Chapter 62 Bow Tie (1) Jinjiang exclusive authorization for the first release, protection...
Spider silk is densely filled between each exquisite and expensive material.
Mo Wan raised his fingertips and gently pinched off a strand of almost translucent spider silk. The soft semi-finished product lay quietly on his knees. He stroked it gently, as if he could imagine the warmth of the fabric against her skin.
He raised his eyes and looked at Ani not far away.
The ends of her hair were tinged with a light pink hue, and dense light screens around her were streaming with data and images that he didn't recognize, half surrounding her. A dozen small tentacles were each tapping on the light screen they were responsible for.
She held an electronic pen, under which was the prototype of a base's intelligent computer, and she seemed to be thinking most of the time.
Mo Wan looked at it for a long time, and subconsciously pinched his throat which was tied with black silk. The Adam's apple behind the cloth swallowed hard, and a faint sweetness lingered on the root of the tongue.
That is the liquid squeezed out by the tentacles and loaded onto the mouthpart controller.
Mo Wan was so absorbed in watching that he forgot to look away. Suddenly, a small part on the table next to him moved and fell to the ground with a plop.
He suddenly came to his senses, as if waking up from a dream, and stood up to put the parts that Annie used to assemble something back on the table. However, this invisible collision happened again, and the parts on the table shook for no reason.
…what… ?
Mo Wan couldn't make a sound, he couldn't speak, he just followed the trembling and walked closer to her.
There are strange...invisible creatures harassing Lady Annie.
His breathing suddenly became shallow, and he raised his hand and gently tugged at the corner of Annie's clothes.
The force was too light and she didn't notice it as she was still concentrating on drawing. Mo Wan curled his fingers slightly, as if this was the limit of his ability to actively disturb others - when facing his partner, he was completely different from his former hellish demon self, he was weak, cautious, and careful in every way.
But the strange creature was beside her, and seemed to be hiding behind her.
Mo Wan was a little anxious.
He had no choice but to reach out and grab a small tentacle. The little tentacle was formulating employee position arrangements and salary plans. When it was pulled, it froze for two seconds, as if wondering why there was no response after it pressed it twice.
The small tentacle rotated slightly in his palm, and the slippery touch made Mo Wan's heart beat faster. He remembered it, in a not-too-distant memory, he remembered that this tentacle particularly liked to drill into the throat, and his mind was awakened to the numbing feeling of the mucous membrane being invaded and his scalp being numbed.
He was startled and let go suddenly. The little tentacle made a question mark, bent and slid over to him.
Mo Wan was unable to speak. He pointed at Ani and looked pleading. The tentacles snapped around his wrist and brought him in front of Ani.
She had stopped drawing long ago.
As the tentacles pulled over, Ani put her arms around his waist. She had one arm around the little spider behind his back, holding him against his legs. This position was a little suspended in the air, with no leverage, a bit like the way one hugs something.
He suddenly held his breath, his knees subconsciously pressed against her, his waist straightened, and his whole body tensed like a bowstring.
Ani thought he came over because there was not enough medicine in the control device.
During the period of accepting believers, Xiao Mo took care of her food and daily life. He did not trust others, and he did not like robots. Many times when Mo Wan was not needed, he would stay quietly in a corner like a real spider, and it was hard to tell whether he was spying or weaving a web.
Only after the control device reagent is replaced and the suppression situation is checked, will he come over on his own initiative.
Annie was used to it. She skillfully opened the two slots of the controller and replenished the sedative in the syringe. Just as she continued to switch to the other side, Mo Wan's fingers trembled slightly and gently held her hand, whimpering softly a few times.
Vague and soft.
Ani looked at his dark eyes soaked in water and asked, "What's wrong?"
She asked so gently that Mo Wan couldn't resist for a moment. He lowered his eyes, tears falling down in big drops, and he groaned like a wilted kitten, choking.
Annie looked at him for a few seconds, reached out to remove the retractable straps on both sides of the controller. After verification, the straps connected to the metal connecting ring behind the head retracted. She took off the controller and saw the other person's red lips.
She reached out and wiped away the traces of light pink at the corners of Mo Wan's lips.
He stared into Ani's eyes and slowly realized that a large amount of air was no longer flowing through the instrument but directly into his lungs. After a two-second pause, Mo Wan began to breathe and cough violently. His cry, which was suppressed to almost nothing, was muffled in his throat and he could not utter a word. He just helplessly grabbed his master's hand, grabbed her clothes, and then burrowed into her arms.
Leaning on her shoulder, Mo Wan finally cried out loud. He murmured, "There's something strange... around you."
Ani knew what it was, and she said, "You are the strangest person around me."
