Dad was catching the cat outside for a long time, so long that the little one couldn't help but ask:
"Dad, are you alright?"
"Did the cat bully you? Open the door, I'll protect you!"
At this moment, Shi Qianxi opened the door. He was wearing a black turtleneck undershirt that he rarely wore, which completely covered the skin below his neck.
And he was also wearing a loose coat over his clothes.
This is not how Dad usually dresses.
But the cub didn't have time to pay attention to this. He rushed out with a fierce little nose, staring straight ahead, looking left and right, circling around Shi Qianxi's thigh, but he couldn't find the mischievous kitten.
However, the cubs' aggressive appearance does resemble that of kittens.
Shi Qianxi patted the cub's arched back and comforted him, "Alright, alright, I've already asked the kitten to leave."
The cub whined and said, "The cat is bad."
A smile appeared in Shi Qianxi's eyes: "Yes, the cat is naughty, but the baby is good."
The kind-hearted child opened his arms, wanting his dad to hold him, but the dad didn't pick him up immediately. Instead, he avoided the child, saying:
"Are you hungry, baby? Daddy will cook you some food."
The cub was no longer sitting obediently on the sofa waiting as before. He seemed worried that Shi Qianxi might be injured, following closely behind her like a little hunting dog guarding its precious treasure.
Shi Qianxi: "...I'm going to step on you."
The cub tugged at the hem of its father's clothes, pretending not to hear.
Shi Qianxi tried to reason with him for the second time: "Baby, I'm going into the kitchen."
The cub buried its head in the crook of Shi Qianxi's legs, like a little penguin or a baby kangaroo trying to squeeze under its father's belly, looking like it couldn't tear itself off Shi Qianxi at all.
Shi Qianxi could only silently look at the whorl on the cub's head.
As the old saying goes, children with hair whorls are stubborn. Qianyuan usually seems quite well-behaved, but his years of independence have shaped his own personality, making him incredibly stubborn when it comes to things he's decided on.
He's a contradictory child.
Shi Qianxi was very soft-hearted; how could he bear not to hold the cub? So he gave in in less than three seconds.
I just hope the cubs don't notice anything unusual about him.
He held the cub in his arms, but before the cub could say anything, it was overwhelmed by the smell of disinfectant on Shi Qianxi and sneezed several times.
Shi Qianxi's face stiffened.
Having become a monster, he would gradually lose his facial features and would no longer need to maintain vital signs. Therefore, despite his meticulous planning, he forgot to control the dosage of the disinfectant.
The smell of blood was suppressed, but it also caused his son to sneeze several times!
"dad……"
The boy's eyes were red.
Shi Qianxi felt extremely guilty. She immediately let go of the cub, walked downwind, opened her clothes, and started blowing on it.
The cub went to call him: "Daddy, you're going to catch a cold..."
Shi Qianxi returned at that time.
However, he can no longer catch a cold, has lost all the characteristics of a living person, and cannot even feel pain, so the cub can rest assured.
But Shi Qianxi will not let the cub know the truth.
If he had known... that would have been the day his happy life came to an end.
But today doesn't need to end. Shi Qianxi will use every means to make them stay in today forever.
He couldn't accept the way the cub looked at the monster.
He also couldn't accept his cub leaving him, being given to a new family, living with a new family member, and saying to a stranger, "Daddy, I love you."
So Shi Qianxi carefully tried to hide the coldness and stiffness of her skin and joints, as well as the dryness of her vocal cords.
He can't even tell if the cub is still running a fever. He doesn't have a human body temperature, so when he holds the cub, he only feels warmth but doesn't know if the cub is warm or hot.
He could only take the thermometer and take the cub's temperature again.
The cub's eyes have been fixed on its father ever since it smelled the disinfectant on him:
"Dad, are you sick?"
"……No."
Shi Qianxi's voice didn't seem to come from his throat, but rather from his chest. The longer it went on, the more difficult it became for him to speak, so Shi Qianxi could only try to avoid speaking as much as possible.
If only he had the ability to regenerate...
The "gods" of this world only grant him death, never rebirth.
However, Shi Qianxi has already discovered the secret: by consuming the self created by the system, he can gain new abilities.
If necessary, we can just kill the new "him" tomorrow.
Shi Qianxi thought calmly, but tried her best to create a gentle smile on her face:
“Dad is fine. He just went to the pharmacy to get some fever reducer for the baby.”
"Then why is Dad so cold?"
The cub felt that his father, who was holding him, was like a big block of ice, and no matter how much he tried to warm him up, he couldn't get warm. His body temperature was very different from before.
Dad didn't go to Antarctica, so why did it suddenly get so cold?
So cold...unusual.
The cub held its father's hand in its arms, trying its best to warm its father with its own body heat.
Shi Qianxi looked at the small hot water bottle in her arms, her heart swelling with emotion.
"Okay, Dad might have a slight cold, he's a little chilly."
Upon hearing this, the cub immediately pushed Shi Qianxi onto the sofa to rest and went to great lengths to bring him a blanket.
Then they went back and forth, carrying any cloth that could be used to cover his body for warmth, clothes, blankets, socks, until they covered Shi Qianxi with a mountain of clothes.
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