167: Chapter 167 What to do if my tadpoles have a built-in sonic boom effect?!

The lingering effect of Tie Niu's "Hello, Sister-in-law" had yet to dissipate, and Shen Qingci's Face in the projection was red enough to drip blood.

Su Ming struck while the iron was hot, steering the conversation toward business.

"You just said you had something to tell me?"

Shen Qingci pursed her lips, struggling to suppress the crimson flush on her Face.

"I'm going out for training tomorrow."

Su Ming was taken aback.

"What kind of training? Where to?"

"A Secret Realm," Shen Qingci said succinctly. "Uncle Kong Ming arranged it."

Su Ming's mind whirred; the tier of that place definitely wouldn't be low.

"What are you going to a Secret Realm for?"

Shen Qingci's tone carried a hint of gritted teeth.

"To play! What else could I go there for? Your cultivation is like riding a rocket; have you ever considered how others feel?"

Su Ming: "..."

He couldn't respond to that.

How long had it been since his Awakening? He had already gone from Tier 1 Black Iron to Tier 4 Gold, and his True Mass had already surpassed three hundred tons.

Anyone else would have had a mental breakdown.

He scratched the back of his head, looking uncharacteristically awkward.

"So, how long will you be gone?"

"A month... I won't be able to enroll with you."

Shen Qingci's words were laced with regret.

"That long..."

Su Ming squeezed out a perfectly measured amount of "grief" on his Face, his voice full of reluctance, and he even managed to squeeze a bit of moisture into his eyes, but the corners of his mouth were struggling to stay down...

A month! A whole month!

Didn't that mean there would be no one in the factory watching him consume resources?

He could move in and live with Da Huang.

What was this called? This was a god-given developmental phase!

Plus, with no restrictions, he could go wherever he wanted to roam!

Perfect!

But he still had to go through the motions for the sake of Face.

He reined in his inner ecstasy, put on a deeply affectionate expression, and lowered his voice.

"Actually, you don't need to feel too much pressure. In the future, I'll protect you—"

He didn't finish his sentence.

Shen Qingci stared at his "mournful Face" in the projection and was silent for two seconds.

"Why are the corners of your mouth twitching?"

Su Ming: "?"

"..."

Damn it, the professional actor had crashed and burned.

Shen Qingci let out a cold hum, but there was no real annoyance in her tone; instead, it carried a stubborn refusal to admit defeat.

"I don't need you to protect me. When I come back this time, I'll definitely give you a big surprise."

Su Ming moved his mind and opened the System panel.

Dark golden data spread out across his retina.

[Host: Su Ming]

[Realm: Tier 4 Gold]

[True Mass: 300632.9 kg]

Devouring the Scorpion King's remains had gained him nearly 480,000 mass points, analyzing the Void Dark Spider's severed arm had gained another 150,000, and he had just spent 50,000 to comprehend the Space Sequence. Now, he still had a full 581,300 points left!

[mass points Balance: 581300]

If he went all-in with these mass points and poured them directly into his body, his True Mass would instantly skyrocket to a terrifying 880 tons!

Plus the 2% daily compound interest from [Mass Amplification Lv2],

Thirty days later—

The current value multiplied by 1.02 to the power of 30.

(This bit of compound interest wouldn't stump the fan-dads who are all Tsinghua/Peking University level!)

...

His weight would reach a shocking 1,590 tons!

Nearly 1,600 tons!

And this was just passive growth, not counting the resources he would actively devour this month.

What the hell kind of concept was this?

Su Ming stared at this number, his pupils dilating slightly.

The threshold of Tier 4 Gold had been left far behind him.

The Source Energy System of this world had completely collapsed...

There shouldn't be any species on this planet that could keep up with his abnormal growth speed.

Su Ming wanted to show his cards to Shen Qingci...

Don't be infatuated with your brother.

Your brother is just a cheater...!

"Alright, I'll be waiting."

He cleared his throat and offered a sincere smile to Shen Qingci in the projection.

"I look forward to the day you become stronger. In the future, you'll be a valkyrie, and I'll be a male valkyrie. We'll be a pair and sweep across..."

Before he could finish his sentence.

