Doomsday Traveler

Chapter 225 Our Children Will Be Even More Beautiful

"What...what?! You've only been gone a short time. Your stomachs were still flat when you left, and you were practicing your punches every day. How did you give birth already?!"

Luo Ping's voice was full of astonishment, as if Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei's words had greatly shocked him. He even said, "Type A new humans give birth so quickly?!"

Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei were almost speechless. They really didn't know how the guy on the other end of the radio signal was so brainy. Did reading martial arts novels every day give him such a big imagination?

If it weren't for the fear that the broadcast signal might drop at any moment, Lu Xi'an would have liked to take a break, let the signal cool down, and then talk to the guy on the other end.

"What are you thinking! It's not ours, we found a child on the street."

Lu Xi'an replied.

"You guys are so lucky to find a child!"

Luo Ping was slightly surprised and asked, "How old is the child? Is it a boy or a girl?"

"About ten days old."

Lu Xi'an answered, then lifted the animal skin swaddling clothes in Yao Wei's arms to take a look, and said, "It's a boy."

Yao Wei also looked into her arms, and then her gaze unconsciously drifted to Lu Xi'an, but she didn't say anything.

"Boys and girls are the same."

Luo Ping said, "As long as it's a child, it's fine. We have experience raising children here, and some people are pregnant now. Who knows, they might be able to give birth."

"When the baby is born, I will have breast milk and can help feed it."

“Teaching children from a young age is much better than dealing with adults outside! We will raise your children well, so please bring them along!”

When Luo Ping agreed to accept the offer, Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei breathed a sigh of relief.

Lu Xi'an said, "Alright, we'll send the child over later, and leave you some things while we're at it."

They moved all the supplies from the Tan Village shelter out. Although they gave some to Luo Ping and the others, it wasn't a problem. It also freed up some space in the vehicle, making it easier to load anything they could find on their way south.

Luo Ping said, "Okay, okay! Thank you, big brother and sister! Big brother and sister, what's that pipe on your vehicle for? There's a mineral water bottle connected in the middle, how did you make it?"

"Burned with a lighter..."

Lu Xi'an opened his mouth to answer, but after only uttering six words, a "buzzing" sound came from the RV's stereo, so he had to stop.

The signal was interrupted.

It seems I'll have to tell Luo Ping about the effectiveness of that oil pump later.

Does the old tree not know the use of an oil pump?
Lu Xi'an sighed and said to Yao Wei, "You stay in the car and watch the child. I'll go down and bury that woman."

"Ah."

Yao Wei nodded and said.

Lu Xi'an took the shovel from the car, got out, walked to the front of the car, looked at the dead woman's body, and sighed inwardly.

Death is nothing out of the ordinary in this world, and Lu Xi'an was already used to it. Under normal circumstances, he wouldn't have cared about the body of this strange woman.

But now, for some reason, he inexplicably took out a shovel, intending to bury the woman.

Was it because they took in her child?
Never mind, let's just say it's because of this.

Following the cause and the effect, burying a corpse is all that's needed, and it doesn't take much effort.

He dug a hole by the roadside, put the woman in it, and then filled it with soil.

The woman was incredibly light, feeling even lighter than Chai Xin. When Lu Xi'an lifted her up and put her into the pit, it felt like he was lifting a piece of paper.

I don't know if it's because of breastfeeding that she sacrificed too much nutrition, which led to her current condition.

After placing the woman down and filling the hole back in, Lu Xi'an returned to the car.

Yao Wei didn't hold the child the whole time. Instead, she spread out a leftover sheet from when she made pajamas that day and placed it on the bed.

—Ever since she stepped into the new RV at Institute 923, she has cherished it dearly, as if she has suddenly developed a cleanliness obsession, and she will carefully tidy up every part of it.

Now most of the space in the RV is used to store supplies, so there's no way to manage it closely. She keeps a close eye on the remaining space.

For example, with this bed, she only didn't mind that it was just her and Lu Xi'an, but if she wanted someone else to lie on it, she would have to put something on it first.

Even if this person is just a tiny child.

Now that Lu Xi'an has returned to the car, she took the shovel from him, went outside and vigorously knocked it off to remove all the dirt. She then carefully wiped it with a rag before taking it back to the car.

Lu Xi'an ignored Yao Wei; he wouldn't trust her to do these things herself. He walked to the bedside and looked at the baby, who was still fast asleep; he could hear the baby breathing and having a heartbeat.

A child's heart beats much faster and weaker than an adult's. This is normal.

Lu Xi'an recalled that the children he had encountered before, whether it was Fa Zai, Chai Xin, or the people under Luo Ping, did indeed have their hearts beat faster.

However, none of the children were the same age as the one in front of us, so we couldn't make a complete reference.

"What are you looking at?"

After Yao Wei got into the car, she saw Lu Xi'an bending over and staring at the baby, and asked.

"I'm watching his breathing and listening to his heartbeat. Children's hearts beat so fast."

