The scene changed again, and this time the little girl had grown up. She and her brother pulled Mo Tu and asked him to take them out to play.
At this time, Mo Tu's smile was even wider. It seemed that he had spent several years of happy time. The playfulness between brother and sister made him feel an incomparable happiness.
However, this happiness gradually turned into a heavy burden in his heart.
Xie Purou and M80 gossiped, "Everyone in their family is pretty good. They're so happy, they surpass at least 90% of families. What else could he not be satisfied with?"
Mo Tu's family conditions were hundreds of times higher than her starting point in every world. His home alone was a manor. Would people living in a manor also have troubles?
M80 is also puzzled by humans, who are always pursuing a better life.
“It’s really hard to guess what rich people are thinking.”
The colors around me faded, and this time the scene changed again.
Mo Tu seemed to have become very busy. Time and busyness had left traces on his face. His originally young face was getting closer to the Mo Tu that Xie Purou saw now.
When his two children came to see him, he was locked in the laboratory, doing experiments that Xie Purou could not understand.
Time passed quickly. Xie Purou saw that Mo Tu sold all his belongings and financed his research at his own expense in order to do this experiment.
Following Mo Tu's memories, one can only see his perspective, as he spent most of his time in the laboratory.
Xie Pu Rou didn't want to watch the boring stuff, so she fast-forwarded to the scene where Mo Tu once again sent away his two children who came to play with him. His wife had tears in her eyes and looked at him with confusion.
After watching the first half of Mo Tu's life at a faster speed, Xie Purou discovered something.
Things took a turn when Mo Tu's parents died. He was gradually eroded by the increasingly twisted desires in his heart - he wanted more than just the present. At some point, his idea became to make this happiness last forever.
His research direction is "immortality", and he hopes that through his life's learning, he and his family will no longer be bound by time.
The experiments were repeatedly frustrated, but both the discharge and destruction of chemicals required money to hire someone to do the destruction. In order to save costs, Mo Tu simply asked someone to discharge the failed products.
M80 tested it and found that the failed products discharged could only cause pollution at most, but could not create the zombie virus.
I thought the question of where the zombie virus came from was about to come to light, but I didn't expect it to be shrouded in mystery again.
Xie Pu Rou exited Mo Tu's memory with some disappointment. She had no interest in other people's privacy, so she let it go after seeing this.
When she opened her eyes again, she looked at Mo Tu who was slowly waking up with some pity.
To put it bluntly, he is just a poor guy who wants to keep the happiness he has in his hands, but unfortunately he uses the wrong method.
Life is but a hundred years, which is a long time at least. As long as you grasp it well, how can you have any regrets?
Mo Tu opened his eyes. He was so weak from the electric shock that he couldn't move his body. He looked at Xie Pu Rou warily: "What do you want to do?"
Xie Purou said bluntly: "I have seen your experiences in the first half of your life. You want to live forever, right?"
Mo Tu widened his eyes, as if questioning the truthfulness of her words. When he heard the word "eternal life", his eyes dimmed.
"I don't want to think about it anymore. I used to think about it, but now I just want my family to come back."
As he said this, he knelt down towards Xie Pu Rou as if he had found a life-saving straw.
"They say you're powerful. They say you possess the fruit that can cure the zombie virus. I beg you..."
Xie Pu Rou shook her head and interrupted him: "I don't have anything that can turn zombies back into humans." If she had, she would have completed the task and been reborn beautifully long ago.
Mo Tu's forehead was pressed against the ground and before he could get up, tears slid down the corners of his eyes and fell to the ground.
"I can atone for my sins. I can do research. Go tell the base that I can work hard on my research. I just want my family back!"
Seeing him break down, Xie Purou couldn't help but sigh, "Dr. Mo Tu, you should know that everyone infected with the zombie virus is already brain dead. Even if your research is useful, will it still save your family?"
Can people who have been brain dead for a long time be saved? This question has no answer.
He wanted to live forever and develop an antidote to the zombie virus. Coincidentally, she had everything he wanted, but how could he understand the loneliness of eternal life?
If he really achieved immortality, his whole family would have to accept the constant death of their friends. How can an immortal person accept loss?
Although they had little in common, Xie Pu Rou, as the owner of what he wanted most, was the person who both understood and misunderstood Mo Tu the most.
Mo Tu wiped away his tears. He was just a scientist and didn't know anything. He had no hope at all when he fell into the hands of the Central Base.
He slumped to the ground, his eyes hollow. "I said I didn't do anything harmful to humanity. I just wanted to rescue my family. You can kill me or chop me up as you please."
"You used so many human lives for experiments, but you didn't harm humanity?" Xie Pu Rou asked.
Mo Tu was furious: "So many people have died in the apocalypse, what's wrong with a few more deaths?! If I can figure it out, then their deaths are well deserved. I'm contributing to all of humanity, sacrificing my own interests for the sake of everyone else. What's wrong with that?"
Xie Pu Rou had nothing much to say about his unusual way of thinking until she could no longer communicate and turned and left.
As soon as I walked out the door, someone came up to me and said, "Owner, are you okay?"
Xie Purou shook her head and said, "I'll talk to Yue Xiwen and let her report back to you."
"yes."
Her figure disappeared quickly, and she returned to the ward, found Yue Xiwen's bed and jumped onto it.
Burying his head in Yue Xiwen's quilt, he said in a muffled voice: "I checked Mo Tu's memory. He wanted to research something that could bring immortality, but everything he did was a failure..."
Yue Xiwen was about to reach out to pull her, but when he heard her start to speak, he stopped and listened quietly.
“…”
After listening to the whole thing, Yue Xiwen raised her hand and patted her head.
Xie Pu Rou was immersed in the feeling that the eternal life that some people were pursuing was a shackle that she wanted to break free from.
She covered the back of her head and looked at Yue Xiwen aggrievedly: "I'm just so emotional, I could have been so much more!"
She gestured with her hand to form a progress bar, "And you interrupted me!"
Yue Xiwen looked at her calmly: "I understand. I will tell the base."
Xie Purou nodded vigorously.
…
In a blink of an eye, the two had been in the hospital for three or four days, and a week had passed since the acid rain.
Xie Purou allowed the air of the B&B to flow over other bases, which meant that the residents were absorbing trace amounts of energy 24 hours a day.
Although the energy is small, it can add up to a lot.
During the days when people were unable to leave the base, many psychics broke through the bottleneck of their level and were waiting to go out and hunt zombies after the acid rain to earn points to pay rent.
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