Chapter 2: Taking Root
Who is this!
She looks old and destitute, not her usual cute and beautiful girl image!
Yu Mu's brain froze for a moment, then she suddenly understood everyone's strange attitude towards her. Had she traveled through time? She really was this child's mother!
With a gulp, Yu Mu, unable to accept it, fainted and fell on the bathroom floor.
After an unknown amount of time, Yu Mu slowly woke up.
When she woke up, she still had the despairing feeling of the end of the world in her mind when she fainted. She didn't move. Her butt and waist hurt, but she didn't want to care at all.
She is no longer the beautiful eighteen-year-old girl.
Instead, she turned into a young woman who had to raise the eleven-month-old baby. Now that the original owner's memories have returned, she understands everything.
This is the year 3039.
In the future, technology will be advanced and intelligent people will replace labor to help people a lot, but material things will become more scarce.
Basic resources such as food, land, and water have become less available, while correspondingly, there are more advanced resources such as advanced meat, evolved vegetables, and energy water.
Eating these high-quality foods can give people special abilities, such as controlling fire, water, and wind. People with special abilities are inherently superior to others and have many privileges.
The original owner was named Yu Mu, an ordinary person. She got married two years ago. Her husband was also an ordinary person. Half a year ago, her husband was seriously injured while on a mission and died within two days of returning, leaving behind the original owner and a baby who was less than one year old.
What a sin!
After sorting everything out, Yu Mu sighed.
She couldn't adapt to it. Now she was asked to clean up such a mess on behalf of the original owner. How could she do it? Ever since she could remember, her parents did everything for her, and she just had to live an honest and routine life.
Yesterday she was still worrying about her studies.
Today, she has to worry about her livelihood.
Feeling like crying but unable to shed tears, Yu Mu rubbed his bruised body and limped out of the bathroom. It was already bright outside and the baby on the bed was still sleeping.
She sat at the table, a piece of paper in her hand, wondering what she should do now.
First: What should I do with my child?
She is the biological mother and her biological father is dead, so she can't get rid of him even if she wants to.
Second: How to make money?
There was no way to make money. The original owner had a child and no special skills, so she could only live off her savings. The day before she traveled through time, the original owner had just spent the last of her savings, and all she had left were three tubes of nutrient solution and fifteen bottles of nutrient milk.
Third: She wants to go home.
Did she travel through time inexplicably, or was it her soul that traveled through time? She didn't know if the child's mother was living in the modern world in her original body's place? If she could, she would be grateful to the original owner. After all, she didn't want her parents to die young.
To sum up, there is no room for optimism, it is almost a fatal situation!
While I was thinking about it, there was a knock on the door.
Who will come?
Yu Mu was surprised. The original owner was an orphan and had almost no friends. No one had ever looked for him before.
"Open the door! We are the city guards. We are here to investigate the situation. If you don't open the door, we will break it down!"
At this moment, a shout came from outside the door.
Hearing this, Yu Mu immediately went to open the door.
The city guards were like police officers, so no resistance was allowed at this moment. Puzzled, Yu Mu opened the door and saw a man and a woman in uniform standing at the door. They showed their IDs and asked, "Can we go in and take a look?"
"Can."
The original owner was a law-abiding citizen who hadn't committed any crime. Yu Mu was upright and unfazed by her shadow, so she leaned forward to let the two in. After seeing the baby sleeping in the bed, the female guard frowned and asked, "Please show me your birth certificate."
"Oh, wait a minute."
Yu Mu was in a panic and forgot where she put her birth certificate. She rummaged around and finally found a small cabinet behind the bed. She opened the cabinet and found some miscellaneous items and some walnuts inside, but there was no birth certificate she needed.
"If you can't find the birth certificate, we'll send the child to an orphanage."
The female guard's face looked very bad at this time, and she spoke in a bad tone.
After all, who is a normal person and doesn’t know where the important things at home are?
Hearing this, Yu Mu couldn't help but be surprised.
She didn't want to raise the child anymore. If the child was sent to an orphanage, although she would feel sorry for the child and the original owner, she would also feel much more at ease. But before she could feel happy for long, she heard the female guard say, "You are suspected of theft and child trafficking and will be prosecuted. I hope you can give us a reasonable explanation."
"No, no, I am really the child's biological mother."
Yu Mu no longer dared to have any evil thoughts and quickly explained: "I just forgot where I put my birth certificate. Please wait a moment, wait a moment!"
As he spoke, sweat broke out on his forehead and he began to search desperately. Finally, he found the birth certificate under the bed. The two came over to verify it. They compared Yu Mu's photo with his mother's photo on the certificate and found that they looked the same, so they left politely.
"This is what happened!"
Yu Mu felt a little guilty, thinking that she shouldn't have thought of abandoning the child just now, but at the same time she was frowning and wondering why the city guards suddenly came to check on her?
Could it be that the woman with messy hair next door complained about her this morning?
After all, the original owner had lived here for half a year, and no one had come to check on her, but she was checked as soon as she arrived here!
Everything was just her guess and there was no way to confirm it. It was also a trivial matter, so Yu Mu didn't think too much about it. When she relaxed, she felt her stomach aching with hunger.
There are three tubes of nutrient solution on the table.
This nutrient solution is equivalent to a steamed bun in my previous life. A tube is the size of a finger and contains essential nutrients that can provide the body with what it needs to survive. A normal person drinks three tubes a day, but the original owner was broke, so she only ate one tube a day. After eating this for several months, it's no wonder she looked so pale and thin from hunger!
At this time, Yu Mu was too hungry to think too much. He opened the tube and drank a tube. He found that it tasted like strawberry, sweet and sour, but it did not make him feel full. It was not as delicious as bread, fried dough sticks, rice, etc.
However, these natural foods are very precious.
In this era, basic food is in short supply. It is not easy for ordinary people to eat natural food. Only the rich and powerful can eat natural food every meal.
As for higher-level energy foods, they are almost impossible to come by, and you may not be able to buy them even if you have money, so ordinary people should not even dream about it.
“That’s right!”
At this moment, Yu Mu suddenly slapped his thigh and said excitedly: "Weren't there some walnuts in that cabinet just now?"
Although walnuts are not a staple food, they are still food and are good for filling your stomach. Yu Mu opened the cabinet and took out a few walnuts.
These walnuts were brought back by the original owner's husband when he went out on a mission for the last time. The original owner didn't know how to eat them, but wanted to keep them to commemorate her late husband, so she kept them.
It’s cheaper for Yu Mu now.
But it is not easy to eat walnuts. You have to crack the hard shell of the walnut, and there is a gray fist-sized stone in the cabinet.
(End of this chapter)
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