The whole empire is bringing us together

The two set off to look for the river. Just after the heavy rain, many animals hiding from the rain came out in twos and threes, which added a lot of danger. However, the pheromone smell on Quint's body was completely covered by Hyperion. are natural attractors.

Quint rested for a while and felt that his legs did not hurt so much, and insisted on getting off Hyperion's back and walking on his own.The two of them hurried on the road one after the other, sneaking a few words from time to time, which felt very sweet.

Thinking of leaving a mark on Quint, Hyperion was very excited. Although he knew that Quint mainly did not want the pheromone to interfere with the assessment before agreeing to his slightly abrupt proposal, Hyperion was happy.

With my mark on the body, it is my person.He thought happily that after the assessment was over, he could bring Quint back to Morse's house and show it to his family.

"careful!"

Quint stretched out his hand to pull him suddenly, and Hyperion suddenly stopped in his tracks, and the fallen foot lay weakly on the lush grass blades, and he didn't use any strength.Feeling the slight change in pressure, the pile of grass blades trembled rapidly. Dozens of bugs of the same color crawled out from the ground to investigate the situation, and were about to climb onto the Hyperion military boots.

Hyperion hurriedly took a few steps back, picked up a stone from the ground and threw it towards the haystack.The top layer of camouflage was knocked down by stones, revealing the huge cave below—the cave of man-eating bugs.

Countless emerald green man-eating insects were disturbed, and densely packed up to the ground, like a green river spewing from a dark cave.A passing spotted mouse unfortunately failed to escape in time, and was covered in its body. With a desperate scream, the green worms all over the body retreated a few seconds later, leaving only a white skeleton lying on the ground.

Hyperion pulled Quint and ran away, and a small wave of man-eating insects followed their footsteps, moving at an astonishingly fast speed. Hyperion had encountered this unique species of Varen Star during the beast tide. Know their weaknesses, and go alone where there is water.Sure enough, when the insect encountered stagnant water tentacles to test it, it quickly retracted. It could only find a way to go around far away, and was quickly thrown away by the two.

After confirming that they were out of danger, the two stood in place and calmed down their rapid breathing. Quint put his hands on his knees and asked out of breath, "What are you thinking, so inattentive."

"I miss you." Hyperion waved his hand and said guiltily, "Sorry, I won't be distracted next time."

"I'm right next to you, what's there to think about?" Quint couldn't laugh or cry, he took a breath, hit the tree trunk with his fist, and said with a straight face: "Hyberian, I don't want me to be Any bad influence your teammates have on your judgment and actions makes me think that without me your grades would be much better than you are now."

To be honest, Hyperion was also very annoyed. No matter what, he was so clumsy and slow that he was not up to his standards. After all, he was here for an assessment. Meeting Quint was just an unexpected surprise. They had a perfect understanding and were strong. Teaming up, becoming a teammate should have a better performance.

"It's all my fault. I got carried away." After deep reflection, Hyperion finally let go of all his charming thoughts, and focused all his attention on the assessment.Kunt smiled slightly when he saw this, and said seriously: "Whether it is now or in the future, I hope to give you the courage to go forward, make you better, and not become your weakness. Your future is destined to be brilliant The entire empire, if one day I really become your weakness, I—"

"No." Hyperion raised his hand to cover his mouth to prevent him from continuing: "There won't be that day."

Quint raised his eyes to look at Hyperion, Alpha frowned slightly, and the expression in his blue eyes was extremely solemn, as if he had made some promise of eternal life to him.He hummed lightly, and raised his arms to hug him:

"I also believe that there will be no such day."

After this short conversation, Hyperion was awakened by Quint, and he became serious again, and returned to the state he was in when he teamed up with the Beta technicians, completely treating Quint as an independent person, and he didn't need more points. God took care of his comrades-in-arms, and Quint did not disappoint Hyperion, he followed his footsteps and thinking closely at all times, never falling behind.

The two of them didn't take a break until after one o'clock in the afternoon, and had a simple lunch with energy bars and nutrient solution, and only at this time could they relax temporarily.The two were talking, and when Quint called his name with a soft accent, Hyperion suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said:

"Call me Hein, that's what my family calls me."

"Okay, Hein." Quint immediately changed his words, and then realized that it was only abbreviated by people close to him, and the tips of his ears blushed imperceptibly: "I'm still a bit uncomfortable with this."

"Scream a few more times and you'll get used to it." Hyperion ate what was in his hands in two or three bites, patted the residue on his hands, and moved to Quint's side to kiss the tooth marks on the inside of his wrist.

It is a kind of enjoyment for both of them to mark being kissed, but the current environment does not allow them to have further intimacy.After resting for half an hour, Quint felt a faint sense of fullness in his lower abdomen, got up and said, "I'm going to the toilet."

Hyperion watched his back disappear behind the overlapping tree shadows, and listened to the movement over there, in case Quint encountered any accidents. Of course, he had no abnormal thoughts such as eavesdropping on the sound of Quint releasing water. Absolutely not.

However, Quint seemed to know what Hyperion had done, and he walked quite a distance without him hearing any movement. After about 3 minutes, Hyperion heard Quint shouting from a distance: "Hain, you come here."

