Happy Island, Tianen District.

1203, May 7, Sunday.

Russell was huddled lazily in the thin quilt, squinting his eyes and yawning.

"Are you awake?"

He heard the voice of a delphinium coming from beside him.

"Um……"

Russell hummed in a low voice, sniffed the air gently, and then slowly squirmed in the direction of the scent of his hair.

He put his head on Delphinium's chest, and Delphinium patted his head impatiently, and tugged Russell's fluffy ears slightly.

Russell then put his head on Delphinium's shoulders.

He opened his eyes and saw Delphinium wearing his gaming goggles, and was a little surprised.

"...What are you playing at?"

Although Delphinium often plays games, she doesn't like stealth games very much now. Because it will invalidate her sense as a cyber detective-if she adapts to this kind of stealth games,

The sense of operation is often easy to slack off when you really dive into the matrix space.

This kind of stealth game is very suitable for training new cyber detectives. But once you become a "veteran", it is no longer suitable to be exposed to something that will make you lose your sense of tension.

Russell has known Delphinium for almost a year.

But this was the first time he saw Delphinium wearing a game goggles specially designed for stealth games.

"No, I'm not playing."

Delphinium responded casually to Russell's words: "I'm just reviewing your XP."

"……What?"

"It's a pity...you don't want to play with Little Butter?"

Delphinium smacked her mouth, took off her blindfold and put it aside.

The loose hair was flying, and the tip struck Russell's ears like a sharp whip, making his ears tremble unconsciously.

Delphinium looked down at the cat head in her arms, touched his ears hard, and then hugged him directly: "You guy... I have clearly heard that even married men will collect some small things."

Buttery.”

"It's true." Russell nodded.

Then he suddenly realized: "You want to see what kind of play I like to play?"

"Yeah. I recently collected a post, and I can determine what my boyfriend likes by looking at the achievements of different little butters he has collected..."

Delphinium was a little confused: "Why don't you play at all?"

"...Because you and I live in the same room."

Russell was a little helpless: "Did the post say that those 'married men' actually slept in separate rooms with their wives? How could I play that kind of game in front of you..."

"Why do we need to separate houses after getting married?" Delphinium was a little confused.

"Then I don't know." Russell shrugged.

"Anyway," Delphinium said with a smile, "I have some resources here, do you want to pick a few?"

"Why are you suddenly so interested in this kind of thing today..."

Russell muttered, feeling his sleepiness coming back to him.

So he pulled at the edge of the quilt, preparing to shrink back and catch up on his sleep.

He had been wandering in the sea of ​​group subconscious last night, cleaning up the pollution of "dreams". Although Russell's body and brain had rested, he felt that his spirit was still a little tired.

Now, he can probably tolerate this feeling of alienation.

At least I won’t have headaches or visual and auditory hallucinations after waking up like when I just advanced to level 9 red shift a few months ago. However, the fatigue caused by being busy in dreams cannot be completely eliminated.

of.

But there is nothing we can do.

Now that Russell has crossed the Leviathan Wall, he no longer has a "private dream." As long as he dreams, he will surely sink into the collective consciousness.

According to Russell's character, when he saw people close to him being polluted by illusions, he couldn't just turn a blind eye and let it go. As a result, after clearing what was in front of him, he saw that there were more things in the distance that had not been cleared.

So he had to float over again and clean up the next area... As a result, he was able to stay busy all night.

"Don't sleep yet—"

Delphinium reached out and pulled out Russell who had just retracted.

Russell subconsciously opened his mouth and wanted to bite. However, after Delphinium put her hand in, Russell did not bite it, but just held her palm in his mouth.

"Woo?"

Russell opened his eyes dissatisfied and took a glance.

Delphinium stretched out her hand in front of her face and pushed a message to Russell.

That is a gold-level member of Ampoule Biomedical, which provides a daily routine physical examination report by sampling body information at any time through a chip.

Then Russell didn't have to open his eyes and directly saw the bright small words "Consider the possibility of pregnancy (97%)".

He was startled for a moment, and his mouth subconsciously relaxed.

"……when?"

"The report says it was twenty-five days ago. It's less than a month ago."

Delphinium said with a smile: "So, if nothing else happens... you have to abstain from sex for two months.

"That's why I'm choosing games for you... Why don't you take a look at the recommendations?"

She said, putting the game blindfold on Russell.

"...haven't you already installed it all?"

Russell took a closer look and subconsciously complained: "Why do the heroines have dog ears?"

Only then did Russell discover that his gaming glasses had already installed a lot of games that he had never seen before.

Then before he could take a closer look, Russell's gaming blindfold was removed by Delphinium.

"Did you look straight?"

"Didn't you give it to me..."

Russell muttered and shrank his neck.

Delphinium lowered its head, turned over and bit Russell's ear.

And Russell was held down by Delphinium with one hand - even though Delphinium didn't exert any force at all, he still didn't dare to move.

"Why are you so calm?"

Delphinium finished biting Russell's ear and was a little dissatisfied with Russell's reaction: "Have you guessed it before?"

"I didn't deliberately avoid it...and I didn't use safety measures. It's just a matter of probability."

Russell said casually: "If you want to say whether you are happy or not, you must be happy..."

When he said this, he suddenly felt that something was wrong with Delphinium's attitude.

So Russell instinctively used his weird psychic perception, which he rarely used on Delphinium on weekdays, and turned it into psychic tentacles to penetrate into Delphinium's heart.

Just like a bat receiving ultrasonic signals, Russell almost immediately sensed the hidden fear and worry from Delphinium's seemingly calm and joyful expression.

He stood up and sat up straight, reached out and touched Delphinium's face with concern, and said softly: "What's wrong? What are you afraid of?"

Delphinium also put away her smile this time and said softly: "I was thinking... can we keep this child?"

Russell was a little confused by her words: "Why not?"

"——Because of dusk."

Delphinium frowned slightly, and her beautiful face showed a melancholy like a crescent moon: "You can control the power of dusk with reason and love, but what about this child?

"Will he also inherit part of your...essence? In that case, if he can't control his power..."

"...Wait a minute, let me take a look."

Hearing this, the expression on Russell's face became serious.

Under Delphinium's stunned gaze, he gently laid Delphinium down on the bed.

"Wait, what do you want to see? Eh-?!"

Russell's right arm turned into a liquid like a living thing, seeping into Delphinium's body as she blushed.

Delphinium suddenly exclaimed shyly: "Wait a minute, you... are actually... warm water...!"

"Then I can't use cold water to check. It would be too harmful to the body."

While Russell complained, he quickly took back the liquid and re-condensed it into his right arm.
To be continued...