nycdaug Chapter 120 One Joy, One Sorrow
Chapter 120 One Joy, One Sorrow
Li Chenglong arrived at Alice's place early in the morning and checked the warehouse base's situation through the monitoring computer. However, he didn't really need to check, as every corner of the warehouse base was under Alice's supervision. After chatting with Alice for a while, he went downstairs to his office. As soon as he entered, he saw Wang Xiao printing some materials. Seeing Li Chenglong come in, she handed him some documents. Li Chenglong smiled and said, "Sister Wang, I feel you're a bit too busy. You're the only one in the assistant's office now, and you have to be on duty every day, which means you don't have time to rest." Wang Xiao quickly replied, "Actually, it's not that hard. The busiest times are only the first hour or two after opening and when various departments submit reports in the evening." Li Chenglong nodded: "Okay then. If you feel too tired, I can recommend someone to help you. They can start working after we approve their application."
He then went inside and turned on his crystal computer. Several reports from various departments had already been sent to him, which Li Chenglong reviewed and responded to. A short while later, the internal phone on his desk suddenly rang. Li Chenglong was puzzled; this call was usually made in emergencies, but Alice hadn't raised any alarms. He answered the phone and heard Yang Liu's anxious voice on the other end: "Captain Li, I'm calling you from the research institute. Something terrible has happened! Captain Yun has fainted!" Li Chenglong jumped up: "What? What happened?" Yang Liu quickly explained, "Today, Captain Yun led us out of the city for training. We were in team practice when he suddenly fainted. We've rushed back now. Although he woke up shortly after, at our insistence, we took him to the medical department."
Li Chenglong let out a sigh of relief: "Good, you did the right thing. I'll be right there." He hung up the phone and went out. Wang Xiao stood up: "City Lord, are you going out?" Li Chenglong nodded: "Something came up, I need to go out for a bit. If anyone is looking for me, tell them to wait a little while." After saying that, he left.
As soon as Li Chenglong left the Dawn Building, he activated his full power and sped towards the medical department in the southwest, covering the six-kilometer distance in five minutes. Upon entering the medical department, Yang Liu, Zhao Liying, Han Xiaoling, and others were still waiting in the corridor. Seeing Li Chenglong enter, Han Xiaoling quickly stepped forward and said, "Brother, I don't know what happened to my sister-in-law today; she suddenly fainted. Sister Li Xue and several other doctors are examining her now." Yang Liu continued, "I immediately used my wood-type power to examine and treat Team Cloud, but they didn't find anything abnormal." Zhao Liying knocked on the examination room door and said, "Lord Li is here. Could you please open the door if it's convenient?"
Less than five seconds later, the examination room door opened, and Li Xue poked her head out, smiling as she said to Li Chenglong, "Brother, sister-in-law is fine now, come in quickly. Yang Liu and the others can come in too." Li Chenglong and his group of four went inside. They saw Yun Lan lying on the bed, looking at the doctors with a helpless expression: "I'm really fine, let me go. Do I look like a patient now?" Seeing Li Chenglong enter, Yun Lan jumped up from the bed, put on her slippers, and was about to run over. Li Chenglong quickly stepped forward to stop her: "Alright, lie down quickly and listen to what the doctor has to say."
Wang Guifang, the former chief physician of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of the First People's Hospital of Linhai City, smiled and said to Li Chenglong, "Lord Li, great news! Miss Yunlan isn't sick, she's pregnant, and judging from the situation, she's about a month along." Li Chenglong was somewhat surprised, then looked at Yunlan, who shyly covered herself with the blanket. Li Xue also smiled and said, "Yes, sister-in-law is pregnant, but it's strange that her spiritual energy flow is somewhat chaotic, and her strength isn't full. This is a problem, and I think it's related to her sudden fainting."
Yang Liu and the others were overjoyed to hear that Yun Lan was pregnant and rushed forward to offer their congratulations. Yun Lan sat up again: "Thank you all for your blessings, but I'm fine now, so please let me go. These days here have felt like an eternity—no, every second has felt like an eternity." Director Wang Guifang also said, "There are indeed no problems at the moment, but shouldn't we have the cause of your fainting checked thoroughly? I hope you can be transferred to a special ward for observation for a day." Yun Lan quickly waved her hand: "No, no, I'll go right now." She then kicked off her slippers, put on her own shoes, and grabbed Li Chenglong, rushing out. Wang Guifang could only smile helplessly and also left. Yang Liu and the others exchanged glances before also leaving.
The two walked out of Dawn City Hospital. Li Chenglong picked up Yunlan, gave her a light kiss on the lips, and then asked, "Did you already know you were pregnant? You should have told me sooner." Yunlan blushed slightly, "Yes, I only started to feel it a few days ago. My period didn't come this month, so I used the Phoenix Eye to check, and that's when I found out I was pregnant. But I don't know why my strength has been unstable since I got pregnant, and my spiritual energy has been fluctuating." Li Chenglong originally wanted to carry Yunlan back like this, but it would be a bit bumpy. Just as he was about to find a car, Yang Liu drove up, "Captain Li, get in the car first, I'll take you home."
