Upon hearing that it would take until adulthood, the disdainful look in Zhan Xi’s eyes when looking at Barry, akin to how one looks at a beast, finally subsided a bit.
However, he then paused in confusion.
Para, Zerg king—what on earth were these things?
“Lele doesn’t want to be a Para, nor your Zerg king. He wants to go back to kindergarten with me!”
“Impossible.”
“It is possible. My brother is here, and so is my aunt. If you don’t return Lele to me, I’ll have them beat you up!”
The little child glanced behind his dad. Upon seeing the support, he straightened his posture.
Counting his own support, he spoke confidently in a childish tone.
The squabble between the little child and Barry continued, and he didn’t even notice the complicated expressions of the adults behind him.
In the contract signed with Barry, everything was clearly stated.
Barry only needed to return the human, not hand over his Zerg king.
“Ningning.”
Zhan Xi attempted to interrupt his own child, but the child kept bickering with Barry. After a long argument, he turned to his dad and said, “Daddy, Lele is our child. Ask him to come back!”
Zhan Xi: ...
Zhan Xi was speechless.
It would be okay if Lele were an ordinary child, but now it was evident that Lele was someone else’s little Zerg king. Asking them to return the little Zerg king was a bit too difficult.
Barry, seeing that the little blackened child was already in the arms of the parents, couldn’t be bothered to argue further and left without a word.
“Don’t go.”
“Ningning, behave and talk to daddy properly.”
The little child was held back by his dad, not allowing him to chase after Barry.
Caesar brought many spaceships, and the previous survivors have been settled. The last three children, including Savi, were receiving medical treatment from the doctor.
Marshal Twain took Wagner away and now the last dirty little child was also in his father’s arms.
Zhan Xi didn’t mind the child being dirty. At this moment, he’s holding onto the little child and couldn’t bear to let go.
After waiting for a while, Caesar finally spoke. “Uncle Zhan, I want to hold Ningning.”
The little child already sensed something was wrong, squirming down from his father’s leg, refusing to let his brother hold him.
Though he really wanted his brother, the little child plopped down on the ground, not allowing anyone to hold him.
He wouldn’t let his aunt hold him, not even Uncle Ling Qi.
Pointing in the direction Barry had just left, sniffing, he began making demands in front of the adults: “I want Lele.”
He promised Lele, he would bring Lele back home.
Lele was afraid of Zergs. If they left Lele alone in the Zerg tribe, Lele would definitely cry in fear.
“Ningning, before you came out, we signed a contract. The contract does not include bringing their Zerg king back.”
The adults also explained the reasoning to the little child, but the little child looked at them, on the verge of tears: “Lele is so pitiful, I want Lele.”
Despite the logical reasoning, emotionally, he was reluctant to leave the scared and timid Lele with the Zerg tribe.
The little child and the adults reached a deadlock like this.
“If you don’t take Lele, I won’t take a bath.”
Seeing the adults starting to avoid the issue and wanting to force him to take a bath, the little child overturned the bathtub, refusing to bathe.
If Lele didn’t come back for a day, he would be a smelly little child for a day!
Seeing the little child not bathing, the adults had no choice but to gather for a meeting.
They had an agreement with the Zerg tribe, and now that the Zerg tribe had fulfilled their agreement, they couldn’t continue to leave the army here.
But there were still other survivors on the spaceship, and these survivors needed to be sent back in time.
After a brief meeting, Caesar ordered the army to leave and sent the survivors back. They only left behind a handful of people to stay here.
Among the remaining handful of people was none other than Marshal Twain.
Marshal Twain was now just as troubled as Zhan Xi.
Now that Wagner had woken up and had already connected with Ningning, upon learning that the adults might not take Lele away, he immediately solemnly joined Ningning’s protest activities.
His father had already bathed him while still unconscious, so he couldn’t threaten his father with not bathing, but he quickly thought of other ways to bother his father.
The two little children made the adults uneasy.
***
Inside the Zerg tribe.
Lele, who was brought back, behaved as Ningning expected. He had been continuously crying out of fear. His throat became hoarse from crying, and when his eyes swelled so much that he couldn’t cry anymore, he started struggling to catch his breath.
Barry examined his body with a Zerg, but the little Zerg king was afraid of Zergs.
If it weren’t for Barry using human semblance, the little Zerg king would have been scared away even by his approach.
He could get close to the little Zerg king with human semblance, and even hold him in his arms, but the little Zerg king neither ate nor drank, just cried, and his life signs seemed to be getting weaker.
The Zerg queen watched the little Zerg king, who rejected any Zergs approaching, frowned, and fell silent for a long time.
“Para mentioned before that there were Zergs hunting him.”
Barry suddenly spoke, “He may have developed a fear of the Zerg race.”
The Zerg queen’s expression was not pleasant. “He is a Zerg king and should not fear the Zerg race.”
“He’s still too young.”
Despite Barry’s clear disdain for the little Zerg king, he looked at the trembling figure in his arms, his eyes deepening. He could sense the weakness of the little Zerg king and feel the shivering of his small body.
Although this was a mixed-blood little Zerg, it still had the bloodline of their royal family. How could it be so weak?
Moreover, there were Zergs trying to capture him, kill him...
What’s going on?
Barry lowered his head to look at the little Zerg king. He had been dormant for too long, and many things were unclear.
“Barry, send him out, renegotiate with the humans outside, let them take care of the little Zerg king. When he comes of age, he must return.”
Leaving the little Zerg king here would mean he might not survive tomorrow.
Listening to the Zerg queen’s words, Barry, after a long silence, murmured a low “Yes.”
The Zerg queen was in a bad mood and did not linger. She left the place.
Barry had someone bring warm water and began to wipe the little Zerg king’s body. The little Zerg king shivered and was unwilling to touch the water.
“After the bath, I’ll send you out.”
With Barry’s words, the startled little Zerg king instantly calmed down.
With a hoarse voice, the little Zerg king timidly asked, “Find, find daddy?”
Barry: “...”
Barry frowned.
The father of the Little Zerg king was a member of their Zerg tribe, not at all a human child that hadn’t even been weaned yet.
Moreover, having a three-year-old child as the father of another three-year-old child was something that would make anyone burst into laughter.
But the Little Zerg king seemed genuinely attached to his “dad.”
Barry looked at the timid little face of the Little Zerg king and almost uttered a “Hmm.”
Having received a response, the Little Zerg king, still with tears on his face, revealed a faint smile to Barry for the first time.
Barry was momentarily stunned.
