Lanhuadis 13
Xilting's residence looks very ordinary from the outside, but the interior decoration style is very personal.
The window displays skulls of various sizes, each recording the year, month, and day they were captured at a certain place.
There was a large area of messy marks and graffiti on the wall that no one could understand.
The deserted bedroom and the spotless kitchen had thick curtains drawn, not a single ray of light coming in. It was darker than midnight outside.
There were a few faint, unknown red lights floating in the air, scattered throughout the bedroom.
The bed sheets and quilt in the bedroom were all black, and the carpet was a gaudy, faded scarlet.
A young man was lying on the bed, with a piece of clothing next to his pillow and a cub in the pocket.
At this time, the sky outside was just beginning to brighten. The cub turned over and stretched comfortably.
His eyes slowly opened under the red silk. He rubbed his face and took three seconds to turn on the phone.
Ning Ren was a sleepyhead and was almost always forced to wake up because of hunger.
He had gradually gotten used to the dark world and planned to wash his face and rinse his mouth before eating.
Even though he doesn't have teeth now and doesn't need to rinse his mouth, he still retains his old habit.
He crawled out of his pocket, patted his deflated belly, and said, "Ahhh."
This was his signal to express his hunger to his second brother, fifth sister and housekeeper Niemansen. Patting his belly meant it was time to eat.
Alas, he actually doesn’t want to eat eggshells... but he has no teeth and can’t bite anything else, so he can only eat eggshells to fill his stomach. When his teeth grow in the future, he will definitely try all the delicious food!
The system that had been watching silently all the way: "..."
Xilting, who had just fallen asleep, slowly opened his eyes, and a fierce red light flashed in his eyes, like a wild beast that suddenly woke up.
After a moment, he regained consciousness, pulled himself up, and fixed his gaze on the back of the cub's head.
Are you awake at this hour?
Xilting supported his chin and called out lazily.
"Little guy."
Ning Ren: “?”
The cub paused in patting its belly.
It's a strange voice!
The black-haired cub's ears perked up and he stepped back, almost stepping on his own hair.
He quickly stabilized himself, retreated to the range of the military uniform, grabbed a corner and crawled in, turned the car around inside, and cautiously revealed a gap.
However, with the experience of Carlos and Dorothea as a lesson, Ning Ren was calmer than before.
The cub said fiercely: "Ah."
Who are you?
Xiaoqi...seems a little timid.
Xierting touched the fake scar on his face, tore it off, lifted his bangs, revealing his smooth forehead, and his gloomy temperament dissipated a little.
"My name is Xierting, and I'm your fourth brother."
Ning Ren felt that it sounded familiar.
Xierting put his finger in front of the gap and said, "Come out, little guy, I'm not a bad person."
After he finished speaking, a while later, he saw the small bulge under his clothes move. When he put his finger in, he felt the cub's warm, tentative and confirming sniff.
Xierting raised his eyebrows slightly. How come Xiaoqi was raised like a puppy by that guy?
The smell was very reassuring, just like the feeling his second brother gave him.
Ning Ren: "Everything?"
System: “Hmm!”
After the double authentication, Ning Ren felt relieved and crawled out again, but he did not dare to leave the range of the clothes.
But the surroundings gave him an inexplicable sense of strangeness, and his second brother seemed to be away.
The air in the military area smells of gunpowder, the air at home smells warm, but here it's... cold.
Xilting: "Hungry?"
He heard the cub patting its belly just now.
Ning Ren nodded.
"You want to eat?"
This time, the cub didn't nod. Instead, he stood up solemnly, took off his eye mask, and made a face-washing gesture with his hands.
Xierting was stunned when he took off the blindfold. This face looked 60% like the gentle mother in his memory and 40% like his father. It could easily evoke warm memories in his heart.
His eyes softened a bit, but he quickly noticed the cub's unfocused pupils.
Xilting had a bad feeling in his heart, and he stretched out his hand and waved it in front of the cub.
