Abstinence Admiral Don't Bite, the Softer Mermaid Top Thug

Chapter 175 Why hasn't his wife come to pick him and the baby yet?

Jing Weimian had no idea how long she had been unconscious.

When I opened my eyes and woke up, I found myself lying on a hospital bed, with the medical equipment next to me operating smoothly and regularly.

The surrounding environment gave her a strange sense of familiarity that she hadn't felt in a long time.

Jing Weimian, supporting her splitting headache, sat up from the hospital bed for less than a second before being pulled back down by a huge wave of dizziness.

The instrument emitted an abnormal beeping alarm.

Soon, the ward door was opened.

As Jing Weimian fell into a coma again, she only saw the shadowy medical team approaching her bed.

Indistinctly, I seemed to hear my father and mother calling out worriedly.

"Huh...huh..."

With heavy, labored breathing, Jing Weimian dreamed once again of that deep blue, cold sea.

In her dream, she was repeatedly dragged to the bottom of the sea, her heart and lungs being squeezed by the overwhelming water pressure pouring down on her.

On the verge of completely losing consciousness, she was lifted off the water by a powerful, enormous blue mermaid and plunged into the depths of a misty forest...

But what lies deep within the island's forests...?

Through the thick fog, Jing Weimian couldn't see anything clearly and couldn't get any closer.

Jing Weimian was trapped in this damp and lingering deep-sea dream, unable to break free for a long time.

Three months later, he finally regained consciousness and woke up...

"Mianmian, Mianmian?"

Under the repeated gentle calls of the Marshal's wife, Jing Weimian finally slowly opened her thin, red eyelids.

As her blurry vision gradually cleared, Jing Weimian's eyes narrowed slightly as she looked at her haggard mother, who was standing guard beside the bed.

Her pale lips parted slightly, emitting a hoarse voice.

"mom……"

Jing Weimian had just struggled to sit up from her sickbed when she was suddenly pulled into the arms of the Marshal's wife.

Even the usually dignified and elegant Marshal's wife couldn't help but choke up as she held her daughter, whom she had lost and found again, "Mianmian, you really scared your mother to death, thank goodness you're alright..."

Jing Weimian, who had been quietly resting in her mother's arms for a while, frowned slightly upon hearing these words.

I tried hard to recall, but my mind was still completely blank.

Like the shattered fragments of that shipwrecked vessel, no matter how hard you try, you can't piece together a complete memory...

The only image that remains in my mind is the final frame of the warship crashing into the sea.

Besides that, I can't remember anything else.

However, Jing Weimian always felt that there was something very important that she had forgotten.

Jing Weimian pressed her still somewhat dizzy head against her palm, closed her eyes and thought for a long time before slowly lifting her face from the Marshal's wife's embrace and asking in a hoarse voice:
"Mom, I remember my warship wrecked and crashed at sea. How...did I get back?"

……

half a month later.

Eastern Military Headquarters Base.

As soon as Jing Weimian stepped out of the elevator in the conference hall, a guard came over to report that Gu Lixi had arrived at the base's medical department.

Upon hearing this name, Jing Weimian's indifferent expression visibly faltered. She had woken up in the hospital and learned from her mother that she had been lost at sea for so long, and that the Jing family, along with the military, had dispatched fleets to search for her. No one knew where Jing Weimian and the wrecked warship had ended up…

Finally, it was Earl Gu's eldest son, Gu Lixi, who encountered Jing Weimian, who was adrift on a wrecked ship along the coast, while on a naval patrol in the western star system of the empire, and rescued her.

After being discharged from the hospital, Jing Weimian visited the Gu family with her parents and thanked Gu Lixi in person.

But for some reason, in the two weeks since I woke up...

When Jing Weimian sleeps at night, she still dreams from time to time of that deep sea with blue fish tails that she has never seen in real life, and the misty forest on the island that she can never enter...

Each time, she was interrupted from waking up as she tried to get through the fog.

Deep down, she had a hunch that the place where she fell after the accident was related to the misty sea area in her dream.

But whenever she raised her doubts with her mother, her mother would always look at her with a worried expression.

Jing Weimian knew that her mother probably thought she was experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder hallucinations again...

Over time, to avoid worrying her parents, Jing Weimian stopped telling them about the strange and beautiful sea that frequently appeared in her dreams, and instead investigated the matter in secret...

As for Gu Lixi's life-saving grace, Jing Weimian will do her best to help the Gu family whenever they need it, within the scope of her and the Jing family's capabilities.

Upon learning that Gu Lixi's mental network had been damaged while on a mission, they came to the base's medical department specifically for testing and treatment.

Jing Weimian then instructed his subordinate Chen Yan to arrange for a senior healer to treat him.

After seeing General Qin off, Jing Weimian also went to the medical department in person. She waited outside the consultation room while reading the emails that popped up on her wristband.

As soon as the door to the consultation room opened, Gu Lixi stepped out after removing the disposable bandage from the back of his hand. He saw Jing Weimian sitting on a bench, working on the tasks displayed on the screen. His gaze softened, and he lowered his voice slightly, "General?"

Jing Weimian, who was in the military headquarters, rarely showed much emotion when looking at people. Her eyes were like a layer of sharp, thin ice. When she heard this, she only glanced at him indifferently, turned off the light screen, and stood up.

His posture was calm and steady, and the straight shoulder line adorned with his military rank gave him an invisible aura of authority.

What were the results of the diagnosis?

Jing Weimian asked.

"Thank you for your concern, General. It's just that my mental network is fluctuating a bit abnormally. I've already had a therapist examine and guide me."

Jing Weimian nodded. She happened to need to go home for something, so she gave Gu Lixi a ride home from the medical department.

……

Whale Island.

Undersea nest.

After months of dormancy and incubation, the baby fish eggs successfully hatched half a month ago and quickly learned to swim in the deep sea with Lu Lianbai's tireless guidance and teaching.

Moreover, it would occasionally imitate its father's hunting behavior, using its little tail tip to catch small fish and shrimp to feed itself.

The little fish is very clever and quick-witted, learning new things from its father every day.

However, most of the time, Lu Lian personally caught and fed the baby fish.

Once the little fish had eaten and drunk its fill, curled up on his chest and fell fast asleep, Lu Lianbai would secretly take the little fish to the crack in the barrier of Whale Island.

It has been a very, very long time since my wife left Whale Island.

Lu Lianbai always kept in mind the promises his wife had made.

He cradled the baby fish in his webbed hands, sitting on the reef that emerged from the deep blue sea.

Night after night, they silently watched the crack in the barrier that had long since been closed.

He didn't know why his wife hadn't come to pick him and their baby up yet.