Chapter 119: 109, Carry on the family line
Hearing Shen Qinghan’s shout, Lin Zichen got out of bed to open the door for her.
As soon as the door opened, Shen Qinghan, dressed in a connected dress, handed the lemon tea she was holding to Lin Zichen, and smiled sweetly,
“Just took it out of the fridge, it’s cool and refreshing, feels great to drink.”
“Let me try.”
Lin Zichen took the lemon tea, took a sip with some anticipation, savored the burst of sour and sweet on his taste buds, and couldn’t help but praise, “It tastes quite good, much better than the ones sold outside for over ten bucks.”
“Of course.”
Shen Qinghan said somewhat proudly.
After speaking, she noticed something different about Lin Zichen’s skin and asked with curiosity, “Xiao Chen, how do I feel like your skin seems to have become firmer?”
“You can tell?”
Lin Zichen felt a bit surprised, he hadn’t expected Shen Qinghan to be so observant.
Shen Qinghan stretched out her hand to touch his arm, and as she felt it she said, “Obviously, I’ve been sharing a bed with you for several days now, I’m really familiar with your body.”
After touching for quite a while, and finding that Lin Zichen’s skin indeed had become a lot firmer, she asked curiously, “So why has your skin become firmer?”
“It’s the effect of the Blood Tempering Technique.”
“The Body Refining method given to you by Tianren Pavilion?”
“Right.”
“It really works well, makes me want to practice it too.”
Shen Qinghan said enviously.
Lin Zichen laughed, “Forget it, if you can walk the path of Genetic Fusion, there’s no need to follow the Pureblood Human Path.”
Shen Qinghan curiously asked, “By the way, what’s your current Biological Level? I haven’t asked you yet.”
She had been curious for a long time, but had never asked.
Now that they had both confirmed their intention to get married after college graduation, being a closely connected engaged couple, it was okay to ask a little secret about the other.
Lin Zichen didn’t hide it from her and honestly replied, “Normal seventh rank.”
“You’re already at normal seventh rank?”
Shen Qinghan said with a feeling of powerlessness, “I’m only at normal second rank.”
There was no surprise on her face regarding Lin Zichen’s high Biological Level of normal seventh rank, only a sense of helplessness.
After all, back in elementary school, she had witnessed Lin Zichen’s far exceeding strength among his peers, knowing he had always been concealing his true power and not showing too much of it.
“You’re different, your Genetic Fusion compatibility has reached 21%. Once you get to college, just casually fuse some Exotic Beast Genes, and you could evolve into an Advanced-level Creature easily.”
Lin Zichen soothed her with a smile.
“Right.” Shen Qinghan curved her beautiful eyes in a smile, “Then let’s see who evolves into an Advanced-level Creature first.”
Lin Zichen: “Sure, let’s see who’s faster.”
Shen Qinghan: “Oh right, Xiao Chen, that cheap master of mine has never taken the initiative to contact me, it feels like I’ve been left to fend for myself.”
Lin Zichen: “Being left to your own devices isn’t so bad, at least you’re free.”
At that moment, Shen Qinghan’s phone vibrated, someone had sent her a message on WeChat.
She opened WeChat and found it was a message from Li Chuxin.
[Chu Xin: Han Han, I’m planning to retrieve my eggs next Monday, want to come together?]
[Han Han: So soon?]
After replying to the message, Shen Qinghan turned to Lin Zichen and asked, “Xiao Chen, Chu Xin invited me to retrieve eggs next Monday, do you think I should go?”
Students who decide to walk the path of Genetic Fusion usually go to a specialized hospital to have their sperm or eggs retrieved and stored before they undergo their first Genetic Fusion.
Because after undergoing Genetic Fusion, there is a high probability of losing the ability to reproduce.
If one wishes to have children in the future, they must retrieve and store their sperm or eggs in advance, to be used when they desire to have offspring.
Lin Zichen suggested, “Since Chu Xin invited you to retrieve eggs, then go ahead. Retrieve them sooner and get it over with, so you don’t have it weighing on your mind.”
