Chapter 131 Baby Warns Again
Because she is approaching her due date, Zuo Shan has decided not to go out to collect materials in the wild for the time being.
Ever since she learned that the Algae Alien gave birth at six and a half months, she had felt fear more than once.
If this were on Earth, who would go out into the wilderness with a nine-month pregnant belly?
Luckily, baby Achen is tough enough, otherwise she probably would have miscarried many times over.
The weather was unusually hot and humid today. Although she was used to the average high temperature of 78°C, she felt that the temperature today was at least 5, 6, 7 or 8°C higher than the average temperature, and she was constantly sweating.
Zuo Shan sat on a bamboo chair in the courtyard to cool off. Looking up at the sky, he noticed that it seemed to be covered with a layer of grayish-yellow mist, and the usually bright sunlight had become very dim.
She was feeling irritable and restless, and to make matters worse, Xiao Bao seemed to be affected by the awful weather as well, constantly hovering around her and appearing quite agitated and uneasy.
Xiao Bao was not her contracted beast, so she couldn't understand its inner thoughts or the reason for its restlessness.
Remembering the two pieces of mineral she bought for it yesterday, she took them out and gave them to it: "Here! I picked these out especially for you, see if you like them?"
Hearing that it was bought especially for it, Xiao Bao immediately forgot its irritability and used its two little paws to paw at them, looking at them as if they were precious treasures, and it was too reluctant to use its supernatural power to absorb them.
Finally, it happily put them all into its space, and then started to get restless again.
Just as Zuo Shan was trying to think of another way to relieve it, she felt the baby Achen in her belly suddenly start moving around, and at the same time, it conveyed to her an emotion called "danger".
The last time it conveyed this emotion to her was when she encountered Da Guobao, Xiao Bao's mother, in the wild. On that occasion, the Flying Tiger Mercenary Group clashed with Da Guobao, resulting in heavy casualties.
If it weren't for the fact that Modilan Shield happened to be passing by and helped them destroy the Great Treasure, they would probably have been wiped out.
But this time, she was perfectly fine in the courtyard of her rented house in District 48, and had nothing to do with danger.
No! There must be some potential danger that the baby sensed, but this useless mommy just didn't notice.
What kind of danger could it be? An invasion by high-level mutated beasts? That seems unlikely.
There are mercenary groups stationed in District 48. If a high-level mutated beast were to invade, they would be the first to discover it, or at least warn the management, instead of the current calm and tranquility.
What other dangers are there? Is the baby about to be born?
Yes, that should be it, right?
Thinking of this, Zuo Shan didn't care about saving money anymore. She dialed the emergency number the doctor had given her, then called Lele and Maoli, and had Lele carry her backpack, putting the baby's clothes inside as well.
A woman is most vulnerable when she gives birth, and for her now, this vulnerability refers not to her mind, but to her body.
At times like this, she needs all her family members to stay by her side to protect her, in case of any accidents caused by human intervention. After all, this is a wasteland, not the safe and secure Earth.
The ambulance arrived quickly, and when the paramedics saw that she was completely unharmed, they couldn't help but complain:
“Ms. Zuo Shan, you called the emergency number for pregnant women, but you clearly have no signs of labor. Do you know that pregnant women are only entitled to one free ambulance ride?”
"Uh, I just found out," Zuo Shan said somewhat awkwardly.
"If you come to the hospital with us now, you must immediately complete the admission procedures and pay the hospitalization fees."
If you don't go to the hospital, we can give you a free check-up, but if you call this number again next time and we take you to the hospital to give birth, we will charge the normal emergency fee.
"So, you can now consider whether or not to go to the hospital," the doctor in the car explained.
"Go, I'm going to the hospital right now. I feel like I might give birth today," Zuo Shan said somewhat guiltily. She came to this conclusion entirely based on the baby's warning signs.
In reality, she isn't experiencing any contractions, which is completely unlike the reaction one should have before giving birth.
The doctor shook his head helplessly, but ultimately said nothing, and had two strong nurses help her into the car.
Pan Duole followed closely behind her and got into the car. She was unaware that Zuo Shan was not yet due to give birth and was extremely nervous.
She had heard about childbirth more than once. In District 50, many women either suffered difficult childbirth, resulting in the death of both mother and child, or gave birth to stillborn babies or miscarried prematurely. Women would either fall seriously ill or give birth to children who were weak and sickly, which would burden the women for many years.
In short, having children is always associated with bad things.
When her mother was alive, she often admonished her, saying that girls should be chaste and never sleep with men just for a little food.
Men give them some food, have their fun, and then leave. But women get pregnant, which affects their scavenging, and they suffer a lot after giving birth. After that, they have to work hard to raise the child.
Her mother said that no matter how much food a man gave her, she couldn't sleep with him because the food he gave was far from enough to raise a child.
She herself deeply agreed, because children under the age of three are incapable of gathering food, and no matter how much food a man provides, it is impossible for a child to eat for three years.
It's a losing proposition no matter how you look at it, so she's not going to do it.
But the older sister's baby was already in her womb, and it was too late to regret it. Besides, the older sister loved the baby so much, so she had to love the baby too.
During the first three years when the baby cannot be harvested, she can eat less to save food for the baby.
She believed that her sister would be able to give birth safely, because in her heart, her sister was almost omnipotent, like a god.
The Zuo family got into the ambulance. The doctor and two nurses were quite sympathetic to her. This woman was going to have a major hemorrhage, and they estimated that she would spend all her savings this time.
However, they were quite relaxed, since the pregnant woman was perfectly healthy and didn't need them to perform emergency care, so there was none of the chaos they usually experience when responding to emergency calls.
Zuo Shan's home wasn't too far from the hospital. Since everything was normal for her, the driver wasn't in a hurry and drove quite smoothly.
Suddenly, the car jolted upwards, as if the front wheels had hit a large rock.
The driver was quite puzzled. The road was very flat, and he knew the route very well. He could do it with his eyes closed without any problems. Where did this inexplicable bump come from?
Once the jolt started, it was as if a key in a game had been pressed, causing the car to bounce up and down continuously, and the jolts became more and more intense.
Sitting in the car, Zuo Shan saw through the window that the road outside was undulating in strange waves, as if a giant hand was grabbing one end of the road and swinging it around arbitrarily.
"Sister! What's going on? Have the gold-devouring ants invaded again?" Pan Duole grabbed Zuo Shan's arm tightly and cried out in panic.
The only time she ever saw the ground bulge with her own eyes in her entire life was during that invasion of gold-eating ants.
For her, it was a nightmare, because in that nightmare, she lost her mother, with whom she had depended for eleven years.
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