Chapter 36: Can Be Considered a Child from the Snowy Mountains

Chapter 36: A Child from the Snow Mountain

After Yi Fengchu and his group of students left Bee Ant Village, they were treated to the highest level of medical care and protection.

Throughout their journey back from Linhe County to University A, security personnel escorted their vehicle, providing a protective escort;

It was said that upon their return to University A, they would be arranged to stay at the best-equipped hospital in the area, with a free comprehensive health check-up provided for everyone.

This made the students feel greatly honored, exclaiming with delight, "The benefits now are really great," and much of the fear from the recent dangerous incident began to dissipate.

Only Yi Fengchu understood that these measures were not just for protection and reassurance—

They were also out of necessity for observation.

As per routine, the Anomalous Affairs Bureau would secretly observe survivors of contamination-level incidents for at least a week, constantly on guard against the possibility that they might unknowingly be tainted by malevolent entities, ultimately bringing disaster to more ordinary people.

After consuming the Moth God, Yi Fengchu's senses became even sharper, particularly his vision.

At night, he could see thermal images like a snake adept at ambushing prey in the wild, clearly outlining the contours of objects.

During the day, the cautious gazes that occasionally fell upon them from all directions were like spotlights in the dark, strikingly evident in Yi Fengchu's eyes.

Yi Fengchu certainly did not enjoy being constantly disturbed by these gazes, but fortunately, these looks seemed to avoid him, either subtly or overtly. Even when they inadvertently met his gaze, they would quickly shift away, preventing Yi Fengchu from feeling overly annoyed.

The only incident occurred at a rest area along the way.

At that time, Yi Fengchu turned into a convenience store, picked up a bottle of mineral water from the shelf, and noticed that the cashier opposite him was a disguised Ability user.

So, as Yi Fengchu handed over the bottle of mineral water, he couldn't help but ask:

"Are you observing me?"

He could swear his attitude couldn't be any more amiable—yet the smile on his face appeared sinister, dark, and terrifying to the opposite Ability user, as if it were linked to extreme danger.

There was a clatter as the Ability user's hand trembled, causing the mineral water bottle to roll off the table.

"I, we, no..."

The Ability user shook his head in panic, unconsciously retreating slowly, as if the smiling young man with black hair would transform into a monster from a nightmare at any moment, ready to bite off his head.

Yi Fengchu reached out to steady the water bottle that was about to fall under the table, trying to reassure him, "Forget it, I was just asking casually. Go ahead and settle the bill."

After that day, Yi Fengchu noticed that the number of Ability users observing them had drastically decreased, leaving only two who took turns, and these two kept their eyes straight ahead, as if afraid they might see something they shouldn't.

Thus, they proceeded calmly forward, returning to A University.

...

In an office at the hospital.

The large desk was covered with detailed health reports of those students.

Jiang You and Meng Siyou stood before the desk, carefully examining each report. Confirming that apart from Wang Lin, none of the ordinary people seemed to have grown organs not belonging to humans, they breathed a slight sigh of relief.

"It seems ‘that one’ has no ill intentions toward humans and might even have deliberately controlled their power, avoiding affecting them... This should be the best news we could hope for."

After this reflection, the two official Ability users stared at Yi Fengchu's report for a long time, neither making a move.

Meng Siyou tentatively asked in a weak voice, "Shall we... still look at this?"

"..."

Relying on the extraordinary vitality and recovery abilities of an ability user, Jiang You had just regrown a pair of normal eyes. He certainly didn’t want to have one eye explode again.

Yi Fengchu’s glance had almost become a psychological shadow that Jiang You found hard to overcome in the short term.

Just thinking about him, Jiang You was almost pulled back to that painful moment—

His eyes seemed to be thrown into a raging fire, splitting apart, with pus and blood gushing out from the sockets. His mind felt as if it had been struck by a heavy hammer, twisting, shattering, and emitting silent cries of agony...

Jiang You even thought that compared to the terror and pain of facing a superior in his domain, death might seem much gentler.

Thus, Jiang You cherished his eyelids, gently touching his intact eyeballs, and muttered, “Not looking at all would seem irresponsible, but looking might not be good either... What if he finds others’ prying particularly offensive?”

After much deliberation, he decided, “Xiao Meng, you can take a few glances, but make sure not to use any abilities or tools. Just look at the basic information; it should be fine, otherwise doctors and nurses wouldn’t be able to complete their examinations safely.”

Meng Siyou’s lips twitched as he quickly scanned the ultrasound results, “Everything looks normal, no issues detected. The heart, liver, and lungs are all in their proper places.”

Hearing this, Jiang You suddenly fell into deep thought.

After a long while, Jiang You’s surprised voice rang out, “...He actually has a heart?”

“Captain, why did you think he didn’t have a heart?”

Meng Siyou put down the health report, feeling puzzled, “We went to high school together, and we definitely went through various medical check-ups. If he didn’t have a heart, he would have been reported as an abnormal being long ago.”

