Lack of light, slightly shady little bar, most remote corner location.

The faint oil light shone on Tang Ling's side face, with his somewhat excited expression, and Su Yao, who looked indifferent next to him and had an unclear smile on the corner of his mouth, just like an oil painting with strong colors, deep background, vivid characters, but unknown theme.

The bar owner looked up at this scene with a deep gaze in his eyes, and then he lowered his hat again, lowered his head, and leaned against the bar with his hands on his chest to nap.

"Sit down." Su Yao looked at Tang Ling and snorted.

Tang Ling took a deep breath and sat down.

"Since I've told you that, let's be more direct, that seed in your body is a precious gift. You don't have to make a fuss about it, you should even accept it calmly and emotionally. ”

"You can understand it this way, a loyal hound next to a hunter, how can a hunter reject a hound who has grown up with him?" Su Yao didn't ask for any more wine, but said these words to Tang Ling in a deep, inexplicable tone.

It felt like, 'A long, long time ago, you received a gift...'

Tang Ling's mood calmed down inexplicably, almost subconsciously, and he gently pressed his chest.

A loyal hound that grew up with you? No, it has to be more intimate, it lives in symbiosis with itself!

Only, who will give this gift? Tang Ling even remembered Kun, the owner of the mystery shop, and he vaguely mentioned that the 'it' in his chest was an interesting thing.

The 'it' that Kundu noticed is very precious, right?

"Don't ask me who sent you that kind of question, I'm only responsible for answering the questions about the seeds, not appeasing your curiosity." Su Yao didn't raise his eyelids, lowered his head and said directly, as if he had seen through Tang Ling.

"Uncle..."Tang Ling shouted, and then said weakly, "Okay." ”

Tang Ling knew Su Yao, and if he didn't say it, it was true, and he wouldn't reveal it at all.

"Then you mentioned me before, you don't care about my unhappiness in growing up..."Now that you know that it is a seed, it is necessary to know more, because the other side of symbiosis can also be explained as each other as a community and living together.

How can you not know anything about 'it'?

"A precious gift that not everyone can afford. It's like a precious weapon with great lethality, you can't give it to a child. That would hurt him. Su Yao said this and called out to the bar owner.

The boss stood up slowly, and brought another glass of vodka with a not very good attitude.

I don't know if it's because of his conscience, he also brought Tang Ling a glass of apple juice.

"I didn't, I won't be able to pay the bill." Tang Ling directly refused.

"Sent." The boss threw down a sentence and left directly.

"What a weirdo." Tang Ling muttered, while Su Yao smiled and said, "It's not a bad thing for you to eat and drink a little more." To put it bluntly, no matter what you eat or drink, the energy that can be transformed into your own strength will always be divided into more than half of the seeds, now you understand? ”

'Poof', Tang Ling, who lowered his head to drink the juice, immediately choked, he coughed continuously, looked at Su Yao and wanted to say something, but he couldn't say anything for a while.

"You're so sluggish. Don't feel it? With the eating techniques I taught you, your growth rate is still limited. Your 'precision instinct' has the ability to observe and calculate, and now although you are immature and do not observe the subtle changes in your own body, you always have feelings, don't you? Su Yao's gaze was filled with a sense of urgency.

"There are feelings. I also knew that 'it' could eat, but I really didn't, it was in... It can't be said to be snatching, anyway..."Tang Ling didn't know how to describe it.

"To raise a good hunting dog, you also need to provide it with the conditions to grow. Your seed is the same, except that it needs the same as what you need. If you're not perfect... It's a general gift, and that gift is a tragedy for you. Su Yao said slowly.

"How?"

"It's very simple, it will only blindly devour in its infancy, just like a human baby, crying milk in order to grow up, it is impossible to know and understand the fact that parents are poor. People with average talent absorb energy at a mediocre conversion rate, and it will completely snatch up, and when it is not satisfied, it will even 'suck dry' the host. ”

"The good thing is that the host will not get any growth or progress for the rest of their lives. The worst case is to be sucked dry, and then 'it' dies with it. Don't you think it's a tragedy? Su Yao downplayed an extremely dangerous matter.

