Chapter 31: Rebirth
After seeing Nuonuo at the open day yesterday, Wen Yuan felt as if she had lost her soul.
She had originally gone to the event to do market research, but not only did she not write a report, she even forgot to go to work. That night, she was scolded by her boss over the phone.
Hearing the cold, harsh reprimand from the old woman on the phone, Wen Yuan’s already thin patience completely ran out. “Don’t bother me, I quit!”
The reason Wen Yuan could be so arrogant was not just a momentary impulse.
Anyone who had returned from a world of darkness more than a decade in the future could not possibly be in the mood to work properly.
It should be known that in less than ten years, Yuncheng would become Fei Han’s first “testing ground.”
In a large city of tens of millions of people, nearly a third of the population turned into zombies overnight.
The bloody scene that day was so nauseating that Wen Yuan almost threw up her guts. People eating people, zombies roaming the streets… Ordinary people thought it was the end of the world, and even Wen Yuan thought so at first.
God was displeased with them, which was why humanity had been infected with this virus.
But when Fei Nuo broke down her door and pulled her out of the zombie pile, she realized that things were not so simple.
Only the Yunzhou continent had zombies. The people on the other continents showed no signs of infection.
The city mayors of various cities also began to jointly pressure Fei Zhiyan to thoroughly investigate the zombie incident in Yunzhou.
But this was all part of Fei Zhiyan’s plan. The man just held a press conference, his silver-rimmed glasses reflecting a faint light under the camera flashes, and calmly said that this was just the beginning.
And it was indeed just the beginning. Soon after, those city mayors could no longer care about Yunzhou. Huazhou, Daizhou, and Baizhou fell one by one…
In just a few short years, the entire world had become a purgatory.
At that time, Wen Yuan was arranged by Fei Nuo to live in a small house next to Fei Zhiyan’s villa. She didn’t suffer much, but watching the endless stream of terrifying news on the news every day, she was on the verge of going crazy.
Her personality had originally been quite gentle, but after living in that kind of world for more than a decade, she had long since reached her breaking point. And most importantly, she would occasionally see the several culprits from the Fei family.
Fei Luo was one thing. He hardly ever went out, either staying alone in his doll city.
But Fei Han and Fei Jing were different. Their relationship with Fei Nuo was at its worst, and almost every time they met, they would give Wen Yuan a “big gift.”
Sometimes Wen Yuan would wake up in a deserted city full of zombies, so scared by a zombie with half its head missing that her heart would stop. Sometimes she would be tied up by the neck by a blood-sucking vine in the middle of the night, almost suffocating her…
Every time, it was Fei Nuo who found her and brought her out of her desperate situation.
But Wen Yuan still couldn’t take it. She hated Fei Han and Fei Jing to the core, and sometimes she would even resent Fei Nuo, while at the same time hoping that Fei Nuo would become stronger and directly turn those two into ashes!
But the stalemate between the three of them was never broken, right up until Wen Yuan died.
It wasn’t that she hadn’t thought of seducing Fei Zhiyan again, but with the weak connection of being Fei Nuo’s biological mother, it was already a great favor for Fei Zhiyan to even see her once, let alone fall in love with her.
After causing a fuss and going crazy, in the end, Wen Yuan could only flail helplessly a couple of times before dying in the dawn of an early spring.
But heaven was not unkind to her. She opened her eyes, and she was back!
When Wen Yuan first came back, she thought she was still in a dream, her whole person in a daze as she followed the crowd into the open day square.
It wasn’t until she saw Fei Nuo again that she suddenly woke up. Thinking of her current situation, she was so excited she couldn’t control herself.
She was really back! She hadn’t died. She had really returned to more than a decade ago!
Fei Nuo was even less than three years old now, a little child who still needed to drink milk.
And so, the returned Wen Yuan decisively quit her job. Under the “are you crazy” gaze of her female boss, she arrogantly moved her things and left.
She no longer needed to live by looking at other people’s faces. After all, in the world to come, survival was the first priority. And this time, she would definitely live better than anyone else!
Wen Yuan had no doubt that the apocalypse would not happen in the future. She had lived under the same roof with Fei Zhiyan for more than ten years and knew this person all too well.
Fei Zhiyan was a complete madman. He had no empathy, treating the entire world as a large playground, while he sat high in the clouds, coldly observing all the cruelty.
Such a person, even in another life, would not be able to stop his pace of destruction. He might even find it interesting and speed up the process.
It had to be said that Wen Yuan’s understanding of Fei Zhiyan was quite accurate. He did indeed have the idea of speeding things up after discovering the unusual nature of this world.
That’s why Wen Yuan had started to fight with Fei Zhiyan for Fei Nuo as soon as she came back.
In her previous life, everyone in the Fei family looked down on her. Only Fei Nuo still protected her. Even though she had once abandoned him, Fei Nuo still respected and loved his mother.
Fei Nuo was starved for love. Even though his birth was just the result of Wen Yuan’s calculations, as long as Wen Yuan gave him a little bit of motherly love, he would forgive her for everything.
At this thought, Wen Yuan’s hands, which were holding Nuonuo, unconsciously tightened.
Nuonuo was squeezed by her arms, his chest feeling tight, and he coughed a couple of times. Tears hung on his long, thick eyelashes and fell with a plop. “Papa, wuuu—I want Papa! You’re a baddie!”
