Zhou Jinze didn't scold Lin Jue for being so worthless.
He simply noticed the little guy's obvious reluctance to part with the paper umbrella, so he decided to play the villain and reach out his hand:
"Give it to me."
Lin Jue: ?
"Just a token amount is enough for you. You've already had it, it's time to return the umbrella to the kid."
Lin Jue: ? No, that's not how it works.
Zhou Jinze: For the sake of my son, if I say it's okay, then it's okay.
But Qianyuan didn't want the paper umbrella back. He had already given it away, so how could he ask for it back?
Only a bad kid breaks his promise!
How could Zhou Jinze do such a thing?!
Qian Yuan opened his mouth but couldn't speak, so he could only turn his head away and not take the small umbrella from Zhou Jinze's hand.
Seeing this, Lin Jue burst out laughing: "Our kid's moral standards are higher than yours."
Zhou Jinze clicked his tongue, then thought for a moment before turning around and buying the cub a small cake.
Although it doesn't have Qianyuan's favorite color anymore, at least there's a paper umbrella for him to play with.
Qianyuan was stunned.
Can he have another cake?
In Qianyuan's past understanding, even if he could possess these precious and rare foods, he could only have one serving at a time. In his few happy moments, this rule had been deeply ingrained in his heart.
He doesn't have the right to be willful.
But Zhou Jinze bought him a second cake without hesitation.
Qian Yuan watched Zhou Jinze swipe his terminal without even frowning, but just from the fact that he rarely saw cakes, he knew that 15 yuan was expensive given the current prices.
Just because he could eat one more cake, Qianyuan felt that her long-held beliefs had been challenged.
Zhou Jinze wasn't that perceptive enough to notice all the cub's emotional changes. He just saw the little guy holding a small cake and suddenly start to cry.
Zhou Jinze immediately realized: "The cake is poisoned?!"
Lin Jue: "No way!"
He looked down at the little guy: "He hasn't eaten yet. It must be because you're so shameless that you made our little one angry."
Zhou Jinze: ...
He ignored Lin Jue completely and lowered his head to wipe away the boy's tears.
Even when crying, the baby's beautiful blue eyes remained dreamy and lovely, but Zhou Jinze would only pinch and rub the baby's cheeks vigorously, turning the baby into a wrinkled bun, and the baby's face would turn red from the force.
Qianyuan, her cheeks swollen from being rubbed red, continued to stare intently at the cake.
Finally, he hid the cake in the coat that Zhou Jinze used to carry him.
This is the place the cub considers the safest.
He still couldn't bear to eat it all at once, so he hid it away, like a hamster hoarding food, putting the cake away.
That way, if Zhou Jinze or he himself runs out of food, he can take out the cake and share it with him and Zhou Jinze.
Zhou Jinze roughly understood what his son meant, but he was just thinking about what position he should use so as not to flatten the cake.
In the end, he could only secretly transfer the cake to his backpack when the child wasn't looking.
He would only show it to the cub after the cub had repeatedly checked it.
Having eaten and drunk his fill and still having food left, Qianyuan was so happy he was practically bubbling with joy. He leaned on Zhou Jinze's shoulder, and if Zhou Jinze listened carefully, he could hear the little guy humming a soft song.
Although his speech was incoherent and his intonation was off, even with that babbling voice, he could melt people's hearts.
Unfortunately, the cubs cannot speak.
Zhou Jinze patted the cub without making a sound, signaling it to release the tentacle gripping his head.
"Hello, Captain Zhou."
Back at the base, Zhou Jinze quickly packed Qian Yuan into an octopus roll and stuffed it into his pocket. Even if his son forgot, he hadn't forgotten that he had secretly brought C-036 out. Even with Bo Yuchuan's help to cover it up, he couldn't be too conspicuous; at least he had to maintain appearances.
As he was thinking this, Bo Yuchuan happened to pass by the door. He followed Zhou Jinze back and curiously looked at Qianyuan.
"Have you eaten? Are you feeling better?"
Zhou Jinze took the cub out of his arms, and in just a short while, Qianyuan had already fallen asleep in his arms.
So Zhou Jinze lowered his voice and said, "We went out to eat something unusual. It seems we ate our fill, but that unusual thing ran away in the middle of the night."
Bo Yuchuan raised an eyebrow: "Something's wrong? They ran away?"
When have they ever been the ones running away from the monsters, or the monsters running away because they were afraid of them?
"You can listen to their report for details. I'm taking the baby back to sleep."
Bo Yuchuan wasn't angry at being turned away. Ever since Qian Yuan appeared in this base, all sorts of things had gone wrong, which made Bo Yuchuan very happy.
He desperately wanted such unexpected events to happen every day, so that he could get closer to the source of the anomalies and monsters.
The secrets of approaching deep space.
After Bo Yuchuan and Zhou Jinze parted ways, Zhou Jinze took the cub back to the containment room. For the past two days, Bo Yuchuan had been telling everyone that C-036 had gone for a medical check-up, which is why no researchers had come to make routine inquiries.
Zhou Jinze untied the octopus roll and put it in the bathtub. The little guy slid little by little into the bottom of the tub along the smooth material of the bathtub.
Zhou Jinze was stunned for a moment.
Won't he drown?
Because Qianyuan is an octopus, Zhou Jinze didn't try to catch it immediately. Instead, he watched as the little guy blew a few bubbles at the bottom of the tank before choking on water.
really……
Zhou Jinze was not surprised at all and quickly scooped the baby out.
Having cared for the cub for a long time, he could tell what the little guy could do and what he couldn't. Even though the cub could soak in water when it was still an octopus hatchling, now it looked like a complete landlubber.
However, the baby was probably tired from being outside. Even though he choked on water, it didn't wake him up. It just let him stretch out his tentacles and then turned over to continue sleeping.
Seeing this, Zhou Jinze didn't disturb Qianyuan any further. Instead, he took a basin, put Qianyuan in it, and let him float in the bathtub with the basin.
The baby loves this; the little basin sways gently in the bathtub like a small boat, just like a cradle.
Qianyuan had another messy dream.
This time, he dreamt of the anomaly in the building he had tasted. The anomaly seemed to be traveling through a spacetime that didn't exist on this planet. The building muttered and murmured, its pitiful cries reaching almost all the anomalies' ears:
"He has awakened! I saw Him. He was very weak, and even bit me, devouring most of my spiritual energy..."
"He has awakened, and everything will change!"
After that terrified tone fell, from the deepest, deepest place, a series of whispers suddenly arose.
"The master of chaos, the pillar of deep space, the lord of all things, the king of kings, the apex predator in dimensional space..."
"We praise your glorious name and give thanks for your awakening!"
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