Chapter 25 Dad is the baby who was picked up
With a small schoolbag on his back, a cute phone watch on his wrist, and a lovely light yellow school uniform, little Xingxing successfully blended in with the group of walking reserve food.
Like a little mouse falling into an oil tank, his eyes brightened up a lot, and he smiled obediently at every child who glanced at him.
Who can remain calm when faced with stored food running all over the ground?
Xingxing couldn’t do that. He had swallowed his saliva many times, which made Qiuqiu extremely nervous. He was just waiting for the right moment to stuff himself into the child’s mouth.
If you can't control your appetite, then you're blocking the source of crime.
Xingxing covered her empty stomach, then looked out while holding her small schoolbag amid the heart-wrenching cries of the babies that filled the classroom.
Mom and grandma were standing outside the window, smiling at him.
Among the crowded crowd of parents, there were two particularly familiar-looking heads. They were supposed to be standing outside the school gate as punishment, but were trying to stretch their necks to look inside from the outside.
Pursing her lips, Xingxing couldn't help but give them a cute smile. With a fair and clean face and an upright sitting posture, she was out of place with the little ones who were crying in the classroom at this moment.
Looking at this scene, Zhou Xiangyang inexplicably felt like crying again.
How wonderful! He looked at the little child sitting there obediently with smiling eyes and couldn't help thinking: How wonderful! The baby who cried as weakly as a kitten in the cradle was actually raised by me and now sits happily and healthily in the bright and clean classroom, preparing to take the first small step towards growing up.
The emotion and pride that arose spontaneously in his heart made him completely unable to control his fragile tear glands. He stood outside the window in the crowded crowd, crying and laughing like a silly father.
"Class is about to start, let's go." Cheng Yuling pushed his glasses and pulled Zhou Xiangyang's sleeve with disapproval.
If he hadn't pulled it, this person probably wouldn't have heard what he was saying.
“Can’t I just stay here and watch?” Zhou Xiangyang was totally reluctant to leave. If conditions permitted, he even wanted to move a small stool and sit at the back of the classroom to accompany his child in his studies!
Cheng Yuling: "...Don't delay Xingxing from earning red flowers."
Pulling the man out by his sleeve, Cheng Yuling felt that he might have to be a strict father in the future, otherwise what would he do if his whole family was so mindless and doting on him? Spoiling a child is like killing him!
As soon as he got outside, he faced Zhou Xiangyang's incredulous gaze, quickly entered his account and password on the tablet, and then turned on the surveillance in the Xingxing classroom.
Cheng Yuling coughed uncomfortably and explained unnecessarily: "The school is very thoughtful and only equipped with surveillance cameras in public areas, which will not infringe on the children's privacy."
Zhou Xiangyang did not refute. He was staring at the small figure of Xingxing on the screen seriously.
Soon, Xu Meng and Zhang Yayu also came out. However, because it was Xingxing's first day of school and she had never attended any early education classes before, and didn't know the children in the class, the whole family was very worried.
So the family of four all sat in the car on the side of the road, staring intently at the surveillance screen, as if as soon as the star on the screen was bullied, they would immediately rush to the school to rescue her.
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In the classroom, Xingxing lowered her head and took out a pack of biscuits from her schoolbag, and ate them quietly in the messy classroom.
The kindergarten teachers in the small class were overwhelmed and felt relieved when they accidentally saw this.
But this relief lasted less than three seconds before it turned into an even more severe headache.
A child snatched Xingxing's schoolbag, and the snacks inside fell to the ground.
The instigator even raised his hand high to complain: "Teacher! He brought a lot of snacks!!"
The sound was so loud that it instantly drowned out the crying in the entire classroom.
After being suppressed by his voice, the children who were originally crying sadly cried much softer, and even subconsciously turned their heads to look around curiously.
teacher:"……"
He looked nervously at the child whose schoolbag and snacks were taken away, and then froze.
...and you didn't cry?
The stars didn't cry.
The kid who stole his bag was taller than him, and Xingxing was sitting on a small stool. He looked up at his bag being held in the other person's hand, with the strap of the bag swaying.
Unexpectedly meeting the provocative and complacent gaze of the human cub, Xingxing tilted her head, a little confused.
