222: Chapter 222 Xueyao is not breathing

"Am I dreaming?"

Feeling Jiang Chen pinching her face, Qin Xueyao could hardly believe that Jiang Chen, who had been missing for fifty years, had actually appeared before her once again.

Time and again, she had held onto hope, traveling to the Arctic Circle to wait for Jiang Chen's appearance.

But time and again, disappointment had made her afraid to hope anymore.

She was currently on Earth, simply waiting for the end of her life to arrive.

She hadn't broken through to become a Level 2 Lifeform; at nearly eighty years old, she should still have about two hundred years of retirement left...

Jiang Chen gently pulled her into an embrace, letting her feel his heartbeat, his warmth, and hear his voice. "Of course it's not a dream."

"I don't believe it, unless..."

Xue Yao reached out and gave Jiang Chen's waist a hard pinch.

Jiang Chen winced in pain, almost giving his wife a shoulder throw by instinct. He quickly grabbed Xue Yao's hand. "Ouch, ouch! It's not a dream."

"It seems it really is true..."

Xue Yao looked up at Jiang Chen, her lips trembling as tears suddenly flooded from her eyes.

She choked out, "What could possibly be so important that you'd ignore me for fifty years?"

"I'm sorry, I didn't think things through,"

Jiang Chen said guiltily.

He hadn't expected that simply absorbing some energy would lead to him undergoing a life evolution.

And life evolution was such a long process.

In the blink of an eye, decades had passed.

"I promise it won't happen again next time. I'll tell you in advance and let you know."

Having gained experience in evolution, Jiang Chen promised.

Xue Yao wiped her tears and nose on the clothes at Jiang Chen's chest and sobbed, "So, what did you go off to do that made you not think of me for fifty years?"

"I seem to have evolved; my lungs are gone,"

Jiang Chen replied.

He didn't know if he was a Level 4 Lifeform, but he could feel that the energy he could now drive was far beyond what a former Super S-rank Lifeform could compare to! His physical structure had also changed.

"Lungs are gone?"

Xue Yao sniffled and looked at Jiang Chen. Does that mean he evolved into a Level 2 Lifeform?

It seemed it did indeed take a long time to evolve from a Level 1 Life Form to a Level 2 Lifeform.

She muttered, "You didn't evolve your heart away too, did you? No wonder you didn't think of me for so long..."

"Um... my heart is still there."

Jiang Chen grabbed Xue Yao's hand and placed it on the left side of his chest, chuckling softly.

"Can you feel it?"

Xue Yao curled her lip. "No, it's cold. You don't have a heartbeat anymore."

"That's impossible. Aside from my lungs and... X-organ regressing, my other organs are still normal."

Jiang Chen muttered.

What?

The X-organ is gone?

Xue Yao was shocked.

This concerned her happiness for the next few hundred years! How could it have evolved away?

Don't Level 2 Lifeforms only lose their lungs?

How could that thing be gone too?

In her panic, Xue Yao was about to unbutton Jiang Chen's pants to help him check.

"I'm kidding. How could I lose my X-organ? Actually, I've evolved into a woman..."

Xue Yao's face flushed slightly. "You might not know this, but back in university, I was known as the Tofu Beauty. Even if you evolved into a woman, I wouldn't mind."

"Holy crap, I was joking! Even if I evolved my big head away, there's no way I'd evolve my little head away..."

Jiang Chen broke into a cold sweat.

"I don't believe you, unless you show me!"

Qin Xueyao suddenly acted like a bully, pouncing on Jiang Chen and knocking him into the seawater.

"Help!"

"SOS..."

Jiang Chen splashed around in the water.

Just then.

In the distant sky, Jiang Haipeng was arriving on a crane.

A Xuan Nu Fighter Jet was also flying in from outside Earth.

The two parties encountered each other near this Unnamed Island.

Commander Jiang Qiuzhi flew the Xuan Nu Fighter Jet to the left of the Red-crowned Crane and looked at Jiang Haipeng. "Why are you flying so slowly?"

"Wasn't I waiting for you?"

Jiang Haipeng replied lazily.

"Fine. Mom is on that Unnamed Island, right? I already told Dad; I wonder if he's arrived yet."

As they spoke, the two of them flew quickly toward the Unnamed Island.

When they were still a few kilometers away, massive waves suddenly appeared near the Unnamed Island.

There were even bursts of waves surging into the sky, carrying immense energy.

"Huh? What's going on?"

Commander Jiang Qiuzhi was stunned.

Jiang Haipeng scanned the area, his expression turning strange as he said, "It's Dad and Mom. They seem to be... having a Seaquake?"

"..."

Commander Jiang Qiuzhi chose to circle in place.

The Red-crowned Crane also hovered in the sky, flapping its wings.

About three hours later.

The waves finally began to subside.

"That long?" Commander Jiang Qiuzhi muttered.

Jiang Haipeng chuckled. "After all, they haven't seen each other in fifty years. It's understandable."

With that, the two flew toward the Unnamed Island.

Meanwhile, on the island's beach, Jiang Chen was holding Xue Yao as they lay there sunbathing.

Xue Yao's cheeks looked exceptionally rosy under the sunlight.

She said to Jiang Chen, "This counts as one year of grain tax at most. You still owe me forty-nine years' worth!"

"It's fine. Even if I owe you ten thousand years, I can afford to pay it back,"

Jiang Chen said grandly. Since becoming a Level 4 Lifeform, he found that his positive energy was even more abundant, and he no longer suffered from any adverse reactions.

Chives and such? As a powerhouse, he didn't need them at all.

"Suddenly, I feel like these fifty years of waiting were worth it."

Having experienced the wonders firsthand, Xue Yao suddenly felt full of anticipation for her future happy life.

Two hundred years... No, this old lady wants to live for two thousand years!

"Eh? I think I'm breaking through?"

Xue Yao suddenly felt that her breathing was off. She touched her nose and realized she didn't need to breathe, yet she felt no discomfort.

And this was exactly the initial characteristic of the Fusion Pill forming.

Once the Fusion Pill was fully formed, it would even expel functional areas like the lungs from the human body.

She would officially become a Level 2 Lifeform.

Her lifespan would extend to five or six hundred years!

Her time of happiness had suddenly increased by several hundred years.

How could she not be happy?

She excitedly said to Jiang Chen, "Hubby, I'm not breathing! I'm not breathing!"

"Then you're doing great."

Jiang Chen chuckled. Breathing was only for absorbing oxygen to convert energy. If the body could self-circulate, whether one breathed or not was no longer important.

Without the need for lungs, she could dive underwater whenever she wanted in the future.

*Skree!*

*Hum!*

The Red-crowned Crane and the Xuan Nu Fighter Jet hovered above as two figures descended from the sky.

They landed on the beach.

Just then, Commander Jiang Qiuzhi and Jiang Haipeng heard their mom excitedly telling their dad, "Hubby, I'm not breathing! I'm not breathing!"

The two were stunned at first, but then they became excited as well.

Not breathing was the initial characteristic of a Level 2 Lifeform!

Mom had been stuck at the peak of a Level 1 Life Form for so many years, and yet, right after seeing Dad, she immediately broke through to Level 2.

This really was a momentous occasion!

"Congratulations, Mom! You've stopped breathing!"

Commander Jiang Qiuzhi was the first to step forward and offer her congratulations.