After Carlo came, Kathy sent a lot of people to study the clone of No. 157, but none of the clones could successfully survive to remove the nutrition chamber.

Mendley slightly complained about this. After No. 150, the newborn hatchlings were all tentacles. Under their control, the newly moved hatchlings were already somewhat similar to 157 in appearance.

Mendley thinks this is a great breakthrough, and he tries to convince Kathy, but Kathy thinks that there are too many uncontrollable variables in the process of each experimental body being affected by the influence of the starstone at the embryonic stage, and it is not as good as a cloneConvenient.

But obviously, for a long time, they will stick to their own ideas, but they can't convince each other.

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The hatchling obviously didn't know the expectations that Mendley poured into him. Except for the "mother" who came over from time to time to check on its development, the hatchling was talking to 157 more often.

"What does it look like outside when you open your eyes?" the hatchling couldn't help asking 157 out of curiosity.

157 looked around: "It's a white wall, there are lights on the ceiling, the liquid in the nutrition warehouse is blue, and there is a layer of glass separating it from the outside world..."

"What is white? What color is blue?"

"The nutrition warehouse is where I stay."

"What is the ceiling?"

"Why can a lamp illuminate? What is glass?"

The hatchling that hadn't opened its eyes asked a series of questions after she finished speaking, and then fell silent again, earnestly waiting for 157's answer.

The poor 157 thought for a while, and finally could only tell it dryly: "You can see it when you open your eyes."

"Alright then." The young creature replied with some regret.

It changed the question: "So what are you like?"

"I..." 157 looked down at himself, ignoring concepts such as color that he couldn't explain clearly to the young, "I have thirteen tentacles..."

"I also have tentacles!" The young in the hatching room next door happily waved their tentacles in the nutrient solution, "I have eight."

"Then how do you see me?"

But 157 told it: "I haven't seen your face yet."

"Oh, is that so?" The larva was lost for a while, and then quickly cheered up again, "When I come out of the nutrition warehouse, you will see me soon."

157 echoed its words, and then tried to calculate the time it took for the hatchlings to leave the nutrition barn based on their own experience.

But she thought about it, she had already opened her eyes at this time, but the juveniles hadn't opened their eyes yet, maybe the situation of different experimental subjects was different, 157 thought so.

And the hatchling has moved on to the next question: "What about 'mother'? How many tentacles does he have, and does it look like us?"

However, I heard 157 tell himself: "Mom" has no tentacles, and she doesn't look similar to them.

After answering the question of the young body, 157 was unconsciously distracted for a moment, and a sudden thought flashed in his mind, "Mom" doesn't love me, is it because I don't look similar to her?

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The researchers are routinely observing the development of the hatchlings.

"It's okay to look at the data, but there are a few values that seem to be slightly lower."

"It seems that it is not as lively as the two days when it was just transferred to the incubator."

"However, according to past experimental records, it should be a normal situation."

After finishing today's test report, the researcher looked at the larva floating in the nutrition cabin: "However, it seems to open its eyes later than other experimental subjects when they were young."

When some people in the laboratory started working on the larvae, preparations for an experiment for 157 were already underway. After this experiment was over, it would be locked in the glass room in the third district.

"After all, if it grows bigger, it won't fit in the lab."

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157 doesn't know anything about "Mom" thinking of sending herself to District 3 anytime soon.

She doesn't follow Alyssa much anymore now that she has hatchlings who talk to her all day.Part of the reason is the larvae, and part of the reason is that after waking up during the chip installation process last time, 157 subconsciously wanted to avoid her.

When she was with "Mom", it seemed that love could only bring her pain forever.

Although 157 doesn't know whether there will be love that is not accompanied by pain, but now she has begun to be a little afraid of pain, and the "mother" who will smile and hold down her tentacles on the test bench.

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"I'll go out for a while." Alyssa, who was leaning against the door, told 157 inside the door. After opening the door, she subconsciously stayed at the door for a while.

But this time I used to know that when she was going out, she would wave her tentacles "ba da da da" and quickly ran to the door, trying to be coquettish and cute to let me take it.157 who released him after a while did not follow immediately.

Its tentacles shook the toy back and forth. When it heard Alyssa's voice, it turned its head and looked over. It stood there looking at her, but did not run towards her.

Alyssa waited for a while, and after confirming that 157 had no intention of running towards her, she glanced at her and held the doorknob, then closed the door when she left.

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Although I have always said in front of other colleagues that No. 157 is too clingy, and I also said that I hope it can stay in peace as an experimental subject, but suddenly now 157 is not so clingy to me, and Alyssa feels lost for a moment inexplicably..

"What's the matter?" Claire looked at her deeply touched expression and asked curiously.

"It's nothing." Alyssa recalled the scene when she went out, subconsciously sighed, and told Claire this again, "In the end, children will grow up, and they won't be so clingy when they grow up."And subconsciously thought, habit is indeed a terrible thing.

After hearing her words, Claire couldn't help laughing: "How can it be considered a child. Isn't there a little girl waiting in your family, she should already be able to say some short sentences and phrases?"

"Children are very forgetful. If I haven't seen you for a month or two, I might almost forget what you look like."

He looked at Alyssa next to him: "It will be the contact day in two days, have you thought about how to coax the children?"

"Of course." Alyssa laughed, and even her voice softened a few degrees when talking about her little daughter, "I've already finished reading a book of fairy tales, and I can choose the one she likes on the next contact day."The story was read to her."

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After the door was completely closed, the absent-minded 157 threw the toy on the ground, and the young creature next door vaguely felt her depression, and subconsciously wanted to cheer her up.

