Chapter 29: If you're not carrying a heavy burden, who would bother?
Five-limb Substitute Death Technique, activated!
[Effect: Time reversed to one minute before death, cost: Loss of a limb!]
Meichuan Neiku's head had regrown, and he frantically backed away several steps.
Before he could react, he felt a sharp pain in his groin.
The true moment of pain... was silent...
Numb.
Meichuan Neiku felt everything below his waist go numb.
Then came a bone-piercing pain spreading from his rear to his lower abdomen.
This extreme sour and refreshing sensation... his kidneys were spasming in pain!
He fell to his knees, his forehead touching the ground, sweating profusely, his mouth opening and closing.
He couldn't utter a single complete sentence!
The viewers in the live-stream were all dumbfounded.
[What? Why isn't Neiku-san moving?]
[Did he see something creepy?]
[Uh... does seeing your own mom, wife, and child eating your brain count as something creepy?]
"Owwwwww!"
Finally!
Meichuan Neiku's sky-shattering scream broke everyone's thoughts.
He knelt on the ground, his hands covering his groin, his body curling up like a shrimp.
Blood slowly oozed from his trousers.
[Wow! I get it! Neiku-kun's Five-limb Substitute Death Technique was activated, and he is in pain!]
[Uh... we're not blind, no need to remind us...]
Many women in Sakura Country also showed disdain on their screens.
They used to admire this man who had awakened an S-rank talent.
They didn't expect him to be so useless!
Zhou Qin remained expressionless and said nothing.
"Tortoise grandson, go help your dad sit on the chair; such a big man still behaves as dirty as a child."
Meichuan Neiku, once back on the chair, was heaving heavily.
Perhaps due to his talents, the actual intense pain was only at the moment of disembodiment.
Now, he actually felt nothing.
Truly: not a single sensation.
The old lady finished eating her share of the brain, then evilly grinned.
Licking her lips, she asked Meichuan Neiku another question.
"Alright, let me ask you another question, do you still remember your father's name?"
Meichuan Neiku: Wang Defa?
Wait wait wait...
Calm down, you must be calm, Kaidan won't give you an unsolvable problem...
His S-rank talent shouldn't lead to an infinite loop situation!
Got it!
"Mom, what did you just ask me?"
"I asked if you still remember your dad's name."
"Not this one, the previous question?"
"Right, my son, aren't you willing to feed me?"
Meichuan Neiku's face suddenly turned stern, he slammed the table, and stood up!
"Of course! I am willing! I am a hundred times willing!"
"There's an old saying in Dragon Country, 'Filial piety is foremost!' I have always demanded the same from my son!"
"Now that your teeth aren't good, as a father, of course, I need to lead by example! Show my son!"
"You are the most beautiful mother in my eyes, every smile makes me happy."
"Really, no matter how much I say, it can't express the deep love I have for you—I love you, mom, I love you! Mom!!!"
Old lady: ...
Comments: [??????]
[Slamming the table? I thought you were going to pull some strong move.]
[This guy understands that a great man can bend and stretch...]
[The old lady is confused, isn't his attitude changing a bit too much?]
"Hahahaha, good, very good! I am happier than anything when my son understands!"
The old woman pushed her bowl towards Meichuan Neiku.
She then lay back in the old wicker chair with her eyes closed, mouth open.
The meaning was self-evident.
Eh!
Such is fate!
Tears welled up in Meichuan Neiku's eyes.
If one doesn't carry a heavy burden, who would gamble their virtue on tomorrow!
The only consolation for Meichuan Neiku was that she had vomited up her breakfast that morning, and she had barely touched lunch.
Now, even if she wanted to vomit, there was nothing left to bring up!
Might as well just get it over with, and afterward, she would be a hero of Sakura Country.
It wasn't just Meichuan Neiku—other chosen ones also faced some difficulties.
That lunch alone had knocked out at least one-third of the chosen ones.
At this point, Jiang Xiao was already playing video games with his three daughters.
But this scene...
"Daddy, in this playing dead game, we really can't move?"
"Uh-huh— it's all about who can last the longest."
"But... but it's not as fun as I thought it'd be. What do you think, Shi Shi?"
Shi Shi stayed still, not uttering a word, seriously aiming to win the first place in the playing dead game.
Sun Wei watched the group of one adult and three children with a peculiar expression.
She hadn't expected this dad to have such a knack for keeping kids quiet—this game was great for keeping them calm.
Half an hour later...
Bai Yi couldn't stand it any longer.
"I can't do it anymore, Daddy, it's too boring. Let's play a video game? I want to play Super Mario!"
Mu Xitang followed soon after, wanting to play Snow Brothers because she could play it with her dad.
Bai Yi changed her request, "Then I want to play Squirrel Wars! I want to play it with Daddy too!"
Shi Shi, who won first place in the playing dead game, also wanted to play; she wanted to play Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Contra.
"Okay! Let's play... let's play... why don't you girls decide?"
The three little girls locked eyes again, deciding on Snow Brothers.
The game rule: one life per person, whoever dies, yields their turn.
The first game was Bai Yi with Jiang Xiao!
Ah, Snow Brothers...
Watching the mosaic graphics on screen, listening to the familiar background music.
Jiang Xiao's thoughts were pulled back to the past.
He remembered playing this game with the superintendent.
He was sent to the psychiatric hospital by a man when he was very young.
The reason was that the child had severe schizophrenia and delusional disorder.
Jiang Xiao still remembered the nearly festering scar on that man's face.
But he was definitely not his father!
But strangely enough,
logically, he wasn't very young when he was sent to the psychiatric hospital.
Yet, he could recall absolutely nothing from before that time.
Later observations by the superintendent confirmed that the child indeed had a serious condition.
So Jiang Xiao remained in the psychiatric hospital.
And Snow Brothers was one of his favorite games to play with the superintendent.
Back then, the superintendent was about forty years old, still vigorous, famously nicknamed "Nanjiang No Begging."
Even though the superintendent personally treated Jiang Xiao, his condition progressively worsened.
Do I really have a mental illness?
Jiang Xiao felt somewhat bitter in his heart.
Though he might be a bit mischievous, disrespectful, fond of cosplay, bullying the weak, losing temper for no reason, vandalizing the hospital's facilities, switching the superintendent's boxer shorts with semi-transparent lace panties, and his memory oftentimes involuntarily lost...
But deep down, Jiang Xiao felt he was not mentally ill!
In that moment of distraction, the little red character Jiang Xiao was controlling got hit and died.
"Daddy, Daddy! You died! My turn, my turn!"
Mu Xitang snatched the game controller from Jiang Xiao's hands and promptly sat on his lap.
["Daddy, Daddy You Died," I'm really filial...]
[Ha-ha-ha, I also played Little Tyrant when I was young, it was always like this, no matter the age, when you get engrossed, it's all 'you died, you died.']