Extra 10
Even in the game, Admiral Gu did not want to be an omega, so he chose his in-game gender as a female beta.
【Please choose the game difficulty:
1. Easy 2. Difficult 3. Nightmare】
How difficult can a game be? Since he wanted to use the game to build a closer relationship with the kids, he might as well choose the most difficult mode. This way, the kids would look at him with admiration.
Thinking of this, Admiral Gu chose nightmare mode without hesitation.
"The game is about to begin. Your mission is to safely survive the nine months in the game, which is nine days in reality. I wish you a happy game~"
Before Admiral Gu opened his eyes, a feeling of weakness surged over his whole body. He felt as if he was lying in an ice cave, and his whole body was cold.
[Name: Mrs. X (players can modify their last name)
Age: 27
Gender: beta female
Health: 5 (less than 1 will result in the character's death)
Physical Strength: 5 (less than 1 will cause the character to be unconscious and increase stress)
Stress value: 8 (reaching 10 will cause the character to die)]
The attribute panel appeared in front of Admiral Gu. It was simple and clear, and looked like a survival game. Admiral Gu was ready to collect supplies, avoid or even kill the enemy in a blink of an eye.
【Ding～The last name has been changed, Gu】
"Wake up, your mother is calling you to help in the kitchen, why don't you get up yet?" Someone pushed his shoulder unhappily. Admiral Gu's body was very weak, and this push seemed to shake his soul out of his body, making him dizzy and with a nausea rising from his stomach.
In the first two seconds after he opened his eyes, the world he saw was dark, as if many small black dots were densely covering people and objects. The person next to him was a tall and strong alpha, who complained while looking at the computer: "Are you a pig? You can sleep so much. You've been sleeping for the whole afternoon."
Admiral Gu sat up with difficulty and rubbed his temples. When he heard the alpha who was called "husband" constantly blaming her, a trace of anger flashed in his eyes.
Who the hell does he think he's talking to?
"Xiao Gu, why don't you get up yet? How can you, as a daughter-in-law, sleep at home during the New Year?" A middle-aged female beta pushed open the door. She had a strong smell of raw meat on her body, which made General Gu frown. "Are you teaching me how to do things?"
The NPC with the name of "mother-in-law" raised his voice and said, "Xiao Gu! What do you mean by that?! Are you dissatisfied with me?! Look at what you are like now. It was fine that you had a miscarriage and couldn't keep the baby, but now you don't clean the house or cook. What's the point of our Gu family working so hard to raise a hen like you who can't lay eggs?! I'm not even dissatisfied with you, but you are giving me a bad face?!"
The incessant accusations and the smell of raw meat were equally disgusting. Admiral Gu pressed his hands against his chest, trying to hold back the urge to vomit, but the mother-in-law was even more relentless. She stood in front of Admiral Gu and tried to drag him off the bed like a chicken.
If it were in reality, the old and strong Admiral Gu could kick this NPC away with one kick, but his body in the game had difficulty even getting up, and his arms were so thin that they could be held by the evil mother-in-law with one hand, and Admiral Gu was unable to break free for a while.
"You're so good, you won't even let me touch you, why are you covering your mouth, do you think I'm dirty?!"
The smell of raw meat that could be smelled from five meters away attacked Admiral Gu like a biological weapon. The strong willpower of the battle-hardened Admiral Gu was like a mantis trying to stop the overwhelming urge to vomit. He was vulnerable. He couldn't help it, and didn't want to hold it back, so he vomited directly on this NPC.
“Ahhhhh——!!!” The mother-in-law, who was covered in vomit, covered her mouth and ran out. The husband, who had been lying on the bed like a dead pig listening to his wife being scolded, also avoided Admiral Gu as much as possible. Admiral Gu was left alone after he vomited out everything that could be vomited in his body, and then sat on the ground weakly.
Although he was still weak after vomiting, his mental state was much better. Before Admiral Gu could catch his breath, a basin of cold water fell from the sky -
It splashed on him!
There was also a vegetable leaf stuck on General Gu’s head!
The season in the game is winter. Although the air conditioner is on in the house, the door is open and it is cold inside. A basin of cold water is poured on his body, making Admiral Gu's back teeth tremble.
