CH 137
Chapter 137 – 1992-2020
It’s unknown what the NPCs in this world are thinking. The children in the orphanage were very shy when they saw people last night but today they played with everyone familiarly.
RenDong was the key player in this dungeon but he does not represent the clearance itself. You still have to find buttons and elevators to clear the instance. Therefore, after eating, the players split up to explore the orphanage.
Lian Qiao remembered the honeysuckle flowers that the little girl had mentioned last night and carried Little RenDong into the yard. As soon as the sun hit his body, he felt hot, and only then did he realize that the snow in the yard had melted. It seems that the early spring has arrived overnight. Although the cold spring was still expected to be cold, it is not as harsh as the deep winter after all.
He didn’t have time to look at it last night and noticed that there were many flowers and plants planted in the yard at this time, but none of them had bloomed yet. He would never recognize something like honeysuckle if it wasn’t in bloom, so he simply gave up exploring and sat on a swing to bask in the sun with RenDong.
There were two or three other people in the yard, touching here and there, trying to find clues.
Lian Qiao was not in such a hurry to leave here as they were, so he swayed on the swing with Little RenDong in his arms. Little RenDong was coaxed to sleep by him and Lian Qiao himself was drowsy from the sun. There is a cool aroma unique to early spring in the air, which is a little intoxicating under the thin sunlight that happens to be everywhere.
When the mood was relaxing, a swear word suddenly burst out not far away.
“Fuck!”
Lian Qiao opened his eyes dissatisfied and his first reaction was to see if RenDong was scared. Fortunately, Little RenDong was wrapped tightly in swaddling clothes, with a ball of wool hat on his head, and his ears were blocked, so he was not frightened.
Lian Qiao looked at the source of the voice.
He saw a man with a scarred face standing at the door of western style house. He was the one who scolded “Fuck”.
On the other side, Little Apple was standing at the gate of the yard, originally facing the direction outside the door but when she heard the voice, she turned around suddenly, her face full of shock.
Lian Qiao walked over with Little RenDong in his arms: “What’s going on?”
“I don’t know!” Knife Scar’s face was full of flesh, but he couldn’t hide the horror in his eyes.
In contrast, Little Apple was much calmer, walked slowly from the courtyard door and said: “There is a problem with this courtyard. He wanted to go out just now but he disappeared as soon as he stepped out of the courtyard door. When he reappeared, he was at the door of the house.”
Transportation?
Lian Qiao nodded: “You hit the border of the map and was teleported back.”
Scarface: “???”
Little Apple understood and smiled sweetly: “I was just about to say that too.”
Scarface looked at Lian Qiao, then looked at Little Apple again and couldn’t help but say: “You two can still laugh? This house is ghostly! We are trapped!”
Lian Qiao shrugged: “This is not the first time I have seen a ghost, what am I afraid of? “
Little Apple: “Indeed.”
Lian Qiao: “Besides, there are ghosts outside, why go out?”
Little Apple: “That’s right.”
Scarface: “…” How about you two stop singing in tune with each other?
Little RenDong in Lian Qiao’s arms suddenly woke up. The thick eyelashes like a small fan fluttered a few times and his eyes wandered between Lian Qiao and Little Apple. In his infancy, where Lian Qiao could not see, RenDong quietly clenched his small fists.
Although he is not a lover of chorus singing, he still had to ‘enjoy’ Lian Qiao singing in front of him with others….
Hmmmph! If it wasn’t for my lack of teeth…
Little RenDong licked his gums, thinking depressingly: Why haven’t these teeth grown yet, it hurts so much. My gums are swollen.
Scarface told the rest of the house about his discovery. Most people are very calm because, after all, they are not newcomers, so it is not so easy to make a fuss. It was only then that Scarface realized that he was the most impatient of the group of people, he couldn’t help feeling he’d lost face and walked away with a dark expression.
Everyone exchanged information and found that there were no special clues in the bungalow. Don’t mention secret rooms or secret mechanisms, they didn’t even see a single ghost, which was disappointing.
“Anyway, we have to ensure that this child grows up safely.” The middle-aged woman who spoke was the one who appeared in the morning. She has long hair, so let’s call her Auntie Long-hair. The long-haired aunt leaned in front of Little RenDong, “Has he teethed yet?”
Lian Qiao sighed, “Not yet.” He had just looked at it and the bumps on Little RenDong’s gums were still there, and the gums were swollen, but the deciduous teeth didn’t look like they intended to sprout at all.
