Chapter 238 Scene 25 (Inverted V) “Mom, Mom, touch…
"Until one day, when I was bringing her food as usual, she was asleep, so as I put down the food and was about to leave, I heard, heard..."
"She's calling for her mother."
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"I was stunned for a moment. I wondered if I heard it right, but she yelled a lot."
"I turned around and looked at her, and tears welled up all at once," Jiang Ruoshi said, her voice choking. "She was like a baby, curled up, softly calling 'Mom, Mom'..."
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"Originally, I just thought she might be afraid of people, so I just sent her some things every day. But after that day, I realized that she actually wanted to be with everyone again."
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"Later, I tried to get close to her and interact with her. At first, she was very scared and even wanted to hurt me."
"But she is my daughter. No matter what she becomes, I will not be afraid of her."
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"So, that day, I wore a thick down jacket and went there. I wanted to touch her head and comb her hair. Then, when I just raised my hand, I thought she might run away, but she didn't. She just looked at me and said, 'Mommy, mommy, touch my head.'"
"I, I really, really can't imagine how desperate and painful she must have been, having endured so much hardship alone for so many years."
"I thought she might hate me, dislike me, but she didn't, she didn't."
"I touched her hair, just like when we were little, very lightly, but she said, 'Mom, it hurts.' I parted her hair and saw that her scalp was covered with dense scars that had not yet healed."
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"After that, she leaned against me tremblingly, looked at me cautiously, and said to me, 'Mom, it hurts if I don't comb my hair.'"
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"Can you imagine? She's already such a grown-up, but she's so light, as light as a baby. I held her in my arms, tears streaming down my face. My heart ached, as if it were drowning. I felt stuffy and breathless."
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"Then she touched my heart, blew on it, and said, 'Mom, blow, it hurts, fly away, it doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt,' but her own body was clearly covered with wounds and blood-soaked bandages, yet she never once cried out 'it hurts'."
"I was looking at her and tears suddenly flowed out and dripped onto her face. I tried to wipe them away but it took me a long time to wipe them away. Then I realized that she was crying too."
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"The subsequent story is very clichéd."
Jiang Ruoshi wiped the tears from her face and said, "I accompanied her, learning little by little how to walk, how to write, and how to speak, just like she did when she was a child."
"Later, she fell in love with writing letters, and I could pick up letters she wrote to me almost every day when I went there."
"She said in the letter that she had never hated me. On the contrary, she loved me very much and thought I was great. She had thought I would dislike her because of what she had become, but I didn't."
"Oh, what an idiot! I'm her mother, how could I dislike her? Even if she turns into a little mouse or a mayfly, I won't dislike her. I will make her life full of wonders. When she thinks of her mother, all she'll remember are the scenery we saw together, the stories we laughed at together, and the fact that her mother truly loved her."
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"Now, because of the children, she and I can only agree to see each other once a week. When we meet, I will bring her anything she wants, and this time, it's a shell."
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"Okay, that's the end of the story." Jiang Ruoshi stopped the car. Amidst the humming sound, she took out a shell from her pocket and handed it to He Yuezhe, saying, "Here, little doll, this shell is for you."
"...Thank you." He Yuezhe was silent for a moment and took the shell.
"You're quite polite." Jiang Ruoshi put her on his shoulders, unbuckled her seat belt, and stood up.
She rang the bell hanging next to the seat and shouted, "Children, we have arrived at the station. It's time to wake up!"
Some of the children had already woken up, while some were sleeping soundly. Although they were woken up, they did not make a fuss. They all lined up obediently one after another, got off the car in an orderly manner under the command of Jiang Ruoshi, entered the yard, and returned to the dormitory.
"Pomegranate!" Ban Wei Le ran over, waving his hand. "See you next time. I'm having a great time here! Thank you! These shells, and this five-pointed star. I even drew a picture for you. They're all for you!"
"Okay, thank you, see you next time." He Yuezhe took it and handed it to Jiang Ruoshi.
"Well, little doll, I, I also picked up some shells and gave them to you, and this pot of flowers, I also give it to you..." Chen Shuo trotted over from a distance, holding a pot of blue and purple flowers and a bag of shells in his hands.
She smiled happily: "I found this flower in the mountains. It's called Meconopsis. It's very beautiful, so I gave it to you."
"Thank you." He Yuezhe smiled, took the two things and handed them to Jiang Ruoshi, "Be happy."
"Um!"
"Goodbye, little doll!" Li Han and Yue Jie also greeted and stuffed a bunch of shells into He Yuezhe's arms, "This is a gift for you. Come play again next time!"
"Okay." He Yuezhe took it and handed it to Jiang Ruoshi again.
After saying goodbye to all the children, Jiang Ruoshi took He Yuezhe and got into her car.
Jiang Ruoshi carefully placed the pile of shells, a painting, and a pot of flowers in his arms on the seat and breathed a sigh of relief: "Huh, you seem to be ordering me around quite naturally, don't you?"
