70: Chapter 70 Newborn

"I'm sorry, Boss."

Lin Qing lowered her head, tears dripping down onto her collar.

"At this critical juncture... in this doomsday game where people can die at any time, we know this will add a huge burden to the team. If... if it's really not possible, we will..."

"Stop."

Zhou An interrupted her directly.

The corners of his mouth slowly curled up, revealing a sincere smile: "This is a huge piece of good news! Why are you crying!"

Zhou An pointed to the luxurious interior of the fortress, his tone relaxed: "We have hundreds of millions in supplies in our hands, we're piloting the top mobile fortress under this sky, and we're eating top-tier spirit rice. If we can't even afford to raise a child, I, as the captain, might as well just go find a piece of tofu and bash my head against it until I die!"

"But..."

Zhang Ming's eyes were red, and he still wanted to say something.

"There's no 'but'."

Zhou An stepped forward, patted Zhang Ming's shoulder firmly, his expression becoming serious.

"Old Zhang, in this dead sky, if people only live to survive, they will eventually become numb and turn into those mindless monsters. The birth of a new life represents vitality, it represents that we humans still have hope. This child must be born, and we must raise it as the prince or little princess of our [Cloud Top Fortress]!"

"Boss..."

Hearing these words, the heavy burden in the hearts of Zhang Ming and his wife finally lifted, and they embraced each other, sobbing uncontrollably.

"That's awesome! I'm going to be a godmother!"

Li Muzi jumped up on the spot excitedly, her eyes sparkling.

"When the little one is born, I'm going to set aside a separate spirit field for him and teach him how to farm!"

Luo Ning's eyes lit up even more. She threw the half-eaten nutritional paste in her hand into the trash can and leaned over excitedly: "Give birth! You must give birth! Old Zhang, don't worry. Tomorrow I'll go to the lab and hand-craft an anti-gravity full-coverage nano-stroller for him! Plus some high-concentration genetic baby formula, I guarantee he'll be able to tear apart a Tier 1 exotic beast by the time he's a month old!"

"Hold it! Stop right there!"

Zhou An felt his scalp tingle and quickly called a halt to this extremely dangerous idea, "I'm warning you, don't use your weird blueprints to make baby products. Who knows what kind of biochemical mutant you'll create! The baby's supplies must be made from the purest materials!"

Turning his head, Zhou An looked at Li Muzi and arranged: "Muzi, from now on, Sister Lin Qing shouldn't do any heavy labor. If you can't keep up with the plantation, use more automated harvesting drones, and usually help Sister Lin Qing share some of the logistics and carrying work."

"Leave it to me, Boss!"

Li Muzi patted her chest firmly, full of energy.

...

After dinner, Zhou An returned to the captain's room.

He sat in the large chair, feeling the vitality surging like a river within his body.

For the past half month, he had been eating Tier 4 beast meat as a snack every day, with legendary or even Moon-Glitter Grade crops as his staple food for all three meals, plus Zhang Ming's increasingly exquisite cooking skills, the nutrition was simply overflowing.

He could even clearly feel that his physical fitness was about to break through the Tier 4 barrier and touch the invisible threshold of Tier 5.

Zhou An clenched his fist casually.

"Pop!"

A faint air explosion sound came from the air. In his current state, if he were back on Earth, he would practically be a "Spider-Man" who doesn't shoot spider silk. Although he wasn't yet at the ridiculous level of Superman who could carry a nuclear bomb with his bare body or shoot lasers from his eyes, his dynamic vision, muscle density, and neural reflex speed had long surpassed human limits.

With a thought, he summoned his long-lost personal panel:

[Survivor: Zhou An]

[Current SAN Value]: 100 / 100

[Life Tier]: Tier 4

[Core Equipment / Wonder]:

[Nuclear Liquid Battle Armor (Legendary)]: Defense cross-tier transition, built-in micro-fusion reactor, activates overload power boost 300%.

[High-Frequency Pulse Ripper (Legendary)]: Comes with "Absolute Penetration" and "Cell Necrosis".

[Heart of Flame (Wonder)]: Grants high fire resistance, comes with 15% true burn.

[Exclusive Hextech Enhancement Pool]:

[Little Giant (Prismatic)]: Durability, stamina, and SAN value recover 5% per hour.

[Compound Interest (Prismatic)]: Daily supplies/materials automatically generate interest of 1%.

[Level Up! (Prismatic)]: Everything can be sublimated, three-in-one cross-tier evolution.

[War Treasure III (Prismatic)]: 40% chance to drop treasure chests upon killing monsters, extremely high chance of critical hit when killing higher-tier enemies.

[Last Stand (Prismatic)]: The lower the SAN value, the higher the self-buff, up to 99%.

Closing the panel, Zhou An got up and walked into a small room newly opened next to the captain's room—[High-Dimensional Constant Temperature Incubation Room].

This was a special facility he had bought at a high price from the Trading House half a month ago. In the center of the room, two constant-temperature incubation pods flickering with soft warm light were running quietly.

Two huge eggs were lying quietly inside.

The one on the left was the [Star Skeleton Dragon Egg (Legendary)] he had obtained early on, its surface covered with silver-blue patterns like stars, faintly flickering with fluorescence. The one on the right was the [Black Flame Dragon Egg (Legendary)] that had been completely polluted and had just been dropped from the demigod projection half a month ago.

Zhou An looked at these two rare treasures, his eyes full of expectation.

Half a month ago, he had unhesitatingly dripped a drop of [Mother of Life Activation Liquid] that he had opened from a Moon-Glitter Grade treasure chest onto each of these two eggs.

That thing was worthy of being a Moon-Glitter Grade divine medicine. It not only instantly washed away the high-dimensional abyss pollution attached to the Black Flame Dragon Egg, allowing it to glow with a pure and violent destructive aura once again; it was even like pressing the fast-forward button, causing the Star Skeleton Dragon Egg, whose original progress was a pathetic "0.01%", to start hatching directly!

Zhou An leaned close to the incubation pod's display screen and took a look at the current incubation data:

[Polar Day Star Skeleton Dragon Egg: Incubation Progress 37%]

[World-Extinguishing Black Flame Dragon Egg: Incubation Progress 35%]

"Soon..."

Zhou An gently placed his palm on the constant-temperature glass of the incubation pod. Through the thick glass, he could clearly feel the strong "thump, thump, thump" heartbeat coming from inside.