190: Chapter 191 Devouring the True Fire of the Sun? A Pee Causes Housing Prices to Skyrocket, and the System Calls a Baby "Mom."

12:00 PM.

"Hungry! It's hungry!"

Gu Liuli held the wailing (house-wrecking) baby, flustered, "Husband! Hurry! Where's the formula?!"

"Where would I get formula?!"

Jiang Chen covered his ears, "The special formula that the Thunder Bureau just sent over—it took one sniff and spat it out! It even melted the baby bottle!"

"Then what does it eat?"

Xihe looked at the child crying loud enough to shake the earth, feeling heartbroken (though mostly annoyed by the noise), "Does it want something hot? Come here, son, Mom will get you something good."

Xihe opened her mouth and exhaled a ball of pure, golden True Sun Fire.

"Hey! Are you crazy?!" Jiang Chen tried to stop her, but it was too late.

The ball of flame, powerful enough to burn through a tank, drifted directly toward the baby's mouth.

The baby's eyes lit up as if it had seen the most delicious cotton candy.

"Nom!"

It swallowed the True Sun Fire in one gulp.

And then...

"*Hiccup*—"

It let out a satisfied belch.

A small mushroom cloud emerged from its mouth, leaving a large black scorch mark on the ceiling.

The baby smacked its lips in satisfaction, a happy smile appearing on its face; it even gave Xihe a thumbs-up (if it actually understood what that meant).

"Holy crap..."

Xihe stared, dumbfounded, "This... is this really my biological child? Is it really that resilient?"

"It seems to be an energy-based lifeform."

Change pushed Xihe aside, "Just eating fire won't do; it's easy to get inflamed. Come, drink some of this."

Change took out a bottle of "Moonlight Jade Dew" (actually a giveaway leftover from her livestream shopping session earlier) and fed it to the baby.

One Yin, one Yang; one cold, one hot.

The baby ate with such joy that the light wings on its back fluttered even more vigorously, and the light spots that fell onto the floor actually sprouted into tiny, glowing mushrooms.

"Good grief..."

Jiang Chen watched this scene, collapsing onto the sofa, "This isn't raising a child; this is raising a nuclear reactor."

...

3:00 PM.

After solving the feeding problem, the next issue was... excretion.

"Husband! This is bad!"

Ji Linglong rushed out of the bedroom, holding the baby (like she was carrying a cat), looking terrified, "It... it's about to pee!"

"So it pees! Just Change the diaper!" Jiang Chen was mopping the floor (cleaning up the earlier mushrooms).

"No... a regular diaper won't hold it!"

Ji Linglong's face flushed with anxiety, "It just peed one drop on the bed, and it went straight through the sheets, the mattress, and even the floorboards!"

"What?!"

Jiang Chen rushed into the bedroom to take a look.

He saw that on the poor double bed, there was a two-centimeter-diameter hole with smooth edges, still emitting thick, white wisps of spiritual energy.

Through the hole, he could even see the old man in 502 downstairs watching TV!

"What is this urine? Sulfuric acid?!"

"No..."

Ling analyzed the composition, "It's high-concentration 'liquid spiritual energy'. The purity is extremely high; one drop is equivalent to a small spiritual stone mine. Because the energy density is too great, ordinary matter cannot withstand it and is directly 'assimilated'."

"Liquid spiritual energy?"

Jiang Chen was stunned for a moment.

Just then, the baby shivered again.

"*Whoosh*—"

A crystal-clear stream of water sprayed directly onto the plants on the balcony.

A miracle happened.

Those few half-dead pothos plants, the moment they touched this 'virgin urine,' grew wildly as if they had been injected with ten tons of hormones!

"*Crack, crack, crack*—"

The vines instantly grew as thick as pythons, the green leaves became as crystal-clear as jade, and they even bloomed with seven-colored flowers, emitting a fragrance that made people feel like they would live longer just by taking a breath.

It wasn't just the pothos.

That wave of spiritual energy flowed down the balcony into the flowerbed downstairs.

