As soon as Tongtong entered the house, an M001 robot came up to him and took his school bag.

"Big Orange." Tongtong asked while taking off his shoes, "How is your mother today?" ”

"It's a little worse than yesterday." Da Cheng lowered his head: "When I went to feed the water just now, most of them choked and coughed. ”

"Cough?" Tongtong was hit hard, and he stumbled under his feet and almost fell.

"Big Orange." His voice trembled a little: "I can't even drink water, does this mean that her ALS has advanced to the terminal stage?" ”

His eyes were wet, and he stared straight at Big Orange, hoping to hear a different answer from his mouth.

"Master, although I am also sad, but your mother, there is not much time left."

Tears slid down her round face, and Tongtong strode into the house.

His mother lay quietly on the bed, unable to move due to bulbar paralysis in the late stage of ALS, but in a pair of eyes, she still reflected her love for her son.

"Mom." Tong Tong wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes and tried hard to squeeze out the smile he thought was bright:

"How are you doing today? I just asked my GP and she said that about your disease, new active factors have been discovered, but they are still in the laboratory stage and need to wait a little longer. ”

He spoke in a loud voice, speaking quickly and quickly, as if he could not be trusted by others, including himself, without doing so.

"So don't worry, you'll be able to wait until the day the new drug comes out."

"At that time, you will be able to accompany me to the school's parent-child activities. We can also go to the amusement park together, take the starship to see the galaxy, and go on a vacation to the tourist star."

When he said these words, his mother's eyes always fell on his face, not for a moment, and the tenderness in them seemed to completely drown him out.

Tongtong's eyes turned red, and his voice was stuck in his throat.

"Mom, I have a gift for you." He turned around sharply and ran out of the bedroom choking.

After crying silently, he washed his face with cold water before opening his schoolbag and taking out the gifts Luo Luo and Yun Yun had given him.

"Mom." Tong Tong held the bow tie and cyan branch inlaid with topaz to the bed and showed it to his mother:

"Do you remember Lolo? She was one of the few good friends I had in the class. She is very beautiful and very smart, and many people like her. ”

"What's more, she has never disliked me for being fat, and when other classmates talk about me behind my back, she also helps me scold them."

"So you see, is Lolo a particularly nice girl?" Tongtong said, finding a deep sense of identity in her mother's eyes.

"But she turned away today, with her brother." His voice fell: "And I, I don't even know where they moved. ”

Speaking of this, he suddenly realized something, and quickly cheered up:

"Mom, you think this bow tie is beautiful, right? Lolo gave it to me, and I forwarded it to you, right under your pillow. ”

"And this branch, don't look at it very inconspicuous, but if you put it in a vase, it should be able to grow roots and become a verdant sapling."

"I'll ask Big Orange to find a vase and place it on the windowsill in front of you. Hopefully, the day it pulls out its leaves, you'll be fine! ”

The mother's eyes blinked slightly, and a tear slipped out silently.

This night, Tongtong slept very restlessly.

For a while, I dreamed that I was standing on a strange planet, full of terrible monsters, chasing me and having no way to escape;

After a while, I saw Luo Luo wearing a shiny princess dress, with her chin held high, surrounded by countless guards, into a luxurious castle, no matter how she shouted, she didn't look back.

In the confusion, he suddenly heard a familiar voice calling to him: "Tongtong, Tongtong." ”

It's Mom's voice. It had been a long time since her ALS had gotten worse, and he hadn't heard the sound.

"Mommy, Mommy!" He rolled over and sat up, realizing that he was in a cold sweat.

The bedroom was quiet, and there was no movement.

Sure enough, the call just now was just an illusion of his own. He just hoped too much that his mother would get better.

The door to the bedroom was opened, and Big Orange rushed in.

"Master." His eyes were shining, and his voice was full of joy:

"Go and see, your mother can speak!"

"Really?" Tongtong jumped off the bed and rushed into his mother's bedroom as fast as he could.

The starlight poured in through the thin, transparent curtain and shone on the mother's face.

She was still lying there, just turning her head with a lot of effort and looking at herself with a smile.

"Tongtong." Her voice was a little hoarse: "My body seems to be a little conscious." ”

Tong Tong looked at her in disbelief. Because his mother had this terrible disease, he also consulted a lot of books about it, and this disease only got worse and worse, and he never heard that it could be reversed.

How is it possible for a patient who has reached the end of his life to be unable to move and suddenly turn his head, smile, and speak?

But at this moment, Tongtong is willing to use his whole body and mind to thank this impossibility.

"Mom." He climbed onto the bed and threw his arms around her neck.

"Thank you." He buried his head in his mother's arms, and tears fell like beads: "Thank you for not giving up, thank you for being good for me." ”

When he received Tongtong's communication request, Luo Luo was already on Tianyan-1, the brand-new S001 spaceship.

The speed of Tianyan is far from being comparable to that of the previous interstellar shuttles, and in just a dozen hours, it has already flown millions of light years.

Luo Luo was using oil paint, creating a picture of the starry sky, and without thinking about it, he accepted the request.

"I thought it would be a long time before you discovered this little secret." As she spoke, she smeared a blue-gold paint on the top of the scroll.

In Tongtong's voice, he tried to restrain his excitement: "Originally, I really didn't find out. But my mother, a ALS patient who had been sentenced to death, suddenly reversed her condition, which made me wonder. ”

"Later, I went to check it out, and I found out that your mother is the world-renowned doctor. And you also said that the gem that was given to me was made with her, so I had a bold guess."

"You guessed it right." Luo Luo nodded, changed a paintbrush, and added a little black and purple to the canvas: "Mom has added some special energy to that bow tie, which can drive away diseases for up to two people." ”

"I see." The little fat man's voice trembled a little: "Luo Luo, you don't know what this gift of yours means to me. ”

"Besides, you gave me such a valuable thing casually, but how can I repay you?"

Luo Luo smiled indifferently: "A classmate is fate." My mom will definitely be happy to help you and your mother. As for the rest, just let it be. Okay, so be it. ”

She hung up the communication, shook her head slightly, and put it all behind her, drawing wholeheartedly again.