Chapter 127 Fubao's Accident

In the intensive care unit of the Provincial Military Region General Hospital, the air was as stagnant as if filled with lead.

Zhou Weiguo was lying on the hospital bed, his face was so pale that it looked bloodless, and his breathing was so weak that the only way to confirm his life was by the green line jumping on the instrument screen.

Shen Lingning wrung out the towel and carefully wiped his thin cheeks and arms. The cold touch from her fingertips made her heart tremble.

The spiritual spring that once brought her infinite hope and confidence is now on the verge of drying up, and only a few drops of turbid water can seep out each time. She saved it again and again, and almost spent it all on her husband.

The golden finger is not infinite. The grace of saving her husband has to be paid at the cost of her daughter's health?

This realization made Shen Lingning heartbroken and filled with regret.

On one side is the husband, on the other side is the child!

She is really desperate!

The daughter who was babbling and playing with her doll the day before, felt as if burned by fire overnight. Her little face turned red and her body temperature soared to a terrifying 45 degrees Celsius. She curled up into a ball, twitching constantly, and soon fell into a deep coma.

The hospital's best pediatric experts held a joint consultation and used various expensive imported antibiotics, but the patient's condition did not improve and instead deteriorated rapidly.

The doctor took off his stethoscope and shook his head gravely. "It's suspected to be an outbreak of viral meningitis. The situation is very dangerous... We... have done our best."

A critical illness notice was stuffed into Shen Lingning's hand. It was a thin piece of paper, but it was so heavy that she could hardly hold it.

Two critical illness notices within a few days, my God, this is too cruel!

“No… Impossible!”

Shen Lingning rushed into the utility room at the end of the corridor, holding her burning, unconscious daughter like a madman, locked the door, and entered the space with a thought - this was her last hope!

But the scene before her made her feel like she was falling into an icy cave!

The space no longer has the fresh atmosphere of the past, but is instead filled with a dull feeling of decay.

The spiritual spring that was once crystal clear and gurgling with life-giving water has completely dried up!

All that remained at the spring was an ugly, cracked mud pit with a few grayish-white stones exposed, lifeless.

The Lingcha tree next to it, which had always been lush and green, now had large areas of leaves that were yellow and curled, as if it had been burned by a raging fire. The few remaining green leaves were dull and lifeless, and the whole plant exuded a kind of deathly silence as if it was about to die.

"No! No way! Where's the spring?! The tree!"

Shen Lingning knelt beside the dry spring, digging frantically with his hands in vain, his nails cracked and blood mixed with black mud without him noticing.

She screamed into the dead silence, her voice distorted by extreme fear: "Space! System! No matter who you are! Please! Save my daughter!

I give you my life! My health! My luck! Everything I have!

Give me back the spring water! Please! Answer me! "

No response.

The only sound was Fubao's increasingly weak, bellows-like breathing in her arms.

"Mom...Bao feels uncomfortable...dark...scared..."

"Mom, is Bao going back?"

The last thin voice of her daughter came like a red-hot needle, piercing Shen Lingning's mind fiercely. Then, the spiritual bond that connected them and gave her countless comforts and reminders broke completely with a click.

silence.

Complete, terrifying silence.

The Western-style house in Shanghai that had brought her a happy childhood, and the place where she and Fubao had a place to stay and live a stable life in the 1970s, was gone!

Shen Lingning could no longer feel any emotions or thoughts from Fubao.

This complete "disconnection" made her more heartbroken than a critical illness notice!

She lost her greatest support and the most precious connection with her daughter.

“Why…why is this happening…ahhhh…”

She held her daughter's hot body and curled up on the cold, dead black earth. Her tears had long dried up and a whimper like a wounded beast came from her throat.

Enormous regret and fear consumed her: "Am I too greedy? Did I abuse the spring water to save the Wei Kingdom, and only then did I suffer such backlash?

Retribution...it's all my retribution..."

Just when she was on the verge of a complete mental breakdown, the reality hit her hard.

There was a hurried knock on the door and Aunt Sun's tearful voice: "Lingning! Lingning, are you in there? Come out quickly! There's a call from Songtaogou!

We've been applying for fertilizer and tea seedlings for ages, but the Commerce Department has rejected our application! They're saying...something about insufficient evidence! The fields are waiting to be fertilized! They're trying to drive us crazy!

Then, the nurse knocked cautiously on the door. "Director Shen...are you...are you okay? There are some unpleasant words outside...please don't take them to heart..."

Shen Lingning came out in a daze, holding Fubao. Several family members of patients in the corridor immediately fell silent, their eyes dodging, but they could not hide their curiosity and fear.

Fragments of gossip wormed their way into her ears like venomous snakes:

"That's her... her husband is like that, and her child is..."

"I heard it's the reincarnation of a jinx, specifically someone who brings bad luck to his family..."

"Her factory is doing incredibly well. How could it be so easy to make money? Who knows, she might have resorted to some detrimental methods..."

"Stay away from her, it's bad luck..."

"She's so successful now, maybe she got it by suppressing the people around her! Look at her parents and family, which one of them had a good ending?"

Her career was throttled, her husband was in a coma, her daughter's life was hanging by a thread, she was plagued by vicious rumors, and the space she relied on was completely silent...

All the pressure exploded at the same time, crushing her last bit of strength.

Holding her daughter, she moved step by step back to the ward filled with the smell of disinfectant, looking at her husband lying silently on the hospital bed and her daughter in her arms, whose breathing was so weak that she could hardly hear her chest rise and fall.

For the first time, I felt that living itself was a painful torture with no end in sight.

The darkness was like thick ink, completely submerging her from head to toe.

She even felt extremely tired and delusional: If she just held Fubao in her arms and completely sank into the dead, eternal darkness of space, would she be... liberated?

In her most desperate days, there was more than coldness and malice.

Shen Yuchuan's parents and family rushed over upon hearing the bad news, and Zhao Changhe's family stayed by her side, providing solid support.

Angry about the hurtful rumors, Shen Yuchuan and Zhao Xiangdong even got into conflicts with others and were punished for it.

Wang Xiulan was so angry that tears streamed down her face. She held her hand and kept saying, "We have such good children in Lingning. Those black-hearted people can't even spit out ivory! Don't listen to them!"

In just a few days, Shen Lingning lost weight at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his energy seemed to be drained away.

The military families at the Songtaogou base were already in a heavy mood due to the tea mountain fire, and they were even more indignant after learning about the obstruction of reconstruction and Shen Lingning's experience.

Aunt Sun, Liu Jinfeng, Wang Shufen and others came to visit Zhou Weiguo and Fubao on behalf of everyone. They were frightened when they saw Shen Lingning's appearance. They felt that if Zhou Weiguo and Fubao didn't wake up, she might really not be able to hold on.