Love does not envy, does not exaggerate, is not arrogant, does not do anything rude, does not seek its own, is not angry, does not seek evil, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
Bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things.
——"1 Corinthians" 13:4-7
A few minutes later, Elaine and his group came out of the mall.
The little ghosts were wearing new clothes, holding the lion, wolf, and white bear plush dolls that Elaine bought for them in one hand, and licking the lollipops in the other hand, looking satisfied.
This time, not only did Queeg show an old fatherly smile, but Daniel also showed a similar weird smile, which made Elaine very uncomfortable.
"Where are you going next, big brother?" Bailey asked, following closely beside Elaine.
"Go, go find a friend of mine." Elaine said. It's almost time to take Bailey to see the black cat (Charlotte). After Elaine entrusts Bailey to the black cat, it's time to talk to the child
We said goodbye and headed to Greenland.
Although parting is sad, there is nothing we can do about it. We can't take Bailey and other children to a place full of death traps like Atlantis. Elaine doesn't even plan to take Queeg there, she only plans to be alone.
It would be even more impossible to take Bailey with him if he entered a place of death.
The biggest question is how to say goodbye to Bailey. If he explains everything to the child, Bailey will definitely not let Elaine die. If he leaves the child alone, Bailey will definitely cry and make trouble. He is clumsy.
Elaine couldn't think of a way to say goodbye to Bailey. She couldn't think of any useful words or a way to deal with Bailey's crying. This time the farewell was definitely going to be a mess.
Just when he was wondering, the phone in his trouser pocket rang.
"Hello, hello?" Elaine didn't look at the calling number and answered the phone without thinking: "Who is it?"
"It's me." The voice of the Amazon female warrior Shana came from the microphone.
"I completed an examination at the hospital and it was confirmed that I am in good health and ready to have a baby." She said without emotion: "You want something from me, right?"
"Oh, then, that matter..." Elaine really wanted Shana's help, but walking on the street with a group of children behind him, it was not convenient for him to say this now: "I, I am outside and it is not convenient to talk on the phone. Reply
, can I call you later?"
"Of course." Shana called Elaine as a joke: "Don't keep me waiting too long, tiger."
"Yes, it's a lion..." Elaine wondered.
With a burst of laughter, Shanalot hung up the phone.
"Who is big brother talking to on the phone? Your friend?" asked Bailey the little fox.
"No, no, someone else." Elaine said. The next transaction he planned to make with Shana involved some embarrassing things, so he did not intend to explain it to Bailey in detail.
"Big Brother's face is red. Is that the person you like?"
"That's right, that's not true." Elaine quickly denied.
He didn't realize that he was blushing, just when Shana frivolously called him "macho". Are all Amazon female warriors such frivolous women? They go everywhere... to catch men? To have children? But she looks like
Quite decent, but frivolous is just frivolous towards Elaine, as if he has fallen in love with Elaine from the beginning...
"Hey hey hey." The little fox covered his mouth and smiled, not knowing what bad idea he was planning.
"What, what's wrong?" the white lion boy asked in confusion.
"I just think it would be great if the eldest brother could have a girlfriend." Bailey smiled, "It would be too unsightly to see a group of men hanging around on the boat or in the hotel. The eldest brother still hopes to have a girlfriend to take care of you."
, isn’t it?”
"Nonsense, nonsense." Elaine snorted. This kid Bailey is really a brat.
While they were talking, Elaine also arrived at her destination - the shop run by Black Cat (Charlotte) and her friends, the "Goth Cafe".
"Eh, here??" Daniel let out a strange groan.
"What, what's wrong?"
"No, isn't this Black Cat Sister's..." the Silver Knight boy continued to groan, but still walked into the store with everyone.
"Welcome!" The black cat obviously did not recognize Elaine in the white lion transformation, but he recognized Daniel at a glance: "Ah, Daniel! Are you bringing your friends over for coffee?"
"Uh, actually——"
"Okay, long time no see, Black Cat." Elaine said before Daniel could say, "Yes, it's me, Elaine."
"Eh...huh?" Black Cat saw the appearance of the white lion boy and suddenly exclaimed: "Wait, you...are you really little Elaine? How did you become like this??"
Then she had an expression of disbelief and began to rub Elaine's lion face with both hands: "Oh, awesome, is this a newly learned transformation? Constantine didn't even mention it to me. It's great.
Well, it’s rare for you to get a handsome face, even by human standards——"
"No, stop rubbing it," Elaine said with a wry smile: "You, don't you need to take care of business..."
