Chapter 7
In Su Ci's view, the corridor was not actually empty.
In a light red mist, a thin, ragged figure huddled in a corner.
The blood-colored particles in the mist settled around the man, forming a red mist that was thicker than the surroundings. Anyone who saw this scene would be frightened, not to mention running away. However, Su Ci was very calm.
He asked the figure, "Why are you following me?"
"Hungry...hungry..."
The child's creepy cries echoed in the silent blood-red corridor.
Want to eat? Su Ci raised his eyebrows. He himself didn't have enough.
"I suggest you go to the kitchen."
The young man's voice was gentle and pleasant, but his words were cold.
Su Ci did not forget that he had seen this child outside the kitchen in the evening, so he should know that there was a cold storage of frozen meat ingredients in the kitchen, and 4586 had to prepare midnight snacks at night, so he should be there.
As he spoke, the child's voice became quiet, and then he turned his head very stiffly.
He seemed to have kept this posture for a long time without moving, and his bones made a raw clicking sound when they turned, as if his head would fall off his neck at any time.
As the child turned his head, you could see a black and red eye with bloodshot eyes under his long and thick bangs.
He looked at Su Ci quietly. In the light blood-red mist, the scene looked weird and scary.
But in Su Ci's eyes, the child was a little stupid.
Seeing that the child did not respond for a long time, he shrank into the corner and looked at him quietly. Su Ci sighed and walked over slowly.
As he approached, the high-concentration blood-red particles around the child were washed away, and Su Ci could barely see him more clearly.
He looked younger than No. 5, about three or four years old. In addition to the small face that was blocked by bangs and the facial features were not very clear, his whole body was dirty.
It has been many years since he last took a bath or changed his clothes. His shoulder-length black hair was tangled in clumps, and his tattered clothes could not even reveal their original color.
Compared with this child, the other cubs in the nursery that Su Ci saw, although they were not free, were at least raised to be fair, tender, clean and healthy.
"Are you also a cub in the nursery?"
He squatted in front of the child and said, "Number 6 or Number 7? Invisibility? Is this your ability?"
It didn't seem like it. He had seen Number 6 and Number 7 in the restaurant in the afternoon. Although he couldn't remember what they looked like, they definitely didn't look this miserable.
Or...
"Are you Number 1?"
The child didn't answer. Compared with the silence of Number 3, he gave Su Ci a feeling of emptiness and deadness, just like... the earth today.
Su Ci, who didn't want to care about him at first, suddenly changed his mind.
He reached out and held the child's wrist.
There was a cool touch under his palm, like a real ghost, but Su Ci knew that the child in front of him was not a ghost. His thin bones were so fragile that they seemed to be broken with a little force.
Until then, the child's empty expression finally changed a little.
His big black and red eyes, which were a bit weird, blinked lightly, and then he lowered his head mechanically again, his eyes fell on Su Ci's hand holding him.
Slowly, his eyes widened.
He suddenly raised his head, looking at Su Ci with surprise in his eyes. He opened his mouth with difficulty, as if he wanted to say something, but only meaningless syllables such as "Huh-huh-" came out of his mouth.
Su Ci was still looking down at his wrist.
This wrist seemed thinner than his middle finger and index finger put together. He wondered if he would tear the child's arm apart if he pulled him up.
So, in the shocked look of the child, he let go of his wrist, then passed his hands through his armpits, hugged his back from top to bottom, and not only lifted him up, but even shook him in mid-air.
The child subconsciously hugged his neck.
So light.
Su Ci weighed the child's body. Although he had never held other children, he knew that this child was abnormally thin.
The child stared at him blankly, and the surprise in his expression made him look a lot more lively, and finally a bit like a real baby.
Su Ci carried the child into Room 303.
After nightfall, the temperature dropped a lot, and the heating in the room was automatically turned on. As soon as I entered the room, I felt the warmth, and the blood-red particles in the air, which were not very concentrated to begin with, were also isolated by Su Ci.
He put the child on the ground, and then picked out a mixed vegetable flavor that he disliked the most from the remaining nutrient solution.
This mixed vegetable flavor can be specifically described as the taste of carrots, green peppers, corn, cabbage and cucumbers, mashed into a paste and mixed together.
Anyway, Su Ci didn't like it at all, fortunately there were only three flavors of this flavor in total.
Su Ci went to the kitchen to make nutrient solution, and the child standing next to the tea table followed him with his eyes.
When Su Ci poured the powder of the nutrient solution into the glass and looked up at him, the child suddenly retracted his gaze and pretended nothing happened.
He lowered his head and saw his wrist that had just been held by the new keeper. Then he looked at the palm of his hand.
Just now, when he was picked up and subconsciously hugged the man's neck, he touched his skin...
