Chapter 239 Lizard 9

Breakfast was a little different from usual. The tender cuts of meat were grilled to a golden brown. Min Xi handed the tenderest part to her, atop a bed of mint leaves and adorned with a few golden yellow flowers. Yu Mo pursed her lips, ignoring the unusual shape he had cut them into.

Min Xi watched her expression eagerly.

Ever since she discovered his identity, she couldn't help but stare at his eyes and scales whenever she looked at him. Those two vertical pupils weren't as wild and bloody as she'd imagined. In fact, Min Xi's eyes always looked at her with clarity and innocence, and the hidden ingratiation and intimacy that she couldn't ignore.

She couldn't deceive herself into defining Min Xi's behavior as a sign of closeness to humans. The reason Teacher Li had brought his team to this distant ocean shore was because the climate here was at the transition between spring and summer, the ripening season for the species he had discovered so many years ago.

Min Xi's various actions confirm his purpose.

Yu Mo ignored the scorching heat transmitted by the mint leaves and tore the meat apart with force, trying to destroy the heart-shaped piece of meat wrapped in the mint leaves. Min Xi didn't know where he had learned this, but he had the ability to learn, and she didn't think it was accidental.

It turned out that this piece of meat was indeed what Min Xi intended.

Min Xi felt a little disappointed when he saw the torn pieces of meat in the mint leaves. The mint leaves were very hot. He snatched them from Yu Mo's hand and gave her a shy smile without opening his mouth. Then he tore the meat into thin pieces. He didn't hand it directly to Yu Mo, but pushed it in front of her.

"Yu Mo, it's hot!" Min Xi held Yu Mo's scalded hand in front of him. Her white gloves felt greasy from having touched the flesh. She would have pulled her hand away before, but she wasn't sure if such an action would anger Min Xi. She didn't move, letting Min Xi bare his teeth and lick her fingertips and palm with his tongue.

After breakfast, as she had done the past few days, Yu Mo would teach Min Xi to speak. However, knowing his thoughts, she decided to reduce unnecessary contact. What species was he? Yu Mo knew nothing. Having seen his hunting methods and learning ability, she thought that if the research institute studied him, the progress would probably not be smooth.

"My foot injury has healed, thank you for your help. Min Xi, I want to leave here. I still have some things left in the cabin. Can you take me back?" Yu Mo pondered for a while.

Before she knew he was a beast, she could tell him her thoughts directly. After she knew he was a beast, she had to think twice before speaking about some of her actions and words. She didn't want to anger him, as that would not do her any good.

Min Xi stared intently at her lips, then picked her up and ran outside. They arrived at the sea of flowers they had seen that morning. The sun was shining brightly, and the yellow flowers were illuminated by the sunlight, making them radiant and golden. Min Xi's eyes seemed a little uncomfortable. He stole a glance at the little female in his arms, quickly extended his tongue to lick her eyeballs, then retracted it into his mouth, saying nonchalantly, "Flowers, beautiful flowers, Yu Mo likes them!"

Yu Mo's body stiffened, ignoring the scene she caught from the corner of her eye. She grasped his arm, her palm touching the scales, which were rough and broad, occasionally opening and closing slightly.

"Not here," Yu Mo retracted her gaze: "The wooden house, I want to go back to the wooden house."

Min Xi seemed to understand, and hugged Yu Mo and left, then he walked through the thorns. Yu Mo looked at the familiar road, she hit his arm to indicate that she wanted to go down, and after she landed, she immediately distanced herself from Min Xi.

She waved her hand in front of him, "Not here, it's a wooden house, a village, a place where people live..." Her voice trailed off.

Min Xi was still looking at her lips. He looked at her intently, giving Yu Mo the illusion that he cared about her thoughts. From time to time, he made a gurgling sound in his throat, as if he was confused.

Yu Mo once again hated her own slowness. Is it possible for a human to make such a sound?

Min Xi was stunned. Yu Mo clearly saw the two green pupils suddenly shrink into vertical lines, and the rusty and bloodshot eyeballs revealed fear.

His suit was torn when he walked through the thorn bushes. The fabric of the suit was particularly fragile. At this moment, Min Xi was covered with tattered pieces of cloth, and his body, which was deliberately covered, was exposed to the increasingly hot sunlight.

Yu Mo saw his body clearly for the first time. His scales were brown. If she had seen his body before, she would never have thought that his skin was the honey color tanned by the scorching sun.

The scales are very wide, and just by observing them with the naked eye, you can feel that they are very hard.

Without the cover of complete clothes, Min Xi looked more and more like a strange and oppressive beast. He squatted and stood, his height of nearly two meters made him look like a giant, and those sharp and slender nails on his body were full of rationality at this moment.

He looked, she thought, like a gigantic crocodile or a giant lizard.

Combined with the broken tail, she suspected he was a beast with lizard genes, or that a lizard had acquired his genes.

After all, he is a species that has never been discovered so far.

