Reborn One Week Before the Apocalypse

Chapter 257: Chapter 247: Farewell

Tang Mo felt helpless, but she still needed the Life Energy Pearl.

Da Jing’s mouth was surprisingly odorless. Tang Mo willed her body to sink down and stand inside it.

As it was a more docile type of whale, Da Jing’s mouth was completely toothless.

To Tang Mo, the space was as vast as a huge platform—the kind one could run and dance on.

However, the entire space was covered in gullies of pink flesh, a truly unsettling sight. Finding a tiny pearl in here would not be an easy task.

But Tang Mo always found a way.

She extended her spiritual power. While she couldn’t normally sense various attributes, an object with such concentrated energy as the Life Energy Pearl was something she could faintly detect, especially at this close range.

The space was vast for a person, but for her unfurled spiritual power, it was quite small.

Tang Mo quickly found the pearl in a crevice.

The pearl was wedged in a crevice. Tang Mo reached in, retrieved it, and placed it in her Space.

She planned to wait until she was back on land to use the totem to absorb the pearl into her body.

’After all, she already had the pearl. What harm was there in waiting a little longer?’

”Alright, you found it. If there’s nothing else, you should go. I’m going to play.”

Once it knew Tang Mo was out of its mouth, Da Jing impatiently dismissed her.

It had to cherish its hard-won freedom. Not a single second could be wasted.

’How pragmatic,’ Tang Mo thought. She said her goodbyes, quickly returned to the surface, found the small boat she had arrived in, and began rowing back.

It was only on the way back that she had a thought. ’Since I can control my spiritual power to move freely in the water, why did I even bother rowing a boat?’

’I could have just dived in from the village shore.’

But it was obviously too late for that now. She had borrowed the boat from Da Yu’s house, so she naturally had to return it.

When Tang Mo got back to Da Yu’s house, she found the whole family sitting in the courtyard, talking joyfully.

Having not seen her parents for a year, Xiao Yu didn’t remember them at all.

She had been too young back then, after all. Da Yu’s mother held Xiao Yu in her arms, unwilling to let go for even a second, constantly teaching her to say ”daddy” and ”mommy.”

Her two children were the only reason she had survived the past year.

Motherhood makes one strong. That saying was never wrong.

Tang Mo said hello and went back to her room. After changing her clothes, she sat on the bed and told Jingjing to guard the door and let no one enter.

She took out the pearl, then mentally reviewed the totem she had just obtained several times.

Then, she tried to condense her spiritual power into the shape of the totem and touch the pearl.

Tang Mo had experience from absorbing the Spirit Power Pearl, so she absorbed this Life Energy Pearl into her sea of consciousness with ease.

A tiny pearl was now shining within Tang Mo’s golden sea of consciousness.

Getting it into her sea of consciousness was one thing, but completely fusing with the pearl was no easy task.

Her previous fusion with the Spirit Power Pearl had also happened by a stroke of luck.

She remembered it had happened last time when her spiritual power was completely depleted, triggering a rebound.

’So what about this time?’

If her Life Force were completely depleted, she’d be saying goodbye to this world for good. That was definitely not a good method.

But Tang Mo wasn’t in a hurry. Panicking wouldn’t solve anything.

Instead, she had to wait patiently for the right opportunity.

Besides, now that she had the pearl, she no longer had to worry about someone else getting to it first. Her focus should shift to finding the next totem.

This trip to Donglin City had been very fruitful for Tang Mo.

Not only had she obtained the Life Energy Pearl, but she had also discovered a pattern that no one else knew—the biggest secret of all.

The locations where the totems and pearls appeared were intrinsically linked. If you found a totem, you could naturally find the corresponding pearl nearby.

Moreover, the first pearl had appeared in a desert, and the second at the bottom of the sea...

Considering the locations indicated by the next few totems she held, Tang Mo was beginning to see a pattern.

For now, only she knew where the totems were, giving her a significant advantage over everyone else.

At this moment, Tang Mo felt more confident than ever about the path that lay ahead.

’Perhaps I really can gather all five pearls and become the one who stands against the unknown disaster.’

For the first time, Tang Mo felt this kind of confidence in herself.

With her business concluded, it was time to say goodbye.

Tang Mo first bid farewell to Da Yu’s family. Da Yu had already been shouldering the responsibility of the man of the house, taking care of his little sister.

Now that their parents were back, the family would surely have a better and better life.

She also planned to go say goodbye to Sister Lai and Uncle Bao.

For some reason, Tang Mo felt a compulsion to properly say goodbye to the people she met by chance.

It was as if she had met too many people in her past life whom she never saw again because she hadn’t said goodbye. So, in this life, Tang Mo wanted to give everyone—aside from her family and loved ones—a proper farewell, treating each one as if it were the last.

When Tang Mo arrived at Sister Lai’s house, she saw Sister Lai and Uncle Bao in the courtyard, playing with the little toddler.

The toddler, a little over a year old, was just learning to say simple words and walk. It was the most adorable age.

”Xiao Baozi, come to Mama.”

Sister Lai held out her arms, wanting the child to walk into her embrace.

Xiao Baozi was the new name she had given the child.

Tang Mo looked at the family of three, a picture so perfect it seemed this was how things were always meant to be.

She suddenly thought of that arrogant woman, the one who had met her end in the depths of the sea.

The child was only one, still at an age where he wouldn’t form lasting memories. When he grew up, he would likely never remember that he had a biological mother like her.

In all likelihood, the child would go his entire life without ever knowing the secret.

’Perhaps this is for the best,’ Tang Mo thought with a sigh.

The world was unpredictable, and nothing was ever simply black or white.

She wasn’t God; she had no way of defining what was right and what was wrong.

She just found it all deeply poignant.

Fate always enjoyed its little jokes, like letting a gorgeous robe of life become infested with lice.

People could smile happily, but only they truly knew their own hardships.

How could Sister Lai not be aware of all this?

After all, the child had been calling Uncle Bao ”Daddy” from the very first day.

Tang Mo stood outside the courtyard for a moment. She didn’t push the gate open to go inside, but instead turned and walked away.