263: Chapter 263 Science Cannot Explain Phenomena

From the very first day the cruise ship capsized, Lin Fan's behavior was different from everyone else's.

He didn't loot luxury goods like the others, waiting around for rescue.

Back then, he was already able to find the only knife, find the hidden Karst Cave, and even predict weather changes in advance.

In the past, Song Ya thought Lin Fan was a wilderness survival expert with a rich reserve of knowledge.

Now it all made sense.

This wasn't any reserve of knowledge at all; this was like having a maphack turned on!

For the next few minutes, no one spoke, as if they were digesting the news.

Zhou Kai looked at Lin Fan, and it all made sense now—how an intern could become the most successful survivor on this island.

Fortunately, he had latched onto the right person.

Liu Feifei's throat felt dry and painful, "Lin Fan."

"So... when you were first stranded on the first day, you knew that rescue would never come, right?"

Lin Fan's expression didn't fluctuate much.

"Mhm."

After answering, Lin Fan ignored their messy thoughts.

He pointed at the bottle of insect repellent and spoke, "Kaizi, go get the insect repellent and clear out those messy bugs around us."

Zhou Kai nodded, "Alright, Brother Fan, I'll go right now."

Lin Fan then turned his head, his gaze falling back onto Su Qingxue.

Su Qingxue was looking at those items he had produced out of thin air.

From that lofty corporate president, she had become a useless burden, and now to an existence possessing the special ability of retrieving items from thin air.

In just three short months, everything had turned upside down; she didn't know whether she should be happy or sad.

"President Su, stop spacing out."

"When did this ability of yours appear?"

Su Qingxue withdrew her gaze, "Yesterday."

"Be exact."

"Right when I woke up yesterday, before you had me eat the porridge."

Lin Fan recalled the entire process of Su Qingxue fainting yesterday.

After Dr. Xu took her pulse later, it was confirmed that she was pregnant.

Pregnant?

On this Deserted Island, the magnetic field was chaotic, plants and animals mutated, and ordinary physiological laws had long since failed.

Wang Lan hadn't gotten pregnant despite being with Zhang Tao for so long, and Liu Feifei had lived with Zhou Kai for a long time without any changes to her belly either.

If it was because their physical constitutions were poor, then what about Wang Laoliu? That guy ate plenty of protein and had such a strong body, yet in a month, he hadn't gotten any of the three women under him pregnant.

This verified his previous conjecture that women had a very hard time conceiving here.

Yet Su Qingxue happened to conceive.

Even more coincidentally, she had just fainted from energy exhaustion after confirming her pregnancy, and right after waking up, she immediately awakened this ability to acquire supplies.

If these two events were linked together...

Lin Fan looked at Xu Zhixia.

"Dr. Xu, let's discuss a medical issue."

Xu Zhixia put down the medicinal herbs she was pounding, clapped her hands, and said, "Go ahead."

"From a physiological perspective, during the process of the mother nurturing the fetus, how do they exchange substances?"

Xu Zhixia: "Mainly through the placenta. The placenta is the bond connecting the mother and the fetus; the mother's blood flows through the villous spaces of the placenta, and the fetus's blood flows within the villi."

"The two do not mix directly, but exchange substances through a semi-permeable membrane."

"The mother delivers oxygen and nutrients to the fetus. The fetus delivers metabolic waste to the mother."

Lin Fan crossed his fingers and rested his elbows on his knees.

"Besides nutrients and waste, is there anything else?"

"Anything else?" Xu Zhixia pondered for a moment, "There are also antibodies. The mother passes immunoglobulins to the fetus, giving the fetus a certain level of immunity upon birth. Of course, a small amount of fetal cells will also enter the mother's blood, which is medically known as microchimerism."

Microchimerism?

"That means inside the mother's body, the fetus's genetic tissue genuinely remains. The two are symbiotic and even mutually influencing."

Xu Zhixia nodded, "In theory, yes. Does this have any relation to the survival issue we want to discuss?"

Lin Fan stood up and paced slowly by the campfire.

He thought of yesterday when he was in the seawater.

Falling, suffocation.

Then, a light blue light screen popped up on his retina.

[Physical function optimization complete.]

[Strength, speed, neural response, cardiopulmonary function... have been upgraded to 300% of the conventional human limit.]

For the past four months, his golden finger had been playing dead extremely thoroughly.

Yet yesterday, it suddenly gave him a wave of physical reinforcement.

A veteran mercenary like Wang Laoliu was brittle and vulnerable in his hands.

Is this a coincidence?

Obviously not. Now combining this with Su Qingxue's mutation, the time nodes match up completely.

