Chapter 8

Su Ci looked at the child, somewhat puzzled.

"Only newborn spirits that have not yet condensed into a physical body can be invisible and untouchable, but your body has normal physiological signs... How strange."

He murmured to himself, but did not take it too seriously.

After all, there are always things in the world that he has not seen, not to mention that he has been asleep for 100,000 years this time, so it is normal for many new things to appear in the world that he has never seen.

After the child finished drinking the nutrient solution, he put the cup back on the tea table, and then stood there, looking at Su Ci cautiously and obediently.

"You have been hungry for too long, you can't eat too much at a time."

Su Ci looked at the glass, and just as he was about to wash it, he saw a small black handprint on the glass.

He couldn't help but pause, looked at the child's hand, and then looked at his body that seemed to have not been bathed for hundreds of years, and held his breath with some forbearance.

"Come with me."

Su Ci stood up and walked towards the bathroom.

When he looked at the room just now, Su Ci just took a quick look at the layout, but now he seriously looked at this "bathroom" in the future world.

The walls are still a slightly cold metallic tone.

The floor is a smooth tile-like material. After nightfall, the room is heated, and the floor is warm. It is very comfortable to walk on it barefoot.

Su Ci followed the common sense that emerged in his mind, came to the bathtub, set it on a virtual panel that emerged, and warm water automatically flowed out of the pipe, filling the bathtub.

"Wah la la——"

The child following Su Ci also came to the bathroom door and poked his head into the bathroom.

Hearing the sound of water in the bathroom, he couldn't help but pinch his fingers, recalling the dirty handprints he left on the glass. His dull black-red eyes finally revealed some obvious emotions.

He is too dirty.

The child lowered his head, caught a glimpse of the black stains on his hands, and quickly put his hands behind his back.

Although he lowered his head, the only eye that was exposed by the child still looked up cautiously through the thick bangs, looking at Su Ci's figure, with a little doubt in his eyes.

He couldn't touch those things before, so he naturally couldn't leave dirt on them. How come he can do it now?

When he first became conscious, he was in this nursery.

He has been here the longest, but few people care about his existence. Only when extreme weather occurs and the red dots around him increase a lot, will people in the base be able to hear and see him.

At this time, he will hear these people call him -

Number One.

He is the first cub to be taken in by this cub brood, so he occupies the number "1", but usually, no one will think of him.

Whether it is the cub breeder, supervisor, operation department, logistics department, or even the nanny robot who takes good care of the cubs, they will not think of him.

He also has his own room, but the panel on the door will not recognize him, let alone open the door for him. Although he can go through the wall, he doesn't like to stay in that completely closed space, nor does he like the feeling of passing through the wall.

He lived alone in the brooding house.

At first, the nanny robot would prepare food for him, but he couldn't touch it. He could only watch the food sit there and be disposed of.

Later, the new nanny robot stopped preparing food for him.

He watched keepers come in and leave one by one, watched the number of cubs in the brooding house increase and cause damage to the brooding house, watched the people from the Operations Department and the Maintenance Team come in and out, complaining and working diligently.

But everything that happened before his eyes had nothing to do with him. He lived alone in the corner of the brooding house like a ghost.

In fact, he didn't know what a "ghost" was.

He just heard people in the base occasionally talk about him, and they would say that he was the ghost-like Number One.

So he should be a ghost, a ghost that can survive even without food or water.

But today, it seemed different.

Number One looked at the new keeper in the bathroom.

He also said that he was a "spirit", but not only could he touch him, but he also carried him from the cold corridor to the warm dormitory without red spots, and even gave him food.

That was the first time since he became conscious that he knew that having a full and warm stomach was such a comfortable thing...

Su Ci saw that the water in the bathtub was almost full, reached out to test the water temperature, turned around, and saw the child still standing at the door.

He waited quietly, without making any noise.

This is good, he likes well-behaved and quiet children.

Su Ci felt a little more satisfied, so he waved to the child. When he slowly came over, he was about to carry him into the bathtub, but he stopped when he saw something.

He saw a series of small black footprints on the gray-white tiles of the bathroom. The color was not dark, but it was particularly conspicuous under the bright light.

Number One followed his gaze and noticed the stains he left. He looked at the keeper, then at himself, and then lowered his head.

Su Ci saw that he had buried his head almost in his chest, so he knew that he had misunderstood, and he didn't mean to blame him.

"You should have noticed it." He said.

The child raised his head slightly, and looked at him blankly with his dark red eyes.

"You can touch things now." Su Ci pointed at the footprints and said, "You can also affect other things and leave traces in this world, so you have to be careful."

Newly born spirits are ignorant, but generally have the ability to protect themselves. It's just that it's obvious that this does not include the child in front of him.

For practitioners, spirits are a great supplement - although there may be no practitioners in this era, it's always better to be careful.

Especially now that the planet has become like this, Su Ci still has no idea about the future.

Number One nodded, and then looked at him in surprise.

Hey, how did he know that he couldn't touch things before?

Sensing his doubts, Su Ci didn't say much, just reached out and touched his head.

