Seeing his frightened expression, Lin Dao grinned mischievously and replied casually, "Maybe."
The elevator doors opened, and Britta followed him out with a sullen face. If he didn't have a job, he wouldn't have money to eat. If he didn't have money to eat, he would be very hungry. If he was very hungry, he wouldn't be able to maintain his human form and would be exposed. What would he do then?
He returned sadly to his room, and with his head hanging low, politely said to Lin Dao, "Good night, sir."
Seeing his expression as if the sky were about to fall, Lin Dao realized that the little guy was easily frightened. After a while, he added, "What you mean by 'maybe' is that you might have a turn for the better."
"...Piji talai? What piji?" Bleta asked, looking completely bewildered. "Is it edible?"
"..." Lin Dao was silent for two seconds before denying, "No."
He suddenly understood the importance of the continuation of human civilization.
Hearing that she couldn't eat it, Bleta was disappointed: "...Oh."
Lin Dao was taken aback when he saw him like this. Thinking of what he had said to Qiao Song earlier, he suddenly said after a long while, "You are indeed too weak. It will be difficult for you to survive in such an apocalyptic world."
When he rescued this boy from Easton Lab, who was completely ignorant of the outside world, he probably couldn't have saved him at all.
Britta paused, lowered her head, bit her lip, and said softly but stubbornly, "But I still want to live."
Upon hearing this, Lin Dao remained silent for two seconds before saying in a deep voice, "In the apocalypse, weakness is the original sin. If you want to survive, you must become stronger."
After he finished speaking, he looked at the thoughtful Britta, then turned and went into the bedroom.
Bretta stood there, pondering the words over and over, while Little White urged him on in his heart:
"Tata, come inside. You'll become stronger."
"Really?" Britta hurriedly pushed open the door and went inside.
Little White hopped out of his arms, lazily stretching out its petals and leaves, and yawned at him in a lazy voice, saying, "Of course, haven't you noticed? You're getting stronger."
Bretta belatedly realized, then his eyes suddenly lit up: "It seems so! My self-healing speed after the injury is much faster, and..." He lowered his head and with a thought, a sharp short knife appeared in each of his hands, and he could freely control the length and shape of the blades.
After thinking for a moment, Blaita tried to control it and found that the longest he could conjure was a curved sickle with a handle more than a meter long and a blade nearly half a meter long.
He held it in his hand in surprise and waved it around. There was no wind around, yet he could feel a strong gust of wind. The hair around his face also blew.
At this moment, Lin Dao, who was in another room, sensed the wind fluctuating in the air. He looked up in that direction, but it quickly disappeared.
Unaware that she had attracted attention, Britta happily played with the knife for a couple of moments, but ultimately found it too big to handle, so she shrunk it down and then melted back into her body.
"See? I told you so!" Little White exclaimed proudly.
Bryta nodded, then, as if remembering something, said, "Yes! I've discovered that I can also control the corrosive liquid secreted in my mouth."
"Really? Then you should try it."
Bretta walked around the room, found a tin can he had collected, tried to control it, and carefully spat a mouthful of clear liquid into it.
He looked down intently, and Xiaobai leaned in to squeeze closer, watching as the white saliva liquid remained unchanged.
Xiao Bai said in a scholarly tone, "Indeed, no corrosion occurred."
"Then try again, see if you can secrete corrosive liquid."
Bryta tried it, spitting out a mouthful of corrosive, transparent liquid. As soon as it touched the bottom of the tin can, it made a hissing sound, and in no time, that small area was corroded and charred.
Bryta looked at her box and felt heartbroken.
Xiao Bai chuckled awkwardly and quickly changed the subject, saying, "Doesn't this just mean you've gotten stronger?"
Bleta snapped out of her daze: "Why?"
Xiao Bai said meaningfully, "It should be related to what we ate and drank, for example, those green liquids, which they call 'heterogeneous substances'."
“What did I eat?” Bryta’s mind raced, some memories flashing through his mind, and then his eyes lit up: “Right, I ate a few mantises that hadn’t fully mutated yet, um… and that time in the wine cellar on the twentieth floor, I also ate… a piece of earthworm tail.”
Xiao Bai exclaimed happily, "That's the reason! After eating the mantis, you were able to transform into a blade-shaped weapon, but after eating the earthworm..."
"My self-healing ability has become stronger, just like... just like that earthworm that quickly regenerates after its tail is cut off!" Bleta excitedly followed Little White's train of thought, and asked seriously, "If I cut off my tail, will a new tail grow back?!"
