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Chapter 29 Mother

Chapter 29: Chapter 29 Mother

The gradually nearing sound was the sound of wheelchair wheels rolling.

The identity of the newcomer was now rather obvious.

"Gran... grandma?" Xiao Yi paused momentarily, revealing a look of surprise.

This family’s grandmother, nearly forgotten by everyone, that there once was such a person, reappeared at this closing moment.

The audience in the live stream was also startled upon seeing her.

"Holy shit! I had totally forgotten about her!"

"Grandma, oh grandma, the whole family’s gone now, who knows what she’s feeling."

"Hm? Wait, the grandma is also a member of this family! She must not be an ordinary person either! We can’t let our guard down!"

"...Holy shit! I just remembered, the Professor had introduced the grandma as ’she is our mother’!"

"What!? Does that mean that this long-forgotten grandma is the ultimate boss of this instance, the ’mother’ that was always mentioned?"

"Damn it! Why does she appear now when it’s almost over!? Leave Brother Xiao Yi alone!"

Xiao Yi looked at grandma, uncertain of what to say for a moment.

In just one night, the entire family had died; he could not imagine what kind of emotions this old lady must be experiencing now.

"Ah... grandma, this is..."

However, what Xiao Yi and everyone else didn’t expect was that grandma suddenly stood up from the wheelchair and then, she flashed Xiao Yi a kind and affectionate smile.

"It’s alright, I know everything."

"...Huh!?" Xiao Yi hadn’t expected grandma to be so hearty, and he was taken aback.

Grandma continued, "I know about everything that has happened here. This family thought they could detect my surveillance, but that was merely what I allowed them to believe. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to understand their true feelings. This Western-style mansion is always under my watch, and it was because I have been watching you that I finally made up my mind, at this concluding moment, to come and see you."

"...Grandma? What are you talking about?" Xiao Yi was becoming confused.

"Ah... I’m sorry, Xiao Yi, perhaps I should have presented my true self to you from the start."

As soon as grandma finished speaking, there were twinkles of starlight beside her.

Then, as if time had been erased, in just an instant, grandma had vanished, and standing before Xiao Yi was the little girl he had once met.

"What..." Xiao Yi, in surprise, found himself slightly gaping, "What is this about now?"

To say tonight’s events were ridiculous would be an understatement; Xiao Yi’s brain was nearing complete mush.

The little girl looked straight into Xiao Yi’s eyes and explained:

"The appearance you just saw was a guise, a skin I used for disguise. This is my truest form now. Xiao Yi, I’m sure you’re quite confused, but don’t worry, I will explain everything. First off, I am what the family refers to as ’mother’, you can call me... Eve."

Inside the live stream, although many had suspected her true identity, the sudden transformation still managed to shock everyone.

"Holy crap, they’re actually the same person!?"

"I knew there was a new character out of nowhere, so this is what that was all about."

"But who would’ve thought such a petite, adorable angel could be a mother? I’ve gotta say, I would also like to call her ’Mom’."

A flurry of "me too" comments scrolled across the screen.

She, Eve, proceeded to explain slowly to Xiao Yi:

"I once drifted through the endless cosmos, then felt a call and came here out of boredom. I thought that if humans sought something from me, I would grant it to them arbitrarily. But after I took the memory of their daughter from that couple, the emotions they held within those memories, the presence of something they called ’love’, inexplicably caused a sense of heaviness in my heart."

"This made me profoundly interested in this so-called ’love’ of humans, so I stayed to further study mankind. Then, that love the parents had for their daughter prompted me to want to become a mother myself, to personally feel love, so I turned their family into one that would keep me company for a long time. That’s the origin of it all."

"Uh..."

Xiao Yi listened to Eve’s words, still not quite understanding, so he had no choice but to pretend to understand and ask:

"What is the cosmos?"

"You can think of it as the universe," Eve answered.

"The universe? Are you an alien? Alien technology sure is impressive! No wonder you are so powerful," Xiao Yi marveled.

Live chat: "We really can’t comprehend Brother Xiao Yi’s thought process."

Hearing Xiao Yi’s words, Eve, with a slight smile on her lips, said, "You could say that."

"Then it all makes sense," Xiao Yi nodded determinedly, feeling he had understood everything.

However, with this realization, Xiao Yi also came to a sudden conclusion, furrowing his brows.

"Wait, you said you know everything that’s happened here, so you’re also aware of what the Professor and the others were up to, but you just observed without intervening?"

