Jing Ruan worriedly pawed at Xie Yunsi’s hand, letting out one “jiu mi” after another.
As if sensing the cub’s call, Xie Yunsi looked down, his expression indifferent, as if what had just happened was completely nothing but an illusion.
He said: “I’m fine.”
However, he was also shocked by his own actions just now. His body had moved faster than his consciousness to protect the cub, not letting him get hurt at all.
Xie Yunsi thought, it might be because Jing Ruan was created by the emperor with a lot of effort. If something happened to the cub, he would definitely not be able to get away unscathed.
Xie Yunsi gave himself a very reasonable explanation.
Other researchers quickly arrived and began to tidy up the room, while Nalande led them back, “Are you all okay? Any injuries?”
But as soon as he asked, he felt he was overthinking. The little cub was protected by the Marshal, and the Marshal would certainly not be injured. In short, both of them were fine!
The physician Su Jing immediately helped Jing Ruan check his body, afraid that some debris might have pierced his skin.
Jing Ruan shook his head and quickly pointed in Xie Yunsi’s direction, “He’s the one who’s injured!”
Su Jing was momentarily stunned and subconsciously said: “How could the Marshal be injured when he’s so powerful.”
Hearing her words, it was Jing Ruan’s turn this time to be stunned.
Why couldn’t the Marshal be injured?
But Xie Yunsi’s current appearance also gave no impression of being injured at all. Apart from his clothes being a little wrinkled, there was no difference from usual.
Was the smell of blood he had just smelled a misconception?
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Because everyone had been frightened today, they soon returned to their own rooms. Xie Yunsi also left, leaving only Nalande, who was about to play a lullaby to coax the cub to sleep.
Seeing the little cub’s gloomy look, he took out the gift that was just unwrapped today and made funny faces to cheer Jing Ruan up. Jing Ruan’s previous anxiety and restlessness were immediately dispelled by this action.
“The little one is fine now, don’t be afraid.”
Jing Ruan still asked worriedly: “Is the Marshal… really not injured?”
Nalande unhesitatingly said: “He’s fine.”
What kind of person was the Marshal ah? He was a god on the battlefield, the leader of the Empire’s most powerful military force. It would be difficult for such a person to get injured.
Jing Ruan nodded thoughtfully, then breathed a sigh of relief, much of his gloominess dissipating.
Seeing that the little one was fine, Nalande was about to leave when Jing Ruan called out to him.
“I now… want paper and paint.”
Nalande understood his words. In the interstellar era, these two items were in fact rarely used, but fortunately, he usually collected them. He thoughtfully found them and placed them in front of him. Jing Ruan immediately jumped onto the table, dipped his small paw pad into the pink paint, and then pressed it onto the paper.
A tender pink, beautiful paw-print flower was imprinted on the snow-white paper.
A small and exquisite little paw, the most iconic representation of a Golden Cyrilla cat cub.
“G-give it to Big Brother!”
Nalande was stunned. He took the paper handed over by the little furball and was so moved that his eyes turned red, almost wanting to jump up and shout on the spot.
Ah ah ah the cub gave him something! He swore he had never been so excited in his entire life as he was today!
The little plum blossom was simple and plain, but it was the best gift he had ever received!
Jing Ruan saw him happy and felt happy as well. He recalled the room full of gifts and the gazes of those researchers in the morning, thinking they would probably like this return gift. So he continued to use other colors to print several more sheets, some even had a big heart drawn with red paint.
The paw-print plum blossoms formed by mixing several colors were full of childlike innocence.
In his current state, this was the most he could do.
They had indeed troubled them a lot today, especially Xie Yunsi, who also protected him.
Jing Ruan thought for a moment, then took out a separate blank sheet of paper, stamped colorful plum blossom paws on it, and drew a bright red heart, but felt it was a bit monotonous.
At this moment, he suddenly remembered that the other party seemed to be the original owner’s father. So he used a pen to draw two stick figures, one bigger and one smaller, their bodies close together, relying on each other. Then he drew a simple little house next to them.
This represented their home.
One person and one cat were busily working nonstop.
After an unknown amount of time, the other people in the base gradually began to receive ‘gifts’ one after another.
“Ahhh wow, is this the cub’s little paw? So adorable ah!”
“Isn’t this even more fascinating than that so-called Nobel Prize!”
“Wuwuwu, our little one is so sensible. He’s still so small, it must be very tiring to print tens of thousands of copies.”
Some people even posted pictures on the Star Net to show off. For a time, the atmosphere of the entire base was stirred up, and their joyful voices could be heard even from a floor away.
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Jing Ruan could also faintly hear the voices in his own room. His expression was moved. Lying on the soft bed, he recalled his previous life.
In his original world, his father had an affair, and his mother, after raising him alone until he was five, also died in a car accident. As long as he could remember, he had lived in an orphanage.
There were many children there, and Jing Ruan himself was of a quiet, withdrawn, and less talkative nature. The families who came to adopt always thought he had some kind of mental illness and tended to choose the lively children to take home.
Jing Ruan had only one feeling in that world—loneliness.
This also inevitably made him somewhat starved for love. As long as someone was slightly nice to him, he couldn’t help but be doubly nice to them in return.
Jing Ruan sighed.
The people in the research base truly pamper the ‘cub’ to the extreme. Even before he hatched, they had already put a lot of effort and emotion into the cub egg.
And now, it was even more so, which made Jing Ruan feel a little guilty and unnatural. No matter how good they were to him, the original owner would never know. In the last cycle, the original owner was deserted by everyone and died alone on Planet Ajitu.
He had usurped the affection that belonged solely to the original owner.
His two snow-white, fluffy ears drooped down listlessly, and it took a long time before they relaxed.
He remembered that the research base rarely appeared in the novel. The last time it appeared was when the base collapsed during a major battle, leaving no survivors.
The book had very few descriptions of the supporting characters, and it never mentioned what conflict occurred between the original owner and the people in the research base, nor why the original owner grew up to be the way he was in the novel.
If possible, he hoped to change the fate of so many people in the research base. After all, he didn’t want the people who were good to him to disappear from this world again.
