Tokyo: Parasite

Chapter 406 176: Progress

After hearing the details, Hedwig frowned and felt the situation was extremely difficult. After all, even the infallible holy water didn't work when it came to something as mysterious as vitality. She was not sure if she could find a solution.

"That's basically the situation. Don't worry about it. Whether it succeeds or not, our transaction will not change."

The Jade-faced Fox smiled tiredly and comforted.

Such words made Hedwig feel less nervous.

No matter what, she had to at least try. It wasn't her style to give up without a fight when it came to treating patients.

Several people walked to the door of a wooden house. There were many flowers and plants planted next to it. Louis had sharp eyes and could see many children's toys made of wood, such as wooden horses and rocking cradles, and they were obviously made by more than one person.

It can be seen that the entire fox village is looking forward to this unborn child.

But no one expected that what awaited them was a dead end filled with disappointment and fear.

"Her condition is not good now, let me take you in." Jade-faced Fox spoke to Hedwig, but his eyes were on Louis.

Lewis knew what she meant and took the initiative to speak: “I’ll wait for you outside, if you need me, just shout.”

"Ah."

Watching the two of them walk into the wooden house, Fox Seven rolled his eyes and took the initiative to go over to chat with Louis.

She usually likes to travel around the world, and the reason she could stay here for these few months was all thanks to the rare atmosphere of her fellow tribesmen and the care of her elders, which she had hardly ever experienced. However, the longer she stayed in such a stable life, the more uncontrollable her adventurous nature became, and she had already begun to get restless. If Fox Er had not been critically ill, and if leaving at this time would have been somewhat "worse than an animal", she would probably have found a way to "say goodbye".

Since I can't leave now, it's nice to chat with people from outside.

Even though Jade-faced Fox would go out and collect some publications, films and television shows from time to time, he could never learn as much as he could from people outside.

"Come on, come on. I made some wine, but they don't like it. Let's have a drink. Fox Six, you come too and help to be the referee. When guests come, you have to treat them well. Sister won't blame you. This is called hospitality."

After chatting for a few words, Fox Seven invited Louis and Fox Six to her house for a drink in a familiar manner.

She has a lot of free time here, and she has learned everything from gardening, cooking, and winemaking. However, because she always likes to innovate, not many people are willing to drink her wine or eat her food.

It just so happened that Louis also wanted to learn more about the fox people from them. It had nothing to do with any strategic policies, it was purely to satisfy his curiosity.

".Hiccup, you are right. David can't stand up now no matter how much blood he receives, but they deserve it! They are so greedy! You don't know what I saw there when I first started traveling around the world."

Somehow the topic turned to the Kingdom of David, which had already switched from offense to defense.

Fox Seven didn't have a single sympathy and started cursing, talking about the unfair things she encountered when she was still ignorant and just started traveling around the world. When he got angry, he even slammed the table and stood up.

After several years of experience in Japan, Louis has learned not to easily take off his mask in front of strangers.

"Haha, your point of view is a bit extreme." He pointed out calmly.

Fifteen minutes later.

"All the David people should be thrown into the incinerator! Even the fat should not be wasted. Scrape it off layer by layer to make soap, and then sell it to their descendants all over the world for half a million! Let them use the people's blood and sweat accumulated by their ancestors to wash away the dirt on their bodies!" Louis stepped on the table, kicked over the wine glass, and shouted with a red face.

"Calm down, calm down!" Fox Six persuaded with sweat on his forehead, and quickly winked at Fox Seven, "Is this what you call how to entertain guests?"
And what's wrong with this guy? He looked so gentle just now, but how come he became like this after two glasses of wine? Fox Seven, are you adding some "weird ideas" to the wine again, bastard!

"Wuhu! Hahaha, I support your idea!" Fox Seven fanned the flames, excitedly raised his glass, and drank it in big gulps, as if he had found a soulmate.

Fox Six covered his forehead with his hands. Okay, these two are two anti-human drunkards. It turns out that Fox Seven’s wine should not be drunk carelessly.

No, I am a fox.

It’s against humanity, not against me!
That's fine.