The NPC who splashed all the vegetable washing water on his daughter-in-law covered her mouth and nose and said in disgust: "Are you awake? I think you are really crazy today?! You even vomited on me on purpose! How can there be such a vicious and uneducated money-loser like you! You don't even know where to vomit, and you vomited all over my clothes and the house. You will be the one to take my clothes and the floor later--" She stopped halfway through her words.
Because the wet "woman" was staring at her straightly, her eyes like a beast ready to devour her, and even her weak body could not conceal her huge threat.
The next second, Admiral Gu stood up from the wet floor with incredible agility, grabbed one of the NPC's arms, and before the opponent could react, he used all his strength to twist the opponent's arm, and like a ghost, he went behind the opponent, suddenly raised his legs and kneeled the woman's sturdy back. Then he pressed down, and the NPC fell to the ground with a bang, screaming, but could not break free from Admiral Gu's restraints.
General Gu knocked out the struggling NPC with a knife and found himself sweating all over. This body was so weak that it was unbelievable to him.
Are these two NPCs the enemies in this game? It would be difficult to kill them with this body.
"What the hell are you doing?! You crazy woman, how dare you hit my mother!!!" The husband became furious after seeing what General Gu did, and rushed up to fight General Gu without any plan.
The alpha is much stronger than the beta. Admiral Gu is well aware that if he is hit hard, he will hardly be able to fight back, so he dodged quickly. After avoiding the alpha's attack, he quickly climbed onto the bed and covered the man with a quilt.
The quilt blocked the man's view, and he was in a panic for a moment, like a caterpillar entangled in a spider web.
Admiral Gu seized this precious opportunity and picked up the mirror on the bedside table. He quickly smashed the mirror and obtained the sharp mirror fragments.
At this moment, the husband just struggled out of the quilt. Admiral Gu jumped from the edge of the bed to the alpha, and his two slender legs clamped the other's waist tightly. Before the alpha could react to what happened, Admiral Gu raised the mirror fragment high. The edge of the mirror was very sharp and cut Admiral Gu's palm. With a cold face, he stabbed the mirror into the carotid artery of the NPC without hesitation!
In an instant, bright red, boiling blood gushed out, splashing Admiral Gu's face.
He struck and left immediately, without looking at the NPC falling to the ground and wailing like a wolf, but hunched over and covered his abdomen.
Perhaps the two battles just now consumed too much energy, his stomach suddenly hurt badly. Before Admiral Gu checked his attribute frame to see what happened, a meandering stream of blood flowed down his thigh. The warm, repeatedly washed blood gave his cold body the only warmth.
The world turned black and white, with only the red flowing from her lower body blinding her. General Gu lost control of his character's body. He watched helplessly as the woman collapsed to the ground, muttering madly, "My child, my child..."
[Regrettably, the game failed because the player "Mrs. Gu" was aborted.]
I'm pregnant? Is this a game to keep the baby?
Admiral Gu stared at the pop-up game frame expressionlessly:
[Restart the game?
1. Yes 2. No]
He doesn't like the feeling of failing in a game. It was just that he got his train of thought wrong at the beginning. He will definitely be able to pass it if he tries again.
[The game starts again! I wish you a happy life~]
"Wake up, your mother is calling you to help in the kitchen, why don't you get up yet?" A familiar voice rang in his ears. General Gu opened his eyes. Not wanting to listen to the husband scolding him, he got up and walked out of the room, and saw his mother-in-law who just came out of the kitchen.
"Hey, our young lady finally got up?" The NPC said sarcastically, "I thought you needed me to help you get up."
Admiral Gu did not say anything. He was very tired and did not even have the strength to stand. He did not want to waste any energy on this NPC.
Amidst the NPC's constant scolding, he calmly threw out his ultimate move: "I'm pregnant."
From the information revealed by the NPC in the previous game, this person has a low status in the family and is unable to have children. So as long as he tells the NPC the news of his pregnancy, the other party should be able to calm down.
My mother-in-law was really surprised. "Have you checked with a pregnancy test?"
Admiral Gu: “Not yet, but I have experience.” Experience from the last game.
"That's right. You looked bad these past few days and slept a lot. I felt something was wrong with you and thought you were sick. It turns out you're pregnant!" The mother-in-law took out a pregnancy test stick and gave it to General Gu, "Go test it now!"
Admiral Gu took the pregnancy test stick and went to the bathroom. He looked at "himself" in the mirror. He saw a very thin female beta with delicate features and a pale complexion. She looked so haggard that her cheeks seemed sunken.
But considering the environment she is in, this seems normal.