"Yes." Eve’s previous smile faded as she expressed her discontent, "I’m tired of being a mother; I’ve given up on them."

As she spoke, Eve looked towards Xiao Yi, and a glimmer more of rippling light danced in her expressive eyes.

"But, Xiao Yi, I’ve developed feelings of love for you. So, I want to become family with you, true family, to be in the relationship known as husband and wife."

"???"

The originally attentive audience of the live stream nearly lost their breath at this sudden confession.

"What’s going on? She actually likes Brother Xiao Yi? She skipped the confession and went straight to proposing!"

"Brother Xiao Yi is incredible! Even the abnormality within the instance has fallen for him! I’ve decided, I’m making Brother Xiao Yi my lifelong idol!"

"Being confessed to by a girl as beautiful as a celestial being, how did Brother Xiao Yi hold back? If it were me, I would have immediately agreed, then picked her up for a hundred-meter dash straight to the bedroom!"

"??? Are you guys even human? Not even sparing a child!"

Faced with this unexpected declaration of love, Xiao Yi couldn’t help but step back.

Then, he immediately gave his answer.

"I refuse."

In an instant, everyone felt admiration for Xiao Yi’s response.

"Refused!? As expected of Brother Xiao Yi, he effortlessly rejected a request we could never refuse, truly admirable! Adorable to the point of making us weak at the knees!"

"Look at Brother Xiao Yi, he’s on a whole different level compared to you guys who’d choose the smallest bullets even if facing execution!"

"To be fair, accepting love from a character in a bizarre instance, is that even feasible? Besides, the instance is about to end anyway. But of course, Brother Xiao Yi wouldn’t refuse for such a serious reason."

"So why exactly did Brother Xiao Yi refuse, because Eve didn’t save the Professor? Now we can almost determine that the person the Professor frantically tried to please was Eve... Hiss, this is getting complicated."

"He loves her, yet she loves him, and yet he actually loves him! Am I watching some kind of prime time ethical melodrama here?"

"Don’t talk nonsense, even a melodrama wouldn’t dare to employ such a scenario lightly!"

"..."

Hearing Xiao Yi’s answer, Eve felt somewhat disheartened.

The sadness in her eyes involuntarily made everyone feel a bit sympathetic.

"Why?" asked Eve.

The audience in the live stream also pricked up their ears, eager to know Xiao Yi’s reasons for refusing.

However, Xiao Yi’s answer was unexpected to everyone.

Xiao Yi said, "Because, I’ve already become family with the Professor and the others, in other words, we’re already family, aren’t we? Mom."

"???" Question marks filled the live stream.

"That’s not right!" Eve shook her head vigorously. "I don’t want you to call me mom! I don’t want a mother’s love anymore; I want to experience the love between a man and a woman, to become husband and wife!"

"Become husband and wife?" Xiao Yi looked troubled. "But mom, a mother and son can’t marry, that’s common sense."

"????????"

Question marks were overflowing in the live stream.

"I... ahhhhhhh~~~" Eve held her small head, appearing very troubled.

But then, Eve’s expression suddenly became focused as she looked up at the sky.

"It seems it’s about to dawn."

Hearing this, Xiao Yi also looked up at the sky.

The night was no longer as dark, and soon, the first light would break through the heavens.

"Xiao Yi, getting through until dawn was your condition for passing, right?" Eve suddenly asked.

"Passing condition? What are you talking about?" Xiao Yi looked bewildered. He still hadn’t realized that he was in the middle of an abnormality instance.

However, the external audience stopped breathing for a moment when they heard Eve’s words.

Why? How could a character within an instance know the conditions for passing the instance?

"I still have something to tell you, just wait a little longer," Eve said, extending her delicate index finger. "Since the condition for passing is the break of dawn, then, let’s just erase the sunlight and the existence of the sun."

No sooner had Eve finished speaking than the first rays of sunlight greeted Lighthouse Country’s live stream; Dick had successfully passed, and the screen displayed a congratulatory message for the survivors.

But in Dragon Country’s live stream, the instance was continuing!

"What’s going on? Did the sun really disappear just because of one sentence?"

This was a situation completely beyond comprehension for everyone.

But what made all the people watching Dragon Country’s live stream even more baffled happened next.

Eve in the screen suddenly looked towards them.

Being stared at directly by her eyes, everyone froze, forgetting even to breathe.

"And you guys," Eve said to everyone watching the live stream. "Too annoying, get lost."

The next instant, Dragon Country’s live stream went pitch black.

The broadcast... was cut off.