Chapter 18 He can protect his mother and sister now.
Achen returned to the hotel dejectedly, and Mark greeted him with a smile:
"Chaoyang, you're back? Look at me, I'm getting old and forgetful. I forgot to give you your nutritional supplement when you went back to your room yesterday."
Chaoyang was the name Achen registered when he checked in. He was afraid that his original name would be put on the wanted list by the authorities, so he made up the fake name Chaoyang.
"Give me a nutrient solution?" Ah Chen was a little confused.
“Yes! The hotel room rate includes two nutritional supplements per day. Come on, there are five flavors in total, come and pick your favorite,” Mark said.
Ah Chen: I've learned something new again!
When a country bumpkin from a low-level civilization arrives in a star system of an advanced civilization, he is indeed a complete novice, lacking even the most basic common sense.
However, although Ah Chen didn't understand, he pretended to. He walked over to a large box of five different colored liquids, looked at them carefully for a few moments, and then chose three colors, making a total of six.
After all, only he, his mother, and Xiao Bao's uncle were openly staying there, two each, making a total of six. The fathead fish was his hidden trump card; unless it was in a completely safe place, it could only be used as a pendant.
Mark wanted to say that the food for the contracted beast was not included in the room rate, but in the end, he opened his mouth and then held back.
He had inquired privately about the two bottles of hemostatic medicine and found that they could sell for at least 1,000 contribution points on the black market. His small inn was an ancestral property and rarely had any customers. This money would be enough for Chaoyang and his family's rent for a month.
The nutritional supplements in their town are all near-expiry products that Shirley wholesales. Each one is only worth 2 contribution points, so it doesn't matter if the kid takes two more. He'll make a profit anyway.
Ah Chen returned to his room with six vials of nutrient solution and examined them carefully.
Each one contains about 10 milliliters, packaged in a sealed plastic tube about the thickness of a little finger. It looks sticky and, judging from its appearance alone, is not at all appetizing.
Although Ah Chen really didn't want to eat it, he was afraid that Mark would ask him if it was good, so he could only choose a light green one to try, which was said to be green apple flavored.
The moment the cap was unscrewed, a strong artificial flavor wafted out. Ah Chen wrinkled his nose, squeezed out a little, and put it in his mouth.
The taste was indeed terrible; it wasn't sour or sweet, but rather had a strange, indescribable flavor.
He never had the habit of wasting food, but he still forced himself to squeeze out the remaining viscous liquid and put it in his mouth, swallowing it with difficulty.
Then I drank several mouthfuls of water, which finally diluted the unbearable taste.
Ah Chen now has an extremely bad impression of Uncle Mao Li's hometown. He encountered official scammers as soon as he arrived, and they sold his whole family into slavery.
This was his first time trying the food here, and it tasted so bad that he felt like throwing up.
Looking at his mother lying in bed, he felt like crying again.
He used to be afraid that Xiaobai would come and take his mother away from him, but now he misses him very much and hopes that he can escape soon and find him and his mother.
Before escaping the spaceship, Aunt Lele gave him the child ring from the set of mother-child tracking rings she and Master Liu had crafted, while the mother ring remained in Mao Li's spatial storage.
Hopefully, Xiaobai can find this place soon through this.
Although he had enough food in his space to feed him and his mother for eight to ten years, if his mother remained in a coma and he didn't go out hunting to earn money, the people in the town would become suspicious.
The worried boy climbed back into bed, snuggled up to his mother, and, having not slept well the night before, fell asleep without realizing it.
The mother's presence meant absolute safety to the cubs. As Ah Chen fell into a deep sleep, the strands of spiritual energy within his body floated out again, swirling around his mother's body before re-entering her brain in the same direction.
The mental energy threads have short-term memory. They quickly found the ganglia that were tangled up like a ball of hemp, and the automated threads became fingers, untangling and straightening all the knots.
Sensing that the neurons, now aligned, were able to absorb nutrients from their surroundings, Achen's spiritual energy slowly drifted away and wandered to his mother's lower abdomen.
There was an aura there that he instinctively felt familiar and close to, and finally he found the source of that aura.
Inside a warm, tiny ball of water, there was a little person about the size of an adult's fist.
Her eyes were tightly closed, and her body was curled up in a ball, making her look very small.
Ah Chen immediately understood; this was the little sister his mother had mentioned. He remembered casually giving her the name Xi'er.
Ah Chen's mental energy subconsciously softened, as if afraid of hurting the tiny little person.
Threads of spiritual energy coiled around her, and upon careful touch, one could sense the light of her special ability.
But the light was so faint, it seemed as if it might go out at any moment.
Ah Chen was very anxious. Since he didn't have the Light of Healing, he could only use a clumsy method: to fill the small space that contained his sister with his own power, so that she might be able to absorb a little bit of the unclaimed power.
This seemingly clumsy method turned out to be effective; the energy derived from blood ties can be absorbed even by a fetus.
The little one absorbed enough energy through instinct. Although it seemed like only a little bit to Achen, the supernatural light emanating from the little one's body became much brighter.
Ah Chen breathed a huge sigh of relief, and at the same time, a sense of pride rose in his heart. He had truly become a man and could protect his mother and sister.
Exhausted, he finally couldn't hold on any longer. All his mental energy automatically retreated into his body, and this time he fell into a deep sleep.
What Achen didn't know was that after he fell asleep, the little one in his mother's womb transferred the energy she had just absorbed to her mother little by little through the umbilical cord connecting her to her body.
Xiao Bao, who was standing by the bed, was stretching lazily against the bedside when he sensed that Sister Fan's aura seemed to have become a little stronger.
It scrambled to its feet, moved closer to her, and then saw that Sister Fan's face seemed to have improved a little.
However, these changes were very subtle, and it didn't know whether they were just its own imagination.
It sighed and nestled against the bedside again.
Ever since it started following Sister Fan, it has lived a carefree life, eating and drinking to its heart's content.
But this time, after Sister Fan fell into a coma, she never woke up again. It was worried and sad, and couldn't even sleep soundly.
If she died, it thought it would never be happy again.
Humans can quickly forget their deceased loved ones because their lives are short.
But it knows that its life will be very long, so its memory will also be very, very long.
She has cared for it since she can remember, and they depend on each other for survival. She is the most important person in the world to it.
It will never forget her!
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