"Oh, sorry, I almost forgot." Black Cat then let go of Elaine: "What do you want to eat? You sit down first, I will get you some drinks."
She turned her attention to the three children again: "Is orange juice okay? Don't drink coffee for children."
"Is soda okay?" Pierre said with a cheeky smile: "If it's okay, I'd like to drink Photon Coke!"
"Ah, I just got that one from Egypt and it's still chilled. If you don't mind that it's still warm, I'll give you a drink."
"Yeah!"
"And Daniel -" Black Cat turned to look at the Silver Knight boy: "You don't work part-time here, and the store is short of manpower. Have you considered coming back to help?"
"Sorry, Sister Black Cat, the Knights are still too busy with work for the time being..." Daniel said with a bitter smile.
"What a heartless man he is. Will he fly away as soon as his wings are full?" Black Cat said jokingly, and walked into the backstage kitchen of the coffee shop to prepare drinks for everyone.
It was still very early in the morning, and although there were already customers with severe coffee poisoning who came to visit the coffee shop early in the morning, there were only five or six scattered customers in the shop, which was less than Elaine and her group combined.
Moreover, these guests didn't seem to like Elaine's noise and showed disgusted expressions. Elaine quickly took everyone to sit down in a corner of the coffee shop, not wanting to affect Black Cat's business.
"You, do you know Black Cat?" he asked Daniel as soon as he sat down.
"I used to work here." Daniel answered truthfully: "When I was a trainee knight and I was short of money."
"Okay, okay." Elaine thought to herself, the world is really small. But this also helped him a lot. If Daniel had known the black cat from the beginning and entrusted the three children to the care of the black cat and Daniel, then
It couldn't be better. Even if the black cat can't take care of him, Daniel is still here.
As soon as he sat down, he took out his mobile phone and planned to contact Shana. Black Cat came over with a few drinks and placed a cup of latte coffee mixed with a lot of fresh milk in front of Elaine: "Are you still afraid of bitterness now? Black coffee is not
I force you to drink it. If you are still afraid of the bitterness, there are sugar cubes here."
Gothic cafes seem to be famous for providing pure and bitter black coffee. People who come here to drink coffee are all dressed in strange clothes and are dark and gloomy. It seems to be based on some special Gothic culture, which is said to be a kind of
An extension of music culture. The group of "white" people on Elaine's side are in sharp contrast to the "black" people opposite. They are perhaps the most alien existence in the entire cafe.
"Thank you, thank you, but no need." Elaine replied, he couldn't taste it anyway. He secretly used the magic fire to absorb the photons in the drink, then picked up the cup in one hand and the phone in the other.
He left and told the children: "I, I will go out and make a phone call. You should behave."
"Okay!" "Yes!" "No problem!" the children agreed in unison.
"Shh! Keep your voice down." The black cat couldn't laugh or cry: "Don't disturb other guests."
Elaine shook his head depressedly and walked out of the coffee shop. After taking a sip of coffee, he called Shana.
"Hello, Miss Shana. Let's continue our previous discussion."
"Of course, macho." Shana teased Elaine again: "What do you want?"
"I -" Elaine pondered for a while before starting to say: "No, it won't take long before I die. I will break into a very, very dangerous place. It is very likely that I will die in battle, or be, sealed in
There is a thousand years inside. No, no matter what, I will never have the chance to come back. So, before I die, I want to leave... stay... leave my [seed]."
He had never felt so ashamed when he said these words to Fantine before. That was because (he thought) Fantine was a prostitute, and it was not that shameful to say these things to a prostitute. But Xana was a serious and good-natured woman, and she treated Xana immediately.
Wouldn't it be a bit rude to talk about this kind of thing?
"You want me to help you give birth to the baby." Shana said clearly.
"Yes, I'm sorry..." Elaine's whole lion seemed to shrink in size: "Isn't this request a bit too much?"
"No. Not at all." The Amazon female warrior was very tolerant: "Relax, macho man. I will talk to you because I have taken a fancy to the excellent genetic factors in your body. The Amazon female warrior's intuition is very accurate, especially...
, when I was looking at the man. When I met you, you were still stained with the smell of your genetic material, and I judged it from that smell. You are definitely an excellent person, I can say that."
Elaine's face turned red. When she was doing a paternity test in the hospital, and when she was providing body fluid samples, he was so clumsy that it was all over the place, and some of it might even be on her pants. As expected, Shana still smelled the smell.
