Ch 109: TGCIR

Li Weilan walked over to the tree.

Through the sticky substance, which was smeared with an unknown liquid, he carefully examined the tree. It was evident that during cultivation, the tree mutated towards the direction of the petri dish. Even the semi-transparent bags were smeared with the sticky liquid, and lightly poking the outside with his fingers, he could faintly hear the sound of the liquid inside sloshing back and forth.

Li Weilan placed his hand on the outside of the bag and inputted a bit of ability to sense it. Suddenly, his face changed slightly, and he turned to look at Shen Cheng. “They all have abilities.”

“Eh?” Shen Cheng was puzzled for a moment. She hadn’t yet grasped Li Weilan’s meaning. Isn’t it a good thing that they all have abilities? Why does he look so troubled?

The ratio of post-apocalyptic ability users to ordinary people is roughly between 1:6 and 1:10. In other words, usually only one ability user is born in every two households.

However, a common problem faced by all bases is that abilities are not inherited, which leads to a low fertility rate for ability users, even strong ones have to worry about whether their next generation can inherit their talents. So, although only a little over two years have passed since the apocalypse began, the issue of the next generation has already become a concern for some long-term planners.

Shen Cheng’s first reaction was, could the controller of this tree be so powerful that they could find so many women with abilities for experiments?

But then she realized what he meant. When he said “they,” he could refer to both females and children whose genders couldn’t be distinguished yet.

Shen Cheng’s complexion changed, and she paled when she realized this. “Are you saying… children?” If he had only mentioned mothers, Li Weilan’s expression wouldn’t have been so grim. It was only when he mentioned fetuses still in their mothers’ wombs that the scene before her became particularly unsettling. These children, still in their mothers’ wombs, already had abilities. If they were nurtured, indoctrinated, and educated from a young age, when they grew up, wouldn’t they become the hidden army of the person behind the scenes?

Furthermore, even if they didn’t employ such strategies, without resorting to such extreme methods, no matter what method was used to cultivate this group of children born with abilities, how could the rights of the mothers be safeguarded? If the relatives of these mothers knew that they could give birth to children with abilities, would they directly ignore their own wishes and even pin their hopes of protecting the family on the children they bore?

Shen Cheng looked at Li Weilan with a slightly pale face. He nodded slowly, and the two exchanged a glance. At this moment, they had reached a consensus. No matter what, this matter must be nipped in the bud.

But the problem now was, they were wary of putting the cart before the horse. The women inside these bags still had their eyes closed, still appeared to be breathing. They might all be innocent experimental subjects. They couldn’t just leave them to die, could they?

At this moment, the tree gently swayed. “I can let them down.”

“Will they be okay?” Shen Cheng asked suspiciously.

“They will,” the tree said, “The fetuses have already grown, even if you didn’t come, they would climb out on their own in a few days.”

Shen Cheng conveyed the meaning of the tree to Li Weilan.

After a brief discussion, Li Weilan discovered that these seemingly fragile membranes were actually covered in fiber-like strands, making them quite resilient and not easily broken. Moreover, judging from the appearance of those mothers, with their bulging bellies, it was clear that they were not in the early stages of pregnancy.

In the late stages of pregnancy, they weren’t so fragile, and moreover, what they were carrying in their bellies were all ability users, so they should be even more resilient.

Li Weilan and Shen Cheng walked over to one of the large bags together, intending to put it down. But suddenly, a change occurred. With a “bang,” all the bags near them suddenly burst one after another, splattering the two of them with milk-white liquid from head to toe.

Even though their bodies had yet to react, Li Weilan’s heart sank abruptly. If there was nothing wrong with the milk, how could all the bags that were obviously resilient suddenly burst?

A weak moan suddenly came from behind him. He turned around to see Shen Cheng had already collapsed to the ground, her gaze unfocused.

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“Hehehehe,” the tree swayed triumphantly at this moment, waving its leaves. Its feeling was very clear: the threat from this man was disappearing, and as for the woman who could resonate with it, every bit of torment it suffered was now being fed back to her body.

Li Weilan raised his hand, only to find that his spatial ability seemed to be locked in a box. At this moment, he could only faintly glimpse the power belonging to it from the narrow gap, but no matter how hard he tried to lift the lid, it seemed that only wisps of hair-thin strands could leak out, and he couldn’t fully touch that power.

He knew in his heart that this must be related to the milk that had splattered on both of them. And when he saw Shen Cheng, who had become limp and powerless, he immediately rolled over and directly brought Shen Cheng into his space.

The two people who it had originally seemed to have the upper hand abruptly disappeared from its sight, and the tree, caught off guard, let out a thunderous roar. The women lying on the ground, originally clutching their stomachs with empty eyes, opened their lifeless eyes and, like ghosts, looked around blankly, mechanically clutching their bellies and searching around.

The roar of the giant tree was isolated outside of the space. Li Weilan felt his body start to heat up as soon as he placed Shen Cheng on the ground in the space. He knew it wasn’t good. He put Shen Cheng down on the ground and turned around to leave.