"What's the matter?" Hyperion immediately followed the voice, walked about 50 meters away, and saw Quint squatting with his back to him, the hem of his clothes neatly tied into his belt.

Quint pointed to a black shadow among the lush vines and asked, "What is that?"

Hyperion looked in the direction he was pointing at, and his expression immediately turned serious. He slowly walked forward and pushed aside the vines that covered most of the shadow, and the thing was completely exposed to the eyes of the two of them.

A cub of Etes.

This pitch-black cub has not even opened its eyes. It does not have hard skin like the adult Etes. It has fine lanugo hair, which is glued into strands by the rain, a bit like a drowned kitten. .

It seems that the cubs of all creatures will look cute and harmless, but Hyperion knows what a cruel and bloodthirsty soul is hidden under this appearance. Every Etes is a natural warrior, they are born for plunder and war , has brought too many disasters to the world.

After a while, Quint broke the silence first: "Why are there ghosts here?"

"I don't know." Although Valen Star is remote, it is not considered the frontier of the empire. It is impossible for Etes to come here, but when it comes to their elusive attributes, everything becomes uncertain. .Hyperion grabbed the cub by the nape of its neck and pulled it out, and put it in an open space: "What should we do with this thing? Should we pretend we didn't see it, or..."

With the connection of temporary marks, the moods of the two can communicate subtly to a certain extent, and Hyperion can feel Quint's huge mood swings at this time—Etes is the culprit that caused him to suffer the national disaster.The personal experience of the war is more profound than any subsequent national education. Quint's hatred for Etes is beyond the imagination of Hyperion.

He suddenly wondered what choice Quint would make.

"I was eight years old when Etes launched a blitz against Zhu Mingsha." After a long time, Quint finally spoke, his voice was very soft, and he stared down at the cub of Etes lying motionless on the ground : "My younger brother is three and a half years old. It rained that morning. I wasted time on the way to the kindergarten, and I was already late on the way to school."

"I saw something falling from the sky and landed in the school, and everything disappeared in an instant. The shock wave of the missile hit me on the ground. It took me a long time to get up and wipe the face. blood, ran back to pick up my brother."

"Fortunately, I rushed over. As soon as I took him out, the kindergarten was also bombed-they bombed all the infrastructure indiscriminately." Quint put his right hand on the neck of the Etes cub, and the cub The cub seemed to have passed out, lying on his back motionless, and he could clearly feel the weak beating of the carotid artery.

"It is said that a child is innocent, but if it is destined to become an executioner in the future, then I would rather bear the guilt and kill everything in the cradle."

Quint took a deep breath, and finally made all the mental preparations. Just as he was about to use his strength, Hyperion grabbed his trembling wrist and said in a low voice: "Come on, I have killed a lot of things, and they are not bad." This one is up."

Quint was stunned for a moment, and finally couldn't control the deliberately cold expression on his face, tears rolled down embarrassingly, and he forced a smile to Hyperion.

Hyperion pinched this helpless alien life. It was small, not as big as a Hyperion shoe. It had just emerged from its shell and hadn't had time to open its eyes to see the world, but it was flowing in its veins. Blood doomed to cruelty.

To be honest, Hyperion didn't feel much in his heart. He had participated in wars during the past six months of his service, and he had personally killed many Etes. One more was nothing to him.But Quint is different, he hasn't had blood on his hands yet, if he does it himself, he doesn't know how long it will be uncomfortable.

Hyperion moved his fingers and looked at Quint.

Quint closed his eyes and whispered, "Kill it."

The moment he finished speaking, there was a muffled "crack", and Hyperion snapped and snapped the neck of the Etes cub.Quint didn't avoid the scene of the killing. He watched the cub lose his life before he could even utter a scream, and he didn't even blink his eyes.

Hyperion's expression was normal, as if what he had just killed was a chicken - but indeed, he had never regarded Etes as a creature equal to a human being.Holding the limp corpse in his hand, he looked around: "I have to find a place to dispose of it. If this thing is seen by other examiners, it will definitely cause panic."

"Yeah." Quint let out a long sigh of relief. Time has passed, and he finally got his revenge in a certain sense, but he didn't feel the slightest pleasure in his heart.He turned on the terminal and edited the newsletter: "Tell the examiners the news of the Etes cubs appearing on Valen, this matter cannot be kept secret."

Hyperion agreed without any psychological burden, thinking that they passed a cliff when they came, and it would be a good place to throw the body: "I will go to the edge of the cliff and throw it away, wait for me here for a while."

Hyperion's figure disappeared from sight, and Quint forcibly calmed down the turbulent emotions in his heart, and passed the photo of the corpse just taken to the examiner.

After doing all this, he stood in place for a while, and suddenly felt at a loss. After all, Omega's nature still affected him.

You did nothing wrong, that race is extremely cruel, killing that cub may save tens of millions of humans in the future.

Quint kept persuading himself, nervously biting the mark left by Hyperion on his wrist, and suddenly heard a thin whimper.

Hearing the sound, he lifted the grass, and the black cub curled up tightly under the grass, trying not to be seen by Quint.

One more.