Was the only solution to cut open the gums? Why couldn’t you take some anti-inflammatory drugs first…
The long-haired aunt shook her head and vetoed his proposal: “What’s the use of anti-inflammatory drugs? His teeth won’t grow out and he will have a fever sooner or later. I don’t think that’s an improvement. You should find him something to grind his teeth with. Our child was like this when he was a child, the deciduous teeth never came out and the doctor said they had no choice but to cut the gums. I was reluctant so I just gave him teething biscuits.”
Lian Qiao hurried to ask the principal if she had any teething biscuits. The principal shook her head, and Lian Qiao just remembered that it is now 1993, how can raising a child be as expensive as it was in 2020, and even have teething biscuits? It’s good to even have something to eat.
Lian Qiao was depressed but the principal said: “There are no teething biscuits, but there are shrimp crackers.”
Shrimp crackers?!
Lian Qiao’s eyes lit up immediately and childhood memories flowed away like a flood.
That’s right! He ate this as a kid too! The so-called shrimp sticks were a kind of puffed food. They are not really made of shrimp meat, but they are just filled with shrimp powder, which has the umami taste of shrimp. He ate it as a snack as a kid.
The texture of the shrimp sticks is slightly hard, and the taste is good, which is perfect for grinding your teeth.
Lian Qiao immediately asked the director for shrimp crackers and fed them to RenDong.
Little RenDong’s gums were swollen uncomfortably, not to mention he wanted to get his teeth out as soon as possible so that he could sing in chorus with Lian Qiao, so he ate the shrimp crackers very cooperatively. He doesn’t have a single tooth, so he can only use his gums to grind a little bit. Although this process is a bit painful, RenDong is not afraid of pain.
Toothache is better than brain suppuration!
Lian Qiao hugged the little RenDong on his lap, and fed shrimp sticks into his mouth one by one. Seeing the little mouth bulging and moving, Lian Qiao suddenly felt tenderness in his heart. He remembered what RenDong had said to him in the elevator.
What would you do if we had kids?
—if they had a child, he couldn’t imagine how he would pamper it. He will give it everything he can, and he will watch it grow up, grow into his and RenDong’s looks little by little. What a happy thing it should be….
If only they could have children…
Many absurd ideas flashed through Lian Qiao’s mind and some of them were illegal. But he immediately vetoed himself.
No matter how advanced the technology was, if he and RenDong wanted to have children, a third person would be necessary to intervene. And he absolutely couldn’t accept that.
He loved that child only because it was the continuation of his and RenDong’s life. What he cherishes most will always be RenDong. There is no room for a third person to intervene between them.
Let alone a woman, even if it’s just an egg!
Lian Qiao was so immersed in the joy of cutting off his children and grandchildren that he didn’t notice that a shrimp cracker had slipped from Xiao RenDong’s hand.
The principal had already gone out, she had to wash and dry clothes for the other children and was very busy. There were only Lian Qiao and RenDong in the room at this time.
Therefore, when Lian Qiao realized that something was wrong with Little RenDong, Little RenDong’s face was already purple and his little hands and feet were struggling.
Lian Qiao was shocked and his first reaction was to touch his forehead. Surprisingly, RenDong’s forehead was cool and he didn’t have a fever.
Lian Qiao was stunned, quickly put him on the bed, and called out to the principal. He didn’t dare to take half a step away from RenDong but he didn’t know what to do, so he could only desperately call for help.
Just a moment after he called for help, the little RenDong had already broken free from its swaddling clothes. The chubby hands and feet were constantly twisting in the air, he seemed to be in extreme pain and his little face was wrinkled into a ball. His lips were blue, obviously in a state of severe hypoxia.
Lian Qiao was at a loss, and almost cried, “What’s the matter with you? What’s the matter with you, RenDong, tell me!”
“Uh…uh…” Little RenDong struggled to make a sound from his throat. Too bad that doesn’t make a meaningful sentence at all. Lian Qiao still didn’t know what happened to him, only that he couldn’t breathe and was about to suffocate to death.
Why? Obviously there was no fever and no pneumonia, why is this happening?
Lian Qiao looked around in panic and finally found the half-pack of shrimp crackers thrown on the ground by Little RenDong.
—Was there something wrong with the shrimp crackers?
His first reaction was that the shrimp crackers were poisonous and the principal wanted to kill RenDong…but before RenDong ate the shrimp crackers, he had already tasted it! It was impossible for it to be poisonous!
What the hell is going on…
There was a chaotic sound of footsteps on the stairs. Lian Qiao thought it was the principal who came, and looked back expectantly, but what he saw was the group of useless teammates.
