149: Chapter 149 Chen Shuyin: Jiang Chen, you need to explain the matter of the illegitimate daughter.

Moon Base, temporary command center.

It was originally used to command construction, piled high with blueprints and equipment, the air filled with a mixture of machine oil and disinfectant. But at this moment, the atmosphere here was more oppressive than an interrogation room.

All irrelevant personnel—including Zhao Gang, who loved to watch the chaos—were ruthlessly kicked out.

The heavy airtight door 'clanged' shut, completely cutting off the view from the outside.

Jiang Chen was pressed onto a cold metal chair.

Opposite him, Academician Chen Shuyin was slowly putting on a pair of medical rubber gloves, holding a portable DNA detector that flashed with red light. Her posture didn't look like she was facing her lover, but rather an experimental subject about to be dissected.

"Open your mouth."

Academician Chen Shuyin's voice was cold, without a hint of fluctuation, just like the absolute zero on the surface of the Moon.

"Old Chen, let's talk this out..."

Jiang Chen tried to struggle, but seeing the sampling swab in her hand about to be shoved into his mouth, he instinctively shrank his neck back. "Is that thing sterilized? Don't poke my throat, I'll gag."

"Cut the crap."

Academician Chen Shuyin's other hand directly pinched his chin, her movements skilled and overbearing. "Are you going to open it yourself, or do you want me to use a... ahem, a speculum to help you?"

Jiang Chen was so scared he immediately opened his mouth wide, letting out an "Ah" sound.

The swab quickly scraped against the inner wall of his mouth twice.

Sampling, sealing, placing into the detection slot.

The whole set of movements was smooth and fluid, a textbook-level sampling process.

As the instrument began to hum, Academician Chen Shuyin took off her gloves, pushed up the glasses on the bridge of her nose, and her cold eyes stared fixedly at Jiang Chen, as if wanting to see through his soul.

"Jiang Chen, I'll give you one last chance to confess."

She rested her hands on the armrests, leaning forward, shrouding Jiang Chen in her shadow:

"Although from a biological perspective, for you to have a seven or eight-year-old child on the Moon Base, you would have needed to be here ten years ago, which is impossible on the timeline."

"But..."

Academician Chen Shuyin bit her lip, a flash of complex emotion in her eyes that was hard to fathom, with both anger and a strange... sense of resolve:

"But you have too many secrets. Alien warships, Photonic Chip, and that damned Wasteland."

"With you, anything unscientific feels scientific."

She took a deep breath, her tone suddenly softening, even carrying a hint of imperceptible trembling:

"If... I mean if."

"The test results show she is your direct blood relative."

"I won't blame you."

Jiang Chen was stunned.

He blinked, looking at this woman whose style had suddenly changed with a dazed expression.

She won't blame me?

This script isn't right! According to normal logic, shouldn't she slap me and then cry and demand a breakup?

"You won't blame me?" Jiang Chen asked tentatively.

"Right, I won't blame you."

Academician Chen Shuyin turned her head away, her earlobes slightly flushed, her voice low as if speaking to herself:

"After all, back then... we didn't know each other."

"Since it is a given fact, as... ahem, as your partner and that... future wife,"

"I have a responsibility to help you solve this trouble."

She turned her head sharply, looking at Jiang Chen with determined eyes, and said something that almost made Jiang Chen cough up blood on the spot:

"If she is your biological child, I will raise her."

"I will give her the best education, teach her physics, teach her to build spaceships. I will raise her to be a better scientist than me."

"As long as you promise me that you won't mess around in the future, especially not flirting with that whatever Empress!"

Jiang Chen opened his mouth wide, completely dumbfounded.

What kind of god-tier logic is this?

Are the love views of STEM women this hardcore? Is being a stepmother planned out and organized like this?

Not only is she not making a scene, but she also wants to help me raise the child? She even made a career plan for the child?

"Old Chen..."

Jiang Chen was incredibly moved. If he hadn't been tied to the chair (actually he wasn't tied, just suppressed by her aura), he would have really wanted to rush up and kiss this silly woman.

"I accept your sentiment, really."

Jiang Chen sighed, laughing and crying as he pointed to the little loli nearby who was squatting on the ground, curiously picking at the floor seams:

"But can we talk about basic common sense?"

"I'm only twenty-one this year! Twenty-one, big sister!"

"This child looks seven or eight years old! If I could father her, I would have had to commit the 'crime' at twelve or thirteen? Do I have the capacity for that?"

He became more excited as he spoke, pointing at Hill's silver hair and pointed ears:

"Besides, look at this appearance!"