Why your inner voice is: This child is so cute, looks so well behaved and easy to bully. I want to make friends with him and see him cry.
Isn't that contradictory?
While Xingxing was still thinking, the ball had already exploded.
"Why! Among all the human cubs! There are such naughty kids!?!?!"
Qiuqiu was so angry that his voice broke. The whole ball visibly became round and rushed towards the child fiercely.
I hit nothing and was stunned.
The stars' eyes curved slightly.
Probably because Xingxing didn't react at all, the teacher only paid his full attention for two or three seconds before starting to anxiously coax the tearful little ones around him.
As for the little kid still carrying his star-shaped schoolbag high up, at such a young age he felt the embarrassment in the strange silence amidst the chaos, noise and chaos.
"...I'm bullying you." He silently glared at Xingxing who was sitting on the small stool, his face flushed with embarrassment.
Xingxing stared at him for a second, then looked away, lowered her head and continued to eat the biscuit in her hand that had not been snatched away or thrown away, as if it had nothing to do with her.
Inside the car.
The four parents, who were originally very nervous and angry, looked at each other.
"Why didn't Xingxing respond?" Cheng Yuling found that he couldn't understand his three-year-old son.
Including him, the three of them looked at Zhou Xiangyang, trying to get an answer from him.
Zhou Xiangyang was also a little confused. He tried hard to recall and finally thought of something. He hesitated and said, "Maybe it's because Xingxing really doesn't care?"
"How is it possible? You don't even care about this?!" Cheng Yuling was a little upset. Could it be that his son was better at superficial work than he was? ? ?
This shouldn't be the case! He's only 3 years old, not 30!
"What do the stars care about?" Xu Meng stared at the little kid on the screen who was quiet as if everything had nothing to do with him, and felt a little confused.
Zhou Xiangyang considered his words carefully, and then told them what Zhao Dong had said when he was drunk that day.
"...Brother Zhao only mentioned that he wanted Xingxing to leave me and go to a nearby welfare home, but before he could finish his words, Xingxing jumped off his moving bicycle."
Zhou Xiangyang was also drunk at the time. When he heard this, he was so angry that his eyes turned red. He cried and hit Zhao Dong hard with his only hand. After he sobered up, he ignored him for several days.
He didn't even dare to think that someone, somewhere he couldn't see or hear, was instigating Xingxing to leave him and go to a place like an orphanage...
That's not for the good of him and Xingxing, that's to kill him!
After listening to his story, Xu Meng fell silent.
Whenever they thought they knew enough about the past of the stars, reality would pour a bucket of cold water on them.
It's bone-chillingly cold, and even gives me chills when I think about it.
Not only Zhou Xiangyang didn't dare to think about it deeply, they didn't dare to think about it even more.
No one spoke in the car anymore. Everyone stared at the star on the screen who was quietly eating cookies with complicated eyes.
"Hey, are you dumb? Or are you deaf? Are you a disabled child?" The boy, whose provocation failed, threw Xingxing's schoolbag away in boredom, and curiously leaned over his desk, stretching out one hand to poke Xingxing's face, mouth and ears.
Xingxing put down her little hands, her mouth was still chewing, but her eyes were already raised to stare at the other person.
"...Can you hear me? Then why did you ignore me just now?" The boy became angry belatedly and kicked away the snacks that fell out of Xingxing's schoolbag with his toes on the ground.
[Come near me and you will be eaten.] An invisible seed was quietly planted in the boy’s soul.
Xingxing took one last look at him, then bent down to pick up the small schoolbag, squatted on the ground, and carefully picked up all the snacks that had fallen on the ground and put them back into the schoolbag.
Three seconds later, a heart-wrenching cry echoed throughout the kindergarten classroom.
It also included the terrifying accusation that Xingxing was a man-eating monster.
Xingxing hugged her small schoolbag again, yawned, and reviewed the game seriously with Qiuqiu in her mind.
"My uncle said that if human cubs bully me, I will make them cry. He just bullied me and now he is crying."
Qiuqiu nodded vigorously: "That's right! Xingxing, you did absolutely nothing wrong! You carried out Uncle Hu's instructions perfectly. Xingxing is the best kid!"