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"I advise you not to do anything reckless."
“…Oh.” Actually, Bleta was just saying it; he didn’t dare to.
Xiao Bai coughed twice, then said spiritedly:
"Not only that, but I also became stronger rapidly after consuming those liquids containing foreign substances!"
As it spoke, it began to stretch out its vines wildly, displaying the four white roses on its body, which stretched out in a bewitching and pure white manner, emitting a faint fragrance, as if it wanted to fill the entire room with its vines and fragrance.
In the master bedroom a few meters away, Lin Dao, who had just fallen asleep, smelled that strange rose fragrance again. He frowned slightly and opened his sleepless eyes.
Seeing that it was about to cover the entire room, Blaita, afraid of disturbing Mr. Lin Dao next door, hurriedly called out to stop it. Only then did Little White let out a proud hum and shrink back to about the same size as before.
"Anyway, those alien substances will infect and mutate humans if they come into contact with them, but they are good for us! Tata, you especially love drinking them, don't you?" It said, glancing at Blaita.
Bryta nodded honestly: "It tastes very good."
Seeing that the groundwork had been laid, Xiao Bai hurriedly said, "Then let's go steal... no, I mean, let's go rescue a few more bottles!"
“But…” Bleta hesitated.
"But what? Didn't you hear what those humans said? They're planning to clean out the ammunition in the twenty-story wine cellar. Once it's all blown up, there'll be nothing left. And Klindall will definitely follow Xiang You and the others to the Mechanical Sky City. You won't have any money to buy food or anything to eat then, and you'll definitely starve to the point of reverting to your original form. If the humans discover your true identity, they'll definitely kill you!"
Bleta felt a sense of unease.
If Mr. Lin Dao also leaves the Mix base, what will happen to him if he has no job and no place to live?
Seeing that he was wavering, Xiaobai urged him again: "The only way is to go to the twentieth floor now and take away those alien elements that were going to be destroyed anyway. Not only will we be able to store enough food, but we'll also become stronger. Even if we're no longer in the human base, we might not be afraid of the aliens outside anymore. Maybe you can even have a bite of one. Don't you want to eat real food?"
Bretta was completely smitten when she heard those words.
Mr. Lin is right. He's too weak right now, so he can only disguise himself as a human and hide in the human base. If he becomes stronger, wouldn't he be able to forage freely outside the base? And he wouldn't have to worry about human weapons...
Bretta made up her mind and nodded to Xiaobai: "Okay, then let's go to the twentieth floor of the dungeon tonight."
As Bryta was about to leave, Little White suddenly stopped him, saying in his mind, "Wait."
"W-What's wrong?" Britta asked nervously as she turned around.
Xiao Bai wrapped herself around him twice, then said uncomfortably, "Actually, I've always felt like there's something on you..."
As he spoke, he suddenly darted to the sole of his shoe, disdainfully lifted it up to examine it, and then used a thorn to pull a small black dot out of the sole.
It fell to the ground with a "thud".
Bleta leaned closer and noticed that the object that had fallen out seemed to be shimmering slightly.
"What's this?"
Little White didn't know either. It said with disgust, "It must have been those humans who planted it on you. They've always suspected you."
Upon hearing this, Bleta felt inexplicably uneasy and a little sad.
That night, he quietly opened the window, and with white vines wrapped around his body, he silently and nimbly climbed up the 27th floor.
The cold wind of the winter night blew by, making him shiver, but Bleta's eyes became more determined.
Using the vines, he swung effortlessly through the air, moving forward continuously. After his initial clumsiness and mistakes, his movements became increasingly skillful and stylish.
It's nighttime now, and the entire underground city is sealed off.
Each entrance is guarded by patrolling soldiers on a rotating shift.
After thinking for a moment, based on Xiaobai's previous experience, Blaita silently took off from the side and, without the guards below being aware, used rose thorns to draw a small circle with Xiaobai, then used corrosive liquid to outline and corrode it. Blaita then extended her index finger and gently pushed, "Clatter!" The round glass fell backward.
Bleta could transform into his original form and crawl inside, but not his clothes, pants, and shoes.
He suddenly had a brilliant idea. He communicated with Little White and quickly transformed back into a white mouse. Little White's vines nimbly wrapped up all his fallen clothes in mid-air. Blaita steadied himself, and with a burst of energy, opened his mouth, which had grown several times larger, and swallowed all his clothes, pants, and shoes in one gulp. Then he turned around and immediately crawled into the transparent glass hole of the elevator.