“Then I’ll go retrieve them next Monday.”
After finishing, Shen Qinghan sent a reply to Li Chuxin, agreeing to go with her next Monday to collect the eggs.
In the time that followed.
Lin Zichen returned to sitting on his bed, holding the translation of the “Blood Tempering Technique” and studied it earnestly, ready to start the next Body Refining phase—Tempering Flesh.
Shen Qinghan sat beside him and watched for a while, but she couldn’t understand at all, so she took out her phone to entertain herself.
It was hard to tell how much time had passed.
Shen Qinghan, who was scrolling through short videos on her phone, looked up at Lin Zichen and hesitantly asked with a blush, “That… do you have one of those educational websites that boys often look at? I’ve never seen it before, and I’m a bit curious to take a look.”
“You’ve never seen it?”
Lin Zichen was a little surprised.
He figured that in this age where everyone had a smartphone, anyone should be able to find whatever they wanted to watch online, and there shouldn’t be anything they couldn’t see if they wanted to.
He suspected Shen Qinghan was lying.
“I’ve never seen it.”
Shen Qinghan shook her head in response, then her cheeks turned even redder as she said, “Do you have any? If you do, recommend one for me.”
Lin Zichen took out his phone, opened up the video cache list in a browser, and handed it to Shen Qinghan, saying, “Forget websites, I have a few downloaded on my phone. They’re all anime-style. If you’re curious, go ahead and take a look.”
“Oh, then I’ll take a look.”
Shen Qinghan, with a blushing face, took Lin Zichen’s phone and casually selected one of the educational videos to watch.
The next second, the room filled with the passionate voice of an anime-style female teacher giving a lecture.
Shen Qinghan was startled and quickly turned the volume down to the lowest setting.
Lin Zichen found her awkwardness adorable and smiled as he handed her a pair of earphones, saying, “It’s no fun without sound. Put the earphones on and take your time watching.”
Shen Qinghan took the earphones with embarrassment, feeling she really was stupid.
In her heart, she hoped that her future children would inherit more of Lin Zichen’s intelligence and less of her own clumsiness.
Deep under Shanhai City.
Twenty thousand meters deep.
Inside, the tunnels crisscrossed, resembling an ant colony.
Half a year ago, all these tunnels were emitting streams of warm air, and the temperature was extremely high.
Now, however, the temperature had dropped to the same normal range as the surface above.
The reason was that many deep blue crystals were embedded in the walls of the tunnels.
These deep blue crystals constantly emitted a chill, maintaining the temperature in the tunnels at the same normal range as aboveground.
In addition to the deep blue crystals, the walls were also covered with the root systems of unknown plants.
These root systems firmly fixed the tunnels, making them incredibly stable, so stable that collapse was impossible.
At the center where countless tunnels intersected, there lay a vast, spacious Underground Palace.
At this moment, two humanoid creatures were conversing in the palace.
One was a Three-eyed Giant over four meters tall.
The other was a mysterious person, only 1.7 meters tall, holding a wooden cane in his hand and wearing a mask on his face.
“Divine Envoy, all 108 tunnels have now been fully dug through. Now, we will trouble you to set a biological coordinate here,” the Three-eyed Giant, who six months ago had been loftily superior before the Rat King, now acted extremely subservient before the masked person, always trying to force a pleasing smile on its gruesome, fearsome face.
The masked person didn’t say anything but just nodded.
Afterward, he thrust the cane he was holding into the ground with force, cut his wrist, and let the blood pour onto the cane.
The blood was quickly absorbed by the cane, and then numerous blood-red roots grew from the bottom of the cane, filling up the entire bottom of the Underground Palace.
After finishing this, the masked person said in a hoarse voice, “The biological coordinate here is set. What remains is to wait for the Origin Land to also find a corresponding boundary point and lay down a similar biological coordinate. Once the coordinates begin to resonate with each other, the tunnels can be connected to the Origin Land.”
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