“The kindergarten is so noisy.”
Xingxing raised his hands to cover his ears listlessly, the novelty he had at the beginning no longer existed.
Not only could he hear the sounds in reality, he could also hear the inner voices of this group of children and teachers, all kinds of screams and collapses, so the noise doubled and became even more harsh.
After controlling the range of the supernatural power to within one meter of himself as much as possible, Xingxing rubbed his cheeks and regained his spirits.
"Kid, kindergarten is like this. You know, humans only live for a few decades. They have to start learning about a year after they are born."
Qiuqiu flipped through the summary of the human cub's growth experience that he had found, took a deep breath, and then said in a sly tone as if he was sharing a ghost story: "At the age of one, they started learning to distinguish colors and taking sensitivity tests. At the age of two, they took early education classes. At the age of three or four, they started kindergarten. At the age of seven, they went to elementary school. Elementary school lasted for a full six years. After elementary school, there were three years of junior high school and three years of high school. After finishing all these, there were four years of college."
"When they graduate from college, humans grow from tiny cubs to tall adults, but some of them will choose to continue their studies, while others will enter human society and begin to learn how to be an adult who can support a family, learn how to complete work, learn how to take care of themselves, learn how to start a family, and learn how to raise a family and children."
“Ultimately, their learning will be passed on to their offspring.”
The more it talked, the more the originally listless child's eyes widened. Finally, he asked it in a low voice: "Stars, do you also want to learn this way?"
Qiuqiu said in a very sad tone: "Yes, kid, this is only your first day in kindergarten. In the next twenty years of your human life, you will be in school and studying."
The scariest thing is not that it takes more than 20 years to learn.
Instead, every star in the world must learn it from beginning to end starting from the age of three.
So, twenty years after twenty years added up...
Qiuqiu’s eyes went dark.
The stars were in a daze.
The two little ones were quiet for a long time during the terrifying learning process of humans, until the teacher finally calmed down all the children and let the chaotic first class of the new semester barely end smoothly, Xingxing came back to his senses from his daze.
"Can I not learn?" Xingxing asked softly.
Qiuqiu shook his body and said, "No, Xingxing, after each world ends, in order to allow you to smoothly enter the body of a child in the next world, I will help you seal the memory of your previous life. By then, you will remember nothing, so you have to learn everything from scratch."
As for why we don’t need to seal the memories of doomsday when entering this mission world?
Because in the doomsday, from birth to death, the stars only live for a short year.
The memory of one year is not as vast as the memory of Cheng Qian'an after his rebirth, but it also made Xingxing extremely sleepy after entering Zhou Chenxing's body, just to be able to merge smoothly.
After explaining this, Qiuqiu suddenly realized something was wrong.
It was stunned for a second, then stupidly asked Xingxing: "Then, how did Cheng Qian, who had an adult soul and memories, survive in his second life?"
Not only did he survive, but he also became a favorite of everyone in the wealthy family? ?
Huh? This is totally illogical!!
"Even our quick-travel system can't effectively solve this problem, and we can only rely on memory seals. Then why is he still alive and well?" Qiuqiu was completely dumbfounded.
Xingxing stared at the ball and found that it was emitting chaotic light, as if the program was out of control and was about to crash.
Reach out and grab the messy ball of light from the card machine in your hand.
Put your two little hands together and cover it.
"Don't think about it." The child's soft voice seemed to carry a magical power that could comfort people.
The hot chip in the ball slowly cooled down. It shrank into the safe little nest that Xingxing had built for it with her two little hands. It slowly calmed down, and its short-circuited thinking finally came online.
"I will report to the General Administration immediately. There is definitely something wrong with Cheng Qian'an's soul." Qiuqiu's voice sounded serious for the first time.
Xingxing opened her clasped hands and nodded gently: "Yeah."
Qiuqiu flew up and rubbed Xingxing's cheek affectionately, and reminded him worriedly: "I will be away for half a day and will be back soon. Xingxing, you should behave yourself in school. If you encounter any problems, go to the teacher and Sunflower Dad and the others. If it doesn't work, use your supernatural power to control them directly. I will help you deal with the impact when I come back. No matter what, Xingxing must ensure your safety."
