"How could I not know? You're a young person, you accidentally got pregnant, how could you possibly keep the baby! So you want to abort it, right?"
Ye Bugui sneered, his face showing no surprise whatsoever: "You have connections?"
"Hmm, cheaper than at the hospital." The old man exhaled a puff of smoke and said contentedly, "But you have to give me a referral fee. However, if you're really going to have an abortion like this, you might as well get a checkup first to see if it's a boy or a girl. It's not too late to terminate the pregnancy if it's a girl!"
Ye Bugui was choosing his words when he unexpectedly heard a muffled cry, which sounded like Zi Ling's.
Lying in her hospital bed, Zi Ling touched her stomach; her sanity level was plummeting.
"What did you say? I... I'm pregnant?"
A note from the author:
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Chapter 43
☪ Good Family Apartment 18
"Oh, congratulations."
The old man glanced at Ye Bugui in front of him with a mocking look, and it would be a lie to say that he wasn't being sarcastic.
...
"Oh, congratulations."
The old man glanced at Ye Bugui in front of him with a mocking look, and it would be a lie to say that he wasn't being sarcastic.
Ye Bugui took a deep breath, ignored the old man, and turned back to the examination room.
Ziling continued to struggle while lying in bed, but the nurse patiently comforted her.
"You should be happy to have a child! Why are you so excited? Are you nervous? First-time mothers are all like this, you'll get used to it soon."
"How could I have a child?" Zi Ling opened her mouth, still looking like she couldn't believe it.
She couldn't have suddenly developed a child in her belly out of thin air.
The reason why this child came to be is easy to understand after a little thought.
Thinking of this, Zi Ling couldn't help but shudder, and dared not think any further.
"I'm asking you!"
The nurse was pondering how to answer this tricky question when she saw Ye Bugui running over. She immediately raised an eyebrow at him:
"What kind of boyfriend are you? Your girlfriend has a child and you're still running around everywhere! Don't you know how anxious a first-time mother is?!"
After being harshly scolded, Ye Bugui didn't offer any explanation.
He glanced at Zi Ling across from him; her stomach remained flat.
"You can't tell her belly at all?"
The nurses and doctors suddenly burst into laughter, a laugh that sent chills down their spines.
"Our equipment has detected it all. Don't you believe me? Everyone's constitution is different. Some people just don't show it very clearly!" After saying that, the doctor crossed his arms and continued to examine Ye Bugui.
"Her SAN value is almost below the critical level!"
Seeing Zi Ling's body trembling uncontrollably and her eyes losing focus, Cao Ran immediately whispered something in Lu Shi's ear.
As is well known, the sum of the SAN value and the critical value is 100, which is also a zero-sum relationship.
However, when the critical value significantly exceeds the sanity value, it means that the player's mental state can no longer withstand the blow.
This is definitely a very dangerous sign.
At best, it will cause a crash; at worst, it can turn you into a monster, never to leave the instance.
"What should I do? Should I give her milk tea?" Lu Shi asked immediately, realizing the urgency of the situation from Cao Ran's anxious expression.
“I still have milk tea,” Cao Ran said softly. “If I just give it to her like this, won’t the NPCs think it’s strange?”
"Probably not?" Lu Shi said softly, "They are, after all, people from the instance."
Ye Bugui, over there, also noticed that Zi Ling was acting strangely. He leaned close to her ear and whispered comfortingly:
"Don't be afraid, you're just carrying a baby."
Upon hearing Ye Bugui's words, Zi Ling was unable to express her feelings in words. All she could do was stare at Ye Bugui with wide eyes in disbelief.
Ignoring Zi Ling's current mood, Ye Bugui continued to whisper in her ear:
"And this child is like an injury you take in a dungeon. As long as you don't die, it will automatically disappear after you get out. But if you break down, you'll be stuck here forever."
At this moment, Cao Ran had already taken out the milk tea. The nurses stared at what she was holding and muttered, "What kind of drink is this? The packaging is quite pretty."
Seeing that Zi Ling's trembling body had gradually calmed down, Cao Ran asked, somewhat uncertainly:
"Brother Lu, it seems her sanity has returned. Should I stop using it?"
After all, drinking milk tea can lead to drug resistance.
"Yes, relax. It's possible that both Lu Shi and I are pregnant! You know it's all fake. Your identity, the child in your belly, and the world we live in are all fake."
Under Ye Bugui's gentle reassurance, Zi Ling, who was on the verge of collapse, actually recovered.
She bit her lip and exhaled a breath of stale air. "Thank you. If it weren't for you, I might have gone crazy."
"It's nothing." Ye Bugui smiled, then looked at the doctor beside him as if nothing had happened: "Is it a boy or a girl?"
