345: Chapter 345 Successive Pregnancy

Qin Lin walked over, sat down beside her, and reached out to hold her hand.

"How are you feeling?"

Qing Yue thought for a moment: "I don't feel anything. I've just conceived, and there's no reaction from my belly yet."

Hong Yao was beside herself with anxiety: "How can you not feel anything? There's a little person inside you! He's growing!"

Qing Yue looked at her and said: "Then you help me grow."

Hong Yao froze for a moment, then blushed, lowered her head, and stopped speaking.

Qing He straightened up from the wall, walked over, and sat on the other side of Qing Yue, reaching out to touch her belly. Her movements were very light, as if she were afraid of breaking something.

"Qing Yue."

"Hmm."

"The child will be born on The Ark."

Qing Yue nodded: "It's safer than on the ground."

Qing He retracted her hand, leaned back in the chair, and looked at the ceiling.

Her expression did not change, but Qin Lin noticed that her hand was resting on her own belly, her fingers curled slightly.

The news of Qing Yue's pregnancy caused quite a stir on The Ark.

Han Yurou was the first to rush to Qing Yue's room, carrying a bowl of soup, saying it was "to nourish the body."

Li Ying stood at the doorway, took a look, offered no congratulations or anything else, and turned to leave.

Su Yuran walked over carrying Qin An. When Qin An saw Qing Yue, he reached out to be held, but Su Yuran didn't let him, saying, "Auntie Qing Yue has a baby in her tummy now, you can't hug her."

Qin An tilted his head, looked at Qing Yue's belly, and then reached out to pat his own stomach, indicating, "I have one too."

Everyone laughed.

Han Qing came over from the Medical Room to give Qing Yue a comprehensive check-up.

Blood pressure, heart rate, spiritual power fluctuations, fetal development—she checked every item carefully.

【Check-up results: Everything is normal, fetal development is good, maternal condition is stable.】

Han Qing closed the logbook and looked at Qing Yue: "Your physical condition is very good; there shouldn't be any major problems during pregnancy."

"But you still need to pay attention to rest, avoid strenuous exercise, and do not overuse your spiritual power."

Qing Yue nodded.

"Also," Han Qing paused, "don't enter the Transformation Room for now. The infusion of cultivation will affect the fetus. Let's talk about it after you give birth."

Qing Yue nodded again.

Han Qing looked at her for a moment in silence, then said: "Congratulations."

The voice was not loud, but very sincere.

Qing Yue looked at her: "Thank you."

Hong Yao was incredibly envious.

She ran to Qing Yue's room several times a day, asking, "Do you feel anything yet?", "Is your belly bigger?", "Is the child moving?"

Qing Yue grew impatient with the questioning and said, "I only conceived a few days ago, it can't move yet."

Hong Yao wouldn't listen; she would squat in front of her, press her ear against Qing Yue's belly to listen, and after a long time, she would lift her head and say, "I heard it."

Qing Yue asked her what she heard, and she said, "Heartbeats."

Qing Yue replied, "That's my heartbeat."

Hong Yao refused to give up and pressed back against it to listen again.

Qin Lin watched this scene from the doorway, recalling Hong Yao saying, "I want to be a mother."

He walked in, squatted down beside Hong Yao, and reached out to stroke her head.

"Hong Yao."

"Hmm."

"Your turn is coming soon."

Hong Yao looked up at him with bright eyes and nodded.

Qing He's attitude toward pregnancy remained "let nature take its course."

She was not anxious, not worried, and not envious. She followed her daily routine of Cultivating, reading, eating, and sleeping.

When Qin Lin came to find her, she was cooperative; when he didn't, she didn't urge him.

Hong Yao asked her, "Aren't you anxious?", and Qing He replied, "Anxious about what? What is meant to come will come."

Hong Yao said, "What if it never comes?"

Qing He replied, "Then I will just keep waiting."

Hong Yao looked at her, not knowing what to say.