Lu Xi'an answered, then added, "Do you think when we have a child, it will be like this baby?" He was actually asking about heartbeat and breathing, but Yao Wei walked to Lu Xi'an's side, looked at the child, and replied, "I think it will be prettier than this one."

Lu Xi'an straightened up and laughed, glancing at Yao Wei, and said with a smile, "Of course, after all, you are such a beautiful mother."

Yao Wei glanced at Lu Xi'an and said, "You too."

The appearance of this tiny baby seemed to give them a very different feeling, making them feel a sense of the future and a kind of inexplicable and beautiful anticipation.

This feeling was so good and fun that they were reluctant to quit.

"Wow..."

The baby on the bed suddenly woke up and cried, pulling Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei back from their thoughts. The beautiful moment about the future vanished from their minds, and the two of them were flustered and didn't know what to do.

"The baby is crying because he's hungry and needs to be fed... but you... neither of us has any milk."

Lu Xi'an subconsciously glanced at Yao Wei's bulging chest, then quickly looked down at himself to avoid making Yao Wei uncomfortable.

Yao Wei looked down at herself. She must have seen mothers breastfeeding during her solo travels, so she asked Lu Xi'an, "How can I get milk?"

Well... she had seen things between men and women, seen pregnancy, seen babies, and seen breastfeeding, but because she had always walked alone, she hadn't been able to connect all of these things together.

Lu Xi'an said, "Even if we have a child together, it's too late now. Let me think... let me think..."

As he thought about it, he squatted down beside the bed and gently patted the baby.

Yao Wei said, "Be gentle, don't kill the child."

The Type A new human is so strong that if you're not careful, you could probably kill this kid.

"..."

Lu Xi'an was speechless for a moment, then said, "I know."

The baby seemed somewhat soothed by Lu Xi'an's gentle patting, and its crying subsided considerably, but it still didn't stop.

Lu Xi'an thought carefully and remembered what the woman from Tongzhou County had said before she died: "Crush the food and mix it with water to feed her... Wasn't that what the woman said?"

He hadn't taken the woman's words seriously before. After all, the baby was only ten days old. In his previous life, such a tiny thing would definitely drink breast milk, or at least formula. How could it possibly eat anything else?

But there's nothing he can do now. He can only think that this might be a unique physical strength of the current Ding-1 type new humans, and try it according to what that woman said.

"Okay. I'll do it."

As Yao Wei spoke, she went off to get busy.

Lu Xi'an instructed her to heat some water first, then take some rice, rub it into powder with her fingers, mix it with the heated water, and quickly make a slightly thin porridge.

Yao Wei brought over the rice cereal, and Lu Xi'an picked up the baby and let Yao Wei feed the baby the cereal.

The baby's lips touched the food, and sure enough, it forgot about crying, smacking its lips and quickly ate all the drowsy food.

He ate with gusto, making Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei hungry just watching.

Lu Xi'an then smiled and said, "After we feed him, let's find a place to park the car and cook."

"Ah."

Yao Wei nodded.

After the baby finished eating, it closed its eyes and continued to sleep. This was a good thing for Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei; the baby would eat and sleep, and then eat and sleep again, so it wouldn't disturb them.

The problem is how to care for the baby while they are driving and sleeping at night.

Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei looked around the car and quickly came up with a solution. They adjusted the boxes on the sofa, hollowed out one of them, put the child inside, and then placed several more around it to secure the middle box and prevent it from moving due to the vehicle's bumps.

The bottom of the box was also covered with scraps of old bed sheet cloth so that the child wouldn't be jostled or shaken when placed inside.

—As Lu Xi'an was packing up the suitcase and putting the child inside, Yao Wei washed the edge of the bowl again. She didn't know why, but even the child seemed to dislike it.

How did her increasingly comfortable living conditions develop into her obsessive-compulsive disorder?

However, Lu Xi'an didn't say anything to Yao Wei. He was just criticizing others, as long as Yao Wei didn't dislike him.

Having done all that, they continued on their way, intending to find a suitable place to stop and cook along the road.

However, just as they started, the dog suddenly issued a warning: "A prolonged northwest wind has been detected. It is predicted that the wind will gradually move forward and form strong winds. Please find a place to take shelter as soon as possible. Be careful not to park your car under trees to avoid the trees being blown down and falling on your car."

There does seem to be a wind outside, making a "whooshing" sound, but it's not very strong yet.

Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei didn't dare to be careless and quickly drove the car off the road.

—There's a cliff on one side of this road; I wonder if there will be falling rocks later.

They found an open space to park the car, then quickly got out, untied and retracted the plastic tarpaulin on the roof, and put all the rice and millet back into the car, filling the interior space to the brim, to the point that there was no room to get into the bed.

So the two of them could only sit in the driver's seat and the passenger seat, just like they were back in Yao Wei's old car.

"Hu-hu-"

The wind picked up considerably, causing the trees in the distance to sway and their trunks to bend low.

Yao Wei frowned. Seeing her expression, Lu Xi'an took her hand and said, "Don't worry, this truck is very heavy, and we have so many supplies weighing it down. It won't be blown over."

(End of this chapter)