Amidst the almost identical instructions from Qiuqiu and his two fathers, Xingxing nodded with curved eyes: "Okay~"
Qiuqiu has severe separation anxiety from Xingxing.
If this matter was not really serious and had not to be reported and dealt with as soon as possible, Qiuqiu would never have left Xingxing and his cub in this strange world.
It is one thing to know intellectually that no one can hurt Xingxing, but once Qiuqiu leaves Xingxing, what he lacks most is reason.
"Kid..." Qiuqiu was about to give more instructions, but then the light in front of his eyes dimmed again.
Xingxing's voice came through her folded hands: "Be good, Qiuqiu, and be good, Xingxing too."
Qiuqiu went back to the General Administration to report obediently, and Xingxing waited obediently in this world for Qiuqiu to come back.
The two children treated each other as younger kids and coaxed and protected each other. Xingxing kept holding his little hands until a small, transparent ball that did not glow fell heavily between his palms.
Xingxing lowered his head and touched the ball, then carefully put it into the pocket of his clothes. Just like every time in the doomsday, he would daydream about doing his own things while patiently waiting for the ball to come back.
While waiting, Xingxing finally slowly understood the reason why Qiuqiu was confused and panicked before.
A child’s body cannot carry as many memories as an adult’s, but Cheng Qian’an lives very well in the plot.
Does it have special powers like the stars?
Or was it the big Cheng Qian'an who killed the little Cheng Qian'an?
After killing, can I survive?
Xingxing couldn't figure it out either, so she held her cheek with her little hands and continued doing what she was most familiar with: daydreaming.
Inside the car, the four people whose buttocks were numb from sitting still finally spoke up, breaking the silence.
"Xingxing doesn't seem to have any intention of making friends?" Zhang Yayu guessed after realizing it belatedly: "Is Xingxing's personality a little too quiet?"
So quiet that he doesn't fit in with those active kids.
Zhou Xiangyang stared at the stars, his thoughts going back to a certain day, and then he answered softly: "Maybe, it's because the stars already have friends."
Cheng Yuling quickly understood what he meant and asked in surprise, "Another star? And... a ball?"
It was obvious that although he seemed not to care at first, he actually remembered every word Xingxing said clearly.
Zhou Xiangyang nodded and lied for the first time: "Xingxing has always been relatively quiet. Perhaps his world is different from the world we see."
No, the stars are not always quiet.
Since when did it become so quiet?
It was from... when Zhao Dong came to the food street carrying Xingxing.
"It's our fault." Xu Meng took a deep breath and tried to stay calm. "I'll make an appointment with the doctor and take Xingxing to the hospital for a more comprehensive examination after school."
She looked at Zhou Xiangyang who was frowning, and promised earnestly: "Don't worry, no matter what the test results are, it will not affect our feelings for Xingxing. This is what we owe him, and it is also our responsibility and obligation."
Zhou Xiangyang did not answer her.
But he had his own ideas in mind.
Regardless of whether they are as unbiased as Xu Meng said, Zhou Xiangyang will not let Xingxing suffer any harm from his biological family.
He was not afraid of just returning to the arid land where he had once taken root. Instead, after truly experiencing the fertile soil, he would be able to work harder to create a better growing environment for the stars in that soil.
It may not be as comfortable as fertile soil, but it will definitely ensure that he will grow up healthily.
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General Administration.
Qiuqiu rushed back in a hurry. No one knew how a string of data could be so swift and aggressive. Anyway, Qiuqiu, who appeared in the General Administration's office, was very anxious. After stating the situation he encountered in the most concise and understandable way, he looked at his boss's boss and called out a familiar name:
"Boss, this is the situation now. I suspect that the human's soul has been replaced. Do you want to send a commander to inspect and monitor it?"
Behind the empty desk, a line of text quickly appeared on the light curtain quietly hovering in the air.
[No, there is nothing abnormal about that soul.]
A big question mark appeared on Qiuqiu's nonexistent forehead: "How is it possible??"
[The essence of a small world in a novel is a world that revolves around the protagonist. No matter how thin or thick it is, all the logic running in it will change and reverse itself once it involves the protagonist.]
