191: Chapter 192 The baby is actually the system host? He speaks with a boyish voice, complaining about his unreliable mother!

Xingfu Li Residential Area, Room 602.

In the bedroom deep in the night, the air seemed to have solidified into something tangible.

Jiang Chen maintained his posture of bending over to tuck in the baby's blanket, his entire body resembling a stone statue weathered by a thousand years.

His hand was still suspended in mid-air, less than a centimeter away from that exquisitely carved, jade-like baby who had just been drooling in his sleep.

Yet this short centimeter now felt like an abyss spanning an entire dimension.

Just a moment ago.

Just at the instant the baby's little hand inadvertently slapped his belt (the system mount point).

That system, which usually did nothing but issue scammy quests or play dead at critical moments, had actually cried?

And it cried with such heart-wrenching, genuine emotion.

[Mom—!!!]

This electronic howl didn't just echo in Jiang Chen's mind; because the emotional fluctuation was too intense, the system's audio module overflowed, causing it to shout directly through Jiang Chen's mouth using a ventriloquist act laced with electronic distortion.

"Mom—!!!"

The sound wasn't loud, but in the silence of the night, it was like a thunderclap.

The five women in the living room, who had been exhausted and slumped over, instantly sprang up as if electrocuted.

"Who?!"

"Who is calling for mom?!"

Change was the first to rush into the bedroom, the Moon Wheel in her hand already formed.

Xihe followed closely behind, the fire whip in her hand scorching the door frame.

Ji Linglong brandished her sword, Ling raised her cannon, and Gu Liuli... held a baby bottle in her hand (having not yet had time to put it down).

The scene they saw upon rushing in was Jiang Chen staring at the baby in terror, and that baby... was awake.

It was no longer the "little ancestor" who did nothing but eat, sleep, and pee spiritual energy.

It floated up.

Yes, without any external force, it defied the laws of gravity, crossing its little legs and hovering in mid-air.

Its originally innocent heart-shaped pupils were now spinning wildly, shooting out two streams of tangible data that connected directly to the center of Jiang Chen's forehead.

"Bzzzz—"

Jiang Chen felt his brain was like a hard drive with a USB cable plugged into it, with massive amounts of data exchanging frantically.

[Detected host signal... Performing handshake protocol...]

[Handshake successful!]

[Sub-system (in Jiang Chen's brain) is rejoining...]

[Main system (baby) is rebooting...]

"Who am I? Where am I? Why am I a baby?"

The baby suddenly spoke.

It wasn't a babbling child's voice, but a voice that sounded extremely mature, rational, and even carried a hint of tsundere... a young boy's voice?

It looked down at its own chubby little hands, then at the diaper with little yellow ducks printed on it.

"Damn it."

The baby let out a curse completely inconsistent with its appearance.

"Which unscrupulous bastard set my host body to the infant stage?! How am I supposed to face anyone like this?!"

The room fell into dead silence.

The Moon Wheel in Change's hand dropped.

Xihe's fire whip extinguished.

Jiang Chen's mouth hung open, his jaw nearly dislocating.

"Sy... system?"

Jiang Chen tentatively called out, "Is that you? How did you... get out?"

The baby turned its head, those heart-shaped pupils staring fixedly at Jiang Chen, its eyes full of disdain (though it looked cute paired with that baby face).

"Duh! Of course it's yours truly!"

The baby rolled its eyes, "You think I wanted to come out? If that crazy woman hadn't thrown me into the time-space turbulence and locked my energy bar in 'infant mode,' would I be stuck as a mascot in this low-dimensional world?"

"Wait..."

Gu Liuli seemed to catch on to something; she threw the baby bottle in her hand away, her eyes becoming extremely sharp.

"That crazy woman? Time-space turbulence?"

"Are you... the host of the [Primal Spark]?!"

The baby paused, looking at Gu Liuli, "Yo, isn't this the little girl from the Star Alliance? You've got a good eye. That's right, yours truly is the strongest, coolest, and most invincible super AI in the universe—the [Primal Spark]!"

