Chapter 36 The Innocent Fool

The system feels that no matter how much it upgrades and iterates, it will probably never be able to understand the complex emotions and brain circuits of human beings.

"What do you mean?" It asked incredulously, "but Lu Xing clearly agreed to it-" Halfway through the sentence, the system stopped abruptly, and the system was quiet for a while, and asked: "So, he was lying to you before? "

"Yeah," Lin Xiaodong said, "obvious thing."

The system called up its screen recording and read it again, but I really didn't find anything obvious.

Could it be that all the humans it knows are masters of micro-expressions?

"The micro-expression is not enough," Lin Xiaodong smiled, "Lu Xing's words can be said to be impeccable. I found it from the unwilling expression on the man's face when he scolded the researcher. As he said himself, only It's only for one night, there's no need to take the risk of contradicting the boss and keep me, but the researcher still spoke up, which proves that my departure is likely to be more than one night."

Also, he thought, when Lu Xing looked at him just now, the young man's expression shook.

Although only for a moment.

But at that moment, when he heard himself say "trust him", Lu Xing was indeed touched by this sentence.

System: "Then he's not just an actor, he's also a liar and scum."

Anyone with a little conscience would not have the heart to leave Lin Xiaodong alone in this place surrounded by wolves and leopards, not to mention Lu promised to take him back before he woke up.

"I want to know now what kind of excuse he will find to leave later." Lin Xiaodong said lazily.

It just so happened that he was tired of the castle, and Lu Xing helped him open the new map just to his liking.

However, in the end, the little mermaid only got a murmur of "I'm sorry".

After the banquet, Lu Xing looked at the backs of the attendants who took Yun Duo away, the panic on the little mermaid's face, and the disbelief and heartbreak after being betrayed, and watched them go all the way calmly.

He stood there for a long time before turning away silently.

Lin Xiaodong was taken into an empty hall.

He looked up and saw at a glance the huge decorative wall nearly ten meters high and thirty meters wide.

The wall is made of white jade, and the decorations on it are hundreds of mermaids with their eyes closed and their faces pale and stiff. They refused to sing for the nobles when they were alive, and after they died, they were made into specimens and stayed here forever.

It is both an insult and an outrage.

The little mermaid stared at them blankly, tears falling from her eyes.

"If you're not obedient, these mermaids will be your fate in the future." The old king's hoarse voice came from behind him. With the help of his attendants, he walked towards this side step by step with a scepter, "I advise you to do better. Don't be too delusional, Lu Xing has already given you to me."

But the little mermaid just wiped away her tears and stared at him fiercely, pursing her lips and saying nothing.

"It's so beautiful." As expected of father and son, they are in the same line in terms of idiocy. The old king stared at his young and fair face in a trance, stretched out his hand with a greedy mood, and wanted to touch Lin Xiaodong, but was blocked by the shield again.

"Squire!" he growled, "why haven't you dealt with this yet?"

The attendant said tremblingly: "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but, but His Royal Highness insisted not to tell us the password, we have no choice."

"Then why even the count can touch him!?"

"Because, because at that time, in order to feed the mermaid, His Highness took the initiative to remove the barrier..."

"Trash!" The old king kicked over, but the attendant didn't dare to resist, so he could only take the kick with his teeth. Lin Xiaodong stared at this scene coldly, and once again sighed at the resemblance of the father and son.

But the system suddenly said: "You have to be careful, I tested it just now, and he has been parasitized by brain worms."

"What?" Lin Xiaodong was taken aback, "Who are you talking about?"

"Both."

Lin Xiaodong took a closer look, and sure enough, the old king's eyes were full of manic bloodshots, and he muttered cursing words indifferently. At first glance, his mental state was abnormal; The attendant, although seemingly docile on the surface, is obviously trying to endure, and it is estimated that it will develop to the mid-term in a while.

"But when we came in, wasn't there a detection door for the boss at the door?" he wondered, "These nobles are more afraid of death than anyone else, how could they all be parasitized?"

Lin Xiaodong has a system to stand by, of course, he is not afraid of brain worms. Besides, mermaids are the nemesis of brain worms. But you must know, what kind of concept is it that even the king of a country is parasitized?

With the terrifying spread of brain worms, basically, everyone at this banquet tonight can't escape!

"It's really weird," the system also admitted, "brain worms can only parasitize living creatures, so everyone must pass through the inspection door before entering the palace, whether it's servants, nobles or creatures they brought from other planets, Apart from--"

"Except for the most noble ones." Lin Xiaodong was stunned.

The old king and Lu Xing, they naturally don't need to be tested.

