Evolving infinitely from ground zero

“Xiao Chen, when did you wake up?”

Shen Qinghan, who had just woken up, was standing at the balcony doorway in a light pink nightgown, barefoot and rubbing her eyes, sleepily looking towards Lin Zichen and asked.

Lin Zichen stood up from the ground and, while picking up the yoga mat underfoot, said, “I woke up earlier today, before 5 am.”

“You’re up so early. Compared to you, I feel so lazy.”

“It’s only just past 7 am, a university student getting up at this time isn’t lazy at all.”

“But you woke up before 5…”

Shen Qinghan wasn’t comparing herself to the average university student but to Lin Zichen.

Lin Zichen walked in front of her and stopped, tenderly arranging her disheveled hair as he said in a gentle voice, “That’s different, my superpower is my strong physical body and abundance of Qi-Blood, I have less need for sleep than ordinary people, you don’t need to compare with me.”

“Everyone has their own strengths. Take your special constitution for example, your skin is tender and smooth, your sweat even smells fragrant. Plus, despite constantly engaging in high-intensity workouts, your strength keeps increasing day by day, but your muscles don’t bulge or firm up, keeping your figure slender and graceful, making other girls envious and resentful.”

“If you really want to wake up early, then from now on we can go to sleep earlier, around 10 pm. Early to bed, early to rise.”

“Let’s not do that, I prefer to sleep in with you rather than get up early,” Shen Qinghan said lazily.

After speaking, she tiptoed and gave Lin Zichen a peck on the lips, her smile sweet as she said, “That’s my good morning kiss, from now on, we have to kiss like this every day.”

Lin Zichen smiled and pinched her bottom as he urged, “Go brush your teeth quickly, or else you’ll run out of time and end up rushing to class again, sweating profusely.”

“It’s okay, there’s still plenty of time.”

Even though Shen Qinghan said this, she obediently went back to the room to put on slippers, then to the bathroom to brush her teeth and wash her face.

…

Half an hour later.

After breakfast, the two left the house together.

When they reached the downstairs of the dormitory and were about to go their separate ways, two familiar figures blocked their path.

They were former classmates from high school—Wang Shujie and Lu Gang.

Among them, the burly Lu Gang spoke first, “Lin Zichen, can I take a moment of your time? I have a favor to ask of you…”

“Go ahead,” Lin Zichen said indifferently.

Lu Gang clenched his fists and said with a face that found it hard to speak, “There’s a senior who doesn’t like me and Wang Shujie. Relying on his strength being greater than ours, he targets us every day, and we’re finding it hard to cope. Could you please stand up for us?”

“You’re the newcomer king of this year. That senior definitely won’t dare to offend you and will give you face.”

“Of course, we won’t let you help us for nothing.”

Lu Gang handed over a bag he was carrying, adding, “There are several types of Spirit Fruits in the bag, some for beauty and skin care, some for calming the mind and refreshing the brain, and some for blood and vitality enhancement. They were sent by my father especially as evolution resources, now I’m giving them all to you, hoping you can do us this favor.”

After he finished, Wang Shujie, setting aside his pride, also pleaded humbly, “Lin Zichen, even though we are not that close, in the name of being high school classmates, can you grudgingly make a move to help us this once?”

Considering they were former classmates, and there was a bag of Spirit Fruits involved, Lin Zichen felt he could agree to this request.

But he didn’t agree immediately, instead he asked, “What is the strength of that senior?”

“From what we know, that person is almost as strong as you, around an ordinary Sixth Order,” Wang Shujie replied.

Ordinary Sixth Order?

Then this favor shouldn’t be too difficult to handle…

Thinking this, Lin Zichen said, “That’s fine. Meet me at the gate of the Pure Human Research Institute at 5:30 pm, and I’ll solve this for you.”

Seeing him agree, Lu Gang clenched his fist against his chest, seriously saying, “Lin Zichen, if you need my help with anything in the future, I promise to be there whenever you call.”

Wang Shujie said, “Same for me.”

Lin Zichen said, “It’s just a small effort.”

Lu Gang again extended the bag he was holding and said, “Lin Zichen, please accept this bag of Spirit Fruits.”

“Then I won’t be polite.”

Lin Zichen reached out and accepted the bag from Lu Gang.

Lu Gang reminded, “Oh, those Spirit Fruits in the bag are of three different types.”