This family is really awful to their daughter-in-law. The mother-in-law's words just now clearly show that she knew her daughter-in-law was unwell, but she still asked her daughter-in-law to cook for her son who is as healthy as a cow...
Admiral Gu was stunned for a moment. He suddenly felt that this scene was familiar.
He once asked Li Songyun, who had a fever, to cook for Gu Mian.
No, no, no, it's different. He gave Li Songyun the opportunity to choose. If Li Songyun really didn't want to do it, he wouldn't force Li Songyun.
General Gu handed the pregnancy test stick to his mother-in-law. Looking at the two lines on the test stick, his mother-in-law was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling. "I have been looking forward to it for so long, and finally our grandson is here!"
"Haohao, you're going to be a father!" She ran to tell her son in the room the good news, and kept praising her son for his ability, treating General Gu, her "daughter-in-law", as an outsider throughout the whole process.
However, Admiral Gu did not consider himself a member of this family. He found a chair in the kitchen and sat down to take a rest. The faint greasy smell coming from the table made his stomach churn. Admiral Gu had vomited once and had experience. He immediately found a trash can, hugged the trash can and vomited until he was almost dead.
"Hiss..." The mother-in-law smelled the odor as she came out of the room. She complained, "Why didn't you vomit before? Why did you vomit as soon as you found out you were pregnant? I tell you, don't think you can stop doing housework just because you're pregnant."
Admiral Gu, who had finally finished vomiting, widened his eyes in disbelief and said, "I'm pregnant. I need to rest."
"What's wrong with being pregnant? It's not a big deal. Everyone goes through this. You're the only one who's so proud and arrogant." The mother-in-law pinched her nose with one hand and fanned herself with the other hand, saying, "Empty the trash can for me later, and then come back and help me make the New Year's Eve dinner..."
Admiral Gu's fist hardened.
Gu Huazhang has never wasted time on these meaningless housework since he was born. It is impossible to ask him to do these!
[You helped prepare the New Year's Eve dinner, physical strength -1, you cleaned the house, physical strength -1, you washed the dirty clothes, physical strength -1]
Admiral Gu chose a tactical compromise because her "husband" had a tendency to domestic violence. If there was a conflict with the NPC, his losses would be much greater than doing housework.
There is no shame in temporarily bowing your head; the result is everything.
When his stamina was only 2, General Gu could finally take a rest. He seldom did housework, and when he did, his mother-in-law always complained about him, saying things like "You're working yourself to death just to show off to others" and "Are you pretending to be clumsy just because you're pregnant?"......
In the past, General Gu never felt how tiring housework was. He believed that the ones who were really tired were him and Gu Mian who went out to work, while Li Songyun just enjoyed herself at home all day long. But now, General Gu's frail body was almost broken by housework.
If he does one more chore, his stamina will drop directly to 1. When the stamina reaches 1, the character will fall into a coma and his stress will increase by 1 point. His current stress is 8. With 2 more stress points, the game will end.
While she was working so hard on the housework, the husband was lying dead in bed, enjoying the fruit plate delivered to his bedside, as if he was the one who was pregnant.
If he didn't know that this was just a bunch of data, Admiral Gu really wanted to question whether the other party was still human.
The game character went to bed and fell asleep. The game fast-forwarded the process of falling asleep. In just one second, the moon outside the house turned into the sun. Admiral Gu, with his eyes blinking, saw that his physical strength had recovered from 2 to 5.
She was woken up by her mother-in-law and made breakfast for the family. Her strength dropped to 4 again. Then her husband accompanied her to the hospital for a prenatal check-up.
The husband was of no help throughout the whole process, as if he was dead, and could only rely on himself to do the work, so his physical strength was deducted by another 1 point.
"You have been pregnant for a month, and the gestational sac and fetal bud are in good condition, but you have anemia and mild malnutrition..." The doctor prescribed a lot of medicine for General Gu and reminded him to take care of his body, eat more and exercise more.
No wonder this body's health is only 5.
Admiral Gu decided to exercise more when he returned. With his many years of training experience and the medication prescribed by the doctor, it should be no problem to raise the health of this body to level 8.
When General Gu suffered from motion sickness, he lay down on the bed to rest immediately.
My mother-in-law read the pregnancy test report over and over again, with a bright smile on her face, "Good, good, good! I'm glad the baby is fine! Xiao Gu, you have to eat more. If you don't have enough nutrition, my grandson won't get enough nutrition either."
