Chapter 359 Then...then would you eat adults?
As he spoke, Li Mo gave what he thought was a kind smile.
The child was so frightened that his eyes rolled back and he almost fainted. Zhong Mu pulled him behind him in time and comforted him, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. Brother will protect you!"
The child finally recovered from his fear. Seeing a monster that eats children walking out of the book and wandering around the city in broad daylight was really terrifying for the child. There is nothing more terrifying than this in reality.
Li Mo on the opposite side put away his smile in confusion. He was very kind and tried to show goodwill to the human cub, so why did the other party act so scared?
Li Mo pursed his lips, stood a little further to the side unhappily, and watched Zhong Mu coaxing the child.
Perhaps because Zhong Mu was protecting the child with all his strength and did not seem to be afraid of the monster at all, the child's emotions gradually calmed down. He huddled behind Zhong Mu and stared at Li Mo, still looking vigilant.
"Would you really eat a child?"
"Yes."
"Then...then, will you eat adults?"
Just as Zhong Mu was about to answer no, Li Mo quickly followed up, "Yes, I ate it yesterday."
Zhong Mu's eyes darkened, and he was ready to continue coaxing the child, but the child was much calmer this time, staring straight at Li Mo with an extremely clear look, "Then can you help me eat daddy?"
Zhong Mu was stunned by this question. He looked at the little child hiding behind his legs and had the urge to stay away from the child.
"Why?" Li Mo stared at the human cub calmly, "Why do you want me to eat your father?"
"Because my dad has turned bad." The child responded to Li Mo's gaze seriously, "Mom said that a man who changes his heart is a degenerate and can be thrown into the trash can. Now Dad has not only forgotten Mom, but also forgotten me. It doesn't matter if a dad like this is eaten by a monster."
He spoke a long string of words seriously in his childish voice, and even Zhong Mu couldn't tell whether he was sulking because his father had forgotten him, or whether he really felt that way.
Zhong Mu's head was dizzy, but he still tried to comfort her: "Your father only forgot you because of the curse of the Forgotten City. He himself was also in great pain, so your father's heart has not changed voluntarily and cannot be thrown into the trash can."
The child pouted, "No, Mom hasn't completely forgotten me. She still thinks of me sometimes. The curse of the Forgotten City won't make Dad completely forget Mom. It's Dad who wants to forget us."
The small voice was so powerful and confident that it confused Zhong Mu for a moment.
"Where is your home? Let me take you back first." Zhong Mu was unfamiliar with this place and had been hiding all the way. He could have a good chat with the residents here and get some information.
The child lowered his eyes in thought, glanced at Zhong Mu and then at Li Mo, then shrank behind Zhong Mu again, "You can come, but he can't! Mommy can't see him!"
The children were quite wary of this man-eating monster.
Zhong Mu glanced at Li Mo awkwardly, "Then, big boss...why don't you wait at the door for a while?"
Li Mo smiled without saying anything, but nodded. It didn't matter where he stood.
Li Mo agreed, and Zhong Mu immediately took the child and walked in the direction he pointed.
Just like yesterday, countless people squatted on both sides of the street in confusion, trying hard to recall what they had lost, but they couldn't remember anything. They could only beat their heads in sorrow and cry bitterly: "I really deserve to die! I really deserve to die!"
"It's all my fault!"
Zhong Mu looked at their frustration and self-blame in confusion, watching them repeatedly thinking and recalling, and then blaming themselves. Thinking of the child's previous evaluation of his father, he couldn't help but have a new guess about this forgotten city.
Can memories really be given up voluntarily?
But at the same time, he discovered a new problem. The people squatting on the street crying and the people looking for people to fight had different emotions. They had obviously forgotten, but their reactions were different.
After Zhong Mu walked to the door of his house with the child and saw the scene in the house, Zhong Mu once again deepened his belief that memories could be given up on their own initiative.
This house may have been beautiful once, but now the front and inside of the house are in a mess. The flowers planted there have withered, the ground is covered with dust, there are many marks of knocks on the door frame, and even the glass windows are rotten.
Looking through the half-open door, I could see a woman with disheveled hair and a pale, withered face sitting on a chair. She couldn't hide her sickness; the air of weakness was almost ingrained in her bones, and her sunken eye sockets were almost dry.
"Mom, I'm back." The child shouted as soon as he reached the door, and then went in.
The woman who heard the voice turned her eyes and looked over, smiling at the child. After noticing the arrival of Zhong Mu, a stranger, she was stunned at first, then she also smiled politely and wanted to stand up from the chair to welcome him, but she was too weak to get up after several attempts.
Zhong Mu hurried into the room and said, "You don't have to get up. Just sit down."
The woman ran her hand through her hair, feeling overwhelmed. "I'm sorry... We haven't had any guests in a while, and I haven't done my homework. I'm not going to meet guests like this."
After getting closer, Zhong Mu suddenly realized that the woman was very young, but her illness had taken away all her vitality, making her look old and gloomy. However, apart from the paleness and thinness on her face, it was still possible to see that she did not show many signs of aging.
"I'm sorry for coming here unexpectedly." Zhong Mu stood in the house, at a loss. "I saw that your child was in danger standing outside alone, so I thought of sending him back."
The woman smiled and nodded to Zhong Mu, then looked at the child, "Looking for daddy again?"
"Yeah." The child answered honestly.
"Does he remember me?" the woman asked again.
The child shook his head, "Not yet."
The woman wasn't overly surprised or distressed, she just nodded calmly, "As long as I'm not cured, he probably won't remember me."
"Maybe at my funeral, he'll remember me." The woman patted the child's head. "If he comes crying then, please help me drive him out. I don't want to hear any annoying noises while I'm lying in my coffin."
The child nodded and took note of it seriously.
Zhong Mu was cautious at the side. "He...didn't he forget you because of the influence of the Forgotten City? How could you hate him so much?"
The woman raised her eyes to look at Zhong Mu, her brows soft. "True emotions cannot be affected by an invisible and intangible curse. Only when a person truly wants to forget will a curse take advantage of the opportunity to slip in, or perhaps it's just using a curse to forget."
The woman smiled demurely and straightened her messy clothes. "You don't understand us. It's normal that you don't understand."
"I'm sick, and there's no cure. I can only drag it out. My illness puts a lot of pressure on him. Even before we got married, he said he would take care of me no matter what. But when the real responsibility fell on his shoulders, he started to regret it."
"Taking care of a patient day after day is so tiring. If he had a normal wife, it wouldn't be like this at all."
The woman kept smiling, but her smile could not hide the bitterness.
As an outsider, Zhong Mu certainly didn't understand as much as she did as she had always been at the center of this family, so she didn't know what to say for a moment.
But the woman didn't need any comfort from him. After she finished speaking, she smiled and said, "Someone took advantage of the chaos in the Forgotten City to abandon his wife and children. I will try my best to live one more day, until I hear the news of his death. This day is much more hopeful than before."
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