Chapter 2674 Mother and Daughter

"But……"

Joan still wanted to refute, but Saoirse interrupted her arbitrarily.

"I said it's yours, it's yours!"

"It's... alright."

Qiao An heard the implication of the prime minister's words, so he had no choice but to accept the "pot" bravely.

Fortunately, I am now a parthenogenetic beholder. If I still live in human society, and have an extra daughter for no reason, it will inevitably lead to rumors.

"Mitra, what are you going to do with her?"

Saoirse stared at the dying deformed baby and asked Joan.

"Bring it back to the lair first, cast a spell to help her cure the aftereffects of drowning, and then get some nutritious food to feed her. In short, try to raise this child to grow up healthily."

"Is this really good?"

Saoirse suddenly became anxious again.

"Since she is my daughter, there is nothing wrong with it." Qiao An said calmly.

Saoirse seemed to have something on her mind, but it was inconvenient to tell Joan frankly. In the end, she just gave a wry smile, took out the blanket that was originally used to wrap the newborn from the storage bag, and handed it over.

"Be careful, Mitra, I will visit her often, I hope she dies early, it's better for you and me."

"I wish."

Joann took the blanket and wrapped Inanna up so that she wouldn't catch a cold. Afterwards, she bid farewell to Saoirse and cast a spell to teleport back to her lair.

The teleportation point is at the bottom of the well, and the three tunnels dug on the well wall lead to the laboratory, warehouse and Joan's bedroom respectively. Now that there are more people in the family, it is necessary to add a bedroom.

Thinking of this, Joan raised his eye stalks, and aimed a beam of "dissociation rays" at the wall of the well.

With a chirping sound, the solid rock formation broke down into invisible material particles, forming a tunnel.

Joan carried Inanna into the tunnel and continued to emit "dissociation rays", digging a small room deep in the tunnel as a nursery. Then they performed "supernatural workmanship" and used local materials to turn the large rocks cut by the "dissociation ray" into furniture and doors.

After decorating the nursery, Joan spread the blankets on the floor.

The newborn beholder is very weak, and in addition to being almost drowned in the lake just now, it seems to be like a gossamer, quietly floating two feet above the blanket, ten eye stalks are drooping weakly, the deformed main eye is completely close up.

Joan took out a bottle of potion prepared by "Tears of God" from the storage bag, manipulated "Hand of Arcana" to open Inanna's mouth, and poured her a bottle of potion.

The effect of the medicine came into play very quickly, prompting the poor little guy to recover a little bit of vitality, raised his eyes, and looked over in awe and anxiety.

"Your name is Inanna." Joan told her softly in the language unique to the beholders.

Compared with most natural creatures including humans, beholders are uniquely endowed, able to inherit some prior knowledge and skills from their mothers through inheritance, including racial language.

The beholder can speak from birth and can understand basic vocabulary, so Joan tried to talk to Inanna.

"Inanna..."

The young beholder, repeating Joan's words in a slightly childish tone, seemed to be trying to accept and understand the message she conveyed.

Joan nodded slightly, waiting patiently for her to understand and absorb the information.

After about a minute, the little guy spoke again.

"I am Inanna...you are mother, Inanna's mother."

Joan hesitated for a moment, hesitating whether to declare that he had no blood relationship with her, but thinking of Saoirse's warning, he dismissed the idea, acquiesced to Inanna's judgment, and waited for her to grow up, and then find a suitable opportunity to tell It's not too late to tell the truth.

When Inanna saw Joan nodding her head to admit that she was her mother, she didn't show a happy expression, and she didn't dare to act like a baby to her mother like a human child. Instead, she looked more nervous and scared, lowered her eyes, and didn't dare to meet her mother's gaze.

This seemingly abnormal reaction is actually an innate experience inherited by the beholder cub from its mother.

Inanna was more afraid of the mother who gave her birth than any other stranger.

Although she still doesn't quite understand the origin of this instinctive sense of fear, her intuition tells her that "mother" is the most terrifying and dangerous creature in the world, and if she provokes her, she will be severely insulted Beating, and may even be bitten to death by the furious mother, and swallowed alive!

With the help of the active mode of "Myth Alert", Joan knew Inanna's state of mind clearly, and couldn't help but sigh secretly.

In fact, she would not get angry with her daughter for no reason, let alone use her daughter as a punching bag at will. Inanna's fear was unnecessary.

However, this just shows that she is not a real beholder herself, and that Inanna is not her own.

Inanna was born with "delusions of persecution", a common problem of the beholder population. The root cause is that the survival experience she inherited from her mother and even from countless generations of ancestors emphasized a statistical fact to her:

In the family of beholders, there are few gentle and loving mothers. The common image of beholder mothers is that they are irritable, surly, and moody. The daughters are placed under the harsh rule of this tyrant, and they must obey their mothers unconditionally before they grow up and mature. If you don't fight back when you scold or beat you, the situation is actually no different from that of a slave.

In order to survive in such a cruel family, the daughters of the beholder clan must be cautious enough to carefully consider whether they will offend their mother before doing anything, and walk on thin ice with trepidation.

Even if he is so cautious, he still suffers from beatings and scolding. Trying to analyze the reasons for his mother’s anger is doomed to be futile, because the mental state of the beholder often has no logic and rationality at all—even the mother doesn’t understand why she suddenly got up and abused her daughter How could my daughter understand the impulsiveness?

It is conceivable that after living in such a highly depressive environment for a long time, a young beholder who inherited mental illness from his ancestors will only get worse symptoms of persecution delusions.

And when she finally matured and was able to break away from her mother's oppression and stand on her own, her mind and spirit had been irreparably traumatized by the shadow of her childhood, and she became as manic, surly, and hysterical as her mother.

When a young beholder enters the breeding season and gives birth to offspring by itself, her childhood shadows will also be passed on to her daughter in the form of innate knowledge, and there is a high probability that she will abuse her daughter like the mother treated her back then.

The internal cause of "heredity" and the external cause of "domestic violence" together form a chain, and beholders belong to a certain link in this chain at different stages of their life, and they are in the process of suffering pain and creating pain. There is constant reincarnation between them, thus forming a vicious circle.

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