God's Gift

After Lu Keming finished speaking, he glanced at Anthony indifferently, slowly caught up with Yu Youyou's pace, and walked into the room.

Anthony stood there, looking at Lu Keming's back, and shuddered.

The young master is still the same young master.

Anthony shook his head, turned to look at the group of people staring at him, and waved his hand: "Why are you looking at me? Go and have a rest."

The remaining people then scattered like birds and beasts, each finding a place to rest in the villa.

The temperature difference in the desert is huge. Because of the heat during the day, most of the students only wore one piece of clothing. Now that the temperature has dropped sharply, they all took out warm clothes from the storage space and put them on.

However, compared to the freezing cold nights seen in the Fourth Ring Road, the climate in this desert actually seems gentler.

The trainees had been sleeping in the open air for several days, and their spirits were strained by the frequent appearance of mutant creatures along the way. Now that they had joined the main force, they finally got a brief respite.

So even though there were not many rooms in the villa and five or six people had to squeeze together, their young faces were filled with happy smiles. They gathered in groups of three or four, chattering and sharing the thrills of the journey.

Ye Li looked at the scattered students, turned around and went down the stairs to the living room. As soon as he entered the living room, a room full of seagulls came into view.

Under the blue moonlight, she seemed to have entered a dream of the blue ocean.

Ye Li paused, looked around and finally saw Yu Youyou next to the sofa. She walked towards Yu Youyou and heard her mumbling to Xiaoou.

"Your mother must miss you very much, so go back and see her. Besides, this barren desert is full of monsters, and you can't keep using your blood to feed roses to ward off those monsters."

"You are so small, you must not have much blood. What if you bleed it all? Once your blood is used up, those monsters will definitely rush in..."

Lu Keming, who was standing next to Yu Youyou, noticed someone coming and looked up lazily. After finding that it was Ye Li, he lowered his eyes and looked at Xiaoou, who was unmoved, and gritted his teeth.

If Youyou didn't like her, he would have packed up the child and thrown her back long ago.

Humans are indeed disgusting creatures.

Yu Youyou tried to persuade Xiaoou, but she remained unmoved. She turned her eyes around, deliberately made an extremely exaggerated and scary expression, and gestured with her hands:

"Look at those monsters. They are so big and scary! When your blood runs out, they will break into this villa and trample all your flowers and even crush your birds. Aren't you afraid?"

"I'm not afraid." Xiaoou sat on the sofa and answered expressionlessly: "When the blood stops flowing, I will die."

"The dead are not afraid."

“Oh… that’s right…” Yu Youyou scratched her head, almost forgetting that humans will die if their blood runs out. Her expression was sullen, “Dead people really won’t be afraid anymore.”

At this time, Ye Li, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke.

"So you can't die in this desert." Ye Li looked at Yu Youyou who looked distressed, sighed softly, and continued to say to Xiaoou:

"Your mother went to such great lengths to save you. This shows how much she loves you. She would definitely be very sad if you died in the desert."

Ye Li squatted beside Yu Youyou and looked at Xiaoou tenderly, "You are a good child. You definitely don't want your mother to be sad."

"It's okay." Xiaoou's answer was beyond Ye Li's expectations. In Ye Li's stunned eyes, Xiaoou repeated again:

"It doesn't matter if she's sad."

This answer made Ye Li frown. She took a deep breath and patiently advised: "How can it be okay? Don't you love your mother?"

As if puzzled by Ye Li's question, Xiaoou's gaze finally fell on Ye Li's eyes. Their eyes met. In Ye Li's expectant eyes, Xiaoou's answer was calm and indifferent.

"I don't love her."

Yu Youyou's eyes froze as she stared at Xiaoou, asking in confusion, "Don't you love her?"

Ye Li also looked at Xiaoou with astonishment, but Xiaoou's expression remained calm. She spoke slowly:

"She's just my mother, I don't love her."

"How can there be a child who doesn't love his mother?" Ye Li said in disbelief, "Even if you have Asperger's syndrome, you don't understand emotions."

"But your mother gave birth to you with her body, and you are connected by blood. You are born to love her."

Hearing this, Lu Keming, a typical counterexample, raised his eyes to look at Ye Li, twitched the corner of his mouth slightly, and then silently looked away.

"Why should I love her just because she gave birth to me?" Xiaoou said word by word without any fluctuation in her voice:

"Pregnancy is when a fertilized egg implants in the mother's uterus and develops from a group of cells into an embryo. The embryo grows an umbilical cord and placenta that connect it to the mother, and draws blood from the mother through the umbilical cord, obtaining all the nutrients it needs for its own development. This is no different from parasitism."

"Can a parasite fall in love with its own mother?"

As Yu Youyou listened to Xiaoou's words, her hands on the quilt gradually clenched, and she suddenly remembered the dead rabbit.

[The "crying rabbit" will parasitize all living organisms and survive by absorbing the blood and flesh of its host.]

The "crying rabbit" regards the host as its mother.

She thought it was different.

If pregnancy is parasitism, then what is the difference between the mother and the rabbit?

Yu Youyou only felt that her head was extremely heavy. She gradually could not hear what Xiaoou was saying. She just lowered her head in a daze, staring motionlessly at the intricate patterns on the quilt.

Noticing that something was wrong with Yu Youyou, Lu Keming lowered his eyes and said in a somewhat unhappy tone, "Of course that's different. The host of the parasite won't love the parasite in her body."

"So mom shouldn't love me either." Xiaoou was not affected by Lu Keming's words. "From the moment of pregnancy, the mother's posterior pituitary gland will continuously secrete oxytocin, a hormone that will make the mother feel a strong maternal love."

"It will make the mother forget the morning sickness, pubic separation, urinary incontinence, stretch marks, and even aging that come with pregnancy, leaving only the mother's love."

"Mother's love is a kind of hypnosis." Xiaoou was silent for a long time before continuing:

"The umbilical cord that connected me to my mother stole her blood, leaving her with nothing but endless pain."