What are you panting for
Naren stared ahead with a condensed expression.
Thinking of those two sentences without beginning and end, the prince's mood was a little complicated. He felt that Sells was too weird today.
Whether it was Sels, who he saw as a passer-by after he disguised himself, or the person he was talking to just now, they were all different from the hypocritical guy with great military achievements and no one in the past.
What unifying partner? This is nothing short of a joke.
Shalvet and Monte have never been two surnames that have no friendship, and he and Sells are two completely different types of people.
They don't talk to each other, and they have no common language.
Just like just now, every word Searles said and every topic he changed was beyond his expectations—making people fall into a state of lack of words from time to time.
Inexplicable, difficult to communicate!
It wasn't a pleasant conversation, and Naren finally offered to see for himself whoever was responsible for his niece's attack.
"Isn't it here yet?" Naren's tone was a little irritated.
Andre, who was in charge of leading the way, looked as steady as Mount Tai: "The gold-eaters are in the open space ahead."
Naren saw it.
Hot spring pools of different sizes are scattered on the open-air flat ground, and white mist rises from the heat, like a layer of transparent tulle, which looks light and elegant under the moonlight.
However, all the poetic and picturesque feelings are destroyed by the wooden cage in the middle. It can be seen that it is a rough product built temporarily, and there is a giant black bug lying inside.
Almost the whole body of the giant worm is thick black like splashed ink, with only a white dot on the tail, eight-legged long tail, and a pair of mung bean-sized eyes on the round head, which is turning around at the moment.
The approach of Nalen and his party caught its attention. It moved its buttocks, the two whiskers on its head shook a few times, and its small eyes showed a shivering emotion.
Naren: "Is it the bug that attacked Illya?"
Andrew: "Yes."
The giant worm's whiskers swayed from side to side, as if shaking its head desperately.
Nalen was silent for a while: "Where was it lurking before the accident?" With such a size, it was hard not to be noticed.
Andre: "Still investigating."
Naren's eyes have been observing the giant worm, and the gold-eating worm is not a species of the Asha Empire.
Although I know that there are all kinds of strange creatures living on other planets, it is a very novel feeling to actually meet face to face.
For example, this worm is black and has no sense of beauty at all, but he seems to see grievances in those small eyes.
Nalen: "..." This must be an illusion.
Andre stood aside, silently watching His Highness the Prince's 360-degree staring at the insects, feeling inexplicably tired.
He still has to clean up the mess. He was the busiest person after the accident. Why did the marshal ask him to receive the notoriously difficult prince in the imperial capital.
The other party is obviously very interested in giant worms, and they don't know how long they will have to observe.
At this moment, an attendant approached quietly and pulled Andrea to the side, probably to report something.
Naren glanced in their direction, and suddenly heard a strange sound coming from his ear.
"Puff puff puff."
The giant worm approached cautiously, and a shadow hung over Naren's head.
"Puhis, bearded!"
Nalen: "??"
"Help me, bearded man!"
Naren: "..."
The gray-green eyes looked around - Andre was still whispering to his subordinates in a corner not far away, and the expressions of the soldiers guarding the periphery were normal.
Who is that talking
"Look at me, look at me!"
The slight breath sounded again.
Naren felt as if something was dangling above his head, and raised his hand to touch a long tentacles.
"Don't let go, hold my whiskers so we can communicate."
Nalen narrowed his eyes, slowly raised his head, and met a pair of small eyes from a close distance across the cage: "Gold-eater?"
There was a moment of silence in the air.
"Hey!" The giant worm choked up: "It's me! Beard, we have seen it during the day!"
Naryn looked puzzled—no, I don't know bugs.
The giant worm was very excited: "I don't think I'm an ordinary worm..."
Naren nodded—yes, that's right, ordinary bugs can't talk.
"I lost my memory."
Nalen looked at it blankly: "???"
The giant worm was a little shy: "I don't know why it changed into a worm. Since I woke up from amnesia, I have always been a human. But... After being caught by the marshal today, I was very scared, so, it became like this... Beard, help me, I don't want to be cut into pieces and turned into worms."
This voice... very familiar. Nalen remembered, the playboy boy who was full of voice during the day, and the unlucky liar who was imprisoned after his lies were exposed.
He is in extremely complicated mood now, and with the last trace of luck, he asked, "Who are you?"
The giant worm shook its tail: "My name is Xijin, what about you with a big beard?"
Drama... Drama master
Naren fell silent.
Xi Jin: "Can you let me go out? I took a job before and finished it. There will be a lot of money at that time! I can give you... a tenth!"
"..." Is one-tenth a lot
It's okay not to mention this, and now Naryn seriously doubts that "a large sum of money" will eventually be paid by himself. After all, the giant octagonal worm in front of him is an employee personally selected by his most loyal friend, Elida.
wrong…
Nalen realized a problem, and said seriously with a serious face: "There is one thing that must be explained. You have identified the wrong person, who is the bearded man?"
He touched his chin, which was as clean as jade, "Look, do I look like a bearded person?"
Xijin's small eyes that were rolling around suddenly stopped, and his face was full of puzzlement.
"But I remember your smell. You have a nice metallic smell." The tentacles slowly slid down and moved slowly on Naren's chest: "It smells delicious."
Naren moved away the tentacles, and immediately changed the subject: "I suspect you are a bug star."
Insects, as the name suggests, are humans evolved from insects. Some worm stars with powerful bloodlines can switch between worm bodies and human bodies. Over the years, the home planet of the Zongxing people has been in crisis, the resources on the planet have been exhausted, and the environment has deteriorated. Many people have moved to the next door to Yasha, and the two sides have friction from time to time.
Xi Jin raised a pair of front paws, right and wrong: "Help me."
Naren motioned him to look at the soldiers guarding around him, and said in a low voice, "If you can be thinner, you can hide it in my pocket and leave without anyone noticing."
Little eyes lit up.
Nalen: "But obviously, it can't."
The giant worm hung its head in frustration.
Naren: "And, the girl you attacked before is my niece."
Giant Worm: "...that was a misunderstanding."
Nalen patted the innocent-looking bug: "Well, if it were another girl, I might still have doubts."
"Then you promised to save me?"
Naryn: "The relationship between the Zombie Star and the Empire is tense. I can't let you go at will. As long as you prove that you have done nothing harmful, and explain the reason clearly, you will not be made into a bug."
The giant worm lowered its front paws, its small eyes were full of distrust.
"Then I'll tell others about you being a bearded man."
Naren's face froze.
"I lie to people to make money, and you must be doing something bad by pretending to be weird."
"..." He is, threatened by a bug