"I'm sorry," the doctor said with a half-smile, "we don't offer gender testing services here. We are a legitimate hospital."
"This rule came about so early?" Ye Bugui was somewhat surprised. He gently reached out his hand to Zi Ling, "Let me help you up!"
"No need, I can manage on my own."
Once Zi Ling accepted that pregnancy was merely a manifestation of her trauma, her condition improved considerably.
This wasn't anything shameful, so Zi Ling immediately relaxed.
Moreover, before the pregnancy was detected, her body was normal and there were no abnormalities.
So all this anxiety was just a form of self-suggestion.
"Cao Ran, you should go get checked too!" Zi Ling's tone was much calmer, and she comforted Cao Ran, "Don't worry, even if you're pregnant, it's only temporary."
Cao Ran hummed in agreement. Having witnessed Zi Ling's performance, she was actually mentally prepared in advance.
So when she heard the doctor tell her that she was also pregnant, Cao Ran remained very calm.
The nurse called the two men over and gave them repeated instructions on how to treat the pregnant woman before finally seeing them off.
"So what's going on with this child?" After they had walked away, Zi Ling finally asked the question that concerned her the most.
In her opinion, Lu Shi and Ye Bugui must already know the answer.
"Perhaps it's a yin fetus," Ye Bugui suddenly uttered a term specific to the cultivation world.
Sure enough, they all looked confused, but they couldn't help feeling a little scared.
"Remember what I told you before? When wandering ghosts can't find their way to the underworld, they can't be reincarnated. That's when they start targeting pregnant women."
“When a woman is pregnant, her yin energy is at its strongest, making it easy for these wandering ghosts to approach. They often crawl into her womb, kill the original child, and then take its place.”
“When they are born, they become something like the living dead.” Lu Shi saw the two female players covering their mouths in fear before adding, “But you don’t need to be so scared. There shouldn’t be such a thing in your world.”
"So," Cao Ran said, touching his stomach with his hand, looking very frightened, "we're carrying a ghost in our bellies?"
“Those must be your roommate’s deceased siblings,” Ye Bugui said softly. “I’d guess they were sisters!”
At first, neither of the two female players understood the meaning behind Ye Bugui's words, but after thinking for just a second, they saw through it.
"Heh." Zi Ling chuckled coldly. As she stroked her belly, she was no longer so afraid; she even felt a little sorry for it. "Was it because you found out it was a girl that you aborted it?"
"And I also understand why we were being chased in the dream." Cao Ran was truly furious and helpless after learning the truth.
"Because we are all female players, the female ghosts living in our room are all baby girls who were killed in their swaddling clothes! That's why their resentment is so strong!"
Lu Shi sighed as he listened.
He finally found a place where the cultivation world and the new world were the same, but he found this similarity shameful.
That is male chauvinism.
Ye Bugui had just deliberately asked the doctor about the baby's gender, which suggests he had already figured this out.
"I actually just figured it out myself." Ye Bugui always had a magical ability to predict what Lu Shi was thinking: "But next we should look for that person."
“Hmm.” Lu Shi also realized, “No wonder he looked at us like that, he probably already guessed that we would definitely go to him.”
"Is it that old man?" Zi Ling asked.
“Hmm, he seems to have special connections. He can not only check the baby’s gender, but also get abortions at a low price.” Ye Bugui snorted coldly, his hands already clenched into fists. “No wonder this hospital looks so normal. We’ve been to the wrong place.”
When the four of them stood in front of the old man again, he was still smoking at the toilet entrance.
But this time it wasn't out of boredom; I was waiting for them on purpose.
“I heard everything just now,” the old man said with a smile, glancing at Zi Ling. “You’re pregnant. Congratulations!”
“We want to know the baby’s gender,” Lu Shi said bluntly, drawing a glance from another passerby who had just come out of the restroom.
"Young man, don't be in such a hurry!" The old man shook his head, thinking to himself, "This boy is so handsome, why is he so direct?" "Want to check your gender? Of course, no problem. But I need to confirm your identities."
This question suddenly stumped them: identity. What was their identity?
When Lu Shi first entered this instance, he remembered that he was a college student, but this identity quickly became useless and he almost forgot about it.
"Don't panic, I just need to confirm you're not the police. You know what my business is like, it's not exactly legitimate. If the police find out, we'll all be taken down."
“No problem.” Lu Shi readily agreed again.
Even Ye Bugui couldn't help but tug at his sleeve this time, "Identity, we don't have any identity?"
But little did anyone know that Lu Shi had already pulled an ID card out of his pocket.
A forged ID card.
They each got to touch it, as if the system had specially given it to them to ensure the plot could proceed smoothly.
"Wow, a college student, impressive!" the old man clicked his tongue. "Come on, follow me."