Yu Mo tried to remain calm, but her legs gradually grew weak under Min Xi's gaze. She crouched down, wrapped her arms around her knees, and avoided meeting Min Xi's gaze. She couldn't provoke him, couldn't provoke him, couldn't provoke him... Yu Mo consoled herself, believing that as long as she acted weak enough, he wouldn't attack her. She wasn't sure if Min Xi would become enraged and act drastically after his identity was exposed.

Judging from his behavior of covering his entire body with a suit, he was intentionally concealing his true identity.

"……ah!"

Although Yu Mo was mentally prepared, she was still frightened by Min Xi's sudden behavior. A sharp scream rolled out of her throat, and her voice echoed in the silent forest for a long time. She was held in Min Xi's arms. He jumped directly onto the tree, using the distance between the trees to jump. The wind whistled past her ears, and she closed her eyes tightly.

Until she smelled the strong smell of blood, Yu Mo lay on the ground, trying to move her sore fingers, touching her neck, then her arms and stomach. Min Xi's voice rang in her ears, and he called her name with a trembling voice: "Yu Mo..." His voice made people who heard it think he had just experienced a nightmare.

She wasn't injured! During the time she was held in Min Xi's arms, her limbs were stiff. It was at this moment that she realized that no matter how well she had imagined it in her mind, when she encountered a wild beast, her natural submission to the powerful creatures of nature was engraved in her bones. Even if she wanted to resist, she couldn't mobilize her limbs and could only remain stiff and paralyzed.

She was held in Min Xi's arms, huddled in the corner of the cave. The smell of blood didn't come from her, but from the wild boar he'd killed that morning. The arm around her waist was thick and strong, and the tattered clothes he'd thrown off during his run revealed the scales covering his arms and his thick palms. The force exerted on his arms had stretched his strong flesh, causing the scales to open slightly, and the skin that touched the edges of the scales was prickly red.

She suppressed her inner fear. At this moment, she had no time to worry about the shame brought by the intimacy of the posture. She was facing an unknown beast and she didn't even know whether her life could be saved. Shame was really not worth mentioning. Even though she was naked at the moment, she had to stay calm.

Min Xi leaned against the stone wall, almost burying his face in her shoulder, licking her skin with his wet tongue in a flattering manner. The trembling voice and unconcealable panic penetrated her eardrums. He continued to make a humming sound, mixed with Yu Mo's name.

"Yu Mo..."

"Xihuan, xihuan Yu Mo..."

Min Xi's movements were very gentle, whether he was licking her or holding her, but his strength did not allow Yu Mo to break free.

What he feared finally happened.

He couldn't stand the frightened expression on Yu Mo's face at that moment. He didn't know how to tell the little female that he would not hurt her, that he wanted to be her spouse, wanted to be good to her, and wanted to see her smile.

He hated himself for not being able to express his feelings, he hated himself for not being able to learn the language of the little female before meeting her, he hated himself for not being able to gain the little female's trust, he hated himself...

Yu Mo realized that he had no intention of hurting her, so she struggled a little to get out of his shackles, but as soon as she showed any sign of breaking away, those two strong and powerful arms pressed tightly against her, like two heavy mountains that could not be climbed over.

She began to wonder if he would agree if she asked him to send her away.

"Min Xi." Yu Mo tried to reason with him: "You are afraid that I will be afraid of you if I find out your identity, right? I actually guessed it a long time ago. As long as you don't hurt me, I won't be afraid of you. We are friends..." She emphasized the word friends, regardless of whether he could understand it or not.

Min Xi didn't quite understand what she meant, but the gentleness of her voice briefly made him reveal an expression of grievance and a desire for dependence. Yu Mo twisted her body slightly and saw Min Xi's face. From a closer look, the scales on his face were more distinct, but his human-like appearance made it easy to overlook these subtle scales if his body was not exposed.

His eyes remained open for a long time without blinking, and moist mist covered his eyeballs. His eyes could not hold back the tears, as they had long been wet with panic. His eyes, filled with aggrieved pleading and self-loathing, easily made people feel distressed.

He repeated stubbornly: "Xihuan Yu Mo."

This was not what Yu Mo wanted to hear, but it did give her a brief sense of security. In order to quickly escape the suffocating and uncomfortable embrace, she tentatively touched his arm, attempting to use this way of acknowledging him to help him quickly escape the somewhat stressful reaction caused by his anxiety.

Min Xi widened his eyes.

Yu Mo thought he was shocked and confused at the same time. But his body was honest. When Yu Mo touched the scales on his arm, the whimpering sound in his throat suddenly stopped and turned into a comfortable gurgling sound.

Yu Mo just stared at him. She felt the scales on his arms, which were very hard and thick. Then she touched the scales on his chest, which were also like indestructible armor. His neck was also covered with dense and thick scales.

He seemed to have no weaknesses, no part that could be pierced by the blade.

She put aside her thoughts of a confrontation and smiled at Min Xi. Min Xi suddenly let out a short cooing sound, then hugged her tightly, tears of excitement streaming down his face. The little female was not afraid of him! She caressed him very gently, and he felt very comfortable.

The slightly longer stubble of his tail began to shake.