Chapter 59: Closing the Distance

Chapter 59: Chapter 59: Closing the Distance

Isabella held three mandarins in her arms, but she only gave Elijah one to eat. She stuffed the other two into his hands, advising:

"Only eat one per meal, otherwise you will break out in spots. We are growing this fruit on our family’s planet. Wait until the tree bears fruit, I will bring a great deal to you."

Elijah looked at the two beautifully colored orange-yellow fruits in his hands, asking in a small voice:

"Did you not sell the planet already?"

Isabella smiled, taking hold of his hand: "Our family still has another planet. It was abandoned a long time ago, so nobody remembered it."

Elijah’s throat choked up slightly. About a minute later he finally spoke again:

"The two of you... how did you live this past year?"

Isabella gently rubbed Elijah’s head, gently gazing at the face of the younger brother who had been by their side for seventeen years. She said with a smile:

"Very well. After selling the planet, I used that money to treat eldest brother’s illness. After that we found the certification book for planet Cygnus tucked inside the notebook Daddy left behind. Because it was too barren, everyone had forgotten it for years. We used the remaining money to terraform it, planting a few Sawtooth greens, enough to survive day by day."

Elijah lowered his head without speaking. He knew Benjamin’s Pheromone Disorder was an incurable terminal illness. The money from selling the planet previously and selling Sawtooth greens was certainly only enough to maintain medicine money for the older brother.

"He... does he treat you two well?"

The ’he’ in Elijah’s mouth was naturally Liam. Isabella hesitated for a moment, saying:

"Very well. He is very capable..."

Isabella did not speak clearly, nor did she dare praise Liam, fearing Elijah would be triggered. She took a lovely square box out of her spatial bracelet, placing it on Elijah’s bed:

"This is something I made for you with my own hands. I always kept it here, not knowing whether there would be a chance to send it to you or not. It is good now, I can hand it to you personally."

Elijah placed the two mandarins on the bedside cabinet, subsequently picking up the box and opening it. Inside was a bright orange color. Elijah blinked, taking this item out and unfolding it.

Inside were a sweater, a hat, and a scarf. All were coordinated according to an orange color scheme from light at the top gradually transitioning to dark at the bottom.

Despite always being in contact with all kinds of luxury goods this past year, upon seeing these items, Elijah’s eyes still brightened unconsciously. He fingered the loose-fitting men’s pullover sweater, loving it to the point of being unable to bear letting go.

"Did you make this yourself?" Elijah looked at Isabella in slight disbelief.

"Yes." Isabella nodded, her expression somewhat proud: "This is a hand-knitted sweater, I knitted it for five days to finish."

She pulled Elijah to stand up from the bed: "Come on, try it on for me to see if it fits. I made it according to your measurements from before, only fearing you grew fast so it would not fit."

Isabella helped Elijah put the sweater on, subsequently helping him put the hat on as well. The scarf was not suitable to wear right now so Isabella did not use it. The pajamas Elijah wore featured a shirt collar. Isabella pulled the shirt collar out to overlap the inner collar of the sweater.

Elijah’s entire person brightened noticeably. The light-colored sweater and hat combined with Elijah’s slightly curly hair along with a face still holding a bit of chubby roundness, made him look like a soft ball of fluff. Isabella looked on, her two eyes turning into heart shapes. Elijah looked at himself in the mirror, also feeling he looked truly different today.

He turned to look at Isabella with a complex gaze, asking in a low voice:

"Did you truly make this thing yourself?"

Isabella nodded proudly: "That is right, I made every single step myself!"

"How did you do it?" 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

Isabella immediately pulled Elijah’s hand onto the bed, dragging her pile of tools out, speaking endlessly:

"Come here and I will tell you. This is called a crochet hook, while this thing is a knitting needle. Both crochet hooks and knitting needles come in sizes from small to large similarly. The sweater you are wearing was knitted by me using this circular knitting needle. And this is yarn..."

