8. Sick millet ratmon
The next day, Shen Ling slept until one o'clock in the afternoon and woke up, Louis was not at home, Shen Ling casually got some food to fill his stomach. Thinking about things while eating, he finally decided to pay a trip to Daryl's house.
Walking on the road of the town, Shen Ling found that the atmosphere of the town was very strange, some low-rise houses and temporary pergolas that were not sturdy had collapsed, and broken bricks and wooden frames had fallen to the ground and no one had cleaned them up. Probably because of the scorching sun in the afternoon, Shen Ling only met three or four people along the way, and each person he met had a gloomy face, and the glances that were thrown at him when he saw him were full of resentment and hatred.
Shen Ling was so frightened that he unconsciously shook in the white sun, did these people still want to sacrifice him and Louie to the beast god in this life?
Shen Ling's heart sank, lowered his head, and quickened his pace.
When he arrived at Daryl's house, Shen Ling found that the jacarandas on his farm had almost been harvested, and the vegetable patch had been turned over again. A dozen baskets of jacaroli that had just been harvested this morning were stacked inside the farm's pergola.
Daryl and his father, Daryl Sr., had just finished their work and sat under the pergola drinking water and chatting. Beside Daryl, a large black wolfdog slept soundly in the shadow of the pergola.
Shen Ling walked over and politely greeted old Daryl, and then called Daryl's name.
Daryl dodged Shen Ling's gaze and did not respond to him. Old Daryl immediately turned black when he saw Shen Ling's smiling face, and he got up and went back to the house without saying a word.
Shen Ling was a little inexplicable, he felt that old Daryl seemed to suddenly become very disgusted with him.
"Did I do something wrong?" Shen Ling asked.
"No, don't think about it." Daryl was a little embarrassed, he didn't want Shen Ling to appear here at this time.
Shen Ling saw Daryl's embarrassment, and he suddenly understood why.
He was a little sad, a little sad.
After all, whether it was in the previous life or in this life, he has always regarded Daryl as his only friend.
In the town of Linus River, no one except Darryl and Old Darryl disliked him. In Mengdian City, the children of the strangers thought he was ugly, his skin was too dark, and he had no money and looked down on him. The locals rejected him again by saying that he was too white and that he was a foreigner. He seems to be a heretic, and no one likes him all along.
"I just wanted to ask you about the prospecting spacecraft coming over tomorrow to recruit workers." Although he felt uncomfortable in his heart, Shen Ling didn't show it, after all, in addition to his appearance, his heart was now a twenty-year-old adult.
Every once in a while, the prospecting spacecraft would come to the nearby villages and towns to recruit workers, and by the way, they would collect farm crops at low prices.
The people of Linas River Town are very welcoming to the prospecting spacecraft, and every time the prospecting spacecraft people come over, the usually cold town will become as lively as a festival. Regardless of whether the prospecting ship is recruiting workers or collecting crops, it can bring them a good income. Although the work in the places where I follow the spaceship is very hard, and I often can't go home for most of the year after going out. However, the New Galaxy Coins that can be earned by going out on a boat trip are equivalent to farming in their hometown for three years, so the young men of the right age in the town will basically follow the boat a few times.
"Why do you ask this? Do you want to go too? Daryl asked in surprise.
"I want to try." Shen Ling said, casually glancing at the jacaranda basket behind Daryl, and unexpectedly saw a large pile of broken vegetable leaves behind the basket.
"You don't meet the requirements of a prospecting ship." Darryl was referring to Shen Ling's appearance and looking like a child. "Although we know that you are an adult (the people of D13 planet are already considered adults at the age of eleven, and Shen Ling is thirteen years old this year. But the people of the prospecting spaceship won't believe it. ”
Shen Ling pursed his lips and smiled, and said, "I'm just talking about it casually." ”
He didn't mean to go out with the prospecting spaceship, he just wanted to take a ride to Mengdian City, he knew that the transport ship of the prospecting spaceship was always parked at a terminal in Mengdian City that was very close to the Beast God Temple, and he remembered that there were passenger spaceships going to other planets at that terminal.
"When will the people from the prospecting spaceship come over tomorrow?" Shen Ling asked casually.
"It's said to be nine o'clock in the morning, and tomorrow will be busy." Daryl said with a sigh. Tomorrow, he will be responsible for transporting these vegetables to the transport hovercar driven by the exploration spacecraft before he can sign up for the miners, but the person in charge of the spaceship's galley said that he will be assigned a good position.
After chatting a few more words, Shen Ling said goodbye to Daryl under the pretext of having something.
"Shen Ling, wait a minute!" Shen Ling had just walked not far when Daryl suddenly stopped him.
"What's the matter?" Shen Ling turned his head and looked at Daryl in confusion.
Daryl hesitated for a moment, sighed, lowered his voice and said vaguely, "You and Louis better get out of here quickly." ”
Thinking of the experience of his previous life, Shen Ling immediately understood what Daryl meant.
"Thank you." He said heartily. Daryl was willing to open his mouth to remind him, which at least proved that he genuinely regarded him as a friend.
"No, no." Daryl suddenly felt that today's little Shen Ling seemed to be a little different, and he couldn't tell what was different.