In the projection, Shen Qingci's expression suddenly froze.

The smile faded from the corners of her mouth, receding as quickly as the tide.

Her eyes turned red in an instant, tears welled up in her eyes, and her lips pressed into a line.

She just stared at him, motionless, as if she had been nailed to the spot by something.

Su Ming's brain went "buzz."

Oh no, what was this about?

Did he step on a landmine?

"Hey, hey, hey, let's not do that, let's not! To hell with that valkyrie/male valkyrie stuff!" He quickly waved his hand to correct himself. "How about we just defect from the Federation and go outside the star System to be a carefree pair of bandits? How does that sound?"

Shen Qingci had initially felt a soreness in her nose, her heart filled with the regret and bitterness regarding her parents. She was stunned by his off-the-wall, grand plan, and then, with a "pfft," she broke into laughter through her tears.

Her eyes still had fine traces of moisture, but her mouth was the first to harden: "Who wants to be a pair of bandits with you? You're not serious at all."

She turned her Face away and quickly wiped the corners of her eyes, suppressing her surging emotions. She tried to force her tone back to its usual coldness, but the tail end of her voice still carried lingering laughter: "Alright, I'm going into the Secret Realm. Go have fun on your own."

"See you in a month!"

Without waiting for Su Ming to banter further, the communication was cut off directly.

The projection went out.

The room fell silent.

Su Ming stared at the empty air and let out a long breath.

That was close.

Damn close.

If it hadn't been for Tie Niu's god-tier assist, he would have been in trouble today.

He sat up and pushed open the private room door. He prepared to go see how that kid Ye Xiao was doing.

As soon as he stepped out, he saw Tie Niu skulking at the end of the hallway, pressing against the crack of the door to his original private room. His head was bobbing up and down as if he were peeking at some peerless show.

His broad back was rising and falling, his Adam's apple bobbing up and down as he kept swallowing saliva.

Su Ming crept over silently and tapped him on the shoulder.

"What are you looking at, so engrossed?"

"Holy shit!"

Tie Niu was startled and turned around abruptly. Seeing it was Su Ming, he breathed a sigh of relief, his Face still flushed with the guilt of being caught in the act.

"Su... Mr. Su, have you finished handling your business?"

Su Ming ignored him and also curiously peeked into the door crack.

"Holy shit, 91 blockbuster online... and it's a raw, muscular amateur's debut."

Through the door crack,

that kid Ye Xiao was sitting slumped on the sofa, his Face flushed red and his eyes hazy. There were two striking plum blossoms of blood on his white bathrobe, and tissues were stuffed in his nostrils.

And those two beautiful masseuses, Wan'er and Ling'er, were hanging off him on the left and right, giggling incessantly.

But his body was very honest; he had absolutely no intention of breaking free.

When Tie Niu heard the magical number "91," his eyes lit up, and he turned back to look at Su Ming with a Face full of worship.

Su Ming turned to look at Tie Niu, his eyes full of gratitude for having survived a disaster.

"Brother, what's your name?"

"Li Tiezhu." Tie Niu scratched the back of his head.

"Brother Tiezhu!"

Su Ming grabbed Tie Niu's large hand, sincere and earnest.

"You saved my life. For tonight's bill, I'll give you triple... no, quintuple the tip."

"Oh! Mr. Su, you're too kind!" Li Tiezhu was flattered. "No, no, this is all part of our job! Sister-in-law is so beautiful, it's normal for her to check up on you!"

Su Ming felt a wave of comfort in his heart.

Look at that, that's what you call professional! That's what you call emotional intelligence!

Su Ming told Tie Niu to go back and rest, and he didn't go to disturb Ye Xiao's "Breakthrough" journey.

He walked to the bedroom area of the suite, lay down on that soft, king-sized bed, and pillowed his hands behind his head.

It was a good thing that he was getting more and more badass.

His hair was so hard that alloy scissors couldn't cut it, his muscles were so dense that the masseuse's hands cramped up...

Of course, these were all minor issues.

But the trend reflected behind this made Su Ming a little panicked.

That was, conventional physical sensation was drifting away from him.

Today, he didn't feel the massage.

