Chapter 85: Bai Long Takes Action. Xue Yu is Publicly Executed. p2
Xue Yu was full of energy every day. She was still used to this kind of concrete building. It was much more reassuring to live in than the metal buildings of the White Tower.
She vaguely found the feeling of being on Earth.
One after another, more and more people escaped from the White Tower and came to the island.
Xue Yu took them all in and led everyone to make the island bigger and stronger.
She led everyone to develop the fishing industry and started to do business with other safe zones, running the social transactions of the entire island in an orderly manner.
Half a year later, Zhou Siyan was pregnant with their second child.
Xue Yu sat by the bed, her head bowed. “Are you going to have it?”
Zhou Siyan was changing the new quilt cover, his face cold. “It’s been so long, and you haven’t even thought about contraception. Isn’t not using contraception the same as preparing for pregnancy? Isn’t it just a matter of time before I get pregnant?”
“I didn’t say you shouldn’t have it. I was just asking. Do you have to be so sarcastic?”
Xue Yu sighed lightly. Why is this Zhou Siyan getting more and more pretentious? He’s always giving me a long face.
She picked up her thermos and left the room. When she reached the open space outside, several children were playing. They had all grown quite tall. They were running around on the island like wild dogs, their heads covered in sweat.
“Mommy, why do you have a long face!” Xue Xiaohai, in a floral shirt and floral pants, ran over like a flower butterfly.
Xue Yu unscrewed the thermos and took a sip of water. “Lanshan, your dad is pregnant.”
Xue Xiaohai: “What does ‘pregnant’ mean?”
Xue Yu: “You’re going to have a little brother or sister.”
Xue Xiaohai circled Xue Yu. “That’s great! I want a little sister, like Xiaobei and Xiaonan. I want her to look exactly like me, so we can wear the same clothes. That would be so fun.”
Xue Yu said, “You silly child. Only twins look the same.”
Xiaobei and Xiaonan also came over and leaned against Xue Yu.
Xue Xiaonan looked down at the water in Xue Yu’s thermos. “Mommy, why are you always drinking goji berry water? It doesn’t taste good at all.”
Xue Yu: “Mommy has a kidney deficiency. I have to supplement my body.”
Feng Qizhou also came over, his brow cold. “That human treasure said he’s also pregnant. When did you do that?”
Xue Yu couldn’t remember for a moment. “Could it be that it was caused by drinking that day?”
Feng Qizhou snorted coldly. “You can still do it after drinking? You’re really something. Then what should we do now? He said he wants to have it.”
Xue Yu stood up, her brow furrowed. She thought for a few minutes and then slowly looked up. “Qizhou, why don’t you open a maternity hospital?”
Feng Qizhou: “Then I have to get pregnant again.”
Xue Yu’s head was about to explode. “How did it get so messy…”
Xue Yu felt that her mind was in a mess. Everything was as messy as a ball of yarn.
She seemed to be being pushed by a force, her whole body light and floating, swept into the torrent of some ending, unable to break free, unable to escape.
A few months later, Meng Wu came and told her that he was finally pregnant.
Looking at the joy on Meng Wu’s face, Xue Yu smiled and nodded. “That’s good. More children, more blessings. You’ve worked hard.”
Xue Yu had no idea what the situation was in the White Tower. It seemed that everyone had come to this island.
She did a population census. The population of the island had exceeded 10 million.
And her reproductive ability had affected everyone. The people who had come from the White Tower, their previous sterilization had been reversed, and both men and women could get pregnant.
Everyone had been too repressed in the White Tower before. Now they were eager to reproduce. Regardless of gender, everyone’s belly was gradually getting bigger.
The construction of the island was becoming more and more perfect. There were schools, hospitals, and factories.
Xue Yu’s mind was always in a daze, as if she had fallen into a quagmire, floating and sinking. The more she struggled, the deeper she sank.
She looked back. Where had the time gone? Her mind was full of the children’s cries and laughter.
Zhou Siyan had a total of three children, Feng Qizhou had five, and Mo Li and Meng Wu also had several.
Lu Sen, Bai Qi, the human treasure, the military officer who wanted respect… they all had her children!
Xue Yu became the island master of this island. She was pushed to the top by everyone.
This island officially had a new name—the Shanhai Safe Zone, and Xue Yu was the supreme leader of the safe zone.
