Quadruple split

Salia's expression froze. She looked down at Mo Tan blankly, and after a long time she asked in a low voice: "When... did you find out?"

"The night I first met you." Mo Tan blew the hair on his forehead absentmindedly, then left Salia's legs without any hesitation, and reached out to wipe away a strand of hair from the corner of the latter's eyes. Wet: "It's so obvious, I even occasionally wonder if you have no intention of hiding it from me at all."

The beautiful blood seeker shook her head slightly and showed a sad smile: "Of course I am hiding it. If possible, I would like to take this secret with me to the grave..."

"Really?" Mo Tan smiled brightly. He reached out and picked up an apple from the flower basket on the table. He took out a knife from his bag and peeled it while shrugging to Salia: "Then you did it. Not great."

This is the truth. Being able to detect the obvious sense of disobedience in Salia is not because of how sharp Mo Tan is. Although he can indeed detect many things that will be ignored by too many people, he is also good at making decisions through some trivial details. A lot of precise and accurate judgments, but all of them have nothing to do with the matter that the two of them are talking about now. Salia's previous so-called 'hidden' is simply not true in Mo Tan's eyes, and can even be classified as 'very obvious' category.

"I am also aware of this, but...it can be said that I am powerless. After the incident at home, it has become increasingly difficult for me to control myself. After all, during that time, I had to do my best even if I was alive."

Salia sighed with a sad smile, and looked at Mo Tan with a gentler look: "And after being rescued by you in Huguang City, maybe I suddenly found someone I can rely on, even though you made me You are unpredictable, even though you always make me angry, even though you sometimes disappear all day long, even though you are a nasty person with a bad personality, but..."

"I understand." Mo Tan nodded seriously and said seriously: "Love makes people blind."

But this time, Salia didn't use moderate force to blow him away like before. She just lowered her eyes slightly and muttered to herself in a daze: "Maybe, I have never loved anyone, so I am not sure. Do I have feelings for you..."

"of course not."

Mo Tan interrupted her with a smile, and then threw the bunch of heart-shaped apple peels in his hand 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 your first time to kill someone. In addition to fear and despair, there is only endless pressure in your heart. You don’t even know what you are doing or what you should do. It’s okay. It is said that all the prerequisites for a double mental and physical collapse were met, but at that time, a handsome, funny, mature, reliable and intelligent man appeared, so... he naturally became your spiritual support."

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

The latter whistled: "If you can still remember every detail of that kiss, and despite the necessity, you still have no intention of beating me and are even a little excited, then maybe it really has something to do with it. maybe."

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

Salia 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 tiredly: "I just realized why now..."

"Then what?" Mo Tan hugged Shalia's slender waist exceptionally naturally (the most outrageous behavior he could do under the system's restrictions), and smiled: "Is this your way of revenge?"

The blood seeker woman who looked extremely weak at this moment shook her head and whispered in an imperceptible volume: "I just want to take a rest and ask you a few questions."

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

"I didn't mean to ask that."

"what a shame."

"How did you find out? What specifically... did you find?" Shalia snuggled next to Mo Tan, seemingly not caring that her proud bust was tightly attached to the other person's body, and just lowered her head. He murmured: "I'm very curious."

Mo Tan took a bite of the apple without changing his expression: "The look in his eyes, his expression, his behavior, his tone of voice, and even the severity of his beating, all combined together, I skipped the 'discovery' almost from the moment I started to doubt. As for what was discovered during this process, to put it simply, a soul with perseverance, calmness, and although not mature yet strong enough was stuffed into a soul that was weak, gullible, immature, and a little naive. In a body, is this okay to explain?"

"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." Salia pouted her little mouth playfully and rubbed Mo Tan's shoulder, There was a hint of lavender left on the snow-white robe, which was one of the disguises used to cover up the pale color of her lips, something similar to colored lip balm, which by the way was strawberry flavored.

Mo Tan shrugged his free left shoulder: "Then it's up to you to explain. 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 after knowing this."

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

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

Salia stopped trembling and was silent for a while before continuing: "You should know that there are many spells, talents and even props that can detect babies while they are still in the mother's womb, and pure-blood hunters like us It is difficult for a blood person 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 will be difficult for you to be a father?"

Click!

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

As she said, the reproductive capacity of pure-blooded blood seekers is extremely low. Although it is not as terrifying as a giant dragon laying a clutch of eggs for hundreds of years and hatching a clutch of eggs for decades, most blood seekers do not have the ability of a giant dragon. Lifespan, blood seekers is just an identity rather than a race. It is similar to a fixed mutation route based on regular life forms, and it is also the kind that can be passed down. This mutation increases their lifespan and improves their physical fitness. Enhancement, for example, a blood seeker whose race is human, even if he does not dabble in martial arts or magic at all in his life, 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, the survival rate is low, not the fertility rate. The fertility of the blood seekers has not been affected. Simply put, pregnancy is normal, but the premature death rate is appallingly high.

