Chapter 3
"Get up." Qi Heng repeated.
The young man bit his lower lip and stood still like a rooted wooden stake.
The situation was at a stalemate for a while.
Qi Heng looked at the stubborn young man who refused to get up, and the corner of his mouth twitched. He had never thought that the other party had mistaken him for an egg breeder or something like that.
But then again, how did I look like an egg brooder?
Qi Heng really wanted to leave immediately, but after thinking about it, he gave up.
He was unfamiliar with this world and needed a guide. Instead of wasting time looking for one later, it would be better to ask the young Zerg in front of him for help. At least he had the initiative.
"If you kneel down again, even I can't save him." Qi Heng said.
The young man was stunned for a moment, but soon realized what he meant, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
"Thank you. I, what should I do?" The young man said as he stood up, his tone filled with uneasiness.
"Give it to me." Qi Heng gestured for him to hand over the insect egg.
The young man regarded him as his life-saving straw. After hearing his words, he handed the insect eggs to him without any hesitation. It was obviously just their first meeting, but he showed such unparalleled trust in him.
Qi Heng was a little surprised by this, but he didn't think much about it. Now was not the time to think about this issue.
He lowered his head to observe the insect egg that he was holding with one hand against his chest. The color of the insect egg was not a clean and bright white, but a faint yellow. No wonder it looked like off-white at first glance.
As half-editor of the book "Guide to Advanced Zerg Egg Breeding", he could tell from its appearance that this Zerg egg was malnourished - a normal Zerg egg should be a soft pure white in color.
This result is probably caused by the baby not absorbing enough nutrients in the mother's body, the father's failure to properly irrigate the eggs, and the failure to replenish the necessary trace elements in time after birth.
...The buffs that would cause the insect egg to die early were stacked up completely. Qi Heng was speechless and didn't understand why this insect egg could be conceived even in this situation.
If this is how the Zerg raise their offspring now, it's no wonder that there are so many dead eggs in this pit.
Qi Heng looked at the patterns on the insect eggs. Male and female insects can be distinguished by the presence or absence of patterns on the eggs while they are still in the eggs. This egg is covered with dark blue patterns, which is obviously a female insect egg.
Malnutrition not only affects the color of the insect eggs, but also makes the lines on the eggs, which should have been shiny and glossy, become very dull and lusterless... Judging from this point of view, it is not wrong to say that this egg is a dead egg. After all, one foot has already stepped into the gate of hell.
If it were when he was still playing games, insect eggs like the ones in his hand should have been sent to an insect egg breeding center for a complete set of scientific egg breeding and health care. Even then, there would still be a certain chance that they would not hatch.
But now, except for myself who has just mastered mental power, I have nothing, and it seems that the only methods I can use are crude methods.
He can only treat the dead egg as a living one. Whether it can be saved depends on the luck of the insect egg itself.
When Qi Heng thought of this, he also found the starting point of the lines on the insect egg.
He gathered his mental power at his fingertips, then controlled the intensity of the mental power and traced the lines bit by bit.
His mental power slowly and harmlessly penetrated into the insect egg, eventually enveloping the curled-up insect cub inside.
Soon, the mental power's inherent perspective fed back the appearance of the cub inside the insect egg.
It was a cub in a semi-mimicry state, with slender antennae on its forehead and narrow dragonfly-like wings on its back, closed and hanging softly at its sides.
Under the influence of Qi Heng's mental power, the cub, who was still sleeping and had not woken up, half-opened its eyes for a second, then lost its strength and closed them again.
The moment Qi Heng finished drawing the insect pattern, the pattern on the insect egg lit up for a moment and then dimmed again.
If you look closely, you'll notice that the dark lines on the egg seem to be brighter than before.
The young man who had been watching him did not miss this scene, and countless joy surged in his heart. The fact that the insect pattern could light up meant that the insect egg was indeed still alive. His previous feeling was indeed correct.
"alright."
Qi Heng placed the insect egg in the young man's arms and said, "Your life is saved for now."
"Thank you, thank you so much for your help..." The young man tightened his grip on the insect egg, not knowing what to say. He just kept repeating thank you.
Qi Heng glanced at the attribute panel and saw that his mental strength had suddenly decreased by 50 points, which was 10 points more than the in-game operation. However, considering that this was his first time doing this and that he was in real life, the additional loss was normal.
"You're welcome. This is a deal." Qi Heng waved his hand and said, "And I also said that his life is only saved temporarily."
"It will take further treatment to get out of the egg. Are you ready?"
The insect egg will not die until the layer of spiritual power that wraps the cub in the egg dissipates... Once that layer of spiritual power dissipates and the cub does not wake up, there will be no way to save it.
