After installing the chip, Alyssa found that 157 was trying to get the chip out under his skin.

Alyssa couldn't understand that the chip should not have any influence on it, and 157 has always been very obedient, she thought that 157 should not show resistance to the chip.

"157? What are you doing?" Alyssa walked in front of the subject. One of the tentacles of No. 157 was on top of the other tentacle that was installed with chips. The skin had been opened, revealing the muscle texture inside.Tentacles dripped and landed on the floor.

Seeing this scene, Alyssa's pupils constricted, and she subconsciously pushed away the tentacles that were still hurting her. With the other hand, she pressed the wound, and at the same time shouted loudly to another researcher: "Claire, come and help me!"

Claire was taken aback by the eagerness in Alyssa's tone, and rushed over in a hurry. After seeing this scene, she was also stunned for a moment. Under the wound made by 157 herself, a corner of the chip had already been exposed.

"What's the matter?" Claire quickly walked over with gauze and medicine, applied the medicine to 157's tentacles, and carefully wrapped them with gauze.

However, as soon as the two let go, the other tentacles of 157 stretched out again, peeled off the gauze, exposed the wound, and then tried to use the tip of the tentacles to get out the chips that had begun to grow together with the new flesh, which did not cooperate with theirs.move.

"157!" Alyssa seldom reprimanded No. 157 in such a harsh tone, but while reprimanding her loudly, her tone was still full of tension that could not be concealed.

"Let go of the tentacle!" She repeated subconsciously, "Let go of it, don't hurt yourself!" At the end, her voice even trembled slightly due to nervousness.

157 glanced at her, but did not stop.

The low mood of the past few days has accumulated until now, and No. 157 subconsciously expressed his resistance in this straightforward way.

Alyssa, who couldn't stop 157, could only grab its tentacles with her hands, but 157 had more than one free tentacles. Alyssa had to hold tightly to the tentacles she had already grasped while controlling 157's newly extended tentacles.

In a hurry, Alyssa's skin was pulled open by 157's tentacles, red blood dripped down her arm and dripped onto 157's skin.

The pain in the arm only made Alyssa frown slightly, and then ignored her own wound and continued to press on the tentacle that 157 was trying to hurt herself.

157's movements froze, and finally he seemed to calm down, standing there blankly, letting Alyssa hold his tentacles.

157 looked at the two pools of blood on the ground, and a tentacle touched the red blood.

"Different."

It was obviously not the first time that Alyssa was injured, but she said in a strange tone: "My blood color is different from that of 'Mom'."

Alisa breathed a sigh of relief, she didn't know what 157 was muttering in a low voice.Alyssa tried to stretch out her arms to hug 157, but she could barely wrap her arms around it. After 157 calmed down, she stretched out a hand to caress 157's back slowly.

"Why hurt yourself?" The voice of "Mom" still sounded gentle in 157's ears, as if she was asking patiently, "If you don't like it, can we take it down?"

After a long time, the soft tentacles hanging on the ground moved, as if giving up on themselves, they gently wrapped around Alyssa's body.

How do you tame a little monster?

Probably all it takes is a hug.

Just a hug.

——

157's resistance forced the laboratory to temporarily abandon the idea of installing chips. After all, 157 is already the most docile of the experimental subjects. If it is replaced by other experimental subjects, it is very likely that the behavior of resistance will be more intense.

"It will cause a lot of trouble for the experimental subject to self-mutilate to remove the chip, so let's put it aside for now." Under the unwilling eyes of several researchers, Mendley made such a decision.

——

After the matter of the chip came to an end temporarily, the starship that the researchers had been looking forward to for a long time also arrived.

Before this batch of materials arrived, although there was no notification on the surface, the researchers in the laboratory had already received the news that the next batch of materials would be delivered half a year later.

Although some people secretly felt dissatisfied, they also knew that it was really not appropriate to be too high-profile during this period, and basically accepted this choice.

Mendley and Kathy have always been the ones who have transported supplies over the years. Captain Carlo, who has been with them for more than ten years, is familiar with most of the researchers in the lab.When transferring to the laboratory, he stepped off the starship first and walked towards the interior of the laboratory.

Not long after he lived, he saw Jonathan and Alyssa walking side by side and talking. Carlo had a big beard and spoke loudly. He called their names loudly: "Jonathan,Alisa?"

The two stopped, and when they turned around, they saw him waving happily: "How have you been recently?"

He said and looked at Alyssa: "I heard you took over No. 157?"

Carlo laughed excitedly: "I went to the black market last time, but it's a pity that you can't go to the scene." His expression was excited, and he waved his hands, "Do you know that the auction of those healing potions is very effective,It's more than double the price we originally expected!"

