Chapter 613 Mother! (Five thousand)
Ron, Philomena, Patridge, and Hefferson were all startled.
This was the first time in such a long time that they heard a voice that they could truly be sure of the meaning of. Although the voice sounded eerie, it made everyone's heart tremble. You have to know that before this, most of the sounds they heard were meaningless roars, pain, and screams.
Although the voice was erratic and the owner of the voice seemed to be a little bit off, a complete sentence like this even sounded a little fresh for a moment.
Subconsciously, the four of them looked in the direction where the sound came from.
She was a lady who didn't look very old, maybe seventeen or eighteen at most. She had long hair that looked like it was woven from golden threads and had light waves. She wore a wide-brimmed lotus leaf hat on her head and a loose beige skirt. She had a smooth forehead and emerald green eyes that were filled with wisdom and a little melancholy. It was obvious that she was a very beautiful woman.
The most eye-catching thing about this lady is her bulging belly.
Even though it was a loose long skirt, it was still stretched tight, and the fetus in the belly was at least eight or nine months old.
So young, it seems that this lady must have been very young when she was pregnant. Who is this bastard who can do such a shameless thing? He should be caught and forced to step on a sewing machine.
Ron complained a little in his heart.
However, the moment he saw this lady, he already knew her identity.
She was a woman from the Andre family. On the neckline of her beige dress, there was an embroidered pattern of tulips, which was the family emblem of the Andre family.
Some powerful and influential families like to design a pattern that can represent their family's identity and status and use it as the family emblem. As the oldest family, the Andre family is the most conservative, so this kind of family emblem naturally exists.
As a woman of the Andre family, the only meaning of her birth is to carry on the family line.
That's right, every woman in the Andre family, unless encountering certain special circumstances, will be immediately given the responsibility of continuing the family line and arranged with a permanent partner once her body has the ability to become pregnant.
Therefore, it is not normal for such a young woman to have such a large fetus.
This woman seemed to be completely unaware of the presence of Ron and the other three. Her face looked a little melancholy and gentle.
The women of the Andre family have been constantly instilled with the belief of continuing the family line since they were old enough to understand. They do not give too much affection to their own children. For them, this is just a simple task and all they have to do is keep giving birth to children.
But the woman in front of him was obviously different from the other women in Andre's family. Although she didn't know whether the baby in her belly was a boy or a girl, nor did she know whether he was normal, this lady still gave her unborn child the absolute tenderness and delicacy that a mother should have. Her pale fingers gently stroked her abdomen, and through her belly, she seemed to be able to feel the response of the little life.
She began to hum an incomprehensible song, like a lullaby, making people drowsy.
The expression on her face looked so happy, so happy that people couldn't bear to disturb her.
But this kind of happiness could not last too long. The woman's expression had gradually begun to become a little irritable, and even her originally gentle face was a little distorted. Her eyes were filled with panic and fear, and she kept looking around, as if something terrible was chasing her from behind.
Patridge, Ron, Hefferson and Philomena all frowned slightly. They could clearly feel that some kind of mysterious energy seemed to be released from the woman's body, and the surrounding space gradually became distorted.
They seemed to be being pulled into some kind of fantasy by this woman.
The four of them all felt it, but did not stop it from happening. Soon, as their minds became slightly dazed, the scene before their eyes changed drastically.
Originally, they were in the Soul Burial Forest, where the ground was covered with a thick layer of bones, but now all of that had disappeared, replaced by a small but extremely magnificent... city? Yes, it was a city.
A small city built of stones.
There are wide roads in the city with attics standing on both sides.
You can clearly see figures walking back and forth on the road. Occasionally, when you meet an acquaintance, they will even stop and nod to say hello.
Right in the center of the city is a huge, magnificent palace. On the stone pillars in front of the main entrance of the palace, there are carvings of brightly blooming tulips.
Old Ancestor Palace! On the plaque of the palace door, three ancient characters were extremely clear.
The consciousness of Ron and the other three floated in the air. They looked at each other and could see the shock in each other's eyes. Although everything they saw was just an illusion set up by the woman before, it also brought a strong enough impact.
This small town is the image of the interior of the Andre family's lair evolved by the mysterious woman, or in other words, this woman transformed everything she had seen, heard, and experienced into an illusion.
