Chapter 442 - Irrational Hate (2/2)
The cloth was just there to hold the spirit stones and transfer the Qi through the air. Apparently, it was made up of beast hides for fluid energy transfer.
The better the cloth was, the further apart the formation flags could be.
Alex was quite happy when he learned that he didn't have to worry about making the cloth and only needed to worry about carving the formation.
'Thank god, I just need the formation blueprint,' Alex thought.
”Nephew Huang, can you come with me for a second,” Shi Nangong called Xiao Huang and he left. Alex could guess why that was.
'Uncle must be looking at brother Huang as one of the people to transfer Qi,' Alex thought.
”Do you want to continue?” Luo Xing asked.
”Um… sure, but don't you want to go look if Uncle is fine?” Alex asked.
Luo Xing smiled and shook her head. ”Mei'er wouldn't want me there most likely. She still hates me quite a bit,” she said.
”Um… can I ask why? if you don't mind,” Alex said.
”Uh... sure, it's stupid really. Most would say she's in the wrong here, but I think it's okay for her to be angry at me,” Luo Xing said.
”When I was little… I was contracted with a rather fatal illness. It…was horrible, but the illness didn't affect children as fast, so I was still mostly okay.”
”Mothers took care of me one after another, day after night, and reared me. They did it so much so that… Mei'er couldn't even see mothers for most of the days.”
”Father brought in doctors to check what was wrong, and they found the problem rather easily. Except, the cure wasn't so easy to come by.”
”It needed a special ingredient… hah, I don't even remember the name of it anymore,” Luo Xing said as she shook her head.
”The ingredient was rather rare and hard to find, so father took some men and went into the Southern forest to search for it.”
”He spent days in there looking for the ingredients. He was motivated to save me. Unfortunately, one day… mother, Mei'er's mother contracted the illness too,” Luo Xing's eyes were starting to fill with tears.
”When father came back, happy with the single ingredient, after many days, he returned home to see both mother and me on the deathbed.”
”The illness…” Luo Xing's tears started dripping down her cheeks. Her lips quivered as she forced herself to speak. ”Mother looked so frail back then. I… I wished she had used the pill on herself.”
”But she chose…” Luo Xing started crying. ”She chose to give the single pill to me.”
”I was cured, but mother…”
Luo Xing didn't continue and just sobbed. Alex could feel the sadness in her voice.
Just as Luo Mei loved Shi Nangong, Luo Xing loved Luo Mei's mother too. However, there was no way a child could love a mother more than the mother could love her child.
”I'm sure she was happy when you got the pill,” Alex said.
”She was, I don't doubt it. She told it to me herself. But…” Luo Xing said. ”But it hurts when I remember back that… that the reason mother died was because of me.”
Alex sat quietly while Luo Xing sobbed. ”But that doesn't mean that Sister should hate you,” he said.
Luo Xing sniffed while wiping her tears. ”Since mother and I were kept in the same room, most people stopped visiting us in fear of contracting the illness.”
”Mei'er, who was already having little time with mother, stopped getting to meet her after she fell ill.”
”Even when… when mother died, even then she couldn't meet her in fear of contracting the illness.”
”Really the only time she saw mother after I got ill was… perhaps her covered body in the funeral.”
”Even then… Mei'er couldn't go close to her. I got ill, and mother got ill. We both went into a single room for containment and when I came out okay, mother did not.”
”To the young Mei'er, when the adults tried explaining what was happening, she started blaming me for taking away mother.”
”At least… I got to say goodbye to mother before she died. Mei'er, however, didn't even get that.”
”So, while I think the hate is completely irrational and I don't deserve it… I also think that she's not in the wrong with hating me,” Luo Xing said.
”Perhaps… one day she might choose to call me sister again. But until then… I will just have to wait,” Luo Xing said with a sad smile.
”I'm… sorry for making you remember that,” Alex said.
”Don't be,” Luo Xing smiled meekly. ”It had been a while since I thought of mother again. It's… good to know that I still have memories of her.”
”You know what they say, a person is not gone as long as you can remember them,” Luo Xing said; her mood getting better. She wiped away whatever remaining tears she had.
”Since you helped me remember mother and are helping father right now, I will leave you with one information about Formations that you likely won't find from any books,” Luo Xing said as she looked around.
Alex immediately sent out his spiritual sense to see if anyone was listening.
”It's kind of a secret… so I hope you don't tell it to anyone,” Luo Xing said and came close to whisper.
”You don't need a metal base to make a formation.”