Chapter 1914: Dangerous Unstable Factor
The mayor's wife's face showed a pained expression, but her eyes did not change much. She let her hands slide apart weakly, her voice somewhat low, "I am your mother. Why must you embarrass me in front of outsiders..."
As she spoke, her gaze flickered toward Xu Huo, only to find that the young man who had just been facing them had now turned his back, as if completely unaware of what had just happened.
Bai Kou watched her performance coldly, unmoved by her words, expressions, or actions.
"You've been busy with city hall affairs these days and haven't come home for dinner in a long time. Tonight, your uncle is hosting friends, and I hope you can attend." The mayor's wife brought up another matter. "Besides, your leg injury is almost healed. If you stay out of sight for too long, people will inevitably start speculating."
"No need." Bai Kou refused directly. "In a few days, I'll host a banquet for the city hall officials."
The mayor's wife's smile didn't waver as she said abruptly, "No matter how you treat your mother, your mother still loves you."
"Leave." Bai Kou suppressed her anger.
"You must come back tonight. The mayor and Peipei miss you very much." The mayor's wife said this gently before preparing to leave. When she reached the study door, which had already been opened from the outside, she suddenly turned back to glance at Xu Huo, as if she wanted to say something.
"Goodbye, Auntie." Xu Huo spoke first.
The mayor's wife smiled lightly and left the room without another word.
"Your mother must be a player, right?" Xu Huo asked after the door closed.
The mayor's wife was certainly beautiful, but a person is a person, possessing all the traits of a human. She wouldn't naturally stand out with a soft glow, let alone carry an indescribable charm.
"She's not a player, but she has an item." Bai Kou glanced at him. "If you judge her by her appearance and treat her as a fragile person, you'll suffer for it. In this game, no one can kill her."
Xu Huo was surprised and asked further, "Not even a Super Player?"
"Not even a Super Player." Bai Kou said with certainty.
Xu Huo thought for a moment. "Can't she starve to death?"
Bai Kou seemed shocked by his idea, paused, and found it somewhat amusing. "No one would be willing to starve her."
"Aren't you overestimating the power of an item?" Xu Huo asked.
But Bai Kou didn't want to dwell on the topic. "If you don't believe me, you can try it yourself."
It was clear that mother and daughter were at odds, so Xu Huo wisely didn't press further. "Should we continue training?"
For the rest of the afternoon, the two focused on Time Power. However, they still didn't succeed until Bai Kou could no longer hold on, and the training was interrupted again.
After leaving the Mechanical Castle, Xu Huo went to Old Lady Lu's place, prepared the school enrollment documents and necessary stationery, left them there, and then checked into the Yongxing Hotel.
Practicing with Bai Kou had been beneficial for him. She had collected a vast amount of information, most of which remained accurate, and she generously allowed him to browse through it. So during the practice, he also tried to train in connecting and communicating with Time Rays from other spaces based on his existing foundation.
Additionally, he looked up information about the mayor's wife. The Platinum Eye only circulated stories of her and the mayor's beautiful love, with few mentioning her past. Most people didn't even care about it, otherwise they wouldn't selectively forget that Bai Kou was not the mayor's biological daughter.
The mayor's wife's surname was Bai. On the Message Collection Terminal, some called her Lady Bai, but no one knew her real name. Even this surname wasn't her own; it was said to be her previous husband's surname.
This was just a rumor. All accounts tried their best to protect the mayor's wife, claiming that she and her ex-husband also had true love, but he was simply unlucky and died early. Fortunately, she later met her current husband and lived a happy married life.
Those who had seen the mayor's wife claimed that both men and women couldn't help but fall under her charm. This feeling was benevolent. Even when it came to a man's love for a woman, no one had ever pursued her in an extreme way—anyone facing her seemed to burst forth with truth, goodness, and beauty from the depths of their soul.
There were also items in the game that affected people's emotions, but they were still within understandable limits. Even using drugs couldn't completely control a person's feelings. And since Bai Kou asserted that no one could kill her, the item the mayor's wife possessed might be a special existence from the game, like the "Pure Heart." The difference was that the "Pure Heart" could only protect a person once.
Her discord with Bai Kou wasn't just about poor mother-daughter relations but also about power struggles. If her charm could truly enchant people, then the marriage alliance must have been approved by her. Since the Platinum Eye and the Lang family hadn't found the chip, this marriage was likely a means to absorb the other party's power. The mayor's wife probably played a significant role in this.
The temptation of power was not limited by gender. If the mayor's wife wanted to compete with her daughter for ownership of the Platinum Eye, she was equally a dangerous unstable factor.
Xu Huo posted a thread about the mayor's wife on the Under Dimension. Surprisingly, when he searched earlier, there were few related posts, but after he posted, many people replied, and they came from other districts.
Most of the repliers mistook him for an admirer of the mayor's wife and shared their own experiences of seeing her. Everyone described her as extremely holy. Even if she did nothing but walk a few steps down the street, some regarded her as a deity who could save them from suffering.
Although the descriptions differed slightly from what Xu Huo had actually seen, he still gained useful information. A widely accepted point was that the mayor's wife had remarried multiple times—this wasn't her fault, as a fragile and beautiful woman had no choice in a cruel world like the game. Everyone who had interacted with her said the same thing, a consistency that was chilling.
However, the men or husbands she had been with usually met bad ends. She typically sought a new partner only after the death of her boyfriend or husband, and the new partner was always someone with higher status or greater ability than the previous one. Normally, such a pattern would lead to suspicion, but not with the mayor's wife. Even after she left, her reputation remained good. Every relationship she had was recognized as "love."
Some of these were baseless rumors. The mayor's wife had actually only had three husbands. Her third husband was the current mayor of the Platinum Eye. (End of Chapter)