He Yuezhe laughed and said, "I can't get it, Dean Jiang, you're the best. I just helped me get it. You shouldn't be angry, right?"
"Oh." Jiang Ruoshi sighed.
She leaned on the window with one hand, started the car with the other, gripped the steering wheel, and the car hummed forward.
"If He Fangying hadn't kept asking me what you were doing and where you were going, I wouldn't have bothered to send you back."
The communicator that Jiang Ruoshi placed aside was constantly flashing. He Yuezhe saw that the person being communicated with, with the note "He Fangying is a pig (pig emoji)", was constantly sending messages.
"'He Fangying is a pig'..."
"I advise you not to click on it."
"Why?"
"Because He Fangying is really a pig."
He Yuezhe:? ?
He Yuezhe opened the message interface out of curiosity, and then, a series of sixty-second voice messages filled with noise, which made it impossible to make out what was being said and could not be canceled, lingered in the car for a long time.
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"Uh, um, Lao Jiang, what's my Shi Liu doing? Can you ask her to send me a message or, uh, take a picture of her and send it to me? Oh, I just miss her so much. Look, she walked so far just to give you a child. Oh, my heart aches..."
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"Old Jiang, Old Jiang, why don't you reply to my message?"
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"Lao Jiang, Lao Jiang, what are you doing? Are you busy?"
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"Hey, Lao Jiang, why don't you reply to my message? Why? What happened? Where's my pomegranate? Can you ask her to reply to me..."
"That's enough, it's too noisy." Jiang Ruoshi reached out and turned the volume of the communicator to zero.
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"Hey, Dean Jiang, can I send a message to Grandma?" After all the messages from He Fangying were played, He Yuezhe blinked and looked at Jiang Ruoshi pitifully, "I've been out for so long, Grandma must be worried about me."
"...Okay." Jiang Ruoshi nodded expressionlessly.
"Thank you, Dean Jiang!"
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"Hey, grandma, it's me, Shi Liu. I'm replying to your message. Dean Jiang, the children, and I went to see the sea together a while ago. We all had a great time. Grandma, let's go to see the sea together next time. The sea is so beautiful, and there are shells. The children gave me a lot of them. I'll show them to you when I get back—"
"Are you done?"
"Um!"
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"By the way, Dean Jiang, I heard there's no sea in the city. We went there today..."
"I did it."
"Did it?"
"Yes, it roughly replicates the look of an Old World beach, made of sand and water."
"Hey, is there an ocean in the old world?"
"Um."
"Dean Jiang, you are from the old world."
"Um."
"So, how did you escape that world-destroying disaster?"
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"What exactly was that disaster?"
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"Someone saved me."
"who?"
"An electronic life form that claims to be from the [Utopia]."
"one?"
"Yes, one."
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"That person saved me and many others from that disaster and placed us in a place called the Electronic Transmigration Platform. It said that as long as we complete all the tasks, we can ascend electronically and gain eternal life in the [Utopia]."
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"After completing all the tasks, I rejected its invitation. A group of us used our own methods to escape from the platform and returned to the real world. But when we returned, the world had become the horrific state it is today. A group of creatures whose identities we don't even know have occupied this place and enslaved humans."
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"We were young and full of energy, wanting to defeat those things. But after our companions died one after another in front of us, we realized that those things were beyond our ability to defeat."
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"What's more, the sea that once destroyed the world is hanging over our heads, ready to take the lives of everyone here at any time."
"The world-destroying disaster is a tsunami?"
"yes."
"What happened next? Did you give up?"
"Perhaps."
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"We gradually separated as a group, and the last time we met was at their funeral."
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"That's when I realized they had never given up. They had always wanted to carve out a bright future for humanity and make the world a better place."
"That's why I wanted to infiltrate the Executive Bureau."
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"Fortunately, you and He Fangying stopped me in time. Now that I think about it, this idea is not realistic."
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"So you have a new idea."
He Yuezhe looked at Jiang Ruoshi with burning eyes.
"..." Jiang Ruoshi sighed, "You are really smart."
"But that wasn't a new idea. After that day, I talked with He Fangying, and she said she had a solution. If that solution worked, humans might be able to have a chance encounter with them."
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"He Fangying said she intended to artificially create a 'savior.'"
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"After enduring countless hardships, I understand everything. Because of my obsession, I am willing to sacrifice everything to save humanity..."
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It turned out that He Fangying had entered the electronic salvation platform as early as the time of the world-destroying disaster. At that time, most electronic lives had not yet awakened and there was no system, so she did not know the title of "electronic salvation master".
So, is the He Fangying who is standing in this world at this moment the He Fangying who came from that disaster?
Moreover, she had the idea of "creating a god" early on, but was that before she saved herself or after she saved herself?
He Yuezhe couldn't imagine that if everything she did for him was just to make him "suffer and understand everything, and because of his obsession, he would give everything to save mankind", then what was the "love" she always talked about?
“…How cruel.”
"Yeah, but I tried to persuade her and she gave up."
"Give up?"
"Yeah, gave up."
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