They all knew that the Andre family was a giant with extremely terrifying power, but no one could have imagined that after tens of thousands of years of development, a family could gradually evolve and grow to the size of a small city. This was truly too amazing.
It’s no wonder that the Andre family is full of talented people. With such a large base, many geniuses are always born.
However, the evil consequence of inbreeding is that the probability of deformed children is extremely high. The number of normal people in this small city is already astonishing, so... what about the number of deformed children?
Several people seemed to have thought of this at the same time. They originally thought that over the past tens of thousands of years, the number of babies abandoned by the Andre family was no less than 100,000, but now it seems that this number is still too conservative.
One hundred thousand?
Haha, what a joke.
With the Andre family's desperate way of reproduction, the number of deformed babies is probably in the millions.
On the Dusk Continent, it is unclear whether the population of some small countries is over one million.
More than a million descendants, more than a million babies, were abandoned so ruthlessly... Even though everyone knows that the Andre family is a group of cold-blooded and heartless lunatics, this number still makes people's scalps numb.
The woman was trying desperately to escape.
There were really people chasing her behind her, a lot of people.
Although the child has not been born yet, the woman already knows that her child is deformed. In Andre's family, there is no point for a deformed child to live, and they will be thrown into the Soul Burial Forest as soon as they are born to fend for themselves.
But the woman was unwilling to accept such an outcome.
Even though his body is severely disabled, this is still her child.
She is different from other women. She just wants to take good care of her children and watch them grow up safely, no matter what they look like.
She ran away, even though she knew the hope was slim, she still ran away desperately, just to get the slightest chance to survive.
In order to survive and to buy more time for her child, she gave up all her dignity and burst out with infinite potential. The once graceful and elegant girl had long since become unkempt, and her decent beige dress had long since turned black, dirty, and tattered.
She didn't dare go back to that so-called home.
She couldn't feel any warmth there. The place made her feel creepy and terrified like hell.
She could only rummage through the trash can for food scraps and barely stuff them into her stomach.
Many people at home were looking for him, and the Andre family patrol team was also searching for her. She hid in trash cans, sewers, and cemeteries, narrowly escaping the people who were chasing her time and time again.
She thought about escaping from this hellish city and going out into the world to see what the sun, moon, and stars described in the books looked like.
However, during the constant pursuit, she had no chance to escape from hell.
Finally, one day, she couldn't run anymore.
Her stomach ached badly, and she knew that her baby was about to come into this world.
She found a dark corner. She was in great pain, shaking all over, with a pale face and covered in cold sweat. But she didn't make a sound from beginning to end.
With a loud cry, her child finally came into this world.
She cut the umbilical cord with her own hands and picked up the baby covered in blood.
Just as she expected, the child was born deformed. He had six eyes, neatly arranged on both sides, like some kind of insect.
But even so, the woman still smiled gently. She wanted to hug her child tightly, but was worried that the newborn baby could not bear her strength. She was only concerned about the child in front of her and did not even notice that her body was still bleeding. She could only hold the child carefully in her arms. She did not care about the blood and kissed the child's forehead.
Be it Ron, Patridge, or even the hot-tempered and sinister Hefferson, none of them made a sound at this time. They were like the quietest audience, silently watching the illusion before them.
This was an illusion, but it was also what the woman had truly experienced.
No matter who you are, you can clearly see how happy and pure the smile on the woman's face is when she holds the baby. It is pure and without any impurities.
This is a good mother.
Even if this child is born deformed, as long as this mother exists, he should live a very happy life, right?
But happiness is always short-lived.
The cry of the baby when it was born became the most obvious signal, and the patrol team of the Andre family appeared following the sound.
When the woman heard the footsteps, her face turned pale and desperate in an instant. She subconsciously wanted to get up from the ground and escape from here with her child in her arms.
However, the woman was too weak after having just given birth, and coupled with long-term malnutrition, her body had long since lost all strength. She was trembling even when she just stood up.
The long hair that was originally smooth and as smooth as golden threads was now covered with dirt and scattered in front of the forehead.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
But through the gaps in her long hair, one could clearly see a pair of ferocious, wolf-like eyes. Relying on a strong will to protect her child, the woman propped herself up again and staggered away.
She is really strong-willed.
But unfortunately, most of the time, the world does not change according to someone's will.