“What’s wrong with him?!” Seeing the accident of a key player, everyone was very nervous. They swarmed over to ask questions.
Lian Qiao said angrily: “Go to the principal quickly! Find her to save him!”
“Pat him on the back!”
Lian Qiao finally came to his senses, quickly hugged RenDong, and patted him on the back forcefully.
His small body swayed back and forth as he was patted but RenDong didn’t even cough. Instead he struggled and writhed in extreme irritability, heis face full of pain.
Lian Qiao was afraid that he would really suffocate to death if he continued to delay, so he didn’t care so much at the moment, he directly lifted RenDong upside down, lifted his two legs and shook vigorously, trying to dislodge what was stuck in his throat.
The few people around also knew the importance of the key player, so they hurriedly patted his backs together.
But no matter how hard everyone tried, RenDong didn’t spit out anything. His small mouth opened and closed, as if he wanted to speak, but he could neither make a sound nor cough.
Not even cry.
He could only writhe and struggle helplessly and instinctively, using all his body language to say two words:
Pain.
Little Apple’s face was pale at this time and she said anxiously: “What’s wrong with him, how could he be like this…”
Scarface sat on the ground directly, holding his head in a broken mood and shouting: ” It’s over, it’s over! He’s going to die! We’re going to die too!”
Everyone was silent and only Lian Qiao was still desperately patting him on the back.
Perhaps it was because of being upside down but RenDng’s purple face gradually swelled up. Lian Qiao felt that something was wrong, so he quickly put him down and let him lie flat on the bed. This didn’t make Little RenDong feel much better.
His cheeks were swollen like steamed buns and even his little lips were swollen and protruding, showing a strange color.
That lip color…was unique. The middle of the two lips is pale and swollen, but the outer circle is darker red, like a bad lip liner.
Lian Qiao was awakened by this strange change. He recalled a sentence that his mother, who was an emergency and critical care specialist, had mentioned by chance.
– Pale and edematous mucous membrane of the lips.
Pale edema… pale edema… what was it?
The surrounding noises and RenDong’s painful expression hindered Lian Qiao’s memory. He roared angrily “Stop arguing!” then picked up RenDong and rushed downstairs.
He can only go to the principal! Only the principal can do it! Only the principal can save him!
RenDong’s small body is as light as nothing in Lian Qiao’s hands and, even though he was one year old, he was still very thin. Lian Qiao took three steps in parallel, almost jumping down the stairs. He rushed out of the mansion and saw the principal drying the quilt outside the yard.
The outside of the yard –
No, no, no!
Little RenDong’s struggle became smaller and smaller, almost turning into intermittent twitching. The small face was wrinkled into a ball, like an ugly orange. Lian Qiao looked down at him, felt a sudden tug in his heart, stopped thinking about it, picked up RenDong and rushed towards the gate of the courtyard.
“Principal, hurry up—”
He just yelled when he suddenly felt that something grabbed his neck and stuck the words he wanted to yell in his throat.
Lian Qiao was startled and his figure suddenly stopped. He had a terrible premonition in his heart and, at the same time, he felt that RenDong seemed… to stop moving…
He couldn’t believe it was true. However, when his eyes slowly fell on RenDong’s face, the pale face that caught his eyes still ruthlessly tore out a big hole in his heart.
Not moving.
No more struggling, no more twitching, not even the heaving of that small chest.
Little RenDong’s tense expression finally relaxed, his eyelids drooped, revealing a little bit of white. His face and lips were so swollen that they were almost translucent, like water balloons that were about to burst.
At the same time, Lian Qiao felt something stuck in his throat, which made him want to cough, but he couldn’t cough it out.
He instinctively grabbed at his throat, trying to pull the thing out, but he still held the tiny corpse of RenDong in one hand and refused to let go. The thing in his throat seemed to be growing, and soon blocked his entire throat, making him unable to speak, unable to breathe, no matter how hard his chest heaved and his lungs tried, he couldn’t breathe even a little air–
Quickly the vision in front of his eyes blackened and he became dizzy.
The principal’s figure flashed past. She was still drying clothes outside the orphanage and didn’t notice the commotion over here.
Lian Qiao held RenDong’s body in his arms until he died, though the little body was red and swollen like a queer little pink giant.
At that moment, Lian Qiao suddenly remembered.
Oh, it’s laryngeal edema.
Pale lips and mucous membranes, and edema in the throat—it’s systemic edema caused by allergic anaphylaxis.