The originally withered yellow lawn instantly turned into a top-tier spiritual herb garden; the old locust tree next to it, which had been near death, sprouted new buds, its canopy blotting out the sky, with faint sounds of dragon roars emanating from within.

Even the entire Building No. 6, nourished by this spiritual energy, had its peeling exterior walls automatically repaired—red bricks turned into red jade, and cement turned into white marble.

The entire residential area instantly transformed into a glowing "paradise of immortality."

"My God..."

At this moment, Auntie Wang, who was leading a group of middle-aged women in square dancing downstairs, looked at this miraculous scene, so shocked that her dentures fell out.

"This... this is an auspicious omen!"

"Little Jiang in 602... he's given birth to a God of Wealth!"

In less than ten minutes.

The housing prices in Xingfu Li Residential Area on the second-hand housing app jumped from fifty thousand per square meter to five million per square meter! And it was a case of having money but no sellers!

Real estate agents blew up the property management's phone: "Hello? Is there even one square meter for sale? A bathroom will do! I'll pay this much! One hundred million!"

...

10:00 PM.

The "little ancestor" who had been tossing and turning all day finally fell asleep.

It didn't sleep in a crib, nor did it sleep on a bed.

It insisted on sleeping sprawled out on Ji Linglong's broken taichu divine sword. The sharp sword intent radiated by that blade was, to it, like the most comfortable mattress.

In the living room.

Jiang Chen and the five "moms" were exhausted, slumped in a heap.

"This child... is too much work."

Xihe rubbed her waist (having strained it while holding the baby earlier), "It's more exhausting than when I had to drive the nine suns up the mountain back in the day."

"However..."

Change looked at the glowing little figure in the bedroom, her eyes gentle, "It really is quite cute. Besides, that spiritual energy... is also beneficial for our recovery of strength."

"Yeah."

Jiang Chen gave a bitter smile, "It's just a bit hard on the house. If it keeps peeing like this, we'll have to turn this place into a Dragon Palace by tomorrow."

He stood up, intending to check if the child had kicked off its blanket (even though it didn't need one).

He walked into the bedroom.

The baby was fast asleep, its little mouth still smacking, seemingly eating something delicious in its dream.

Jiang Chen tucked in the corner of a blanket that didn't exist and just turned to leave.

Suddenly.

The baby's little hand waved unconsciously.

"*Pat*."

Its chubby little hand landed right on Jiang Chen's belt.

That was exactly the location of the [Interstellar Starcraft: Soft Rice Module] system that Gu Liuli had forcibly installed.

The next second.

A strange Change occurred.

The system, which usually only emitted mechanical electronic sounds and occasionally even crashed.

The moment it touched this baby, it began to vibrate violently.

An emotional fluctuation like never before erupted from the depths of the system.

【*Buzz... buzz...*】

【Detected... familiar high-dimensional frequency band...】

【This is...】

Following that, an electronic voice with a clear sobbing tone, almost like a child acting spoiled, exploded in Jiang Chen's mind:

【Mom—!!!】

【Is it you?! Mom! You finally came to find me!!!】

Jiang Chen stiffened, his feet slipping, and he nearly knelt on the floor.

"What?!"

He stared fixedly at the baby sleeping soundly.

"Mom?"

"System... you're calling this child 'Mom'?!!"

"No... wait... could this child... be the System's mom?!"

Jiang Chen felt his CPU burn out.

What kind of soap opera is this?

I'm the System's Host, and this child is the System's mother, so doesn't that make me... the System's grandfather?

No!

Jiang Chen suddenly realized.

If this child is the System's "Mom" (creator or of the same origin), then the note on the card that said "Not convenient to raise, giving it to you"...

This isn't an illegitimate child at all!

This is clearly... a creditor coming to collect!

Outside the window, the moonlight was like water.

But in Jiang Chen's eyes, that gentle moonlight now seemed exceptionally eerie.

Because he saw the baby's mouth, in its sleep...

Slowly curve into a smile that absolutely did not belong to a baby, one full of wisdom and playfulness.