But Tang Ling was in a cold sweat, and he couldn't help but ask Su Yao: "Then if I..." While speaking, Tang Ling glanced at the bar owner, but found speechlessly that the bar owner just let him and Su Yao stay in the store, and he didn't know where to go.

But this also made Tang Ling breathe a sigh of relief, and said directly: "Then what if I am not the perfect gene chain?" Uncle, were you sure that I was the perfect gene chain from the beginning! You knew the seeds existed from the beginning! ”

"Don't disadmit it, I'm sure."

"Really, it's not a good thing for a person to be too smart." As he spoke, Su Yao shook his head: "How can I be so omniscient and omnipotent?" Without instruments, I have no way to be sure of your talent, I can only guess that your talent is not bad. ”

"The only basis I have to rely on is the one conclusion I came to when I took you to measure the growth rate. But that conclusion is not accurate, because at that time your seed is just awakening. ”

"Just woke up?" Tang Ling was measuring the meaning of awakening.

"Well, just woke up. After you are intensely ... After the stimulation, just woke up! Until then, it was the 'shell-breaking' phase, in a dormant state, requiring only a small amount of energy. ”

"There are only two scenarios for it to wake up. First, the host suffers a life-and-death crisis. However, its power was very limited at that time, and you may be 'consumed' alive by repeated life-and-death crises. ”

"Second, if it's hungry and needs energy to continue dormant, it will ask you what to eat. Do you get the idea? Su Yao seemed to know the seeds very well, so he told Tang Ling in great detail.

Of course, Tang Ling understands that he has encountered a life-and-death crisis once, when he was surrounded by black-toothed rats in a settlement.

Hungry for this kind of thing, Tang Ling understands better, under such a difficult life in the settlement, he will become a 'devouring monster' like an existence every once in a while.

But compared to the current one, there is a difference.

Now, he has to consume a certain amount of food every day to meet his needs, is this called 'awakening'?

"Did you feel the difference when you woke up?" There was always a hint of schadenfreude in Su Yao's tone.

Tang Ling didn't pay attention to Su Yao at all, but asked back the question just now: "Uncle, you haven't answered my question yet." ”

"Well, the answer is that I wasn't completely sure about your genetic chain talent. I'm also prepared, if you don't have the talent above seven stars, I'll find a way to take 'it' out. Su Yao said it very easily, even like a joke.

But Tang Ling didn't think that Su Yao was joking at all, he would really do it. However, if you think about taking a seed out of your heart, is there still life for you?

"Actually, the truth is, I don't trust the instruments in Security Zone 17. My plan is that if the test results are not satisfactory, I will take you out of here immediately. First, find a reliable instrument to test again. I was already planning to do so after you finished your assessment, but you told me about the anomalies. I was pleasantly surprised to know that you are the perfect gene chain. ”

"Second, if you still don't test well after I find a reliable instrument, then there is a way to remove this seed from the place where I take you. Of course not I did it myself. ”

It's so dangerous, Tang Ling exhaled a long breath, fortunately he didn't have to be disemboweled, and it was still there.

But in the next second, Tang Ling thought of something: "Uncle, where were you going to take me at that time?" ”

This is purely the curiosity of teenagers, who does not yearn for the wide world outside?

"What did you do if it didn't happen?" Su Yao glanced at Tang Ling before he said, "Instead of being curious about this, you should worry about your current trouble." It is necessary to ensure that its own growth is not too slow, but also to ensure the growth of seeds. ”

"It's a test that life throws at you, and you have to deal with it." Su Yao was solemn, and then he didn't know if it was a bad taste, so he suddenly stuck out his tongue at Tang Ling: "Do you know?" You're a monster, a resource-consuming monster. ”

Tang Ling's face became ugly, and he was powerless to refute Su Yao's words, indeed, the resources he consumed were amazing, and they were getting more and more day by day.

"But it's not without good news." Su Yao felt very cool, touched Tang Ling's head and said, "The pay is proportional to the return, and after the seed grows, it will bring you great strength." It's just like you, it will grow and uplift, and it will change, not statically. ”

"I thought about it." Tang Ling deliberately didn't let Su Yao get complacent, the fact was that he just guessed that the seed would become stronger, just like the effect of 'amplification'...