Li Chenglong tried to help Yunlan into the car, but Yunlan shook her arm, saying, "I'm not eight or nine months pregnant, it's only been a little over a month." She then rushed into the car, leaving Li Chenglong speechless. Han Xiaoling, in the back seat, patted the seat to her right, saying, "Sister-in-law, come sit down." After Li Chenglong got in, the car slowly drove towards the Shuguang Building. Yang Liu and the others left only after Li Chenglong and Yunlan went upstairs. Han Xiaoling then went to the first floor of the Shuguang Building to borrow a phone and dialed the military camp.
The two didn't return to their own apartment but went to Alice's apartment on the eighth floor. While other people with superpowers had become pregnant before, none had experienced Yun Lan's situation, so Li Chenglong wanted to ask Alice what was going on. As soon as they entered, Alice appeared on the central computer: "Congratulations, Yun Lan, you're going to be a mother. And I know why you've come."
Alice gestured for the two to sit down, then slowly said, "Li Chenglong, Yun Lan, do you remember what I told you back then, and also about Long Ling and Xiao Feng? Even on our planet Meral, Awakened Ones are extremely rare. Compared to naturally evolved Awakened Ones like Li Xue, Han Xiaoling, and Zhao Liying, you are more like artificially modified evolved beings. Actually, I didn't explain it to you clearly before. When Yun Lan was infected, she wasn't originally an Awakened One, but was about to become a zombie. Princess Erica injected her with a drug, a potion concocted by Meral's strongest mage and composed of our planet's most advanced technology, the microcomputer. This drug instantly made Yun Lan an S-rank Awakened One, and the same goes for you, City Lord Li Chenglong. That potion is extremely rare; Meral spent over a decade producing only a small amount. There were only four vials in total. One was given to Princess Cecily, one to Princess Erica, and two to you."
Alice then stopped Li Chenglong from asking a question and continued, "Miss Erica has been hiding around you, observing your growth. But when you returned to Qing'an Town, to Miss Erica's utter surprise, under the guidance of Long Ling and Xiao Feng, these two psionic spirits, or electronic spirits, you not only fused your psionic energy into one, but also fused with your own psionic spirits. The awakening power of both of you also changed from S-level to SS-level. This has never happened before in the long history of our planet Meral. It is also something that Miss Erica and I have always wanted to achieve."
Li Chenglong asked in surprise, "Alice, are you Miss Erica's psionic spirit?" Alice nodded. "I am indeed Miss Erica's psionic spirit. I lied to you about my origins before, but that's not important. Yunlan, I have something important to tell you. Through my observation of you over this period of time, as your pregnancy progresses, your strength and psionic energy are gradually decreasing. I strongly suspect that your body is trying its best to concentrate your psionic energy in order to better nurture the child in your womb. This raises a serious problem: do you want to gradually lose your abilities for the sake of the child, and then slowly recover after giving birth, or do you want to abort the child? However, it is very difficult for awakened individuals to conceive, and I cannot guarantee that you will be able to have a second child in the future."
Yunlan bit her lip tightly, and Li Chenglong quickly asked, "Isn't there any solution?" Alice shook her head, "This is the first time I've seen this situation, and there's no way to help. Perhaps we could ask Miss Erica if she came, but she's not on Earth right now, and I can't communicate that far." Yunlan had made up her mind. She gently stroked her belly; it was only a little over a month, and her belly hadn't changed much, but she could still feel a life slowly growing inside her. Then she said, "I've decided. I must give birth to this child. I don't want to do anything I'll regret. It would be too cruel to lose the chance to be a mother because of this."
Li Chenglong hugged Yunlan tightly: "You don't need to do this, we don't have to..." Before Li Chenglong could finish speaking, Yunlan interrupted him: "Darling, you don't need to say anything. We understand each other perfectly, you can understand me, right?" Alice looked at the two of them and nodded: "Miss Yunlan, you don't need to worry too much. Miss Erica's mother was also an Awakened. Although she wasn't an Awakened like you, according to Miss Erica, her mother also experienced a decline in abilities during her pregnancy, but she returned to normal three months after giving birth."
The three chatted for a long time before Li Chenglong and Yun Lan finally came out. Yun Lan said happily, "Brother Long, we're having a baby! We must work hard for this child, protect our family, and protect Dawn City." Li Chenglong picked up Yun Lan and said, "Lan'er, you are the greatest." After discussing it, the two decided not to tell anyone about the dangers Yun Lan might encounter during her pregnancy. However, Yun Lan would gradually reduce her missions outside the city and only stay within the city.
That evening, many people came to visit Yunlan, especially Qin Fangyu, who was overjoyed to learn of her daughter's pregnancy. She said she would temporarily give up her work in a few months to focus on caring for her daughter. Yunqian and Shen Menghua brought many nutritional supplements, and the two little girls, Han Xiaoling and Cao Yuechan, were even considering whether it would be a boy or a girl, and what names to choose. The next day, Li Chenglong adjusted Yunlan's work schedule through Alice, canceling many of her outings and having them taken over by himself or others. Wang Xiao was delighted to learn of Yunlan's pregnancy and shared her own experiences during her pregnancy with her.