Offered Into Marriage

Archibald is very close to Yangyang, and has been paying attention to Yangyang's movements, so he can hear Xiao Baijia's words clearly.

Archibald's face immediately turned cold, he stopped talking, and turned his head to look over.

Xiao Baijia trembled a little when he saw it, but he didn't feel that he said anything wrong, so he looked at a loss.

Seeing this, the old village chief took a cane and slapped Xiao Baijia's ass, feigning anger, and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? The Duchess is different from us."

Xiao Baijia was not convinced, "But the Duke is just like us."

"Still shut up!"

The old village chief scolded Xiao Baijia, and then turned to Archibald and Yangyang and said, "Previously, a pregnant woman died of dystocia in the village, and the child was not kept. It is a double-form Leicester. The child We don’t know where to hear it, and this concept was born.”

After finishing speaking, he continued to hit Xiao Baijia's ass with his cane: "The Duchess is pregnant with a child, don't say such bad things!"

Xiao Baijia just now remembered, and immediately "咟咖哗" for a while, then said to Yang Yang listlessly: "Duke Duchess, don't be angry, just pretend I didn't say anything, okay?"

How could Yang Yang care about a child, he smiled and said it was fine.

But Archibald was not so easy to fool, he paused, and then shifted the topic from his "heroic achievements" to the village.

Archibald: "I came along this way, and I found that although there are many people in the village, they are mainly young and strong. There are very few children and old people, and all of them are in the form of half-beasts. ——Here is what happened what?"

As if expecting him to ask this question, the old village head was not surprised, sighed, and explained the reason: "Actually, the people in this village are all survivors of the dragon-level spirit beast attack. , and descendants of the survivors.”

Archibald frowned: "I remember that the battle had resettlement measures for survivors and rescued immigrants. After the global migration, search and rescue teams spent a year searching for survivors. Didn't anyone find you? ?”

The old village chief didn't answer right away. He glanced at Scarface standing outside the crowd. Scarface immediately understood, and shouted to the children: "Boys, come out and help prepare dinner."

The children headed by Xiao Baijia suddenly made dissatisfied voices.

"We still want to hear stories."

"I still have questions I haven't asked His Excellency the Duke."

But Scarface was not accommodating, his eyes glared, and the children froze immediately, and obediently followed Scarface away from the encirclement of the melon-eating crowd.

After Scarface took the children away, the old village chief took a long breath, then lowered his loose eyelids, his eyes fell on the void, recalling the long-ago events.

"I have enjoyed the post-disaster resettlement. My household registration was assigned to Xindi Star, and I was given a house. —— Such a big house, I was so happy at that time."

A nostalgic smile appeared on the face of the old village chief, but the smile disappeared quickly.

"But not everyone has the good fortune and treatment that I have. Those ordinary people who were struggling on the line of food and clothing in the old emperor star, although the resettlement they received was much better than in the past, but As time went by, this catastrophe was gradually forgotten, and fewer people paid attention to them."

"During that disaster, almost seventy percent of people were infected with the power of spirit beasts, some severely and some slightly. Manic inhibitors were in short supply and consumed a lot, not to mention those high-level inhibitors, not to mention ordinary people, even if they have money. You may not be able to buy it."

Having said that, the old village chief sighed again.

"Life is better than before, but it can't withstand the consumption of a large amount of inhibitors. A family of several members cannot be dragged down by one person.

Some families are conscientious and send seriously ill people to centralized resettlement centers. Although they may be imprisoned for a lifetime, at least they can be controlled with drugs from time to time.

But when encountering some unconscionable ones, they were pulled out into the wild and thrown away. "

Yang Yang frowned, pulled Kemi into his arms, and gave her a headset to play games with.

The old village chief: "I was also infected with the soul power of the soul beast, and the soul palace was still severely damaged. Fortunately, I hadn't married a wife at that time, so I left the house to my parents, and then I went to set up a containment organization to go Help those abandoned patients.

On the way, other people gradually joined in, many of them were volunteers, and there were also material assistance. "

"Everything seems to be getting better."

The old village chief's expression became bitter, and he sighed again and again: "We have the supplies and manpower, so we took some patients we took in and planned to migrate back to the old emperor star. ——At that time, although the old emperor star was taken over by the military, But it doesn’t have a tight defense either, I’ve been stationed at Old Emperor Star since I joined the army, and I’m very familiar with it.”

"But what I didn't expect was that on the way here, our starship encountered star robbers and was attacked. In the end, the starship crashed on the Old Emperor Star, and only a dozen of us escaped."

"The area where the starship crashed is no man's land. We were afraid that the star thief would come after us, so we ran away and ran away. When we regained our senses, we were already in the wilderness and only ourselves were left."