She prayed to the gods, but the gods did not hear her.
How could a woman who had just given birth outrun the strong patrol team? She was soon discovered.
When they saw the child in the woman's arms, the team members immediately understood what had happened. They did not show the mother any mercy. They rushed over ferociously and snatched the child from the woman's arms. No matter how hard the woman struggled and begged, it was of no use.
"Deformed, discarded."
The patrol captain simply glanced at the child indifferently and then read out the verdict on the child.
A newborn baby is sentenced to death before it has had time to be polluted by the world and has not done anything bad.
"Don't take my child away..."
"Don't take my child away..."
The woman begged, repeating the same words subconsciously.
The patrol team's work has always been simple and rough.
What they usually deal with are basically conflicts between family members, and occasionally they help to get rid of some deformed babies. To them, this is just a trivial matter.
As for women, they did not deal with them.
This is not within their scope of responsibility, and the woman is still very young. She still has 20 to 30 years of childbearing age. Such a woman is valuable in the Andre family. Before her own value is exhausted, she can still get quite good treatment.
Therefore, the patrol members did not harm the woman, and even allowed her to follow them.
The baby was placed in a teleportation array, which was a space-based teleportation array that could randomly teleport objects in the teleportation array to any corner of the Soul Burial Forest. Those deformed children were abandoned in this way, and no one thought there was anything wrong with doing so.
After all, they are the Andre family, the oldest and most noble family in the entire Dusk Continent. The existence of these deformed children will bring shame to their family.
Watching her son disappear in front of her, the woman screamed and howled like a madman.
She suddenly pounced into the teleportation array, and activated the teleportation array when the patrol members were not paying attention. Her figure disappeared in front of many patrol members and went to the Soul Burial Forest.
Even though her body was already in tatters, even though her spirit and body were almost exhausted, even though the Soul Burial Forest was filled with fog and vengeful spirits, she was still desperately searching.
She wants to find her child.
Just because she is the child's mother.
Just because, that was her child.
Perhaps the gods finally heard her prayers, and she began to hear the familiar cry of a child.
Following the sound, she desperately ran in that direction, letting the tree branches tear her clothes and skin, even though she stumbled and her head was bleeding, even though her strength was completely exhausted and she could only crawl miserably on the ground.
Finally, she found her child again.
A smile appeared on that scarred face again.
Her body was clearly exhausted and she could only crawl on the ground, but at this moment, she didn't know where she got the strength from, and she actually got up from the ground, rushed to the child, and picked up the child from the ground.
The moment she held the child in her arms, the woman exhaled heavily, squinted her eyes, and unable to support herself any longer, she leaned against a big tree and slowly sat down on the ground, gasping for breath.
Although she had been struggling desperately and trying hard to resist the fate she might encounter, she actually already knew what the outcome would be for herself and her child.
Her heart was filled with regret.
Perhaps, from the beginning, she shouldn't have let this child come into this world. In that case, the little guy wouldn't have to endure such pain, right? She tried to resist, but her strength was too weak. Her resistance was like a joke in the eyes of those people.
She used her fingers to tease the little one in her arms.
She wanted to make the little one smile.
But the little guy just kept crying.
Was she frightened by what she had experienced before? After a long time, the first-time mother finally realized that the little one might be hungry.
However, due to long-term malnutrition, her body had long lost the ability to feed the child. She bit her finger hard and sent the crystal clear blood to the child's lips. Looking at the little guy, who kept moving his lips and sucking fresh blood, a faint smile appeared on the woman's face again.
And... a deep sadness.
She didn't understand why such a tragic fate befell her when she had never done anything bad in her life.
Oh my God, you are so unfair! Time passed day by day.
The woman's body became thinner and thinner.
She tried desperately to survive in the Soul Burial Forest. She gnawed on tree bark, chewed weeds, and stuffed all the mushrooms on the ground into her mouth, regardless of whether they were poisonous or not. She knew that she had to fill her stomach. Only by filling her stomach would she have the strength to take care of her children.
After persisting for a full month, the woman, who had become completely skin and bones, finally lost her last breath.
Her blood has run dry.
She is dead.
But even in death, she still held her child in her arms.
If there is an afterlife, I pray that I will not be reborn into the Andre family.
Really... I'm so tired! Chapter 1 (End of this chapter)