Chapter Eight

This night, Zhan Xi didn’t sleep well at all. He woke up in the middle of the night and took Jian Ning to the bathroom. Jian Ning leaned against him and didn’t even open his eyes.

After using the bathroom, Jian Ning turned over and wanted to sleep face down. However, Zhan Xi didn’t allow him to sleep in this position because he was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to breathe properly and would suffocate while asleep.

“Be good. Go back to sleep.”

After turning the little baby over again, Zhan Xi whispered to him. After a few whispers, the little baby closed his eyes again and continued to sleep while holding a small pillow.

The wind blew outside the window, and the howling sound entered Zhan Xi’s ears. Suddenly, he sat up straight.

The next second.

He locked the window, wrapped the baby in the bed, and turned around to leave the room.

Jian Ning’s small ears moved as if he had heard something, but he was still in a dream playing with a handsome boy and didn’t want to open his eyes.

Until it was bright outside.

Jian Ning cried two times out of habit while still closing his eyes. If this had happened before, Zhan Xi would have picked him up when he cried the first time.

But this time he cried several times, and Zhan Xi didn’t come to hold him.

The baby, with a hungry stomach and bad mood, held onto his pillow and cried until his face turned red and he could hardly catch his breath before finally stopping.

“Daddy.”

He got up, with a wet little face, and looked for Zhan Xi’s figure in the room. He looked around but didn’t find him.

He sniffled and, as a last resort, wanted to find his milk bottle, but there was not even a drop of milk in the bottle placed next to the bed.

No toys to play with, no milk to drink.

The little helpless baby sat on the bed, looking down at the floor with his head lowered. The bed in the room was not high for Zhan Xi, who was one meter and eighty-seven cm tall.

But for a small baby, it was high enough to scare him.

Just as Jian Ning clenched his chubby fists, wanting to jump down to find Zhan Xi, he saw the learning machine on the bed.

“Ah!”

Jian Ning’s eyes lit up, and he crawled over to pick up the learning machine. He had already learned how to use the buttons on the machine.

Soon.

Jian Ning entered the virtual world, with a clear goal in mind: to find Guoguo!

As soon as he came in, Jian Ning crawled quickly towards where the toy car was placed yesterday. He crawled so fast that he arrived at the car in no time.

“Guoguo!”

He called out and knocked on the door with his fist. After just two knocks, the unlocked door opened, but there was no Guoguo inside.

Jian Ning was stunned. As he held the car door in confusion, he heard the voice of a chubby boy not far away.

The chubby boy spoke faster than him and was very noisy, repeatedly saying a few words loudly, often making Jian Ning’s ears ache.

As soon as he heard the voice, Jian Ning became nervous.

He couldn’t beat this little kid!

In order not to be seen by the chubby boy, Jian Ning crawled into the car directly, then closed the door. He didn’t sit in the seat, but curled up into a small ball and hid himself.

The chubby boy’s voice gradually faded away until it disappeared completely.

The small ball of fur curled up in the car, not knowing how long it had been curled up before daring to stick its head out. Just as its little head poked out, someone suddenly flicked it.

Jian Ning: “!!!”

Jian Ning was so scared that she fell back onto his butt.

The little prince outside the car: “...”

Upon hearing the sound of Jian Ning falling and the cries of the baby, the little prince fell silent, then opened the car door and picked up the scared baby.

Jian Ning, who was picked up, looked up at the person holding him with teary eyes.

“Guoguo.”

His eyelids were red, and his voice was hoarse. Although he had just been scared by Guoguo, he didn’t hold a grudge and took the initiative to rub his wet face against Guoguo’s.

Huo Lin found a chair and placed the sticky baby on it.

The two children stood and sat facing each other.

Huo Lin frowned, not knowing what was wrong with himself. He hated coming here to study, and the content here was of no use to him.

The learning content was useless, and the babies here annoyed him.

But for some reason, this baby in front of him always caught his attention. Even after logging off, he still thought of this baby.

Perhaps this baby was too attractive to him. When he slept at night, he only thought of this baby, without needing his father’s spiritual comfort, and for the first time, slept until morning.

After waking up, he skipped his morning class and logged back in again.

“Guoguo.”

Jian Ning reached out with his chubby little hand and grabbed onto Huo Lin’s clothes. He tearfully asked Huo Lin, “Daddy!”

Huo Lin: “?”

Huo Lin furrowed his brow and thought for a moment before understanding. “Did you lose your father?”

Jian Ning wanted his father back and pulled Huo Lin’s hand, placing it on his own stomach, and let him feel it. “Egg egg.”

When Jian Ning encountered words he couldn’t say, he would say “egg egg.”

Fortunately, Huo Lin corrected him in time, “No, not ‘egg egg,’ this is your stomach. Your stomach is flat. Did you not drink milk powder?”

Jian Ning understood the words “milk powder,” but he didn’t need to answer as his pitiful expression said it all.

