Chapter 1236 - 888: Flown Away!? (Part 3)

Chapter 1236: Chapter 888: Flown Away!? (Part 3)

Shen Tang’s beautiful eyes widened, and she shouted urgently, "Stop them!"

Lu Xiao had already rushed forward the moment she spoke, gathering energy to transform into a golden Heaven and Earth Net, attempting to intercept. But he was ultimately a step too late, managing to seize back one egg while the other disappeared into the tunnel.

He roared in anger, wanting to charge into the rift, but the rift instantly vanished. He missed his mark, his face turned pale as death, and his body shook violently. No, what is happening... Could it be an Abyss trick? But in the instant he approached the space rift, he didn’t feel that dark sticky aura...

Lu Xiao returned in despair. Shen Tang saw that he only brought back one egg and her face also turned pale immediately. He said guiltily, "I’m sorry, Tangtang, I only brought back one."

Xiao Jin, Shen Li, and Jia Lan finished dealing with the Abyss Beastmen outside and quickly returned to the delivery room. Seeing Shen Tang was alright, they breathed a sigh of relief. But soon they noticed the grim expressions on the trio’s faces—not the joy of newborn arrival, but a despairing, dead-silent atmosphere—and quickly sensed something was amiss.

Jia Lan asked, "What happened?"

Xiao Jin, being a bit thick-skinned, hadn’t yet noticed the problem. He looked at the egg in Lu Xiao’s arms and said puzzled, "It’s been half a day now, hasn’t the other egg been born yet... Oh, there was a shadow that broke in just now, that guy was strong, why is it gone? Did you deal with it?"

Shu Kui said with a grim face, "That Demon General was killed by us, no... to be precise, it wasn’t us who killed it, it was the child."

"What? The child?" Xiao Jin looked at the egg in Lu Xiao’s arms with disbelief, then turned and saw Shen Tang’s belly had become flat, and then he realized, "It’s born? Where’s the other egg?"

Lu Xiao’s Adam’s apple rolled violently as he hoarsely and clumsily spoke, "I’m sorry, I... a space rift appeared just now, and one child was taken away."

His eyes were a vivid red, his palms tightly clenched into fists, even with drops of blood dripping from his palms. Shen Tang exclaimed, "Ah Xiao!"

Lu Xiao snapped back from the extreme pain and self-reproach, quickly walked to the bedside. Shen Tang grasped his palm, prying open his clenched fingers, indeed saw a bloody mess. She hurriedly used her Healing Ability to treat his wound, comforting as she gripped his broad and slender, yet trembling palm, turned to explain to the others, "It’s not Ah Xiao’s fault. Things happened too urgently, even I didn’t react in time, the other child was taken away by the space rift."

She was also in great pain, trying to feign calmness, but tears uncontrollably rolled down from her eyes. From great joy to great sorrow in an instant, who would have thought such a thing would happen?

Shen Li’s heart ached to the extreme, walked to the bedside to embrace Shen Tang, soothingly patting her back, "Don’t be sad, it’s our failure to protect you and the children. But at least one child is still here, isn’t it? No matter where that child is taken, we will certainly strive to bring it back."

Xiao Jin also squatted by the bedside, hugged one of Shen Tang’s hands to his face and gently rubbed it, his voice rarely gentle, "Yes, don’t worry Tangtang. No matter where the child is taken, even if it’s to the ends of the earth, we’ll risk our lives to bring the child back."

Jia Lan looked at Lu Xiao and Shu Kui, "Was it the Abyss that did it?"

"Not sure, but I don’t think so. If the Abyss possessed such a means, they wouldn’t have needed to go to such great lengths tonight. Moreover, I can sense that there seems to be no Abyss aura on the other side of the rift." Lu Xiao’s voice still held pain, with a trace of barely perceptible tremor, but he knew now wasn’t the time for self-recrimination, he could only steady his mind to analyze the situation.

Xiao Jin said, "Then that’s strange. If it’s not the Abyss who did it, who would it be? It couldn’t be that the unhatched little creature ran off by itself."

Unexpectedly, as soon as he said this, the atmosphere suddenly turned silent. Several astonished gazes fell on him, making his back tense, and he scratched his head puzzled, "What’s wrong? You wouldn’t really believe the child ran off by itself, would you? How could that be possible?"

Shen Li interrupted him, "For ordinary people, indeed that’s not possible. But you all mentioned earlier, in the face of danger, these two newborn children hadn’t even hatched yet, yet they seemed to have autonomous awareness, repelling the enemy by themselves. This indicates they have some kind of instinctive awareness, or there are other forces protecting them, guiding them."

"Perhaps the child leaving isn’t necessarily a bad thing."

Shen Li said this partly to comfort Shen Tang, but he indeed had such speculation.

He took the egg from Lu Xiao’s arms and looked at it, "Have you noticed, the totem on the eggshell seems to have dimmed somewhat?"

"Like part of the power was consumed." Jia Lan nodded, "So this suggests that the power of the totem on the eggshell protected the child. There’s a good chance the child was taken away by this force."