Xiao Bai followed closely behind. The first thing he did upon entering was to quickly and ruthlessly destroy the already inoperable surveillance camera by swinging the vine.
Bryta worriedly wondered if his clothes, pants, and shoes had been corroded. "They should be alright, right?" he thought.
The moment he stepped into the elevator and transformed into a human, the clothes he had eaten miraculously transformed back into clothes and were now properly worn on his body!
"Wow! What's going on?" Xiaobai looked at him in surprise.
Bryta shook her head blankly, and said thoughtfully, "I feel like there's a lot of space in my stomach. I just wanted to put these things in, and they went in, and when I wanted to take them out, they just came out naturally."
Upon hearing this, Little White trembled with excitement: "Then we can store lots of things?!"
Bryta nodded: "Probably."
Without further ado, Xiaobai urged him to hurry up and get to the twentieth floor. Fortunately, the elevator was still working, and it hadn't been shut down after the permissions were granted to facilitate the investigation. Bretta and Xiaobai quickly arrived at the twentieth floor. On his second visit, he was clearly more familiar with the place than before, but he couldn't help feeling nervous, fearing that he might encounter some mutated earthworm again.
Because Xiaobai suggested that he use the space in his stomach, Blaita tried it and confirmed that after swallowing a bottle, he could take it out intact. Amid Xiaobai's cheers, the mouse and the flower began a frenzy of shopping on the twentieth floor.
Two hours later, Blaita, suppressing the urge to sneak a drink first, quickly left the crime scene with the ecstatic Little White.
After returning home, the mouse and the flower drank two bottles of foreign substance with high alcohol content until they were completely drunk and fell into a deep sleep.
"What?! You're saying all the alcohol-based heterologous substances in the twenty-story wine cellar disappeared overnight?!" Xiang You asked the informant he had planted in the Federation again, incredulously. After hanging up, he took off his wire-rimmed glasses, rubbed his temples, and dialed Lin Dao's number to inform him of the news. Finally, he said heavily, "These people are embezzling from their own posts; they're too brazen. We just need to stage a fake explosion, and that will be the end of it."
Lin Daoyi received the news early in the morning, and his mood wasn't much better. They had spent so long investigating and deploying resources at the Mixi base, only to have the suspect silenced right before their eyes at the last minute, Qiao Song completely destroyed, and countless people at the base infected and killed. Even the seized items were blatantly stolen—no, stolen outright.
Xiang You said indignantly, "This is definitely related to the empire, but they've managed to absolve themselves of all responsibility."
Meanwhile, upon learning that all the goods on the twentieth floor had been quietly emptied overnight, a certain person at the Imperial base on the lighthouse had a burning anger in his cold eyes. After a long while, he regained his composure and said with a smirk, "I underestimated the Sub-Alliance. They actually joined forces with those idiots from the Federation."
Meanwhile, the culprit, Blaita, was still fast asleep in bed. His fair skin glowed with a rosy hue in the winter morning light, and his soft, slightly wavy blond hair lay flat on his handsome face, showing that he was in high spirits after a hearty meal.
At the end of the communication, Xiang You said in a serious voice, "Kelin, luckily I have a backup bottle that I took out a long time ago. Even if you don't want to return to the Asia Alliance this time, you must accompany and escort Qiao Song to the Mechanical Sky City and decipher everything that West knows as soon as possible. I have a feeling that he is the turning point of the incident."
Lin Dao lowered his eyes and replied in a deep voice, "Okay. However, I suggest taking Bryta with us. West risked his life to capture him even while on the run, so I suspect there must be something more important on Bryta. It's not safe for him to stay alone in Mix."
Upon hearing this, Xiang You was taken aback. Lin Dao hadn't mentioned this before. He suppressed his doubts and said, "Okay, no problem. I promise you."
After finishing his sentence, Xiang You couldn't help but say, "Are you sure this isn't just using public office for private gain? It's okay, if you really like her, Dad will definitely help you get together..." Before he could finish speaking, the other party coldly and ruthlessly cut off the communication.
When Lin Dao hung up the phone, he couldn't help but chuckle as he thought about how the child had been completely bewildered by him last night.
He walked to the room across the hall, knocked twice on the door, and suddenly realized something was wrong—he smelled a very strong aroma of alcohol.
Author's Note: I've finally used up all my drafts, yay! Today I'm going to start running naked, I love running naked, hahaha!
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