Chapter 411
It was already very late after dinner. Although Yunmian had just woken up, after she washed up and lay in the same bed with her mother, feeling the warm heat and the quiet and peaceful atmosphere in the bed, all the questions that had been lingering in her heart were suppressed.
The child didn't say anything, but just secretly leaned towards his mother in the bed, and then leaned closer...
Until she was gently embraced in her mother's arms and felt her mother patting her back lightly with her hands, Yun Mian pursed her lips, curled up into a small ball and squeezed into her mother's arms. After she hugged her tightly like a little octopus, she stayed still and listened to her mother's breathing. There was a bright light in her eyes that could not be hidden.
"Mom~"
In the dark night, the cold autumn wind outside the window whistled, rolling up something and then letting it fall. Yunmian buried herself in her mother's arms and spoke muffledly in the silence.
"Do you love me?"
Among so many questions, she asked the one that she cared about the most and was the least sure about.
The hand that was patting her back paused for a moment, and then she received her mother's unhesitating answer with a hidden smile.
Yun Jinyi: "Of course, I will always love Mianmian."
Yun Mian secretly pursed her lips to suppress her smile, and then asked in a low voice: "Does that mean you love me very much? How much do you love me?"
"I love you so much."
Yun Jinyi replied in a gentle voice: "Mianmian is more important than mom's life."
Seemingly satisfied with the answer, Yunmian calmed down.
But about two minutes later, her childish and soft voice sounded again in the darkness, with a hint of undisguised questioning.
Yunmian: "Then, compared to the entire galaxy? Why did mom choose to abandon me at the federal border?"
Perhaps the previous questions were what she wanted to know most, but her mother's answers finally gave her enough courage to ask this question.
This problem has been lingering in her mind since she was a child, and has been tormenting her day and night ever since.
This time the person who answered was also silent for a moment.
Just when Yun Mian's heart was quietly sinking and she was gradually losing the courage she had accumulated with great difficulty, and was then replaced by disappointment, she finally heard the answer.
"Mianmian, it was mommy's fault. I'm sorry... I failed to protect you well."
After the sudden apology, Yun Mian subconsciously clutched her mother's pajamas, and after forcing back all the grievances and tears from childhood to adulthood, she buried herself deeper in her mother's arms, sniffed muffledly, and stopped talking to her.
But Yun Jinyi's voice did not stop there because of Mianmian's silence.
She did feel guilty.
Such guilt spread across many worlds in her heart, until she looked back and saw her daughter, an empty shell without a soul. Suddenly, it exploded in her heart, drowning her whole being. She almost suffocated several times in her daughter's unfocused and empty eyes.
From that fateful world, the daughter curled up beside her grave and whispered, "Mom, I miss you so much."
In the interstellar world, her daughter collected her body. When faced with attacks from strange beasts, she did not dodge or avoid them, allowing them to devour and chew her. Only when her body was in severe pain did she groan and shed tears, and then let go and threw away her urn.
It seemed as if he had finally let her go.
"Mom, I'm so tired..."
Those were the last words her daughter left her.
When she came into this world, her daughter became an orphan without a soul, empty and stupid.
Mianmian's soul was devastated by pain and the protagonist's luck in each small world, and in the end, only an unconscious and empty shell was left of her.
In this way, Mianmian would never feel any pain again, would never shed tears again, and would never become her daughter again and again.
Those memories and emotions that are deeply engraved in the soul are also being erased and consumed bit by bit, and along with the young soul, they are dissipated into the universe.
"Whether it's the Federation, the border, or the whole world, none of them are as important as Mianmian."
Yun Jinyi opened her eyes in the darkness, as if she had returned to the first round of that world. One day, after returning home in a hurry, she hugged her young daughter and said to her slowly, "But in every world, Mom has no more memories, and no better choices. I can only join the army, become stronger, and guard the border, because only if I can keep more exotic beasts outside the border, can Mianmian live in peace on the main planet."
"I didn't know that Mianmian had suffered so much when I was away, and I didn't know that when I was fighting the alien beasts at the border, those people would stand behind me, enjoying my efforts while bullying my daughter..."