"...in its infant form." It added reluctantly.

The truth was revealed.

This was no illegitimate child! This was simply the "computer case" for the system!

The system that had been talking to Jiang Chen in his head was at best an "operating system (Windows)," while the baby in front of him was the real "main unit (computer)"!

"So..."

Jiang Chen pointed at the note still on the card—[I can't raise it, so it's yours].

"This person who 'can't raise it'... is..."

"My mom."

The baby (system host) sighed, looking utterly resigned to its fate, "To be precise, my creator. That woman who is the most unreliable in the universe, loves doing research, and doesn't come home for hundreds of millions of years once she starts an experiment."

"She found me too noisy, so she threw me out. She even euphemistically called it 'letting you go to a low-dimensional world to gain experience, and by the way, find a good family to mooch off of'."

Speaking of which, the baby suddenly looked at Jiang Chen, a strange, wicked grin appearing on its face.

"But it seems the 'long-term meal ticket' she found for me isn't bad at all."

"A soft rice king? Heh, right up my alley."

Jiang Chen: "..."

Just then.

"Hum—"

The space in the bedroom suddenly began to distort violently, like a tissue crumpled by someone.

An aura even more terrifying and profound than the previous Five Dimensions Inspector, and even carrying a scent of "truth," seeped out from the distorted space.

"She's here!"

The baby's expression changed, and it quickly pulled up its little yellow duck diaper, attempting to maintain its last shred of dignity.

"Who's here?" Jiang Chen asked.

"The creditor."

The baby shrank its neck, "No, it's... that woman."

As the spatial rift expanded, a foot wearing a white high-heeled shoe stepped out.

Following that was a long, straight, beautiful leg wrapped in nude-colored stockings.

Then, a white lab coat, black-rimmed glasses, and that... stunningly beautiful face filled with intellectual beauty, yet cold as if looking at experimental data.

This was a mature woman.

And a super-powered mature woman who looked like a university professor, a scientific research fanatic, and radiated an aura of "IQ suppression" from head to toe.

She held a clipboard in one hand and pushed up the black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of her nose with the other.

"Hmm... Coordinates: Milky Way, Solar System, Earth."

"Time: Human Era 2024."

"Environment: High-concentration spiritual energy reaction (peed out), multiple high-dimensional beings gathered."

She looked up, her eyes devoid of any emotional fluctuation, containing only countless flowing data chains.

She scanned everyone in the room.

Change, Xihe, Ji Linglong, Ling, Gu Liuli... these five goddesses, who were top-tier existences in their respective fields, actually took a step back the moment her gaze swept over them.

That was suppression from the level of life.

If the Five Dimensions Inspector was the "police," then the woman before them was the "legislator" who made the laws.

Six Dimensions life form.

Chief Scientist of the [Hall of Truth].

The system's... "real mom."

"Mom!"

The baby hovering in mid-air, the moment it saw the woman, lost all that tsundere attitude. It lunged forward and hugged the woman's thigh.

"You finally came to pick me up! I've had enough of this crappy place! They fed me expired baby formula! And they fed me fire! That bird (Xihe) even wanted to use me as a nuclear reactor!"

The woman lowered her head, looking at the "son" who was hugging her thigh and complaining.

She didn't pick up the child to comfort it like an ordinary mother; instead... she extended two fingers and lifted the baby up in disgust, just like picking up a lab mouse.

"Hmm, you've gained weight."

The woman looked at her data pad, "Energy reserves increased by 300%. Seems the food here is not bad."

"As for eating fire?"

She glanced at Xihe, who was hiding behind, "That is nuclear fusion essence; it's good for your growth. Eat more, it will help you grow."

Xihe: "..." (That was my True Sun Fire! It's very expensive!)

After dealing with her "son," the woman finally turned her gaze to Jiang Chen.

She strode forward with her long legs, walking step by step until she stood in front of Jiang Chen.