Mirel made a whole table of delicious food tonight. Every dish was a feast for the eyes, nose, and mouth—just one look was enough to make your mouth water.
The family of three sat around the table. Usually the greediest little Sakura was pulling a long face today, holding her chopsticks and not knowing where to start.
Just now she'd gotten greedy and downed a whole bottle of rice-flavored Elixirs in one go—twenty-five pills in total!
The price was that she now felt super full…
No!
Super stuffed!
It was like sothing was bubbling up from her stomach, ramming into her throat so she couldn't eat another bite.
The little one could sll the food and was so anxious she was about to cry.
Li Zheng was deliberately teasing her too. Every ti he picked up a dish, he'd wave it in front of her eyes before dropping it into his bowl.
Instantly, Sakura's eyes welled up. She put down her chopsticks and left the table in tears.
Mirel blad him, saying, "Why are you bullying the kid?"
Li Zheng looked innocent. "How was I supposed to know she'd move that fast? I didn't even have ti to stop her before she poured the whole bottle of Elixirs down her throat. You didn't see her—like a starving ghost reincarnated, scared I'd stop her from eating. She didn't even chew, just swallowed them whole!
Now she can't eat dinner, that's all on her. You can't pin this on ."
"Then why are you teasing her on purpose?" Mirel shot him a glare.
Li Zheng shrugged and said, "Isn't this to teach her a lesson? She stuffs anything she sees into her mouth. It's fine this ti, it was just a Fasting Pill, purely to keep hunger away. What if next ti she runs into sothing poisonous?"
Poison doesn't co with a label saying it's poison.
On the contrary, real killing poison is definitely colorless and tasteless, and might even be made incredibly delicious to lure people into eating it.
For Sakura, could she resist anything tasty?
Obviously not.
"Sigh…" Mirel sighed and said, "You're not wrong. This ti it really is Sakura's fault… No, it's us as parents who are at fault. We didn't teach her properly."
"?" A question mark almost popped up over Li Zheng's head. "Aren't we educating her right now? How is this wrong?"
"I'm not going to argue with you, okay?" Mirel rolled her eyes. "Eat."
After making a fuss until she was tired, Sakura stopped fussing. She lay by the bed, snoring away, snot bubble puffing in and out.
Mirel finished tidying up, then went over and straightened Sakura's posture on the bed.
The little one was good in every way, except she just couldn't fix her greedy-eating habit. Hopefully today's incident would be a lesson she rembers.
That night, the Treasure Chest refreshed.
Li Zheng, full of anticipation, extracted the Treasure Chest. After opening it, he took out two Wish Stone Fragnts from inside, crushing his hope of continuing to rely on the Treasure Chest System to take shortcuts.
"In the end, people still have to rely on themselves!"
Li Zheng sighed, lay down on the bed, and pulled Mirel tightly into his arms.
So-called cheats really aren't reliable!
The days that followed slipped back into a steady training routine.
Zhan Zhouzhou, after adapting to nineteen-tis gravity, ca over to find Li Zheng. The professor had likewise suggested she take a break, so she ca to ask what Li Zheng had done during his fifteen days of rest.
Li Zheng replied, "Just wandered around wherever I felt like going. Didn't deliberately do anything."
"Okay." Zhan Zhouzhou nodded after listening. "Then I'll go to the Sin Domain to have fun for half a month."
"???"
Li Zheng was baffled. Is that what I ant?
With Zhan Zhouzhou's temperant, if she went to the Sin Domain, wouldn't that an fifteen days of continuous high-intensity combat?
What kind of 'rest' is that!
Before he could explain, Zhan Zhouzhou turned around and left.
For the next full fifteen days, Heroine Zhan didn't co back even once, and Li Zheng didn't go out to look for her either.
During this period, Ye Kai and the others officially started their own work. They each joined one of the two research institutes and began carrying out the plan.
Things progressed slowly on Yan Jinjin's side. He was still working hard to learn gene-related knowledge, but his learning ability was very strong, and his speed of absorbing knowledge far surpassed that of ordinary people.
Professor Renae praised him highly.
Mudala brought ten Water Blue Star Players to Block 375 to receive the professor's arrangents and undergo training one by one.
The professor clearly had so further ideas. The training plans made for the ten people were all different. Every few days they'd swap plans, collecting data on how each different training plan worked on different people.
Li Zheng had also completely adapted to twenty-tis gravity and began working hard toward twenty-one-tis.
Besides gravity training every day, Mirel also had to keep absorbing Magic Crystal Energy and condense a complete Spiritual Power Node.
Sakura...
More than ten days passed, and the effect of the Fasting Pill taken last ti still hadn't worn off. Eating every day was pure suffering, he was completely traumatized by it, and had beco emotionally numb toward good food.
The Treasure Chest System was still doing its job, steadily producing Wish Stone Fragnts. Li Zheng thought about it and almost decided to stop extracting them altogether, but he was worried there might be good stuff in the Treasure Chests he'd miss out on.
Everything seed to be proceeding in an orderly, stable way, moving in a good direction.
Until this day, when the Terminal sent Li Zheng a ping: "Bring Yan Jinjin, co at once!"
These days, if there was nothing particularly important, Li Zheng no longer took the initiative to contact the Terminal, afraid of disrupting its research projects again. Today it should have so results and wanted Li Zheng over to take a look.
After giving the professor a heads-up, Li Zheng went alone to find Yan Jinjin, then went with him back to his rental, contacted the Terminal, and was transferred into the Central Hub.