If these two really cause any trouble in the future, it will give Sister Ye Jie a headache.

The atmosphere at Fox Seven's house remained lively, completely different from the atmosphere at Fox Two and Fox Three's houses. At this moment, the wooden house seemed extremely dull.

The haggard Fox Three didn't say a word. He just nodded to the Jade-faced Fox and Hedwig who came in, exchanged glances with them as a greeting, and then continued to sit blankly beside the specially arranged bed, staring at the sleeping Fox Two in a daze.

If you need more observation outside to see the expectations for children, then inside the house, you can't ignore it even if you want to.

All the angular furniture was covered with anti-collision corners, and the place was covered with customized cute fox character stickers. There were also various vocabulary lists. The child wasn't even born yet, but they were already considering that the child would run away, and they even had a debate about deciding the child's mother tongue.

Finally, they chose the language of Beilian, which was also the original language taught by their teachers, as the children's mother tongue as a form of inheritance.

The patient was lying on his side on the bed. His stomach was not particularly big, but of normal size.

"Have you ever had an ultrasound?"

"I have. Hmm. The doctor doesn't know if it's normal or not, because he has never seen a fox man's B-ultrasound in all his years of medical practice. But overall, there should be nothing wrong with the child, and the development process is similar to that of humans."

With the help of the Special Affairs Bureau, it is not difficult to conduct a special prenatal check-up for Fox Two.

Hedwig nodded when he heard this, took out a simple detection device from his backpack, and performed a routine examination on Fox Two who was lying on the hospital bed.

Just with this preliminary examination, she roughly understood why even Ye Jie's holy water couldn't solve the problem.

Vitality is a relatively abstract concept. Different organs of a person have their own vitality. After working for many years and being constantly damaged, they will eventually fail. Vitality is the underlying concept that determines how much damage these organs can withstand and how many years they can work. It cannot be explained simply by telomeres limiting division. Some organs are born with weak vitality and die before their telomeres are completely worn out. Some cells last a lifetime. Vitality is a doomed game of subtraction from the beginning.

But Fox Two's condition was very strange. His organs appeared to be healthy and he did not look like he was at the end of his life at all. However, his vitality was so weak that it seemed like it would stop functioning in the next second.

On the contrary, the child is in excellent condition and is continuously absorbing the mother's vitality through the umbilical cord.

If this continues, let's not talk about whether one life can be exchanged for another. If the mother can't hold on before the fetus is fully mature, the fetus may not survive.

"Is this the way your race reproduces? But... no, it's definitely not, it goes against evolution." Hedwig seemed to be asking a question, but in fact he was asking and answering himself, thinking about the possibilities.

First of all, she needs to rule out the possibility that this is the fox people's way of reproduction, but she also needs to know what the correct way for fox people to reproduce is.

"I don't know either." The Jade-faced Fox was not wearing a mask at this time, and one could clearly see how her fair skin became rosy little by little, and how her earlobes were stained with a light pink.

"You... don't know?" Hedwig thought that since it was a fox village, there should be a few old people, right?
Jade-faced Fox sighed: "As you can see, there are only so many people in our fox village, and there is no elder one. Or rather, I am the oldest among them. We all traveled to this world through some means that we ourselves do not even understand, but at least we can be sure that in our original world, the reproduction of fox people is definitely not the case. Perhaps, it is the restriction of different worlds."

Looking at the Jade-faced Fox's face, which looked to be in her early twenties at most and as tender as a tear, Hedwig opened his mouth and quickly closed it.

Well, being the chief at the age of twenty must have been very stressful, and the fate of this child also determines whether the fox people can continue to survive in this world. No wonder they are willing to use all their chips to find a solution.

After all, if this problem cannot be solved, it means that the fox people will never be able to take root in this world. Similarly, they will not have the opportunity to feel a sense of belonging to this world.
"I'll try my best. Please prepare a quiet room for me. I need to stay here for a while." Hedwig took a deep breath, not daring to give much hope.

