On the second day after Gu Xi left, Lin Xiaodong took the initiative to find the staff of the military department.

"I know what he's doing and I know you all want him back," he said. "Let me go see him."

The staff officer was not confused by Lin Xiaodong's straightforward words, and it took him a long time to realize: "No, how did you know?"

This is a secret that the marshal has repeatedly emphasized must not be leaked, especially not to Lin Xiaodong!

"Don't worry about this," Lin Xiaodong interrupted him, "Just tell me where he is now and take me to see him."

The staff officer glanced at him and shook his head.

"I'm sorry," he said, "but I swore to the marshal that we are soldiers brought out under his command and will always be loyal to the marshal's orders."

"Even if he never wakes up again?"

The staff officer didn't speak, and after a long while, he sighed: "There is nothing we can do. The female worm cannot be completely wiped out. The marshal has sent you a lot of spiritual power. If the outside world finds out, it would be considered a crime of treason. Now, I can still how is it?"

"Just leave it to me." Lin Xiaodong insisted.

"Do you have a way?... No, it's impossible," the staff officer murmured, "Even if the mermaid is the nemesis of cerebrates, but you are only one person after all, how can you deal with the billions of cerebrates in the entire interstellar?"

Lin Xiaodong really can't deal with it, but he has a system.

Fortunately, the system can now contact the headquarters, and it is more convenient to look up various information.Hosts like them will release a large amount of energy when they leave this world, and the system can use this to convert them into spiritual power, forming a virus-like destruction program and implanting it into the instructions of the mother worm, ordering all parasites to The brain worms self-destruct, in order to achieve the goal of eradicating all brain worms once and for all.

But this method has a prerequisite -

He had to get in touch with Gu Xi to indirectly control the brain worms through the female worms in the man's body.

Although judging from the current situation, if he does nothing, the brain worm in that sugar pill will also evolve into a female worm autonomously due to the nurturing of a lot of mental power, but if that time comes, it is estimated that even the system will help It was too late.

Lin Xiaodong toiled the staff for a whole week, and finally got the other party to agree to bring him to see Gu Xi.

"He's lying in the dormant compartment right now, don't mess around with any devices, and don't stay too long," the staff officer asked worriedly, "I can only give you two hours at most, do you hear me?"

"I know."

The little mermaid's expression was calm.

After hearing about Gu Xi's current situation, there was neither sadness nor any other emotion on his face.

The staff always felt that something was wrong, but as Gu Xi's subordinate, he couldn't help but harbor a glimmer of hope—if, just if, Lin Xiaodong could really cure the marshal?

In the morning before departure, Lin Xiaodong got up very early.

He quietly came to the kitchen, made a few sandwiches for the Xu family and put them in the refrigerator for breakfast.

Afraid they wouldn't find out, the little mermaid specially drew a smiley note and pasted it on the refrigerator door, so that Lulu could see it when she got up early in the morning.

After leaving the door, there were still more than three hours before the agreed time.

Lin Xiaodong sat on the aircraft and went around Central Park first. The original mermaid statue was not properly maintained during this period, and people were still in anger and extreme emotions. The base was painted with yellow Spray paint sprayed with a lot of abusive language.

Although the military department will send people to remove the spray paint every day, there are still many mottled traces left.

Wearing a cloak, the little mermaid looked up at the withered flowers that people placed at the feet of the statue, and the glaring curses on the surface of the stone.

A gust of autumn wind blows, blowing the petals all over the sky.

He reached out and pressed hard on the cloak hat he was wearing on his head.

Although there are very few people in Central Park at this time, there are still a few nearby residents who come for a walk. Lin Xiaodong narrowed his eyes and wanted to wait for the gust of wind to pass before leaving, but when he turned around, the aircraft collided with a thing--

"Ouch!"

Well, not a thing, but a person.

Lin Xiaodong bent down and picked up the bouquet of lilies that fell on the ground.

There was still crystal dew on the immaculate white petals. He sniffed it lightly, and the elegant fragrance lingered at the tip of his nose, which lifted people's spirits.

"give me back."

The little girl knocked down by him patted the dust off her skirt, got up from the ground, and stretched out her hand to him confidently: "This is what I want to give away!"

"Who is it for?" Lin Xiaodong turned his head and looked behind him. There was only a mermaid statue there. "Could it be for him?"