“The white-skinned are for beauty and skin care, blue-skinned for calming the mind and refreshing the brain, and red-skinned for enhancing blood and vitality. Make sure you two don’t eat the wrong ones.”

“Especially the wriggling red Spirit Fruit inside, the effect for enhancing blood and vitality is particularly strong, and women might have adverse reactions if they eat it.”

Lu Gang added, “Also, don’t eat too many of the red-skinned Spirit Fruits, one a day at most, otherwise, it’s easy to get inflamed.”

Lin Zichen said, “Alright, I got it.”

If that’s all, I’ll go with Wang Shujie now, see you at 5:30 pm.”

After saying that, Lu Gang and Wang Shujie turned and walked away.

Seeing the two of them walk away, Shen Qinghan immediately curiously said to Lin Zichen, “Xiao Chen, open the bag and let’s see the Spirit Fruits, I’ve never eaten one in my life.”

“Then you can take one to eat on the road,” Lin Zichen said.

Lin Zichen opened the bag to pick out a white or blue-skinned Spirit Fruit for Shen Qinghan to eat.

Shen Qinghan leaned over and looked into the bag, saying, “Pick a smaller one, I won’t be able to finish it if it’s too big.”

“Okay, I’ll pick a small one for you.”

After saying that, Lin Zichen reached into the bag to search.

Shortly after he began searching, a red Spirit Fruit at the bottom of the bag caught his attention.

It was the size of an egg, its skin covered in pulsing veins, looking like an animal’s heart.

Shen Qinghan also noticed the oddly shaped Spirit Fruit, her brows slightly furrowed as she said, “Zi Chen, that red Spirit Fruit at the bottom is so disgusting.”

Although Lu Gang had just specifically mentioned this Spirit Fruit, she hadn’t expected it to look so repulsive.

The skin kept wriggling.

It looked as if it were a worm gone bad.

It was quite nauseating.

Lin Zichen also found the oddly shaped Spirit Fruit disgusting.

But out of curiosity, he took the fruit out of the bag to take a closer look.

Just as he was about to sniff the strange Spirit Fruit,

suddenly, the [Danger Perception] in his mind jumped violently!

Following that, a prompt message slowly appeared out of thin air.

[Do you wish to ingest the advanced Tree Demon Gu Seed?]

Tree Demon? Gu Seed?

Capable of being ingested?

What’s going on?

Divine Plant Cult?

Initially bewildered, Lin Zichen then recalled the sudden jump in his [Danger Perception] and immediately realized something was amiss.

Meanwhile, Lu Gang and Wang Shujie had not walked far, just over two hundred meters away.

Without hesitating, Lin Zichen took a quick step forward and instantly rushed in front of the two, blocking their path.

“You two, don’t go anywhere.”

“What’s wrong?”

Wang Shujie was somewhat confused.

Next to him, Lu Gang’s eyes flickered with a fleeting panic.

Lin Zichen didn’t answer his question; instead, he shouted to Shen Qinghan, who was jogging over, “Han Han, contact your master and ask her to come here!”

“Okay, I’ll contact her now!”

Shen Qinghan responded and stopped to take out her phone to contact Yuan Dongzhi.

She didn’t understand what the situation was, but that didn’t matter. She knew one thing: following Lin Zichen’s lead was the right thing to do.

…

Underneath Shanhai City.

Twenty thousand meters deep.

Inside the vast and empty Underground Palace,

a seemingly hunchbacked elderly man in a mask stood in front of a blood-red cane planted in the ground, muttering a strange incantation under his breath.

Behind him stood a tall Three-eyed Giant and lay a massive Mutant Rat.

Both the Three-eyed Giant and the Mutant Rat were very quiet, careful not to disturb the elderly masked figure.

Time passed unknowingly.

The elderly figure stopped chanting, slowly opened his tightly shut eyes, and said in a hoarse voice:

“It’s done.”

As he spoke, the blood-red cane in front of him suddenly plunged into the ground and disappeared from view.

The next second, the ground cracked open with terrifying spiderweb-like fissures before collapsing with a thunderous sound, creating a huge hole.

It was pitch black inside the hole, and nothing could be seen.

“The biological coordinates on both sides are connected, and the biological passage has been successfully opened.”

“Next, we just need to wait for this biological passage to stabilize, and then we can fully connect to Source Land No. 36.”

“At that time, the creatures from Origin Land will be able to be transported continuously to Earth,” the elderly man said in an increasingly hoarse voice.

…

PS: Just one chapter today, updating bright and early tomorrow.