Mina, or the king bug she chases.

The answer was Mina. Now that she's shown up, communication is still smoother than last time, so there's no need for me to hide from her what happened before. I recounted all the events that had happened to her after they were separated from the Forgotten Pond, including the abduction of the silent night, the re-encounter with Zuo Yuan, and the strange eggs I absorbed in the basement of the hut. She probably knows more about worms than Du Youlan, and I think maybe she'll give me some reasonable information about the egg.

However, in fact, the answer is still unknown.

"I don't know, I've never heard of such an egg...... But I always feel that it seems to be related to the first generation of king insects dug in the tomb by the Mi family. Of course, this is just speculation, and I don't know everything. Mina responded, then looked at me thoughtfully and asked, "So, the reason why you can smell the king worm on me is because you absorbed that egg?" ”

"That's right, speaking of which, why do you smell like king worms? What the hell is going on? I'm confused about your identity right now, you were the tomb robber who used Gu magic for the first seven hundred years? Or is it a worm that has been occupied by the king worm and is completely a worm? ”

"Is there a difference?" Mina asked abruptly.

"The difference?"

"Uh-huh, I've been me since the first day we met, and I was the same then as I am now, so for you, is there a difference?"

"I don't think so."

"Then why do you care so much?"

"I wonder what exactly you're going to do?"

Yes, what exactly is Mina going to do? Deworming? These two words can no longer deceive me. She must have had another purpose, but what could that purpose be?

"What about you? What exactly are you going to do? At first, I thought I was using you, but gradually I realized that things were different from what I thought. I'm getting worse and worse to see through you. I'm even a little skeptical if you're the same Zoraku you were when we first met. ”

"We don't think we're supposed to talk about it?" I don't want our relationship to collapse again.

Mina smiled, "It seems to be, a rare short-term reconciliation, don't you want to save people, let's find a way." ”

"Speaking of which, I have a guess that you just happened to be here, maybe you can help me."

Before I could say anything, Mina knew what I was thinking, "Do you suspect that this ship is some kind of mechanism, or at worst, you think it might have something to do with the Mi family's tricks?" Because the stone door in the basement of that thatched hut is from the Mi family, right? ”

"yes, that's the idea."

Mina got out of bed, gently touched the floor, and then looked up at me, "Is it because it's cold?" Maybe that door does have something to do with the Mi family, but it is most likely a coincidence. As for the ship, it is by no means a mechanism. ”

"Not a mechanism? So sure? ”

"Hmm......" Mina nodded, "The composition of the mechanism requires many, many conditions, and of course many of these things are not visible from the surface. However, simply saying that energy is the condition of human vitality is not valid. ”

"Why?"

"Do you really want to listen? It's a long lesson. ”

"To make a long story short, I don't need to understand it completely."

"Well, well. You may understand this, but first of all, let's identify the question, why does life last? It does not accumulate enough energy in the body at birth to consume enough energy for a lifetime. It is because we have to eat every day, and in this way, we will continuously absorb the energy of life from the outside world. So you could say that the ship needs to swallow a person alive, eat them as meat, and then generate energy to move it, which might make sense. But there is no such thing as consuming life force as the energy of the organ. As for the Mi family's organ imprisoning the king worm as the core and operating the mechanism, that is another matter, the core ability of the king worm is a special form of energy stored in its body. ”

After speaking, Mina looked at me seriously, "Understood?" ”

"Isn't that obvious? Is it hard to understand? ”

"That's what I said." Mina gave me a blank look.

I thought for a moment and realized a question: "In other words, Zuo Yuan is lying to me?" ”

Although the probability is extremely low, he is a madman, and who can be 100% sure what a madman will do? Maybe he's just that boring.

"Not necessarily." Mina shook her head.

"Not necessarily?"

She thought for a moment and responded, "The curse that Zuo Yuan said may really exist. I've seen about curses, but that's not my domain, so I can't say it clearly. However, speaking of cursing, Du Youlan should be more proficient in this aspect of cursing. ”

"She's helping me drag Zuo Yuan now, and I probably can't pull out. And if there's anything to say, don't wait until now, we got along for a long time before, and she didn't say anything more to me. ”

"That guy, but her mind is full of strange thoughts, maybe she just doesn't want to say it, she just wants to see your excitement. You've been together for a long time lately, but Zoraku, I kindly warn you, she's a dangerous person, don't trust her easily. ”

Hearing this, I smiled coldly and patted Mina's head, "I don't even believe you, how can I trust her completely." ”

She opened my hand, "I hate you so much......"

