Chapter 68: Kitten
“Do you need medication?”
“Not for now.”
Si Jisheng glanced at Deng Xi behind him and said in a low voice, “Go out and wait for me first.”
Deng Xi looked back three times with every step and obediently closed the door. He couldn’t help but be curious and lay on the door, pricking up his ears to eavesdrop.
“The front desk of the treatment center seems to have adopted a cat?” Si Jisheng would occasionally glance over when he passed by.
“That’s right. I remember joking with you about it at the time. It was a stray cat. After it came to the treatment center, it would often lie on the ground, motionless, and didn’t dare to get close to humans.”
It was a slightly depressed little cat.
Dr. Li continued, “It wasn’t until the young lady at the front desk bought a pot of catnip that it became a little more lively.” She smiled. “Catnip is like a mild tranquilizer for cats. It can relieve their anxiety and nervousness, and can even make them feel excited.”
Deng Xi didn’t quite understand.
Was there really such a magical plant?
The silver-tail’s voice had a cold quality to it. His voice was deep, indifferent, as if he were seriously studying some academic topic. “If this relationship were to be reflected in humans, would it be normal?”
Deng Xi’s round blue eyes blinked cluelessly. It was so complicated, he was starting to not understand.
Si Jisheng’s chest heaved slowly once.
If Deng Xi were a cat, then he would be the catnip that was constantly being teased by the soft little cat’s paws.
He didn’t know when it had started, but it was as if he suddenly couldn’t be without touch and hugs. Even if he had stopped it countless times, the next time, he would still find a chance to sneak in without him realizing it.
His golden hair would hang down on his neck, his soft arms would wrap around him, and he would subconsciously sniff the scent on his body with the tip of his nose.
Si Jisheng had been quietly observing for a long time.
He had thought that it was a sign of Deng Xi’s lack of security and dependence on him.
But in reality, he might have been wrong.
Dr. Li had guessed countless objects in her mind. Finally, she said honestly, “Marshal, I don’t understand what you mean.”
Si Jisheng walked to the treatment pod, checked the various physical examination data on the display screen, and said indifferently, “You just need to answer, is this a normal human behavior?”
Dr. Li was a little unsure. She used a joke to break the tense atmosphere. “A cat will get excited when it encounters any pot of catnip, but humans are not. When my husband and I were in our honeymoon period, we also wished we could be together all the time.”
“It depends on whether there is a foundation of feelings.”
When the feelings reached this critical point, under the foundation, there would be a volcano that was about to erupt. The hot lava was covered under the surface of the earth. Because it couldn’t be seen, its flow couldn’t be detected, but there would always be a day when it would erupt.
“If there is, then it’s very normal.”
Normal?
Si Jisheng put a negative label on it in his heart. The earring that was attached to his ear, the recording that had been covered up, their existence suddenly became exceptionally clear.
He could be sure that there was none.
If there was no problem physically, and it was not an excessive psychological dependence, then where was the problem?
Si Jisheng frowned. “Forget it, you can go down.”
The moment Dr. Li opened the door, she saw Deng Xi, who had frantically turned his back. She couldn’t help but smile. “Bunny asked me to ask you for him, why didn’t you go and play with him today?”
Deng Xi turned his head as if nothing had happened, pretending that he had not been eavesdropping. “I’ll go and find him in a bit!”
Dr. Li: “He’ll be very happy.”
She nodded to the Marshal and left.
Deng Xi turned around and looked at the little mute. He met the silver eyes that seemed to be able to see through everything and lowered his eyelids. “Alright, I heard everything.”
Si Jisheng turned off the instrument and walked over. “What did you hear?”
Deng Xi grabbed the corner of the little mute’s clothes, steadied his steps, and walked forward slowly, step by step. He “hmm”-ed and shook his head. “I didn’t understand.”
Si Jisheng explained to him, “That cat is you.”
Deng Xi’s blue eyes widened. He pointed at himself suspiciously and frowned his little face. “No, I’m not a little cat.”
He was a little fish.
Si Jisheng replied with a slight sound, “Alright, you’re not.” He thought for a moment. “Do you want to eat cake?”
Deng Xi’s eyes lit up. “Mmm-hmm!”
Si Jisheng: “I’ll have someone send it to you and Bunny in the afternoon.”
As a reward for Deng Xi’s obedient physical examination.
“I’ll be very busy today. I have to meet someone in the afternoon and deal with a very important matter. I’ll only be free after you’ve finished your cake. But you can come and find me anytime…”
Si Jisheng explained his schedule to Deng Xi one by one. After finishing their meal, Deng Xi, who had just woken up, couldn’t take a nap. He stayed with the little mute, who was dealing with official business, for a whole afternoon, and then went to the lounge to play with Bunny.
The white-haired boy was sitting upright at the table, putting together a large puzzle. When Bunny saw Deng Xi, he did not immediately greet him. Instead, his eyes were a little strange.
Deng Xi sat cross-legged on the opposite side of the low table, propped his arms up, and picked up a puzzle piece to look at. “This is not the same puzzle as last time.”
His posture was a stark contrast to Bunny’s.
Bunny accurately found the matching piece in a pile of puzzle pieces and pressed it on. “I finished the last one. My mom put it in a picture frame and hung it on the wall.”
Deng Xi’s eyelids curved. “That must be very beautiful.”
It was a puzzle of a mecha and space, something that boys of this age could not refuse.
Deng Xi was putting the puzzle together with Bunny.
Bunny would look at Deng Xi from time to time, but the little rabbit was rarely distracted.
