Early in the morning, Lin Huanyan woke up at 7 AM. She had been so busy lately with her store and the base that she hadn’t had a chance to sleep in.
As usual, she opened the smart brain and went to check the store reviews.
The previous products had all been delivered, and now she was most looking forward to seeing everyone’s feedback.
Unlike the empty review section from the previous two days, today there were noticeably more reviews.
Lin Huanyan changed the review order to start from the first one.
“The watermelon tastes really good, and the effects are great. After eating a piece, I felt like my whole being was elevated.”
“The delivery was fast, and the lotus bowl seeds have been planted. I’m looking forward to them sprouting. If the effect is good, I’ll come back for a follow-up review.”
“The watermelon is so delicious, even better than the fruit I’ve had in interstellar restaurants, and the effect is great too. Even though I don’t have any mental disorders, I feel like I’ve been cleansed. It’s so refreshing, highly recommend.”
“I am a researcher, and I have tested it with instruments. It is truly zero pollution, and the results are excellent. One could even say it’s top-tier interstellar quality. If I weren’t so passionate about mechs, I might have gone to work in my boss’s lab.”
“Forget about the above. Boss, look at me. I’m a genuine student of the Imperial University, majoring in Interstellar Botany. I can work for you for free, just provide me with enough watermelon.”
“I’m really grateful for the boss’s product. My father was critically ill, and I spent all the money in the family to buy the shrimp egg package from the store, hoping for one last shot. It didn’t disappoint, the result was great. After the brine shrimp hatched, they successfully helped stabilize my father’s collapsing mental strength, and he was saved. I’m really thankful to the boss.”
……
There were many comments, most of them praising the watermelon, as it shows results faster. A few comments were about the lotus bowl and brine shrimp.
Lin Huanyan read carefully and liked the comments, but what moved her most was the one about saving the father.
This comment was from Po Qing from Poyang Star, who borrowed Gan Lin’s smart brain to post this comment.
On that day, after Po Qing placed the brine shrimp, carrying his last hope, beside his father’s bed, he didn’t leave.
Instead, he sat in a chair, staring at the bottle filled with brine shrimp eggs, waiting for the final result.
After sitting for more than ten hours, finally, a tiny life was born.
Among the dark brine shrimp eggs, one suddenly lightened in color, no longer black but turning slightly yellow.
A tiny creature began swimming in the bottle, moving up and down, left and right, signaling its existence.
Po Qing stared at this little life without blinking, fearing it might disappear if he lost focus.
Slowly, the black eggs decreased, and the yellow ones increased, until the bottle was filled with tiny lives.
Po Qing stared for a while longer, until no more new lives emerged.
He extended his faint mental energy toward the bottle to test it, and a warm, soothing feeling spread through him. His weary mental energy immediately felt much better.
The effect was excellent, and Po Qing felt much brighter inside.
He didn’t dare test it further, fearing that if he used the effect on himself, his father would lose the opportunity.
Carefully, he held the bottle and brought it closer to his father.
He gently tugged at his father’s thin hand.
“What’s wrong? A’qing.”
The gaunt middle-aged man tried to move his lips to speak. He knew his son was very considerate, especially since he had been ill. Normally, he wouldn’t disturb him unless there was an insurmountable problem.
Now, he must have encountered something he couldn’t solve.
Even in his current condition, this suffering man still couldn’t stop worrying about his son, trying to help him solve his problems.
“Dad, I found a new medicine, it works really well. Would you like to try it?”
Po Qing looked at his father, full of hope.
Po Li, Po Qiong’s father, sighed inwardly when he heard his son’s words. He knew his son hadn’t given up.
But he knew his own condition—his body was failing, and his mental strength had collapsed. Even the doctors had determined that it was an incurable condition. What could his child do?
But in order to ease his son’s heart, Po Li still did as he was told. He tried to summon what little mental strength he had left from the collapsed mental sea and reached out to the bottle his son was holding.
This action was difficult for him. His collapsed mental energy caused intense pain with even the slightest movement, but Po Li still did it, even though he was sweating from the pain.
Mental energy threads were invisible, only the owner could feel them.
It took Po Li a whole hour to extend a thread of mental energy to the opening of the bottle. Even though the bottle was pressed close to his head, there was still a short distance between them.
He was even surprised he could do it, considering that when his mental energy first collapsed, he couldn’t even extend a thread.
