Chapter 83: The New World

Chapter 83: The New World

"After I injected Zhou Zhou with that medicine, he grew up peacefully like a normal child. Seeing how healthy he was, I often wondered if the wise man could have been wrong, that the drug didn't only control people for 20 years, but could cure them completely." Luo Pei said here, sitting up straight for the camera.

"Zhou Zhou, although his medicine saved not only you, but also our whole family, some strange things happened to you as you grew up." He hesitated for a moment, but continued, "When you talked in your sleep at night, you often called out to a patriarch, and in the daytime, you told us some colorful stories about little vampires who tore up your homework, and so on.

When Luo ZhouZhou heard this, he looked at Chu Feng in dismay.

Chu Feng tightened his arms around him and said, "Keep listening."

"Linda and I think you are a child who loves to imagine, but yours was becoming more and more realistic, and your stories were very continuous. When you were a child, you loved to draw and paint, and you did it every day, so I hired a drawing teacher to teach you. When you were seven or eight years old, you got better and better at drawing, and I realized that something was wrong."

The sun was shining, and Luo Pei had a rare day off today, so he took out his tools and repaired the fence around the house. Something had bitten a hole in the fence, and in the middle of the night, some animal got into the yard and chewed up the flowers and plants that Linda kept.

Luo Pei was sawing the wood with a saw, and there was a running sound from inside the house. Then, a boy in shorts, like a little whirlwind, scurried out of the house and rushed to him.

"Daddy, you're home today," Luo ZhouZhou said enthusiastically.

"Yes, Daddy's off today, so I can spend the whole day with you."

"Then you can take me to the woods to catch birds, go to the beach to collect shells, Uncle Tommy's grapes are ripe, he invited me to his house, Dad will come with me, and we'll call Rhubarb to"

Luo Pei stopped sawing and said, "Then wait until Daddy fixes the fence so that the animals don't come in the middle of the night and eat all your mother's flowers and plants again."

"I'll wait for you then," Luo ZhouZhou said, and was about to take the wooden stool next to him.

"Come here and let me see if your teeth are in." Luo Pei said.

Luo ZhouZhou had lost his four front teeth some time ago, and now new ones had just appeared, but Luo Pei was worried that they might not grow in properly, so he checked them every day.

Luo ZhouZhou walked up to him, tilted his head and opened his mouth. Luo Pei bent down and looked closely at the four tiny white spots.

"Daddy, are you ready? My mouth is watering." Luo ZhouZhou said vaguely.

"Well, theyre fine." Luo Pei straightened up with satisfaction and said, "You can't eat sugar for a while, until your teeth grow in."

Luo ZhouZhou was reaching into the breast pocket of his backpack shorts and slowly took his hand out with a stiffening motion. "If these teeth don't grow well, I still have two more long teeth and I think I can have two candies a day, what do you think dad?"

"Not good." Luo Pei decisively refused.

"Oh."

"Besides, you dont have two long teeth."

"Yes, I do."

"Yes, yes, yes, you have two long teeth. Zhou Zhou, stay back, Daddy is going to start sawing wood."

Luo ZhouZhou ducked his head in frustration, flipped out all the candy from his breast pocket, looked at it again cherishing it in his palm, and handed it to Luo Pei. "Dad will put them away for me. These candies will be sad when they look at me if they know I won't eat them now. Return them to me when my teeth grow out.

While Luo Pei continued sawing, Luo ZhouZhou went to sit on a small wooden stool beside him. Luo ZhouZhou stared at his bulging pants pocket, which contained the candy he had just handed over.

Luo Pei sawed a few more times before finally stopping and saying, "Since you want it so badly"

Before finishing his sentence, he swept his gaze over the door of the house not far away, saw Linda standing there, and stopped.

"What's the matter? Why do you look so ugly?" Luo Pei asked, confused.

Linda put her hands behind her back and looked at him without saying a word. Luo Pei dropped the saw on the ground and walked over to her, Luo ZhouZhou also got up quickly to follow.

"Dad, you haven't finished yet, but if I want to eat so badly, then what? Then what?"

Luo Pei ignored him and went straight to the door of the house to look inside. When he found nothing unusual, he asked Linda, who was beside him, "What's wrong? Is something wrong?"

Linda looked at Luo ZhouZhou, who was following behind her, and said, "Zhou Zhou, wait outside for a moment while I have a few words with Dad."

Luo ZhouZhou stopped and said, "Then after you finish talking, you should finish what you said to me, too."

"Okay." Luo Pei replied absent-mindedly, taking Linda by the shoulders and walking into the house. Luo ZhouZhou went back into the courtyard to play with the blocks of wood Luo Pei had sawn off.

Linda took Luo Pei up to the second floor and pushed open a door to a room. It was a converted painting room for Luo ZhouZhou, and in it were all the paintings that he usually painted. She went in, turned the easel by the wall in a different direction, and said to Luo Pei, "Look."

Luo Pei slowly approached and saw that it was a painting Luo ZhouZhou had just finished.

A group of children were sitting around an old man, listening to his speech. The children were all wearing ponytails and purple robes, and the old man was smiling as his beard fluttered over his chest.