Because the palace is their home, even though Lu Xing has moved out of the palace now, the ceremonies on the bright side should be in place when dealing with the prince. For the most distinguished people in the entire empire, it is a very rude move to test this matter in public.

"The old king is definitely impossible, so," Lin Xiaodong said to himself, "Parasite No. 0 is actually Lu Xing?"

Did he know he was being parasitized?

No, he must have known. Lin Xiaodong remembered the young man's waning body and his recent dazzling performance, and the more he thought about it, the more he was terrified--Is it possible that Lu Xing had to bring himself to this banquet in order to let the brain worm spread widely in the upper class society, causing An effect of "cultivating Gu"?

Just when Lin Xiaodong was thinking about what he wanted to do, the old king had stopped beating and scolding. He was old after all, panting and staring at the servant who was lying on the ground. Although he still wanted to vent, he had more than enough energy and could only spit angrily: "Go away!"

He walked back and forth irritably in place for two laps, and suddenly shouted outside: "Someone! Call me the queen!"

Queen?

Lin Xiaodong blinked. To be honest, if the old king hadn't mentioned it today, he would have almost forgotten that the empire still has a queen.

Not only is this poor presence on the star network, but Lu Xing never mentioned a single word about his mother before, and he didn't attend tonight's banquet at all... It's as if this person doesn't exist in the world at all.

A few minutes later, a woman in a long plain dress walked in from outside the hall.

She was tall and thin, especially her neck, which was almost twice as long as the old king. You can see the beauty of a woman when she was young from the contours of her eyebrows and eyes, but now she only gives people a tired and haggard feeling, her half-closed eyes seem not interested in everything that happens in this world, even rush The old king's salute was also indifferent: "Your Majesty."

The old king pointed at her and scolded: "Look at the good son you taught! Now that his wings are hard, he knows that he is against me all day long. I am the lord of the empire, and it is not his turn!"

"Yes, Your Majesty," the queen said with her eyes lowered, "you are our king."

The old king scolded a few more words, but the queen seemed to be neither salty nor bland. He probably thought it was boring, so he waved his hand in disgust and said, "Forget it, you take this mermaid away within three days. , if I can't hear the mermaid's singing, then I'll give up the way to wake up this prince, and you go to the wild planet with him!"

"As ordered."

The queen straightened up and stretched out her hand to hold the cloud. She glanced at the little mermaid sitting on it. She did not see the surprise of the mermaid, nor the greed of other nobles, as if she only saw a cloud of transparent air.

But Lin Xiaodong felt inexplicably that this queen was likely to become an important breakthrough point for his next mission.

On the way back to the Queen's dormitory, for some reason, he always felt like he was being spied on.

But when he looked behind him, the corridor was empty again.

The entire palace covers an area of ​​one million square meters, and the building area accounts for a quarter of it. If it weren't for the advanced technology in the interstellar era, it would have taken half a day to walk from the main hall to the bedroom.

The queen returned to the bedroom, waved away the attendants, took out a small bottle of medicine from under the pillow, poured out two pills, swallowed one pill by herself, and handed the other pill to the little mermaid who was nervously huddled on the cloud, very serious asked, "Do you want it?"

Lin Xiaodong: "Tong, what is this?"

System: "□□."

Lin Xiaodong: ? ? ?

He looked up at the woman in front of him in disbelief, thinking what was wrong with this family?

The old king is crazy, his son is crazy, and there is a queen who is slow to commit suicide/suicide in the harem... No wonder the military wants to rebel/revolt, and let such a group of people lead the country, what would it be like?

The little mermaid shook her head nervously, hugged her big tail and backed away. Seeing this, the queen didn't force him, but just put the medicine back, and tightened the bottle cap and stuffed it back to the bottom of the bed.

"Little one," she said, "it's late, get some rest early."

After the lights were turned off, the bedroom was dark, and in the darkness, the little mermaid's voice with a little trembling came: "Are you Lu Xing's mother?"

Hearing her son's name, the queen was silent for a moment, then gave a soft "um".

"But I'd rather have never had this son," she said.

"......why?"

"Because he is the same as his father," the queen's voice took on a hint of difficulty, "both are a true devil."

After speaking, as if she could not bear it, she took a deep breath, barely calmed down her emotions, and said coldly, "Okay, no matter what you want to know, I have nothing to say."

The woman turned over, lay on the bed with her back to him, and didn't speak again all night.

The bleak moonlight was reflected in the empty bedroom through the window lattice. Lin Xiaodong silently watched the emaciated back of the queen. After a while, he also closed his eyes.

*

Sagittarius, on a barren and lifeless planet.

The starship has been staying here for nearly a week. The adjutant stood in front of the closed door of the torture room, and there was a thick black in his eyes.