But as soon as he took a step, his sleeve was grabbed from behind by her.

Shen Cheng’s eyes were still scattered, and even she herself didn’t realize that her voice carried a hint of charm. “Lan Lan, I feel hot.”

The connection between this body and the tree was particularly strong. In that moment just now, she clearly felt that the milk-white liquid was full of fervent hormones.

She seemed to sense the experiences of the tree. Originally just an ordinary tree, it was discovered by the scientists that its seeds could grow into human bodies with abilities inside women’s wombs. In simple terms, it grew into something that inherited both the genes of the tree and those of women but lacked consciousness.

This tree itself had both earth and wood abilities. If not, it couldn’t have burrowed so deeply into the ground. The children in the women’s bellies inherited its earth ability, so naturally, they all became ability users.

And this process was particularly short, only taking half a month for them to mature and naturally deliver.

The milk-white liquid was the secretion of the tree, not only providing nutrition but also carrying the tree’s ability to ripen and charm. In the moment it splashed onto Shen Cheng’s head, she felt as if she were immersed in hormones, momentarily stunned.

Seeing Li Weilan about to leave, Shen Cheng reflexively grabbed him. Even her voice carried a hint of grievance. “Lan Lan, where are you going?”

“I’ll get you a towel,” Li Weilan said, “Are you feeling hot?”

Her eyes were clear and as limpid as rippling waves. The influence of the white milk didn’t affect Li Weilan as severely as Shen Cheng. To him, it was just a slight disturbance in his heart.

“Mm,” Shen Cheng obediently let go of his hand, but her eyes still looked at him with a watery gaze. She lightly bit her lip, causing a glimmer of moisture to appear there.

Li Weilan’s gaze grew deeper.

He knew she was influenced by the tree’s milk, but the things he hadn’t done while awake, he became even less likely to do while in a daze.

So he just gently patted her hand, smiled reassuringly, and turned to find a towel in the box.

Using mineral water to wet the cloth, Li Weilan returned to find that Shen Cheng’s entire body was breathing rapidly, her face flushed with a rose-colored pink, her soft hums sounding particularly uncomfortable.

Damn tree.

Li Weilan cursed inwardly. He didn’t think that their relationship and behavior needed such a catalyst.

What he was more worried about now was how long she had left. In case she was still under the influence of this effect, could she still go back smoothly? And if she couldn’t go back, would it affect her?

Compared to these consequences, everything else seemed trivial.

Shen Cheng struggled to open her eyelids when she heard his voice.

Blurrily seeing Li Weilan’s face, she reached out her hand with difficulty and looked at him with blurry eyes. She stuttered, “Lan Lan, I’m really hot.”

Both adults knew what ‘hot’ meant in this context. Li Weilan understood, and so did she.

However, the man just silently crouched down to rub her overheated head and sighed softly, “You’ll feel better in a while.”

You’re lying. It won’t get better at all.

Shen Cheng inexplicably thought to herself, suddenly feeling vaguely upset. Tears welled up in her eyes involuntarily. “You lied to me. I feel terrible.”

“I feel terrible too.” He seemed to sigh faintly, but he didn’t stop his movements to leave.

“Well, how can you feel better so you won’t feel bad?” she bit her lip and said, “I don’t want to feel this way either.”

Seeing her face flushed, Li Weilan made up his mind and sat down next to her.

“Shh, don’t move.” His voice carried a coaxing tone, but his tone was familiar. Shen Cheng hummed softly a few times without moving, obediently sitting there and letting him comfort her.

The process was actually quite comfortable.

But thinking back on it was embarrassing.

The key was that when people woke up, they felt particularly, particularly embarrassed. Just a moment ago, she was holding his hand and wouldn’t let go, but now she didn’t even want to look at him.

Li Weilan tossed the towel he had wrung out, feeling a bit cheap himself. He wiped off the liquid from his hands and looked helplessly at the girl who was still sulking on the side. “Don’t be angry, hmm?”

“Damn tree,” Shen Cheng seethed with anger inside, feeling nowhere to vent it. Now she saw him cowering, and she also knew that he was affected to some extent. But if she got angry now, her face would change color as soon as she checked the time. She had only a few minutes left.

Damn tree.

She spent one or two hours in a daze. Just as she regained consciousness, she was about to return to her own home.

“Lan Lan.” Shen Cheng’s heart flashed with panic. She grabbed Li Weilan’s head and kissed him before he could react.

“Um.” He reacted quickly, taking the initiative to press down her legs, trembling with excitement. Shen Cheng even suspected that he wanted to devour her whole person.

She wanted to say there’s no time, stop kissing, but she forgot to say it in the haze of the kiss. Li Weilan had the beauty in his arms one second, and the next second, he only held empty air.

“…” His expression turned instantly gloomy, that empty feeling of loss turned into extreme anger. He picked up the Thunder in his hand and went out directly to chop down the tree.

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Thingyan: so…….he gave her a handjob? 🫣🫣🫣 hehe