"This bus is interesting?"
Wu Heng nodded and continued relaying his words to Su Bai. "I've been researching material related to vitality lately because of Mother's health. Information like that is extremely scarce in the Nightmare World. The subjects of the Red Moon don't seem interested in human vitality. Most of it came from humans who once lived beneath the Red Moon researching themselves, and much of that material was even destroyed when civilization collapsed... Still, I found some useful information in what remained. I also approached humans to conduct a few experiments."
"Some sort of breach has opened in Mother's body. What caused it and how to fill it remain unknown, but I have worked out a few things about how vitality flows through the human body. Put simply, it's a flow of power distinct from the power brought by the Red Moon, following a separate path. Humans seem to prefer calling it qi-blood. Mother's qi-blood has been abundant lately, so even though the breach hasn't been filled, she can regain consciousness frequently."
"But because that breach still exists, Mother's condition still can't improve completely."
"So the reason this bus is interesting is..." Su Bai listened in bewilderment as a certain Lord Ghost Shaman kept saying "Mother." He had never imagined someone could join a family so matter-of-factly without so much as batting an eye.
Perhaps it was because the other party wasn't human, and his exquisite doll head could conceal many subtle expressions.
Still, hearing Wu Heng say he had approached humans to conduct experiments reminded Su Bai of all the times he had appeared in the Nightmare Game as a player. It also reminded him of how Xiao Wu, his former shop assistant, had repeatedly promised to find a way to treat Su Bai's mother.
He had