Deng Xi sensitively detected it. “What’s wrong?”
Bunny pursed his lips, wanting to say something but hesitating. “Big brother, I think I saw you here.”
Bunny pointed at the comm.
Deng Xi did not understand. He tilted his head, expressing his confusion.
Children of this age loved to play the most. Dr. Li’s education of Bunny was also very open-minded, and she would not control the time Bunny used his comm. Under the push of big data, Bunny, who often played with his comm and watched entertainment videos, was the first to discover it.
Bunny ran to Deng Xi’s side and opened the star network. “Big brother, look.”
The saved video began to play automatically.
Under the clear light gauze, his golden hair was faintly shining. The youth was sitting in a wheelchair, and his messy clothes covered his legs. His translucent pink fingertips were gently stroking the little raccoon that was lying on his lap, again and again.
His features were exquisite, his facial features were beautiful, and his skin was so snow-white that it made him look a little sickly and fragile. His ocean-blue eyes were curved, and his ethereal voice and ancient language seemed to have brought people into another mysterious and peaceful world.
Deng Xi could already understand some of the characters now.
Many bullet comments flashed across the video.
“I originally stopped because of his looks, but when I heard his song, I don’t know why, but my eyes started to water.”
“I couldn’t help but cry when I saw the little raccoon calm down. The infectious power is so strong.”
“Is he a patient? What’s wrong with his legs? I really want to hug him.”
“That little raccoon is an alien, right? Look at the children behind them. The degree of mutation is so high, so scary.”
“He’s a human, right? Help, why is he with an alien? What if he gets hurt?”
“…”
The speed of the bullet comments was too fast, and they were densely packed. Deng Xi could only see a few sentences. It wasn’t until the very end of the video that the golden-haired youth slightly raised his head. His hanging golden hair was blown by the wind, and his translucent golden gills were instantly exposed to the air.
The bullet comments fell into a dead silence. After a long time of an empty screen, someone finally said a sentence, “I’m impressed.”
After the video finished playing, the comment section automatically popped up. The top hot comment was a sentence: “To save time, don’t look, it’s an alien.”
“Wasted my feelings.”
“What’s wrong with aliens? Can you not judge people by their appearance?”
Deng Xi wanted to look again, but a pair of small hands suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, blocking the blue screen. Bunny said in a small voice, “Big brother, don’t look. Many people are saying bad things about you.”
Deng Xi blinked his eyes in a daze. “Are they saying bad things about me?”
The little merman did not understand the popular human terms. Deng Xi naively thought that those words were just stating a fact.
Compared to the people under the little mute’s video, they were already very friendly.
Deng Xi curved a dimple. “It’s okay.”
Only then did Bunny let go of his hand.
“Is this video trying to beautify the image of aliens? What’s the intention, those who know, know.”
“Is it so hard to admit that others are good-looking?”
“That alienated gill is like a big moth. Is it good-looking?”
Deng Xi couldn’t help but touch his own ear and gently pinch it with his knuckle, slightly curling his fingers.
“What backward place did he come from? What primitive dialect, I can’t even understand it.”
“But it’s very nice to hear.”
“What’s the use of just being nice to hear?”
Deng Xi lowered his eyelids and touched his own neck, the place where his vocal cords vibrated under his Adam’s apple. He let out a light breath and asked softly, “This video, is it the one that Sister Zhang recorded?”
Bunny took the opportunity to turn off his comm. He honestly shook his head and said, “I don’t know.”
Deng Xi said, at a loss, “Will many people see it?”
Bunny: “Many people have already seen it.”
This video had a small amount of popularity on the star network, but it was not considered to have gone viral. Only users who followed the alien aspect were pushed to it by big data, just like Bunny.
And it had been fermenting for some time.
It was released in the early morning of today.
Deng Xi picked at his hands.
He didn’t quite understand what impact this video would have on him. Although he had slowly learned to look at the star network, he only half-understood many things.
If Sister Zhang had done it so that more sick aliens could hear it, Deng Xi thought, it didn’t seem to be of any harm to him.
But, Deng Xi admitted, when he saw the bad things those people said, he was a little unhappy.
Alright, he was very unhappy.
Although many people were speaking up for him.
But a merman’s gills were not as they said. Deng Xi thought they were very beautiful, and their merman language was not useless at all.
Deng Xi opened the tracker and glanced at the direction of the other little red dot. He said in a muffled voice, “Can Bunny play by himself for a while?”
Bunny nodded his head. “Big brother, don’t be angry. I’ve already been angry for big brother!”
Deng Xi smiled again. “Alright.”
Deng Xi got up and, following the direction of the tracker, clumsily went to find the busy little mute, like a child who had been bullied and was going to his parents to complain, feeling extremely wronged.
Deng Xi followed the indicator and turned for a long time. Because this place was not like the ocean, there were too many winding paths. He hit the wall many times, and bit by bit, he got closer to the little red dot.
The quiet corridor gradually became a little more noisy with human voices. After Deng Xi turned another corner, the front suddenly opened up.
It was an open hall. Further in was a tightly closed door. The secretary-general, with a smile that did not reach his eyes, was waiting outside the door. On the other side of the door stood a man in a knight’s uniform, with a long sword.
The soldiers of the military and the knights of the royal court seemed to be coexisting peacefully in the reception hall, but in reality, a clear dividing line of “not interfering with each other” was implicitly drawn.
The golden-haired youth who had suddenly rushed in was wearing a loose cartoon hoodie, and instantly broke the serious atmosphere.