Yang Yang was puzzled: "Have you never tried to contact someone from the military department?"

The old village head; "I tried, but the star network of the old emperor star has not been rebuilt at that time, so I can't contact at all."

Archibald: "What about after that? There are already many reconstruction areas and reorganization areas outside, and the nearest one is not far from here. And the star network has covered the whole world. ——Since you can know about me, it means that you There are channels to obtain outside information, why not contact us?"

The "we" that Archibald mentioned here naturally refers to the military department.

The old village chief was silent for a long time before he slowly said: "We have contacted before. I went out to contact in person."

"I am familiar with the old Emperor Star, so after the survivors of the crashed starship were settled, I set out to find someone to help. What I found was the first batch of reorganization areas built, and the person in charge was a small nobleman."

noble.

Hearing this word again, both Archibald and Yang Yang's heart skipped a beat.

The old village head continued his story with his eyelids still drooping and his face expressionless.

"That little nobleman is very nice and has helped us a lot. But at that time, the old emperor star had no immigration plan, and the reorganization area was only built for the convenience of the army.

He offered to take us back, I declined, and he helped us find a place to stay. "

"We have a new home here, and the little noble also introduced us to a doctor, and will not reveal our existence to others."

"That doctor's medical skills are good. He has developed a new type of inhibitor for the people in that disaster. Although there will be some side effects - such as aggravating the damage of the soul palace, causing our animalization to be uncontrollable and become half Orc form.

However, our mania caused by the infection of the soul power of the soul beast has indeed been alleviated. "

"Afterwards, after I learned that some residents of the old emperor star had immigrated, I also went to look for it. But I didn't expect that because of our abnormal appearance, it would lead to conflicts with some ordinary people.

After that, people in the village were less willing to contact the outside world. "

"So for the next few decades, we hid in no man's land and thrived. During that time, it was really a good time."

"Unfortunately, good times always come to an end."

"Beginning 50 years ago, it became difficult for the women and females in the village to conceive a child. And even if they conceived a child..."

The old village chief hesitated to speak, his face became sad, and all the young and strong around him were also full of sadness and could not bear it.

Yang Yang recalled Xiao Baijia's "Wuji Tongyan" before, and felt a little bad.

"Is everything difficult to deliver?"

The old village chief closed his eyes and shook his head: "No. It's the women who have difficulty giving birth, and the females are all dead and dead."

what?

Yang Yang widened his eyes.Archibald was also shocked, and his tail stretched out involuntarily, wrapping around Yangyang's waist.

It seems that only in this way can he confirm that Yang Yang is "well".

Yang Yang put his hand on the tip of Archibald's tail, and touched it lightly, as a comfort.

Yang Yang thought for a while and guessed the reason: "Is it because the Soul Palace was damaged?"

Old village head: "Well, but it's not because the female's soul palace is damaged, but the child's soul palace is damaged. ——As I said just now, the doctor's new inhibitor has side effects, and this side effect has changed our life over the years. Blood, or genes? I don't know much about that.

And this change is also reflected in the baby. "

"I don't know when, after the conjunctival period of the child conceived by the female body, the child's egg will not start to fully develop, but will shed the egg shell and become a viviparous state like a woman.

If it is an ordinary child, it will only hurt more, and it will not be life-threatening.

But I don't know why, the females are pregnant with double forms of Lester. "

Yang Yang already understood, "Could it be that when the child is in the womb of the female, it becomes a half-beast?"

The old village head nodded: "Not only that, the young duke and duchess must also know that the scales of the double-form Leicester were still soft when he was one year old, and they will shed and change every year until he becomes an adult. It will be a mature state, extremely hard."

Yang Yang: "..."

He really doesn't know this.

The old village head: "But the children in our village's female body, before they are born, the scales are already mature."

After that, the old village chief didn't say anything more, but Yang Yang already understood why "one dead body and two lives".

Following his imagination, Yang Yang felt his stomach throbbing nervously.It seemed that he was one of those female bodies who were pierced through the soul palace by the scales of the children in their stomachs, and died of pain.

Yang Yang's face was slightly pale, he clenched his fists and did not speak.

"fine."

Archibald leaned over, hugged Yangyang's shoulders, bowed his head and kissed Yangyang's warm forehead, "Don't think about it."

Yang Yang looked up at Archibald, as if he had absorbed strength, his clenched fists slowly relaxed.

After the old village head eased those painful memories, he continued: "After that, the population in the village became smaller. Until 30 years ago, the doctor tried a way to do test-tube babies, and finally gave birth to a normal child. —— Not a double-form Lester, not a half-beast like us, but a normal child."

"That year was really good."

However, Yangyang didn't feel happy because of this. If a normal child was conceived 30 years ago, why is there not a single non-orc in the village now?