What about in the future?

Would he still be able to feel those wonderful, delicate, and heart-pounding, lingering intimacies between a man and a woman?

If things continued to develop like this and his body density really reached a planetary level, wouldn't every single hair be a Sharp Weapon? Wouldn't the fluids in his body be hundreds or thousands of times heavier than mercury?

Then... wouldn't every little sperm cell come with a sonic boom effect when it swam?

If he were to do something shameless with Shen Qingci in the future...

Shooting out a handful of seeds would be like a Gauss cannon firing, directly physically piercing the girl from the inside out like she was tofu?!

"Hiss—"

Su Ming sat up abruptly from the bed.

Breaking out in a cold sweat.

Holy shit!

This problem was serious!

Very serious!

In his previous life, as a miserable office worker who worked 996 until he died of overwork, he had never even held a girl's hand. In this life, it was hard enough to finally be handsome and strong, and he had an ultimate ambiguous object like Shen Qingci; he absolutely could not allow this "human tragedy" to happen to himself!

This concerned the happiness of the rest of his life, and even the rest of his lower body!

"System! System!"

"Daddy, save me!"

Su Ming frantically called out to the System in his mind.

As if it sensed the Host's intense "sexual happiness panic," the cold, mechanical prompt finally sounded.

[Abnormal emotional fluctuation detected in the Host... Analyzing...]

[Analysis complete: The Host's current source of anxiety is 'Reproductive Compatibility Crisis'.]

Su Ming: "Can you speak like a human?"

[Colloquial expression: The Host is worried that he won't be able to have sex in the future.]

"..."

Although accurate, could you not be so blunt?

The System continued to output.

[The Host's current life form is 'Silicon-based Fusion'. The unlocked [Mass Concealment] can only shield the gravitational and heavy pressure effects caused by one's own mass at a macroscopic level to achieve basic contact compatibility; it cannot restore fine tactile sensations and biological softness.]

"Then what do I do? Am I going to feel like I'm touching iron blocks from now on? Not feeling anything when I touch stuff? How am I supposed to live like this!" Su Ming was anxious.

[After the Host promotes to [Third Life Form · Degenerate State], you can unlock the brand-new sequence [Origin Mimicry].]

As it said this, the System actually previewed the sequence introduction in advance!

He could see the trailer in advance?!

[Origin Mimicry: Grants the Host the highest mimicry authority. You can autonomously dissociate and reconstruct the silicon-based matter from the body surface to the shallow subcutaneous layer into conventional carbon-based molecular structures. After mimicking, the skin texture, temperature, humidity, softness, sensitivity, and all other biological signs will be indistinguishable from ordinary humans. At the same time, the high-density structure of the core and combat power will not suffer any loss.]

Su Ming read it word by word.

Thank goodness, there was a solution.

As long as he could disguise himself as having the delicate skin of a normal human, then the happiness of the future would still be there.

He hurriedly followed up: "To promote to that Third Life... whatever state, how many mass points does it need?"

[Condition for achievement: Host's True Mass reaches one million kilograms.]

One million kilograms?

One thousand tons!

After he went all-in, it would be 880 tons!

He was less than 120 tons away from the 1,000-ton goal!

"That's fast!" Su Ming slapped his thigh in excitement.

This 120 tons, relying on the 2% daily natural growth, wouldn't take long. Not to mention he could go "eat" some other things to supplement it.

As long as he found enough "ingredients," before Shen Qingci came out of seclusion, he would definitely be able to handle this major problem concerning his lifelong happiness.

Thinking of this, Su Ming was in a great mood.

However, his brain seemed to have its own ideas and popped up a new question from an even more fatal biological perspective.

He hesitated for two seconds, then bit the bullet and asked in a serious tone, as if discussing an academic problem:

"Then... what about offspring? With this Degenerate State body of mine, can I still have normal human offspring?"

The System was silent.

One second.

Two seconds.

Three seconds.

Then—

[It is suggested that the Host first find an object willing to reproduce with you before discussing these details.]

"..."

The expression on Su Ming's Face froze.

"???"

You motherf***er... are you insulting me again?

This damn System actually learned how to make personal attacks!