"You see, all the people in Zhou Zhou's painting looked terrible. Their eyes were red, their faces were pale, and they had long teeth. When I asked him what movie he had seen or what he had heard from others, he said it was neither, but that they were his patriarch and classmates." Linda wrung her hands nervously, "Zhou Zhou is always telling me this, all about his imaginary patriarch and classmates. He thinks they are all real, what should we do?

After he finished this part, he fell silent and went to the coffee table in a disguised manner, but his cup was shaking slightly.

When Chu Feng heard this, he looked at Luo ZhouZhou beside him and noticed that something was wrong with his expression, and quickly pressed the pause button.

Luo ZhouZhou's eyes were filled with trepidation, and asked softly, "Chu Feng, is what the General said true? Is the vampire just a dream I had, a dream that someone else created for me?"

Chu Feng looked at him, wanting to say something and then shutting his mouth.

"Are the moon on those churches, the wind on the mountain tops, the forest beside the village, and my clan leader all fake?"

Tears rolled down Luo ZhouZhou's cheeks. "How could it be fake? The patriarch touched my head, I could feel the calluses on his hands now, and a piece of the steeple of the church top was missing, I kicked it off by accident. The coffin I slept in had some old velvet in it, so I shaved off the little balls on it one by one."

Luo ZhouZhou's voice grew louder and louder, and he clenched his hands so tightly that his voice changed in pitch, "How can those, how can those be fake? How can you say it's a nightly dream?"

"Shh, no one is sure it was a dream." Chu Feng held up his face and said repeatedly, "Don't cry, don't cry, don't be sad."

Chu Feng took the paper out of the tissue box and lovingly wiped the tears from his face. But there were more and more tears, and the tissue paper was soon soaked through.

"General Luo is just guessing, isn't he?" Chu Feng said warmly, "In fact, only the wise man knew what was going on. Maybe he established a spiritual connection with you, and when you fell asleep, you were picked up by some kind of teleportation. So you were not in a manufactured illusion, but a real scene."

"Really?" Luo ZhouZhou struggled to keep his eyes open and went to look at Chu Feng with tears in his eyes.

"Do you remember what you told me about Methuselah?"

"I remember, that's the name of our tribe."

Chu Feng took another tissue to wipe the tears from his face, "I looked it up later, and in an ancient language, the phrase Methuselah means another world.

Luo ZhouZhou was startled and asked, "Another world?"

Chu Feng plucked his sweaty forehead away and said, "Didn't General Luo go looking for them a few times? There was no one on that deserted island, so your patriarch, the wise man, may have gone to another world in some way. Before he left, he cast a magic spell on you, and after you fell asleep every night, he took your spirit, or soul, away in some kind of connected way to his world."

Chu Feng tapped Luo ZhouZhou's nose. "It's the world with vampires, where you can look at the moon from the top of the church."

"Really?" Luo ZhouZhou asked in a small voice.

"Really."

"But I can't get in touch with the clan chief anymore."

Chu Feng looked at him tenderly and said, "No matter how it is, no matter where he is, you just need to know that the chief loves you as much as General Luo does."

Luo ZhouZhou looked into his eyes, smiled with tears in his eyes, and said, "Yes, whether the patriarch is real or not, whether I can see him again or not, as long as I remember him in my heart, that's enough."

Chu Feng gently kissed him on the forehead and murmured, "Zhou Zhou, I've figured out one more thing."

"What is it?"

"I think I know the reason why the Sunset Virus in your body disappeared."

"And why is that?"

Chu Feng mused, "I think the idea is to find a Sunset Face patient who has taken that drug, find someone who matches his pheromones, drink his blood, and let his body form antibody cells against Sunset Face. After extracting those cells, we can make a bottle of medicine. The wise man can't simply replicate the antibody cells, so he can only continue by treating one person and then extracting a bottle of medicine from that person."

"Then why doesn't he offer this method to the Empire so they can mass produce it?" Luo ZhouZhou asked.

Chu Feng shook his head and said, "He wouldn't dare. The empire was already controlled by the Truth Church, and he didnt dare to offer this method of turning people into vampires.

Without waiting for Luo ZhouZhou's follow-up question, he added, "Even though the Wise Man was expelled, he still wanted to keep the cure. So, instead of curing you completely, he only gave you a certain dose, which lasted just until twenty years. He taught you in a mind-controlling way, making you think that you couldn't do without drinking blood, and urged you to find your mate and drink his blood to complete it."

Luo ZhouZhou listened attentively, with tears still in his eyes.

"Zhou Zhou, in fact, he was asking you to find an Alpha that matched your pheromones. You still had that medicine in your body, and after twenty years of illness, if you drink the blood of your Alpha, you will be cured, and the cure for Sunset Face will be obtained."

Luo ZhouZhou was startled and asked, "Why twenty years?"

"Because he understood that the empire would not last long. Twenty years later, there must be a new world." Chu Feng paused and said word for word, "This wise man, he is great."

The author has something to say:

ZhouZhou's secret is finally out, did you guess?

As I write this, I would like to thank each and every angel who left a review. You are really angels, accompanying me all the way, giving me a lot of motivation and encouragement so that I can calm down and do my best to write each chapter, thank you.

MonkeyNote: I have to say, I love this new concept of transmigration.