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Chapter 24 Octopus Hot Pot Soup
"Don't call me mom."
Yi Xing's brows still could not be relaxed.
What should I call her instead of "Mom"?
dad?Not right, not to mention that there is no such name in the language of the alien.
The little octopus hugged Yi Xing's fingers tightly, and there was anxiety in his small eyes.
Don't let it be called Huang... Does Huang not want it?
As a descendant of the emperor, it has a keen sense of the emperor's emotions. When it was still an embryo, it knew that the emperor did not look forward to its birth.
The emperor's expectation will affect the evolution direction of the offspring.
If the emperor needs protection, the descendants will evolve into powerful guards.
If the emperor needs a nest, the offspring will evolve into workers who are good at digging and building.
...
But Huang didn't have any expectations for him, and it didn't even know which direction it should evolve in the embryonic stage, until it heard Huang's strong mental fluctuations.
The emperor is hungry, the emperor needs food.
It wants to bring food back to Huang and feed him.
The little octopus moved its body and crawled into Yi Xing's palm.
Yi Xing was thinking about how to change the name "Little Octopus" to him, when he felt the palm of his hand go cold and then hot, and something round fell on his hand.
He looked down, and saw a white jelly-like bead appeared under the tentacles of the little octopus.
For a moment, he thought the little octopus had laid eggs.
The little octopus jumped off the bead thing, lifted it high with its tentacles, and tried to send it to Yi Xing.
"Huang, eat."
Yi Xing picked up the ball which was not much bigger than a marble.
Beads smell delicious, an appetizing food scent.
This is a pure energy condensate.
Unlike ordinary food that needs to be digested to provide energy, such a condensate is the energy itself, and you will be full immediately after eating.
"Where did you get this?" Just as Yi Xing asked, another bead touched his palm.
"I spit it out." The little octopus raised its two tentacles, so that Yi Xing could see the energy beads falling from the mouth where the tentacles and head were connected.
It held up the newly appeared beads to Yi Xing, "Huang, eat."
Yi Xing was silent.
He realized that the evolution direction of this little guy is a nurturer.
The responsibility of the breeder is to take care of the alien embryos and feed the alien emperors who have lost their hunting ability or cannot leave the nest to hunt due to various reasons.
"How did you become a nurturer?" Yi Xing couldn't figure it out.
He has no embryos to be taken care of by the other party, and he is not broken and unable to hunt by himself, let alone staying in the nest for a long time to create alien legions.
Oh, he doesn't even have a lair of his own.
Why did this little guy evolve into a nurse?
"The emperor is hungry, I want to raise the emperor."
The little octopus tried its best to push the energy beads forward, but its tentacles were too short, no matter how high it was held, it seemed to be on top of its head.
Two jelly-like beads, one white and one red, are stacked together, making people want to put them in a cup, pour in powdered sugar and shake.
Just do what you want, Yi Xing took the energy bead, rationality prevented him from picking up the little octopus as well.
Take out a glass from the cupboard. If there is no powdered sugar, use caster sugar instead. Put energy beads in and shake the glass.
Using a fork, he picked up an energy bead wrapped in sugar and put it into his mouth. Yi Xing felt the energy bead melt instantly, and the abundant energy flowed through his whole body.
Although it is a bit too sweet, it feels full, like eating a sea monster arm in one go.
Kraken arms?
Yi Xing moved his eyes down, looking at the tentacles of the little octopus.
Six are long, two are short, and the tentacles are all there.
But he still returned the remaining energy bead to the other party.
"Emperor?" The little octopus looked at the energy beads on the tip of the fork in puzzlement.
"Eat it, even if you want to raise me, wait until you become stronger." Yi Xing lowered the spoon a little, and put it at a height that the octopus's small tentacles could reach.
Does the emperor think it is too weak?
The little octopus took the energy beads, "I will become stronger and make more food for the emperor!"
Very good, cubs should have the ambition to work hard.
Yi Xing watched it eat the energy beads, and was about to leave when he suddenly remembered something, there is no fish tank at home, where should he raise this little guy?
"..."
Yi Xing's gaze fell on the vegetable sink filled with water.
He won't be cooking for a while, so he won't be using the vegetable sink. It's a waste if it's empty, so it's better to use it to raise fish.
He picked up the little octopus and put it into the water, "You can live here. There is a faucet next to it, and the drainer is covered at the bottom, so it is very convenient to add and change water.
The little octopus swam to the edge of the vegetable sink, and the little tentacles scrambled onto the counter, and watched Yi Xing leave the kitchen with his round head raised.
It wasn't until Yi Xing's back was out of sight that the little octopus looked away, turned around and swam happily in the vegetable sink.
The emperor allocated this part of the lair to it as a nest!
It needs to arrange its nest well.
What arrangement do you use...
When the little octopus saw the neatly arranged bottles and jars on the spice rack, it immediately crawled over.
There are powders of different colors in the transparent jar, white, yellow, red, and some small fruits and bark-like things of different colors.
"so beautiful!"
The little octopus lifted the jar containing the red powder, ran to the vegetable sink, poured all the powder down, and then returned to the shelf to get other small jars, transporting them back and forth tirelessly.
Yi Xing didn't pay attention to the small noises coming from the kitchen.
With one more fish to live with, some voices outside of oneself are normal.
After staying in the dungeon for several days, Yi Xing missed the vegetables he grew, so he went to the balcony first.
The shallots are growing well, and the tender green seedlings grow against the light, and after a few days they can be pinched and used for cooking.
The little blue at the bottom of the seedling caught Yi Xing's attention. He pushed aside the green onion seedling and saw a small mushroom protruding from the soil.
"It finally grew out, but it's a little small and looks malnourished. I don't know if it will survive."
Yi Xing muttered, reaching out to grab the air.
A black passage the size of a fist appeared out of thin air. Yi Xing reached in and took out several tubes of medicine.
He glanced at the label on the potion, left a few tubes of potion related to healing, opened the soft bag on the top, and poured all of them on the mushroom.
"I hope you can mature as soon as possible." Yi Xing said.
Most of the mushrooms huddled in the soil were motionless, as if they were just ordinary fungi.
Yi Xing got up and yawned.
It is easy to get sleepy when you are full.
He turned away from the balcony and into the bedroom.
In the flowerpot, the emerald green liquid medicine gradually penetrated into the mushrooms.
Mushrooms push away from the soil and grow taller until they are level with shallots.
It opened the cap and squeezed the young green onion leaves next to it, and a stick figure-like face appeared on the top of the cap.
"Where is this?"
The mushroom turned its cap, and the eyes consisting of two circles and two dots moved accordingly.
Finally, it looked at the clothes hanging on the drying rack.
"That dress is... Taotie!"
The oval cap of the mushroom suddenly swells and almost bulges into a spherical shape.
"Okay, okay, it's such a coincidence, it's time to take revenge for the original destruction.
"Let me exchange a few drops of potion, I will make your life worse than death."
A few drops of red liquid appeared out of nowhere and dripped onto the mushroom cap, staining it red.
The mushroom stretched its cap again, and one by one glowing red spores floated out.
late at night.
Downstairs in the community.
A man in a yellow delivery uniform looked up at a dark window.
"Tao Tie, Room 03, Floor 33, Building 33, Sea City Food District."
The hoarse voice fell, and his figure flashed and disappeared in place.
In the kitchen, a small octopus with an anise on its head slowly popped out of the pool water like a hot pot soup.
On the balcony, the mushrooms next to the onion seedlings shook their caps cheerfully, scattering spores one after another.