NOVEL NEXT Chapter 477: Extra 16: "Chen Universe" (16)
"Hmm, yeah."
Chen Miao sat listlessly to one side, listening to Chen Yi shower praise on his son. He couldn't help but roll his eyes secretly. Although he also felt pity for his son's ordeal, his father's expression was a bit too exaggerated.
In modern terms, the acting was a bit too fake.
It was quite absurd.
Right now, he really wanted to embrace his son passionately like they did in TV dramas, but the problem was that his son had only been missing for three months, and he found it difficult to muster such excitement.
Moreover...
His face filled with complex emotions, he turned to look at the hulking figure beside him; that beard was even more exaggerated than your dad's. If you went outside and said you were my dad, people would believe it.
Anyway.
A harmonious family is always a good thing.
Finally—
Three months earlier, the disappointing conclusion to Chen Ping's coming-of-age ceremony was held again, although Chen Ping was actually older than Chen Miao at this point, the event was still advertised as a 13-year-old's coming of age.
It was like, no matter what hardships you endure outside, when you return, you are still the baby in the eyes of your parents.
...
At the banquet.
Chen Miao stood in the corner with a wine glass, his expression speechless as he looked at Chen Ping standing on the stage in a clueless manner. He felt a silent exasperation. What are you pretending to be pure for here? You've probably collected hundreds of Lost Souls by now, and you're still acting like a pure youth?
What's worse is.
After the banquet ended, Chen Ping found him and said earnestly that he wanted to go back to school, starting from his first year of high school.
"Are you sure?"
Chen Miao looked at Chen Ping with a complex expression: "Are you sure you want to go back to school now? You're over a hundred years old, and you want to go back to school?"
"But in the Federal system, I'm not yet 14 years old."
With the Chen Family's status.
Even the children of the servants don't need to go outside to school. This is a massive interest group, and whether it is the children of subordinates or servants, their education is taken care of by the Chen Family. In the Chen Family's courtyard, there is a large area with several schools built.
The children of this group all study there, completely free of charge.
And the educational resources are the best in the federation.
Chen Ping also always studied within the Chen Family campus.
According to Chen Yi, it was to let the future decision-maker grow up with the children of these old subordinates. This way, the affection between them would grow deeper, and in the future, they would be good helpers.
Chen Ping didn't use to like going to school much.
But now, for some reason, he suddenly wanted to take the initiative to study again.
"Mmm."
Chen Ping nodded seriously: "After drifting outside for many years, I'm tired. I want to go back to the campus and enjoy a peaceful life without danger."
"..."
After a long, complex silence, Chen Miao finally nodded and said, "Okay, but you need to be careful. Every one of your classmates has parents who've made significant contributions to the Chen Family. If you can't control your Strength and you kill or injure one of your classmates...
"That would be difficult to deal with."
"You understand?"
"Don't worry, dad. I have a sense of it."
...
"Here."
Jian Wuya beamed as he bragged to Hungry Monkey: "This is my thirty-seventh child; impressive, isn't it?"
"..."
Hungry Monkey's eyes flickered with a hint of shock as he looked up and said, "That's... that's pretty impressive. Your wife's quite fertile, huh."
The thirty-seventh child?
If you don't have several wives—that is, just one wife—then your wife is indeed quite fertile. To have one child each year would mean she has been giving birth for thirty-seven years.
"Cut it out."
Thin Rabbit spoke irritably from the side: "Hungry Monkey, don't be fooled by him. This guy isn't normal; his story is extremely complicated, truly complicated. Simply put, he's a sword player who often thinks he's a Sword Cultivator from a cultivation novel."
"If we go into the complicated details, then it becomes really complicated."
"Basically, he can no longer fall in love with any woman, and in the end, he used technological means to make a clone. This clone is fashioned after himself, and then they implanted a chip inside the clone's brain. That chip has now grown to possess emotions just like a human."
"It's basically like marrying a feminized version of himself."
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"And then, from time to time, he liked to clone another baby version of himself, tuck it into his wife's stomach, and then stand outside the delivery room, emotionally charged while waiting for the leading doctor to cut open his wife's clone belly and take out the baby he had personally placed in there through Caesarean section."
