Chapter 255 The War Affects Sang Zhitao and Lin Mo...
Sang Zhitao and Lin Mo did not stay near the quarantine area for too long. After collecting the pasta for about three days, Lin Mo led her back.
"I've collected about two or three hundred this time, I think that's about right?" Sang Zhitao patted her small backpack.
Lin Mo tapped the grass under his feet before turning to look at her: "Are you sure you don't want my help?"
Sang Zhitao shook her head repeatedly: "No need, I only have a few dozen in this bag, it's not very heavy."
“But…” Lin Mo looked at her hesitantly, and after a moment of silence, he said, “What if you don’t grow tall? Don’t they say that children shouldn’t be suppressed to grow taller?”
Sang Zhitao couldn't help but give him a black line: "It took me three hundred years to grow to the height of a four or five-year-old. If we calculate it as one year old every hundred years, I'm actually only three years old. A three-year-old child being this tall is already quite tall..."
Listening to her rambling on and on, Lin Mo couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.
After Sang Zhitao finished speaking, he replied softly, "It was my fault; I didn't understand common sense."
Sang Zhitao choked, and couldn't help but look up at him: "I wanted to ask before, logically speaking, you have amnesia, so you shouldn't remember many things, right? Why do you seem to know everything?"
Lin Mo paused in his tapping of the grass before looking at her and saying, "Every time I lose my memory, the people from the Spiral Tower give me some books or teach me some common sense after I wake up."
"Why do you hate Spiral Tower so much?" Sang Zhitao continued to ask.
After a moment of silence, Lin Mo asked curiously, "Why do you think that?"
Sang Zhitao glanced at him in surprise: "Isn't it obvious?"
Lin Mo immediately recalled the scene after seeing the woman in the spiral tower ahead and fell completely silent.
Sang Zhitao gently took Lin Mo's hand: "I also think the people from the Spiral Tower have ill intentions."
Lin Mo was somewhat surprised: "Did someone from the mutual aid society tell you anything?"
Sang Zhitao shook her head: "Just a sixth sense."
Speaking of this, Sang Zhitao couldn't help but frown when she thought of the genuine aura that Lin Mo exuded after using his superpower.
She had traveled through the world of pipes for so long, encountered all sorts of people, and witnessed their use of superpowers on several occasions, but none of their superpowers made her feel that they truly existed.
Sang Zhitao couldn't help but raise her hand and rub her temples.
"What's wrong?" Lin Mo immediately noticed her unusual behavior.
"It's alright." Sang Zhitao gently shook his hand.
Because they were carrying supplies, Lin Mo couldn't carry Sang Zhitao anymore, so it took them longer to return than they had gone there.
By the time they got home, the weather was no longer so hot; at least it was cooler in the evening.
"What's that?" Sang Zhitao looked at a large wooden box next to the door, which was even taller than her.
Lin Mo had just put his backpack down when he heard her words and couldn't help but turn his head to look. However, when his gaze fell on the box, his face immediately darkened.
"What's wrong?" Sang Zhitao's gaze kept shifting between the box and him.
Lin Mo took a deep breath: "It's alright!"
Hearing the barely suppressed anger in his voice, Sang Zhitao looked at the box with an even stranger expression.
The wooden box in front of him was clearly ordinary, so why was Lin Mo so angry?
She glanced at Lin Mo, then at the box, lowered her head and thought for a moment before walking over to the box and examining it carefully.
The wooden box in front of her only reached her chest, and the top layer of wooden planks was not completely sealed, with an error of about half a centimeter.
She tentatively placed her hand on the wooden lid and gently pushed it.
"Tao Tao!" Lin Mo had gone inside to unpack after seeing the box.
But when he discovered that Sang Zhitao not only didn't follow him into the house, but also directly pushed open the lid of the wooden box, he couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
The sound of the lid hitting the ground with a "thud!" made him frown again.
"Don't touch these things." He sighed softly, then walked up to Sang Zhitao, looked at the contents of the wooden box, and said unhappily, "Don't you even look? What if they're dangerous?"
Sang Zhitao gave him a fawning smile: "I forgot..."
Lin Mo sighed helplessly and patted her head: "Be good, go inside."
"What is this?" Sang Zhitao was only about 20 centimeters taller than the box, and the box wasn't very full, so she could only vaguely see some colorful things.
Lin Mo gently shook his head and picked her up.
Only then did Sang Zhitao notice that the wooden box contained some beautifully packaged food and several colorful books that looked like they were for early childhood education.
"...Was it delivered by the Spiral Tower?" Sang Zhitao couldn't help but ask, frowning.
Lin Mo nodded: "Mm."
Sang Zhitao raised an eyebrow and couldn't help but murmur, "Why does this feel like a weasel paying respects to a chicken...?"
Lin Mo twitched his lips, and finally couldn't help but chuckle as he tapped her head: "Never mind them, once they're delivered, they're ours."
The father and daughter carried the contents of the box into the room, one by one.
They built a small corner cabinet at the dining table, which was perfect for storing these stored grains.
And so, the father and son resumed their heartwarming daily routine.
Until three months later...
Time flies, and the world outside the pipe has gradually turned yellow, the grass has lost its vitality, and the sun no longer brings heat.
