"Yes, look for him quickly," Yax said, then thought for a moment and added, "I'll look for him too, that kid is quite timid."
It would be bad if you get scared away.
***
Shi Xi felt that her bones were rattling, as if thousands of ants were biting her flesh and blood, and as if countless needles were pricking her.
In the dark cave, there was no movement except for her breathing, and she seemed to be the only one left in the whole world.
She didn't know how long it had been, but Wuwu never came back.
She felt her consciousness gradually slipping away.
There were chaotic sounds outside, and the sounds were getting closer and closer.
When Shi Xi was unconscious, she tried to move and moved to the far corner of the cave.
Yax wore infrared glasses and scanned around the garbage mountain. Suddenly, he saw a small figure curled up in a certain garbage mountain.
He quickly stepped forward, opened the garbage, and saw the little cub hiding inside.
The little cub's face was very white, with a bit of pain in his brows and eyes, and his pair of furry ears were drooped on his head.
Yax took out the little cub, and the adjutant quickly stepped forward: "Major General, shall I do it?"
"No," Yax refused, "I'll go back to the starship first and leave this to you."
Shi Xi felt so much pain that she wanted to scream, but she didn't have the strength to scream.
In her hazy state of consciousness, she felt that she had fallen into a warm embrace. She opened her eyes with effort and met a pair of eyes as blue as the sky, "Uncle..."
The uncle who gave her the candy was a good man and he could not be caught by the bad guys.
Yax heard the little cub murmuring. He lowered his head and pricked up his ears to listen. He heard the little cub say: "...run, uncle, there are bad guys..."
Yax looked at the thin little cub in his arms with a very complicated mood. He touched the little cub's head and said, "It's okay. Uncle has beaten away the bad guys."
Shi Xi, who was in pain, felt like she was soaking in warm water. The warm water penetrated into her skin and alleviated her pain, making her frown relax.
Yax sat expressionlessly in front of the command seat, handling official duties that had accumulated over the past few days while listening to reports from his subordinates.
"The leaders of those pirates confessed that they received the mission to assassinate you from the black market. The other party provided your itinerary and asked them to ambush you on the waterway."
Yax sneered, "Only the guys in the Central Star Region can think of such an inferior assassination."
The adjutant said nothing.
Yax signed the last document, pushed it to the adjutant and asked, "How about the little cub?"
As one of the twelve commanders of the expeditionary force, Yax was very busy with his affairs. He handed the little cub into the hands of the military doctor, but was called away by an emergency report.
When I returned to the starship, I spent most of the day sitting in the command seat handling official duties.
"Xilia said that the cub's condition has stabilized for the time being. However," the adjutant said hesitantly, "I heard from the military doctor that the cub's illness seems to be incurable."
"Can't it be cured?" Yax turned to look at him, "What does this mean?"
As an S-class warship, Wind Chime has the best treatment cabin in the federation. Even if a person has a broken hand or foot, he can be cured by putting the person and the broken limb into the treatment cabin.
Now someone actually told Yax that the skinny little cub he brought back could not be cured?
Wind Chime Starship, treatment room.
As a place to place the wounded, the treatment room is much more cozy than other places.
When there is no war, military doctor Xilia hopes to raise flowers and plants. She feels that seeing green plants will make her feel much happier.
However, she is not in a good mood now.
The commander, who was exuding a cold air all over his body, sat in front of her and asked coldly: "Military doctor, tell me, what's wrong with that child?"
Hearing his words, Xilia thought of the little cub sent by her superior today. She sighed deeply and turned on the optical brain to pull out her inspection report.
"This is the examination report of the little cub. She suffered from a long-term lack of nutrition, resulting in stunted growth. I tested her. The machine showed that she is five years and two months old, but she looks only about three years old..."
More than five years old? Yax was a little surprised. The little cub did look very young, but he didn't expect it to be five years old.
"However, malnutrition is not the point," Celia paused, then called up a genetic test chart and continued, "This is the genetic test chart of the little cub. She is a hybrid between a human and an orc cat-man."
Yax couldn't understand this. He glanced at the picture and asked, "So?"
In the interstellar age, there were countless intelligent races in the universe. Human beings often intermarried with other intelligent races, and mixing of races was common.
"That's where the problem lies, she has a genetic defect," Cilia said.
"Gene defect?" Yax was in disbelief: "We are in the interstellar age, how can someone have a genetic defect?"
In the interstellar era, technology and medical care are very advanced. As long as you go to prenatal check-ups on time, this kind of thing will never happen.
"Now that medical science is advanced, children with genetic defects will not be born normally, but that little cub is like this. It should be that her mother did not go for a prenatal checkup when she was pregnant with her, and did not receive timely treatment, which led to her current appearance.
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"I guess she had a genetic defect after she was born, and her parents abandoned her. After all, children with genetic defects can't live past the age of five..."
"Wait a minute," Yax couldn't help interrupting her, "she's over five years old now."
"So, it's a miracle that she can survive to this day," Xilia said. "Her genetic defects are very obvious, didn't you notice? Silver hair, mandarin duck eyes, these are all dominant genetic defects."
"Can it be cured?" Yax asked her.
"...It's difficult," Celia was silent, and finally said truthfully, "If you don't believe me, you can take her to a more professional hospital for examination."
"After all, I am not a professional pediatrician, but she does have a genetic defect, so the diagnosis of other doctors should be similar to mine."
The genes of intelligent creatures are the most mysterious and unpredictable.
If there are immature cubs in the mother's womb, there are still ways to deal with them. The cub is now a mature individual.
"Besides, she may die at any time."
Yax was very irritable. He accidentally picked up a little cub and was told that the little cub would die at any time. This feeling was very bad.
He looked at the pale little cub lying on the hospital bed. The little cub was so small, so thin and slender that it seemed as if it would disappear when the wind blows.
"Major General," the adjutant came in quietly.
Yax looked at him and walked out.
The adjutant followed, "The pirates' lair has been found. Also, I discovered something while investigating the black market."
"There are people on the black market who have been collecting silver-haired cubs with different eyes from the orcs. It is said that two years ago, a little cub with different eyes was sold for hundreds of millions, so the pirates saw that little cub.
He only caught her when he needed her ears and eyes, probably because he wanted to sell her for a sum of money..."
Yax's body became colder and colder, and the adjutant closed his mouth.
**
Shi Xi slept very comfortably. She felt like she was lying on soft clouds, and her whole body was light and airy.
She couldn't help but rub against the soft clouds.
"This little guy slept so well," a strange female voice said.
Shi Xi woke up instantly and opened his eyes to find that he was in a strange environment.
Cold silver-gray walls, a few empty beds around...
"Hey, you're awake? How do you feel?" Silia said, standing beside the bed, reaching out to touch the little cub's forehead.
Shi Xi's pupils shrank, he waved her hand away, jumped out of bed holding the pillow, "Don't come over!"