Newly born spirits have a strong ability to imitate. When they come into contact with mature spirits, they can absorb experience from the other party, simulate and learn the other party's state, and thus mature more quickly.

Of course, this process of maturity still takes a long time for newborn spirits, but it is much faster than growing on their own.

Moreover, the little guy in front of him is very talented. When he touched him, he instantly entered the state of co-modal simulation.

That moment was so short that he didn't notice it at the first time.

However, it's not a big problem.

The child who was touched on the head for the first time was distracted. He felt the warm and soft palm of the young man and froze in place for a while, not knowing how to react.

Su Ci quickly withdrew his hand and began to take off the child's clothes.

If someone else was here at this time, they would see - Su Ci made a pulling motion towards the void, and then, as if by magic, a piece of clothing appeared in his hand.

The little piece of clothing had been worn for who knows how many years, it was tattered and tattered, and the original color could not be seen, and it even emitted a bad smell.

Su Ci threw it into the automatic garbage disposal bin, and then reached out to push aside the child's long and thick bangs.

Perhaps not used to the sudden bright vision, the child looked up at him in shock, but then restrainedly folded his hands in front of him and did not move obediently, like a pitiful little animal.

The child's eyes were big and round, which was originally a pretty eye shape, but set on such a small face with sunken cheeks due to malnutrition, and with the red bloodshot eyes, it looked a little abrupt and scary.

His neck was very thin, as if the surface of the bones was only covered with a thin layer of skin, and the blood vessels underneath were clearly visible.

Not to mention the body, which was also like skin and bones. The ribs on the chest could be seen clearly, and the limbs were even more delicate and fragile, as if they would break with the slightest touch.

His overly thin body caused his belly to swell up after drinking a glass of nutrient solution, which made people worry whether his belly would burst in the next second.

Su Ci looked at his belly and couldn't help showing a thoughtful expression.

He raised his eyes and saw that the child did not show any expression of pain or discomfort on his face, so he put his palm on his belly and rubbed it gently.

The child opened his mouth slightly and burped.

He seemed surprised that he could make such a sound, and his eyes widened slightly, then he covered his mouth with his little hand.

Su Ci curled his lips and his eyes fell on his hair again.

Looking at the child's greasy and tangled hair, his brows wrinkled again. Fortunately, the child could not touch any real objects before, so he did not have lice.

"The hair is too long, it needs to be cut." Su Ci said.

Number One looked at him confused and nodded.

"Yeah." Su Ci patted his head with satisfaction.

There were no scissors in the dormitory, but this did not pose a problem for Su Ci.

He put his index finger and middle finger together, then opened them slightly, and made a cutting motion towards No.1's bangs. The ends of the hair broke neatly, fell from mid-air, and landed on the floor tiles.

No.1 didn't feel bad about his hair.

He looked at the keeper who was close at hand. His fully exposed eyes reflected the young man's focused and serious expression. In the originally dead silence and emptiness, a glimmer that had never been there appeared, as if the soul was lit up by a torch.

Su Ci didn't notice, and was still concentrating on cutting the child's hair.

It was the first time for him to do this, so he couldn't help but feel novel. After trying a few cuts at the beginning, his movements became faster and faster.

Not long after, clumps of black hair fell to the ground, but soon turned into green smoke and disappeared, as if they had never appeared.

And Su Ci finally stopped.

He did not cut the child's hair completely, leaving it to about the jawbone and stopped cutting. Then he took the shower, turned on the water and let the child test the water temperature.

When the child nodded, he began to wash the dirt off his body.

"Wah la la--"

Warm water poured down from the top of his head, and No. 1 couldn't help but close his eyes. The water took away the accumulated dirt on his body, as if washing his soul.

The pores opened slightly under the hot water, and they cheered for the long-awaited fresh air.

No. 1 couldn't help but sigh, and the little hands that were huddled in front of him were unconsciously raised and stretched out to catch the water.

It turned out that this is how it feels when water falls on the body.

The child was immersed in the shock of his first shower, and just wanted time to continue like this, but soon, the water stopped.

Just as he felt regret in his heart, he felt the keeper's hands again.

The hands gently picked him up, and then put him into the bathtub full of water, letting the warm water wrap him up and dispel all the coldness.

Number One opened his eyes in the water.

He was not panicked at all, nor did he feel uncomfortable. His black and red eyes looked at the underwater world curiously, and he felt that time had slowed down at this moment.

The next moment, Su Ci pulled him out of the water.

"Cough, cough, cough, cough--"

Looking at the child who was leaning on the edge of the bathtub and coughing continuously because of the water choking him, Su Ci tilted his head to look at the bathtub that was almost overflowing.

He reached out and the water in the bathtub was reduced by more than half, and then he carried the child back in.

Now the water level only reached the child's thighs, and even if he sat down in the bathtub, the water level was only up to his chest.

Su Ci nodded, and then according to the knowledge that emerged in his mind, he squeezed shampoo and applied it to the child's hair, kneading out rich and delicate bubbles.

Looking at the child closing his eyes and showing an expression of enjoyment, he couldn't help but nod in his heart: Well, even if a spirit has a physical body, it will not be drowned by water.

What's more, this little guy is still in a semi-spiritual state.