Chapter 211 Getting old.
Shu Maomao could walk freely on the ground without wearing protective clothing. He took her to walk slowly in the snow and ice and told her what he was doing recently.
Shu Lan asked him, "Have you found anyone interesting lately that you'd like to chat with?"
"No."
"All right."
Shu Lan sighed in her heart, what should she do, Shu Maomao doesn't even want to make friends.
The protective suit was really heavy. After walking for more than ten minutes, Shu Lan could no longer lift her legs and had to rely on Shu Maomao to carry her back.
"Go back and play cards with others?"
"No, I want to sleep."
"You just woke up."
"I'll fall asleep while playing cards, and they always let me go. It's not fun at all."
The main reason is that she is now forty years old but looks like she is eighty years old, and she doesn't like the way others look at her.
Surprised, curious, distressed, cautious, and hesitant to speak, as if she were a glass figure that was about to break.
Shu Maomao said, "I'll call Xiao Hei and Dengbao out, and the three of us will play with you?"
"No, you all know how to count cards, that's boring."
"Let the lightbulb read you a novel."
"Okay, but I still need to sleep."
Shu Maomao remained silent.
He didn't like her sleeping too much, and he would feel uneasy when he saw her with her eyes closed.
But if she didn't sleep, she would feel even more tired, and Shu Maomao couldn't stop her from sleeping.
Back at the base, Shu Lan couldn't wait to take off her protective suit, and immediately felt relieved: "This thing is too heavy. Can I work in it?"
“They’re still refining it.”
"That'll do."
Shu Lan took off her scarf, revealing some gray hair and increasingly thin and hunched shoulders. She was a little shorter than before.
Shu Maomao couldn't understand why he grew taller while she became shorter.
"Mom, I'll carry you."
"No need, I'm walking very easily now. I told you that when Mommy was a kid, she watched a movie called Shaolin Temple. The monks in the movie practiced Qinggong just like that. They tied heavy sandbags to their bodies for three to five years. After they took them off, they felt their bodies were much lighter, and they could even fly. I used to tie heavy sandbags as a kid, too."
The agile Ms. Shu Lan walked into the elevator. Her room was on the ninth floor. When she went down to the third floor, a cleaning staff came in pushing tools. Shu Lan subconsciously lowered her head and covered her face with a scarf.
She doesn't really want too many people to know what she looks like now.
Shu Maomao grabbed Shu Lan with his backhand. The person who came in just shouted "Xiao" and before the commander could finish his three words, he took Shu Lan into the space. When he came out, he landed in Shu Lan's room.
Shu Lan gave a thumbs-up. "Compared to Qinggong, you're still faster."
Shu Maomao took out the light bulb, placed it on the table beside her bed, and said, "Read your script."
Bulb, who had done the job several times before, said with familiarity, "Master's mother, are you going to continue listening to 'Escaped from Marriage 99 Times, I'm Still the CEO's Beloved', or the new 'After a Night of Passion, the Innocent Movie King Searches the Internet for His Wife'?"
Shu Lan said, "The one from last time."
The male protagonist in the Dengbao script is always Shu Maomao, and the identity of the female protagonist is still to be determined. Shu Lan forced it to change the names of the male and female protagonists to Xiao Hei and Da Zui.
"Okay, last time we talked about the male protagonist Xiao Hei hearing from his secretary that the female protagonist Da Mouth..."
Shu Maomao sat down and gave her healing medicine. After listening for a while, she heard that Xiao Hei had misunderstood that Dazui had cheated on her with the son of a business rival, arrested him and locked him up at home, and when they were preparing for the wedding again, the corner of her mouth twitched slightly: "Do they have to get married?"
Shu Lan said dazedly, "Maybe this is love."
Shu Maomao put down her hand, put the light bulb that was reading the script back into the space, and looked at her old sleeping face.
Other women are not like this at forty.
Everyone says he is like a god now, but the god they are talking about is omnipotent and he can't even stop a person from getting old.
Just as the black fog was dispersing bit by bit, the sky became visibly brighter. At first, everyone used searchlights when going out, but later they could remove the searchlights to reduce the weight of the protective clothing.
Near the edge of the mountain, the first batch of greenhouses were successfully built. The previous frozen soil was replaced with new soil, seeds were sown, temperature and humidity were adjusted, and they waited for the moment of germination.
Shu Lan's teeth began to loosen and fall out, but she was healthy and had no illness or pain. She just seemed to have forgotten her age and many things.
"What year is it, son?"
"Tenth year, Mom."
"Have you made any new friends? Is there a girl you like?"
Shu Maomao was silent, then changed the subject and said, "It's bright outside, let's go for a walk."
The newly improved protective suit was very light and thin. Shu Maomao helped her put it on and led her to slowly walk to the ground.
He used his ability to become a passerby, so as long as he didn't speak, others couldn't see him.
It was indeed getting brighter outside, approaching dusk, the afterglow of sunset.
After walking out, Shu Maomao asked, "Mom, do you want to ride a moth to see the meteorite?"
"OK."
Shu Lan could no longer climb onto the moth by herself and had to rely on Shu Maomao to put her up.
As the giant moths flew overhead, people busy around the greenhouse looked up and watched them go.
Shu Maomao has the ability to jump, fly, and teleport in space, so he doesn't need this moth. It's usually Shu Lan who uses it.
"Isn't that the Commander's mount? Has the Commander come out from his retreat?"
"Ah, I haven't heard the commander's voice in a while. I kind of miss her scolding us idiots and telling us not to use our brains if they don't work."
"Me too. Before the commander retired, he could always come up with some fun activities, but now they're all gone."
The moth flew for more than an hour, covering hundreds of kilometers, and stopped in front of a large pit whose entire shape could not be seen. The pit was a black abyss, dead and deep, and the surrounding land was turned upside down, like a wound in the earth.
Shu Maomao said, "The stone is inside."
Shu Lan sighed with lingering fear: "It was able to create such a deep pit. Fortunately, it didn't hit us directly on the head, otherwise we would all die together."
Shu Maomao whispered to himself, "It's better to die together."
Shu Lan didn't hear clearly, so she turned around and asked, "What did you say?"
Shu Maomao looked up: "Nothing."
Shu Lan didn't care and looked towards the sky in the distance: "Maomao, you can see the dawn so soon, you must have done a lot of things without me knowing."
Shu Maomao said, "No."
"Don't lie to me, I can read minds."
"……No."
He just couldn't sleep at night so he went out for a walk and came back when she was having breakfast. Anyway, it didn't matter whether the nuclearized people slept or not.
Shu Lan asked, "Baby, will you hate me for bringing you into this messed up world without your permission and making your life so difficult every day?"
"No, and I never felt it was hard. Mom, do you hate this world?"
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