He excitedly described the grand occasion of the auction to his two friends, and finally concluded: "If you haven't been to the scene, you may not be able to deeply realize the huge benefits brought about by your creation of the experimental body."

His voice was so loud that the researchers who occasionally passed by in the corridor also looked over. Carlo smiled and waved at them, then turned to look at Alyssa and Jonathan: "But you will see later, after you leave this planetAfter the planet."

Jonathan couldn't help laughing when he heard his words.

He hammered Carlo's shoulder: "Why did you arrive today? Didn't you say that you expected to arrive two days ago?"

Hearing Jonathan's question, Carlo curled his lips subconsciously: "Don't mention it."

Carlo waved his hand: "You also know that one of the reasons why Mr. Mendley chose to build a laboratory on this planet was that this planet naturally had a strange magnetic field, which would affect the coordinate positioning of the starship.Afterwards, Mr. Mendley intentionally enhanced the interference artificially."

He remembered the little troubles he encountered on the way here, and couldn't help complaining: "Is Mr. Mendley experimenting with something new recently?"

"What's wrong?" Jonathan asked suspiciously.

"I arrived in this galaxy two days ago, but for some reason, I almost didn't find the planet you are on." He scratched the back of his head and smiled a little honestly: "If I didn't know that Mr. Mendley set it up on purpose."Interference, I almost thought that this planet was the one that the star network said was escaping from the galaxy."

Hearing what he said, both Alyssa and Jonathan laughed: "How is that possible."

——

After all, compared with the researchers who have been in the laboratory all year round, Carlo's voice is obviously too much mixed in.

"The man with the loud voice is here again." 35 shook the leaves on his body, "Will he bring anything with him this time?"

Soon after Carlo came over each time, the researchers would give the subjects some food that they rarely get, such as sugar.

"I can already smell sugar." Number 33's forked tongue explored the air, then quickly retracted.

"Where will they put the candy?" 77 swayed the tail behind him, with a trace of curiosity hiding in his eyes.

When they were still confined in the glass room and couldn't leave, they seldom thought about these things, but after they were able to leave here, 77 began to be curious about the outside world.

"I don't know." 76 shook his head, and then asked him, "Do you want to go and see with me?"

77 looked at him, a little moved: "Then tonight?"

Compared with the daytime, it is obviously much safer at night when the researchers are already asleep.

——

After the lab was plunged into darkness, 77 opened the partition, where 76 was already waiting for him.

77 climbed up lightly, not forgetting to cover the partition, and then the two snakes continued to move forward following the smell of food, and soon reached the top of the warehouse.

The warehouse is full of all kinds of food for the researchers, stacked neatly on rows of shelves.

Finally, 77 couldn't hold back his curiosity, and gently opened a gap in the partition, and looked through the gap to look at the room full of food, although he could only see a corner of it.

Unlike the raw meat provided to them by the laboratory, most of the food placed in the warehouse has various packages, and it is not as large as the meat fed to the experimental subjects.In a very small bag.

"What's that?" 77 looked at the stack of cans, he got to know the metal beside "mother", and knew that it was not food that could be eaten.

But what was placed there by "mother" was clearly classified as "food".

The two human snakes watched silently for a while, then left quietly.

——

After that night, 77 and 76 never visited the warehouse again.

However, they have been to the hatching area several times. Besides the attraction of the things inside the hatching area, 77 also felt a little curious about the heartbeat sound he heard for the first time.

On their way to the center of the hatch again, they heard Mendley's voice on the ceiling shelf.

77's tail coiled on the partition, and then looked at 76: "It's mom."

Naturally, he didn't catch the movement of the two snakes. Mendley in the hatching area was still arguing with Kathy.

"We need asterites," Mendley stressed, "and more asterites to support research."

"Starstone?" It was the first time 76 and 77 heard the words.

"I think it's enough for now." The news Carlo brought over clearly made Kathy satisfied with this, "We've already been able to get a very generous return."

He supported the table with both hands, and unconsciously leaned forward: "We can transfer most of our manpower and energy to the clone."

"The healing potion extracted from 157 is more successful than I imagined!" He couldn't help pacing back and forth in the room excitedly, and then told Mendley about his vision for the future, but he received a disappointing response from him.See.

77 on the ceiling listened to their conversation. Although he knew that they couldn't hear the conversation between him and 76, he lowered his voice subconsciously: "Can you understand what they are saying?"

76 shook his head. Many of the words they spoke had never been spoken in front of the subjects, so they naturally couldn't understand them.

"but……"

"It should have something to do with us." 76 said, "I heard them say '157'."