But the next moment, her head suddenly sank, hit me directly on the chest, and her body collapsed into my arms. It felt unreal, because it hadn't happened in a long time. I even have to forget that Mina is a girl with a soft body......

"Hey, what are you doing here?" I shook her.

However, she didn't give me any response.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps in the stairwell, and it seemed that someone was walking down, a lot of people, and the footsteps were heavy.

"Hey, Mina?" I called her twice, but there was still no response. At that time, I had some bad premonition in my heart, but when I lifted Mina, I found that she was breathing evenly, and it seemed that she had just fallen asleep.

"What's going on?" As the footsteps drew nearer, I had no choice but to quickly put Mina on the bed, then get up, close the door, and lock it. The knock on the door was the other two girls, and I didn't reply, and they quickly yawned and left the door of Mina's room.

At this time, I paid attention to Mina, who seemed to sleep more deeply and more fragrantly, and even sparkling saliva flowed from the corners of her mouth.

If you are an ordinary person, when you are very tired, it is completely understandable to sleep to this extent. But is Mina a normal person? She's a king bug, a king bug whose rank is even more advanced than I was a few days ago. She didn't do anything that drained her physical strength, she even woke up a few hours ago, what time was it, and she slept again?

"I can't help it."

I looked around, and there really wasn't anything special in the room, so I grabbed a chair next to me, aimed it at Mina's head, and smashed it down!

I have no enmity with her.

I love her and, if possible, I hope to be with this woman for the rest of my life until the end of my life. But the reason why I used this chair was because she was not human, and ordinary methods probably couldn't wake her up at the moment. The chair was smashed to pieces by me, and Mina's eyebrows finally jumped twice, and she opened her hazy sleepy eyes, "What are you doing, Zora...... What time is it? I don't eat breakfast......"

After a few words in a daze, he turned his body to the other side.

This pair of whites is very strange.

Like what?

Like a few months ago, our daily dialogue.

Some people may have noticed such a phenomenon, and in their sleep, they often do not know where the point in time is, there is no past, and they do not know the future. To put it in layman's terms, it means that you are in a daze, you don't know where you are, and even when you wake up, you have entered middle age, but because of the clock at eight o'clock, you are in a hurry to wash up and go to school. Mina at this moment is in this state. I have also heard a strange legend about this, saying that this phenomenon is a monster, a kind of pillow that inverts people, and can send people to one of the infinite branches of life in the future. But it is usually a tragedy, and in a reality like amnesia, I suffer the pain of detachment from reality.

Why did you think of this legend, because the thing in front of you does not seem to be simple.

Those heavy footsteps just now, are the other seven? You can hear that they are all tired and sleepy, why? Obviously I have rested during the day. Is there a relationship with the setting of "food" for the ship that Zuo Yuan said?

I took Mina's hand, her fingers grabbing at my palm, and a shallow smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

It made me forget what I was going to do for a moment.

It took me a long time to regain my mind, close my eyes, and try to feel the golden heart in my body. While holding Mina's hand, Gold's heart beat steadily. It seems that there is nothing dangerous around here. But excluding this heart, I always had a strange feeling that something was surrounding me and approaching me.

I wondered, the Golden Heart has always warned me of danger, but is it 100% sensitive? Is it above all dangers?

Before I smelled the king mina worm, I may have thought about my identity as the king worm.

Perhaps, that heart needs to evolve too......

I now trust my own heart more than that.

Speaking of which, Mina is a king worm, but she will also be affected by this mysterious power, so I, who is also a king worm, will probably not be spared. Zuo Yuan didn't seem to do anything special to them, otherwise Mina would have told me. So, the only difference between these people and me is that I sleep in these rooms.

"To find out what's going on, I'm going to sleep here."

Thinking of this, I lay down next to Mina, resting my head on the only long pillow, and for a moment, I felt a kind of attraction that seemed to exist, and it was on this bed, it invisibly wrapped around me, I could still get up, it was not a substantial strength, but psychologically, I didn't want to get up.

Just then, Mina rolled over and rode my thighs on top of me, just like before......

My head buzzed, and the picture of reality became illusory and blurry.

……