Although Huo Lin now understood the situation, he didn’t know what to do. The toys in the virtual scene couldn’t be retrieved in reality, let alone milk powder.

“I’ll take you to find the teacher.”

The teacher had the contact information of the parents, and in addition to finding the teacher, Huo Lin could also look for his own father. However, if he found his father, according to the other’s personality, he would surely focus on the baby and his family.

At that time, this baby’s family might become very hostile towards them.

Huo Lin thought seriously about these things in his head as he wiped the baby’s wet face, saying “Don’t cry” as he did so.

This baby was like a crystal, beautiful and fragile.

Huo Lin was so gentle when wiping his face, he dared not use too much force.

After wiping the baby’s face and straightening his clothes, Jian Ning was clean and was carried to find the teacher. On the way, he even learned a few more words.

“You were just in the car... were you looking for me?”

Huo Lin held the little baby in his arms and suddenly asked.

The little baby hugged his neck and nodded obediently after understanding. “Guoguo.”

‘He was looking for Guoguo.’

Huo Lin fell silent for a few more seconds, then suddenly said, “Next time you want to find me, you don’t have to go through so much trouble.”

He freed up one hand and gestured, conjuring up a virtual item: “When you come in next time, just tap this thing twice and I’ll come.”

The virtual item that Huo Lin pointed out was a bracelet which could only be used in this virtual space.

Jian Ning would automatically have this virtual item appear on him whenever he came online.

“Ah!”

Jian Ning held his own arm, marveling at the suddenly appearing cartoon bracelet. His surprised and timid appearance caught Huo Lin’s eye, and the latter paused before buying him a few more virtual toys.

Jian Ning, who suddenly became rich, gazed at the toys, the bracelet, and then back at Huo Lin.

“Guoguo?”

“Yes, I bought it.”

Although Huo Lin was young, his pocket money was not small, and he could use the money in his account, however he pleased. His father never restricted him.

In contrast, Jian Ning, who only had a few outdated toys, two bottles, and three cans of milk powder to his name, was a true poor child.

Zhan Xi was frugal, and he spent half of his savings on buying weapons and equipment to defend against invaders. The other half, he spent on Jian Ning.

Expensive detection stones, extremely difficult-to-find expensive milk powder, a new model learning machine, a baby walking car, baby-specific tissues, diapers, clothes, picture books, and a few small toys.

These big and small items, when added together, were not a small amount of money.

The most difficult situation for Zhan Xi was that the baby was too young and could not be separated from him. His current situation was basically only pouring out money with not much income coming in.

In terms of material possessions, Jian Ning might not be a wealthy baby, but in this life, he had a lot of love. He was a little baby surrounded by love.

“Daddy.”

Jian Ning touched his toy and happily called out, “Daddy.” He wanted to bring the toy to play with his dad!

After about ten minutes.

Huo Lin, with Jian Ning, found the teacher. After the teacher learned about Jian Ning’s situation, she immediately started to flip through the contact book: “Ningning, don’t worry, the teacher will call your dad right away.”

There was a baby record book on the teacher’s desk.

Huo Lin casually scanned it and saw the information about the baby recorded in the book.

His name was Jian Ning. He was only over one-year-old. Like him, he had no mother and only one father.

The teacher was about to make the call when Jian Ning, who was still being held by Huo Lin, suddenly twisted his small body: “Daddy, daddy, here!”

Jian Ning, who sensed Zhan Xi, didn’t even care about his ‘guoguo’ and quickly logged out.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw Zhan Xi standing in front of him.

Zhan Xi was wearing a black jacket without any decoration, and the skulls and various animal bones he used to wear were long gone.

The little baby was afraid of those things, and if he was frightened, he was likely to get sick.

The medical level on the barren planet was extremely poor, and adults mostly had to rely on self-healing if they were injured. If a young baby got sick, it was even more dangerous.

When Jian Ning saw Zhan Xi, his eyes turned red, and he opened his little hands to ask for a hug.

But Zhan Xi didn’t hug him.

“Be a good boy and drink your milk. After you finish, we’ll rest with Daddy for a while, okay?” Zhan Xi handed the milk bottle, which was filled with milk, to the hungry little baby. He pulled out a chair and sat down.

Jian Ning’s stomach was growling. He held the milk bottle with his two chubby hands and was about to drink when suddenly his movements stopped and his eyes looked towards Zhan Xi.

Zhan Xi’s face was a bit pale, and blood was seeping out of his loose shirt on his back.

Jian Ning wrinkled his nose and seemed to smell something.

“Huh?”

He frowned and was puzzled for a moment. But soon, he saw Zhan Xi’s pale face more vividly than his breath.

Jian Ning had never seen Zhan Xi’s face so pale before.

He was a little worried.

The two of them looked at each other like this, and the little baby, who was still hungry, did not hesitate to hand over his milk bottle.

His little voice was soft and firm. “Daddy!”

‘Drink milk!’

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Ningning: I have a new toy, yay!

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