Jiang You absentmindedly touched his eyelid, recalling, “Because when I looked at him, there were four intertwined ouroboros in his chest, rotating and entwining where the heart should be…”

“This made me think that, as a divine descendant, his heart was different from that of a normal human right from the start.”

Meng Siyou fell silent for a moment, then speculated, "Perhaps because you are also within the domain of fate, you can see his essence more clearly."

"After three years as classmates, I now feel as if I never truly knew him—no, perhaps even he himself knows very little about his uniqueness."

Meng Siyou continued to flip through Yi Fengchu's medical records.

Unconsciously, he went from the most recent reports all the way back to the old, yellowed documents from many years ago.

'On November 6, 2002, Yi Fengchu registered his household in the A City police station, father unknown, mother registered as Yi Meishan from the xx district of A City.'

"Wait a moment..."

Meng Siyou suddenly thought of a question: "Why is there no birth information?"

"In which hospital, at what specific time was he born, and who was the doctor who delivered him? Why are these basic details not recorded at all?"

There was only the household registration information, as if Yi Fengchu had sprung from a stone, having never gone through the process of being conceived, appearing in the world for the first time as an infant...

Jiang You's expression turned serious: "Actually, I wanted to ask from the beginning, why does he have a 'mother'?"

The ways in which deities leave their lineage are numerous, and the relationship between them and their offspring differs from that of humans.

So in Jiang You's initial guess, the "narrator" should be both father and mother to Yi Fengchu.

Given that Yi Meishan's life history is clear and she is obviously an ordinary person, why did she receive such an "honor" to be acknowledged as the mother of a divine child?

After a long pause, Meng Siyou subconsciously adopted his usual investigative attitude: "Yi Meishan's medical records should be available at the hospital..."

"Stop," Jiang You shook his head at him, "You've forgotten again, we shouldn't conduct any investigations without his consent; it might be considered a violation."

"What we need to do is simply attempt to engage in a friendly and gentle conversation with him, as long as safety is guaranteed."

Meng Siyou raised an eyebrow and joked, "Like we're dealing with something fragile?"

"No," Jiang You sighed helplessly. "Our world is the fragile one—if we screw up with Yi Fengchu's situation, 'that one' might just blow us all up."

"So, let's be careful—really careful."

...

Yi Fengchu and his classmates had just finished their medical check-ups and returned to their rooms under the nurses' watch, resting while waiting for their final results.

Whether by chance or design by the Anomalous Affairs Bureau, Yi Fengchu was assigned the only single room, which made him feel comfortable and at ease.

After lounging around most of the day, Yi Fengchu began to feel a bit bored, so he left his ward and just wandered around.

As he passed by an oncology clinic, Dr. Liu, on duty, had left the door open as he rested with a U-shaped pillow.

Spotting Yi Fengchu from a distance, Dr. Liu suddenly jumped up from his seat and greeted him way too enthusiastically, "Hey! Is that Xiao Yi? You look familiar..."

Yi Fengchu had always been polite to elders.

He stopped and politely made small talk, watching Dr. Liu's bald head bounce excitedly before his eyes.

After the usual small talk—"Do you remember me?" and "I held you when you were little"—Dr. Liu cautiously got to the point: "Xiao Yi, how’s your mom been doing lately?"

Yi Fengchu was puzzled. "She's always been in good health. In recent years, she's been traveling abroad."

"Oh, that’s great, really great."

Dr. Liu said wistfully. "Many years ago, she was diagnosed with a tumor in my department, and her condition kept worsening. We thought she wouldn’t last more than two years... Yet here we are, over two decades later—you’ve grown up, and she’s thriving."

A bad feeling suddenly hit Yi Fengchu, and his expression turned serious. "Can you tell me more about this tumor?"

"You really had no idea?" Dr. Liu was astonished. "It must have been around twenty years ago..."

Thirty minutes later, Yi Fengchu left the oncology department with a few folded-up medical records in hand.

Back in his single room, he sat down and carefully examined his mother’s old case files.

As he read, his face slowly went blank.

*‘September 10, 2002: Yi Meishan was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor at A City People’s Hospital, Oncology Department, under Dr. Liu. The condition continued to deteriorate, and the attending physician was not optimistic.’*

As far as Yi Fengchu knew, he was born on November 6—which meant, by that time, Yi Meishan should have been at least six months pregnant.

But according to her medical reports, none of her numbers looked like a woman about to give birth.

It was more like... she’d never been pregnant—or at least not with him.

Yi Fengchu suddenly recalled a childhood memory: walking home from school, he had once curiously asked about his father.

His mother had smiled and replied, "Our Xiao Yi can be thought of as a child from the snowy mountains—why not think of the mountains as your dad?"

As he grew older, Yi Fengchu lost interest in uncovering the identity of his absent biological father and never asked such questions again.

Back then, he’d figured his mom was just joking around like always. But now...

Was he actually some kind of weird creature—or even something not alive—just ‘born’ out of nowhere?