Chapter 100
Lacini hesitated for a moment, then said hesitantly: "Actually... I prefer females..."
"Huh?" Mu Xiaohu widened his eyes and tilted his head to look at Lacini. After a while, he finally understood what he meant and laughed, "What are you thinking about? I'm just talking about simple friends, like you and Qingge. In fact--"
His smile was bright and clean without any impurities.
"—We are already friends, right?"
"Yeah...right." Lacini lowered his head and smiled, feeling warm in his heart. In fact, it was not that he didn't understand what Mu Xiaohu meant, but he just couldn't help but make a joke. The boy seemed to have a kind of magical power that could make people let go of all their defenses without realizing it.
Lacini took Mu Xiaohu around in various narrow alleys, and even passed through two shops. Soon, Mu Xiaohu was surprised to find that the familiar sports field was not far ahead.
But at this moment, Lasini suddenly stopped, turned to look at Mu Xiaohu, was silent for a moment, and hesitated as if he wanted to say something.
Mu Xiaohu's eyes turned and he guessed what he was worried about. He shrugged and said, "I know, nothing happened this afternoon. I just accidentally got lost. Except for Brother Xiaoyuan, everyone who asked me would say the same thing."
"Then... Mr. Rong..."
"Don't worry, Brother Xiaoyuan shouldn't be interested in these things. If I don't tell him, he won't ask. And if you know him, you will know that he is really a very good person, so don't worry." Mu Xiaohu opened his arms and hugged Lacini's neck, smiling, "Then I'm leaving. Goodbye, buddy!"
Lacini watched Mu Xiaohu run towards the stadium. As the sun set, a huge orange-red ball of light lingered at one end of the horizon. The boy seemed to be running into the sun, and the sunlight cast an illusory light edge on his back.
Lacini took two steps back and hid in the shadows. A black shadow suddenly swooped down from the sky, rode steadily on Lacini's back, and put his arms around his neck.
"Brother!" the shadow shouted happily. He looked like a four or five-year-old human child, but if you look closely, you can find that he has many animal characteristics - such as the swaying tail, pointed ears, twitching strangely shaped nose, and the hair on his face.
Lacini frowned and said angrily: "Duoduo, why did you come out! Didn't I tell you not to go out during this period?!"
"I'm worried about you!" Duoduo said confidently, "If you follow that human and end up in a slaughterhouse, where can I find another good brother like you?"
Lacini was not moved by his implicit flattery and said sternly: "Do you know what will happen if you are seen by the patrol team?"
"I'm very careful!" Duoduo argued, "The patrol team is ten kilometers away, and I can smell them. And I run very fast, so as long as I hide carefully..."
"Isn't Wu Liu's sense of smell better than yours? Isn't Wei Wei faster than you? Didn't Lin Qiong hide well when he encountered the patrol team? Where are they now?"
Thinking of the fate of his former playmates, Duoduo shuddered and couldn't help but hug Lacini's neck tighter.
Lacini's heart softened and he stopped scolding him. He carried his younger brother on his back and walked towards home step by step along the shadows of the walls in the alley.
Mu Xiaohu ran back to the manor holding the gift box he had finally found. The people standing on both sides of the gate, still standing straight like javelins, smiled and greeted him. Mu Xiaohu thought of Lacini and the others, and inexplicably felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. He forced a smile and lowered his head to go in.
All the windows were dark and there was no light at all. Presumably everyone had gone to sleep. Mu Xiaohu stealthily opened the door and tiptoed inside.
With a "click", the lights suddenly came on. Mu Xiaohu's body stiffened. He slowly turned his head and saw Alpha standing beside him. His electronic eyes flashed and he said, "Welcome back, Mr. Mu. Would you like a glass of milk or juice? What would you like for dinner?"
Mu Xiaohu felt a deep hunger at this moment and said hurriedly, "Anything is fine. I'm so hungry now that I can eat a cow!"