Unlike Kathy, Mendley always believed that the starstone was much more important than the experimental subject. In the end, the two disagreed and broke up. It was not until they all left that 76 and 77 in the ceiling compartment moved.Body.

After the hatching area became quiet again, 77 heard several heartbeats inside, one of which had become very strong: "Another larva is about to wake up."

He listened to the heartbeat from below without blinking, and not long after, another heartbeat sounded without warning.

"Did you hear that?" 77 asked 76 beside him.

"I heard it too." It was a voice completely different from the heartbeats of other hatchlings.

Different from the short-lived flash in the pan last time, this time the heartbeat did not disappear after it sounded. It gradually became stronger from the initial faintness, and slowly spread to the surroundings.

——

After returning, 77's tail felt a sense of dryness due to staying in the dusty ceiling compartment for a long time.

After being separated from 76, 77 dragged his tail to soak in the pool. The cool water made him feel better, but it couldn't completely relieve the discomfort on his tail.

Is it too dry so lack of water?

77 was a little puzzled.

——

77 soaked in the pool and slept all night. When he woke up the next day, the dry feeling on his tail had completely disappeared.

77 breathed a sigh of relief, then continued to drag his big tail and climb up the tree with food.

After 77 climbed up the tree, 76 was already waiting there.

Seeing 77, 76 looked very happy. He leaned over and rubbed 77's side face. Because of his happiness, his black tail unconsciously swept back and forth on the partition, and accidentally touched a vertical board, sending outThere was a loud crash.

The two snakes froze when they heard the sound, and 77 subconsciously poked his head out of the leaves and glanced at the corridor.

The two researchers who were still feeding other experimental subjects accidentally saw 77's head protruding from the leaves when they turned their heads, and looked at him suspiciously: "77 see what we are doing?"

Seeing the puzzled expressions on their faces, 77 knew that they hadn't heard the movement here. After glancing at them, he hid his body behind the leaves again.

77 stuck his head back into the compartment, and 76 asked him, "Did they hear that?"

77 shook his head: "I didn't hear that."

Hearing this, 76 breathed a sigh of relief, and his slightly stretched tail also relaxed. 77's eyes fell on his tail. After watching for a while, his upper body stretched forward and stretched out a hand to touch 76's tail.

76 subconsciously wanted to hand over his tail, but then remembered something, froze, and tried to pull the tail back, but 77's hand had already grasped the tip of the tail in time.

76 had no choice but to hand over the tail to 77 in order to avoid causing more commotion by fighting for the tail with 77.

Because he didn't want to separate himself from 76 by a layer of glass, 77 would meet with 76 at the ceiling compartment whenever he had time during this period. Due to the dim light, 77 didn't notice that 76's tail was much dimmer before.

"Is your tail uncomfortable?" 77 carefully touched 76's scales with his hands, it had become a little rough and dry, and when 77 touched it, it froze and turned into a straight strip.

"77..." 76 called out to him, his voice sounded a bit stiff.

He wanted to ask 77 to let go of his tail. For some reason, he had been caught by 77 before, but now 76 felt very strange after being caught by 77.

There was a kind of unexplained restlessness in heart, and it seemed to be hot from the top of the head to the tip of the tail. wanted to soak the whole snake in the water, but somehow was reluctant to let 77 let go.

77 looked at the too stiff tail, and after hearing 76's strange tone, there was a hint of worry in his eyes: "Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

"No...no..." 76 didn't know why, when 77 looked over worriedly, some wanted to avoid his sight.

"Your tail seems a little hot?" 77 said, stretching his head forward and touching 77's face, "Your face is also hot."

He repeated his question again: "Are you sick?"

"It's not sick." The temperature on 76's body had already dropped, and he approached 77, his voice was a little vague, with embarrassment that he didn't understand why, "It's because you just grabbed my tail."

76 moved the dim-looking tail in front of him, and showed 77 a closer look. He still knew his physical condition very well, so he had some guesses about it: "I'm probably about to shed my skin."

But 77 remembered that both he and 76 had a yearly molt cycle, and 76's last molt was only a few months old.

76 lowered his head slightly, and skillfully comforted 77 who was still worried with a kiss: "Don't worry, I can feel that shedding this time will not be dangerous."

——

Carlo didn't stay in the laboratory for long before leaving. After counting the things the researchers asked him to bring to his family, he turned around and boarded the starship, and said to the researchers below, "Then I'll go first."

After Carlo left, at the next regular meeting, Mendley officially announced that the next arrival of the starship would be half a year later.

The researchers were not too surprised by the news that had been prepared for a long time, nor did they have any objections. One researcher raised his hand: "I have a question."

