The precious, endangered star butterfly egg case has shown remarkable vitality in the hands of a mediocre botany teaching assistant.
As the one who took care of it, Lin Xi could hardly help but feel gratified.
However, there were also people on this spaceship who were worried about the existence of that egg case.
"Do you think it has already emerged from its dormancy period?"
More than ten days later, in that medical room that Lin Xi was quite familiar with, his brother Bryce crossed his arms, stared at Lin Xi for a long time, and then slowly asked.
Before this, Lin Xi had just finished complaining to him about the endless and helpless insect plague, and by the way, he also mentioned the egg case of the Star Butterfly.
However, upon hearing Bryce's worried question, Lin Xi couldn't help but make a face in her mind.
He must have been exhausted to be so dizzy, otherwise he wouldn't have let slip that he knew about the Star Butterfly Egg Sheath. Based on past experience, Lin Xi could guess what Bryce was worried about even with her eyes closed.
Since that accident years ago, Bryce has always been a little overprotective of him.
The heavy burden of maternal love—for some reason, this word always reminds Lin Xi of Bryce.
However, no matter what complaints he might have in his heart, Lin Xi still appeared calm and composed on the surface.
He shrugged at Bryce: "Sure, that bug egg is practically turning into a tentacle monster now."
Bryce's medical room wasn't very large. Three treatment devices already occupied most of the space, followed by a small traditional operating room (the existence of this place alone showed how old the Sun God was), a sterilization room, and another sterilization room, but this space had been transformed into a relaxation space where Lin Xi and Bryce were currently talking.
Behind Lin Xi was a row of gleaming silver metal storage cabinets, filled with many tempting items. However, Bryce kept the locker passwords very secret, so Lin Xi never bothered with them.
At this moment, Lin Xi was brazenly occupying Bryce's expensive zero-gravity office chair, something that neither of the two Bryce brothers could afford—Elisa had bought the chair a few years ago and given it to Bryce as a birthday present.
Lin Xi lay there comfortably, and a faint sense of envy rose in her heart as she thought about the relationship between Elisa and Bryce.
Because his body was relaxed, he was somewhat absent-minded.
"Moreover, as an egg case, it absorbs almost a liter of nutrient solution every day, which is hardly something a dormant insect egg should be doing."
Lin Xi said to Bryce.
"This sounds very abnormal."
Bryce said seriously.
Lin Xi yawned: "Maybe? I'll ask Ando to take a look at that thing later..."
“You can have him take the egg case back; these things should stay in the lab, not in your bedroom.”
Bryce repeated his request.
Lin Xi couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
"Okay, I will. I'll go find Ando in a bit—"
He paused, then raised his hands in a gesture of surrender towards Bryce: "How much longer are we going to keep this up? For God's sake, when am I going to get my calming gel?"
"I'm still waiting for your blood test results before I can decide if I can prescribe a few more gels. Oh, don't look at me like that; you're acting like you don't even know you have a gel addiction. Honestly, you should get rid of that egg as soon as possible. I can't believe Professor Ando would do something like this: put an alien egg on your bedside table so you can take care of it? Is this some kind of joke—"
“Dear Bryce, please, focus your attention on your weak and neurasthenic brother, instead of having your mind filled with these bug eggs, okay?” Seeing Bryce’s face getting worse, Lin Xi could only forcefully interrupt him. “Besides, I’m fed up with the bug talk. Seriously, these days I’m fighting those damn bugs in the greenhouse during the day, and at night I’m still dreaming about them in my dreams. Don’t mention bugs to me anymore. Just give me some calming gel sticks. I promise I won’t abuse them anymore. I just need a little help so I can get a good night’s sleep and not have any nightmares—if I keep going like this, I’ll definitely die of a sudden!”
Lin Xi shouted at Bryce, her voice tinged with barely concealed exhaustion and despair.
Very unusually, this time his explanation for asking Bryce for the calming gel stick was almost entirely true.
Ah, yes, that's why he's here.
Lin Xi is currently facing a bug crisis in her life: the endless bugs in the laboratory and greenhouse during the day, and the hazy, terrifying winter solstice at night.
Every single day, as he lay wearily in his bed trying to get some rest, nightmares would follow him relentlessly.
Lin Xi could hardly remember the last time he had fallen into a deep, peaceful sleep. Now, whenever he thought of sleeping, his mind was filled with those overwhelming nightmares. Even though the memories of those nightmares became extremely blurry and faint after he woke up, the deep-seated fear still left a faint mark in Lin Xi's heart.
If it weren't for the cardiac arrest incident caused by the sedative gel sticks last time, Lin Xi probably wouldn't have come to the medical room to wait for "official approval" at all—the unlucky guys on the exploration team had a much larger quota of gel sticks than researchers like him.
"Hmm, you do look a bit more haggard than before."
Bryce looked Lin Xi up and down, then nodded after a moment of contemplation.
But then he lowered his head to study the physical examination report on Lin Xi that had just been delivered.
"Although your medical report shows... all your physical functions are normal." Bryce opened the terminal, and all the data about Lin Xi appeared in mid-air.
Lin Xi looked at the report with a suspicious expression on her face.
"This is impossible—did you accidentally upload the model data? I've felt like I'm about to die every day lately..."
He asked instinctively, but did not receive a response from Bryce.
He turned around and was startled by the serious look in Bryce's eyes.
“Bryce?” he asked. “Is there a problem?”
Bryce stared blankly at the data, and it took him a while to come back to his senses.
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