A chuckle came from the side. Mu Xiaohu raised his eyebrows and turned around to see that it was Luo Er. He was leaning on the sofa, with a half-smile on his face.
Mu Xiaohu jumped up and shouted, "Okay! Lor, I haven't settled the score with you yet..."
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Lor, "What happened to you on the road?"
"...Ah?" Mu Xiaohu blinked and pretended to be stupid: "Oh, I accidentally got lost."
In fact, he really wanted to communicate with someone, and the only person who could talk to him about these things was Luo Er. But firstly, he promised Lacini not to tell others about the matter, and secondly, Luo Er was not a good person to communicate with. After talking to him, Mu Xiaohu would be pissed off after just a few words. Therefore, he never mentioned what happened to him.
However, Mu Xiaohu was not good at hiding his emotions. Luo Er glanced at him and sneered, "Why, knowing that Lacini was an intelligent species has shocked your worldview?"
Mu Xiaohu was shocked, jumped up and asked: "You...you...how did you know?"
"Your thoughts are written all over your face." Lor said, "First of all, the white hair on your body, judging by its length and color, must be from Lacini, which means you just met. The dirt on your body was also from when you were with him, so it's impossible that Lacini rolled around in the mud with you in his arms, right? And judging by the traces, it looks like you rubbed something with it... We can infer that you have met Lacini, and something unpleasant happened when you met."
Mu Xiaohu lifted his sleeve to take a look, and sure enough, there were some Lacini's hairs on it. He was usually a bit careless, so he had never noticed it.
Luo Er continued, "It is impossible for you and Lacini to have a dispute, so is there someone else? Hmm... let me think, is it because of Lacini's identity? So, you have also discovered the conflicts between the various races in this place?"
Mu Xiaohu simply didn't want to continue talking to him. He said weakly, "How do you know everything?"
This was tantamount to a disguised admission. The smug smile flashed and disappeared, and Luo Er coughed lightly and said lightly: "I was just observing carefully."
Now that it's out in the open, there's no need to hide it anymore. Mu Xiaohu instantly forgot about the conflict between him and Luo Er, and sat next to Luo Er and said, "Tell me what else you found!"
"Hmm..." Luo Er thought for a moment and said with some uncertainty: "If I'm not mistaken, this place should be in a special time domain."
"Time domain?" Mu Xiaohu asked in confusion, "What is that?"
Lor rolled his eyes at him with some helplessness, fully expressing his contempt for Mu Xiaohu's lack of knowledge , before he began to explain.
Time and space together form four-dimensional spacetime, which is the basic structure of the universe. Time is like a river, always moving forward and never looking back, but the speed of time passing is different in observations at different speeds or in different spacetime structures. The gravitational field generated by many massive celestial bodies in the universe will distort spacetime, making the speed of time passing around them much slower than at a distance.
In fact, the time passing speed of most planets in the Milky Way is different, but the space-time distortion caused by the limited mass of the planet is actually very small, so small that intelligent creatures can hardly feel the difference, and it will not affect daily work, life, and communication. However, there are some celestial bodies with huge time differences, which can even make people feel that the world has changed in a blink of an eye. These places are called "time domains".
"Time domain? This place?" Pea climbed on Rong Yuan's shoulder and asked in a low voice in surprise.
"Yeah." Rong Yuan said, "The last time I came here was eighty years ago. But two or three hundred years have passed on this planet."
"Wow~" Pea exclaimed, "In all the time domains that the Interstellar Alliance has discovered so far, the flow of time is much slower than universal time, right? But the flow of time here is three or four times that of universal time. What...what does this mean ?"
"This means..." Rong Yuan stopped and looked up at the dark night sky: "This planet... no, it should be said that this star system is very likely to be at the outermost part of the Milky Way, or even... independent of the Milky Way."