"Silver hair, pointed ears, purple eyes! Where does she look like me? My ancestors for eight generations were pure black-haired and yellow-skinned!"

"This is clearly an alien species! Even if I had a genetic mutation, I couldn't mutate into an elf, right?"

"The species isn't even the same, how could she be my spawn?!"

Jiang Chen felt more wronged than Dou E.

If it were really some romantic debt, that would be one thing, but the key is that this burden is too inexplicable. It's like sitting at home and having a daughter fall from the sky.

"That's not necessarily true."

Academician Chen Shuyin was not swayed by his roar, but instead analyzed rationally:

"Considering you might have conducted some cross-species gene editing experiment, or were affected by high-dimensional radiation, reproductive isolation might not be effective on you."

"After all, you even managed to create a Pikachu, so creating an alien daughter doesn't seem impossible."

"Beep—"

Just as the two were arguing, the detector on the table emitted a crisp, long sound.

The result was out.

Academician Chen Shuyin immediately abandoned Jiang Chen and rushed to the instrument.

She stared fixedly at the line of green data on the screen, holding her breath.

[Comparison Complete.]

[Sample A (Jiang Chen) and Sample B (Unknown Organism).]

[Gene sequence similarity: 0.0001% (Commonality of carbon-based life).]

[Parent-child relationship probability: 0%.]

"Phew..."

Academician Chen Shuyin let out a long breath, her whole body slumping into the chair as if a heavy burden had been lifted.

Thank goodness.

Not biological.

Although she said she was willing to raise her, what woman wants to be a stepmother to someone else's child before getting married?

"See! I told you it was a misunderstanding!"

Jiang Chen felt pardoned, and quickly leaned over to point at the screen, "Clean and clear! Whiter than distilled water! Do you believe me now?"

"I believe you."

Academician Chen Shuyin nodded, the frost on her face fading quite a bit, but her brows were still tightly locked.

She turned around and looked at the little girl who was still squatting on the ground, full of curiosity about everything around her.

Hill seemed to sense her gaze.

She raised her head and bared her teeth at Academician Chen Shuyin, like a little beast guarding its food. Then, she quickly ran to Jiang Chen's side, hugged his thigh again, and rubbed her face against his pant leg.

"Papa..."

"Hungry..."

That kind of reliance, that kind of intimacy, couldn't be faked.

"Since she's not biological."

Academician Chen Shuyin pushed her glasses, her confusion growing even deeper, "Then why does she only stick to you?"

"And why does she speak Chinese? Why does she call you Papa?"

"This doesn't conform to logic."

As a scientist, she couldn't accept this phenomenon without cause and effect.

"This..."

Jiang Chen scratched his head, also unable to explain it clearly.

He couldn't say it was the master-recognition program that came with the system's "Newbie Gift Pack", right?

"Maybe... I have a fatherly face?" Jiang Chen bluffed, "Or maybe it's the custom of her civilization to call every handsome guy Papa?"

Academician Chen Shuyin rolled her eyes, clearly not believing a single word.

Just at this moment.

Hill, who had been shouting about being hungry, seemed to have finally reached her limit.

In her large, amethyst-like eyes, the original liveliness was gradually replaced by a primitive, hungry green light.

"Hungry..."

She let go of Jiang Chen's hand.

Her little nose twitched in the air, as if smelling some extremely tempting fragrance.

She didn't look at the compressed biscuits Jiang Chen took out, nor did she look at the pile of hot pot ingredients.

Her gaze was locked directly onto—

The table leg of the pure titanium alloy experimental table used to place precision instruments nearby.

"That is..."

Academician Chen Shuyin just wanted to say that it was a special metal with extremely high hardness.

The next second.

"Click—!"

A crisp sound that made one's teeth ache.

It was like biting off a chocolate bar.

Under the horrified gaze of Jiang Chen and Academician Chen Shuyin.

The little loli, who looked weak and even a bit malnourished, opened her cherry mouth and bit directly onto the wrist-thick titanium alloy table leg.

Then.

Chewed.

"Gulp."

Swallowed.

That sturdy experimental table, which even bullets couldn't penetrate, instantly lost a leg, tilted and collapsed with a crash, and the instruments on it shattered.

"Hiccup—"

Hill burped, licked her lips, seemed to think the taste was a bit bland, and cast her gaze onto the multi-million dollar DNA detector in Academician Chen Shuyin's hand.

In her eyes, it was written clearly: "This looks tastier."

Jiang Chen: "..."

Academician Chen Shuyin: "..."

A thought flashed through both their minds simultaneously:

Where the hell did this monster come from?!