Chapter 100 – You’re Putting Me in a Very Difficult Position with a Request Like That

That night, Su Lifeng’s body remained in a state where it felt as if it might burst into flames at any moment, yet was always just a hair’s breadth away.

Digesting an E-class Xenospecies was simply too difficult.

Su Lifeng could feel that the E-class Xenospecies had already flowed through his bloodstream and reached every part of his body, but it still had not fully fused with his original cells.

Maybe it was only missing that last little push.

After digesting this E-class Xenospecies, even Su Lifeng had no idea what sort of changes would occur in his body.

After lying there for half the night with nothing happening, Su Lifeng decided to find a way to speed up the process.

He first unfurled his Bone Wings. Once he found they had more or less repaired themselves, he opened the bedroom door and went into the living room.

When he had stocked up on supplies, Su Lifeng had also hoarded a large amount of medicine, and among them was exactly what he needed. This kind of drug was usually used to save people on the brink of death, but based on Su Lifeng’s analysis, using it on himself right now might also have a certain effect.

Of course, if he had not already done a certain amount of research on the Xenospecies himself, Su Lifeng would never have dared to try something like this so casually.

After finding the drug, Su Lifeng went into the bathroom, took out some disinfectant, sterilized his arm, and prepared to inject himself.

The moment the needle pierced his skin, Su Lifeng noticed that as the drug entered his body, that heat seemed to turn scorching hot all at once.

“It really works.” A trace of delight appeared on Su Lifeng’s face.

His own evolutionary level was lower than that of an E-class Xenospecies to begin with. Even without this sort of auxiliary method, he could still slowly absorb it, but Su Lifeng felt he could not afford to wait.

The closer the end of the world drew, the more desperately he longed to increase his strength.

However, whether this drug would continue to work next time was hard to say. After all, what the drug was affecting right now was his current body, not the E-class Xenospecies. If he continued down this path, it was very possible that, like the Xenospecies, he would basically stop reacting to any drugs developed by humans. As genes fused and optimized again and again in ways that defied common sense, illness had already become an unfamiliar concept to the Xenospecies. The only thing that might appear in them was a collapse caused by an interrupted evolution, like what had happened to Qin Moyun.

“And the effects of my body’s evolution are already showing. With a dose this large, even a dying tiger should be jumping around instantly after being injected, but I don’t even have an accelerated heartbeat.” Su Lifeng looked into the dim mirror. Even his pupils showed no sign of dilation.

After pushing the entire syringe of medicine into his body, Su Lifeng had only just pulled out the needle when he discovered the puncture wound had already healed. Just then, he suddenly heard a faint sound come from behind the shower curtain.

Hm? Was someone taking a shower? But it was so late already…

Or maybe they had just been too busy during the day?

The moment he thought of what might be happening behind that curtain, Su Lifeng suddenly felt his throat go a little dry.

He shook his head sharply, then stood up without making a sound, preparing to sneak out.

If he was discovered, that would be way too awkward…

But the instant he turned around, he heard the curtain being yanked open. “Who’s there?”

Crap!

Su Lifeng froze in place. “Xiaomei?”

Seeing that the person there was Su Lifeng, Cheng Xiaomei, who had been looking extremely nervous, immediately let out a breath of relief. When she realized Su Lifeng was still frozen in that same posture, a strange look appeared on her face. “Well? Turn around.”

“Huh?” Su Lifeng was stunned. After being shocked for quite a while, he said with great difficulty, “Why would you suddenly make a request like that?”

“A request? I made…” Cheng Xiaomei froze for a second before she suddenly understood. With a snort of laughter, she said, “What are you talking about? What kind of person do you think I am? Who would make that kind of request to you?!”

As she spoke, Su Lifeng felt something hit him on the head. He pulled it down and took a look, only to find that it was a thin jacket, still carrying a faint fragrance.

“I’m wearing clothes!” Cheng Xiaomei snapped.

Su Lifeng turned around and saw Cheng Xiaomei sitting barefoot in the dry bathtub, her face slightly flushed as she glared at him.

He might not be especially good at dealing with girls, but he wasn’t so hopeless that he couldn’t read such an obvious signal of embarrassment and annoyance. He immediately said, very sincerely, “Sorry.”

Cheng Xiaomei had been holding back a breath, ready to yell at him, but after he apologized so readily, the words got stuck in her throat instead. She puffed out her cheeks and huffed a few times, then looked at the syringe in Su Lifeng’s hand. “What are you doing?”

“Nothing.” Su Lifeng answered out of reflex, then leaned back against the sink and said, “I killed a Xenospecies today, but I’m having a little trouble digesting it, so I prescribed myself some medicine.”

“Oh…” When Su Lifeng had said “nothing,” Cheng Xiaomei had felt a little disappointed. But once he took the initiative to explain, she suddenly found herself wanting to smile and only managed to hold it back by pressing her lips together.

“What are you doing here?” Su Lifeng asked.

“Would you believe me if I said I was contemplating life?” Cheng Xiaomei blinked, then her expression quickly grew serious. “Lifeng, do you remember how I absorbed a lot of… those people outside the warehouse?”

Su Lifeng froze for a second, then reached out and turned her body toward him.

“This happened tonight?”

Cheng Xiaomei’s right arm had almost completely turned silver-white, as if it were covered in a layer of soft armor. Her five fingers were now a full thirty centimeters long, and the nails at their tips curved like hooks.

“That’s not all…” Cheng Xiaomei said, slowly closing her eyes.

Su Lifeng stared in astonishment as that “soft armor” suddenly transformed into spike after spike. In an instant, the petite Cheng Xiaomei looked as though half her body had become an embodiment of sharp thorns.

He looked at Cheng Xiaomei for a while, then suddenly said, “Open your eyes.”

Cheng Xiaomei clearly did not want to see what she looked like, but after hearing Su Lifeng, she slowly opened her eyes anyway. The moment she did, she froze.

Su Lifeng had already taken off his T-shirt, revealing an upper body where faint muscle lines had begun to show. He was looking down at himself, the two pairs of Bone Wings on his back lightly fanning.

Under the effects of the drug, Su Lifeng’s blood flow began to accelerate wildly, and his blood vessels expanded and contracted with increasing force. The “sparks” that had originally been distributed throughout his body slowly turned into tiny flames during the process. Then those flames gradually merged into streams of fire, finally connecting together inside him.

A thunderous explosion.

Inside the tiny bathroom, Su Lifeng stood before Cheng Xiaomei, who was crouched in the bathtub, and felt as if his entire body were burning from the inside out.

Strangely, there was no pain. Instead, there was the pleasure of everything constantly changing.

From his fingertips to his hair, from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head, the sensation was like having a bucket of ice water poured over him in the middle of summer.

Every inch of him felt refreshed.

Cheng Xiaomei stared at Su Lifeng, dumbfounded. She could see his eyes gradually growing brighter, but what drew her gaze even more were his Bone Wings.

The crimson veins that had once looked like blood gradually became as though real blood were flowing through them. They shimmered with flowing color, as if a layer of dust that had covered them all this time had finally been swept away.

“Ah!”

Su Lifeng let out a low roar, and the two pairs of Bone Wings spread fully open with a whoosh.

At that moment, his aura suddenly changed dramatically, leaving Cheng Xiaomei dazed before she even realized it.

So strong… It was as if a true beast were hidden inside him… But why didn’t it feel frightening?

Cheng Xiaomei thought of herself. She turned her head to look at the spikes on her body, then reached out and touched them.

Indeed, there was nothing scary about them…