"That's enough. No matter what the outcome is, you will always be our friend." The Jade-faced Fox now has the mentality of a dead fox treating a living fox doctor. Logically, her best target for help should be the fake one, but unfortunately the fake one has ignored them for too long. Only the Ghost-faced Fox still firmly believes in the fake one's gaze. The Jade-faced Fox feels that the fake one has abandoned them.

From now on, they have to rely on themselves to move forward.

Unconsciously, her identity changed and she became the patriarch who was responsible for the fate of all the wandering foxes in the other world.

But the Ghost-Faced Fox has not yet completed her transformation. Everything she did was initially just to make her sister less lonely. She still positioned herself as a subordinate waiting to be summoned by the Pseudo-Master.

Next, Hedwig tried to feed Fox Two some holy water, and her condition improved visibly, but it was quickly absorbed by the fetus, and only a small part remained and was retained by the main body to maintain life.

This situation was not unexpected to Hedwig. As expected, the main problem lay with the fetus, which was too abnormal.

Then she collected some blood materials from Fox Two and Fox Three, and followed the Jade-faced Fox to a wooden house prepared for guests. This was temporarily Hedwig's temporary research institute.

She didn't see Louis, but she could hear Louis' voice faintly coming from a wooden house not far away.

Now that she has let down her guard against the Jade-faced Fox, she must devote herself wholeheartedly to her research.

Since holy water can be more or less effective, does it mean that simple and crude infusion of vitality can also have the hope of healing, it’s just a matter of dosage?

And possesses a supernatural power of great vitality.
Hedwig started with the most direct approach and began to investigate which extraordinary person possessed strong vitality and was likely to get help.

In fact, the root of all this is that when Bai Shihang created them, he did not take this into consideration, but his main focus was not here. Moreover, they were essentially "created" lives, and at that time, Bai Shihang had not yet awakened his original abilities, so his creations also had some flaws.

The combination of many factors has led to the current consequences. Fox people have talents that surpass humans, but they have also lost the ability to multiply.

More importantly, Fox One to Fox Seven were all failed products of creative experiments. They were stronger than humans, but not much stronger. After taking the Holy Son Pill, they only awakened the abilities of their rigid bodies, and they did not make much progress afterwards. They survived entirely thanks to the masks sent by Shiraishi Hang.

The only successful and satisfying lives created by Bai Shihang are Jade-faced Fox, Ghost-faced Fox and Ye Jie.

The first two foxmen have many awakened abilities and great potential. Although Ye Jie has not had any awakening abilities, he is very friendly to Holy Light, Bai Shihang's original power, and has strong adaptability. He is the paladin who can borrow the most power from Bai Shihang. Combined with the "Holy Relics", he has become the strongest extraordinary person in the world.

The ghost-faced fox stared coldly at the two "guests" who entered the space of the Tree of Shelter.

Next she would keep a close eye on their every move.

Jade-faced Fox was right. She really couldn't bear to watch Fox Er die.

But it is also difficult to accept letting outsiders into the village.

This method, which is close to self-punishment, can only be used to fill the guilt in my heart.

"My Lord, if there is any punishment for this, please let it be on me."

In the main wooden house where the false one was enshrined, the ghost-faced fox prayed respectfully.

As usual, I wrote down everything that happened today on paper, but still didn't get a single word of response.

The ghost-faced fox carefully flipped through the pages to avoid any replies from the faker that she had missed.

After reading it, he heaved a sigh of relief and said to himself, "I will keep a close eye on them and will never let any accidents happen in the Sanctuary."

Kyoto, outside the airport.

Carlos looked at the busy yet orderly flow of people with some envy. He thought that a country where extraordinary disasters were constantly happening could still maintain such order and not collapse. There must be something worth learning in this regard.

Now the Citizens Gang controlled by Carlos has completed the unification of Morelia and is not in a hurry to expand its influence to the entire state, because at this time he and his sister Dana both feel their inability to manage. If they expand blindly at this time, the Citizens Gang will inevitably quickly corrupt and become another blood-sucking leech in the country of drug lords.

Therefore, he took advantage of the slightly stable situation and traveled across the ocean to Japan to learn advanced experience in coexistence between extraordinary humans.

(End of this chapter)