Ever since their neighbor, Granny Wang, zombified and joined the Eternal Journey.
His granddaughter was able to move to another public renting house that was closer to the school and had better conditions.
So, Meng Chao used his achievements to apply for permission to move over.
Meng Yishan's house was no longer so cramped, and he had some savings in his hands. He wanted to renovate the house, so he dug up a lot of the walls and floorboards.
Coincidentally, Bai Jiacao was home alone in the afternoon. She was bored, so she groped around and found the box hidden in the corner of the room.
This was a common metal box used to store military compressed biscuits twenty or thirty years ago.
In that era of scarcity, people were often reluctant to throw away the food inside after eating it. Instead, they used it as a storage box.
"I think … he put it in when we got married?" Bai Suxin and Meng Yishan could not remember it clearly.
She opened the box, and the first thing that entered her eyes was a red, heart-shaped electronic watch.
Under the strong interference of the Other World's spirit energy, the screen had long since become blurry.
Bai Suxin was surprised and delighted. She picked up the broken electronic watch and looked at it a few times before putting it on her wrist. She said sweetly, "This is the first birthday present your dad gave me. So it's here? I was wondering why I couldn't find it!"
Meng Yishan chuckled.
Under the electronic watch, there were several postcards and birthday cards. They were filled with words, and one could vaguely see hearts drawn on them.
Meng Yishan's face turned red in an instant. He snatched it from his daughter's hands at lightning speed and said anxiously, "You're not allowed to look!"
"It's too late, Dad. I've already seen it. I didn't expect that you'd be so mushy when you were young!" Bai Jiacao covered her mouth and giggled.
"What, what?" Meng Chao was also a gossipy person. "It's a love letter Dad wrote to Mom when he was young. Why is he so mushy?"
"Bai! Jia! F * ck! "His father's eyebrows were furrowed in anger as he sharpened his knife.
"Brother, as Dad's dearest, dearest, little cotton-padded jacket, I will never betray him."
Bai Jiacao said righteously. "Even if you pay me 1,000 … Hmm, 1,500, I won't betray my dad!"
"Alright, stop messing around, you two."
Bai Suxin took the letters and birthday cards from her husband when she was young. Her eyes were filled with sweet memories, and she asked, "Young Cao, what exactly did you discover? Why did you say that I was really good when I was young?"
"This is it."
Bai Jiacao brought out a mottled notebook from the bottom of the cookie box.
There was not a single word or picture on the yellowish-brown cover. After more than 20 years of erosion, the paper was very brittle and would fall off with a slight shake. The ink inside was also very faint, but he could still vaguely recognize that it was indeed his mother's handwriting.
"What is this?"
Bai Suxin frowned and looked puzzled. "Why don't I remember having such a notebook?"
Meng Chao moved closer and studied it carefully with Bai Jiacao.
After flipping two pages, his pupils suddenly shrank.
"This is … something like class notes or handwritten exercises."
"The question on the first page is about how to adjust the force execution formula in a zero-gravity environment. It involves advanced mathematics, physics, ergonomics, and other fields. It's at least five times more difficult than the questions in the national college examination!"
"What?" Bai Suxin was confused. "Zero what?"
"Zero gravity. In simple terms, it's about how to apply martial arts to the environment in the universe," Bai Jiacao explained.
"Even though we can't break through the Other World's atmosphere right now, this sort of theoretical research is very helpful when it comes to solving the tactical maneuvers of the powerful when they're moving at lightning speed or when they're free falling. In any case, it's top-notch martial arts research. That's why I said that you're amazing, Mom. More than 20 years ago, you were in your teens, right? You were about the same age as me, and the environment wasn't as good as it is now, but you were already researching such difficult problems. What's so strange about me inheriting your talent?"
"Also, this seems to be a spirit energy conduction model drawn by assembling or disassembling a very sophisticated instrument."
Meng Chao narrowed his eyes. "The interference in the Other World is really bad, and the matter here is really unstable. It's rare to see such a sophisticated instrument. This seems to be … some sort of activation device. It's used … to detonate something?"
The more he read, the more shocked he became.
All the questions in the handwritten exercises involved very profound theories, and they gave off an incredibly dangerous presence.
It was difficult to imagine that these questions could be raised twenty years ago, when spirit energy research was not as developed as it was now, during the era of war.
It was even more difficult to imagine that his mother, Bai Suxin, who was a normal housewife, could solve most of the questions.
Suddenly, Meng Chao stopped flipping through the pages.
He saw a picture his mother had casually scribbled at the corner of one of the pages.
It was a pair of long and thin eyes that overlapped each other.
It was like an X, and the two eyes shared the same pupil.
The black pupil shone with a dark light, and it looked like a black hole that could devour souls.
Pain!
So much pain!
Pain shot through the center of his brow again, and the memory fragments from his previous life danced around like screaming sparrows. Meng Chao was certain that he had seen this picture in his previous life, but where was it?
"Big Brother? Heh … "
In his daze, the Dark Witch's derisive laughter reached his ears.
Illusions appeared before his eyes.
Meng Chao felt as if he had crawled into the memory fragments of his previous life and appeared in a time when darkness and blood intersected with each other.
Her purple hair burned, and her blood wings spread out. She looked like a younger sister who had escaped from a bloody prison. She seized his throat and lifted him off the ground.
"You don't know what I'm facing.
"A piece of trash like you will only become a burden and cause my death.
"From the day Dad and Mom died, we no longer had anything to do with each other. Stop bothering me with the title of 'big brother'!