All those who had awakened their spirit bodies had a very long lifespan and almost did not show any signs of aging.
In the blink of an eye, twenty years had passed.
Xue Yu’s appearance had not aged, but she was exhausted.
All these years, all her thoughts had been on building the island. She had not slacked off for a moment. The island was now almost like a small country on Earth.
She was really tired. She planned to make Xue Xiaohai her successor and have her share some of the pressure.
After walking out of the office, Xue Yu asked the guard at the door, “Where’s Xue Lanshan? Where has she run off to again?”
“She seems to be at the hospital.”
Xue Yu drove to the hospital.
Twenty years had passed, and Xue Xiaohai had grown into a young woman.
Xue Yu saw Xue Xiaohai’s back in the corridor and remembered the time when she had just transmigrated to this world. At that time, she was also twenty years old, exactly like Xue Xiaohai.
Xue Yu stood in place, watching Xue Xiaohai from a distance.
Xue Xiaohai had a high ponytail. In her early years, influenced by her father’s aesthetic, she always liked to wear colorful clothes.
She stood in front of Feng Qizhou, wiping her tears. “Uncle Qizhou, please help me. My parents can’t know about this, especially my dad. He’ll scold me if he finds out!”
Feng Qizhou was wearing a white lab coat, his expression heavy. “Xiaohai, how are you even more of a flirt than your mother was back then? Your boyfriend’s belly is so big, and you’re only just bringing him to the hospital. Isn’t this just messing around!”
Xue Xiaohai lowered her head dejectedly. “I’m afraid my mom will scold me. Can you secretly help my boyfriend deliver the baby? Don’t tell my parents, okay? I will work hard to earn money to raise the child.”
Feng Qizhou said earnestly, “Xiaohai, I’ve watched you grow up. Uncle won’t harm you. Be good. Go back and have an open and honest talk with your parents.”
Xue Xiaohai: “My parents will scold me to death.”
Feng Qizhou: “They won’t. And you’re still so young. How are you going to raise a child? It takes a lot of money to raise a child.”
Xue Xiaohai blurted out, “Xiaobei’s boyfriend also had a baby. If Xiaobei can raise it, why can’t I?”
Feng Qizhou’s vision went black, and he held onto the wall with both hands. “What did you say!”
Xue Xiaohai covered her mouth. “Nothing, Uncle Qizhou. I’ll be going now! I’ll come and find you at night.”
Xue Yu blocked Xue Xiaohai’s way. “What have you been up to?!”
“Mom, I was wrong! I’ll never do it again!” Xue Xiaohai cried and hugged her.
Only after this investigation did Xue Yu find out that Xue Xiaohai, Xue Xiaobei, and Xue Xiaonan had all inherited her strong reproductive ability. They had been dating behind her back and had even gotten their boyfriends’ bellies big.
She was so angry she almost fainted and gave the few children a good scolding.
Since it had come to this, Xue Xiaohai’s few ex-boyfriends were all due, so they had no choice but to have them.
Xue Yu walked on the island. It was crowded everywhere, and the children were chattering.
The population was large, and the island’s resources were in crisis. The original paradise was on the verge of collapse under the population pressure.
The island, which had been quiet for more than twenty years, was hit by a huge natural disaster.
A tsunami rushed up and destroyed many houses.
The grain crops were all lost, the mines collapsed, the fruit trees withered, and no more fish could be caught in the sea.
Everyone had no way to leave the island because the pollution outside was getting worse and worse. As soon as they went out, they would be infected.
The island was full of people. Everyone had to eat. The order of the island completely collapsed, and Xue Yu was powerless to turn the tide.
To fill their stomachs, everyone began to eat tree bark and grass roots. The island could no longer be seen in green.
All the fish in the sea had been eaten, and the seaweed, coral, and seagrass had also been scooped out and eaten.
Xue Yu stood on the highest reef. She couldn’t see anything, only one mouth after another. Those mouths were constantly opening and closing, stuffing everything into their mouths, but they were still not full.
“Is this what you wanted?” Xue Yu heard a distant whisper. She turned her head but couldn’t see anything.
***
“Ah!” Xue Yu suddenly woke up.
When she opened her eyes, she found that she was lying on the deck, covered in sweat. Blueberry was lying beside her, listless.
