Jiang Kun couldn't resist putting the "medicine" into his mouth.
The "medicine" dissolved instantly upon contact. It had no flavor and no texture, simply transforming into a wave of coolness that slid down his throat, into his stomach, and then diffused into his limbs and bones.
That coolness was gentle, yet the effects were immediate.
Jiang Kun felt as if his heart had been injected with new power. His blood flow accelerated, his body temperature rose, his breathing deepened, and every muscle in his body trembled slightly.
The minor tears, strains, and old injuries accumulated over years of work were healing at an incredible speed.
His bones were also changing. At his age, he had already begun to develop osteoporosis, but now they were becoming dense and solid.
Most importantly, Jiang Kun felt his original body frantically regrowing flesh and blood.
Over the years, his entire body had undergone mechanical modification; many parts, including his limbs, were mechanical.
But after taking that pill, the flesh and blood that had once been cut away were slowly growing back in a way he couldn't comprehend, attempting to push out the mechanical structures attached to him.
Jiang Kun clenched his fists, released them, and clenched them again, a fanatical light shining in his eyes.
"Great, the medicinal effect is simply too good..."
"I can have a healthy, complete body again!"
He looked at the scavenger's remains. The skeleton was complete, from the skull to the phalanges, not a single bone missing.
Jiang Kun picked up the skeleton and stuffed it into a black garbage bag. He had to dispose of these remains so they wouldn't be discovered.
But that didn't matter. What mattered was that he had succeeded!
The medicine was real!
The effects were immediate!
His strength was increasing, his body was recovering, and his future was shining bright!
Jiang Kun tied the garbage bag shut, picked it up, and walked out of the abandoned substation.
The night wind blew past, cool and crisp.
In his abnormally bright eyes, a certain near-fanatical desire flickered.
...
Early that morning, Yue Shi pulled open the blinds.
The mechanical slats made a slight scraping sound as they rolled up layer by layer, revealing the grey sky outside.
His gaze habitually swept over the street below, then stopped.
A crowd had gathered next to the crooked tree downstairs, a dense mass of people huddling by the roadside, clogging the already narrow sidewalk.
Some were standing on their tiptoes, some were craning their necks, and others were holding up their phones to take pictures. Quite a few people were also standing in front of the breakfast shop across the street, their gazes all fixed in the same direction.
Even the windows on the second and third floors were pushed open, with several heads poking out.
Yue Shi's brow twitched slightly as he scooped up the snow leopard from his pillow. "Let's go down and see what the commotion is about."
The snow leopard wasn't fully awake yet; its tail hung down, swishing back and forth.
Downstairs, the noise of the crowd was chaotic.
Yue Shi stood on the outskirts of the crowd and tapped a passerby who was recording with his phone. "What's going on?"
The passerby gestured with his chin toward the center of the crowd, his voice carrying a hint of irrepressible excitement. "There's a pervert. He just did... that... in public. Ugh, I'm too embarrassed to even say it. Just look for yourself and you'll see."
"A pervert?" Yue Shi was stunned.
The passerby lowered his phone and turned to glance at Yue Shi. Struck by his stunning appearance, he immediately opened up. "You must be new here, right? You don't know, but there have been a lot of weird things happening in Liming City lately."
"Not long ago, there was a guy wearing his underwear on the outside of his pants, running down the pedestrian street. He ran for two blocks before the traffic police stopped him."
"And just recently, someone crouched at the entrance of the vegetable market, chanting spells at a head of cabbage for ages. Then he put a dog leash on the cabbage, insisted it was his son, and dragged it out for a walk."
Yue Shi: "..."
Had the average level of civility in Liming City dropped to such a low point?
The passerby sighed, his expression complex. "The world is truly going downhill. I don't know what's wrong with these people. They weren't this crazy before."
Yue Shi was speechless. He peered through the gaps in the crowd and saw the person in the center.
It was a young man, about twenty-five or twenty-six, with short hair, tall and handsome.
And this tall, handsome man was currently doing something shocking—he was taking off his pants.
He was doing it himself, his movements slow and deliberate, like someone changing clothes in his own bedroom, completely ignoring the gazes of the dozens of eyes around him.
He unbuckled his belt, pulled off his outer pants, and then his underwear.
A chorus of screams erupted from the crowd. Someone immediately covered the eyes of a nearby child, some cried out in shock, while others stared wide-eyed. Their eyes grew even wider as if they were seeing something truly incredible.
The young man, however, didn't care at all. He curled his lip, reached down to adjust himself a few times, and a look of disappointment appeared on his face.
The surrounding crowd hissed and booed.
Who would have thought? Such a tall and handsome young man actually had nothing down there!
It wasn't that it had been cut off; it was just a blur, like a digital mosaic.
However, even with the mosaic, some people with sharp eyes could mentally reconstruct the image.
Some thought he had some strange disease and had lost his mind, so they couldn't help but kindly advise him, "Young man, it's okay if you're sick. Don't give up on yourself. Mechanical modification technology is very advanced these days. At worst, just get a mechanical replacement. Many young couples get one before they get married anyway; after all, the natural ones often don't meet the size standards..."
"You're the one who's sick! Your whole family is sick!" the pantless youth said, slowly pulling his pants back on.
The onlookers didn't mind his poor attitude. Everyone was quite tolerant when dealing with the mentally ill.
Ghost's voice sounded in Yue Shi's ear: "This person is strange. That blurry mosaic on him completely blocks my ability to probe his information."
Yue Shi also felt that this young man was abnormal.
In the next second, a golden vertical mark appeared on his brow as he activated his Insight vision.
Looking through his Insight vision, he couldn't help but be stunned on the spot.
Floating above the young man's head was a shining word: 【Ancestor Zuanfeng】.
"What the hell?" Yue Shi deactivated and reactivated his Insight vision, looking at the youth again.
It was still 【Ancestor Zuanfeng】.
The surrounding crowd couldn't see the name above the youth's head at all. Their focus was entirely on his perverted behavior, pointing at him and roasting him sharply. The air was filled with a jovial atmosphere.
Yue Shi expanded his field of vision and scanned the surroundings.
【Ancestor Zuanfeng】 was not an isolated case.
In the nearby crowd, two other people also had tags above their heads: 【Tom】 and 【Jerry】.
Yue Shi fell into deep thought. The golden vertical mark on his brow slowly faded, but his frown did not relax.
Ancestor Zuanfeng?
The name circled in his mind. It wasn't a serious name; it sounded like a cringy ID from some internet forum or a bit character from a novel.
But there it was, hovering grandly above the head of a young man who had just dropped his pants in public, shining golden, like... a player nickname in a game.
Rate on N.U.