The little guy didn't react at all.
“…”
Xilting curled his fingertips.
Really...
Ning Ren waited for a long time but there was no movement, so he reminded his fourth brother whom he met for the first time, and then went through the motions of washing his face again.
Xierting quickly adjusted his mood and decided to give Xiaoqi a comprehensive examination after Dr. Jianyang arrived.
But what does this action mean?
Xilting: "Your face is itchy? Let me scratch it?"
"Did you get something dirty on your face while you were sleeping?" Xilting pinched his brother's face, looked around, and didn't find any redness or swelling.
Ning Ren: “…”
The hunger in his stomach became more and more unbearable. The cub anxiously slapped his hand away and repeated the face-washing action several times, accompanied by ahhhh explanations.
Wash your face! Wash your face!
I'm so anxious!
When Ning Ren finally got tired and decided to give up washing his face, Xierting suddenly realized, "It's washing your face!"
"Xiao Qi needs to wash his face."
Cub: “.”
system:"."
Xilting quickly carried him into the bathroom.
Damn Carlos, not only did he push Xiao Qi to him, but he didn't even tell him any information about Xiao Qi.
The faucet in the bathroom was made in the shape of Carlos. When Xilting slapped Carlos on the forehead, water flowed out of its ears.
This water is just ordinary water. There is no magma or ice to enjoy in District 10.
Xilting picked up the cub and handed it to the water column, carefully maintaining a position where the cub could reach the water flow.
Then I watched carefully how my brother washed his face.
Ning Ren could hear the sound of rushing water in his ears. He felt like he was in front of a waterfall, with cold water droplets splashing on his face.
“…”
The cub wiped the water splashed on his face expressionlessly. At this moment, he suddenly missed his second brother and fifth sister.
Ning Ren's skin was covered with tiny goose bumps, and he kept shrinking back, his little face wrinkled into a ball, showing very obvious resistance.
Xilting: “Did I understand wrongly?”
Ning Ren felt numb and pointed at his stomach.
He was getting hungrier and hungrier.
Forget it, just wash your face hastily and eat well.
Xierting turned off the faucet and went to the kitchen. He held the cub in one hand and rummaged through the drawers with the other. He didn't find any food, but he did find a lot of gunpowder and weapons that he had hidden away.
Finally, Xierting found a few pieces of bread, took a bite to make sure they were not moldy, then tore off the tenderest bread core and stuffed it into Ning Ren's hand.
"?"
New food.
Ning Ren sniffed it and then stuffed it into his mouth. The bread was still too rough for his taste. He took two bites on the left and two bites on the right. He tilted his neck back and swallowed the first bite with difficulty. He felt like he was going to choke to death.
Only then did Xilting realize that his brother had no teeth.
No teeth!
Don’t their Lanhuadis cubs have milk teeth as soon as they hatch?!
He quickly pressed his fingertips against the cub's back to help it breathe. "You haven't finished eating the eggshell yet, have you?"
Ning Ren coughed a few times and finally swallowed the bread completely.
He nodded and said he would eat the eggshells.
Xilting: "..."
He finally realized the seriousness of the matter.
If the cubs do not finish eating the eggshells, they will not be able to obtain the required energy by eating other foods.
He could give up the idea of going out to buy food.
The food he just ate did not fill him up, but made him even hungrier. Ning Ren, who was in a hungry state, was affected by his body, and his reason was gradually swallowed up by hunger.
I'm so hungry, but I haven't eaten yet.
There is nothing to eat.
The cub curled its lips, its eyes turned red, and it cried out for food from its parents, driven by instinct.
He, he made his brother cry because of hunger?
"Don't, don't cry, don't cry, I'll find you something to eat."
Xierting quickly put on his clothes, disguised his face, and returned to the underground base camp with Ning Ren in his pocket. Feilan, Mengzi, and Sangting, who were still awake, looked puzzled: "Boss, why are you back?"