……
On the way home, Shen Ling was stopped by a big fat man with a fist-sized young rat cub in his mouth.
The big fat eyes were watery, and he kept waving in front of Shen Ling with the bare young mouse in his mouth.
Shen Ling glanced at the young mouse that was being held by the big fat man, the poor little mouse was so thin that there was almost only a layer of skin left, and there was no hair on his body at all, and it was white. Pink and white, dying, I don't know why I still hung on and didn't die.
"Is it your child?" Shen Ling asked.
Big Fat nodded.
Shen Ling took the dying little mouse from the big fat mouth and said, "I'll take it back to Louie to see, maybe he will be willing to save it." ”
Although Shen Ling has been thin since he was a child, his body is very good, but children can't escape the occasional headache and brain fever or something. In the small town of Linus River, where outsiders are not popular, no one wants to treat him. Fortunately, Louie didn't need anyone else to treat Shen Ling, no matter what illness Shen Ling had, he could quickly heal him. But every time Shen Ling fell ill, Louie would force him to do a lot of tests, and even draw his blood three times a day, which made him feel very frightened, and even if he was sick, he rarely told Louie.
After getting Shen Ling's promise, Da Fat immediately gratefully made several gestures in a row.
Shen Ling took out a free hand and touched the big fat head comfortingly.
He prefers to be with these simple beasts rather than with people.
Big Fat escorted Shen Ling all the way home, and didn't run away until he saw Shen Ling enter the house, but he remembered that the other person in the house hated it very much, and every time he saw it, he would stone it and drive it away.
When he returned home, Shen Ling found that Louie had not returned yet, and he did not know where he had gone.
Shen Ling found some discarded cloth to make a temporary nest for the young mice.
When he put the young rats into this temporary nest, he found that the young rats, which were originally dying, were now a little more energetic, and could even reach out with two small paws to grab his fingers, and then stretch out their little tongues to lick them.
Shen Ling was a little puzzled, the young mouse was obviously dying before, why was it suddenly alive again?
He suddenly thought of a possibility, and then held the young mouse in the palm of his hand, staring at it without blinking, trying to transport the soul power into the young mouse's body.
He didn't know how to use his soul power, so he could only try hard to gather his soul power in the palm of his hand. But he had just caught a little bit of soul power, and the feeling was immediately disconnected.
After repeated attempts a few times, Shen Ling finally had no choice but to give up. He did awaken his soul power, but he didn't know how to use it.
He put the young mice in the nest and planned to go to the kitchen to prepare the ingredients for dinner. As soon as his hand left the young mouse, the young mouse immediately "squeaked" weakly, and the little voice of grief and pain softened Shen Ling's heart, so he had to grab the young mouse and go to the kitchen, and by the way, feed the young mouse some bread crumbs and rice mouse milk.
In the evening, Louie returned home exhausted, and Shen Ling brought him black bread, a salad mixed with jacaria, and sliced bacon.
Louis ate a few bites with a painful look on his face, then pushed the plate away and went back to his room.
Shen Ling wanted to stop him and let him see the millet mouse. But when he looked down at the Mickey Mouse cub lying soundly asleep in his pocket, that idea was dispelled. He closed his mouth, packed up the dining table and went upstairs to sleep.
He had to keep his spirits up so that he could leave here smoothly tomorrow.
……
The sun on planet D13 always rises very early, but this time Shen Ling got up earlier than the sun.
The sky was still the color of Mucuna black, and Shen Ling opened his eyes and climbed up.
As soon as Shen Ling moved, the millet rat lying next to his head also opened its dark eyes and squeaked twice in the dark hut.
Although the little mouse is still sleek and ugly, it seems to be more energetic than during the day.
Shen Ling grabbed the little mouse and put it in his pocket, threw the cloth bag containing all his property on his back, and walked downstairs with the millet mouse and walked out.
Walking to the door, Shen Ling saw the big fat guarding under a tree not far from his door, and there were four millet rat beasts that were a little bigger than Shen Ling's pocket and had grown fluff behind him.
Shen Ling closed the door gently, walked out a little, and the big fat immediately ran towards him, and the four millet mice also ran over with their mother, squeaking and screaming.
Shen Ling took out the millet rat, held it in both hands and handed it back to Da Fat. He said apologetically: "I can only do this, it seems to have begun to get better, and you should take good care of it in the future." ”
The millet rat was very happy to see its mother, and stood up tremblingly, waving its two small flesh-colored arms and "squeaking" for a while.
The big fat took the millet mouse back from Shen Ling's hand, and his round black eyes stared at Shen Ling without blinking.
Shen Ling decided to say goodbye to Da Fat, and he opened his arms and gave Da Pang a big hug. "I'm leaving here today, but... Probably won't be coming back. "I'm going to my parents, I'm going to my people, I'm going to see the rest of the world is like." He had a smile of hope for the future.
The big fat tilted his head as if he didn't understand.
"Goodbye big fat, goodbye millet rat beasts, goodbye little sick mice, you have to grow up obediently." Solemnly saying his final goodbye, Shen Ling strode in the direction of Daryl's farm, where Big Fat and his children stood in place, watching him leave.
Shen Ling didn't see that behind him, the little sick mouse broke free from his mother's mouth, shook four thin little paws, and ran towards him strongly.