The reason is that the life form of blood seekers is too special. It is difficult for a fetus conceived as a pure blood seeker to successfully survive the 'original blood embrace' in the mother's body. To give a simple example, blood seekers and Children born from the union of other races will have a 50% chance of being normal babies, and the other 50% will be 'pure blood' who have fully inherited the abilities of blood seekers. Babies who are randomly selected as 'pure blood' will experience it once in the mother's body. There is no immunity to the blood embrace, which is the 'original blood embrace'. Because the baby's physical fitness is extremely weak, there is a high probability that the baby will die directly from the mother during this process because he cannot withstand the transformation of the blood embrace. Underlying, this is the core reason why pure-blooded blood seekers are quite rare throughout the continent.

And when a couple is pure blood, their child must be pure blood, so the rate of premature death is self-evident. Salia's parents are all pure blood.

In most blood seeker families, organizations, and associations, in this case, the fetus will be examined through some special stimulating magic when the mother is three months pregnant, and the fetus' physical fitness will be observed to determine the child's ability. Judgment of whether to survive the original blood embrace. If the probability of surviving is more than 40%, then give birth. If the probability of surviving is less than 20%, then directly use some special sacrificial magic to make the fetus' Euthanasia' to avoid unnecessary suffering. Although it seems quite cold-blooded, it is a very humane approach. At least those children who are almost impossible to survive the embrace of Chu Yuan's blood will not die in pain... …

Salia's mother, like other blood seekers, also had a check-up when she was three months pregnant, and the result was unexpected. She was rarely pregnant with twins. From a certain point of view, this kind of Things are lucky for the blood seekers who are almost impossible to conceive two lives at the same time. Unfortunately, the survival rates of the two fetuses are very different. One of them is very healthy and has a rare 80% chance of survival. rate, and the other one is indeed born with stunted development. Even if he is placed in an ordinary race, he may not be able to grow up. If he wants to accept the blood embrace of the original origin... he will naturally die.

The blood seeker's unique sacrificial magic acts directly on the mother's body, so there is no way to 'euthanize' a baby alone. Therefore, Salia's parents have only two choices, either to let both children suffer no pain. Either die, or just let nature take its course, believing that the baby with an 80% chance of survival survived the First Blood Embrace safely, but you can only watch the other child die in pain that is unbearable for adults.

This is an extremely desperate choice for any parent. Salia's mother cried almost every day after being told this conclusion, and Count Fezeren's long black hair turned gray overnight. …

If there is only one child with a congenital defect, it is simply tradition to put her to sleep before life comes.

If a healthy child did not survive the Chuyuan Blood Embrace, she who once had hope of survival at least struggled and fought without any regrets.

But in that situation, no matter what choice you made, it was tantamount to murder!

Kill a new life that has a chance to breathe air and enjoy the world?

Or let a child who could have passed away peacefully without suffering any pain die in torture?

They cannot escape and must make a choice, but...how?

This process is undoubtedly painful, but the result is already determined...

Many times, when we face an extremely tangled choice, although we are entangled, struggling, and trying to delay time until the last moment, in fact, the answer has already been determined.

We know how to choose, we know what to do, and we know what is right. We hesitate, we struggle, we suffer, we cannot sleep at night, and we are almost crazy. In fact, it is just a kind of self-comfort, so that when we finally go When choosing 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 outcome is usually doomed from the very beginning, and the process is just a waste of time processed by art into ‘redemption’.

In the end, they chose to give birth to the child. This is a decision that anyone with clear logic would make. Since death is inevitable for one of them, then at least give the other person who may survive a chance to survive. .

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

The blood seeker, who looked extremely weak at this moment, leaned on Mo Tan's shoulder and whispered: "This is also the tradition of the blood seekers. Name the babies before they are born, giving them another reason to work hard to survive. , while the other fetus destined to die prematurely did not receive a name."

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

"Yes, I survived." Salia sighed, and then murmured: "But the other fetus that everyone thought died in Chuyuan's blood embrace did not die either..."

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

Salia, who was hugged slightly tightly, bit her lip: "I also found out later that the night before birth, when the original blood embrace came, the healthy fetus actually protected the other baby out of some instinct. One, she hugged her sister, seemingly trying to prevent the misfortune from happening...but she failed in the end. The blood embrace was not something that could be stopped easily. The healthy fetus survived easily, but the other one directly Annihilated by the blood embrace, at least that's what everyone thought until I was seven years old."

"So, what happens after that?"

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

Chapter 316: End