Chapter 259: The Unbearable Past

He walked through several wards alone and could see the people inside through the glass windows. Some of them were resting, some were practicing their supernatural powers, and they didn't look like they were being restrained in any way, but none of them came out.

Zhuang Mingxu turned around and finally aimed at a middle-aged man. He looked to be in his thirties. One of his legs was missing from the calf, and he was standing on the bed with a crutch.

Seeing someone knocking on the door, the man turned around in surprise. Seeing that the person looked unfamiliar, he was alert for a moment.

"Hello," he looked at Zhuang Mingxu and greeted him, "Are you a new doctor? I haven't seen you before."

"Doctor Zhuang Mobai brought me here," Zhuang Mingxu said, looking around. In the corners he couldn't see, there were lush green plants growing all over. They climbed on the walls like ivy.

"Have you awakened the wood-related ability?" Zhuang Mingxu asked.

"Yes," the man said, and took out a seed the size of a millet grain and placed it in the palm of his hand. After a moment, the seed sprouted, grew quickly, and blossomed and bore fruit.

No matter how many times Zhuang Mingxu had seen this scene, he always found it magical and extraordinary.

"Try it, ordinary people can eat it too." When the man heard that he was brought by Zhuang Mobai, he became much more polite, and the expression on his face became much more sincere.

What was handed over was a thumb-sized cherry tomato. The bright red fruit looked particularly fresh. Zhuang Mingxu held it in his palm, his eyes unconsciously looking at his broken leg.

Under normal circumstances, he would not do such rude behavior, but at this moment he had an indescribable thought, he really wanted to know what was wrong with the man's legs.

"It was broken when the earthquake happened. I broke it while trying to save my wife." The man seemed to understand his look, patted his thigh and explained.

"Where is your wife?" Zhuang Mingxu asked.

"He ran away with someone," the man said calmly.

He was just an ordinary man trying to survive in the end times. When the earthquake hit, he held up the fallen furniture for his wife and broke his leg.

Later, his wife awakened water-related abilities and joined a team at the beginning. She led him to survive all the way and they lived a decent life.

But women always hope to have someone to rely on, rather than having to be the backbone themselves, especially when the team of superpowers around them is full of more powerful superpowers. After a long time, they will always have other thoughts.

Some similar experiences made Zhuang Mingxu suddenly think of himself. He also broke his leg at the beginning of the apocalypse, and was finally healed after being pulled by others.

"Actually, I don't blame her. I saw how hard she worked this year. Besides, she left me enough supplies," the man said and fell silent.

Zhuang Mingxu also fell into his own thoughts. If...

If it was really as Zhuang Mobai said, Lu Weiyi was also thinking about curing his leg, repaying the past friendship, and leaving completely...

The man said this, but his tone could not hide his disappointment. He must still be in love...

But he just let her go.

Perhaps it was the same experience that made Zhuang Mingxu resonate with him. He couldn't help but think about what might happen in the future. He didn't dare to think too deeply about it, but he couldn't help it.

He felt that he couldn't do this as a man.

That person was his dream when he was young, the one he had prayed for for many years but could not get, and the only one he could grasp now.

After a moment, the man took a deep breath, cheered himself up, and said with a smile, "Fortunately, I have super powers now."

"You don't know that when I met Doctor Zhuang, Ma Gang's supplies were robbed and I was crawling on the ground in a panic and couldn't stand up. Doctor Zhuang just appeared in front of me and asked me if I wanted superpowers."

"I thought he was joking, but I had no choice at the time. I said yes without hesitation. Now it seems that it was the best decision I have ever made."

Zhuang Mingxu looked at the stars burning in his eyes, as if the supernatural power had brought him endless courage, and he had the strength to face life again.

"What do you want to do in the future?" Zhuang Mingxu asked.

"Go out and find my wife, and ask her if she still wants to be with me." The man was very frank, not feeling ashamed at all. "I still love her. If I had the superpower earlier, we would definitely be the same as before."

Same as before!

These words once again hit Zhuang Mingxu's heart accurately.

The two of them worked for a while, and Zhuang Mobai came over after finishing his work. The man stood up and thanked him again, his face full of sincerity and not a bit of falsehood.

After walking for a long way, Zhuang Mingxu asked, "Grandpa, why are you suddenly studying this?"

“Don’t use your tricks to fool them. What about contributing to human development? Just appease others.” As a member of the Zhuang family, Zhuang Mingxu naturally knew what kind of family this was.

Zhuang Mobai laughed and said, "Of course it's for a better future for our Zhuang family."

Seeing Zhuang Mingxu looking over, Zhuang Mobai continued, "Nowadays, there are too few people with supernatural powers in our Zhuang family. To be honest, the young ones below are really not capable of taking on big responsibilities. If you can have supernatural powers, I won't have to worry about my retirement and can rely on the few people I have now."

