Quadruple split.

Chapter 319 Saria's Secret
Shalia's expression froze, she looked down at Mo Tan in a daze, and asked in a low voice after a long time: "When... did you find out?"

"That night when I first met you." Mo Tan absently blew the hair on his forehead, then left Shalia's legs without hesitation, and wiped away a strand of hair from the corner of the latter's eyes. Wet: "It's so obvious that I sometimes wonder if you didn't intend to hide from me at all."

The beautiful bloodseeker shook her head lightly, showing a sad smile: "Of course I'm hiding it. If I could, I would have kept this secret in the grave..."

"Really?" Mo Tan smiled, he reached out to pick up an apple from the flower basket on the table, took out a small knife from his bag and shrugged at Shalia while peeling the skin: "Then what did you do?" Not much."

This is the truth. It is not because Mo Tan is so keen to detect the obvious sense of disobedience in Shalia. A lot of accurate and accurate judgments, but none of this has anything to do with what the two of them are talking about now. The so-called 'hidden' that Shalia said before is not true in Mo Tan's eyes, and can even be classified as 'very obvious' category.

"I've also noticed this, but... it can be said that there is nothing I can do. After the accident at home, I have become more and more difficult to control myself. After all, during that time, even if I was alive, I had to do my best."

Shalia sighed with a miserable smile, but she looked at Mo Tan with gentler eyes: "And after being rescued by you in Huguang City, maybe I suddenly found someone I can rely on, even though you Unpredictable, and though you always piss me off, and though you sometimes disappear all day, and though you're a nasty nuisance, . . . "

"I understand." Mo Tan nodded with a serious face, and said seriously: "Love makes people blind."

But this time Shalia didn't use as much force as before to blow him away, she just lowered her eyes slightly, and said to herself in a daze: "Maybe, I haven't loved anyone, so I'm not sure." Do I have feelings for you..."

"of course not."

Mo Tan interrupted her with a smile, and then threw the bunch of apple peels that had been peeled into a row of hearts into the trash can next to the sofa: "You just met me when you lost everything. Your physical condition is extremely poor, your mental state is unstable, and it may even be the first time to kill someone. In addition to fear and despair, there is endless pressure in your heart, and you don’t even know what you are doing or what you should do. It is said that all the preconditions for both mental and physical collapse were met, but at that time, a handsome, funny, mature, reliable and wise man appeared, so... naturally became your spiritual support."

"Spiritual support?" Shalia pursed her lips lightly, then looked at Mo Tan with flickering eyes: "Does that mean it has nothing to do with that blinding love?"

The latter whistled: "If you can still recall every detail of that kiss, and you still don't have any intention of beating me up and even a little excited after throwing away its necessity, then maybe it really has something to do with it." maybe."

"You've been trying to piss me off since a long time ago."

Shalia narrowed her eyes slightly, and after a few seconds of silence, she leaned sideways on Mo Tan's shoulder, which was by no means generous, and sighed wearily: "Why did I only realize now..."

"And then?" Mo Tan embraced Shalia's slender waist very naturally (the most outrageous behavior he can do under the restrictions of the system), and said with a smile: "This is your way of revenge?"

At this moment, the bloodseeker woman who seemed extremely weak shook her head, and whispered in an imperceptible voice: "I just want to take a rest like this, and then I will ask you a few questions."

"Well, although I am indeed single right now..."

"I didn't mean to ask that."

"what a shame."

"How did you find out? Specifically... what did you find?" Shalia snuggled up beside Mo Tan, as if she didn't care that her proud bust was tightly attached to Mo Tan's body, she just lowered her head. He murmured, "I'm curious."

Mo Tan gnawed at the apple without changing his face: "The eyes, expressions, behavior, tone of voice, and even the severity of hitting me, all these reasons add up, I almost skipped the 'discovery' from the beginning of suspicion. During this process, as for what was discovered, to put it simply, a soul with perseverance, calm enough, although not so mature but strong enough and a soul that was weak, gullible, immature, and a little naive were stuffed into it. In a body, can this be explained?"

"It seems that I am indeed too relaxed in front of you, no, it should be said that I have been too relaxed since I met you." Sally pursed her mouth playfully and rubbed against Mo Tan's shoulder, There was a smudge of lavender on the snow-white robe, one of the camouflages used to hide the color of her pale lips, something like tinted lip balm or something, strawberry-scented, by the way.

Mo Tan shrugged his left shoulder, which was still free: "Then it's up to you to explain it now. To be honest, I am very, very, very interested in this phenomenon that happened to you."

"Well, I just hope you won't be too surprised when you know it."

Shalia nodded meekly, then closed her eyes and said as if dreaming: "I have told you about my life experience before, and now I am just adding a little bit. In fact, before my mother gave birth to me What is conceived is not just a life, what is in her belly is a pair of sisters, they are twins..."

Mo Tan, who felt that the other party was trembling slightly, just nodded calmly, indicating that he was listening.

Shalia stopped trembling, and remained silent for a while before continuing: "You should know that there are many spells, talents, and even props that can detect babies when they are still in the womb, and our pure-blood seekers It is very difficult for people with blood to give birth smoothly, so..."

"So~" Mo Tan glanced in the direction of the bedroom, and laughed playfully: "Even if I treat you like this or that now, it's hard to like being a father?"

Click!

After gently dislocating Mo Tan's arm, Shalia continued to tell her 'secret'...