When she mentioned the word "grandson", the smile on her face became even brighter, "Oh, let grandma touch my good grandson~" The pair of hands that always had the lingering smell of raw pork touched Admiral Gu's lower abdomen, causing him to get goosebumps as he closed his eyes to rest. He took a deep breath and suppressed the nausea in his stomach.
Admiral Gu was so tired that every part of his body ached and felt weak, even his chest was sore. Now he just wanted to take a nap to replenish his energy and just hoped that this NPC would leave as soon as the quarrel was over. This kind of attitude of keeping things quiet was almost impossible for Admiral Gu to show in real life.
However, the NPC in nightmare mode still refused to let him go.
The hands pulled General Gu up from the bed and said, "Little Gu, don't sleep any more. Come with me to the temple today to fulfill your vow. You should know that the reason you can be reborn is because of my sincere prayers to the Bodhisattva for so many years!"
Admiral Gu, whose head was about to explode, opened his eyes coldly and said, "I'm tired. I'll take a nap before going."
"Look at what time it is. It will be dark when you wake up!" The mother-in-law seemed not to understand what she was saying and insisted on dragging General Gu out of bed.
How can this be so unreasonable! It is unreasonable! This is too much!
As the general of a country, is he really going to let this crazy woman control him? !
[You accompany your mother-in-law to the mountain to fulfill her vow, Stamina -1]
Admiral Gu decided to consider the overall situation and hold on a little longer. On the way back, Admiral Gu opened the attribute box and colored his last two points of physical strength blue.
At night he had to do at least three things: dinner, cleaning the house and washing clothes, but he only had enough energy for two of them. If he overdid it, he would fall into a coma.
General Gu did not want to, nor would he put himself in such a situation, so he chose...
Add sleeping pills to the family's meals.
He bought the medicine when he went to the hospital today. The husband didn't pay attention to what he bought from beginning to end, but he ate the most at dinner.
Admiral Gu watched coldly as the family fainted at the dining table. For safety reasons, he tied up all of them, and locked them in the bathroom. Then, Admiral Gu used special means to transfer the money from their accounts to his card, and after disguising himself, he left the house cleanly and efficiently.
He would not serve this family of scum just for the sake of his own glory! Anyway, the game only requires the player to survive before giving birth to the child, wouldn't it be a good thing for him to take the money and the child and move to another place to continue living? !
When Admiral Gu got into the car, he smiled for the first time since he started playing the game. He felt relaxed for a rare moment, and suddenly realized that the expression of "himself" in the car window was very similar to that of Li Songyun at that time, or it could be said that they were exactly the same, both showing the relief of escaping death and the disgust for the past without any nostalgia.
So the smile that finally appeared on Admiral Gu's face suddenly froze.
When he looked at things from Li Songyun's perspective, even though he didn't want to admit it, he had to admit that the role he played in Li Songyun's marriage life was that of the most annoying and disgusting wicked mother-in-law in this game.
He only spent less than a day in the real world with this character.
But Li Songyun faced him for a full twenty-six years.
During the nine days that passed in the real world, Admiral Gu experienced nine months in the game world.
He chose to raise his baby in the slums, and was tortured by various pregnancy reactions every day. The first was morning sickness. His body was very prone to morning sickness. He felt like vomiting when he was hungry, when he ate, and even when he was full. Any smell would arouse his urge to vomit. He would vomit when he walked or when he lay down. He would still be awakened by the urge to vomit in the middle of his sleep, and sleep at this time would not replenish his energy.
This body was calcium deficient, so cramps were particularly frequent during pregnancy. No one could help the Admiral pinch the cramped part, so he could only push the cramped part back to its original position by himself.
He moved into the Green Shade Street in the slums, and insisted on exercising every day to relax his body and mind. As he wished, he raised his health value to 8 and reduced his stress value to 3. He must take good care of his body, otherwise he would be alone at home, and without a strong body, it would be no joke to lose two lives.
When she was six or seven months pregnant, the fetus in Gu Shangjiang's body did not enter the pelvis. The fetus's feet pressed against his stomach, making him feel uncomfortable all the time. At this time, playing games was a torture every moment, boring and painful, and there was no fun at all. As long as he got off the game, doing nothing in real life was much more comfortable than playing games.