Mo Wan's voice suddenly disappeared, as if the pause button was pressed. With the help of the other's body temperature, he regained some courage and held her hand, showing Annie his red lips and sour teeth. His long black hair that dragged on the ground fell densely on her body, swaying gently as the man shed silent tears.
"I'm sorry." He said softly, "I know I was wrong... I'll ask you later."
"Ask me what?"
"Can I get rid of it..." Mo Wan pinched his fingers, swallowed his saliva lightly through his silk-covered Adam's apple, and mustered up the courage to say, "I will only do it if you allow me to do so."
Again he said something very horrible with that pitiful face.
Ani sighed helplessly, then laughed again. She approached Mo Wan and looked into his eyes. "Your mind is full of attachment to others. You don't have any charm at all."
Mo Wan's pupils constricted, his whole body froze, his mind was a mess: "I..."
"I have something to entrust to you." Ani said, "When the base is initially built, I may leave at any time to participate in hunting missions. I want you to help me train a Vatican Guard... Select and organize them from believers and slaves. You will become useful, right?"
This was the request Ani made after she saw him kill someone.
That cold, fierce and cold-blooded appearance changed her impression of him. Annie felt that Xiao Mo's cruelty made him stronger and more attractive - as long as this cruelty was controllable, she would like it.
Mo Wan subconsciously said: "Me? But I..."
Ani said, "You mean you can't do it, right?" She paused and didn't persuade too much, "It's a pity, then you should continue to wear the controller, eliminate the toxins and dangers, and be a docile subordinate."
Ani lowered her head and adjusted the dosage. She tightened her arm around his waist for a moment, then picked up the instrument and handed it to him. The instrument flashed a cold light under the light, and that luster made Mo Wan's back chill. He instantly recalled the dry and painful swallowing, and the horror of not being able to speak.
Instinctively, he felt that he had missed a path that would have allowed him to accompany her more and go further. Mo Wan suddenly grabbed her hand.
Ani glanced at his fingers, then looked away and stared into those dark eyes.
Mo Wan's lips moved, and he said, "...I can do it. I won't let you down."
Ani stared into his eyes and dropped the controller.
She grabbed Mo Wan's hand and opened his account under the identity of "Lin Jiang". Ani clicked on the purchase page and told him: "This is the type of sedative you can use. The dosage is 3ml. When you feel you can't control yourself, refill it in time."
"…Myself?"
"You not only have to arrange things for yourself, but also for others," said Ani.
He stared at her blankly and nodded.
"Your account is directly linked to my other secondary account. Your expenses can be deducted from there and I can see it. Don't be afraid, just buy it directly." Ani said, "Don't tell me you are not good at fighting. You are not good at this or that. How did you drag those targets into the alley - and solve them so quickly, huh? Serial killer?"
Mo Wan: “…”
He lowered his head guiltily.
"This is the study material I found for you." Ani put the material into his communicator. "I know you need to learn specific skills, but you are a Zerg, and Zerg warriors are the most feared killing machines in the universe. Racial suppression alone is enough to make you have no enemies, but this is not enough - before I leave, I will train you and fight with you."
Fight with...fight with female members of the same species?
Mo Wan's resolute heart was shaken instantly. He shook his head and stammered, "I will die... I, I can't win."
Ani leaned close to his nose. Mo Wan's eyes became moist and he took a quick breath. Ani looked into his timid and moist eyes and said with a smile: "I know you can't beat me, but is it shameful if you can't beat me? Xiao Mo, I want to train you to be a useful person so that you can stay by my side."
Mo Wan was bewitched by the last sentence.
He licked his lower lip and nodded again, but at the end of the conversation, he gently held Ani's hand again and whispered, "Can you kiss me? ...Well, it doesn't matter if you can't."
Ani raised her hand and pressed his neck, pressing closer to him, and kissed his red lips forcefully, then said, "Be more sure next time. You looked so brave when you rushed over to confess to me."
"Then you still don't want me..." Mo Wan murmured.
This sentence was like suddenly breaking through a layer of barrier. The grievances that he had endured, swallowed down with blood, the pain that was inconvenient to erupt, and the panic that she might leave at any time, all piled up and found an outlet, which immediately destroyed his psychological defenses and suddenly poured out.
"Why don't you want me?" He wiped his tears and suddenly couldn't stop crying. He hugged Annie and bit her aggrievedly, "I hate that you are nice to others, and I also hate that I can't have a daughter... You don't like me, you don't like me at all. I, I am just chasing you one-sidedly. I have to work hard to keep up with you, and I don't know what to do to make you like me a little bit..."
Ani hugged him and said nothing.
Mo Wan bit a tooth mark on her neck, then touched it with heartache, accusing her with tears in her eyes: "Can't you give me a little bit of your heart? I just need you to lie to me for a few words, I only need... to obey your words, and I will become very obedient and docile. Why did you break up with me... so cleanly, so heartlessly, as if you never want to see me again in this life..."