"Originally, I planned to withdraw from the most dangerous frontline when you came of age, so that I could keep you by my side and spend more time with you. But I didn't expect to encounter that SSS-level mirage beast, nor did I expect that interstellar humans have such a long life span, but I only met you a dozen times in a hurry, and the total time we spent together was less than a month."
"I've always wanted to say sorry to you, and I've always wanted to go back to that world and hug you a little longer..."
The leaves outside the window were whimpering in the wind, but inside the house, Yunmian was gently hugged by her mother, who wiped her tears and lowered her head to sigh and coax her softly: "Mianmian, be good. Mom will never leave you alone again. I love you very much. Mom loves Mianmian very much, more than the love in countless worlds combined."
"...Yun Er has been waiting for us to go home." The 9-year-old Yun Mian saw her own fate from her guilty apologies, and finally sobbed and whispered: "It's so stupid. If I don't go back, it won't know how to upgrade and recharge itself. If the Federation takes our house away, Yun Er will be homeless."
"No."
Yun Jinyi lowered his head and kissed the top of his daughter's head, and whispered in her ear: "Such a stupid Yun Er, doesn't Mianmian think it is very similar to the equally stupid system outside?"
Yunmian suddenly opened her eyes, and her clear eyes, washed by tears, stared blankly at her mother in the dark night.
Then he was patted on the back again.
Yun Jinyi: "Be good, don't tell it, it has always thought it is a human."
What kind of human soul can be strong enough to accompany different hosts to die again and again in different mission worlds, and die more than three thousand times?
The system is very stupid. Even though it uses the database to process the imported task memories, it still firmly believes that it is an individual.
Perhaps it was because Yun Er had been hoping during such a long wait that it was a human being, so that he could go out and look for Mianmian who had not returned home for so long, stand in front of her to protect her when she was bullied, and give her a big human hug when Mianmian hid and cried secretly.
“…It’s still so stupid now.”
How can I stay so stupid?
Yunmian wanted to laugh, but her tears wouldn't stop her, so she could only hug her mother tighter, relying on her and complaining at the same time, which was just like her contradictory and awkward personality.
So early the next morning, the system discovered that Mianmian was looking at it strangely.
Moreover, she would pout and want to cry as she watched, but she forced herself to hold it back. Finally, she poked it with extra disgust, and poked it again and again...
The system couldn't stand being poked and rolled around anymore, so it jumped up and protested: "Stop poking me!!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the child's eyes were filled with tears again.
system:"……"
The momentum it had just built up disappeared in an instant. It flew into Mianmian's hands in a compromising manner, humming aggrievedly: "Forget it, I won't bother with a little fool like you. If you really want to poke me... then poke me!"
Anyway, there won’t be any spare parts missing.
It’s not because I feel sad when I think about Mianmian’s past.
Nor was he soft-hearted towards Mianmian, who only had memories of the first round of StarCraft.
Although... it's super sad to think that so many Mians from the first week are living alone as children.
So Yun Mian lowered her head and poked it again, watching it rolling around in her palm. It spoke fiercely, but its round body was actually emitting a soft and warm orange-yellow glow.
The atmosphere is soft and quiet.
Until it was broken by a surprised exclamation.
"Xiao An?! How do you look..."
Not stupid anymore?!
Yun Mian looked up at the child who was screaming at her. She first frowned subconsciously at the name "Xiao An". Then, in the other person's terrified and dazed eyes as if she had seen a ghost, she tilted her head and smiled at her gently.
Early in the morning, the entire orphanage was filled with the crying of the child who was so frightened that he kept hiccuping.
The system lay flat in Mianmian's palm: Look, I'm not the only one who was scared by the fake corpse Mianmian!
System: (proudly with hands on hips) I didn’t even cry!
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution:
ATNWWAN 22 bottles;
Suihua 17 bottles;
It is Xiaoxi & Ya 13 bottles;
White 5 bottles;
Weeds, Yansisheng, Changyuan 1 bottle;
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