My citizenship is at risk

Chapter 16: Return to Xingyuan
"Sister Juzi, I'll stay with you tonight." Chu Mu, sweating profusely, returned to the primary convalescent area and found Song Ju who was busy.

"it is good."

Song Ju nodded without surprise, turned and left, and soon returned with a disposable bracelet, which she put on Chu Mu's wrist.

"The public bathroom is empty right now, go take a shower."

"Yeah." Chu Mu nodded, took a look at his mother on the hospital bed, then took some clean clothes and went to the bathroom, washed off his sweat, changed into fresh and clean clothes, and came to Li Yuhua's bedside.

There are two moons in the sky outside the window.

During every weekend holiday, Chu Mu would choose to stay by his mother's bedside to take care of her, but staying by her bedside did not mean giving up his practice.

There is a square near the Second Sanatorium. After walking out of Director Tang’s office, he completed the daily training tasks there, performed a round of cosmic practice, and returned only after filling his stomach.

"Young man, is that your mother lying there?" The middle-aged woman lying in the next bed asked with a polite smile.

"Yes." Chu Mu responded with a smile.

"It's really not easy. I just heard from a therapist that she has been lying like this for ten years." The middle-aged woman looked sympathetic. "How old are you, kid? Are you studying or working?"

"I'm almost sixteen, and I'm in the first year of high school now." Chu Mu smiled and stood up, took out a bag of fresh fruit from the bedside, took out a few and placed them on the middle-aged woman's bedside, "I bought too much fruit, Auntie, have a try."

"Oh, thank you so much." The middle-aged woman was a little surprised, and looked at Chu Mu with a little more kindness in her eyes.

"Just some ordinary fruits." Chu Mu smiled and continued chatting with the middle-aged woman. Not only did he answer all of the middle-aged woman's curious questions, he also occasionally made jokes to make her smile.

When the other party lost interest in chatting, Chu Mu smiled and said, "Auntie, I can't come to look after my mother because I'm in school. Can you add my contact information so that I can take care of her if anything happens?"

"Of course no problem." The middle-aged woman nodded without hesitation.

After adding the other party's contact information, Chu Mu smiled at them, took the fruit and walked to other beds, greeted them politely, chatted with them, and added their contact information for the same reason.

After one round, most of the fruit in Chu Mu’s bag was gone, and there were more than a dozen new contact numbers on the communicator.

When my mother moved to a new bed, the patients in the nearby beds became her new neighbors. There was no harm in building good relationships with them.

Chu Mu used to be socially anxious, but after experiencing a lot over the years, he has realized that some social interaction is necessary.

After giving the remaining fruit to the therapist on night shift, Chu Mu returned to Li Yuhua's bedside. It was almost late at night and the main light in the convalescent area was off. Only a few night lights illuminated the aisles between the beds to avoid bumps while walking at night.

He reached into the quilt, held his mother's slightly cold hand, and leaned his head on the hospital bed.

"Mom, I will definitely cure you."

The sleepiness that came over him made his consciousness gradually dim. Chu Mu murmured something unconsciously and then fell into a deep sleep.
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A dog-like star beast was moving quickly through the dense forest. The mottled shadows of the trees were reflected on its red fur, making its crystal clear and glimmering fur even more gorgeous.

Suddenly, the canine star beast stopped and sniffed carefully, as if it had sensed the hidden danger.

It looked around, and the next moment it seemed to realize something and raised its head.

But it was too late.

A five-meter-long figure fell rapidly, accompanied by a flash of cold light. The canine star beast had no time to make any sound before its head was chopped off. It fell to the ground with a bang as blood splattered.

The figure that killed it calmly retracted its knife-like forelimbs, used the exposed pair of sharp claws to tear open the body of the canine star beast, lowered its head and swallowed it in big gulps.

When it raised its bloody head again, the canine star beast had already turned into a pile of white bones.

[Evolution degree +0.2%] [Current stage: Beast Soldier Level 80.1 [%]]

"Hiss..." (a little...)
Chu Mu, who had transformed into a mantis, looked at the corpse of the canine star beast with disdain, then kicked his six long legs hard and climbed back up to the branch of the giant tree.

He fell asleep again and transformed into a mantis once again, confirming some of Chu Mu's guesses about the mechanism of time travel.

So this time, as a mantis, he needed to do more to verify his other guesses.

First, there is the correspondence between the two world times.

The time he fell asleep in the nursing home and the time he fell asleep in the rental house yesterday were both 11 o'clock in the evening, and he set the alarm for 4 o'clock tomorrow morning.

This time, he planned to stay in the Star Abyss longer to see whether he would be woken up by the alarm clock at four o'clock tomorrow morning, or whether the alarm clock would not wake him up and he would need to sleep longer.

Secondly, and most importantly.

He wanted to verify that the increase in evolutionary degree really had an effect on the speed of cultivation and it was not just a coincidence.

This is very easy to verify. We only need to increase the degree of evolution during the process of transforming into a star beast, and then speed up the practice again after returning to reality, and we can basically confirm it.

This is also the reason why Chu Mu turned from passive to active and chose to actively hunt other star beasts.

Stopping at the fork of a branch, Chu Mu stretched out his claws and grabbed a handful of leaves, squeezed out the juice and smeared it on his head and paws to cover up the bloody smell left by the food he had just eaten. Then he flew through the woods and quickly changed his position.

Unlike yesterday, he seemed experienced today.

On the one hand, Chu Mu's control over this body is gradually improving.

On the other hand, it is also the most important point.

During the day, Chu Mu studied the habits of mantises.

Then he realized how unwise it was for him to choose to race with the deer-headed, lizard-bodied star beast yesterday.

The mantis's movement speed is certainly very fast, but its greater advantage lies in its flexibility. Running on the ground is not its strong point.

The correct approach is to take advantage of the forest to hide the slender body between the branches and ambush the weak star beasts passing by.

Suddenly, Chu Mu, who had transformed into a mantis, flashed his eyes slightly.

He slowed down and moved silently among the branches. Soon he was dozens of meters away and looked down.

Two star beasts were fighting each other, and in Chu Mu's perception, their strength was weaker than his own.

Completely unaware of the arrival of a third party, the two star beasts, who were blood-thirsty, fought bloody battles with the attitude of "either you eat me or I eat you". When they were almost exhausted, they were killed one by one by Chu Mu who descended from the sky.

Looking at the two star beasts lying on the ground, exuding an enticing fragrance, Chu Mu quickly opened his sharp mouthparts.

Bro, you smell so good~
[Evolution Degree +0.3%]

[Evolution Degree +0.3%]

[Current stage: Beast Soldier Level 80.7 [%]]

(End of this chapter)