Chapter 286 Testing Taotao
After dinner, the others were sent back to rest again, and Zhuang Mingxu finally had time to communicate with Lu Weiyi alone.
He tapped Lu Weiyi's brow with his finger, "Does it still hurt? Do you feel anything else besides pain?"
There was a hissing pain, as if something was pulling at my head.
Lu Weiyi didn't have any extra energy at all, but seeing Zhuang Mingxu so worried, he still forced himself to be strong, "A little bit at a time, I'm trying to find a solution, and I have some idea."
Zhuang Mingxu asked Xu Yi but he had no idea about it. Using scientific instruments was not realistic at this time. They relied on him to stabilize the morale of the troops. Once his situation got out, the team might get into chaos.
He put his arm around her shoulders and looked at Taotao who was playing with Zhuang Aiyi. Then he remembered this child who had appeared out of nowhere. "Where did this child come from?"
"I don't know either." Lu Weiyi lowered his voice, making sure that no one was listening to them, and continued, "I absorbed several space jades. After the space was repaired, I was sucked in, and then he appeared, saying that he was the Yin-Yang Protective Jade."
He repeated to Zhuang Mingxu what Taotao had said before.
Zhuang Mingxu combined the origin and legend of the jade pendant with the sales pitch of the auction house owner. He said that this was a protective jade pendant used by a great man in the Shang Dynasty. It was mentioned in many unofficial histories and there were traces of it in different eras.
"Could it be the so-called Jade Spirit?" If this had happened in the past, Zhuang Mingxu would have definitely had doubts in his heart, but now that supernatural powers can appear, he feels that if someone tells him that gods exist, he may not find it strange.
"Maybe," Lu Weiyi thought for a while and pointed to his head, "There's something wrong with him. He looked bigger than Aiyi when he was in the space, but he is so small when he came out. I don't have time to ask him in detail. Seeing that he has no bad intentions towards Aiyi, I let the two of them play."
They couldn't figure out his origin, but now it was obvious that he posed no threat to them. Zhuang Mingxu stopped holding on to him and asked, "If he is the jade pendant itself, is it connected to your space? Can he enter independently?"
Lu Weiyi shook his head, "I didn't feel that anything inside had been moved." Before, Lu Weiyi was the only one controlling the space, and he didn't feel it. Later, after putting Zhuang Mingxu in, Lu Weiyi found that the actions of the people inside would appear in his consciousness as long as he thought about it, just like the people in the laboratory were now under his control.
Zhuang Mingxu asked Xu Yi to take Zhuang Aiyi to play somewhere, waved to Taotao, and asked Lu Weiyi for a bag of snacks.
"Grandpa, father." Taotao stood obediently in front of the two men. With her small bellyband and pigtails, she looked more and more like a doll in a New Year picture. However, she wore a pair of very modern sandals, which made her look a little out of place.
Compared to his flexibility in space, he seemed a little staggering and walked very unskillfully. Fortunately, considering his current small stature, it didn't seem strange that he just learned to walk.
Zhuang Mingxu handed him the bag of snacks and said with a smile, "This is a gift from grandpa to Taotao."
"Are they all for Taotao?" Taotao looked at Lu Weiyi cautiously.
Zhuang Mingxu found that he seemed to want to get close to Lu Weiyi, but he also felt a vague fear.
He picked up the child and sat him on his lap. "Yes, give them all to Taotao. Do you like them?"
The whole bag was almost as big as Taotao's. Taotao's face was full of joy. She reached out to pull at it but failed. Finally, she hugged the bag with both hands, as if half of her body was lying on it.
"Thank you, big daddy," Taotao said happily.
"Taotao, tell your daddy, how old are you?" Zhuang Mingxu coaxed gently.
Taotao thought about it, shook her head, and there was a moment of confusion in her eyes.
"Then how did you appear in the jade pendant?"
Taotao shook her head again.
"Can you enter the jade pendant yourself? Can you take the things inside?"
"Sure," Taotao said seriously, taking something out and handing it to Zhuang Mingxu.
Zhuang Min lowered his head and saw a gun. Tao Tao carefully put it back into his hand and said, "I don't like it. It hurts when it hits me." He pointed to his chest as if he was complaining, his tone quite aggrieved.
He does look confused. To say he is stupid seems quite polite, but to say he is smart seems like there are many things he doesn't understand. Sometimes he even seems to be stuck and can't react, half a beat slow.
"Can you live outside? Will it have any impact?" Zhuang Mingxu asked.
Taotao shook her head and reached out to pull at the snacks beside her, hoping to untie the bag.
Lu Weiyi held down the snacks, and when Taotao looked at him innocently, he asked, "Can you control Taozhi?"
"Sure, I am Taotao," Taotao said, and her two white and tender hands instantly turned into countless green branches as thin as hair, exactly the kind that Lu Weiyi usually controlled.
But compared to Lu Weiyi's hand, his hands were densely packed like a net, able to drown the people around him, and they looked more skillful, as if they were a part of his body.
Although it was not his own supernatural power, Lu Weiyi had been using the little green branch since the beginning of the apocalypse. Now it seemed to have become someone else's, which gave him an indescribable feeling.
