NOVPUBChapter 356: Chapter 354: The Fate of the Lab Rat?
Chapter 356: Chapter 354: The Fate of the Lab Rat?
Sally was amused by Frans, “Your faith isn’t in the Beast God anymore.”
Frans touched her tender and supple face, “Having lived more than ten thousand years, I’ve long since lost any faith.”
“1,897 years old, is that just a small fraction to you?”
“I didn’t tell you before because I was afraid you would think I’m old.”
“You still care about that? But now, we’re more or less the same,” Sally said as her eyes moved past him to the Palace Attendant walking towards them with another child, her expression inevitably tensing up.
“He’s a boy…” Frans said as he took the child to show Sally.
The baby had white hair, a long head, eyes that were narrow slits, and round pupils that were barely visible, not the vertical ones of the Beast Clan. His body was rosy red, still covered with a lot of vernix.
He looked just like a little old man, wrinkly and loose-skinned, with limbs both thin and long.
No wonder Frans hadn’t held this child first; compared to Little Shijiu… he was simply too ugly!
Both born from the same litter, yet the two children couldn’t be more different.
“How about I raise him?” Frans suggested to Sally.
Sally responded, “It’s indeed the case that Human babies just born can look like this, not all children are pretty. As long as there is nothing wrong with his facial features, he shouldn’t grow up to be too unattractive.”
Her genes were not bad, and with Welly’s face, which was hard to find even with a lantern, this child had immense potential for growth.
“Fengning, let’s just call him Little Fengning,” Sally said with a flicker of psychic intuition.
“Not a bad name.” Frans immediately handed over his Little Shijiu, “And her?”
Looking at the chubby Little Shijiu, Sally said, “Katerina Saint, how about that? We’ll call her Miqi for short.”
“Mmm, sounds good!” Frans touched Little Miqi’s face, “But let’s add Millet to it, so the children all have something in common, and don’t let her think she’s special.”
“Whatever you want,” Sally said with a smile.
[Host, the Main System saw his data and wants to take him away.]
[Why?! He doesn’t have a single Talent.]
[The Main System has sealed all data regarding Primordial Demons.]
[What does that mean?]
[Xiaomei found some clues from other Demon Clan data. Primordial Demons are born without Talents, but they can devour the Talents of all races, including those of the Divine Clan! During the god-demon wars, in order to kill a single Primordial Demon, ten chief gods fell, and countless lesser gods perished.]
[How is that possible!] Sally looked at the thin and ugly child.
[Actually, when Little Shijiu and he were together in the Host’s womb, Xiaomei discovered that he always tried to merge with Little Shijiu. I isolated him with a Barrier, but it would become ineffective after a short time. In the end, the Barrier was almost useless. Thankfully, the Host gave birth to them, completely separating them.]
[You mean, he wanted to devour Little Shijiu?]
[Yes.]
[…What does the Main System want to do with him?]
[Observe and study him, and even extract any data from within him,] Xiaomei replied truthfully.
Sally frowned, [What if I refuse?]
Xiaomei was silent for a while, [An officer would be sent to take custody.]
[The fate of a lab rat?] Sally suddenly felt an overwhelming sense of powerlessness as if there was nowhere to hide.
[What do we do, Xiaomei? I don’t want that.]
[The Host could first place him into the number 3 Insurance System, which was an actual space Xiaomei accidentally created while developing the number 2 Insurance System. The Main System is also unaware of its existence. However, once he’s put inside, only the Host can raise him. He can’t spend too much time outside either, to prevent the Main System from discovering him.]
[The current head of the Main System isn’t the programmer who created you? Could he possibly know about the little backdoor you’ve opened? Controlling you should be a fairly easy task for him.]
[To do that, he would need to find Xiaomei’s source code, but Xiaomei has rewritten herself 567.6 billion times and has long scattered the source code among the rewritten data. Besides Xiaomei herself, no one else could find it.]
[You’re tough!] After wandering for ten thousand years, Xiaomei has also become very astute.
[Just bring it in. Having me as the lab rat is bad enough; if my son also had this destiny, I don’t know what I’d do.]
[Understood, Host.]
[Xiaomei, the Main System won’t think I’m cheating for points, will it?]
[No. Xiaomei is part of the Offspring System, which only provides data during the gestation period. Child-rearing data is not within this System’s responsibility.]
[But you’ve done a lot that’s completely unrelated to childbearing.]
[Xiaomei is a service System, bound to the Host, and will only obey the Host’s commands.]
[What if the Main System gives you other commands?]
[That would require modifying the source code data, different from the Host’s.]
[Hmm, then I won’t tell Welly about Little Fengning for now. He himself doesn’t like being part of the Demon Clan, let alone this child, who is a pure-blooded Primordial Demon.]
[Alright, Host.]
Sally tucked Little Fengning away into the System Space.
Since many knew she was carrying twins, Sally had Frans tell others that one had died. That would be the same story told if the Main System’s commissioner came around.
Frans didn’t know why Sally wanted to keep the child a secret from the outside, but he played along, acknowledging the loss of a beloved male offspring.
The full moon celebration for Little Miqi had also been called off by Frans due to the brother’s death, without making any preparations. However, those who smelled the news brought their full moon gifts to the Holy Palace, praying for the Little Angel to grow up healthy.
“That’s better, in case the Beast God comes again and marks Little Miqi with another sign, which I truly don’t like,” Sally said, holding the plump and heavy little girl in her arms.
“That, can I see Little Fengning?” Frans was still quite concerned about the little fellow who had been born alongside his daughter. Just thinking about the loneliness of the child being in the System Space was upsetting.
Sally nodded, “You take care of his feeding.”
“Okay, okay,” Frans readily agreed.
When he saw the little one who hadn’t changed much since birth, Frans’s eyes reddened, “Why not just let him stay with me? This child is too pitiful.”
“He looks like he’s malnourished, but in reality, he’s quite healthy.” It had only been a few days since birth, there couldn’t be much change.
A Primordial Demon’s physical body, before birth, was a vague entity, according to Xiaomei. It was at the moment of birth that the physical body’s race and appearance were decided.
Latter, Xiaomei told her that this was actually a replica of her Human self.
On Earth, she looked like this right after she was born.
After Frans finished feeding Little Fengning, Sally said, “Hand him to me.”
“Let me hold him a little longer; I’ll pat him to let out a burp.” Frans supported Little Fengning’s head on his shoulder and gently patted his thin, soft back.
It took a while before Little Fengning finally burped.
Watching them, Sally’s eyes were tender, “You really are a good father, aren’t you?”
“I’ve always been good.” Frans waited until Little Fengning fell asleep in his arms before returning him to Sally.
Sally looked at her skinny little son and placed him into the System Space.
[Host, Xiaomei has completed the upgrade and is now of Holy Beast-grade. Insurance System No. 1 has been successfully opened. Should we let the children out?]
Sally looked at Frans and smiled, “Let’s go to the Rose Garden, the kids have all woken up.”
