Chapter 4 Doubts
The first time Xu Shen saw Xu was on a morning three months ago.
He got up as usual, went to the living room and ate the breakfast his mother brought him.
That breakfast was moist and had a faint fishy smell. Xu Shen asked his mother what it was, and the answer he got was fresh strawberries.
Although he felt strange and confused, Xu Shen still endured the discomfort and ate it out of unconditional trust in his mother. After all, he had only heard of strawberries but had never eaten them.
This is an extremely luxurious and expensive fruit for the fog people living at the bottom of society.
Usually, only the big guys can enjoy it at will...
At that moment, for the first time in his life, he lost his yearning for the lives of those big shots.
Considering how expensive strawberries were, Xu Shen resisted the urge to vomit and swallowed them with difficulty.
But soon I felt a burst of dryness and heat surging out from the intestines and gastric juice, extending along the blood pumping out from the heart, spreading to the extremities of the body.
He thought this was a normal feeling when eating strawberries.
But then, something miraculous happened.
In the emptiness he had felt for years, a vague light appeared.
The light became clearer and clearer, and Xu Shen was shocked to find that he could actually "see".
And that was the first time in his life that he regretted that he could actually see.
Because the "mother" in front of him was none other than the hideous and ferocious Yuma-hime, whose appearance alone was enough to give people nightmares.
Only then did he understand what the "fresh strawberries" he had eaten were.
Even though it was the first time he saw her, Xu Shen naturally would not regard Yumoji as his real mother.
Because he knows what his mother looks like, or in other words, he knows that his mother's figure and body shape are similar to his.
Even if one is born blind, it does not mean that he has no common sense. What's more, what he sees before his eyes... is just the appearance. It is just the first time he "sees" this world. He does not even have any judgment or knowledge of colors, but he can sincerely feel fear from that terrifying appearance!
But he didn't scream at the first time.
Maybe I was confused.
Perhaps it was the strong impact of "seeing" and "mom" that hit him at the same time, causing him to fall into a long silence.
When he regained consciousness, he found that he was able to control his emotions. So he suppressed his fear and carefully observed the world that he had truly "seen" for the first time...
Later on, he saw his real mother, who had passed away.
The house was taken over by this monster.
Every day after that, the monster would bring some fresh "dishes" to make breakfast, lunch, dinner for himself, and occasionally some "fruits" and "snacks".
"Mom" said she was still growing and needed to eat three meals a day.
Xu Shen wanted to say, there is no need...
But he didn't dare to refuse or anger "Mom".
He tried to resist, but saw the angry "mom" crawling around the house, banging and hitting the walls, the ceiling, and the bedroom.
He was terrified, fearing that the other party would slap him in anger.
He felt that his small body might not be able to withstand a palm that could crack a wall.
So what followed was three months of closed nutritional feeding...
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Xu Shen’s thoughts slowly returned to the Xu Secret Bureau, the recording room.
"There are still some doubts about this incident. I hope you can cooperate with us to record them." At this time, the young woman stared at Xu Shen and said.
Although she couldn't see Xu Shen's eyes and knew that Xu Shen couldn't see her, she still maintained her normal movement habits .
Xu Shen's heart skipped a beat, and when he "saw" the other person's gaze, he felt a sense of oppression.
But soon he slowly comforted himself that he had no eyes... This was a bad thing, but sometimes it was also a good thing, as people could not read his thoughts from his eyes.
Just like the pity and sympathy that had appeared in the young woman's eyes before, Xu Shen saw it all and could feel the other person's heart from it.
"I hope you won't hide anything. These will all be recorded in the archives. They will also provide a reference and reference for similar things in the future. They are of contribution value." The young woman said seriously.
Contributing value... Is it still valuable after contributing? Xu Shen thought silently in his heart, but he quickly agreed: "I will definitely cooperate."
"First of all, the first question is, do you really not know that your mother was replaced by Xu?" The young woman's tone gradually became sharp.
The air suddenly became tense.
Xu Shen suddenly felt that this was not a record, but an interrogation.
That feeling of insecurity came over him again, and his fingers clenched slightly under the table, but then slowly relaxed after two seconds.
After a brief silence, Xu Shen said, "I don't know. I just feel that my mother's personality has changed a little in the past few months, but I think that maybe something happened to my mother at work that caused the change in her temperament."
"Work matters? It can... even talk to you about work?"
The young woman was stunned and asked suspiciously.
Xu Shen shook his head slightly: "Mom hasn't been to work for three months. Even if she didn't say it, I can guess it..."
Young woman: “…”
"Okay, then the second question. Any normal person could tell something was wrong with the food Xu fed you. So why were you able to eat it? And, didn't you ever doubt it?" The young woman's eyes became sharp again, as if she was trying to regain her aura.
Xu Shen replied, "Of course I couldn't eat it. The first time I ate it, I almost vomited it out, but my mother got angry and lost her temper and forced me to eat it. I have always listened to my mother. My mother has worked hard to take care of me, so I didn't want to make her angry. Although it tasted bad, I still ate it."
"As for doubt...why would you doubt your own mother?"
The young woman was speechless at the question.
So... this kid is a filial son?
It seems so.
According to the information she obtained, the boy in front of her lost his father when he was young. His father died while working outside, and he was raised by his mother. In this dangerous environment of the underground city, they warmed each other up, and he indeed had a deep relationship with his mother.
"You are already 16 years old and have been working in the assigned job for two years. You go to work steadily every day. Suddenly your mother asks you to be absent from work for three months. Don't you have any doubts?" the young woman asked again.
If only he had eyes... The young woman stared at the Mist Boy in front of her, feeling secretly regretful in her heart. Eyes can reveal a lot of things. Although she sympathized with the boy's experience, there were too many doubts from the information in this incident, which made her feel that the boy might have known for a long time that his mother had been replaced by the Ruin Beast.
Although... such speculation is incredible.
After all, if he really knew it, the boy would definitely alarm the beast and then be killed.
It's impossible to live in such harmony for three months.
"I find it strange, too, but mom keeps telling me it's dangerous outside and won't let me go out. I can't just disobey mom, right?"
Xu Shen sighed and said in a depressed tone: "Besides, if I lose my job, I can find another one, but I only have one mother, and she is doing this for my own good..."
The young woman was somewhat speechless.
"Okay, that's all for today."
The man next to him saw Xu Shen's depressed mood, winked at the young woman, shook his head and said, "After all, he has just been through so much and received so much new information. Don't embarrass him. He is just a fog dweller and can't see. Besides, it is a C-level ruins beast. Even we may not be able to distinguish it with its camouflage skills, let alone with our eyes closed..."
"But……"
The young woman was somewhat unwilling to accept this. She always felt that something was fishy. She had no reason, perhaps it was just a woman's sixth sense.
"Besides, it will be time to get off work in two minutes, and I don't want to work overtime."
The man raised his arms to relax his body, then smiled at the young woman and said, "Don't forget that he will be our colleague in the future, and a member of the Operations Department..."
The young woman understood what he meant and said helplessly: "Okay."
The two men stood up, said a few polite words to Xu Shen, and sent him out of the recording room.
Watching the boy being taken away by his colleagues from the Operations Department who were waiting outside, the young woman was still unwilling to give up and said, "I always feel that there are some strange things that I haven't asked clearly. You have seen the photos taken from the scene. It is simply hell!
How could he not notice anything after living with the Xu Beast for three months in this environment? Unless he is really kind-hearted and a filial son! "
"Yeah." The man nodded, looked at his watch, and asked, "Where do you want to eat after get off work? I'll treat you."
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