It’s unknown what the NPCs in this world are thinking. The children in the orphanage were very shy when they saw people last night but today they played with everyone familiarly.
RenDong was the key player in this dungeon but he does not represent the clearance itself. You still have to find buttons and elevators to clear the instance. Therefore, after eating, the players split up to explore the orphanage.
Lian Qiao remembered the honeysuckle flowers that the little girl had mentioned last night and carried Little RenDong into the yard. As soon as the sun hit his body, he felt hot, and only then did he realize that the snow in the yard had melted. It seems that the early spring has arrived overnight. Although the cold spring was still expected to be cold, it is not as harsh as the deep winter after all.
He didn’t have time to look at it last night and noticed that there were many flowers and plants planted in the yard at this time, but none of them had bloomed yet. He would never recognize something like honeysuckle if it wasn’t in bloom, so he simply gave up exploring and sat on a swing to bask in the sun with RenDong.
There were two or three other people in the yard, touching here and there, trying to find clues.
Lian Qiao was not in such a hurry to leave here as they were, so he swayed on the swing with Little RenDong in his arms. Little RenDong was coaxed to sleep by him and Lian Qiao himself was drowsy from the sun. There is a cool aroma unique to early spring in the air, which is a little intoxicating under the thin sunlight that happens to be everywhere.
When the mood was relaxing, a swear word suddenly burst out not far away.
“Fuck!”
Lian Qiao opened his eyes dissatisfied and his first reaction was to see if RenDong was scared. Fortunately, Little RenDong was wrapped tightly in swaddling clothes, with a ball of wool hat on his head, and his ears were blocked, so he was not frightened.
Lian Qiao looked at the source of the voice.
He saw a man with a scarred face standing at the door of western style house. He was the one who scolded “Fuck”.
On the other side, Little Apple was standing at the gate of the yard, originally facing the direction outside the door but when she heard the voice, she turned around suddenly, her face full of shock.
Lian Qiao walked over with Little RenDong in his arms: “What’s going on?”
“I don’t know!” Knife Scar’s face was full of flesh, but he couldn’t hide the horror in his eyes.
In contrast, Little Apple was much calmer, walked slowly from the courtyard door and said: “There is a problem with this courtyard. He wanted to go out just now but he disappeared as soon as he stepped out of the courtyard door. When he reappeared, he was at the door of the house.”
Transportation?
Lian Qiao nodded: “You hit the border of the map and was teleported back.”
Scarface: “???”
Little Apple understood and smiled sweetly: “I was just about to say that too.”
Scarface looked at Lian Qiao, then looked at Little Apple again and couldn’t help but say: “You two can still laugh? This house is ghostly! We are trapped!”
Lian Qiao shrugged: “This is not the first time I have seen a ghost, what am I afraid of? “
Little Apple: “Indeed.”
Lian Qiao: “Besides, there are ghosts outside, why go out?”
Little Apple: “That’s right.”
Scarface: “…” How about you two stop singing in tune with each other?
Little RenDong in Lian Qiao’s arms suddenly woke up. The thick eyelashes like a small fan fluttered a few times and his eyes wandered between Lian Qiao and Little Apple. In his infancy, where Lian Qiao could not see, RenDong quietly clenched his small fists.
Although he is not a lover of chorus singing, he still had to ‘enjoy’ Lian Qiao singing in front of him with others….
Hmmmph! If it wasn’t for my lack of teeth…
Little RenDong licked his gums, thinking depressingly: Why haven’t these teeth grown yet, it hurts so much. My gums are swollen.
Scarface told the rest of the house about his discovery. Most people are very calm because, after all, they are not newcomers, so it is not so easy to make a fuss. It was only then that Scarface realized that he was the most impatient of the group of people, he couldn’t help feeling he’d lost face and walked away with a dark expression.
Everyone exchanged information and found that there were no special clues in the bungalow. Don’t mention secret rooms or secret mechanisms, they didn’t even see a single ghost, which was disappointing.
“Anyway, we have to ensure that this child grows up safely.” The middle-aged woman who spoke was the one who appeared in the morning. She has long hair, so let’s call her Auntie Long-hair. The long-haired aunt leaned in front of Little RenDong, “Has he teethed yet?”
Lian Qiao sighed, “Not yet.” He had just looked at it and the bumps on Little RenDong’s gums were still there, and the gums were swollen, but the deciduous teeth didn’t look like they intended to sprout at all.