Mendley looked at him, beckoning him to speak.

"Then will our contact day cycle change?"

"There will be no changes for the time being, and it will still be once a month."

Hearing this, the researchers were all relieved.

Mendley glanced at the meeting room, lowered his eyes and continued to look at the documents in his hand: "If there is no problem, then continue."

The next person to speak stood up: "Something has changed in Starstone."

After his words fell, all eyes in the conference room turned to him.

"During the monitoring of Xingshi, we accidentally discovered that Xingshi began to emit sound waves with a certain regularity in the first two days."

The researcher projected the test results in the conference room: "The frequency of the sound wave is beyond the range that the human ear can detect."

He thought for a while, and hesitantly said his colleagues' guess: "It's like the sound of a heartbeat."

But everyone knows that stones are not life, so how could there be a heartbeat.

After discovering Starstone's "heartbeat", they conducted multiple tests on this item, but the results were indistinguishable.

Everyone looked at the irregular black stone in the projection, which was quietly suspended in the center of the meeting room. The thick black seemed to absorb all the incoming light.

The star stone appeared for too short a time, and their research on the star stone was only a short period of ten years, and it was impossible to infer a clear result based on the existing data.All the speculation can only be suppressed temporarily, and it will be verified slowly in the follow-up time.

Soon came the next speaker: "The new hatchling is almost fully developed."

The projection completely showed the appearance of the larva, which was curled up in the nutrition cabin, and its appearance was 50 to 60% similar to 157.

"We can prepare an independent incubation room for it first." He suggested that in about a month, it will be able to open its eyes and come out of the nutrition cabin."

That's the best-sounding news of the conference.

"Its development is in good condition. As long as it is carefully cultivated, it will not be a problem to survive successfully after leaving the nutrition barn."

Shortly after the session, the larvae's nutrient pod was removed from the center of the hatchery.

Finally put it next door to 157.

On the second day after being moved here, the hatchlings had already come to life.

In the first moment of waking up, the young body subconsciously searched for the "mother" it felt in the haze.

"Mother?"

"Mom?" The baby's voice sounded a little shrill, successfully waking up 157 who was still dreaming.

After waking up, 157 was stunned for a moment. Hearing a voice called "Mom" that he had never heard before, he asked suspiciously, "Who are you?"

The voice paused for a moment, and a few seconds later, a voice with the same tone as 157 said: "Who are you?"

35, who heard their conversation in the third district, laughed out loud. She shook her body and told 157, "It's a new hatchling."

There was a hint of enlightenment in 157's eyes, listening to the newborn baby next door was still repeating "Mom! Mom!", just like himself who had just left the incubation room.

The hatchling learns very quickly, and besides visiting its "mother" in the incubator every day, it also likes to chat with other experimental subjects.

But the experimental subjects in the third area didn't pay much attention to it, only 157 would reply patiently and talk to it.

"Don't you guys like it?" 157 was a little puzzled.

"Hmm..." 35 thought about it seriously, and then told 157, "Because it hasn't been numbered yet."

157 didn't understand the connection between the number and the hatchling, but she didn't try to change the other experimental subjects, and would talk to the hatchling next door every day.

Probably all infants are like this after becoming conscious, 157 thought casually when he heard it always talk about "mother" from time to time.

But compared to the days when she just came out of the nutrition warehouse, now she hears the baby talk about "mother" full of love, but she doesn't have any ideas about communicating with it about "mother".Knowing perfunctory.

"But..." 157 hesitated to speak, testing in front of the longing young body, "Have you ever thought that 'mother' doesn't actually love you?"

The young organisms on the opposite side were obviously annoyed by 157's words, and 157 heard the sound of "gurgling" bubbles in the nutrition warehouse next door: "'Mom' loves me very much!"Say 'Mom'."

157, who couldn't convince the young body, had no choice but to give up in the end. She still remembered how stubborn she was in the past.

It will be fine later.

157 thought, it will always understand in the future.

After 157 fell silent, the hatchling on the opposite side asked cautiously, "Why don't you talk anymore? Are you unhappy?"

For 157 who always chats with him, the young ones are still very concerned.

"A little."

"Why?" the larva asked suspiciously.

"Because my 'mom' doesn't seem to like me."

The young body was silent for a while, and then comforted her: "My 'mother' likes me, so I will share the love of 'mother' with you, okay?"

157 felt even more sad. She wanted to tell it that its "mother" would not love it, but she also realized deeply that she couldn't convince the young.

She wrapped her body with her tentacles, and felt some moist liquid rushing out of her eye sockets and wet the skin on her body.

The liquid is carried into the mouth by the tentacles.

is bitter.