[We are outsiders, and the body we entered is not the protagonist's, so we have to use the method of sealing the memory.]
[The protagonist is the core of the novel world. Rebirth is when the adult protagonist kills the young protagonist. As long as one of them is still alive, the logic of the world will automatically ignore the contradiction.]
Qiuqiu: “…”
"So when that kid came to our house that day, Xingxing cleared his memory based on his intuition and actually killed him?!"
At that time, Qiuqiu thought that Xingxing’s “fairness” might not be fair, but in the end, not only was it fair, but it also killed the adult version of the protagonist who could have confused the logic of the world???
[Well, it's always been sharp.]
This "it" obviously refers to Xingxing. No matter whose cub Xingxing is in the small world, on the side of the General Administration, it is that tiny non-human zombie cub that never grows up.
Qiuqiu: “…”
No wonder when I submitted my application, it was approved so quickly.
The boss with ulterior motives must have already figured out how to trick Xingxing into working for him!
"It's okay, I'm leaving. Xingxing is still waiting for me to go back." Qiuqiu got an answer that was not really an answer, and was about to leave in a hurry.
When it disappeared from this space, the content on the originally unfolded light screen changed, and it suddenly became a picture of Xingxing in a daze in the kindergarten.
Across the endless river of time and the boundless layers of space, the head of the Time and Space Administration is using his abilities to watch the live broadcast of the little zombies bravely entering the human world.
Well, it’s time to think about giving Xingxing some useful small rewards after this mission is over.
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In kindergarten.
Xingxing met a kid who knew Cheng Qian.
"My mom said that Xiao An stole your parents. Do you hate him?" A little girl asked, lying on the small table next to Xingxing. She handed the washed grapes to Xingxing and mumbled, "I'll give them to you. They're very sweet."
She moved closer to the listening range of Xingxing's inner voice, but Xingxing didn't feel it was noisy.
Because what the little boy was thinking was exactly the same as what she asked.
Xingxing came out of his daze, and after listening to her words, he shook his head at her.
"Why? If you don't hate Xiao An, why doesn't he come to kindergarten?" The child sighed distressedly: "He made a pinky promise with me before, saying that he would be my boyfriend when he grows up, but now I don't know where to find him."
Xingxing stared at her miserable appearance and was silent for three full seconds before she asked blankly, "What is...boyfriend?"
The next second, Xingxing received the contemptuous and surprised look from the human cub.
"You are so stupid, aren't you?" the child sighed subconsciously, and quickly covered his mouth after he reacted. He apologized mumbledly and enthusiastically explained to Xingxing what boyfriends and girlfriends are.
"They are the adults who will get married and have babies when they grow up! Just like your father and mother."
But the little boy who was being educated by her was even more confused. In her incredulous gaze, he asked softly, "Does it take two people to have a baby? Can't you just pick one up?"
At the end of the world, Xingxing picked up two humans, and one of them became his Uncle Hu.
There are so many children in the doomsday, and Uncle Zhou’s family also picked up a baby, and Xingxing saw it being picked up with his own eyes.
Moreover, in this world, little Zhou Chenxing was also a baby picked up by Sunflower father. Why did this human cub now say that only if two people hold hands all the time when they grow up can they have a baby?
Xingxing's immature worldview is a little shaky.
"Of course not!" The child retorted in disbelief: "No one would abandon their baby!!!"
Xingxing looked up at the angry child who was standing with his hands on his hips and frowning, pursed his lips, and seriously refuted: "Yes, my father was a baby who was picked up, and I was also a baby picked up by my father. There are all lost babies in orphanages and welfare homes. They can be picked up."
kid:"……"
Child: "You are wrong! I don't want to talk to you anymore. Give Xiao An back to me!"
"Did Xiao An tell you that we want to have a baby together when we grow up?" Xingxing heard her childish and confused voice.
"..." The little girl fell silent, puffing up her face and saying nothing.
But he didn't leave.
Xingxing guessed which Xiao An it was. When Qiuqiu came back in a panic, he said to the human cub in front of him seriously: "Xiao An is wrong. He is bullying you. You should beat him until he cries."
Qiuqiu: “???”
Wait, what did I miss?
Why is my kid suddenly going to make the protagonist cry again? ?
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