During this period, Yan Jinjin had finally figured out the rules of this world and understood that the Terminal represented the highest authority. As soon as he ca in, he dropped to his knees and shouted, "Greetings to Lord Terminal!"
His behavior left the Terminal utterly baffled: "Cut that out. I'm not so feudal dynasty monarch. What's with this stupid habit of dropping to your knees at the drop of a hat? Fix it!"
"Yes, my lord!" Yan Jinjin said, then knocked his head on the ground.
"The head-knocking habit needs to go too!" the Terminal added.
"Understood!" Yan Jinjin froze there, answering stiffly.
As a Nascent Soul True Person like him, he'd always been the one receiving kneeling and kowtows from others. Now his attempt at flattery had landed on the horse's leg. It was honestly pretty awkward.
Li Zheng asked, "You called over this ti, is there so new discovery?"
"Nothing huge, but there are a few things I need to tell you," the Terminal said. "When I previously opened a convenient door to send you so helpers, I overlooked sothing rather serious.
That guy called Phoenix Mountain has Blood Qi on him. When you have ti, go back and strip that Blood Qi away. The thod's simple: have him release his Blood Qi and touch the Resentnt Body behind your back with it.
The Resentnt Body is a manifestation of Blood Qi in a higher concentration. Regular people can't see it. From its perspective, Blood Qi is basically food, but it can only devour Blood Qi of its own kind. I don't really understand the underlying rule here. The people of Water Blue Star are very similar to us, so there shouldn't be a problem."
"..." Li Zheng frowned and said, "Next ti sothing like this cos up, send a ssage to remind . Phoenix Mountain ca to last ti, I could've taken care of it in passing. Now I have to make a separate trip to District Four."
"I wanted to, but I'm too busy. I have to split my attention across a lot of tasks, I really can't keep up with everything." The Terminal rarely expressed apology: "I'll pay more attention next ti.
Also, I studied the Cultivation Technique Yan Jinjin left behind and found it has so points of overlap with the Elixirs you gave before.
But the overlap is too weak, I still haven't been able to get further verification, so this ti I want to ask Yan Jinjin: do you people have a kind of Elixir that can speed up Cultivation progress?"
"We do, and not only one kind." Yan Jinjin glanced at Li Zheng and said, "In my Suru Bag there are so herbs that are ingredients for refining Qi Nourishing Pills; maybe they can be used."
He didn't dare say too much, afraid this move would make Li Zheng unhappy.
The Terminal asked, "And where are these things?"
"With ." Li Zheng took out everything he'd already sorted.
The Terminal imdiately controlled several chanical arms to take them one by one, grumbling, "Since you have all this stuff, why didn't you bring it over earlier?"
Li Zheng was speechless and rolled his eyes. "Last ti I ssed up one of your research projects, you were this close to cursing out. How would I have dared contact you rashly after that?"
The Terminal rembered that incident and nodded. "My bad. From now on, if sothing cos up, just send ssages whenever. I'll reply when I'm free. That work?"
"Works." Li Zheng nodded and said, "Among those things, there's a box with a lot of seeds in it, but I can't tell the species apart and didn't dare cultivate them blindly. See if you can do sothing with them. Also, Yan Jinjin, how much of the Demon Race Cultivation Technique translation did you finish last ti? Hand that over to the Terminal too."
"I have done my utmost and deciphered a small half, but I fear there may be mistakes that could mislead Lord Terminal, so..." Yan Jinjin himself lacked confidence. At first he'd thought Body Refining and Qi Refining Cultivation Techniques were just different paths to the sa destination, so translating them shouldn't be hard.
But once he actually started, he realized the gap was as vast as Heaven and Earth; in this past dozen days, progress had been minimal. Even for the parts he'd translated, he couldn't guarantee they were entirely correct.
"It's fine, give it to ," the Terminal said. "I recently made a simulation program based on the principles of Qi Refining Cultivation Techniques. I'll input this Demon Race Cultivation Technique into it and run a simulation."
Yan Jinjin had no choice but to recite the original text out loud. After the Terminal recorded it, he helped check for errors and fill in omissions, correcting a few typos in the Cultivation Technique.
With the Demon Race Cultivation Technique in hand, the Terminal opened the Qi Refining simulation program in the background, input the Demon Race Cultivation Technique, and ran it using Qi Refining principles.
A little figure appeared on the screen. After the program started, the little figure sat cross-legged, and its chest and abdon began to flicker with light.
However, it wasn't long before the little figure suddenly glitched, twitching like a bugged model, and finally the program outright froze.
The Terminal was monitoring the background data in real ti and seed to have caught a clue. "I think I might be able to use source code modifications with the simulator to fuse these two Cultivation Techniques.
You two head back for now, I need so ti. I can't guarantee there will be results, so don't get your hopes too high. Yan Jinjin, you keep researching on your side, don't delay your progress."
As it spoke, it waved and sent the two of them out of the Central Hub.
As soon as they got back to the rental, Yan Jinjin dropped to his knees with a thud, terrified: "This subordinate knows his mistake, I beg the Lord to forgive !"
"You're too scheming." Li Zheng frowned and said, "Whether you ntioned those things or not, I was going to send them to the Terminal anyway. I'm not so petty that I'd punish you over sothing like this.
From now on, don't pull these little tricks in front of . I don't like it."
"Yes!" Yan Jinjin wiped off a swipe of cold sweat. He'd been afraid Li Zheng would bla him for causing losses with a single sentence, which was why he had rushed to admit fault.
Fortunately, Li Zheng was much more magnanimous than he'd imagined and didn't hold it against him.
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