Tang Rou took bites one by one. She didn't know why, but she felt that the taste was okay.
The young man smiled happily.
The owner seems to be no longer picky about food.
She couldn't help but ask, "Where did you get it from?"
Alphinaud looked innocent and said, "This is it."
The way he blinked seemed to say, can't this be taken out easily?
Tang Rou understood, he probably took it from the real world.
Can it still be like this?
But as she chewed it, she felt bitter again.
The movement is getting slower and slower.
Aslan came over and said, "If you don't like it, you can give it to someone in need. Don't waste it."
Tang Rou broke off half of it and gave it to her.
Alphinaud frowned.
The owner is picky about food again!
She looked a little pitiful, "Can you find anything else?"
The young man thought for a while, then suddenly lowered his eyelashes, tightened and loosened his thin lips, and said shyly, "Rou, you can eat me..."
He can contribute his tentacles to the female, which will not only supplement nutrients, but also leave nutrients to the offspring if she wants to reproduce at this time.
Tang Rou had an intuition that he wouldn't be thinking about anything normal, and the word "eat him" sounded a bit excessive.
She shook the biscuit in her hand, "This kind of packaged thing."
Alphinaud woke up.
He showed an obvious look of disappointment.
But he still followed the instructions and tore something invisible to Tang Rou, stretched out his tentacles, and quickly grabbed a packaging bag.
Tang Rou suddenly wondered, could the alien creatures in the deep sea be the subjects of the illusion and come and go freely?
How else to explain his relaxed and casual movements? And his sense of leisure that seems to understand everything?
I tore open the package and found that they were gluten chips, which were quite nutritious, but...
Tang Rou handed it back, "I don't eat gluten."
Alphinaud dug again and handed something over.
There is even fruit?
It’s like the treasure pocket of a cartoon!
Tang Rou was curious, "Is there more?"
As soon as the young man nodded, he saw her move closer to see his movements. The distance got closer and he lowered his head to look at her.
Clear breathing, soft body, gentle skin.
The dark green tentacles wrapped around the back of her waist at some point, as if they were resisting the urge to imprison her.
Alphinaud's eyes had a faint blue halo, and he obediently took out some more things, and more and more packaging bags piled up.
Tang Rou was surprised. She kept her stomach open and tasted some of it.
Why haven't these things tasted so delicious before?
Lin Li also came over and threw away the algae in his hand, "Can you share some with me?"
Tang Rou gave Lin Li a few bags of food she didn't like.
Lin Li tore one of them open, almost bursting into tears, "I know this, I buy it often, it's delicious."
He said regretfully, "I bought a few packs in the service area, but I don't know who opened them."
Aslan answered, "Yes, but whoever was so vicious in that shabby hotel destroyed all the food. If the food hadn't been gone, I wouldn't have gone to such a small city to replenish supplies temporarily."
Tang Rou followed.
"Yes, otherwise I wouldn't have entered the illusion."
"..."
The three people suddenly fell into silence.
She looked down at the packaging bags at hand and opened a lot of them.
Because Tang Rou was a picky eater, she only ate two bites. The apple was too sour and only left a tooth mark.
Atherlan and Linli also tore apart a lot of food. They were hungry for a long time and wanted to eat everything.
Seeing that none of them had eaten, Alphinaud stuffed the torn bag back into the hallucination.
Lin Li put down what he was holding.
After a long time, he just said, "That's why I said I want to quit the special biological research group."
In what appears to be an era of rapid innovation, basic science has stagnated for more than a century, and today's technological innovations are still based on scientific theories from hundreds of years ago.
Human beings have not even broken through the death limit caused by time, so they want to conquer everything as a master. It is... too naive.
How could one guess such an existence?
So, why did they come here in the first place?
Alphinaud stood behind Tang Rou, with several seemingly harmless dark green tentacles entangled around her side, like open spider webs. He was as quiet as a backdrop, but had a strong sense of presence.
It gave her a slight chill down her back.
Tang Rou is indeed not picky about food anymore.
Tang Rou thought of a lot at once.
She thought of the diary under the hotel floor that "Little Octopus" led her to find.
Thinking of the poisonous mushrooms he picked when he wasn't eating.
He even thought about Alphinaud playing with his mobile phone just after getting in the car, and after playing with it, hers ran out of battery, and then went to get someone else's.
Whose cell phone did he take at that time?
Tang Rou asked Lin Li, "In the car we took in the beginning, are the logistics personnel in the car one of yours?"
Lin Li nodded, "Yes, he is responsible for delivering information to the research team and monitoring your movements."
Tang Rou was completely stunned.
"Where are they now?"
"Dead. Except for you and Engineer Aslan, I don't see any colleagues who are still alive."
Tang Rou finally thought of the ridiculous reason she had never dared to think of, and turned to the young man behind her with a stiff neck.
Because it is so absurd that it is unbelievable.
"Alfino, do you know?"
The other person tilted his head, waiting for her next words.
"You know they're watching us?"
After I said it, the blood flow in my hands and feet slowed down, and I felt colder every inch.
Then I heard his pleasant and almost indifferent voice, "I know, I saw it all."
He knows it all.
Those people were secretly observing him and secretly filming him and Rou.
He knows it all.
Tang Rou has always viewed Alphinaud with the mentality of a breeder, and Atherland has long told her that this is wrong.
It is wrong for her to use human thinking to look at a mysterious alien creature.
Alphinaud's emotional intelligence is indeed not high. He is a mutant. So far, no homologous DNA heresy has been found.
Humans claim to be the most intelligent species on earth, but they are unable to decipher the past and the future. Octopuses have extremely strong prediction capabilities, as if they can predict the future. They even have nine brains and can edit their own genes.
If they were not restricted by living alone and dying quickly after reproduction, perhaps they would have evolved a more advanced civilization.
It is more appropriate to describe Alphinaud as simple.
As early as when he entered the box car on Huanhai Road, he discovered that those people were sending messages. Even though there were words he did not understand, he discovered many things about the owner.
Even took a picture of her.
His learning ability is very fast, and he can still understand simple things.
So he not only has to solve the problem of picky eaters, but also the people who are an eyesore.
But the most important thing is the problem of the owners being picky eaters, which has now been perfectly solved.
Alphinaud said what he wanted to tell her when he was left at sea by his owner.
"No, you protect me."
He raised his hand and wiped away the juice from the corner of her mouth very gently.