Since Gu Xi entered, he has not closed his eyes for three days and three nights, and has been guarding the door.

Some of the troops outside had already been flustered, and the heads of each regiment had come to him and asked the adjutant to give an exact statement about whether they wanted to give up Lieutenant General Gu.

The reason for everything starts from the battle ten days ago.

In the face of a devastating blow, the female worm created an unprecedented vortex of spiritual power at the juncture of life and death, and the target was naturally the leader Gu Xi's team.

When the adjutants completed the annihilation mission of their own division and rushed to the star field, they found that the entire team had been wiped out, and the only surviving Gu Xi was detected to have a faint strange life in his mind. Activity--

That's right, the man is parasitized by a brain worm.

A few days later, Gu Xisu woke up, did not show any strangeness, was conscious and had normal thinking.

But the instrument doesn't lie, and the cerebral worm is indeed still active in his brain.

It even began to evolve gradually, eating away at his spiritual power day after day, until one day it was fully resurrected and turned into a new female worm.

Only then did the adjutants know that the female worm can never be truly eliminated.

Because, all brain worms have the potential to evolve into female worms.

Therefore, in order to control the activities of the new female worm, they did not kill Gu Xi immediately.

But if the day comes when it is fully resurrected, then all the sacrifices they made in this battle will be in vain.

"I'm a good sample," Gu Xi himself was very calm after learning the news, "put me in the torture room for observation for a while, if anything goes wrong, don't hesitate to release the poison gas immediately."

And the last words the man said to the adjutant was "Help me take care of him".

Who he was, they both knew very well.

For the past three days, the helpless adjutant had to turn on the radio in the torture room, playing the little mermaid's pre-recorded song over and over again.

He has never been so grateful to Lin Xiaodong for his foresight. The mermaid's singing suppressed the recovery of the female worm to the greatest extent, and it also won Gu Xi precious time to wake up.

During this period, the female worms will accumulate energy and stop moving; but at the same time, losing contact with the female worms, the brain worms scattered on various planets in the universe will become extremely violent, speeding up the absorption of the parasite's spiritual power, Even the parasitized host is affected.

Worst of all, the adjutant thought worriedly, the effect was unknown at the moment.

Their contact with the Central Star was forcibly cut off half a month ago, and all the news could not be conveyed back. The adjutant does not know what the situation of the Central Star is now. The mother bug is enough for him. Burnt out.

He leaned against the door of the torture room and sighed wearily.

And in the closed room behind him, the man lying in the corner opened his eyes silently.

There is a photo next to his pillow, which is the moment when the little mermaid looks at the camera with a small dried fish in its mouth.

Gu Xi's originally dark eyes turned into azure blue and translucent. There was only a hard wall made of fine iron in front of him, but he seemed to have countless pairs of eyes, able to see what was happening in every corner of the universe. Things that happened.

He knew that this was the female worm's control over the brain worm.

The process of parasitism is a process of competing for dominance. The female worm wanted to use his body to resurrect, but Gu Xi could also take this opportunity to take its power as his own.

He endured the pain of a splitting brain and wanted to gain the upper hand in this life-threatening battle, but in this dazzling picture, Gu Xi's attention was suddenly fixed on one of them. on the parasite.

Judging from the environment where this parasite is, he should be in the palace, and his identity is probably the servant of the old king or other nobles. Through his perspective, Gu Xi walked through the quiet corridor and came to the periphery of a cold palace.

It seems that no one has cleaned it properly for a long time, the steps are full of twigs and leaves, and there are no guards around.

It is not a cold palace, it is better than a cold palace.

The man looked left and right for a while, then walked up the steps quickly, and crept to the position by the window--

Seeing the little mermaid lying in the room curled up on the clouds and sleeping very unsteadily, Gu Xi's pupils shrank instantly.

Why is Lin Xiaodong here! ?

The attendant stared at the sleeping little mermaid for a long time, suddenly took out a bottle of volatile gas poison from his arms, and whispered to himself: "Fucking old crazy, I can't deal with you, I'll get it. Dumb mermaid!"

The shield of the aircraft can't isolate the gas. He held his breath and walked to the little mermaid step by step. Just as he was about to open the bottle and let the poison slowly evaporate into the air, suddenly his temples jumped twice, and a sudden sound came from the depths of his brain. A sharp, unbearable pain.

In the next second, a terrifying scream pierced the night sky.

Lin Xiaodong, who was sleeping, woke up suddenly, just opened his eyes and saw a man staring at the boss's eyes, and fell in front of him with a "pop", still holding an unopened glass bottle tightly in his hand.

He stared at the back of the man's head with a bewildered expression, and didn't react for a long time.

Holy crap, what's the situation?

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