"Get lost! Get away from me! Go to the ends of the world! The further the better!
"Or else, the next time we meet, it will be the day you die!"
Meng Chao ignored the Dark Witch's resolute words.
He stared at the Dark Witch's hand, which was still clutching his throat.
On the back of his younger sister's hand was a pair of intersecting eyes that shared the same pupil. It was a strange picture that looked like an X.
The picture rose up and shone with a strange light. It did not look like a tattoo, but like a curse that had been branded into her hand and would never be destroyed!
Thud!
Meng Chao fell on his back. His memories from his previous life shattered, and his consciousness returned to the present world.
"Big Brother, why did you suddenly fall down?"
The Dark Witch, who was the junior high student version and had no blood on the back of her hand, quickly helped him up.
"You're bleeding from your nose." Meng Yishan frowned.
"Hurry up and put a cold towel on it. Don't be in a hurry to stuff your nostrils. Wait until the blood is gone before you stuff it back."
While Bai Suxin took care of her son, her heart ached for him. "Boy, you must have trained really hard in university. When you come back, you only say good things. How can I not worry about you?"
"I-I'm fine. It's just that it's been dry lately, and I'm a little irritated."
Meng Chao ignored the nosebleed and pointed at the picture of the abnormal eye in the notebook. "Mom, did you draw this?"
Bai Suxin took a look. "I think so."
Meng Chao sucked in a deep breath. "What is this?"
"I don't know. I just casually drew it twenty years ago. I probably saw it somewhere and was bored, so I drew it for fun. What's wrong? Why is your face so pale? You look like you saw a ghost." Bai Suxin was puzzled. "Is there a problem with this picture?"
Meng Chao opened his mouth, but he did not know what to say.
The clues in his head were still scattered, and they were all jumbled up into a mess.
"Alright, let's not talk about this picture for now. Mom, what's up with this notebook? You never went to university, right? Did the high school at that time teach such difficult questions?"
Meng Chao was skeptical. He thought about it and said, "Mom, could it be that you've been hiding your real identity all this while and are actually the heiress of some ancient and mysterious cultivation family? You changed your name and eloped with Dad because of some stupid reason like a grudge between rich families, right?"
"Huh?"
Bai Jiacao's eyes went wide. In an instant, she filled up the two million word plot in her head. She even chose the male and female leads.
"What elopement?"
Meng Yishan used his chopsticks to knock his son's head. "Your mom and I were legally married, and we were invited home in a sedan chair!"
"What are you thinking about?"
Bai Suxin could not help but laugh. "Your grandpa and grandma were from the most normal families. At that time, the world was chaotic, and they died a long time ago in the monster invasion. But there are some photos that record the environment of my family when I was young. Do you think I'm from a rich family?
"As for these practice questions, they're really strange. Now, I can't even understand them, but they're indeed my handwriting in the past.
"But that's normal. Don't they say that a person's intelligence reaches its peak during the national college examination? Perhaps I was really smart when I was young, but my legs were injured, and I stayed at home for twenty years. I spent all my time doing housework, buying groceries, cooking, and playing mahjong with the neighbors. How could I possibly be smart?"
"That's not right."
Meng Chao shook his head slowly, and he became even more certain of this. "This is definitely not something a normal high school student from twenty years ago could achieve with talent or hard work.
"The high school at that time definitely couldn't teach such questions.
"This notebook must have come from another source. Mom, trust me, this is very important. Please remember carefully when, where, and under what circumstances did you write this notebook!"
His serious expression scared his family a little.
Bai Suxin thought about it seriously for a long time, but she still shook her head. "It was too long ago, so I can't remember. But I don't think it was taught in high school. At that time, monsters would invade every now and then, and the entire city was a battlefield. Society was really chaotic. I only went to high school for a year before it was destroyed by monsters. Besides, your grandpa and grandma were no longer around, so I went out to look for a job to make a living."
"Mom, where did you work?" Meng Chao asked anxiously.
"At that time, good jobs were hard to come by. I didn't have a diploma or supernatural abilities, so I became a nurse," Bai Suxin said.
"In any case, there were battles every day, and a lot of people were injured. All the hospitals lacked manpower. With a little training, I could still manage the tasks like dressing wounds and injections."
"Nurse … Which hospital did you work in?" Meng Chao felt that he was getting closer to the answer.
"I went to a few hospitals. I can't even remember the name, but it shouldn't be a big hospital. The nurses in big hospitals all graduated from nursing school and received professional training," Bai Suxin explained.
"At that time, social order had just been rebuilt, and there weren't many big public hospitals. But there were a lot of small clinics set up by the powerful. They were temporary hospitals in the battlefield, and many of them didn't have names. They just spread the news, and the patients recommended each other, so they gathered together on their own.
"Monsters attacked the city every day, and bacteria and viruses spread everywhere. The dead turned into zombies at any moment. In this sort of environment, there was no need to pay attention to hygiene and professionalism. If someone treated you, you were lucky to survive, and even if you died, you admitted to it. No one would cause you any trouble.
"But even though it's an underground clinic without a name, their skills are pretty good. I remember that the longest I worked in a hospital was around one year. There was a secret medicine there that was really amazing. There was an injured person whose skull was bitten through by a monster, and his insides were a mess. But after he was injected with the secret medicine, he survived and could even continue fighting. Don't you think it's amazing?
"So, I worked really hard in that hospital and forced myself to learn a lot of things so that I could get a legal nurse's license. This notebook should have been left behind at that time."
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