Chapter 2675 Mother and Daughter (Ⅱ)

The common mental symptoms and various social ills of the beholders are probably the external manifestations of this "vicious circle".

To break this vicious cycle, from the perspective of treating the root cause, we should first erase the innate experience of the beholder family derived from inheritance, and avoid passing on the mother's mental illness, spiritual shadow, and distorted views to the next generation.

But if this genetic chain is cut off, the beholder will not be able to inherit those beneficial knowledge from his mother, just like a blank piece of paper. If he wants to learn this knowledge by himself, he must pay a lot of time and cost.

Especially in an environment that lacks systematic education, within a few generations, the knowledge system of beholders will seriously decline, and the result is likely to do more harm than good.

If this path fails, we can only start with the family, let the mother control her violent temper, be gentle and patient with her daughter as much as possible, avoid aggravating her congenital mental symptoms, and give her a warm and happy childhood.

If the beholder group can follow the above principles and work together to improve the relationship between mother and daughter, through the unremitting efforts of several generations of beholders, and constantly overcorrect the experience inherited from their ancestors, the vicious cycle of the beholder family can eventually be broken.

However, this is only a theoretical assumption.

Joan knew in his heart that it would be difficult for him to convince other paranoid beholders to accept this set of educational theories that went against tradition, let alone promote it throughout the city of Udinos.

What she can do now is to unite knowledge and action, and use herself and Inanna as a sample in her own family to verify whether this theory is effective.

Thinking of this, Joan stretched out an eye stalk and gently caressed her daughter's forehead.

She noticed that Inanna was shaking, her nerves tensed, as if she was ready to endure her mother's beating.

"Don't be afraid, Inanna, you have to remember that mother is the person who cares and loves you the most in this world, and will not scold you for no reason."

Joan uses telepathy to convey her heartfelt feelings to her daughter.

"If you have any ideas or requests, you might as well tell mom directly, as long as it's not too much, mom will try her best to satisfy you."

There was a trace of confusion in Inanna's eyes, and she couldn't be sure whether her mother's words were serious, or she was talking on the spur of the moment, just making fun of herself.

"I remember, my lord, my daughter must obediently obey your orders."

After hearing Inanna's answer, Joan knew that she didn't completely trust him, and she was still on guard.

She didn't expect to say a few kind words to completely reverse the notions inherited from generation to generation of the beholders, so let's take it slowly.

"Inanna, are you hungry?"

"Hmm..." The young beholder hesitated for a moment, then nodded and replied, "I'm a little hungry, my lord, can I forage for food in your territory?"

Newborn beholders have inherited the most basic hunting skills from their mothers, but their bodies have not yet matured. The iconic supernatural abilities of the beholders, including anti-magic fields and eye rays, have not yet awakened, and their combat effectiveness is not worth a cent. carry.

Compared with wild animals in the natural world, beholder cubs like Inanna have a smarter brain and are born with the ability to fly.

Inanna asked her mother to allow her to hunt on the property, which was not a casual phrase.

The Underdark is no different than the surface world. Most of the creatures that can thrive in such an extremely harsh environment are extremely vicious and not easy to mess with.

If a newborn beholder cub lives in the desolate and dark wilderness, let alone hunting, it will become the hunting target of other monsters, and most of them will not survive to adulthood.

Compared with the wild, beholder cubs are obviously less likely to be attacked by monsters in their mother's territory, and they are safer. That's why Inanna made this request to Joan.

"You are my daughter, of course you can hunt in my territory, but you have to remember that there are two types of creatures on the territory: domesticated and wild. Domesticated ones cannot be hunted casually. I will teach you these things slowly in the future."

Joan smiled, opened the storage bag, took out a red giant apple, and then took out a large bottle of phase honey, and handed it to her daughter.

"Inanna, you were just born and your body is weak. You don't have enough strength to go hunting yet, so eat some fruit and honey to fill your stomach first."

"Thank you, Mother!"

Inanna was flattered to accept the food offered by her mother. The bright color of the apples and the sweet fragrance of honey made her swallow hard.

Innate experience told her that these two kinds of food were delicious; however, also based on innate experience, she knew that beholders should not easily taste the food provided by others, because the other party might poison the food with bad intentions—even if The other party is her mother, so don't be careless!

Shall I refuse the food offered by my mother, or try to get my mother to eat first, to prove that there is no poison in the apple and honey?

It was safe and traditional to do so, but at the risk of angering my mother.

For the first time since her birth, Inanna faced a dilemma and was forced to try logical reasoning in her young mind.

Provoking the mother, which will inevitably lead to severe punishment, and may even lose your own life, is a greater risk than trying to eat food that may be poisonous.

Thinking about it from another angle, I was born by my mother and lived in her territory. If the mother hates her daughter, as a powerful adult beholder, she can kill herself without any effort, so why bother to waste food? Poisoned?

The more Inanna thought about it, the more she realized that this was the case, so she lifted the big apple with her two eye stalks, brought it to her mouth, and bit it down.

The sweet juice overflowed the mouth, making this young beholder experience the beauty of life for the first time.

As expected of a "one baby, one treasure" big guy, Inanna has a very good appetite and eats much more than ordinary beholder cubs. In a blink of an eye, she swallowed a giant apple the size of a pumpkin, including its core. In his stomach, he drank another full cup of phase honey, licking the cup clean, then burped in satisfaction, closed most of his eyes, and yawned while hanging in the air.

Joan saw that the little guy was sleepy, so he left ten giant apples and a bucket of honey as a food reserve for his daughter. If there was not enough food, or something else, he would go to the next bedroom to find himself.

"Inanna, rest well, mom will visit you later."

After exhorting, Joan hugged her daughter, turned around and floated out of her bedroom.

Inanna respectfully escorted her mother out of the tunnel until her figure disappeared around the corner of the tunnel, then immediately closed the door and locked herself in the bedroom.

Joan heard a clicking sound coming from far behind, and guessed that her daughter had locked the door without turning her head, and felt a little strange.