Chapter 142. Astronomy

     Ling Jianguo and Zhang Lan had long regarded Ye Mo as Ling Xiao’s half-sister and their own half-daughter.

     Why only half? Of course, it was because Ye Mo still had her family after all, and it was very difficult for them to intervene in some matters. They could only be kind fathers, not strict fathers.

     Fortunately, Ye Mo had never needed a strict father since childhood, which made them feel even more distressed and spoiled her.

     Ye Mo was hospitalized twice during her growth. Her parents were not around, and her grandparents were not young. It was Aunt Zhang Lan who stayed with her, and Ling Xiao or Uncle Ling ran around.

     Therefore, they did not think it was wrong to teach their son in front of Ye Mo, and even Ling Xiao himself did not think it was too embarrassing. Both sides hoped that Ye Mo would stand on their side.

     “Uncle Ling and Aunt Zhang, you should take a rest first.”

     Ye Mo did not say who was right or wrong. She separated the stubborn two parties first and calmed down. She winked at Ling Xiao and asked him to help carry a bag of things and go to the Ye family compound next door together.

     “Yes, Sister Mo.”

     Normally, Ling Xiao would have grumbled about being taken advantage of as a disabled person before taking the bag. However, today he simply accepted it in silence. He was surprised to find it was incredibly light, and then followed Ye Mo closely.

     Through a brief contact, Ye Mo could confirm that her neighbor’s brother was not a survivor of the internal test. His body was just that of an ordinary young man without system enhancement.

     …

     Returning to the Ye family compound, Ling Xiao shouted “Grandma Ye!” with his booming voice, acting like a tough guy throwing a tantrum at Grandma Ye with his arm in a sling.

     Even Grandma Ye couldn’t help but gently pat his arm, saying, “Speak a little softer, Grandma can hear you, I can hear you. Did Xiaoxiao get tired from school? You’ve lost weight, you’ve lost weight.”

     Ling Xiao sat next to Grandma Ye and finally regained some liveliness: “Sister Mo is still squeezing people!”

     Grandma Ye: “Your sister Mo is doing this for your own good…”

     Ling Xiao: “The one at the bottom of the family food chain.”

     Ye Mo glanced at him, then took out the medicinal foot bath packets she had brought for her grandmother. These were specially made by Watson for Grandma Ye. Soaking in them, combined with the medicinal cuisine, would promote better health.

     The medicinal cuisine tasted quite good, with a different dish every five days. Watson would also change the recipe every month to prevent the elderly from getting tired of it and developing an aversion.

     After eating the medicinal food for a period of time, Grandma Ye felt that her old illness was almost gone, her hearing loss was much better, she no longer had back pain and leg soreness on rainy days, she slept well at night, and her hair stopped falling out.

     To be able to live more comfortably and no longer suffer, she naturally became more cooperative, doing everything asked of her, and she praised the visiting doctors who did the physical examinations, as well as Ye Mo’s doctor friend.

    Ye Mo relayed this to Watson.

     …

     After personally soaking Grandma Ye’s feet, Ye Mo and Ling Xiao came to a vacant small courtyard in the west.

     Under the cool grape vines, there was a wooden table and four or five wooden stools, as well as a swing that Grandpa Ye had built for his granddaughter decades ago, although she didn’t sit on it as much as Ling Xiao.

     While cracking melon seeds, eating grapes, peeling oranges, and chewing apples, the two of them had a formal conversation.

     “Tell me, I remember your dream was to be an excellent astronomer, and I argued with Uncle Ling for a long time about it. You also promised them that you would not slack off during the four years of college, and that you would definitely have a job in the future to support yourself, your parents, grandma, and your sister?”

     Ling Xiao performed exceptionally well in the college entrance examination and the high school entrance examination. He had performed exceptionally well in many competitions since he was a child. This kid is usually not very lucky, but he never fails at the critical moment.

     When applying for the college entrance examination, Uncle Ling hoped that he would go to a law school, a medical school, aerospace, and other majors, while Zhang Lan hoped that he would go to popular majors such as electronic information and finance, or engineering machinery, to learn from his sister Mo, and to make up for the lessons.

     But Ling Xiao insisted on applying to the Department of Physics for astronomy, reportedly studying things like cosmology, galaxy formation and evolution, supernovae, exoplanets, gravitational lensing, and gamma-ray bursts. Anyway, aside from the basic sciences, Ye Mo didn’t pay much attention and didn’t really understand.

     Ling Jianguo and Zhang Lan didn’t know what kind of jobs an astronomy major could get, so they were very worried about Ling Xiao’s future. Ever since he started college, they’d been constantly concerned.

     Ling Xiao fell silent, or perhaps he didn’t know what to say.

    Ye Mo’s mental power scanned his emotions, and there were many kinds of emotions mixed together, including fear and sadness, obvious anxiety and self-doubt, and even early depression.

     What did he experience this semester?

     He was still very normal and immature during the Chinese New Year.

     Ye Mo peeled an orange and gave Ling Xiao half of it, asking a question that seemed to be unrelated: “I know your birthday, and you were born in the morning, but what is the exact time?

     Ling Xiao was stunned. He may not have known his birth date before, but the admissions officers of the five sects all asked this question. He asked Zhang Lan specifically and finally got the exact time.

     When Ye Mo heard the time, she immediately calculated his birth date and time. He was born in a yang year, yang month, yang day, yang hour, and yang moment. If he was born at this time, ordinary undead would be directly annihilated by contact.

     No wonder he received invitations from Huashan Sect, Wudang Sect, Qingcheng Sect, Kongtong Sect, and Emei Sect. All of them are Taoist sects. This is the pure yang constitution.