"Yet he would excitedly cradle the newborn who could call out 'Dad' as soon as it was born, and boast about it everywhere, while his wife safely gave birth to a chubby boy."
"Heh, even though the Chen Family has its fair share of neurotics, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone more neurotic than him."
"At least I haven't come across one."
"All of us know about his weird hobby, and we've grown tired of indulging him. Just when a newcomer arrives, that's when he comes to show off to you. Just ignore him and that's all there is to it."
Jian Wuya, with a dissatisfied look on his face, said, "If you don't understand love, then don't talk about it."
"Yeah, I don't understand it."
Thin Rabbit said expressionlessly, "This guy even has a collection of thousands of different shells at home for his wife to change into every day, today inserting the chip into black skin, tomorrow into white skin, and there are even the likes of elephants and foxes. Anyway, I find it hard to accept."
"I neither understand nor respect it."
Just then—
Elder Bai, who hadn't been seen in a long while, suddenly came from the distance, looking at the few people chatting on the rooftop and immediately hastened his steps.
"You're all here, do you know where Wang Jili is? I have a question that I need his advice on."
"What's up?"
The Hungry Monkey looked reflexively at Bai Lai, who was running over, "Haven't seen you in a long time. You haven't been staying on your White Continent all this time, have you? Seriously planning on guarding tombs for life?"
"He's in the banquet hall right now. What happened?"
"How should I put it."
Elder Bai ran over, panting with hesitance, "You all know about my White Continent thing, right? These years it's been fine without any problems, and I've been able to maintain a balance."
"It's just that occasionally, according to my own little hobby, I've enhanced some species, but it was a very minor enhancement."
"But I've recently taken an extra liking to a certain species and secretly strengthened them multiple times, and then I haven't paid much attention lately, as I've been immersed in the first-person experience of other people's life stories in my own graveyard."
"And then..."
"When I came to my senses and checked the state of the White Continent, I found that the species had already achieved unification..."
"The other ninety-plus species were either wiped out by this one or enslaved by it."
"Tsk."
Zhou Shen, standing by, couldn't help but smack his lips and said, "How perfect is that? Isn't this what you longed for? The small species you enhanced successfully achieved a great unification and gained your favor. What's the problem?"
"If you feel that there's nothing left to play with next, you could just throw a few more species in there, couldn't you?"
"It's not that, the problem is that the power of that species has suddenly skyrocketed geometrically and it's about to break through the limits of the White Continent to the outside universe, it's already beyond my control!"
"Wow..."
Scarred Dog began to look increasingly bewildered, "That is a problem, but the scenario you're describing sounds so familiar to me. I feel like I've experienced this scene before. If it's just this problem, don't worry."
"Let Yi, Miao, Jiang, oh and now there's Ping, any one of these four could easily wipe out that species, no chance of them causing trouble."
"Nothing to worry about."
"Currently, in the universe, no one can escape Yi's palm."
"That's the problem!" Elder Bai said anxiously, "I really like this species and don't want them to be wiped out, but I also don't want them to leave the White Continent, so I intended to consult Wang Jili to see if there's another way since he knows a bit more about this, right?"
"What's the name of that species that has you so concerned?"
"The Cat Clan."
"Got it."
Suddenly, Scarred Dog solemnly put his arm around Elder Bai's shoulder and said earnestly, "Don't worry, I'll go into the banquet hall now and find Wang Jili to see what the situation is."
And at that moment—
Wang Jili, with one hand in a pocket and a casual air, walked out of the banquet hall, dangling a cigarette and said to the group looking at him quizzically, "What's going on?"
...
Two hours later.
Wang Jili and others appeared above the White Continent.
At the same time, dozens of species reappeared on the White Continent.
"Here."
Wang Jili, resignedly said, "You've given too powerful a cheat to this species; there's no way to dial that back. But it's not like there's no solution; it's actually quite simple. You just need to amp up the cheats for the other species a bit more."
"In the end, it boils down to this saying—"
"More water, add flour; more flour, add water."
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