Is it there? But she didn’t hate Elaine because of it. Instead, she developed a liking for Elaine because of the smell, which was also...bizarre.
"Let's get straight to the point." Shana continued: "I gave birth to children twice, and both children were boys. But the ultimate goal of us Amazon female warriors in having children is to give birth to girls and inherit our female warrior status.
I will not give up until I achieve this goal. No matter how many times I try, I will find another man [to borrow seed]. You want me to help you have a baby, and I also want to borrow your [seed]. There is only one relationship between us.
I don’t think there is any problem when conducting a transaction. So you don’t have to worry too much.”
"Yeah, yeah." Elaine replied vaguely. Listening to Shana's description, the white lion boy was already sweating profusely.
"But there is one thing, I will never give in." The Amazon female warrior said again: "If the child is born a boy, you can take the child back, whatever you want. But if the child is born a girl,
The child belongs to me, and she is my heir. You will never see this daughter again, and you can never tell her that you are her father. Is this okay?"
"Jane, it's just like gambling..." Elaine said deliberately.
"It's just gambling." Xia Na said: "Everyone has a half chance of winning the bet, right? But even if you lose the bet, you won't lose. Your [breed] can be passed on. She will carry your genetic factors with her."
Become a great Amazon. This should be a win-win situation, right?"
However, Shanalot didn't know that Elaine's current constitution was to win every bet. Or perhaps it was Leoport's constitution that he was sure to win every bet, and Elaine just inherited this constitution. Any bet.
Gambling, regardless of the form, as long as it is established as gambling and both parties are involved in a relationship of interest, Elaine is 100% certain to win the bet.
In other words, the child Shana will give birth to in the future will definitely be a boy, a little boy from the lion tribe. The moment she admitted that this was a "gamble", the result was already determined.
This seemed a bit sorry for Shana Lott, and made it seem as if Elaine was deliberately deceiving Shana. But Elaine had no better choice, and he had no choice but to do so.
"For example, what if they are twins, or even twins?" the white lion boy asked.
"You don't have to worry about this... There seems to be no example of Amazon female warriors giving birth to twins in history. There have been twins, but they are usually twin boys, not twin girls. I don't know the specific situation. They should be giants.
The genes of the family are influencing."
"Giant, giant clan...?"
"Well, you don't know yet. Wait, isn't this something that outsiders can't know? Let me think about it..."
There was silence on the other end of the phone for a long time before Shana finally explained: "Half of the Amazon female warrior's body is human genes, and the other half is from the giant race. It seems to be said like this."
"Really, really?!"
"During the [Dragon Slaying War] five thousand years ago, the human coalition fought against the dragons, and they were at an absolute disadvantage at the beginning. In order to defeat the dragons, they carried out many [racial fusion experiments]. Some of them combined human factors and
The [Dragon Hunter Clan] was created by blending the dragon clan, and the [Amazon female warrior] was created by blending human elements with the giant clan.
And in order to maintain the purity of the half of the giant genes in the body, no matter who the Amazon female warrior marries with, she will always keep the girl she gives birth to as her heir. If the baby is a boy, it seems that the giant will be
The purity of genes is affected, so boys born will be abandoned."
Elaine frowned.
"Let's not mention this." Shana asked again: "Anyway, prepare for the worst first. If a boy is born, that is, your son, where should I send him to take care of him? If you are no longer here, I will
Send that child to an orphanage?"
"No, it's not." Elaine said hurriedly: "Hang on, I will give you an address later. Well... the address of the headquarters of the Sphinx Consortium in Egypt. For example, if you give birth to a boy, send the child to
Go wherever you go. File a complaint and tell the person in charge there that this child is Leoport's son. They will know what to do."
"I understand. He is the eldest son of a rich family." Shana joked.
"No, it's not." Elaine smiled bitterly and blushed even more: "I, when will we meet to... finish... this matter?"
"My maternity leave is not over yet, and I have a lot of free time now. I will send you my address, and you can come to me at any time." Shana said, as if she had been ready for it.
"Also, there is one more thing." The white lion boy whispered: "You, do you care? I, maybe I can only hold on for ten minutes...or less. I may, let you down."
"You will find that my tolerance is actually very high, macho." The Amazon female warrior said with a smile: "Whether you take ten minutes, five minutes, or even five seconds, I have no complaints. I don't do this for enjoyment.
It’s to complete the task. You are the same way, right?"
"Hmm." Elaine snorted.
Are both parties doing it just to "complete the mission"? This is really just a cold transaction, but it can't be done without it. This would be too... lonely.