As she said, the reproductive ability of pure-blooded bloodseekers is extremely low. Although it is not as terrifying as a giant dragon laying a nest of eggs for a hundred years and hatching a nest of eggs for decades, most bloodseekers are not as terrible as the giant dragons. Lifespan, bloodseekers are just an identity rather than a race. It is similar to a fixed mutation route based on conventional life forms, and it is also the kind that can be inherited. This mutation has increased their lifespan and improved their physique. Strengthening, for example, a bloodseeker whose race is human, even if he does not dabble in martial arts or magic in this life, he can still live at least twice as long as other people of the same race, but this 'mutation' also brings many restrictions, such as If you don't drink blood for a long time, you will starve to death. For example, the survival rate of babies is extremely low...

That's right, it's the low survival rate, not the low fertility rate. The fertility of the bloodseekers has not been affected. Simply speaking, pregnancy is normal, but the premature death rate is so high that it is outrageous.

The reason is that the life forms of bloodseekers are too special, and it is very difficult for a fetus conceived as a pureblood bloodseeker to survive the "primordial blood embrace" in the mother's body. To give a simple example, bloodseekers and The offspring born from the combination of other races will have a 50% chance of being a normal baby, and the other 50% will be "pure blood" who fully inherit the abilities of the bloodseeker, and the baby who is randomly assigned to "pure blood" will experience once in the mother's body There is no exception for the blood embrace, that is, the "primary blood embrace", and because the baby's physical fitness is extremely weak, there is a high probability that the baby will die directly from the mother because he cannot withstand the transformation of the blood embrace during this process. In the belly, this is the core reason why pure-blooded bloodseekers are quite rare in the entire continent.

In the case of a couple who are both pure blood, their child must be pure blood, so the premature death rate is self-evident. Shalia's parents are both pure blood.

In most bloodseeker families, organizations, and associations, for this situation, the fetus is usually checked by some special stimulating magic when the mother is three months pregnant, and the child's physical fitness can be determined by observing the fetus' physical fitness. It is judged whether to survive the original blood body, if the probability of surviving is more than [-]%, then give birth, if the probability of surviving is less than [-]%, then directly use some special sacrifice magic to let the fetus Euthanasia' to avoid unnecessary pain. Although it seems rather cold-blooded, it is a very humane approach. At least those children who are almost impossible to survive the embrace of primordial blood will not die in pain... …

Shalia's mother, like other bloodseekers, also had a checkup when she was three months pregnant, but the result was unexpected. She was rarely pregnant with twins. From a certain point of view, this kind of Fortunately for the bloodseeker, it is almost impossible to conceive two lives at the same time, but unfortunately, the survival rate of the two fetuses is sky-high, and one of them is very healthy, with a rare [-]% survival rate. rate, and the other is indeed congenital dysplasia, even if it is placed in an ordinary race, it may not be able to persist until it grows up. If you want to accept the embrace of the original blood...of course you must die.

The unique sacrificial magic of the Bloodseeker acts directly on the mother's body, so there is no way to "euthanize" a baby alone, so Shalia's parents have only two choices, or let the two children suffer no pain Or just let nature take its course, believing that the baby with an [-]% chance of surviving survived the initial blood embrace safely, but can only watch another child die in unbearable pain for adults.

This is an extremely desperate choice for any parent. After being informed of this conclusion, Shalia's mother shed tears almost every day, while Earl Fezeren's long black hair turned gray overnight. ...

If there's only one child with a birth defect, it's just tradition to put her in a long sleep before she dies.

If a healthy child has not survived the initial blood embrace, she who once had hope of surviving at least struggled and fought without regret.

But in that situation at that time, no matter what choice he made, it would be tantamount to murder!

Killing a new life that had a chance to breathe the air and enjoy the world?

Or let a child die in torment when he could have passed away peacefully without suffering?
They cannot escape and must make a choice, but...how to choose?
This process is undoubtedly painful, but the result is already doomed...

Many times, when we are faced with an extremely entangled choice, although we are entangled, struggling, and trying to delay the time to the last side, in fact, the answer is already predetermined.

We know how to choose, we know what to do, we know what is right, we hesitate, we struggle, we suffer, we can't sleep at night, we are almost crazy, in fact, it is just a kind of self-comfort, so when we finally go When we choose the inevitable answer, we can tell ourselves 'I have struggled', 'I have suffered', 'This is the choice I made after going through great torture'...

In fact, the result is usually doomed at the very beginning, and the process is just a waste of time artistically processed as 'salvation'.

In the end, they chose to give birth to the child. This is a decision that any logical person would make. Since death is inevitable for one of them, at least the other person who is likely to survive should be given a chance to survive. .

"The mother named the fetus that had a chance of surviving 'Salia'."

At this moment, the bloodseeker, who seemed extremely weak, leaned against Mo Tan's shoulder, and said in a low voice: "This is also the tradition of bloodseekers, to name babies before they are born, and give them another reason to work hard to survive." , while the other doomed fetus was not given a name."

Mo Tan smiled: "So you are the one who survived?"

"Yes, I survived." Shalia sighed softly, and then murmured: "But the other fetus that everyone thought died in the embrace of primordial blood did not die either..."

"Oh?" Mo Tan blinked his eyes, and his eyes were shining with interest: "Tell me, dear, why the other one didn't die?"

Shalia, who was slightly hugged, bit her lips: "I only found out later that the night before the birth, when the original blood came, that healthy fetus actually protected the other baby out of some kind of instinct. One, she hugged her sister, as if trying to prevent the misfortune from happening... But it failed after all, the blood embrace is not so easy to stop, the healthy fetus survived easily, but the other directly Annihilated by blood, at least that's what everyone thought before I was seven years old."

"So, after that?"

"I... feel another me, she is in my body..."

Chapter Three Hundred and Sixteen: The End

(End of this chapter)