Every item Isabella brought out, Elijah picked up attentively to examine. Isabella also cheerfully showed Elijah how to hold the needle and hold the yarn. The distance caused by the misunderstanding over a year between the two siblings was thus gradually pulled closer.

In the next room, Liam was eating every spoonful of porridge Benjamin fed him. Sleeping the entire afternoon, his spirit was also much better, his face no longer as pale as before either. Except for the initial period after falling into a deep sleep, when he was dragged into the soul space by Nirvana to be bombarded with curses for a full hour, Liam could be considered to have slept properly.

Regarding Nirvana’s fierce opposition to him telling the secret of his revival to Elijah, Liam only said one sentence that choked the system up. He said:

"Nirvana, despite replacing Liam to live his remaining life, I have no right to replace him in forgiving Elijah. The person hurt in this matter is not only Elijah but also the original owner. Even though Elijah is pitiful, he still has a chance to start over, while the original owner is dead. Elijah needs to know what kind of irreversible consequences his hatred created."

The blue cat stopped short, within its two eyes were lines of data running wildly. It seemed the data installed in it also did not tell it what to do in this case. Ultimately, the blue cat only left behind one sentence: "Up to you. If you are caught by people taking you away for dissection, I will not save you!" then kicked Liam out of the soul space.

Liam was utterly helpless. It was clearly his own soul space, yet this cat acted as though it were the master. However, he also knew clearly how dangerous the matter he spoke out was, especially when Mrs. Hall was also a staff member of the Research Institute. Liam did not know whether Mrs. Hall’s love for the original owner surpassed her desire for research or not.

He completely did not worry about Elijah selling him out. Regardless, he possessed sufficient ability to live alone by himself, not necessarily having to stay with the original owner’s family.

The month was almost over. Liam still had quite a few exchange turns left. After Benjamin left, Liam immediately opened the Cross-World Trading Hall system, beginning to exchange.

Today’s items, besides the old items, also included pumpkins, peeled mung beans, bagged Fami soy milk, and a picture dictionary on vegetables and fruits.

Liam clicked in to take a look out of curiosity. This dictionary surprisingly required up to fifty-two tubes of mid-grade medicine.

"That is a matter of course." Nirvana wagged its tail: "The Trading Hall system evaluates the setup of each world to determine the value of the item. What the host’s world lacks most is precisely primordial plants, therefore this dictionary commands such a high price."

It clicked its tongue: "By rights it should not be until the shop reaches level 3 that something like this dictionary appears. Perhaps because it is a red-colored shop, the system granted a special exception to let it pass."

Liam did not understand: "Compared to a dictionary, are seeds not more practical? And seeds are not even this expensive."

Nirvana shook its head: "Host must not forget, the Lumina Galaxy possesses up to thirteen primordial planets but the usable plants are pitifully few. It is entirely because the inheritance of plants in this world was severed. This dictionary, speaking bluntly, is precisely a part of the inheritance, its significance extremely immense."

Liam fell silent. He put this dictionary into the exchange list, but after receiving it, he tore it into individual pages then told Nirvana to make it look truly old. He selected the dictionary pages regarding the types of seeds he had exchanged to leave outside, keeping the rest inside the system inventory.

Nirvana’s two eyes gradually lit up, its tail wagging endlessly: "Host, you intend to use these dictionary pages to legitimize the new crops on planet Cygnus, do you not? Borrowing the excuse that it is because you were lucky to obtain several pages of an ancient book?"

Liam smiled: "That is right. Waiting for an opportunity, I will scatter the remaining picture pages in the ruins, that way the green civilization of this world can be restored."

Nirvana meowed once, praising its host as smart for the first time.

After exchanging all ten turns for today, Liam looked at the pumpkins and peeled mung beans in the inventory, saying with craving: "I crave pumpkin cakes so much. Sesame-fried pumpkin cakes, pumpkin steamed buns, baked pumpkin cakes..."

Nirvana: "..."

Nirvana: "Host, your saliva is flowing all over your face over there. Too unhygienic!"