"Yes."

"Why did you send him flowers?" Lin Xiaodong asked curiously.

The little girl pointed to the old man with a cane in the distance: "This is my grandfather, he asked me to give it to me."

Lin Xiaodong looked up, and saw a gray-haired old man standing far in front of the statue. He couldn't get down the steps, so he just stared deeply at the mermaid statue singing to the sky. Gully vertical and horizontal, I do not know what to think about.

"Thank you for the flowers," he smiled, "tell your grandpa, I received them."

"what?"

The little girl turned her head, only to find that the aircraft parked in front of her had disappeared, she immediately pursed her mouth, and burst into tears of grievance:

"Woooooooooooooo—there are flower thieves!!!"

Lin Xiaodong, who was regarded as a thief, took flowers to the cemetery on the outskirts of the city, and put the bouquet of lilies in front of the queen's tombstone.

"I'm not a magnanimous person." He was silent for a while, stepped back half a step, and bowed slightly, "I'm sorry, although Lu Xing is your biological son, I will not forgive him. And Lu Sheng Your Majesty, as well as those nobles...the sins they committed will eventually be returned to themselves one by one."

In the castle back then, Lu Xing's researchers drew so much blood from him, but it wasn't for nothing.

There are still thousands of mermaid lives, and it is time to pay the blood debt.

He stood in front of the slowly opened dormant compartment door, thinking lightly.

The cold white mist filled the room, and the little mermaid looked at the man who was lying silently in the hibernation compartment, except for the man whose face was completely covered by silver-gray hard bones, and asked softly: "Can I stay here alone? Stay for a while?"

The staff officer frowned.

Although he agreed, in the end he still told him worriedly: "Come out early, I'll wait for you outside!"

"En." The little mermaid nodded obediently.

But as soon as the staff officer went out, he immediately let the system block the monitoring, and then he unplugged all the pipes in the dormant cabin regardless of whether they were 21 or [-], and pulled Gu Xi out of it. .

"To be honest, his current shape is a bit like a warrior in armor," he fiddled with the man's body curiously, and carefully analyzed it in an academic research tone, "or is it Iron Man? But compared to the steel shell Speaking of it, the weight of the female worm armor seems to be lighter."

He tapped the hard-shell breastplate on the man's chest, then bent down and lay down on it to listen to his heartbeat.

But nothing was heard.

"If the female worms are not responsible for giving birth, how do the brain worms reproduce?" Lin Xiaodong has been puzzled by this question for a long time.

System: "Have you seen the paramecium split?"

"So that's it." He suddenly realized, "So the female worm is just a central brain, and has no other function except to control the brain worm?"

System: "That's not..."

Before the words were finished, suddenly, the man who was lying quietly on the ground suddenly opened his eyes.

Gu Xi's eyes had completely turned into azure blue, and the eyes staring at him were cold and indifferent, devoid of human emotions.

Lin Xiaodong held his breath and looked at him for a few seconds, then cautiously stretched out his hand and waved it in front of him.

"Hello? Can you hear me?"

The man pursed his lips tightly and did not make any sound.

Just when Lin Xiaodong relaxed his vigilance a little, suddenly a long and thin skeleton like a spider stretched out from Gu Xi's back, with the tip in the shape of a small sickle.It swayed back and forth in front of Lin Xiaodong's neck, as if to verify whether the little mermaid was a threat to him. Lin Xiaodong was forced to raise his head high to prevent the tip of the sickle from scratching his skin.

It was just a brilliant effort, and the offensive and defensive positions of the two were instantly reversed.

He was slammed against the wall by the man, and let out a cry of pain, but before he could struggle, his arms were separated by the hard insect bones, and the cold tentacles slid down from his face, as if he was sensing the shape of the prey. Find the weakest blow to kill; it seems to be teasing with ease, waiting for some more wonderful time to enjoy.

The little mermaid trembled uncontrollably.

But his eyes were still fixed on Gu Xi's inorganic blue pupils, even if he might be disemboweled by the monster in front of him in the next second, there was no fear on his face.

He opened his mouth and hummed softly.

Gu Xi tilted his head, as if he didn't understand why the prey dared to provoke him.

Perhaps sensing the brain worm that was about to evolve in the little mermaid, his expression was a little restless, and a trace of murderous intent gradually appeared in his eyes. He began to let out a low hiss from his throat, lowered his head, and bit Lin Xiaodong's throat. .

