instantly developed a deep affection for it.
Maybe it's because Su Yao's hound metaphor is too successful, or maybe it's because they have grown up together for so many years.
Su Yao's profile was very deep, and Tang Ling's figure was reflected in his melancholy eyes, but there was a comforting smile at the corner of his mouth unconsciously.
He felt that the current Tang Ling was real, not the repressed and silent boy in the settlement, nor the rogue boy in the Barrier of Hope whom he heard rumors about when he came back.
Everything he does now is driven by hatred, forcing himself to strategize and wear a mask.
It was life that shaped him.
The real Tang Ling is actually just a smart ordinary boy. I hope that by his side, he can get some time that is not so tiring and can truly be him.
Even if it’s only one day a month
And how long can such a day last? No matter whether you think he is that smart ordinary boy, he is still Tang Ling after all, or
**
The best restaurant in Security Zone 17.
Tang Ling patted his belly with satisfaction, and in front of him, there was a pile of meat and bones.
He ate up half of a second-level mutant beast, not a small one, but a bull-type mutant beast, turning this restaurant where nobles gathered into a living performance scene that belonged to him.
Surrounding him were stunned nobles. Even the restaurant owner couldn't help but poke his head out of the kitchen to look at this 'devouring monster'.
But Tang Ling didn't care, and Su Yao didn't care even more.
After Tang Ling had had enough wine and food, he picked his teeth loudly and led Tang Ling Yao out of the restaurant in a majestic manner.
Who dares to mess with them? Crazy Su Yao and that magical boy who played a wonderful game.
"Uncle, I'm back. I can't use the eating technique in public. It's too wasteful. I have to hurry up and find a place." Tang Ling said to Su Yao at a secret entrance to the Barrier of Hope.
"Get out of here."
"Don't you feel sorry for me at all?"
"Oh, this meal cost me 570 credits."
"Uncle, I'm going back. What you just said, the wind was too strong, I didn't hear it." Tang Ling ran away in a flash and entered the small, dilapidated building with the entrance hidden.
Looking at Tang Ling's back, Su Yao's smile gradually faded away, replaced by a serious expression with a frown on his face - Safety Zone 17 was in chaos.
Direct rainstorm next? Or will a bigger storm brew
(End of chapter)