The Ark continued to orbit the perimeter of this planet.

The System updated the passenger candidate list every day. Qin Lin looked at those points of light, calculating his next target in his mind.

Qing Yue was already pregnant, and the conception windows for Hong Yao and Qing He were still open, so the System suggested continuing to share a bed.

Qin Lin visited them according to the frequency; before each visit, he would stand at the door of Qing Yue's room for a while, listening to what she was doing.

Sometimes she was reading, sometimes she was Cultivating, and sometimes she was chatting with Hong Yao.

Qin Lin wouldn't go in; he would just listen for a while and then leave.

Hong Yao's nervousness slowly turned into anticipation.

She began to seriously prepare baby supplies, buying a huge pile of things from the System Store, filling half the room.

When Han Yurou passed by and saw it, she remarked, "Are you opening a mother and baby store?", but Hong Yao ignored her.

Qing He remained calm, continuing to Cultivate and eat as usual.

She would occasionally touch her own belly, her movements very light, as if confirming something.

The door to Room No. 15 remained closed, but that layer of mist had almost dissipated.

Han Qing said the woman inside had increasingly strong vital signs and increasingly obvious spiritual power fluctuations, and she could wake up at any time.

Qin Lin would stand in front of that door for a while every day, holding a white crystal stone in his palm.

The crystal stone would glow, brighter than before, the light pulsing in a rhythm consistent with the breathing of the woman inside the room.

Qin Lin didn't know when she would wake up.

But he had a premonition that it would be soon.

The Ark sailed along its orbit for week after week.

Qin Lin checked in daily, watched the data, and waited for the System prompts.

Qing Yue's belly hadn't started to show yet, but she began to have morning sickness, feeling nauseated every morning and unable to eat.

Han Qing prescribed her nutritional supplements, saying it was fine to drink those instead.

Qing Yue took a sip and said, "It tastes bad," but she drank it anyway.

Hong Yao finally conceived.

That day, Qin Lin was in the kitchen making formula for Qin An when the System notification suddenly chimed.

His hand shook, and a little bit of formula spilled on the counter.

【Ding! Congratulations, Host! Passenger 016, Hong Yao, has successfully conceived!】

【Milestone: First batch of newborns in the Cultivation World (2/3)】

【Reward: survival points + 100,000, blessing points + 500】

【Current survival points: 770,269, Current blessing points: 5,100】

【All passengers' Physique + 3%】

Qin Lin looked at the words on the screen, put down the baby bottle, wiped his hands, and walked out of the kitchen.

The door to Hong Yao's room was open. She was sitting on the bed, hugging a pillow, her face buried in it.

Qing He stood beside her, her hand resting on Hong Yao's shoulder.

Qing Yue sat on the chair by the bed, her hand on her belly, watching her.

"Hong Yao." Qin Lin walked over.

Hong Yao lifted her head from the pillow; her eyes were red, her nose was red, but the corners of her mouth were turned up.

"Qin Lin, I'm pregnant too."

Her voice was muffled, carrying a hint of tears.

Qin Lin sat down beside her and reached out to pull her into his arms.

Hong Yao pressed her face against his chest, her shoulders shaking.

"Am I really pregnant? Is this not a dream?"

"It's real."

Hong Yao lifted her head from his embrace, looked at Qing Yue, then at Qing He, and tears fell.

"I'm going to be a mother!"

Qing Yue watched her, the corners of her mouth curling up.

Qing He reached out and tapped Hong Yao's head gently, her movements very light, like petting a small animal.

The blessing points on The Ark had accumulated to over five thousand.

Qin Lin looked at that number, feeling very secure in his heart.

These blessing points were enough for everyone to transform their cultivation for several years, and enough to upgrade The Ark to Lv10.

But the upgrade conditions for Lv10 hadn't been unlocked yet; the System said it required completing an Otherworld Exploration mission.

Qin Lin didn't know what that mission was, but he wasn't in a hurry.