"Send some warm clothes and bedding to my daughter tomorrow."
That day, Maya delivered supplies to the father and daughter again and was allowed to enter their room for the first time.
However, upon hearing Lin Mo's request, Maya couldn't help but twitch her lips.
She never expected that three months of contact would not only fail to make Lin Mo like her, but would not even earn her a kind word.
"Tao Tao~ Why doesn't your dad like me?" After she agreed, Lin Mo kicked her out of the room.
Seeing Sang Zhitao sitting obediently reading a book by the door, Maya sighed and sat down beside her.
"You really want to be my stepmother?" Sang Zhitao asked without even looking up from her book.
Maya's smile suddenly froze. She looked at the pipe opening not far away and the autumn scenery outside the pipe world, and couldn't help but sigh.
"...What can I do?"
Hearing this, Sang Zhitao finally turned her attention away from the book. She frowned and looked at Maya's confused expression, asking curiously, "Why didn't you refuse?"
Maya paused for a moment, then said with a hint of realization, "Refuse...? Can I still refuse?"
Sang Zhitao remained silent for a moment. From the attitudes of everyone she had come into contact with, she had already sensed that the Mutual Aid Association was not a benevolent organization. But at this moment, she truly felt what the Spiral Tower was all about.
Maya remained silent for a long time. Just when Sang Zhitao thought she had left quietly, she suddenly smiled and patted Sang Zhitao's head: "Little Peach, I'll be your stepmother."
Sang Zhitao looked at her speechlessly: "You'll probably need my dad's approval first."
Maya paused for a moment, then burst into laughter: "I can definitely do it!"
Sang Zhitao was momentarily stunned by her smile.
The day after she and Lin Mo returned, Maya brought some supplies to their home.
“You are…” Sang Zhitao looked at the young woman in front of her with a sickly complexion with some suspicion.
"I am Maya from the Spiral Tower." Maya glanced around the room with lingering fear before placing the supplies in front of Sang Zhitao and replying with a smile.
She has a bright and cheerful face. When she smiles, it's like a flower suddenly blooming, bringing warm sunshine into everyone's heart.
“Maya…?” Sang Zhitao frowned slightly, feeling that the name sounded somewhat familiar.
Just as Maya realized that Lin Mo was not there and was about to leave, she realized that this was the person who had been almost killed by Lin Mo with his superpowers on the edge of the quarantine zone.
"Are you the one who came with us to the quarantine area?"
Hearing Sang Zhitao say that, Maya scratched her head awkwardly: "Well, I went to help on orders from my superiors."
Sang Zhitao looked at her thoughtfully, and after thinking for a moment, she put on a naive and innocent look and said, "But my dad and I don't need your help."
Maya choked, then fumbled with her pants: "You...you stay here, I...I'll come again next time."
Before Sang Zhitao could react, she had already turned and left quickly.
Later, Maya came almost every week, and gradually Sang Zhitao and Maya got along better and better, while Maya also revealed her true nature.
"Tao Tao, how can you be so cute~" Maya, who was once again hit by a blow, looked at Sang Zhi Tao, who was like a little adult next to her, and couldn't help but rush over and kiss her again and again.
Sang Zhitao looked at the distance with an expression that said, "I knew it."
Ever since Maya revealed her true nature, she has brought Sang Zhitao with her almost every time she comes.
Every time, Sang Zhitao felt like she had become a cat kept by cat lovers on Earth, unable to regain her energy without letting "cat lover" Maya sniff her.
Two more months passed, and Sang Zhitao took off her autumn clothes and put on a fur-trimmed jacket.
"Why hasn't Maya come lately?" She glanced at the calendar on the wall and couldn't help but ask Lin Mo, who was sitting next to her.
Lin Mo paused in his actions, frowned slightly, and looked outside for a long time before saying to Sang Zhitao, "I'll send you to the mutual aid society in a while."
"What happened?" Sang Zhitao noticed that Lin Mo was always going out these past two days, and every time he came back, he looked preoccupied.
She hesitated to ask, but before she could even speak, the other party had already made arrangements for her.
Lin Mo looked at her with deep eyes, and after a long while, he sighed heavily: "The war has already spread here."
"And what about you?" Sang Zhitao frowned as she thought about the increasingly close sounds of artillery fire.
Seeing the worry on her face, Lin Mo hugged her and said, "Don't worry, I'll be fine."
Seeing that Sang Zhitao didn't believe him, he explained, "The Shadow Council and the Spiral Tower are determined to have me give birth to offspring, so they won't take my life easily."
Sang Zhitao didn't obediently agree as he expected. Instead, she frowned and looked at him, saying, "I'm a healer. With me by your side, your chances of survival are much greater."
"You're still a child," Lin Mo said disapprovingly, understanding her meaning.
“If I wait until I grow up, who knows how many years that will take.” She paused, “Besides, I’ve always been the size that won’t grow up. If I’m placed in the Mutual Aid Society and they find out, who can guarantee that I won’t be handed over to the Spiral Tower or the Shadow Council?”
Hearing her say that, Lin Mo fell silent.
She had not yet figured out why the true aura existed in Lin Mo's superpower, nor had she found the opportunity to return to Earth or a way to save the world.
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