The young body originally wanted to share his happy things with her, but found that when he was happy, he was either related to his mother or chatting with 157.

And it also remembers that 157's "mother" doesn't like her, and it's because of "mother" that she is unhappy now.So after thinking for a while, I didn't think of what to say to her.

157 heard the hatchling calling himself twice, and then quieted down when he asked what was the matter. When 157 thought it was just calling him for nothing, he heard a long series of rhythmic "grunts" suddenly sounded from the next door.Grunt" sound.

157 was stunned for a moment when he heard this movement, and then he heard the voice of the young creature next door asking for credit: "I have been practicing for a long time, and 'Mom' is always very happy when I do this, do you like it?"

157 said: "I like it very much."

"It's fine if you like it." The young creature replied happily, and it couldn't help but yawned as it spoke. The strong sense of sleepiness was directly transmitted to No. 157 from the nutrition warehouse next door.

"Are you sleepy now?" 157 was a little strange.

"Yeah." The young creature muttered to 157, "I seem to be very tired these two days, but it's okay, as long as I sleep a little longer, I'll be fine when I wake up."

Just like what the hatchling said, it fell asleep almost as soon as it finished talking with 157.

157, who was unilaterally ended the conversation, was a little dazed, and subconsciously called it twice, but the hatchling, who was deeply asleep, didn't hear her voice at all, and still didn't wake up.

For some reason, 157 felt a little uneasy about this.

35 in the third district heard her calling the baby body, and when 157 was standing in the corner with his head down and his tentacles drooping, he said, "157, it doesn't have a number yet."

This is the second time that No. 35 mentioned the "number" to her, and 157 subconsciously asked: "Why does it have to be numbered? When will it get its own number."

"Do you want to be liked by 'Mom'?"

"It's after it comes out of the nutrition warehouse and survives successfully."

35 continued to explain to 157 who didn't seem to understand, and his tone sounded understated, as if this matter was extremely normal: "Because not all conscious experimental subjects can survive to leave the nutrition chamber successfully."

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And in the third district, the monitoring room has not seen much of 76 for several days.

Although 76 has spent most of his time on the tree since a while ago, he seldom appeared even for meals in the past two days. Every time, he quickly climbed down from the tree after the researcher finished feeding and left., and then went up with the food. In the surveillance, only a black figure could be seen flashing across the screen, and the details could hardly be seen clearly.

The scales on 76's body have become a bit gray, and the tail is covered with a layer of dust that 76 has rubbed up on purpose. From a little distance, it is difficult to distinguish whether the dimness of his tail is due to shedding skin or covered in a layer of dust.

76 and 77 don't understand whether the molt this time is due to entering adulthood.

However, the molting that was not in the past molting cycle is obviously not in line with the routine, representing an abnormal situation, and will be taken away by the "mother" for research after discovery, just like they used to try to thoroughly study every change in the experimental body.

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76, who is in the period of molting, is a bit lazy. Bringing food up the tree three times a day is almost all of his exercise. If it is not because he is worried that leaving the food there will attract the attention of "mother", 76 may evenNot even down the tree.

After 76 climbed up with the food, 77 was already waiting at the position of the open ceiling partition. He took the meat that 76 handed over, put it sideways, and then lowered his head to look at 76's tail.

After handing the meat to 77, 76 lay down on the tree, wrapped his tail around the branches, and stayed in the third district for a long time, enough for them to easily hide their bodies with the leaves.

76 raised his upper body slightly, and looked at 77 who was looking at him.

"Why don't you eat? Is it because you don't like it?" He cheered up and asked 77.

77 shook his head, 76 shedding his skin this time was much more difficult than it seemed before, although 76 told him that there would be no danger, but watching 76 maintain this state for the past two days, 77 still couldn't help worrying.

He tentatively protruded half of his body from the position of the partition, and got closer to 76: "I'm very worried about you."

While he was getting close to 76, smelling the smell of fresh meat, 77's stomach also started to growl.

After 76 showed lack of energy, 77 moved from his own glass room to the partition of 76's glass room. Most of the time, he stared at 76 every inch of his eyes.Much less.

"It's time for you to eat." 76 leaned closer to 77, he knew 77 loved to kiss, but because of the rewards they used to always come with pain, 77 seemed restrained most of the time.

76 approached 77 and left a kiss gently. Both he and 77 liked this kind of skin-to-skin contact with each other, but the kiss seemed to be completely different from other skin-to-skin contacts.

77 who was suddenly kissed by 76 was taken aback for a moment.

He rarely asks: "Can I get a kiss?" This kind of question is only asked when he feels that he can get a kiss at a special moment.

For example, bring 76's favorite meat from his own glass room, or sing to 76 a tune he learned from "Mom".

It's like an exchange.

After parting, 77 asked 76, "Why did you kiss me just now?"

76, who looked particularly lazy throughout the snake, thought about it, and said slowly, "It's a reward for you to eat seriously."

77 subconsciously glanced at the food piled up beside him, the food for himself and 76, but he obviously hadn't started eating yet.

Hearing his question, 76 seemed to be struggling for a while, and then said, "It's a reward for you to eat seriously next time."

77 glanced at him, and heard 76 urging in his tone: "After a while, the meat won't be fresh enough."

Probably because of the "reward", so this time 77 stopped after feeling full.

"I'm done eating." 77 approached 76, stretched out a hand to grab 76's hand, and pulled him to feel his full stomach.

He let go of 76's hand, approached him and asked tentatively: "Then can I still get a kiss at the end of serious eating?"

76 looked at him, 77 of course, he will never be rejected.kiss?"When it comes to this kind of question, he only asks this question when he feels that he can get a kiss at a special moment.