Later, after enduring the pain for a long time and getting used to it, his adaptability increased, and he could barely extend a little. Today, he wasn’t sure if it was just his imagination, but it didn’t hurt as much, and he successfully extended the thread of mental energy.
There was just one final step left. Po Li used his last bit of strength to guide the mental energy thread into the water in the bottle.
Suddenly, something strange happened. The brine shrimp larvae, which had been swimming randomly without any pattern, all swam to the center and stopped.
In less than a minute, all the larvae had gathered in the middle of the bottle, forming a small cylindrical shape, as if a thread was pulling them together.
Po Qing couldn’t understand what was happening, but he knew that this meant the larvae in the bottle were working to heal his father.
Because Po Li, who had been sweating coldly just moments before, now looked much more relaxed, his expression even showing a hint of enjoyment.
Po Li indeed felt some enjoyment at that moment.
He never expected that, when he was just trying to ease his son’s worry, the moment he guided the mental energy thread into the water, something unexpected happened.
Suddenly, it felt like something swam towards him, brushing against his mental threads, and then something bit down on one of them.
Yes, Po Li had not felt wrong; indeed, something had bitten his mental thread, and then more and more things came closer, biting down on the threads several times.
But with each bite, a tingling sensation spread from the mental thread into his mind.
Gradually, the pain in his mind, which had been caused by his mental collapse, numbed, and he could no longer feel the pain.
Instead, a warm feeling slowly covered his mental sea, enveloping the injured areas.
As it wrapped around him, he felt an unusually pleasant itching sensation, which made him feel completely relaxed.
Po Qing watched his father receiving treatment and also kept an eye on the insects in the culture bottle.
After an unknown amount of time, the brine shrimp in the bottle had grown several rings larger and scattered, and his father finally opened his eyes.
“How do you feel, Dad? Are you feeling better?”
Po Li pushed himself up from the bed, slowly sitting up. This was the first time he had been able to sit up since he had fallen ill.
“Don’t worry, A’qing. Your medicine is very effective. I’m much better.”
He reached out and patted the boy’s head, offering comfort.
Po Qing couldn’t hold back anymore when he felt this familiar gesture. He threw himself onto his father’s lap and cried uncontrollably.
Since his father fell ill, he hadn’t felt this gesture again. His father had been too weak to even lift his hand.
Po Li sensed his son’s emotions—his breakdown, his discomfort, and his joy…
This slender man said nothing but gently patted the boy’s back, silently comforting him.
Finally, after both father and son had calmed down, Po Li began to ask about the details of this matter.
What kind of medicine was this? Where did it come from? Was there any cost involved?
Based on his own experience, Po Li knew just how good this medicine was, and he was concerned about how his son had obtained it.
After seeing his father’s improvement, Po Qing was overjoyed. After venting his fears and anxieties, his emotions had settled down.
He told his father the entire process of how he obtained the insects, including the help from Gan Lin.
When he learned that his son had purchased them from a legitimate source—a star network store—for only 100,000 star coins, Po Li finally relaxed.
The family had run out of money and even borrowed from others, but that wasn’t a big deal. They could still earn money. What he feared most was that his son might go astray. Thankfully, everything was fine now.
He was very grateful to Gan Lin and the store that sold the insects.
Po Li instructed his son to call for the doctor. His mental energy was mostly under control now, but he still needed the doctor to check on his condition and prescribe some medicine for his body.
He needed to recover quickly to pay back the money he owed and keep the family going.
Dr. Frina arrived. She was the same doctor who had previously treated Po Li, a kind-hearted physician who was willing to visit poor families like theirs and even let them delay paying for medical fees.
Without her, Po Li might not have lasted long enough for Po Qing to find the medicine to save him.
Dr. Frina used a handheld device to carefully examine Po Li. Her face was filled with astonishment and joy.
“This is really hard to believe. Your mental energy collapse has barely been controlled. I don’t know how you did it, but if you strengthen this inhibitory effect a bit more, you won’t need to worry about your mental energy anymore.”
“Now, I can treat your physical ailments. That’s very simple, and your illness can be considered mostly healed.”
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translation works:
ARTTEDSBGT (After Rebirth The True Eldest Daughter Starts Brewing Green Tea):
main story – completed translating
extras/side stories – i still dont have money and account to access this
ATISIUP:
ongoing
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