"It's boring." Su Yao hates old children, and it is really difficult to find a sense of accomplishment in such children.

But Su Yao still decided to pull back a game, he looked at Tang Ling and said, "Then do you know that now is only the first state of the seed?" Does its state determine your status? ”

"What?" This matter is very new, and the implication is that now Tang Ling is in the state of a muscular person in the case of transformation.

As the seed grows, it's likely that he's not a muscular man? Tang Ling cares about this, because he is a good boy who 'saves', and it is too wasteful to consume a set of clothes every time he explodes?

"Well, I'm just telling you there's such a thing. It's up to you to figure it out for yourself. Su Yao smiled very proudly.

In fact, it is really too early to tell Tang Ling more about the state of the seed.

Because the previous owner said that there are these changes in it, but whether it can grow to this point is a matter of best effort.

Most likely, it will always be in the first form, because as it grows, the resources required will increase exponentially.

In the later stage, there are huge requirements for the quality of resources, and it is impossible to completely make up for the quality by the accumulation of quantity.

That would cause it to grow very slowly.

That person... It's always right, it's so annoying at the time, but it's so nostalgic now.

Su Yao once again inevitably fell into memory.

And Tang Ling's series of questions in his ears, he didn't hear them at all.

"Uncle, what form will it take?"

"If it's going to evolve, what are the signs?"

"Is its evolution merely form? What about wisdom? Will it also grow in wisdom? When the time comes, don't I have to talk to it very often? ”

"Uncle, don't be so stingy, tell me, how to establish contact with it 100% at this stage?"

Tang Ling was like a 'noisy' parrot, he kept talking, he began to be excited for the seed, and from the moment he accepted its existence, he instantly had a deep affection for it.

Maybe Su Yao's hound metaphor is too successful, or maybe they have grown up together for so many years.

Su Yao's side face was very deep, Tang Ling's figure was reflected in his melancholy eyes, but the corners of his mouth unconsciously brought a hint of comforting smile.

He felt that the current Tang Ling was the real one, not the depressed and silent teenager in the settlement, and when he came back, he heard that the rumored rogue boy in the fortress of hope was not...

Everything he is doing now is driven by hatred, forcing himself to strategize and put on a mask.

It was life that shaped him.

And the real Tang Ling is actually just a smart ordinary teenager, I hope he can get some less tired time by his side, which is truly his own.

Even if it's just one day a month?

And how long can such a day last? Regardless of whether he thinks he is that smart ordinary teenager or not, he is still Tang Ling after all, or....

**

The best restaurant in security zone 17.

Tang Ling patted his stomach with satisfaction, and in front of him, a large pile of flesh and bones piled up.

He ate up half of the second-level mutant beast, not the small one, but the mutant beast of the cow type, and turned this restaurant where nobles gathered into a personal performance scene that belonged to him.

Around him were stunned aristocrats, and even the owner of the restaurant couldn't help but poke his head out of the back kitchen to look at this 'devouring monster'.

But Tang Ling didn't care, and Su Yao didn't care even more.

After Tang Ling was full of wine and food, he picked his teeth loudly and walked out of the restaurant with Tang Ling Yaowu.

Who would dare to mess with them? The madman Su Yao and the amazing boy who played a wonderful game.

"Uncle, I'm going back, and I can't use the eating technique in public. This is too wasteful, I have to hurry up and find a place..."At a secret entrance to the Hope Barrier, Tang Ling said to Su Yao.

"Get out of here."

"Don't you have a little reluctance to me?"

"Oh, the meal cost me 570 credits."

"Uncle, I'm going back. What did you just say, the wind was so strong that I didn't hear it. Tang Ling ran away as soon as he slipped away and entered the small building that was hiding the entrance and looked a little dilapidated.

Looking at Tang Ling's back, Su Yao's smile gradually faded, and he was replaced by a serious expression with a frowning - Safety Zone 17, it's messy.

Next is a direct rainstorm? Or will a bigger storm brew?

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