"Ryan!" Ryan heard Sandman's shouts.

Sharp pain came from his shoulder, and Ryan was crushed by the monitor lizard, almost suffocating.

"It's terrible, monitor lizards are biting!" There was an uproar, and many people gathered around, but they didn't dare to come forward, and Ryan tried to struggle, but in exchange for a more vigorous bite.

"Ryan, don't move!" Her voice was heard in the crowd, and immediately, the weight of her body was removed, and the fangs in her shoulders were pulled out. Ryan saw Sandman take the monitor lizard away from him, and he wanted to smile at her, but he felt numb all over.

Later, he remembered people lifting him up with all hands and feet. It took eight of them, and they changed hands several times before they carried him into the stone house. He was like a huge log, his body stiff and unable to move.

He was placed on the stone bed, and then, his clothes were untied, and he couldn't turn his head, but he could see the horror of his wound from the people's expressions, which was probably a row of bloody holes, and there should have been a row of holes in the same place behind him.

But he already felt better than he expected, thanks to the lead-wire cloak and the extremely dense ark uniform, otherwise, with the bite force of this big-mouthed monster, the bones in his shoulder would have been shattered. He relaxed a little, and then an unstoppable sleepiness set in.

People were chattering around him, as if discussing something, and he couldn't hear them clearly, but they all looked anxious and helpless. Later, they all withdrew, and the house became silent.

He felt someone come and sit on the edge of his bed, and from that breath he knew it was Sandman, he held out his hand to her. However, he tried his best to touch her hand, but she shook it off.

Then he heard her sob.

He wanted to say, Shaman, don't cry, don't be angry, but he couldn't say a word.

He felt that he was about to fall asleep, so he forced his eyes to open and look at her, and he tried to touch her hand again, but he could not move anyway.

She took his hand.

He saw her grasp his hand with both hands, and his hand was stiff and unconscious, as if she was clutching not her own.

She cried even harder, trembling and trembling.

He felt like he was sinking. It was cool on his forehead, as if there was a block of ice, and it was placed on his forehead with a thick layer of space, and he didn't know what it was, but it felt very comfortable, and then he realized that it was her hand...... He felt like he was being put in a thick rubber sleeve, all his senses were cut off and closed......

***

When Ryan woke up, he didn't know what time it was.

He opened his eyes and saw the roof of the stone house. One by one, the roots of plants grew from the soil between the cracks in the stones, and the picture slowly became clear, and it was transmitted to the brain through the optic nerve.

Even here, grass has grown, and before, there was no grass here.

He came to his senses and slowly rolled his eyes, feeling as if he had had a long dream. The lush wall of plants still grew there, and there were twice as many leaves on it as before, and the sun shone obliquely on it, and the sink in the corner of the wall made a gurgling sound, and he couldn't help but smile, and was happy, and came back. He thought he wouldn't be able to come back.

There was no one in the room, and he lay in the silence. He tried to move his arms, and felt his body waking up from the numbness, and he looked down, only to see that he had a coarse cloth wrapped around his shoulders, and a coarse cloth sheet on his body, and he was barely wearing anything. He heard someone talking outside the window, it was a girl's voice, but it was neither Shaman nor Miao.

"Hey, are you wiping your legs or your hands today?"

"Rub your legs, I like legs, thighs, hehe." Another said.

"You wiped your leg yesterday, and it should be my turn today."

"Uh...... Well, it's okay to wipe your hands, and your hands are also beautiful, so I like the slender and stretched arms. ”

"Like a tree."

"Yes, like a tree."

"Actually, the body is also very good, the trunk-like body, collarbones, chest, abdominal muscles......"

"Haha, yes."

"I don't know when I'll be able to wake up."

"Come on, I'm getting better and better these days, and my face is getting more and more ruddy."

"Looks like the medicine is working."

"Yes."

"I really want to see what he looks like when he opens his eyes."

"Haha, yes, I want to see his eyes......"

The voices of the two stopped abruptly, and the footsteps stopped, and the two said in unison: "Clan, patriarch." ”

An old man's voice said, "What are you going to do?" ”

"Do...... Routine care. ”

"Let's go first."

"Yes."

The two girls walked away quickly, the door was pushed open, and an old man walked in.

Ryan still remembered his appearance, his coarse cloth robe covering his body, his face covered with frost and wrinkles, and his rickety body, like a dead tree growing in the desert, and this time he was closer, and Fang saw that his eyes were cloudy and gray, and his head was tilted upward, as if he had been looking for light.

Ryan wanted to get up, but he couldn't get up all of a sudden.

"No need." The old man said, "I guess it's almost time for you to wake up." ”

The old man sat down in a chair in front of the window of the house, as if he knew it was there, and turned his head to face Ryan.

Ryan wasn't sure if he was looking at himself, tried a few times, and finally sat up, picked up the uniform shirt that had been placed next to him and put it on. As he stretched his arm, there was a piercing pain in his shoulder, and Ryan turned his head away without making a sound.

The old man said: "Young women will always be attracted to the strong and young body of the opposite sex, which is normal and natural. ”

Ryan lowered his head in embarrassment, and it seemed that he had heard the conversation between the two girls.

"You've been in a coma for a whole month, and you're burning all over, and you have to keep cooling down artificially. Because you saved your people, and because you actually defeated the strongest monitor lizard warriors, they admired you and thanked you, so they did their best to take care of you, and now it seems that they are not in vain. ”

"Thank you, thank you......"

The old man walked over to Ryan's bed and held out his hands to Ryan. Ryan felt his hand tremble as rough and dry as bark touching his face, groped for a while, and then went down, to his neck, shoulders, and then to his open chest, "The body of the Ark Man is indeed good, strong, and beautiful, and has developed the beauty of this God's creation to the extreme, who would not like it, even me, would like and envy it." ”

Ryan ducked back from his hand and fastened his clothes, not knowing what he meant.

The old man straightened up, took two steps, and turned his head again: "More than 1,300 years, more than 1,300 years, if you follow the 25-year generation, 52 generations have passed." 52 generations, you - me, such a distance. He used his hand to compare Ryan with himself.

The old man said: "The Ark Man has genetically eliminated a variety of diseases that have plagued mankind for thousands of years, and greatly improved physical functions, with stronger muscles, bones, senses and brains, and a faster metabolism, which makes you have strong explosive power, good endurance, sharp nerve reactions and a brain that can process a lot of information.

"You grew up in a pure and sterile environment, you have not been troubled by illness since childhood, coupled with adequate nutrition and regular work and rest, your growth and development are almost perfect, just like trees, every branch and every leaf, completely showing the expression of every gene. You don't know how much praise it is for us to be compared to a tree by a girl, because a tree with lush foliage is like a god to us. ”

"But," the old man's cloudy eyes turned to Ryan again, "do you think that you are superior to us?" ”

The problem drifted through the air and dissolved.

Ryan looked at the ground, and he thought he knew what the old man meant.

Even so, the Ark people could not survive on this planet. All the advantages that the people of the Ark possessed, outside of the Ark, became fatal shortcomings.