Was the only solution to cut open the gums? Why couldn’t you take some anti-inflammatory drugs first…
The long-haired aunt shook her head and vetoed his proposal: “What’s the use of anti-inflammatory drugs? His teeth won’t grow out and he will have a fever sooner or later. I don’t think that’s an improvement. You should find him something to grind his teeth with. Our child was like this when he was a child, the deciduous teeth never came out and the doctor said they had no choice but to cut the gums. I was reluctant so I just gave him teething biscuits.”
Lian Qiao hurried to ask the principal if she had any teething biscuits. The principal shook her head, and Lian Qiao just remembered that it is now 1993, how can raising a child be as expensive as it was in 2020, and even have teething biscuits? It’s good to even have something to eat.
Lian Qiao was depressed but the principal said: “There are no teething biscuits, but there are shrimp crackers.”
Shrimp crackers?!
Lian Qiao’s eyes lit up immediately and childhood memories flowed away like a flood.
That’s right! He ate this as a kid too! The so-called shrimp sticks were a kind of puffed food. They are not really made of shrimp meat, but they are just filled with shrimp powder, which has the umami taste of shrimp. He ate it as a snack as a kid.
The texture of the shrimp sticks is slightly hard, and the taste is good, which is perfect for grinding your teeth.
Lian Qiao immediately asked the director for shrimp crackers and fed them to RenDong.
Little RenDong’s gums were swollen uncomfortably, not to mention he wanted to get his teeth out as soon as possible so that he could sing in chorus with Lian Qiao, so he ate the shrimp crackers very cooperatively. He doesn’t have a single tooth, so he can only use his gums to grind a little bit. Although this process is a bit painful, RenDong is not afraid of pain.
Toothache is better than brain suppuration!
Lian Qiao hugged the little RenDong on his lap, and fed shrimp sticks into his mouth one by one. Seeing the little mouth bulging and moving, Lian Qiao suddenly felt tenderness in his heart. He remembered what RenDong had said to him in the elevator.
What would you do if we had kids?
—if they had a child, he couldn’t imagine how he would pamper it. He will give it everything he can, and he will watch it grow up, grow into his and RenDong’s looks little by little. What a happy thing it should be….
If only they could have children…
Many absurd ideas flashed through Lian Qiao’s mind and some of them were illegal. But he immediately vetoed himself.
No matter how advanced the technology was, if he and RenDong wanted to have children, a third person would be necessary to intervene. And he absolutely couldn’t accept that.
He loved that child only because it was the continuation of his and RenDong’s life. What he cherishes most will always be RenDong. There is no room for a third person to intervene between them.
Let alone a woman, even if it’s just an egg!
Lian Qiao was so immersed in the joy of cutting off his children and grandchildren that he didn’t notice that a shrimp cracker had slipped from Xiao RenDong’s hand.
The principal had already gone out, she had to wash and dry clothes for the other children and was very busy. There were only Lian Qiao and RenDong in the room at this time.
Therefore, when Lian Qiao realized that something was wrong with Little RenDong, Little RenDong’s face was already purple and his little hands and feet were struggling.
Lian Qiao was shocked and his first reaction was to touch his forehead. Surprisingly, RenDong’s forehead was cool and he didn’t have a fever.
Lian Qiao was stunned, quickly put him on the bed, and called out to the principal. He didn’t dare to take half a step away from RenDong but he didn’t know what to do, so he could only desperately call for help.
Just a moment after he called for help, the little RenDong had already broken free from its swaddling clothes. The chubby hands and feet were constantly twisting in the air, he seemed to be in extreme pain and his little face was wrinkled into a ball. His lips were blue, obviously in a state of severe hypoxia.
Lian Qiao was at a loss, and almost cried, “What’s the matter with you? What’s the matter with you, RenDong, tell me!”
“Uh…uh…” Little RenDong struggled to make a sound from his throat. Too bad that doesn’t make a meaningful sentence at all. Lian Qiao still didn’t know what happened to him, only that he couldn’t breathe and was about to suffocate to death.
Why? Obviously there was no fever and no pneumonia, why is this happening?
Lian Qiao looked around in panic and finally found the half-pack of shrimp crackers thrown on the ground by Little RenDong.
—Was there something wrong with the shrimp crackers?
His first reaction was that the shrimp crackers were poisonous and the principal wanted to kill RenDong…but before RenDong ate the shrimp crackers, he had already tasted it! It was impossible for it to be poisonous!
What the hell is going on…
There was a chaotic sound of footsteps on the stairs. Lian Qiao thought it was the principal who came, and looked back expectantly, but what he saw was the group of useless teammates.