“Was that a dream?” Xue Yu rubbed her temples. It took her a long time to come back to her senses. That dream was too real, and so long.
She picked up a bottle of water on the side, poured it on her face, and shook her head hard to bring her consciousness back.
Looking at her watch, it had only been eight days since she had left the White Tower. She still had to wait for two more days to reach the island.
“How could I have such a terrible dream? It scared me to death,” Xue Yu picked up Blueberry. “You didn’t even wake me up. It was so scary.”
Blueberry’s caudal fin swayed gently, telling her weakly, “Your spiritual landscape was controlled by some kind of force. I couldn’t even get in.”
“How could this be?” Xue Yu checked her landscape and did indeed find traces of being invaded by another spiritual power.
Strange. She had been completely unaware when she was invaded.
Could this absurd and strange dream have been caused by this external spiritual power?
Xue Yu had no clue for the time being.
***
The White Tower.
Everyone in the White Tower had just completed an immersive script-killing game. Everyone was gathered in various squares, not yet completely withdrawn from the script-killing game.
The large screens in the various squares were starting up. Ms. Bai Long was sitting in her office, giving a live speech to everyone:
“Everyone, is this the future you want? Do you still want to have children? Can you still tolerate the existence of children?”
This morning, Ms. Bai Long, who had been in seclusion for a long time, had come out. When she found out that a newborn had appeared in the White Tower, she was furious.
So she had invaded Xue Yu’s spiritual landscape and had constructed the current world in her landscape.
Then, Bai Long had taken control of Xue Yu’s spiritual landscape.
She had used her own spiritual power as a bridge to let everyone invade Xue Yu’s spiritual landscape together and complete a new world of fantasy together.
She had let everyone follow Xue Yu’s footsteps, build a new safe zone in Xue Yu’s spiritual landscape, start to have children, and build a new world.
It was a complete immersive experience.
Bai Long continued to speak on the live screen, “After you entered Xue Yu’s spiritual landscape, I did not interfere with your and Xue Yu’s thoughts at all. All the development followed the laws of nature and was caused by your own choices.”
“Everyone, I’ll ask you one more time. Do you still want to have children?”
Everyone looked at each other in silence.
Finally, someone went to snatch Xue Xiaohai, who was being held by Zhou Siyan, and placed her in the middle of the square. “The White Tower cannot have children! Xue Lanshan must leave the White Tower!”
Xue Xiaohai held her bottle and looked left and right.
She didn’t understand. Why were the uncles and aunties who had been giving her candy these past few days all so fierce?
Zhou Siyan rushed over and held Xue Xiaohai tightly. “Xiaohai, don’t be afraid. Daddy is here. Daddy will protect you.”
In this morning’s script-killing game where the entire population of the White Tower had collectively invaded Xue Yu’s spiritual landscape, Zhou Siyan, Feng Qizhou, Mo Li, Meng Wu, and the three children had all had close contact with Xue Yu. Although they had also entered Xue Yu’s spiritual landscape, to not disrupt the rhythm, Bai Long had not let them participate in this experience but had had fakes take their roles.
The people in the square were constantly discussing the script-killing experience just now.
Many people turned the topic to Xue Yu.
“How many children does Xue Yu have?”
“I don’t know. At least a hundred, right? Although it’s just an illusion in the spiritual path, it’s also a reflection of her thoughts!”
“The number one pervert in the White Tower really lives up to her name.”
“That’s right. As soon as someone tempts her, she’s hooked.”
“Tsk, tsk, tsk. This is really a public execution!”
Feng Qizhou held his two children tightly, almost crying from anger:
“Are you sick? Is it fun to play with Xue Yu like this? Everyone’s spiritual landscape is their own privacy! Everyone’s thoughts are also their own privacy!”
“You entered her spiritual landscape and watched her make a fool of herself. Is that fun!”
This was completely The Truman Show!
A spiritual landscape was a person’s spiritual thoughts.
Without her knowledge, Xue Yu’s thoughts had been invaded by everyone. Everyone had used her spiritual landscape as a game carrier and had freely developed the plot in it.
Everyone knew that this was a game, but only Xue Yu didn’t know.
“If I hear you laugh at Xue Yu one more time, don’t blame me for being rude,” Feng Qizhou warned through gritted teeth.