Nuonuo’s voice was a little hoarse from coughing so hard. His little feet dangled in the air, struggling to get down.
Wen Yuan sensed Nuonuo’s resistance, and her eyes became even more paranoid. She tapped Nuonuo’s head, her voice no longer as gentle as before. “Don’t move. Mommy is taking you home. Don’t you like Mommy the most? Nuonuo, don’t make a fuss, okay?”
Hearing Wen Yuan’s words, Nuonuo’s clear, dark eyes, besides fear, also showed some confusion.
His little mouth opened slightly, and Nuonuo took a few breaths before he had the strength to shout, “That’s not twue! Nuonuo doesn’t have a mommy! I like Papa and my brothers the most! You’re a baddie!”
Although Nuonuo had spent his infancy in a transport pod, he knew clearly that he had no mother.
006, afraid that Nuonuo would overthink it, had specially explained to him, “Nuonuo is a cub conceived from Papa’s genes. Although you don’t have a mommy, you have a papa who loves you very, very much, and three super-amazing older brothers!”
From then on, in the two dark and boring years of his journey, Nuonuo had always held a beautiful expectation. And it grew more and more intense, shaping his “little sticky bun” personality.
006 also came online in time. Seeing Wen Yuan’s furious expression, it secretly thought, This is not good.
Sure enough, in the next second, Wen Yuan was so angry her chest heaved, and she roared, “What are you talking about! Did Fei Zhiyan teach you that! I knew it, he just can’t stand to see me happy!”
006 hadn’t been sure if Wen Yuan was reborn before, but now, seeing her extreme personality, it was completely certain of its investigation results.
It seems there are quite a few loopholes in this world, 006 thought in despair.
When it first came to this world, it had thought the biggest bug was just that Wen Yuan hadn’t had any interaction with Fei Zhiyan, which led to Fei Nuo not being born.
As a Villain System, 006 had come to this world to bind to the little villain and complete the missions, making the world’s timeline more complete.
So, 006 could only find a way to extract Fei Zhiyan’s genetic cells and use advanced interstellar technology to give birth to Fei Nuo.
In the interstellar era, you didn’t need two people to have a child, not even a union. As long as you had hair, blood, or anything else carrying genes, you could cultivate offspring in an incubation pod.
So, 006 hadn’t gone to the trouble of extracting Wen Yuan’s genes. After all, Wen Yuan and Fei Zhiyan had no interaction, so there was no need for a common child. And Fei Zhiyan’s genes were enough. The genes of a merman were very strong. Even with Wen Yuan’s genes, they would only be compressed to a few tenths of a percent, so it didn’t matter if they were there or not.
As long as Nuonuo was a little merman and Fei Zhiyan’s son, it was enough.
But who would have thought that such a big mistake would happen? Wen Yuan had also experienced something that had changed her personality to this extent. It was enough to scare a system to death.
006, while timidly comforting Nuonuo, secretly released its energy, planning to launch a sneak attack on Wen Yuan and save Nuonuo.
Before 006 could make a move, the roar of a heavy motorcycle came from a distance. A youth in a white lab coat, with a cold face, ruthlessly ran over the flower bushes by the side of the path.
He revved the accelerator to the maximum. The flowers and grass next to him were blown away by the airflow of the speeding motorcycle. The tire tracks were like a stream of water split by a sword, straight and sharp, extending right to Wen Yuan’s front.
The motorcycle came to a sudden halt, making a sharp half-circle turn on the small path in front of Wen Yuan. Fei Han’s long legs blocked Wen Yuan’s path. His slightly narrow eyes carried a chill like the falling snow of the arctic, which scared Wen Yuan to a standstill.
Fei Han turned his head, his voice as cold and emotionless as his person. “Give me Nuonuo.”
The shadow Fei Han had cast on Wen Yuan in her previous life was huge. Without Fei Han even having to do anything, Wen Yuan’s legs went weak, and she half-knelt on the ground.
“You… you…” Wen Yuan’s voice trembled slightly, but thinking that Nuonuo was still in her hands and that she would never let him go again, she found a bit of courage.
“I am Nuonuo’s mother. Why should I give the child to you! This is my child. I have the right to raise him!”
Wen Yuan’s hardened tone carried a hint of the hatred she hadn’t been able to release in her previous life. She glared at Fei Han, her expression stubborn.
Seeing his eldest brother in front of him, Nuonuo quickly reached out his little hands, afraid, wanting a hug from his brother. “Brother, hwug. Nuonuo scawed.”
Nuonuo’s voice was tender with a hint of hoarseness, probably from crying too much. His eyes were red-rimmed, and his little hands were stretched out straight, wanting to get out of this woman’s arms as quickly as possible. He was still young, and the most terrifying thing he had experienced was probably being carried away from home by Wen Yuan.
The scene was too quiet. Fei Han heard Nuonuo’s words, and a hint of surprise appeared in his cold expression. But then, thinking of something, his expression returned to normal, and he didn’t spare Nuonuo another glance.
Wen Yuan, hearing what Nuonuo said, forgot that Fei Han was still there and, in a fit of anger, slapped Nuonuo’s bottom. “You still want him to hold you? He probably hates you so much in his heart, he wishes you were dead!”
