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Chapter 272 Beth, open the door, Daddy~

America.

Kentucky.

Beth Harmon stared blankly at her adoptive mother who lay on her sickbed.

It has been more than three months.

She was supposed to participate in various chess invitational tournaments, but now she could only stay at home and accompany her adoptive mother who suddenly became seriously ill.

This would have been really distressing for her.

But it won’t be as painful as it is now.

Because her adoptive mother was very nice to her.

Without her adoptive mother’s persistence, she would still be trapped in the orphanage, and even her ability to participate in local competitions would be restricted, let alone running across the country or even going abroad.

You know, her adoptive father didn't want to adopt her at all.

Ever since she was adopted by her adoptive mother as part of a complete family, she has never returned home and has been working and living in another state. Even when her adoptive mother was so seriously ill, she was very cold and offered money.

After she said they were not short of money, he told her to take good care of her and then hung up the phone.

It’s not like she’s incapable of taking care of her adoptive mother.

After all, she had accumulated a lot of wealth from participating in competitions, winning prizes, and accepting interviews, which was enough for her to pay someone to take care of their lives.

But she didn't feel any better in her heart. Instead, she felt suffocated.

"Mom, quit."

"Quit? How can I quit now that I'm so old? Besides, drinking is the only thing I like now. Why would I live if I quit?"

The adoptive mother was calm and sad.

She also knew that her illness was caused by long-term alcoholism, smoking, and taking sedatives and sleeping pills without restraint, which left her body full of holes.

But she still didn't want to quit, and she couldn't quit.

"Beth, you are still young and have a bright future. If you want, you can use this time to quit drinking and taking drugs."

The adoptive mother seemed to understand Beth's sadness and reminded her.

Beth was silent.

She really wanted to quit.

Not only did she see clearly the harm of continued drug addiction from her adoptive mother's illness, but also because the God Zhuge Liang who played chess with her and helped her improve quickly never showed up again after she failed in her attempt to quit addiction.

He ignored her!
Ignore this piece of trash!

This was a huge blow to her as she was very proud.

She sent countless messages, trying to get back in touch, but the silence on the other end seemed to mock her: "You said you're not a loser, but because of alcohol and drugs, you can't even go to the competition, and you still say it doesn't affect you?

This is just the indirect effect of your mother's alcohol and drugs.

You are directly affected, and you have no idea how strong it is!

You think alcohol and drugs are helping you to cheat, but in fact they are just lowering your true height!

You're sliding into real garbage."

Although she has been taciturn since childhood, she has always been strong-willed. After learning chess and making a comeback in life, she was filled with pride.

Being as proud as she is, she could not stand such ridicule.

Not to mention that the other party is a truly strong person that she recognizes.

She didn't even have a chance to refute.

So she was sad and angry, but there was nothing she could do.

She left her adoptive mother's room woodenly and returned to her own house, staring blankly at the computer for a long time without saying a word. Then, in a self-abandoned manner, she took out the wine she had gotten from her mother and gulped down the whole bottle in one breath. As the alcohol started to take effect, she staggered onto the bed, staring straight at the ceiling.

A 3D mind map chessboard appeared out of thin air, moving continuously with her thoughts, reviewing the game between her and Zhuge.

In the end, she won, but she didn't feel any joy, because she knew that if she played the same game with Zhuge again, the opponent would never play the same way, and she would still lose.

And she couldn't imagine losing in such a way.

The concretization of 3D mind maps is meaningless in the real collision of wisdom.

Which truly strong person doesn’t know this?

They are just basic abilities.

As the alcohol took over her, her head started to feel dizzy and she fell asleep in broad daylight.

When she fell asleep, it was already late at night on the other side of the ocean. He Chen, who was helping Qiao Yingzi, Ruan Liuzheng and others in his dream, suddenly felt something and decided to give it a try.

With a thought, he immersed himself in the dream representing Beth Harmon through the illusory world.

But when he regained consciousness, he received the message immediately and was amazed.

Again, he was willing to project over here just to explore more of the magical uses of the illusory world of Taixu. This ultra-long-distance perception and projection was a topic.

Another topic is that Beth Harmon has never seen him, and doesn't even know if he is a man or a woman. She only has an alias. So if she dreams about herself, what kind of existence is she in?
Now he knew.

His appearance has changed.

Sure enough, dreams cannot be completely separated from reality.

Beth Harmon had never seen him, so she had no idea what he looked like.

After looking at the dream for a while, he came to Beth Harmon's room, reached out and pressed the doorbell, with a strange smile on his face: "Beth, open the door, Daddy~"

Beth Harmon in the room was startled when she heard the noise, and she stood up to open the door. When she saw He Chen's face, she blurted out: "Daddy... No, you are not!"

"No, I am." He Chen smiled very plainly.

That's right!

This time when he came into the dream, it was different from the previous times.

In the past, when Qiao Yingzi and the others dreamed of He Chen, they were face to face.

This time, Beth Harmon couldn't imagine what He Chen looked like, and she had been dreaming about him, so she had to imagine an image.

And this image must be related to her experience, understanding, and subconsciousness.

So when He Chen projected his mind over, he knew that the image she gave him was a stitched monster.

He looks like the statue of Zhuge that she found on the Internet, but his identity is her father.

Based on this identity, He Chen suddenly thought of this sentence that Qiao Weidong liked to say when he saw Qiao Yingzi. Not only had he heard it in reality, he also often saw such scenes in his dreams, which he found very interesting.

So I borrowed it.

He had wanted to try it for a long time.

Yingzi is his brother now, he would never say such ambiguous words to her.

Ah!
A little too Liu Bei...

But it doesn't seem out of place to use it on Beth who is on the other side of the ocean.

Because this sentence is similar to "Daddy is home~", and it even has "Fobberough, open the door" in it, which makes it even more interesting.

These two sentences are classic and commonly used sentences in America.

"..." Beth Harmon looked at this Chinese father, her innocent big eyes filled with speechlessness.

Even in a dream, science cannot be completely ineffective, right?

How did He Chen, a father with Chinese appearance, give birth to a foreign daughter like her?
She is indeed mixed race.

But there is not a single Chinese among my ancestors.

But her expression soon changed, and she looked at He Chen with a hint of expectation: "Are you Zhuge, and also your daddy?"

(End of this chapter)