"Son, eat a little more, didn't you like your mother's cooking the most?"

In one of the houses in a high-end residential complex in Zhongzhou Science Research City, Ai Qing was eating with a gray-haired old woman.

In this huge kitchen, there are seven or eight dishes on the dining table, and they are all main dishes with some big fish and meat, although in the Zhongzhou Scientific Research City, there is no shortage of materials, but it is really a waste for two people to eat so many dishes.

The gray-haired old woman had a kind smile on her face, but her eyes were slightly cloudy, as if she had cataracts. However, the current Zhongzhou Scientific Research City, medical care is far more developed than before the apocalypse, just a cataract, can be treated for free without spending money, she only has one possibility to do so, she herself is unwilling to accept treatment.

However, this cataract did not seem to have much impact on the old woman, she held the dishes with a smile on her face, and kept putting them into Ai Qing's bowl, so that the big bowl in Ai Qing's hand was always full of dishes.

After Ai Qing finished eating another piece of pork ribs and spit out the bones, he had time to say: "Mom, you can eat too, don't always give me vegetables, I can't finish it alone." ”

The old woman suddenly smiled and said, "It's okay, mom is not hungry, you eat, you eat." ”

As she spoke, the old woman suddenly stood up again and said, "Oh, I almost forgot, son, you eat first, I'll go feed your father." ”

After saying that, the old woman turned around and took a bowl on the stove, filled a bowl of rice, and put a lot of dishes on the table, and then turned around and walked into the bedroom with the rice bowl.

Seeing this scene, Ai Qing silently put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand, and quietly followed behind the old woman to the door of the bedroom.

But I saw that the old woman was holding a bowl in her hand and feeding the food little by little to a ...... lying on the bed The mouth of a robot.

The robot is actually very unrefined, basically any normal person, you can see at a glance that it is a dummy, not a real person. It stands to reason that even if the old woman has cataracts, it is impossible to tell whether this is really the right person, but looking at the appearance of this old woman, it is obvious that she really treats this robot as her husband.

The old woman was still babbling about the food while putting the food into the robot's mouth: "Hey, old man, my son has been back for so long, but you have this disease, you are really going to kill people, I have to cook food every day to serve you, the old man, and I don't have time to talk to my son." You say, when will you get better...... Hey, by the way, when I went grocery shopping two days ago, I met a girl, I think that girl is very cute, and her personality is also very good, do you want to introduce it to your son? Ai Qing has also reached the age when it is time to start a family, and it is time to introduce him to a ......"

And Ai Qing, who saw this scene in his eyes, couldn't help but quietly clenched his fists......

This scene, no matter how many times he watched it, Ai Qing never got used to it...... And he didn't know what to say to the old woman that he ...... In fact, it was not her son in this world, her real son, who died a long time ago!

This matter, in fact, is not complicated.

After Ai Qing and Qin Tian joined the Zhongzhou team, Feng Jie thought of something...... That is, Ai Qing's family in this world.

The relatives of the partners who died in the battle of the Zhongzhou team were actually well cared for, and there were even people from the top squad who guarded them.

However, when the end came, due to the loss of Feng Jie and Zheng Zha, the two major combat powers, in order to fight in the subspace, all the top soldiers had to be gathered.

In the later stages of the battle with the subspace creatures, even the original major shelters were attacked to varying degrees.

It is true that as Ai Qing's parents, Ai Qing's father and mother can enter the inner heaven and earth for refuge, but they refused, although the reason is different from Zhang Xin's parents, their reason is: they don't want to leave the home where they lived, they want to wait for their son to come back here.

When Fu Zhanpeng arranged for someone to take them to live in the compound of the military region, they ran to their original home every once in a while, and at that time, Fu Zhanpeng also arranged for the top soldiers to protect secretly, and if there was no overlapping plane, basically nothing would happen, so they would go.

However, when the end of the world came, they said that they would not take refuge in anything, which made the military personnel who were responsible for taking them to the inner heaven and earth to take refuge very difficult, especially since they were also the parents of Ai Qing, a former member of the Zhongzhou team, and their status was very special, and they were not too tough.

So much so that when the end came, it was too late to enter the inner world, and he could only enter a nearby underground shelter for refuge.

And in the midst of that battle, several subspace creatures broke into the blockade and broke into the shelter......

Although Ai Qing's parents were not killed, they were confronted by subspace creatures...... In just a second, they were driven to the point of mental breakdown by the malice condensed in that subspace creature.

Just like in the Cthulhu Mythos, when mortals confront mythical creatures or old dominators, they will cause their SAN value (sanity) to decrease, and if they become zero or negative, they will go crazy, which is what happened to Ai Qing's parents, which is their misfortune. The only thing that was fortunate was that they only saw the subspace creature for a glimpse, and didn't cause any more impact.

After the apocalypse, although Ai Qing's parents were properly treated and cared for, Ai Qing's father suddenly committed suicide one day three years later, and Ai Qing's mother became completely delirious.

In order to treat Ai Qing's mother, Fu Zhanpeng specially diagnosed and treated her, and also exchanged for the elixir that calms the nerves and nourishes the heart at the main god. But unfortunately, she was only able to restore Ai Qing's mother to a slightly normal state, and she has always insisted that her husband and son are alive in the world. To this end, Base 49 specially made two simulated robots to accompany her for psychological treatment.

This is the situation that Ai Qing faced when he saw his mother again......

On that day, Ai Qing locked himself in the door of his "home" for a whole day and a night, while Ai Qing's mother knocked on the door for a day.

The next day, Ai Qing opened the door, hugged his mother, who was already gray-haired and not even his "biological", and choked up and said:

"Mom, I'm back."

(End of chapter)