Chapter 71: Does Your Husband Know You’re Doing This? p1
In the three days that Xue Xiaohai had been wandering, she had roamed from morning to night. Her energy was depleted, and she slept very soundly.
Usually, she would wake up at seven in the morning, wanting to eat and drink milk.
If her father was not up yet, she would get out of the crib by herself, pick up the empty bottle, and climb onto the big bed, prying open her old father’s eyes with her fingers.
If her old father still wouldn’t get up, she would sing loudly. In the morning, she liked to sing “Jasmine Flower” the most.
As soon as the loud, out-of-tune “What a beautiful jasmine flower, fragrant and white, praised by all” came out, Zhou Siyan would instantly sit up and obediently go to mix her formula.
It was already past eight now, and Xue Xiaohai showed no signs of waking up.
Zhou Siyan sat by the bed and looked at her, gently wiping her soft face with a wet wipe. The child’s face was very round, like the sun at noon, and also like the full moon on the fifteenth.
Her chubby face had not yet grown into its features, and there was no outline yet, but the expression and form of her eyebrows and eyes were exactly the same as Xue Yu’s.
This similarity was hard to describe. The mother and daughter were so alike that as soon as this baby appeared, most people could recognize that this was Xue Yu’s seed and would tease, “She’s exactly like her old mom.”
Zhou Siyan called Xue Yu again. “Xue Yu, I don’t think we have to leave after all.”
“Huh? You’re not leaving? I was all ready to go and pick you up.”
Xue Yu and Mo Li had been rushing. Hearing this, she sat down on a rock by the roadside to catch her breath.
Zhou Siyan: “Xiaohai has indeed been exposed. Everyone in the White Tower knows about Xiaohai’s existence. But no one dislikes Xiaohai. They secretly send her food, and the investigation department is also covering for her.”
Xue Yu wiped the sweat from her forehead. “What a mess. Alright then. You and the child wait at home. I’ll go back in a couple of days. I’m looking for meteorite crystals with Blueberry now. I’ve already found some.”
“I’m sorry,” Zhou Siyan’s voice was filled with obvious guilt. “I didn’t take good care of the child.”
Xue Yu was much more relaxed. “Don’t say sorry anymore. It’s not your fault. You can’t walk by the river without getting your shoes wet. Don’t feel guilty. As long as the child is fine.”
Zhou Siyan’s long, slender fingers gently scraped the child’s cheek. “It is my fault. I was too careless.”
Xue Yu knew that after Xiaohai had gone missing, the one who was the most upset and worried was Zhou Siyan. She said, “Then tell me, how can I comfort you?”
Zhou Siyan: “I need your forgiveness. Can you just say it’s okay?”
Xue Yu let out a long sigh. “You’re right. This was indeed your negligence. You have to accept the criticism. I’ve criticized you now, and then I’ve forgiven you. It’s okay. Don’t let it happen again.”
Zhou Siyan felt much better. “Okay, thank you.”
“That’s right. Don’t be so twisted. Just wait at home. If nothing unexpected happens, I’ll be back in two days.”
After hanging up, Xue Yu looked at Mo Li. “Alright, Mo Li. Let’s not be in such a hurry to go back. Zhou Siyan said that everyone doesn’t seem to dislike Xiaohai, and even the investigation department is covering for her. No one has reported her yet.”
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Mo Li took out a bottle of water from his bag for her. “Then are you going to continue to look for meteorite crystals?”
“Yes, for two more days. I’ll go back in two days.”
Mo Li looked at the electronic map on his watch. “Then I’ll go on my mission first. We’ll keep in touch.”
He didn’t have to worry about losing contact with Xue Yu. The connection between the child in his belly and Xue Yu was very strong. This connection was also fed back to his spiritual landscape, and he could sense Xue Yu’s direction with the child.
His mission here was urgent. He needed to go to the contaminated zone to scout the terrain, find a suitable place to lie in wait and snipe, and cooperate with the subsequent fire support troops to clean up and eliminate the mutated beasts and Abominations gathered in the contaminated zone.
“Okay. Then you be careful. After I’ve collected the meteorite crystals, I’ll go and find you,” Xue Yu said.
Mo Li picked up his two sniper rifles, one of which was the one Xue Yu had given him before. He walked a few steps down a small path on the other side, then turned back to look at Xue Yu, just standing there without coming over.
Xue Yu drank the water in the bottle in one gulp, ran over and hugged him, and kissed him on the lips several times. “You’ve had it hard, Mo Li. When we go to the island to live in the future, you won’t have to do these messy missions anymore.”
“It’s not hard.”
Xue Yu held his face with both hands. “Be careful. I can’t be without you.”
“Okay.”
Mo Li couldn’t delay any longer. He squeezed Xue Yu’s hand and quickly left.
Xue Yu watched him from behind, a sour feeling in her heart. Among these few lovers, the one who had it the hardest was Mo Li.
The locations of Mo Li’s sniper missions were all in contaminated zones. She was worried that if this continued, the two unborn babies would mutate.
She had to find a way to get Mo Li transferred from the position of a sniper as soon as possible. If this dragged on, Mo Li would be giving birth.