"What can I do for you?" After learning that the insect eggs would be fine for the time being, the young man calmed down a little.
Qi Heng glanced at the other person with appreciation. Talking to an intelligent person was simple. He got straight to the point and said, "As you can see, I've just arrived and am not familiar with this place. I need a place to stay temporarily."
The young man thought for a while and said, "If you don't mind, you can live in my house."
Although this may be a bit troublesome, being close means that any problems with the eggs can be treated in the shortest possible time. Compared to this, other problems are nothing.
Qi Heng certainly could see through the young man's little tricks, but he didn't mind.
“That’s wonderful.”
He gave a gentle smile and introduced himself: "My name is Qi Heng."
The young man didn't expect that he would reveal his name on his own initiative. He stuttered and said, "Ah, hello Mr. Qi Heng, my name is Yan Ning."
"Don't be so polite, you can just call me by my name."
Yan Ning shook her head: "No, that would be too disrespectful to you."
Judging from my appearance, I am only a few years older than Yan Ning, but I always call myself "you". If you don't know me, you might think I am very old.
Seeing Yan Ning's insistence, Qi Heng just went along with him.
"Let's go to where you live." He planned to ask Yan Ning some questions on the way to get some information he wanted to know.
Qi Heng's attempt to trick Yan Ning went smoothly, and along the way Yan Ning told him everything she knew.
It didn't take much effort for him to get most of the information he wanted to know. The remaining questions were either difficult to ask or Yan Ning didn't know the answers to.
During the conversation, Qi Heng also got to know Yan Ning's temperament and personality. She was a clever but generally kind-hearted child, which was similar to the impression he had made on him before.
After he saved the insect eggs and deliberately showed kindness, the relationship between him and Yan Ning quickly became closer, and their conversation became less awkward.
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Yan Ning walked beside Qi Heng holding the insect egg. He felt that he was so lucky today that he actually met an egg breeder... What was even more fortunate was that the insect egg that he thought was dead could feel the heartbeat again in the hands of the egg breeder.
My insect eggs are still alive and will hatch into baby insects in the future. I have to thank Mr. Qi Heng for his willingness to help me.
"Mr. Qi Heng, look, that's District 49. We'll be there soon." Yan Ning pointed in a direction for him.
"That's great." Qi Heng had a smile on his face, but it didn't reach his eyes.
Not far away is a settlement nestled among the ruins of the city.
He learned from Yan Ning that it was slum numbered 49 in the North District. Just by hearing the number, he knew that there were many slums like this... What happened to the Tianjia civilization in the past ten thousand years that caused civilization to regress to this point?
Qi Heng was organizing the information he got from Yan Ning in his mind.
The area where I appeared after crossing over was not inhabited by Zerg because it was close to the Dead Egg Pit. It was on the edge of Slum No. 49. It was no wonder that I didn't see other people nearby last night.
Judging from the map recorded by the system, District 49 is about one kilometer away from where he landed last night, but it is still in this abandoned city.
From this point, it is enough to see how large the city originally occupied.
I don't know what Yan Ning was thinking, but she seemed to have misunderstood that he was an egg breeder who ran away from the previous area, and she praised him highly as an egg breeder.
Qi Heng thought for a moment and decided to go with the flow and pretend to be a bohemian and freedom-loving egg breeder - otherwise it would be difficult to explain why he ran away from other districts with better living standards.
The closer the slum area number is to the front, the better the living standard. This is also what Yan Ning said. Yan Ning said that his wish is to move to the safer area in front.
Qi Heng could not deny this.
Afterwards, under Yan Ning's guidance, he entered Area 49.
Before entering District 49, Qi Heng had imagined what District 49 would look like in his mind. It would definitely not be very good, after all, it was called a slum... But he didn't expect that the environment was slightly better than he thought.
On both sides of the narrow road are "houses" made of stacked containers of different sizes and thick pipes. The ground is a bit muddy, and all kinds of messy things are piled up in the corners.
As he looked, he discovered a problem - apart from these traces of the technological age, he didn't see anything else related to technology.
Didn't any technology survive, a regression to the pre-industrial revolution? Qi Heng felt something was amiss, but he couldn't put his finger on it.
Along the way, while taking in the surrounding environment, he also received countless gazes, some of which were subtle, some were direct, coming from the Zerg passing by.
"Mr. Qi Heng, we're here."
He was a little absent-minded when he was brought back to his senses by Yan Ning's voice.
Qi Heng focused his attention on the house in front of him, thinking that no matter what happened next, at least he wouldn't have to suffer the cold tonight, and he could also save some system energy.
Although the energy required by the system is a drop in the bucket, it is better than nothing.
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