He Xi widened her eyes. After some time, she said, "Who are you calling 'mother'?"
"Of course, it's you, Mother." The gigantic egg's voice was filled with happiness and coquettish affection. "Other than the formidable, noble, and beautiful Mother; who else has the right to be Baby's mother?"
He Xi's face was very dark and was caught between laughter and tears.
Who else has the right to be the baby's mother? I am only sixteen years old, and if you count my previous life, I haven't even lived for more than twenty-odd years. How did I become its mother for no reason?
No! This was an egg, and she was a human. She belonged to the mammal group that gave birth to babies alive; how could she give birth to such a gigantic egg?
He Xi felt that she was about to faint out of anger from this egg. She rudely said, "What exactly… are you? Why are you calling me Mother?"
"Because you're my mother!" The golden light jumped a few times, and the voice became even more anxious. "Mother, I can see you quite frequently from here, and I have been waiting for you to come in and see me. However, you never came in. Baby feels very alone and lonely here…"
The more the gigantic egg said, the sadder it felt. It started crying, and its clear child's voice was filled with frustrations and bitterness; even a person made of stone could not help but pity it.
He Xi's head started to hurt, and she could not help but caress the gigantic egg's shell. Gently, she said, "Okay, okay. Don't cry. I… Am I not here to see you now? Um, what… what breed are you?"
"What breed am I?" The gigantic egg seemed to like her touch very much as her original crying voice became much happier. "I don't know what I am, too, but Mother is my mother—Baby knew that all along. Wuwuwu, Mother, do you not want Baby anymore?"
Speaking till the end, the gigantic egg seemed to become insecure and anxious again as it started to cry.
He Xi held her forehead as she heard the child's sad, expectant cries. She completely did not know how to describe her feeling: it was as if a thousand horses had run across the field.
She was really a young virgin that had not married; she did not have any experience in pacifying children.
To stop it from crying, He Xi could only gently caress the eggshell and comfort it, "Okay, don't cry anymore. I didn't say I didn't want you. Then, do you know why you're in the Meru Palace?"
The gigantic egg accepted her caress, and its gloomy mood turned for the better as the golden sparkles jumped around as if it was jumping in circles.
It called 'mother' a few times and tried hard to remember something. "Meru Palace? I seem to remember this name… Oh! Grandpa Meru, I remember him. He's the one that saved Baby."
"Grandpa Meru? Who is that?"
"He's Grandpa Meru!" Its voice was filled with confusion, reminiscence, and attachment. "Grandpa Meru is very nice to Baby. He saved Baby from that dark and cold room and had even fed Baby mellow spiritual influence. After Baby drank the spiritual influence, Baby fell asleep. When I woke up, I saw you, Mother. Hehe…"
He Xi was speechless towards a gigantic egg that cried for a while and laughed later. Through their short conversation, she could tell that it had the temperament and personality of a child and did not have concepts of many things. It seemed like she would not find out anything even if she continued to ask it.
He Xi was helpless about this. When she was about to remove her hand from the eggshell, she suddenly heard the child's excited voice: "Oh yes, Grandpa Meru has something to pass to Mother. Baby is too happy to see Mother and almost forgot about it."