     “Ling Xiao, have you encountered something in your studies this semester, like cosmic black holes, the Big Bang, or the legendary antimatter, flying saucers? Or have you encountered any trouble in your life? Ghosts? Heartbreak? Problematic professors? Campus bullying? Online loans?”

     When Ling Xiao heard “ghosts,” his emotions became noticeably more disturbed. “Sister, you watch too many horror movies.”

     “Didn’t you watch too many science fiction movies, or read too much social news? Your focus is a bit strange.”

     “I–“

     Ling Xiao raised his head and looked at Ye Mo. Seeing her pair of dark and deep eyes, he suddenly couldn’t speak.

     Ye Mo didn’t think that people with pure yang constitution could awaken the yin and yang eyes for no reason. She said: “Isn’t it just seeing ghosts? Tell me.”

     Ling Xiao may have been holding it in for too long, and finally answered: “Sister, it’s not a ghost, I was saved by a zombie.”

     Ye Mo: “Ha”

     “Don’t disbelieve it. “

     It happened not long ago, that is, after the internal test copy, one night, Ling Xiao and his three roommates celebrated their birthday outside the school and had a dinner party. They went home after about 10 o’clock.

     Because there were so many people and they were all grown men, they didn’t think anything would happen, and they didn’t go to the crowded places all the time. Instead, they took a shortcut to the intersection to wait for two Didi cars that they had called in advance.

     Unexpectedly, before they even reached the intersection where they could hail a taxi, the four of them were blocked by four inexplicable people.

     They weren’t afraid of ordinary people, in a one-on-one fight.

     But these four people are very powerful, and they are not just robbing. One of them stared at Ling Xiao for a long time, saying something like five yang people, and his smile was quite disgusting.

     Ye Mo crushed the small orange core into powder, squinted and smiled: “Continue.”

     These people are very powerful.

     Just when they thought they were dead, a zombie suddenly appeared, a real zombie, all black, including the face, exuding a disgusting corpse odor.

     Ye Mo pondered, ‘Could it be Ji Li?’

     They were very fortunate to encounter Ji Li, a teacher from the same school, who even stepped in to save them. However, Ji Li was different from the zombie described by Ling Xiao.

     He was similar to the naked corpses found under some of the mountain strongholds.

    Perhaps Ji Li has two forms. Since there isn’t much dark energy in the air, and dark energy resources and potions are expensive in the shop, did he choose to appear as a zombie to save people?

     The zombie looked at them and actually spoke in a very hoarse voice: “You go. “

     After that, he confronted the four inexplicable people. Those people were obviously no match for the zombies, and they couldn’t escape even if they wanted to.

     Ling Xiao and his friends finally ran away. It was not known whether they ran away because of fear or because of the stench of corpses. They vomited all the way until they returned to school, and sat on the ground. One of them peed himself out of fear.

     The next day, Ling Xiao and his friends looked at various news platforms, and there was no reporter writing about any zombies or deaths.

     They secretly went back to that place, but the zombies and the robbers were gone, as if they had just had a dream.

     But they knew it wasn’t a dream, so they started paying attention to these things. They always felt that a lot of information on the internet was strange, with bizarre news items being censored (404) every day.

     Ling Xiao felt that the government was aware of this.

     After observing for a while, even astronomical observations felt off. They felt that celestial movements and galaxy brightness were strange. They didn’t know if this was a mental or psychological factor, but the experimental data was constantly messed up?”

     Ling Xiao is one of the best students in their major, and he has already been guaranteed to be admitted to graduate school. At present, his supervisor still has expectations for him.

     Anyway, the four classmates feel that their three views are shattered. The world is not right and there are dangers everywhere.

    Only one of the four people in the dormitory told his girlfriend and father Mother, but they don’t believe it. This roommate is almost crazy. If they are alone, they will definitely go crazy.

     Some people suggested calling the police, but were stopped by others. The young people may have a sense of loyalty. They can’t let the zombies who saved them be implicated. They are afraid that the zombies will be caught in the laboratory.

     But this feeling is very bad, and they don’t know how long they can hold on.

     All four of them went to participate in the Wulin Alliance Leader Conference because this program is obviously wrong, but except Ling Xiao, the other three have not received the invitation letter from the sect so far. 

     One of the four people suddenly stood out as unique, and it was inevitable that they would feel envious. At this moment when their emotions were on the verge of collapse, envy might develop into jealousy and rejection.

     One person even accidentally revealed his dangerous idea of using the last information to exchange martial arts qualifications with the country, which completely made the four of them fall into a stage of mutual suspicion.

     Having no companions was one of the reasons why Ling Xiao doubted himself, and one of the reasons why he was so easily defeated and told these things.

     “The world is changing. Don’t be afraid that the zombie will be caught or something. Of course, you can’t tell anyone else like this, because it will easily expose your sister.”

     While Ye Mo said this, she took out her mobile phone to log in to the survivor forum and briefly talked about this matter with Watson and Wang Xue. 【I have told a little bit of my situation to a close brother. He may join a sect in reality. I will continue to talk to you later. 】

     Ling Xiao: “Huh? “

     Wang Xue:【Is your brother handsome? Tall? Can we see a picture?】

     Watson:【When my older brother watched ‘Martial Arts Alliance Leader’, he was tempted to join one too, but it’s too far from Beijing, and he doesn’t have much talent. He’s better off using potions. But your brother must have some good talent if he was chosen by a sect.】

     After receiving the reply from her teammates, Ye Mo smiled with curved lips, looked up and said to Ling Xiao: “After chatting so much, I thought your IQ had already been eaten by Bandit.”

     Bandit sitting on the swing: “Woof?”