My Husband, a Marshal: Conquering the Stars with My Culinary Arts-Chapter 657 - 221 3 Months_3
"You don’t need to worry about Miao Miao’s courses either. Blue Star University knows your situation is special, so they’ve set up online courses for her. She can attend them every day, so it won’t delay her studies..." Chen Yin rambles on to Du Xixi, who listens lightly throughout, occasionally responding, doing nothing else but sitting on the hospital bed, like a walking corpse, unconsciously stroking her pregnant belly.
It’s unclear how long he spoke, but Chen Yin, looking at Du Xixi’s dazed profile, finally couldn’t hold back. He stood up, handed his two nephews to the equally exhausted Ke Xing next to him, and said to Du Xixi with some heartache, "Xixi! Can you pull yourself together? Ke Lian was just sucked into the wormhole; he’s not dead! No body has been found; no one can say he’s dead!"
Du Xixi is in such a state, neither human nor ghost, simply because she’s too worried about Ke Lian, or maybe she feels Ke Lian is already dead, thus thinking her own life has no meaning.
This Du Xixi...
Chen Yin closed his eyes, stepped forward, and hugged Du Xixi, whose expression was in a trance, ultimately softening his voice: "Xixi, listen to your brother, let’s live well, let’s wait for Ke Lian to come back, he’ll be back soon..."
"Brother..." Du Xixi spoke, perhaps for the first formal time today, "You don’t have to lie to me. I know, he won’t come back. On the other side of the wormhole... how could they possibly find a body?"
Du Xixi smiles bitterly, a tear slowly falls down her pale cheek, lands on Chen Yin’s clothes, and is quickly absorbed, but this tear seems to be a signal. Du Xixi’s emotions gradually collapse because of this tear’s fall.
"Brother, what do you think Ke Lian is like now? If he’s really in another world, what kind of world would it be?" Du Xixi mutters, rather than asking Chen Yin, she’s talking to herself, "Would he be hungry? Would he be cold? Would he feel he can’t survive? Would he... also be thinking of us?"
"And Fengzi, he loved to come home and play with 2569 the most. He disappeared with Ke Lian, he must be very bored every day, right? I don’t know those officers, but their families must be missing them like I do..."
Tears fall drop by drop, splashing on Chen Yin’s clothes. Chen Yin can’t help but cry with his beloved sister, but even while crying, he still clumsily wipes Du Xixi’s tears, trying to comfort her: "Don’t cry, brother gathered many people to decode the signal. Soon, we’ll be able to contact Ke Lian and the others..."
Du Xixi closes her eyes, but the tears still fall, becoming even more torrential.
"Brother always uses these words to deceive me, I won’t believe them..."
Du Xixi chuckles lightly, this bitter smile already etched on her face, every time Du Xixi responds to others, it’s with this expression.
For three months, it’s been like this.
While Du Xixi is so haggard, Ke Lian, far away in another time-space, is in similarly dire straits.
A dozen or so people have already woken up, just the night Chen Dan thought of going out to explore, Ke Lian was the first to wake up. He was dazed then, only managing to hastily instruct Mo Feng a few words before fainting again.
What he instructed wasn’t much, just telling Mo Feng and Chen Dan not to rush out to explore the environment, to wait until everyone’s overall strength recovered a bit, and then it’s better to act collectively. The next day, Chen Dan did not go out but joined Mo Feng in taking more careful care of the dozen people.
Ke Lian was the most severely injured among them, yet he could wake even for a moment. This was enough to make them happy, and the rest of the dozen also woke up soon after Ke Lian.
Though their strength was suppressed, they didn’t even have basic anti-inflammatory medicine, but their physical condition was strong, having survived the most dangerous period, so the illness was no longer a major concern.
Ke Lian and the others took three days to recover nearly sixty percent of their energy, though their injuries were still healing and their interstellar strength hadn’t returned, but gathered together, their strength was decent. They planned to venture out and scout the environment, at least to check for dangers nearby.
On the first day of exploration, they only scoured about thirty square meters around the cave and retreated for rest; the second day, they scouted fifty square meters; the third day, they reached eighty square meters; the fourth day, they confirmed that at least 150 square meters around the cave was temporarily safe...
As the range of their reconnaissance expanded, Ke Lian and the others gradually regained their strength, but the recovery speed was too slow. Besides this latent issue of strength, there was an even more pressing concern on their minds—food.
There were indeed plenty of Nutrition Supplements, each person had thirty, but their appetites were large. At first, they used the maximum dosage of Nutrition Supplements for the initial days, but soon they felt a bit lacking, especially Ke Lian, with the largest appetite, his remaining Nutrition Supplements were the fewest.