“Blueberry, let’s go,” Xue Yu picked up Blueberry, who was sleeping on her shoulder, and tossed it into the air.
Blueberry’s sweet dream was disturbed. It slapped Xue Yu hard with its caudal fin.
Xue Yu held it in her arms. “You’re really rebelling. How dare you hit me?”
These past few days, she and Blueberry had found some meteorite crystals. Most of them were fed to Blueberry. When she encountered a meteorite crystal with a crystal core, she would eat it herself.
After all this, Xue Yu felt full of energy, and her spiritual power had increased severalfold.
This time, Blueberry took Xue Yu to an abandoned stone factory and told her that there were many meteorite crystals under the rubble.
Xue Yu found an abandoned hoe and kept digging with Blueberry. She dug up ten meteorite crystals in a row, four of which had crystal cores.
Blueberry ate nine of the ten meteorite crystals, saying that the remaining one was to be taken back to share with its husband and child.
Xue Yu clicked her tongue in disdain. “You ate nine out of ten, and you’re going to share the remaining one with Heimei, Cake, Xiaoxue, and also the little seahorse and the two little jellyfish?”
Blueberry: “So what?”
Xue Yu only ate one crystal core and left the other three to be taken back to share with her husband and children, saying, “I’m more responsible than you.”
Blueberry was very proud. “I know how to live better than you.”
The stone factory was very large. Xue Yu and Blueberry had almost turned it upside down and had found more than twenty more meteorite crystals, ten of which had crystal cores.
Xue Yu broke open the meteorite crystals with her bare hands and took out the crystal cores. One of them emitted a deep green light. This was the first time she had seen a crystal core of such high purity.
“Hurry up and eat! Don’t leave this for your husband and children! This is the best!” Blueberry urged Xue Yu.
To increase her spiritual power and to build a new home, her husband and children would just have to eat a little less. Xue Yu threw the crystal core into her mouth and swallowed it in one gulp.
She instantly felt a surge of power in her body, a tingling, warm sensation. She felt very energetic.
At some point, Blueberry had snuck off to be with a little white rabbit behind a rock.
Xue Yu walked over and swung her fist. “Now it’s my turn to hit you, Blueberry!”
Blueberry ran away with the little white rabbit.
Xue Yu’s fist hit a large rock. The large rock exploded like a crisp compressed biscuit, breaking into four or five pieces.
She was dumbfounded. This was a very hard quartzite. She had only used two-tenths of her strength, and she had shattered such a large piece of quartzite?
What level had her spiritual power reached?
“Don’t hit me!” Blueberry didn’t even want the little white rabbit anymore and quickly flew away.
Xue Yu rubbed her fist. “Where are you going? Come back quickly! I won’t hit you!”
Only then did Blueberry leisurely return.
“Blueberry, I feel like I’m so strong now. My spiritual power is almost full,” Xue Yu’s physical fitness and spiritual power had risen too quickly, and she was having trouble adapting.
Blueberry, on the other hand, had a very good attitude. “Now that you’re stronger, can’t you play with more men? Yay!”
“Yay your head!”
Xue Yu and Blueberry looked for meteorite crystals for another day and also found many crystal cores.
She didn’t eat any more crystal cores and packed them all up. Her spiritual power was so full now that she was afraid that if she ate any more, she would explode from over-supplementation.
She carefully packed the meteorite crystals and crystal cores.
Xue Yu contacted Mo Li. Mo Li said that his mission was over and that he could return to the White Tower.
Xue Yu and Mo Li met at the edge of the contaminated zone. She was very worried that Mo Li was injured and wasn’t telling her, just enduring it secretly.
She touched Mo Li’s body up and down, not missing a single spot. “Are you injured? You have to tell me. Don’t hide it from me.”
“I’m not. Don’t touch me anymore, Xue Yu,” Mo Li’s expression was a little unnatural from her touch.
Xue Yu’s two hands were busy, reaching into Mo Li’s clothes. “I have to check carefully. You’re always injured and don’t tell me. I’m very worried.”
“I’m not injured this time, Xue Yu. I promise you,” Mo Li said sincerely.
As Xue Yu was touching him, her nose suddenly felt hot, and she had a nosebleed.
Mo Li pulled her over, held the back of her head, and took out a tissue to wipe her. “Why are you having a nosebleed? Where are you uncomfortable?”
Xue Yu quickly wiped it away. “Hehe, it’s nothing. You’re just too hot.”
Mo Li’s face turned red. “Why do you always say such things? Hurry up and go back and have a physical examination. A nosebleed could be a sign of being infected by a contamination factor.”
“That’s impossible. The first sign of being infected should be a listless spirit body. Blueberry looks very energetic.”
Xue Yu’s eyes darted to the side. Blueberry was already inseparable from the blue-ringed octopus, finding solace in each other.
Mo Li: “We still can’t be careless. Let’s go back to the White Tower quickly.”
Xue Yu gave a few crystal cores to Mo Li. Crystal cores were hard to come by. Mo Li only ate one. “Have you eaten?”
“I have. I’ve eaten a lot.”
The two returned to the White Tower.
Xue Yu openly took Mo Li into Meng Wu’s apartment. Zhou Siyan and Feng Qizhou also came over with the children later.