Annie thought that he must have been accumulating these words for a long time.
Mo Wan cried until he couldn't speak anymore. His tears were too many and it seemed like they were worthless if they were shed too much. Every bit of pain seemed to have no value without her voice to soothe it.
"I like you a little bit now," she said.
Mo Wan was stunned and stared at her blankly.
His skin was too pale, and the light refracted his tears, creating moving traces of water. Ani felt that she didn't hate him crying, especially now, when she heard his complaints, she thought that Mo Wan was alive at this moment, not a walking corpse.
Only those who can express their pain have a breath of life. Ani held his face and whispered, "You are so angry, but you still refuse to lose your temper with me. I don't want you to become a puppet of the spider tribe."
Mo Wan said hoarsely, "I don't want to be a shrew who gets angry with a woman."
Ani said, "So what are you thinking about now?"
"Tie your tentacles into knots." He lowered his eyes and wiped away his tears.
Ani handed the tentacle to him.
The little spider held the soft tentacle in his hand and peeked at her expression. He pinched the end of the soft, flexible tentacle and tied it into a bow.
Ani said, "Oh, I can't figure it out. How could there be such an unvirtuous little spider in the world?"
Mo Wan climbed up from her and wiped his tears: "You don't like virtuous women." His eyes were still red. He threw the bow back into her arms and said angrily, "I became like this because of you. You always go easy on those bad men. I will become bad too in the future, otherwise you don't love me at all."
"How could I like bad men..." Annie retracted the tentacles and tried to untie them, but suddenly found that she really couldn't untie them. She opened her eyes wide, looked at Xiao Mo's back as he went to get his combat uniform, and then looked at the exquisite bow.
...No way.
The perfect bow he tied turned out to be a knot?
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One month later.
Soon after the submarine returned to M357, construction of the base began.
The main body of the base is C5 alloy. C series alloys are a commonly used category for casting ground bases, but most general armed bases are mainly made of C7 and C8. The materials used in Annie's construction are already considered to be luxury construction of extremely high standards, and only hunters with extremely high commercial value have the financial resources to do so.
The slaves she brought back had been trapped in darkness for who knows how long. Most of the time, they describe life with just two simple words: darkness and death. Even after signing the labor contract provided by Ani, many people still didn't dare to believe it.
Until they actually started working.
There were no whips from slave owners ready to strike at any time, no inhumane punishments or insults. They were allowed to eat well, sleep comfortably, and have a good rest - living with dignity, such a luxurious wish actually came into their lives.
When the first day off came, the crying continued for a long time in the temporary staff dormitory.
Their efficiency became higher and higher, and they were breaking free from the lifeless cage. But most of the time, the employees still didn't dare to approach Ani.
The slaves' experiences made them fear their masters who could kill or kill them at any time.
But believers would excitedly crowd up to talk to Ani. The Virgin Mary is the source of their happiness. The holy water she prepares can double the pain relief for the deformed bodies as long as they are taken regularly.
The deformity of the believers sometimes becomes an advantage, as they can be very efficient without having to work too hard. Moreover, building a new church is a completely happy thing for everyone - the church has become a home for the poor and a destination for these small town survivors who are wandering in a foreign land.
Ani greeted some of the kids, hugged Lena, and asked about her homework.
Lena is the most spiritual among the believers. She is smart and studious. Because the deformed part is her hand, she can complete tasks that many people cannot.
The construction of the base is updated every day. After checking the progress, Annie goes to pick up the teacher after get off work.
Through bribery, the greedy director of the branch institute did not conduct a thorough investigation and reported the construction of a base not far away directly to the headquarters of the Science Federation in the name of a new church.
The church and the armed base were not at the same threat level at all. After the headquarters received the news, they simply treated it as harmless information and handled it uniformly.
After Annie came back, she built a flying machine, painted in a striking rose pink color. She leaned against the edge of the rose-pink paint, wearing sunglasses and waiting for him at the entrance of the institute.
When she came to pick him up in person, Lin basically wouldn't work overtime. He walked up to Ani, reached out and pushed up her sunglasses, pressing them against her hair: "Who did you learn this from?"
"I will be recognized." Ani said, "I have been recognized several times today! If you continue like this, you will not be able to hide. There will definitely be people who don't like me and have bad intentions towards you, so let it go."
Lin pushed his sunglasses back and saw that they blocked her face, with all the focus on Ani's pink lips. His gaze paused on it and said, "What a star player, Ani."
"Of course, I will succeed in everything I do." Annie is not one to be modest. She admitted it swiftly and generously, then opened the passenger door for Lin, "Let's go home first."