Although the stars in the Milky Way are very far apart in space, they are very dense in the entire universe. Countless planets, large and small black holes, gas and dust floating in the void, and dark energy that has not yet been understood and mastered by humans, together constitute the bright and dazzling barred spiral galaxies in this dark universe, giving birth to countless intelligent civilizations. Various intertwined gravitational forces form an invisible large net, making the time flow rate in most areas of the net tend to be relatively stable and balanced. The reason why this planet has such a large difference in time flow rate is that it is at the edge of the net or even in the outer area, which is equivalent to being in a gravitational blank area.
Looking up, what a lonely starry sky it is! Even if the night sky is clear without a trace of cloud or fog, there are not many shining stars in the dark night. Among them, I am afraid that half of them are planets belonging to this star system reflecting light.
Seeing him stop, the Moon Wolf boy who was leading the way also stopped. He heard what Wandou and Rong Yuan said, but he couldn't understand it at all. What interstellar alliance , what time flow, what star system, were all beyond his knowledge, but Rong Yuan said that he had been here eighty years ago, so he understood. He looked at Rong Yuan's young face that seemed to be only in his early twenties, sneered, and felt that he was just bragging to that little guy.
Before, when the situation was tense, the little girl who had been hidden behind him bypassed his protection circle when he was not paying attention, and quickly crawled to Rong Yuan's feet using all four limbs . She hugged his legs and shouted "papa", laughing happily, but she didn't know that her brother was almost scared to death.
"Don't touch her! Axia, come back quickly!" The boy first threatened Rong Yuan angrily, and then shouted at the little girl. But the little girl obviously couldn't understand the boy's fear and worry. She ignored the boy's call and tried to pull Rong Yuan's trouser legs to climb up, showing a bright smile with four small white teeth as big as rice grains.
Rong Yuan glanced at the boy, smiled, and leaned over to pick up the little girl in his threatening roar, not minding at all that the dirt on her body rubbed against him. The girl was very happy, giggling, holding Rong Yuan's arm tightly, and even arched back and forth to change a comfortable position, sighed very comfortably, and quietly nestled in Rong Yuan's arms, and soon closed her eyes and fell asleep.
The Moon Wolf boy was shocked and angry, but he did not dare to act rashly as Rong Yuan had the "hostage" in his hand. He could only compromise and lead the way for Rong Yuan as requested.
When Pea came out of Rong Yuan's pocket, the boy was obviously very interested and looked back from time to time, as if he wanted to touch it. But when he thought that Pea was Rong Yuan's "pet" and also his enemy, the boy's expression changed between desire and ferocity.
"May I have your name?"
Suddenly, the boy heard Rong Yuan ask this. He didn't want to answer, but after taking a look at the girl in Rong Yuan's arms, he took a deep breath and said reluctantly: "Yue Wei."
"Yue Wei?" Rong Yuan looked at the boy's fluffy silver-white hair. Even the most advanced weaving technology of humans could hardly imitate that color and texture. "I remember that Yue is the surname of the royal family of the Moon Wolf Clan, right?"
"Royal family?" The young man laughed sarcastically, "Now even the Moon Wolf Tribe is almost being wiped out by you humans, so how can there be any royal family?" He looked at the girl again, his eyes revealing uncontrollable sadness and pain.
"Is this your sister?" Rong Yuan asked.
"...No." The young man shook his head, paused, and said, "This is the wife I picked up."
Rong Yuan paused, looked at the boy, then looked at the girl in his arms who couldn't even walk yet, with an expression of disbelief. Pea also silently condemned the boy with its big eyes, with a look on its face that said "I didn't expect you to be such a Moon Wolf".
"What's wrong?" The boy said angrily, his ears standing up involuntarily. "As the last of the Moon Wolf Clan, it is my unshirkable responsibility to reproduce and revitalize my clan! But I'm a male, I can't have mitosis, right?"
Having said that, his face still flushed slightly in embarrassment.
Rong Yuan shook his head, thought for a moment, and then said: "You really are...thinking long-term."