Seeing that Lu Weiyi was silent, Taotao thought she had done something wrong. She recovered her hands quickly and handed a peach to Lu Weiyi in a slightly flattering tone, "Father, eat it."
Lu Weiyi didn't take it. He thought about it and reached to the side with one hand. He didn't see clearly what he did. When he looked again, a vine appeared in his hand, which looked quite familiar.
"Father, give it to me," Taotao said in a crisp and flattering voice, "Taotao, be good, father, please don't be angry and don't hit me, okay?"
Lu Weiyi took the vine in his hand and said to Zhuang Mingxu, "It's Gu Qingji's mutant vine." He looked at Tao Tao, "Why did you bring this?"
Except for Gu Qingji, this thing is rarely communicated with others. On the one hand, no one can understand it, and on the other hand, it also seems a bit aloof.
Only Zhuang Aiyi would often bring his snacks to please him, and only then would he condescend to play with him for a while.
However, I heard that the mutant vine also helped a lot in Zhuang Aiyi's escape this time.
Lu Weiyi touched the mutant vine branch, and was immediately hit by the mutant vine a few times and wanted to escape. His rebellious look was nothing like how he was obedient in Taotao's hands.
Taotao quickly grabbed it in her hand again and said, "I want to give it to my father."
As he spoke, he reached out to pry the mutant vine apart near the roots with his two little hands.
Lu Weiyi squinted his eyes and looked at it, then silently said two words to Zhuang Mingxu, "Crystal core."
Zhuang Mingxu's eyes tightened slightly, and after a closer look, he found that the mutant vine, which had been struggling in Lu Weiyi's hands and wanted to resist, was very obedient in Taotao's hands, occasionally trembling slightly, which looked more like trembling.
"Taotao, give your energy to father," Taotao muttered. She clenched her two little hands tightly, and when she saw that they were about to break, she paused for a moment and said helplessly, "Don't cry, don't cry."
"Father, Teng Teng said he would die."
"Can you understand what it says?" Zhuang Mingxu asked.
“Yes, we are all the same.”
Zhuang Mingxu thought about it and didn’t understand what the word “same” meant.
"Why doesn't he resist you?" Zhuang Mingxu asked again.
"Because I'm awesome," Taotao said with a little pride, and stuffed the things into Lu Weiyi's hands in a flattering manner, "All for Dad."
Zhuang Mingxu asked a few more questions, and saw that his answers were all confused.
But one thing was very obvious, he couldn't stand seeing Lu Weiyi frowning. Once he showed his unhappiness, Taotao immediately became timid and tried to please him. She looked like a pretty little dumpling, and her panic-stricken look was really heartbreaking.
Zhuang Mingxu couldn't bear to tease him any more, so he reminded him not to take things from the space at will, and not to tell others about the space and his origins. After making sure he understood, he stuffed the snacks he had been eyeing into his hand and let him play by himself.
"Then Taotao will go find her brother." Taotao looked at Lu Weiyi carefully until Lu Weiyi nodded, then she pulled the bag with her two little hands and walked towards Zhuang Aiyi.
As he walked, he called out to his brother to come quickly.
Zhuang Aiyi's happy voice came from the room, and then he could be heard saying, "My brother is calling me," and pulling Xu Yi out of the room.
What catches the eye is the child struggling to move forward with a bag of snacks, grunting like an ox pulling a millstone, his little face red from exhaustion, giving people the feeling that this is child labor abuse.
Xu Yi suddenly felt that the couple were good-for-nothings.
He walked forward and picked up Taotao, holding the bag of snacks in one hand and directing the other, "Follow Uncle Xu."
The two children were brought to a corner and asked to sit cross-legged on the ground. The two children followed suit and sat cross-legged on the ground in the same way.
Taotao placed the unwrapped snacks all over the floor, and happily shared them out one by one. Xu Yi sat between them, smiling with a hint of innocence.
"Let's observe him later," Zhuang Mingxu whispered to Lu Weiyi and asked about the whereabouts of Zhuang Mobai and his group.
"Didn't you see it?" Lu Weiyi said.
Zhuang Mingxu thought for a moment and suddenly realized, "That's it..."
Lu Weiyi nodded, and Zhuang Mingxu suddenly choked up, not knowing what to say.
The two of them explained to Qi Lin.
Turning back to the room, Lu Weiyi hesitated again - he didn't want Zhuang Mingxu to contact them.
"What's wrong?" Seeing that he was silent, Zhuang Mingxu moved closer, hugged him and asked, "Xiaoyi, tell me what's wrong?"
His tone was gentle, just like how he usually coaxed a child, as if there had never been any grudge between them and the previous quarrel did not exist, which made Lu Weiyi feel a little uncomfortable.
There had never been such a serious confrontation between them, but when it suddenly occurred, it was like a thorn in his heart. He didn't know how to remove it, and the other party didn't seem to be willing to help him, so he didn't know what to say for a moment.
"I can go see him myself," Lu Weiyi said after a moment.
"I'll go with you. There are a lot of strange medicines in the lab. I'm worried about you going in alone. I'll accompany you so that I can take care of you if anything happens."
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