Zhuang Mobai shook his head with a look of disdain, "In the future, people with superpowers will become more and more powerful, and the conflict between superpowers and ordinary people will eventually break out. Our family does not have a strong superpower to support us, so we will always be outdone."

"I have no children, so I can only rely on you," Zhuang Mobai looked at Zhuang Mingxu, "To seek benefits for the family is also to leave a way for myself in my old age."

Zhuang Mingxu didn't ask any more questions and continued walking forward.

Further ahead was the ward for patients who had just undergone surgery. Zhuang Mingxu took a look through the transparent glass on the door. It was just an ordinary ward with a container similar to a flower pot placed on the bed.

"What's placed in there are the corresponding five elements: water, metal, matches, seeds, and soil. Once they develop superpowers, they will use these to train."

"Superpowers cannot be used freely at the beginning, so they need auxiliary tools, which can make them easier to control," Zhuang Mobai explained.

"Can we determine their awakened abilities from the beginning?"

"Of course, we will do tests in advance and awaken the most suitable superpowers by comparing the elements in the body. In this way, the success rate of the operation will be very high."

After the two of them made some money, it was already late, so Zhuang Mingxu followed Zhuang Mobai back upstairs.

Zhuang Mobai was going to Mr. Zhuang's house for dinner and asked Zhuang Mingxu to go with him.

"Does your family know you do this?"

"Of course, the laboratory needs a lot of human and material support," Zhuang Mobai said frankly.

From a distance, Zhuang Mingxu had already seen the look in Mr. Zhuang's eyes as he looked at the two of them.

…

"Don't move." Xu Sa stopped his hand and said calmly.

They cannot resort to violence or get into conflict with others.

Xu Sa repeated this in his mind over and over again and turned to look at Zhang Bijuan. She looked calm, as if she didn't suffer any great injustice. She was completely different from the incredible person who looked at her crying and roaring, "I am your own son". Zhang Bijuan couldn't help but look away for a moment.

Then Xu Sa asked, "Do you really feel sorry for me?"

Zhang Bijuan avoided his gaze, nodded, and said, "I'm sorry."

Xu Sa sneered, “If you really feel sorry for me, you should stay away from me instead of saying these ambiguous words in public and letting everyone point fingers at me.”

"Why? Do you think I don't dare to tell you what you did?"

Zhang Bijuan's face was panicked for a moment. She raised her body slightly and said anxiously, "Sasa, mom is..."

"Don't you want to know what happened? Then I'll tell you." Xu Sa ignored her and directly picked up the loudspeaker brought by the vendor nearby, turned it on and put it to his mouth, and said to the crowd of onlookers, "You are right, this is the person who gave birth to me."

“But after my dad died, she used my dad’s pension to marry a rich man. In order to marry into a wealthy family, she knelt on the ground and begged her son to take the blame for her stepson’s murder.” Xu Sa looked at Zhang Bijuan expressionlessly, his eyes as cold as a poisonous snake that could bite at any time. “Her 18-year-old son, who had just taken the college entrance examination and had an admission letter from Tsinghua University, was sent to prison by her.”

"Ms. Zhang, do you still remember how you cried and said you were pregnant, and if I didn't go to jail, the baby would be aborted, and if I didn't go to jail, you wouldn't be able to get married?"

"You're just going to jail, you won't die," Xu Sa whispered, repeating what she had said before - words he thought he had forgotten but found to be as clear as if engraved in his bones.

The resounding voice made the surroundings quiet for a moment. Then Xu Sa tilted his head slightly, smiled, and looked at Zhang Bijuan leisurely, "Do you know what an 18-year-old child will face in prison for murder?"

"For six years, I've lived the life of a rich wife, and you never looked at me, never gave me anything. Now you come running over here, and you say you have no purpose, who would believe you?"

Seeing that Zhang Bijuan was completely silent, Xu Sa stopped pestering her. He had already made up his mind to never see this woman again in his life - he didn't want to take revenge on her, he just considered it his bad luck to have met a selfish mother.

But it's enough to calculate this kind of thing once. If you encounter it again...

That's hard to say.

Xu Sa turned to look at the people who were watching the fun around him, "Do you sympathize with her? What do you sympathize with her for? In today's world, you may face death every day. You might as well go home and see your wife instead of spending this time. Who knows, after you die, your children may be the next me."

"No, there is no going to jail now, they will only be worse off than me. Look at what those fatherless, motherless and independently dependent children around you are facing? They will live the same life."

As soon as Xu Sa heard that no one around spoke up for Zhang Bijuan, they all started pointing fingers at her. Everyone stepped back to give this woman some space. The little girl next to her looked only three or four years old. She didn't quite understand what was going on and was sucking her fingers in confusion.

The little boy standing by was frightened by the people around him. He hugged his mother's thigh tightly and shrank timidly towards Zhang Bijuan.

Just then, a young man squeezed through the crowd and walked in.