Dawn of a New Era

Chen Shouyi, who had just been smug, closed his mouth awkwardly upon hearing this.

My front tooth didn't offend anyone, I brush my teeth every morning and evening, and rinse my mouth after meals. How did it disappear? I would like to know too.

Unfortunately, Chen Xingyue wasn't planning to let him off so easily. Holding back laughter, she pretended to be concerned, "Brother, were you beaten up?"

Upon hearing this, he sneered and felt a bit suffocated in his chest, glared and said angrily, "Why do you keep annoying me, asking so many questions? Just eat your breakfast properly!"

He reluctantly took a few bites and couldn't eat anymore, then stood up and said, "I'm done eating."

He walked out the front door, got his bicycle out of the garage, and prepared to go to the hospital to have his fallen tooth replanted.

Such a minor surgery could be completed within half an hour, and with his Self-Healing ability, after the surgery, it would look exactly as it was before.

Chen Xingyue chased to the doorway, looking at her brother who was clearly in a bad mood, and shouted loudly from behind, "Brother, you still haven't said how your front tooth disappeared?"

Chen Shouyi's face darkened, and without acknowledging his gloating sister, he kicked off on his bicycle and quickly rode towards the hospital.

A few minutes later, he parked his bike in the hospital's bike shed. After registering at the service desk and inquiring with the nurse, he found out he had come too early. The dentist wouldn't start work until eight, and it was only six thirty now.

But he could only patiently wait.

As time ticked by, he finally waited for the dentist to start work.

"What's your situation, a cavity?" asked a female dentist who looked around thirty, addressing Chen Shouyi.

Chen Shouyi immediately showed his missing front tooth: "My tooth fell out, can it be replanted? I brought the fallen tooth with me!"

Saying this, he took the already cleaned front tooth out of his pocket.

"If the root is intact, the tooth can be replanted. Let me check your gums first, open your mouth... a bit wider please!" The female dentist said, picking up a dental mirror and forceps, and started to prod in his mouth.

The more she examined, the more puzzled she became. She found that a new tooth was growing inside his gums.

Though it had just started to emerge and was still enveloped within the gum, it felt quite hard to the touch. She was confident that her judgment was correct.

But this was rather baffling, almost unheard of.

A person only has one set of teeth in their lifetime, usually starting at age six when their baby teeth come out and are replaced by more permanent adult teeth around age twelve, which last a lifetime.

She had been practicing for six years and had never encountered anyone getting a second set of teeth before, nor were there any medical cases similar to this.

After a lengthy inspection, she released this rare case, glanced up and down at Chen Shouyi, then picked up the medical record book, glanced at the first page of personal information, and finally couldn't help asking, "Are you really eighteen years old... could it be that your age is written wrong?"

For instance, six or seven years old!

Of course, she only thought that last line to herself. Even if the person ate hormones from birth, they couldn't possibly grow to be this tall and strong.

"Of course, it's not written wrong!" Chen Shouyi was puzzled by the question and asked, "Does this have anything to do with implanting a tooth?"

"No, Mr. Chen, your situation is quite special, and it's not possible to implant a tooth!"

"Could it only be a fake tooth then?" Chen Shouyi said a bit disappointedly. Although fake teeth look like real ones, upon closer inspection, they can still be identified.

"Please let me finish! You can't get a tooth implanted right now. I suspect that a new tooth is growing inside, but I can't confirm it yet. It needs some time to observe, and I suggest you come back in three days to check on it."

...

Chen Shouyi walked out of the hospital, still unable to believe it.

His tongue touched the gap where his tooth was missing, and it seemed like there really was some hard thing there.

"Could Natural Healing also regenerate limbs, grow back fallen teeth!" Chen Shouyi thought and thought, and could only attribute it to his innate ability: "I wonder how long it will take for it to grow back to normal!"

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a headache coming on.

It was imaginable that as a dignified Martial Artist in the eyes of outsiders, once he opened his mouth showing a gap from his missing front tooth, it really would lose all dignity.

"Forget it, I should stay low profile for a while!"

Chen Shouyi pushed out his bicycle and hurriedly rode back home with a depressed look.

...

On the small hill outside the Safe Zone.

"Hey Giant, you're missing a tooth." Shell Lady squatted on a nearby tree, blinked her eyes, and seriously reminded him.

Her small hand clutched a poor, chubby little white worm, not sure from where it was caught, continuously squishing it.

"I know!" Chen Shouyi said in a muffled voice while assembling his War Bow.

"Did you lose it and can't find it?" Shell Lady asked curiously.

Why is everyone's curiosity so strong? It's just a tooth, what's the big deal, why pay so much attention to it?

"The tooth was worn out, so I pulled it out and threw it away!" Chen Shouyi said irritably.

Upon hearing this, Shell Lady felt a bit worried, quickly showing a neat row of small white teeth, urgently asked Chen Shouyi, "I've been using my teeth for a long time too, do you think they still look new?"

A little showoff.

Chen Shouyi looked up at her and found it curious. He had never brushed her teeth, and when she lived in the other world, she didn't have the concept of teeth brushing either, yet her teeth were like white jade, translucent and beautiful like a piece of art.

"Very new, very beautiful," Chen Shouyi unreservedly praised her.

"Oh!" Shell Lady immediately beamed with joy, she softly clacked her upper and lower jaws together, making a faint tinkling sound, excitedly said, "My teeth are not only very beautiful, very new, but also very strong, when I was little, I even bit dead a bad worm that wanted to eat me."

Chen Shouyi glanced at her tiny cherry-like mouth, about three millimeters wide, he really couldn't imagine what a brutal scene that would be.

...

After a whole day of training outside.

When Chen Shouyi finally got home, he was immediately bombarded with questions by his parents. Obviously, his sister, the traitor, had already spread the word about this incident.

Chen Shouyi could only come up with an excuse to muddle through.

Eventually, he was forced to open his mouth, and under the aggressive scrutiny of his parents and sister, he shamefully opened his mouth to show the gap.

"No worries, just get a tooth implanted, it won't affect life," Chen Dawei laughed heartily.

Chen Shouyi did not disclose the matter of a new tooth growing, as it was too astonishing.

Overall, his mood for the day was utterly ruined.

However, when it came time to eat, he discovered that this wasn't even the worst part; he found the tooth next to the gap was also loose and shaky.

After hastily finishing his meal, he quickly went to the bathroom in his bedroom and looked in the mirror again and again.

"Damn, am I going to have to replace all my teeth?"

Although Chen Shouyi kept telling himself that he shouldn't pull that tooth out anymore, in the end, his hands couldn't resist and he pulled it out.

Looking at the massive gap in the mirror, almost wide enough to fit a Shell Lady sideways, and even the air he breathed out made a hissing sound as it leaked out.

He couldn't help but secretly resolve not to speak until the teeth fully grew back.