CH 11

Draft

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Talan's fingers lightly tapped on the table.

He stared at the egg case with a strange look, for a short moment, Lin Xi felt like he saw a mixture of awe and fascination on Talan's face. But when he looked carefully, Talan Ida was still Talan Ida, a total jerk. His face was pale and expressionless, making it impossible to see what he was thinking.

"The egg case of  the Star Butterfly?"

He said hoarsely after an unknown amount of time.

"How could you be sure that this is the egg case of the Star Butterfly?"

Then he looked at Shizuo Ando.

"As you mentioned before, Star Butterflies are sacred, rare, and rarely recorded. We don't know anything about it. Professor Ando, ​​I respect your knowledge- I can swear that I do, but if you insist that this is the egg case of the Star Butterfly, you should at least produce some evidence. Otherwise, considering the relationship between you and Dr. Lin Xi, it's hard for me to believe that your statement isn't just a made-up excuse to save your colleague's hide."

He said this like he was sure it wasn't a Star Butterfly egg case. Ando froze for a moment, and a little anger appeared on that baby's face, he seemed a little offended by Talan's weird speculation.

"Yes, there's been basically no records of this mysterious creature in earth literature, but the reason why I made this immature speculation is because..." Ando paused, he hesitated before continuing, "It was my wife Liz who told me about the Star Butterfly egg case. When the picture of it was transmitted to my cabin, Liz saw it and exclaimed, I couldn't help asking and got this answer."

Ando said.

When he said Liz's name, even Taran couldn't help but choke up, the corner of his mouth twitched slightly, as if regretting that he couldn't find other words to continue criticizing.

Lin Xi and Alisa looked at each other.

Well, since that guess came from Liz...

The true identity of the thing on the table has been confirmed in their minds. After all, Liz wasn't just nobody.

Liz Chen is Shizuo Ando's wife, ​​but she isn't just the wife of an Earth researcher.

She's also Sunu.

Of course, in a strict sense, she isn't a pure-blooded Sunu (if so, she should've died in the madness of Sunu), she's just a hybrid of Sunu and human.

Liz Chen's mother was a high-ranking government official stationed on Sunu, and her father was once a high-ranking person on Sunu, at least before those people went crazy. The identities of her parents allowed Liz to grow up normally on the Sunu planet and live up to the present—even the "material exchange" between the people on Earth and the Sunu planet was inseparable from the fact that her parents in Sunu were helping along.

And when the madness of the Sunu people became more and more serious, she took advantage of this scientific research mission to escape using Helios, under the tacit approval of the government.

The baby-faced man was so excited, his voice trembled.

Talan had an impatient expression on his face, like he was enduring something, his breathing gradually became heavy.

"Yes, of course, it's a living alien thing, and it's worth a lot of money. We can't just leave it in the warehouse like that. And you're the only person on board who can take care of it-"

(-and Helios is now stranded on a planet that without a serial number or proper coordinates. The other regular crew members have their own things to do, you free-spirited scientific researchers should also help me solve some troubles—)

This was what Lin Xi supplemented for Talan in his heart.

Of course, slander is slander, facing the overjoyed Shizuo Ando and the increasingly unstable Talan, he still obediently kept silent.

"In fact, Dr. Lin Xi, also—" After hearing what Talan said, Ando subconsciously thought of and mentioned Lin Xi.

However, after seeing Taran's disgusted face, he quickly changed the subject: "I will take good care of it, I can assure you, sir, I'll take good care of it!"

After getting permission , he carefully held the egg case in his arms.

"Of course I fucking know... damn it..."

Talan was still staring at the egg case, he looked like he wanted to say something more, but as soon as the egg case was held in Ando's arms, Taran suddenly bent down and let out a cry of pain mixed with curses.

"Captain?"

"Sir?"

Ando and Alyia both asked in a panic.

Huh... huh...

Lin Xi pretended to be very relaxed, comforting Alisa.

But Alisa's eyes widened, she looked terrified.

"No..."

She murmured.

"When he insisted that I listen, I felt... I ... heard the voices."

At this point, Alisa shuddered, her body went limp, and she almost fell to the ground .

"Alisa!"

Lin Xi quickly caugth her.

Then he noticed Alisa trembling slightly.

"What happened? What did you hear?"

Alisa looked up at Lin Xi dazedly.

"You... you need be careful during this time, okay?" Her voice shook, "I still can't tell what the hell this is, maybe I'm just scared by Talan's appearance, maybe... maybe It's something else. I have a very bad premonition, very bad."

Thinking of Alisa's intuition, Lin Xi became more serious.

"Premonition? About Taran? Me? Or..."

"It's about Taran, and you."

Alisa murmured weakly.

"And all of us,"

She added.

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PastTimer: skipping lunch feels so good and so bad at the same time huh