“What’s wrong with him?!” Seeing the accident of a key player, everyone was very nervous. They swarmed over to ask questions.
Lian Qiao said angrily: “Go to the principal quickly! Find her to save him!”
“Pat him on the back!”
Lian Qiao finally came to his senses, quickly hugged RenDong, and patted him on the back forcefully.
His small body swayed back and forth as he was patted but RenDong didn’t even cough. Instead he struggled and writhed in extreme irritability, heis face full of pain.
Lian Qiao was afraid that he would really suffocate to death if he continued to delay, so he didn’t care so much at the moment, he directly lifted RenDong upside down, lifted his two legs and shook vigorously, trying to dislodge what was stuck in his throat.
The few people around also knew the importance of the key player, so they hurriedly patted his backs together.
But no matter how hard everyone tried, RenDong didn’t spit out anything. His small mouth opened and closed, as if he wanted to speak, but he could neither make a sound nor cough.
Not even cry.
He could only writhe and struggle helplessly and instinctively, using all his body language to say two words:
Pain.
Little Apple’s face was pale at this time and she said anxiously: “What’s wrong with him, how could he be like this…”
Scarface sat on the ground directly, holding his head in a broken mood and shouting: ” It’s over, it’s over! He’s going to die! We’re going to die too!”
Everyone was silent and only Lian Qiao was still desperately patting him on the back.
Perhaps it was because of being upside down but RenDng’s purple face gradually swelled up. Lian Qiao felt that something was wrong, so he quickly put him down and let him lie flat on the bed. This didn’t make Little RenDong feel much better.
His cheeks were swollen like steamed buns and even his little lips were swollen and protruding, showing a strange color.
That lip color…was unique. The middle of the two lips is pale and swollen, but the outer circle is darker red, like a bad lip liner.
Lian Qiao was awakened by this strange change. He recalled a sentence that his mother, who was an emergency and critical care specialist, had mentioned by chance.
– Pale and edematous mucous membrane of the lips.
Pale edema… pale edema… what was it?
The surrounding noises and RenDong’s painful expression hindered Lian Qiao’s memory. He roared angrily “Stop arguing!” then picked up RenDong and rushed downstairs.
He can only go to the principal! Only the principal can do it! Only the principal can save him!
RenDong’s small body is as light as nothing in Lian Qiao’s hands and, even though he was one year old, he was still very thin. Lian Qiao took three steps in parallel, almost jumping down the stairs. He rushed out of the mansion and saw the principal drying the quilt outside the yard.
The outside of the yard –
No, no, no!
Little RenDong’s struggle became smaller and smaller, almost turning into intermittent twitching. The small face was wrinkled into a ball, like an ugly orange. Lian Qiao looked down at him, felt a sudden tug in his heart, stopped thinking about it, picked up RenDong and rushed towards the gate of the courtyard.
“Principal, hurry up—”
He just yelled when he suddenly felt that something grabbed his neck and stuck the words he wanted to yell in his throat.
Lian Qiao was startled and his figure suddenly stopped. He had a terrible premonition in his heart and, at the same time, he felt that RenDong seemed… to stop moving…
He couldn’t believe it was true. However, when his eyes slowly fell on RenDong’s face, the pale face that caught his eyes still ruthlessly tore out a big hole in his heart.
Not moving.
No more struggling, no more twitching, not even the heaving of that small chest.
Little RenDong’s tense expression finally relaxed, his eyelids drooped, revealing a little bit of white. His face and lips were so swollen that they were almost translucent, like water balloons that were about to burst.
At the same time, Lian Qiao felt something stuck in his throat, which made him want to cough, but he couldn’t cough it out.
He instinctively grabbed at his throat, trying to pull the thing out, but he still held the tiny corpse of RenDong in one hand and refused to let go. The thing in his throat seemed to be growing, and soon blocked his entire throat, making him unable to speak, unable to breathe, no matter how hard his chest heaved and his lungs tried, he couldn’t breathe even a little air–
Quickly the vision in front of his eyes blackened and he became dizzy.
The principal’s figure flashed past. She was still drying clothes outside the orphanage and didn’t notice the commotion over here.
Lian Qiao held RenDong’s body in his arms until he died, though the little body was red and swollen like a queer little pink giant.
At that moment, Lian Qiao suddenly remembered.
Oh, it’s laryngeal edema.
Pale lips and mucous membranes, and edema in the throat—it’s systemic edema caused by allergic anaphylaxis.
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