Su Qingxue nurtured a fetus carrying his genes, triggering some kind of hidden mutation rule of this island, thereby awakening the golden finger of creating things out of thin air, or whatever special ability it was.

And the fetus carried half of Lin Fan's genes.

Because of the connection of bloodlines, the rewards of this mutation rule also fed back into him as the father.

That was why he suddenly gained a 300% leap in physical functions at that moment.

Lin Fan stopped in his tracks, turned his head, and looked at the women in the Karst Cave.

His gaze swept over each of them one by one.

Su Qingxue felt uncomfortable all over being looked at, and subconsciously pulled at her collar.

As for Liu Feifei, she straightened her back, trying to display her most advantageous curves.

"Dr. Xu," Lin Fan spoke again, "If my deduction is correct, this island possesses a set of completely unreasonable causal logic."

"What logic?"

"Reproduction."

Lin Fan spat out two words.

Xu Zhixia didn't understand, "Reproduction?"

"On this Deserted Island at the edge of the Devils Triangle, plants and animals mutate wildly, and the environment here is extremely harsh. For mammals, including humans, wanting to leave behind offspring here has an extremely low probability."

Lin Fan walked in front of Su Qingxue, pointing at the rice and Lao Ganma on the ground.

"Yet the harder a condition is to achieve, once it is achieved, some unknown magnetic field of the island will grant massive compensation and feedback."

"And the biggest possibility is that I myself possess supernatural abilities, and my abilities were passed down to the fetus through genes. Since the fetus shared a body with Su Qingxue, that was what gave her the special ability."

What Lin Fan said left all the women present stunned in place.

Liu Feifei's mouth widened, her chest heaving violently.

Song Ya stared blankly at Lin Fan.

Xu Zhixia didn't have much emotional fluctuation.

In places where science cannot explain, bizarre logic is the only truth.

Liu Feifei's heart was pounding wildly.

Her brain was spinning fast.

If getting pregnant could grant this heaven-defying ability...

Doesn't that mean as long as she bore Lin Fan's child, she could walk unhindered on this island?

She could go from a burden who might be abandoned at any time into an indispensable core resource pool of the team?

Su Qingxue got the ability to conjure things out of thin air, so would she get time-stop?

This deal was too profitable.

As long as she took off her clothes and spread her legs, she could gain a supernatural ability in ten months.

This was much simpler than fighting for the female lead role in the entertainment industry.

Liu Feifei's breathing became rapid, and her perspective towards Lin Fan changed completely.

Lin Fan captured Liu Feifei's reaction. He didn't expose her, but continued his deduction.

The most crucial link, he had to confirm it.

"Dr. Xu, you just said that the fetus and the mother experience microchimerism. From a genetics perspective, will that half of the genes belonging to the father on the fetus produce a certain resonance or information transmission during development?"

Xu Zhixia hesitated for a moment, "In modern medicine, after the father provides the sperm, he no longer participates physically in the nurturing process."

"But in some ancient biology, it was once said that between individuals with direct blood relations, there exists a level of induction that cannot be proven by science."

"Of course, this is just a hypothesis. On this island..." Xu Zhixia paused, "Anything is possible."

"Alright, anything is possible." Lin Fan walked over to the rock wall.

He raised his right hand, and under everyone's gaze, Lin Fan grabbed a piece of stone weighing tens of catties.

He didn't make any movements to build up strength.

His five fingers suddenly exerted force to grip the edge of the stone.

Crack.

Tiny stone fragments fell down in rustles.

Immediately after, Lin Fan came to the platform, his arm muscles instantly bulging, and the stone flew out as he exerted force.

Terrifyingly, that piece of stone actually flew over a hundred meters away into the seawater.

Zhou Kai, who had just finished spraying insect repellent at the cave entrance, dropped the pop can in his hand onto the ground with a clatter.

He looked at the spot where the stone landed in the water, and then looked at Lin Fan.

Was he even human?

Wang Laoliu didn't lose unjustly; this was clearly encountering a prehistoric fierce beast.

Lin Fan patted off the stone powder on his hands and looked at them.

"Did you see clearly?"

"Just as President Su confirmed her pregnancy and awakened her ability, my physical functions also crossed the threshold of human physiological limits. This should be the reward bestowed by this island upon the sower."

Dead silence.

Huge waves surged in Xu Zhixia's mind.

She was a doctor, and she knew the structure of the human body inside and out.

The stone was crushed apart with a single hand and thrown so far.

Lin Fan's current physical body could no longer be considered a pure human.

He was evolving towards a certain higher-level life form.

And the key to evolution turned out to be reproduction...