Chapter 155

Li Tianran entered the small building, walking up the somewhat old stairs, the wooden planks under his feet creaking.

Li Tianran didn't deliberately lighten his footsteps.

This was his home, he wouldn't be reserved, wouldn't feel restrained like a guest.

He came to the second floor with the most ordinary and relaxed attitude.

Hanhan's little room door was still tightly closed, obviously, she hadn't woken up from her dream yet.

Li Tianran sat on the sofa, quietly looking at everything familiar inside the small building. Although it couldn't compare to a castle in terms of luxury, it gave people a strange sense of belonging.

Perhaps this was also a kind of muscle memory, a deep-seated attachment to home in the soul.

Hanhan hadn't woken up yet, and Li Tianran had nothing to do. He reached out and touched the table in front of him, his fingertips picking up some dust.

The small building had been vacant for several months, and no one had been assigned to clean it, so the living room was covered in dust and cobwebs.

He stood up, went to the kitchen, put on plastic gloves, put on an apron, filled a plastic bucket with clean water, picked up the rag hanging on the wall, and started cleaning.

Li Tianran first wiped the tables and chairs in the living room clean, then rinsed the windows of the balcony with clean water, and wiped them spotless with newspapers.

Then, he picked out the photo frames, tea sets, TV remote controls and other sundries piled in the cardboard boxes in the corner, wiped them one by one, and placed them in their original positions.

Mopping the floor, cleaning the cobwebs, taking out the bottles and jars in the kitchen, removing the dust-covered seat covers from the sofa for washing and drying...

At this time, Li Tianran no longer possessed the sharp aura of the commander-in-chief of human civilization or the governor of Kuangxi Island. He was just like an ordinary person, doing ordinary things.

By the time he finished all this, it was two hours later.

Night had already enveloped the entire Kuangxi Island.

*Pa ta!*

Li Tianran, who was sitting on the sofa taking a short rest, suddenly heard the sound of a door lock opening.

He looked in the direction of the sound and saw Hanhan, wearing the scorched Peppa Pig pajamas, standing expressionlessly in the corridor, staring straight at Li Tianran, her eyes full of scrutiny and observation.

She seemed to be judging whether Li Tianran was a friend or foe!

The atmosphere suddenly became tense.

At this time, the pioneers who had been waiting outside the small building also became alert.

A Cerebrate-type Pioneer lowered his voice and came to Lu Chi, saying, "Legion Commander... I sense a huge amount of mental energy active within the small building. She should be awake!"

Hearing this, Lu Chi's brow furrowed, and the hand holding the hilt of his knife couldn't help but tighten.

...

At this time, after Hanhan stared at Li Tianran for a full thirty seconds, the invisible tense atmosphere in the air that was almost about to explode gradually disappeared.

Out of the instinct of a higher lifeform's vigilance, she felt that the human in front of her had no malicious intent and would not pose any threat.

She turned her gaze elsewhere, came to the sofa very naturally and sat down, calmly saying, "I'm hungry, I want to eat."

She didn't understand the meaning of this sentence, just like she didn't understand why she said "So noisy" when she killed those lower-sequence followers before.

This was her body's natural reaction.

Just like closing her eyes to sleep when she was sleepy, and lifting her legs to step forward when walking...

Her consciousness was brand new, completely not understanding the meaning of human language and writing, unable to express more or more complex emotions, but when the body or emotions showed reactions such as anger, hunger, or joy, her body still retained the muscle memory of the past, expressing the corresponding words through bodily instinct.

The current Hanhan, asking her to recite *Chu Shi Biao* (出師表, Memorial on Dispatching the Army) or talk about *On the Harm of EU Hegemonism to the World* would definitely be impossible for her.

However, expressing these basic physical needs and emotional behaviors had been repeated countless times in the past, so her body could naturally and correctly express them without any obstacles!

Li Tianran stood up and took out a new set of pajamas from the closet, placing them in front of Hanhan.

Li Tianran believed that she could understand what he wanted her to do. As a higher lifeform, her logical thinking and comprehension abilities were very strong.

Hanhan looked at the brand-new pajamas placed in front of her, without any movement, and repeated again, emphasizing her tone, "I'm hungry, I want to eat!"

Li Tianran still didn't follow her request, but instead took a towel soaked in warm water and slowly reached out towards her little face, which was full of stains and scorch marks.

Hanhan frowned, and a huge brainwave instantly filled the living room.

But the next moment, when the warm towel touched her little face, an unspeakable sense of familiarity surged up from the depths of her genes, her body froze, and she sat there blankly without moving.

Li Tianran carefully wiped the stains on her face, just like countless times a long time ago, when Hanhan and Xiao Hei went to play in the mud, he would scold her while wiping her dirty face clean...

The terrifying brainwaves filling the room dissipated, and Hanhan silently sat in place, allowing Li Tianran to wipe her face, arms, and calves clean.

Li Tianran washed the towel clean, handed the towel and pajamas to Hanhan together, and then turned and walked towards the kitchen, closing the sliding door.

Hanhan seemed to understand something, she took off her old pajamas, wiped her body clean with the towel, and finally, put on the new set of pajamas.

Although she was expressionless throughout the entire process, it was obvious that her attitude towards Li Tianran was very similar to, yet somewhat different from, her attitude towards Xiao Hei.

Towards Xiao Hei, it was intimacy mixed with condescension.

But towards Li Tianran, it was intimacy mixed with a trace of... awe.

That's right, it was awe.

It sounded absurd, that a higher lifeform would actually be in awe of a lower lifeform!

But this phenomenon was actually very common.

For example, if a young tiger in a zoo lost its mother and was eventually raised by a female dog, even if the young tiger grew up to become a giant beast with a weight and size far exceeding the female dog, when the female dog roared at it angrily, the tiger would still tremble.

This sense of awe had been imprinted in the tiger's genes, and it was difficult to change it with its own strength or weakness.

Although the tiger also knew very well that it could silence its "stepmother" with a single paw, it didn't dare to easily swing this paw, unable to overcome its genetic fear!

This kind of awe might not be much on a tiger, but it was a bit embarrassing on a twice-evolved Apostle.

Hanhan wore her new pajamas, and the expression on her face seemed a little angry.

She felt that her reaction just now was a bit embarrassing, being commanded by a lower lifeform.

She wanted to slap the other party to death, but her body and genes strongly opposed her decision, and even kept sending signals to her brain, telling her to obey the other party...

Too embarrassing!

Too humiliating!

Hanhan looked at the tightly closed kitchen door, a hint of fierceness flashing in her eyes.

She had made a decision to fight against her body's instinctive reaction and absolutely no longer obey this lower lifeform. If he dared to offend her again...

She would stake the dignity of a higher lifeform!

I must kill him!