"Um..."

A tingling pain came from the neck, and the singing stopped abruptly.

Lin Xiaodong's body tensed up for a moment, but he quickly forced himself to relax again.

"Not here," he panted, taking this opportunity to free one hand, and slowly stroked the back of the man's head, "You can bite the arms and legs, but if I bite my throat, I won't be able to sing."

Under the comfort of the little mermaid, Gu Xi's vigilant eyes gradually faded, and then turned back to being blank again.

He took half a step back, allowing the little mermaid to fall from mid-air to the ground, turned around and stabbed through the dormant chamber with a scythe.

The sound of electrical current accompanied by the sound of broken parts, the staff officer outside the door immediately asked loudly: "Are you all right?"

"……fine!"

Lin Xiaodong held his throat and tried to answer with a normal voice.

Regardless of the blood on his hands, he rushed over and hugged the man who was going crazy in the room by the waist. Feeling the weight on his waist, Gu Xi paused, and subconsciously lifted the little mermaid to his eyes, shaking it like a rabbit. shaken.

Lin Xiaodong: No, what is wrong with this man! ?

But soon, the little mermaid's open mouth attracted all his attention.Gu Xi stretched out a tentacle, and tentatively touched the two soft wet/moisturizing lips, and as if fascinated, he also stretched the pointed end of the bone in and stirred it.

Lin Xiaodong, who felt like he was doing a nucleic acid test: ... Ugh.

He couldn't take it anymore: "System, get out, get out, get out!"

System: "Wait a minute, it will take about 10 minutes, bear with it."

Lin Xiaodong rolled his eyes, he couldn't take it anymore!

Fortunately, probably stimulated by the bloody aura of the little mermaid, Gu Xi's originally empty eyes flickered slightly, and he struggled to regain consciousness for a moment: "Little... Dong?"

"it's me."

Lin Xiaodong breathed a sigh of relief, otherwise the last 10 minutes would have been really difficult.

Gu Xi stared at him steadily for a few seconds, then suddenly covered his head, knelt on the ground and gasped violently, with a painful and ferocious expression.

"Go...no..."

The system explained: "This is a normal phenomenon after the female worm is subjected to an energy shock. You can try to divert his attention, and it may relieve some pain."

"But," Lin Xiaodong coughed twice, his throat was slightly sweet from the squeeze just now, "I'm hoarse, I can't sing."

He sat in a messy room, looked around, and suddenly found a book in the damaged dormant cabin.

——It was the book "The Little Prince" that he couldn't find no matter how hard he searched.

"This guy," a helpless smile appeared in his eyes, "it's quite boring."

The little mermaid sat on the spot for about half a minute, slowly crawled over, and picked up the book.

Because of the posture of covering his throat just now, the pages of the book were inevitably stained with blood when he turned the pages, but Lin Xiaodong couldn't care less now.He helped up Gu Xi who was lying on the ground, let the man rest his tail on his head, let out a long breath, and leaned against the wall with sweat profusely.

This armor is really heavy.

"Kakkaka..."

The beetle made a rough and mocking sound as it rubbed against each other, which proved that Gu Xi's current state is very bad.

Lin Xiaodong looked down at him, and said in a hoarse voice, "Be patient, it's only 10 minutes. Want to hear a story?"

Gu Xi opened his eyes and looked at the little mermaid above his head in confusion: "Ka?"

Lin Xiaodong smiled tiredly. He felt very tired after a large amount of energy was taken away in a short period of time.But he still managed to pull himself together, opened a page at random, and read slowly:

"I should have guessed that the deepest tenderness is hidden behind her unsophisticated tricks. Huahua's mind is always unpredictable. I am too young to know how to love her..."

Time passed by minute by minute.

The little mermaid's eyelids gradually drooped, her voice became softer, and the pages in her hands were turned to the end.

"I'm going home today too...the road is long and difficult..."

He yawned, finally couldn't hold on anymore, put down the book, leaned against the corner and fell into a deep sleep.

Four hours later, the staff officer who was guarding outside finally led someone to pry open the door of the vault which was locked by the system.

The moment he broke into the room, he immediately saw Gu Xi who was holding the little mermaid with his head bowed in the corner, half of his chest was blood-stained.