Lin sat in the co-pilot seat, Annie got into the aircraft, pulled out the tentacles to steer, and the teacher's clear and slightly helpless voice sounded beside them.
"My colleague said," he said, "it turns out that the wealthy sponsor who bought a large piece of land next door is your girlfriend."
Ani nodded with satisfaction: "Wealthy? Great, that's what you said about me. What else did you say?"
"...Ask me how I got close to you."
Ani glanced at him.
Lin didn't have any other emotions. He was always silent and calm in the face of rumors, like a deep and bottomless sea.
He said calmly: "I told them to rely on the children, but they didn't believe me."
Ani imagined this scene. Researcher No. 051, who was always strict and cold in the institute, said seriously after work, "relying on children to get a rich girlfriend"... She immediately laughed, then adjusted her expression, and raised the corners of her lips slightly: "Too much, ours is a pure teacher-student relationship, a model of transcending racial barriers, and the teacher has been working hard for me with a sticky liquid in his mouth--"
Before she finished speaking, Lin coughed.
Annie immediately became serious and glanced at the other person's red ears.
After a while, Lin spoke again: "I also received a communication from home."
"Ah?" Ani didn't have a good impression of the Blue Dragon Family. "After you joined the Science Association, you were almost out of their control. Why do I have to scold you?"
"No," he said.
Ani pricked up her ears.
"After your rating changed, several related hot news stories were spread all over the Star Network. Father was very kind this time. I have never seen him speak to me like this." Lin's tone was a little hard to describe. He sighed softly, "He actually hopes that I can get in touch with you again. It would be best if I could go back to Aquamarine with you to attend the family dinner. As long as you show up, we will get more tangible benefits in the entire merman noble circle... and respect."
The "respect" that he had not had for many years and had almost given up was actually obtained by relying on his powerful and famous girlfriend.
This 180-degree turn in attitude left him with mixed feelings and speechless.
Ani asked, "Do you want to go back? I don't mind... I can leave the supervision to Song Shuang."
"There's no need for that." Lin said, "I already have..."
He reached out and took Ani's hand, placing it on her lower abdomen.
The egg grew a little bigger, and the baby got plenty of energy. She became noticeably bigger, but Lin was too thin. As long as he grew a little bit, Annie could feel his slight bulge. The loose research suit covered his slightly bulging belly.
The gestational sac was stretched, and the pain from the tearing and expansion made Lin unable to rest well recently. He had to continue his research on dragon transformation, otherwise he would not be able to hold on long enough to allow the baby to select the most powerful and favorite sperm. However, he was too thin, and even the slightest change would cause a violent reaction in his body.
Lin took a deep breath and said, "I have to be careful to cover it up. If others find out, how will I explain it?"
Annie touched the skin on his abdomen. The skin of mermaids is always moist. She rubbed it a few times and saw his brows furrowed and then relaxed. Lin covered her fingers with his palm and dissuaded her: "...It's weird, don't touch it."
"What's so strange about that?" Ani said, "I'll help you knead it, and the baby will behave well. Mimics are inherited from the mother's side, so they will listen to their mother more. It's in their genes."
Lin: "...No wonder she never listens to me. But...When you pinch her, she moves around in my stomach, and it feels a little bit."
He didn't say the second half of the sentence.
Lin's fingertips tensed a little and turned a little pink. Annie completely handed over the operation of the aircraft to the tentacles, and she leaned over to rub the teacher's abdomen. The skin on his lower abdomen became warm and hot from the inside out.
Lin took a deep breath, grabbed her wrist, and reminded her implicitly: "Drive safely."
"It's safe now. My deputy brain can even drive the starship." Annie extended her other hand.
Lin's Adam's apple moved slightly, and he raised his hand to cover his mouth, using his palm to prevent himself from making any sound. He watched Annie's hand fall on his abdomen, and with difficulty he moved his gaze away to look at the tentacle on the other side.
At this glance, he suddenly discovered something, bit his lower lip, and asked her softly, "What is that?"
Ani followed and looked over.
A tentacle tied in a bow was poking at the steering wheel intently.
A Ni was speechless for a moment. While she was hesitating, Lin grabbed her wrist and placed it beside her. He calmed his breathing and said to her, "Are you reluctant to untie it? Was it tied by Mo Wan?"
...How could you guess so accurately?
"Why are you reluctant to untie it?" Ani's fingertips dug into his hand and buried in the gaps between his fingers. She said honestly, "I can't untie it!"
Lin glanced at their clasped hands and said, "You and him always meet at a fixed time in a private room without surveillance, and stay there for eight or nine hours. After you leave, he always goes to apply medicine with wounds all over and sweat dripping down his face."
Ani: “…”
"Why aren't you talking?" he asked softly, moving his eyes up to look at Annie's pink pupils. "Did you go to look at the luminous watches?"
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