Chapter 42 A Mother's Obsession
Ah Chen is making juice for his mother.
Every fruit he picked from the bottom of the cliff was tested with a testing instrument to ensure it was free of poison, and he also tasted it himself.
He chose to juice the most energy-rich and mildest juice, which he also considered to taste the best.
Whether sweet and sour or refreshingly sweet, they are all delightful to the palate and unlike anything I've ever seen on Green Algae Planet.
In the town of Soren, you can hardly find any decent fruit. The locals occasionally eat a kind of sour berry that grows on small shrubs on the edge of the forest.
Cary berries have a sour taste, and only when they are very ripe do they have a slightly sweet aftertaste. Adults don't really appreciate this, so they just use it to coax children.
After all, the children here only eat nutritional supplements from a young age, and there are no snacks for them to eat.
After squeezing the juice, Achen helped his mother lean against the headboard, supporting her on both sides with large pillows to prevent her from falling over due to weakness.
Then he inserted the straw into the juice cup and put the other end into his mother's mouth.
In the past few days, he noticed that although his mother was still in a coma, her senses had improved slightly. Before, when he fed her water and reindeer milk, he had to feed her by hand, and at least half of it would spill out.
But recently, she will swallow the food that is fed to her and almost no longer spills out.
So today, he wanted to see if his mother would suckle on her own initiative.
Soon, he saw his mother's cheeks move and the straw was filled with juice.
She's actively sucking on the juice!
The juice in the glass slowly decreased, and after three minutes, the entire glass of juice was completely emptied.
Sobbing uncontrollably, Achen put down her cup and rushed into her mother's arms, her tears soaking her clothes.
I remember when my mother first fell into a coma, her face was ashen, her body was cold, and it seemed as if all the life force in her body had left her.
He still vividly remembers the terror and despair he felt at the time. No matter how well he performed in the academy, he was still just a seven-year-old child and could not bear the blow of losing his parents.
Especially his mother, who was his only support in life, was his pillar of support and his warmest haven when he was feeling wronged and sad.
He can't live without his mother!
Fortunately, Aunt Lele risked everything to give her mother a chance to live, temporarily saving her life. Then, Dr. Bo spent half of his life force to prevent her condition from deteriorating further.
As a result, he dropped from the ninth rank to the eighth rank, and even a few strands of white hair grew at his temples. If it weren't for the chance to absorb a large amount of life force from Qiansi as a supplement, his ability level would probably have continued to drop.
Ah Chen is grateful to all those who are willing to sacrifice for his mother, but the person he is most grateful to is Xi'er in his mother's womb.
These past few days, he has been supplying Xi'er with plenty of energy every day, but the next day he will find that Xi'er has given 90% of the energy to her mother, leaving only 10% for herself to barely maintain her life, so that she is forced to fall into a deep sleep.
With everyone's joint efforts, Mom finally began to recover.
Even the slightest improvement, from passive to active eating, gave him hope for his mother's recovery.
Ah Chen didn't understand pharmacology, but the only thing he was sure of was that the little grass he brought back from the bottom of the cliff, which emitted a bluish-green spiritual light, was a treasure, and that he would feel comfortable in body and mind as soon as he got close to it.
Upon returning to the hotel, he immediately placed the plant on the small bedside table next to his mother's bed.
Under his spiritual perception, he saw the green spiritual light slowly flowing into his mother's body, nourishing her meridians.
He named the little grass Green Spirit, and also picked out a few bottles of plant nutrient solution that Panda had previously mixed from his spatial button, and tried dripping them into its roots one by one.
Green Spirit wasn't picky about food; it accepted everything offered and absorbed all the nutrient solution. It didn't seem to have any discomfort after being moved and remained full of vitality.
Ah Chen didn't know which fruit would be helpful to his mother, but the spiritual light emanating from the green spirit would definitely be beneficial to her.
After a busy night and feeding his mother juice, Achen was so tired that he didn't care about himself. He casually drank a bottle of nutritional supplement that tasted terrible, then collapsed next to his mother and fell asleep.
Zuo Shan felt as if he had fallen into boundless darkness, with no light around him, so dark that it was as if he had gone blind.
She wandered aimlessly in the darkness for a very long time, but she could not find a way out of the darkness.
She shouted loudly, but there was no echo around her.
At first, she clearly remembered that she had used the time reversal skill to tell Xiaobai in advance about the disaster that would happen in the future.
Then she said goodbye to each of her closest relatives, and finally, holding her son whom she could not bear to part with, she fell into a deep sleep.
She knew this was Heaven's punishment for her revealing heavenly secrets and attempting to alter the future.
When she made this decision, she was prepared to pay with her own life.
Gradually, she found that her memory was fading, and the first thing she forgot was her original world.
After she forgot about her life in District 48, she began to slowly forget the most important person in her life.
She forgot Lele, Xiaobao, Maoli, Panda, Boyiyan...
At one point, when she realized she had forgotten many important people in her life, she tried to carve out the last two people she remembered, Xiaobai and Achen, in the darkness.
But all she could see was endless darkness. She didn't know where to carve their names, and she didn't have a single suitable tool to use for the carving.
She gritted her teeth and tried to carve the two names into her palm with her fingernails, but when her fingernails slid across her palm, all she saw was emptiness.
Only then did she realize that she was not a physical entity, but merely a phantom.
But suddenly she felt a throbbing sensation coming from a very distant place, a sensation that seemed to connect to her abdomen through a long, soft tube.
She tried to reach for the flexible tube, but found nothing.
Undeterred, she tried to immerse her consciousness in the flexible tube, drifting along it to its end.
There was a tiny little person there, curled up, floating in a warm liquid.
After the little one sensed her consciousness, it gently nuzzled closer, conveying affection and dependence to her through its consciousness.
Zuo Shan finally remembered that this was her womb, and the little person was her unborn daughter.
If we were to ask who she felt most sorry for when she used time travel, her daughter would have to be number one.
Because she decided her fate without consulting her or obtaining her consent.
She never dared to think about her daughter because she didn't have the courage to face her.
In front of her daughter, she was the most irresponsible mother in the world; she gave her daughter life, but did not give her the opportunity to come into this world.
Because of her choice, her daughter will never be born.
Thinking of this, Zuo Shan was overwhelmed with grief: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, my daughter, I'm so sorry!"
She repeatedly conveyed her guilt towards her daughter through her consciousness. The little girl gently nuzzled against her, as if comforting her, and Zuo Shan gradually stopped her grief.
Then she discovered that her memory had become somewhat hazy, leaving only a seven-year-old boy named Achen.
Zuo Shan realized that she would soon lose her memory of A Chen as well; she vaguely remembered that he seemed to be the older brother of the little person in front of her.
“Xi’er! By the way, your name is Xi’er, and A-Chen is your brother! I have to carve your two names down, otherwise I will eventually forget you.” Zuo Shan said to the little girl.
She didn't know if she could understand it, but even if she could, she was too young to remember it.
Finally, Zuo Shan used his own consciousness to trace the two names on Xi'er's tiny soles again and again.
The left foot is written with "Achen" and the right foot with "Xi'er".
Even after her memories completely disappeared, her consciousness continued to mechanically repeat the words—Achen, Xi'er.
This is a mother's obsession, one that can never be dispelled.
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