Chapter 834: Give Me An Answer (II)
Lu Yu did not wait for her answer. Instead, he pressed on, "Do you really need special medicines to preserve your medicines?"
"That..." Shen Zhen wanted to say that it was not the case, but before she could say another word, Lu Yu knelt down on the floor. His gaze was fixated on her belly. It was as if he could see the child already. Seeing him look so helpless, Shen Zhen could not help but feel a bit sad. Because she wanted to abort the child, she never wanted to think about the child. But seeing the grief in the eyes of Lu Yu, she could not help but feel sorry.
Earlier, Lu Yu was filled with glee, as if he had received the world’s greatest joy. Now looking at his eyes, which were filled with dread and helplessness, Shen Zhen felt her heart sting. She could not help but suck in a breath because it hurt too much.
Maybe she should have listened to Bai Meiyue. She should have told the truth to Lu Yu earlier. At least that way, she no longer had to worry about looking at Lu Yu’s lifeless appearance.
"Why didn’t you tell me?" Lu Yu asked with a hint of anger in his voice. If she had told him—however, as soon as this thought came to his mind, he paused. What was he even going to do? What could he even do?
He raised his hands and covered his face with them. What was he going to do now? The pain that he was going through at the moment was something that he could not even explain. It was so excruciating that he wished for it to end, but it was as if he had been placed in a pot and was being slowly boiled.
The last time he shed tears was when his parents died; after that, he had never shed a single tear. But now he just wanted to cry. He raised his head and looked at Shen Zhen with red eyes. "I should at least know about this."
Shen Zhen sighed heavily. "It would have been better if you had had no idea that I was pregnant. What you don’t know ...it won’t hurt you."
Lu Yu shook his head. "Tell me the truth. How serious is the matter? And how can we protect this child?"
Seeing that the woman was still staying quiet, Lu Yu could only take her hands into his. With a pleading gaze, he said to her, "Please... as the father of this child...I should at least know the truth about my own child, right?"
When Shen Zhen saw the look in the man’s eyes, her heart could not help but tremble. She pursed her lips and replied, "Seven months. If there are no emergencies." She sucked in a breath and then continued, "And then there is the matter of bed rest. I need to lie on the bed without long surgeries, or else I will put the baby in danger. Unfortunately, how can I rest when there are still pregnant women waiting for me to take care of them?"
This was also the reason why Shen Zhen was unwilling to keep the child. She was in charge of saving the lives of others; if she went on complete bed rest, what would happen to the women who were waiting for her to save them? She also wanted to believe Bai Meiyue. She hoped that her child would get stronger with the passing of time, but who could be sure about it?
As someone who listened to her grandmother lament about the fact that she had a cold body and she might never be able to give birth to a child. She finally had a child, but she could not keep the child.
Now that Lu Yu was here, Shen Zhen knew that she could no longer abort. However, with the scarcity of the stabilising drug, how was she going to keep this child? What was more, could she send Lu Yu to bring her medicines even when she knew that there was a scarcity of people to fight for the safety of the safe base? These problems of lack of medicines were not easy to deal with in the first place, and even if she sent them away, would they be able to bring the medicines back in time?
"I will...I will go with someone and bring the medicines as soon as possible."
Lu Yu had his head lowered, with his fists tightly clenched; he sucked in a breath and then out. Earlier, he was floating in the clouds, and now he was pushed into the abyss before he could even fully stomach what was happening around him.
However, before he could say anything more, Lu Yu heard Shen Zhen say, "Then if you take teams around with you, will Bai Meiyue be the only one taking care of the safe base, right? What if something happens to her? How will you tell the truth to Lei Qian? Will you be able to look him in the eyes and tell him that you left his wife alone when she needed you the most?"
"But this is our child!"
Unable to understand why Shen Zhen was so calm, Lu Yu could not help but lose his temper with her. Why was this woman so calm, even though their child was about to lose his or her life?
"Yes, but can you tell Lei Qian that you failed in keeping his child safe?"
"His child will be fine! After all, he had never faced such a thing before. How could he suffer through the same things as our child? Bai Meiyue will be fine."
"Basically, you want to put everyone’s life in danger— do you think that I am just worried about Bai Meiyue and Lei Qian’s child? This safe base is relying on you, ability users. If you all leave, then who will protect the safe base? Or are you hoping for Bai Meiyue, a pregnant woman, to take care of it all? She is sensitive and pregnant. She cannot see things thoroughly but you can! How can you be so stupid?"