It was warm, a feeling he had never experienced before.
The child raised his head, and the only black-red eyes exposed under his heavy bangs looked at the bright and spacious room.
Those blood-red dots that always made him feel uncomfortable...
are gone too.
At this time, Su Ci finally finished brewing the nutrient solution, walked back with it, placed the glass on the tea table, and pushed it in front of the child.
The dark green nutrient solution had a light smoke coming out of the surface, emitting a light and fresh aroma.
"Drink it," Su Ci said.
The child looked at the cup of dark green nutrient solution, then raised his head to look at him, and shook his head slightly.
"Why? Picky about food?"
Su Ci said in a bad tone. This is not a good habit...
The child shook his head again, this time with a bigger amplitude, and then stretched out his little hand to grab the glass on the tea table. However, when he really grabbed it, he was stunned again, with extreme shock in his eyes.
Ah... I touched it.
This cognition caused a great shock to the child. He let go of the cup of nutrient solution that was still a little hot, and his little hand tentatively grabbed the edge of the tea table.
Then, he grabbed it!
The child couldn't help but look up at Su Ci. The joy in his eyes made him look a bit cute even with this miserable and terrible appearance.
"Yes, you caught it."
Seeing that a corner of the tea table disappeared after being caught by the child, Su Ci squatted down in front of the child again, and looked at him with a bit of caution.
He was too familiar with the child's state, or rather, the state before he met him. Although he didn't sense it before, it was not too late now.
Su Ci stared at the child, "You are..."
"A newborn spirit?"
Hearing Su Ci's question and seeing his serious expression, the joy in the child's eyes slowly faded.
The child stood in place, took back the little hand that was holding the edge of the tea table, and clasped it in front of his chest awkwardly.
Su Ci saw the child's emotional changes. Although he couldn't see it on his expression, he could sense the child's confusion and confusion, and he couldn't help but feel a little more confused.
Is it because he is too young and his consciousness has just been born, so he knows nothing?
He stared at the little boy in front of him.
The little boy also looked back at him, his dark red eyes were still bloodshot, but because of that somewhat confused emotion, he didn't seem so scary.
Slowly, Su Ci's tightly furrowed brows relaxed.
He curled up the corners of his mouth, revealing the first real smile since he woke up.
Really... very interesting.
He was very curious about what kind of thing gave birth to such a weak spirit.
All things have spirits, but it is thousands of times more difficult for dead things to give birth to intelligence from chaos than for life with natural intelligence. That is why the spirits of dead things are much stronger than ordinary living things from the day they are born.
So the weak spirit in front of him seemed very abnormal.
Because of the difficulty and danger involved, the dead objects that can give birth to spirits are often not ordinary, but he didn't seem to sense anything powerful nearby.
Su Ci curled his lips. It was a pity that his strength was much weaker now, and he couldn't sense what the child's true body was, but... it was not a big problem.
It was just raising a child, it shouldn't be difficult?
Yes, Su Ci decided to keep the child. After all, it was rare to meet a spirit with a life form similar to his. It was impossible to let him live so miserably.
The child didn't know what Su Ci was thinking. He was staring at Su Ci's smile in a daze.
He was a "non-existent" existence. No one could see him, no one could touch him, and he could hardly touch any person or object.
Before this, he had seen many people's smiles in the nursery, some were pretty, some were ugly, but he had never seen a real...
smile directed at him.
The child looked into Su Ci's eyes, and saw his own reflection in those beautiful black eyes. It was also the first time he saw his own appearance so clearly.
At this time, Su Ci picked up the glass on the tea table and put it in front of the child again, asking him to hold it.
"Drink it, it won't taste good if it gets cold."
The child blinked, and obediently stretched out his little hand to hold the glass, but he was so small that it looked like he was holding the glass in his arms.
He felt the warmth coming from the nutrient solution in the cup.
This was a feeling he had almost never experienced in his life. The child couldn't help but hold the glass tighter. He didn't open his mouth immediately, but raised his eyes carefully. After looking at Su Ci for several times, he finally lowered his head.
He put his mouth to the rim of the glass, and raised the glass with difficulty, letting the solution in the glass slowly approach the rim of the glass.
In the 24th Base, he saw many people do this, and now he could finally do it.
Su Ci watched him, very much wondering if he would smear the nutrient solution all over his face, but to his surprise, the child not only successfully drank the nutrient solution, but also drank it very politely.
After tasting the mixed vegetable flavored nutrient solution, the child smacked his lips, showing no dislike on his face, but a look of enjoyment and liking. Then he continued to hold up the glass and gulped down a big mouthful.
The way he wolfed it down, it was obvious that he had been hungry for a long time.