It is no exaggeration to say that the staff officer's heartbeat stopped for a beat.

He raised his hand to stop the soldiers behind him, walked carefully to Gu Xi's side, and asked softly:

"Marshal, you...?"

"Don't talk," Gu Xi didn't look up, but just said in a low voice, "Go out, you're quarreling with him."

The staff officer quickly glanced at the deep tooth marks on Lin Xiaodong's neck and the pale face with closed eyes, opened his mouth, and finally mustered up the courage to say: "Marshal, this is not your fault, just now the Ministry of Information Come to report, the brain worms in the entire interstellar have died one after another within an hour, and this can only be achieved by shocking the female worm with mental power hundreds of times more than normal humans in a short period of time..."

After finishing these words in one breath, he closed his mouth and silently saluted the little mermaid lying in Gu Xi's arms.

Although there was no order, the soldiers behind the staff also raised their hands tacitly.

Although they are not parasitized by brain worms, they still have family members, friends, and people they care about and love.These days, how much the marshal has endured overtly and secretly, and how much Lin Xiaodong has paid for mankind, they all have seen it.

It's a pity that things can't have both.

Gu Xi stayed alone in the room for a long time.

The man was silent, and slowly picked up the "The Little Prince" that had fallen on the ground with his normal human palm.

On the pages of the book, the bright red that hadn't completely dried up seemed to sting his eyes.

But he still forced himself, like masochistic, to stare straight at the picture of the little prince returning to his own planet in the illustration, until his fingers trembled slightly because he couldn't hold on.

Perhaps, he shouldn't have taken Lin Xiaodong away from the Mermaid Planet in the first place.

No, it would be nice if they never met.

Gu Xi remembered the tears of despair on the face of the little mermaid after hearing that the mermaid planet was destroyed, suddenly gave a low laugh, hugged the cold body in his arms, and asked in a hoarse voice: "You just went home, didn't you? "

The little prince returned to his own star.

That star is in the distant universe, with flowers and grass, clear water and blue sky, and many beautiful mermaids.

When the time comes, will he still think of himself?

Gu Xi asked himself.

He doesn't know the answer.

Because from today onwards, that unique rose that belongs to him has withered forever in his arms.

"Host 68711's mission is complete and has left the world. Request to connect to the headquarters."

"The connection progress is 10%, 20%, 30%...The connection is successful."

"Detecting the host's physical and mental state..."

"The detection progress is 10%, 20%, 30%... The detection is complete. The host's physical and mental state is up to standard, and it is approved to enter the next world."

……

…………

"Huh," Lin Xiaodong was a little surprised, "Why didn't I remember the broadcast this time?"

System: "This was originally an option, mainly because the hosts had some psychological problems more or less after the previous missions, so the headquarters set the default memory clearing in our program."

Lin Xiaodong understood, and was a little proud: "That means my psychological quality is very strong, so I don't need this function, right?"

"No," the system said slowly, "it's because you have a thick skin."

Lin Xiaodong: "..."

He was just about to roll up his sleeves and fight the system for [-] rounds, when he suddenly heard someone in front of him say, "Miss, I'll light a cigarette for you."

"Oh." Lin Xiaodong subconsciously responded.

He sat on the seat and bent over as the other party raised his hand.

A match was lit with a "chick", and the pungent smell of tobacco permeated between his lips and teeth, choking him subconsciously coughing a few times.

"You slow down."

The man hurriedly nodded and bowed down to apologize to him. When he lowered his head, his eyes imperceptibly scanned Lin Xiaodong's swollen chest. He quickly pulled down the rickshaw's shed before being spotted by other people on the street, and turned around to pull up the rickshaw.

"Miss, sit down, we'll be home soon!"

Lin Xiaodong leaned on the soft seat, pondered for a moment with a cigarette in his mouth.

...I always feel that something is wrong.

After a while, he finally came to his senses, slapped his thigh, and said in horror: "Damn, what did this guy call me just now? Miss!?"

The system coughed heavily, as if to remind him, but the voice of the tablet sounded gloating: "Don't cross your legs, remember lady, you are wearing a cheongsam now."

Lin Xiaodong's wild and unruly movements froze instantly.

With a stiff face, he lowered his head and glanced at himself, feeling numb.

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ps: The quotations in this chapter come from the French writer Saint-Exupery's "The Little Prince"

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