But Admiral Gu still spends four or five hours every day playing the game. He insists on playing the game not just to have a common language with the children. An unnamed sense of guilt weighs heavily on his heart.
He thought of Li Songyun, who had gone through four pregnancies, and of the daughter-in-law who had never received much care and concern from the Gu family.
That child really has a hard time...
But why had he never cared about that child before?
On the eighth day of the game, Admiral Gu's body had been having trouble falling asleep in the game for two months. The presence of the child prevented him from falling into a deep sleep. Normally, sleeping in the game would increase his physical strength by 3 points, but when she was eight months pregnant, his game character could only increase his physical strength by 2 points each time he rested.
Finally, the due date arrived, and Admiral Gu found a black market doctor to deliver his baby. Before the epidural, he experienced the legendary contractions, as if a blender was working madly in his stomach, and as if millions of nails were forcibly piercing into his bones and blood, and then being pulled out with blood, leaving every cell in his body wailing in agony.
Admiral Gu considered himself an alpha with a strong ability to tolerate pain. He led his troops in battles with blood and sweat but no tears. However, he didn't know whether it was because the pregnancy was too painful or because his body was prone to pain, but Admiral Gu's mind was in a mess due to the pain. When his spirit was about to collapse, the painless injection finally entered his body.
At this moment, he seemed to see heaven and hear sacred music——
[Congratulations to the player "Mrs. Gu" for completing the game! You are a brave person, and congratulations on overcoming the pain of pregnancy in the game! But if it is in reality, this journey is not over yet.
Pregnancy is a very difficult thing. Pregnant couples not only have to endure the pain of pregnancy and childbirth, but they also have to go through the longer and more painful postpartum pain:
Postpartum uterine contractions, incontinence, lochia, back pain, physiological milk increase, postpartum depression......
So please love your mother (young father) and your wife. They are so great and they need to love and be loved so much.
When the game produced by Tang Bai was officially released, a bloody discussion broke out in the game's promotional comment section.
Some people applauded and hoped that this game could be promoted nationwide so that sisters can see each other's ranking in this game when going on blind dates, or it can be used as a must-try game before marriage so that each party can better understand their partner's future contributions.
Some people think that this game is meaningless, and that letting alphas or male betas experience pregnancy is childish, boring, and a waste of time and resources, and that they should not have to bear this pain.
Many more said that only idiots and masochists would play this game, and that it would become the worst-selling, most ignored piece of crap ever made.
Later, when Tang Bai announced that he would provide customized rewards of low-level mechas, medium-level mechas, and high-level mechas to the first players to clear the easy mode, hard mode, and nightmare mode respectively, the number of downloads of this game exceeded 10 million within ten minutes, and the number of downloads was growing crazily every minute and every second.
Countless alpha mothers came online, shouting "No A Mom, No A Mom" while saying "Mom loves you" to the babies in the game.
The configuration of the simple mode is a good husband, a good father-in-law, a good mother-in-law, a good father, a good mother... All the NPCs you meet are good people, and there will always be someone who gives up their seat when you go out in the car. The most painful thing during pregnancy is morning sickness for three months, back pain, cramps and other minor problems, and the biggest pain is the pain of childbirth.
The difficulty configuration is related to various factors. For example, when the player chooses the gender as omega, in difficult mode, the husband may not be around, and they may not get partner comfort and pheromone injections during pregnancy. They may also encounter extremely bad in-laws or original families. If the player chooses the gender as beta, they need to go to work while pregnant and will be treated badly in the workplace, etc. However, no matter whether the player chooses omega or beta, their various discomforts during pregnancy will be twice as strong as those in simple mode.
When it came to the difficult mode, everyone said that it was impossible for anyone to complete it. One player who was closest to victory had already entered the delivery room. She thought she could be relieved if she endured it for another day, but her husband was unwilling to give her an epidural.
In the end, when the player only needed to hold on for another half an hour to pass the level, he resolutely opened the window and jumped down.
In response to this, Tang Bai stated that an internal test player had completed the Nightmare Mode, and the internal test player's walkthrough would be released after the Nightmare Mode was actually completed.
Many players were clamoring to know who the beta tester was. They praised the beta tester who cleared the nightmare mode for how great it was and how difficult it was. They also said how strong the first player who cleared the easy mode was. Until this time, someone said weakly: "But this is the pain that almost every omega and female beta who has given birth has to go through."
Then the flattering comments suddenly fell into a deathly silence.