The thin cries of the cubs attracted their attention.
Sang Ting: "? Boss, what did you do to me?"
Xilting: "He's hungry. Do you know where there are eggshells? He needs to eat eggshells."
At this moment, a struggling and roaring voice came from another underground passage: "You are kidnapping!"
"You damned rude and reckless man! Let me go, I can walk on my own!"
Sang Ting: "Doctor Jian Yang is here!"
Xilting flashed in front of an annoyed young man, "Excuse me, look at this little guy, he's not doing well."
Doctor Jian Yang only took a glance: "?"
He was horrified: "Your organization also steals children?!"
“…He is my family and he is very hungry now, but Eggshell is not here.”
Doctor Jianyang: Bah.
He doesn't believe it!
How can your own child be without eggshells?!
Even so, he still checked the cub. After a moment, his expression was not good: "You'd better find him food quickly, otherwise he might be in big trouble."
"This little fellow is small, obviously underdeveloped in the eggshell. He is naturally weak and generally cannot survive. He must be carefully cared for."
"Even if he appears healthy and active, it's only because the special substances in the eggshell he was born with are nourishing his body. There are still many uncertainties in his body. Once the eggshell is gone, he may be in a critical period of life and death."
Doctor Jianyang's expression grew increasingly serious as he spoke, almost to the point of angering himself. "It's fine if I just treat injuries like you guys, you reckless idiots! The child is innocent. Return it to wherever you stole it from! This is a life at stake!"
Xierting's face had completely darkened, and his palms were cold.
He squeezed the cub's palm, and it seemed to be as cold as he was due to lack of heat.
He remembered the rumors he had heard when he was in the Third Army about Xiao Qi being weak.
It now appears that the rumors are untrue.
Xiao Qi is clearly weaker than the rumors say.
Since Xiaoqi is in this situation, if Carlos wants him to take care of Xiaoqi, he will definitely pack up the eggshells and throw them to him.
Now that there is no eggshell, it only means that he was wrong at the beginning. Carlos didn't know that Xiaoqi had followed him to District 10.
But there is no time to dwell on this now.
Xierting: "Doctor Jianyang, what can he eat to fill his stomach in his condition?"
Doctor Jianyang: "The eggshell powder from Baishi is OK..."
Some poor families would grind off a little powder from the surface of the eggshells of their young and sell it. This would not affect their own children and they could make money.
High-quality eggshell powder can improve the physical fitness of cubs. Rich people will buy it and add it to the cubs' complementary food as a seasoning.
The White Market is a market that only trades during the day. The Lanhuadis people who come and go wear protective gear that blocks the sunlight, so they cannot see each other's identities.
"Call all the brothers you can, put on protective gear, and go to Baishi."
Xilting turned and left.
Santin blew a whistle as a signal and followed Xiltin.
"Boss, Bai City is controlled by the Fierce Fang branch. We originally planned to attack their headquarters after dark..."
"It doesn't take that much time."
"clear."
After a brief conversation, more and more men followed behind him. They were wearing tight protective gear and left the underground directly.
Doctor Jianyang hesitated to speak.
In fact, the heart blood of blood relatives can also be used for feeding, but since the child was stolen, there is no need to mention it.
The bully goes out on the street with full of temperament.
Mengzi roared, "Brothers! We have only one goal this time! All the eggshell powder in Baishi, Gangshi District, must be named Kongchan!"
The bullies all flashed their most terrifying and bloodthirsty smiles, which they had practiced many times: "Grab the eggshell powder! Grab the eggshell powder!"
The cub hiccupped in fear.
"idiot!"
Xierting cursed sinisterly: "Keep your voice down! You scared the child!"
The cub paused for a second and cried even louder.
Wow wow wow, why is the style completely different from that of my second brother and fifth sister?!
His fourth brother is not only a fool, but also seems to be a bad guy QAQ!
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