novelraw Chapter 1003 707: Contest
Chapter 1003 707: Contest
"Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill..."
Li Zheng repeated the name of the pill several times, sighing, "No wonder it's called Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill. After taking it, one can truly be reborn, cleanse the muscles and marrow, just like the Bone Marrow Cleansing Pills in novels!"
But he knew clearly in his heart that this was just the unique effect of the medicine, just like how taking medicine can cure a cold, all within the realm of logical rules.
"Novels?" Mirel asked curiously, "What are novels? Are they like the legends and strange tales passed down in the clan?"
"...Sort of," Li Zheng replied.
At this moment, someone knocked on the door. He went to open the rented room door, and it was Zhan Zhouzhou standing outside.
"You're here." Li Zheng wasn't surprised at all. He had taken her to the Anger Sin Domain before, so it was no surprise that she returned safely.
Zhan Zhouzhou rolled her eyes at him, "You're really acting like a manager without burdens, living comfortably here while others handle everything."
Tens of thousands of people from the three clans and three hundred Blue Star players had entered the Outer City, and Li Zheng didn't manage any of it. All the arrangements were handled by Zhan Zhouzhou and Lu Li.
"Hehe." Li Zheng chuckled awkwardly and stepped aside, "Come in and talk."
Zhan Zhouzhou walked into the room and heard little Sakura scream, "Ah, bad woman! Dad, quickly kick her out; she's a bad woman!"
Li Zheng reprimanded, "Sakura, don't talk nonsense; call her Aunt Zhouzhou."
"No!" Little Sakura turned her head, displeased, "She used to bully Dad; she's a bad woman!"
"Hey, this little one holds grudges even more than you do." Zhan Zhouzhou couldn't help but laugh, taking out a string of candied fruits from a capsule and gently swaying it in front of little Sakura.
Little Sakura's nostrils twitched. The aroma of the snack made her drool, and her little eyes fixated on that string of snacks, her pupils nearly turning into her temples.
Zhan Zhouzhou spoke in a devilishly tempting low voice, "Little one, do you want some? Call me Aunt, and I'll give it to you."
"I won't eat... slurp, I won't eat a bad woman's food!" Little Sakura couldn't even finish her sentence, almost drooling, stubbornly refusing.
"Really?" Zhan Zhouzhou placed the snack under her nose, with a face full of intoxication, and took a deep whiff, "This snack smells so good; what would it taste like to eat? I really want to try it~"
"Gulp." Little Sakura swallowed hard, resisting the temptation with all her might.
"You really don't want it?" Zhan Zhouzhou said regretfully, "If you don't want it, then I'll eat it myself."
Her red lips opened slightly, and her white teeth bit into a red fruit, slowly tearing it off, producing a crisp crunch.
"Mmm!" Zhan Zhouzhou widened her eyes, exclaiming exaggeratedly, "Juicy and delicious, so tasty!"
She intentionally made a fuss eating it in front of little Sakura, making her drool uncontrollably, spilling from the corner of her mouth.
Little Sakura started crying, tears streaming down her cheeks, complaining to Li Zheng, "Dad, the bad woman is bullying me!"
Li Zheng suggested mischievously, "Why don't you just call her Aunt? It's not like you're losing anything by saying something nice, and you'll get something delicious in return. Isn't that great?"
"No!" Little Sakura wiped her drool and exclaimed, "I won't call the bad woman Aunt!"
"It's okay." Li Zheng smirked, "You can sweet-talk her, trick her into giving you the snacks, and then call her a bad woman after you finish eating."
Oh, right!
Little Sakura's eyes lit up, and she sweetly smiled at Zhan Zhouzhou, "Aunt Zhouzhou~"
The way she said it was both sweet and clingy. Little Sakura, after transforming, was adorable and chubby, hitting Zhan Zhouzhou's cute point directly.
Even though she knew little Sakura was following Li Zheng's bad advice, she happily took out two more strings of snacks and placed them in Little Sakura's hands, "Good girl!"
The snacks were prepared specifically for the little one on the way here, and the earlier teasing was just for fun.
The phrase "accepting gifts makes one tolerant" applied here. With two strings of snacks in her hand, Little Sakura felt a little embarrassed to call anyone a bad woman at the moment, sitting on the bed, swinging her little bare feet, happily enjoying the snacks she had gotten.
With her occupied, Zhan Zhouzhou turned to Li Zheng to discuss business, "I just rented a Gravity Room from the Gravity Research Institute. I heard from someone named Feng Yue that you were here, so I came to find you. I heard you can move freely in an eighteen times gravity environment now?"
"Was it also Feng Yue who told you?" Li Zheng raised an eyebrow. Feng Yue had followed him to Block 4 before and had heard Zhan Zhouzhou's name from him, so Li Zheng wasn't surprised that Feng Yue told her he lived there.
However, saying his training progress out loud was a bit...
"I asked." Zhan Zhouzhou said, "He didn't want to tell me at first. I said I was your master and had the right to know your progress, then he told me."
Li Zheng: "???"
So, she got it out of him by questioning...
Wait!
"Master? What master?" Li Zheng said in surprise, "Since when did you become my master?"
Zhan Zhouzhou raised her eyebrows and coldly laughed, "Did you forget you learned Zhan Family Swordsmanship from me?"
"That's nonsense!" Li Zheng angrily retorted, "I traded something with you for that, and I refused when you wanted to take me as your disciple before! How can you go around claiming you're my master?"
"You cheeky little brat, seems like your skills have improved, huh?" Zhan Zhouzhou lifted her chin and pointed her thumb towards the door, "Come on, let's go find a place to spar!?"
"Spar it is!" Li Zheng had indeed made some progress recently, and his confidence wasn't just average, so he immediately agreed, "Let's go to the Gravity Research Institute and spar in front of Feng Yue and them. If you lose, you go explain to them that you were lying and you're not really my master!"
"Fine!" Zhan Zhouzhou agreed readily and then asked, "What if you lose?"
Li Zheng said, "If I lose, not only will I not stop you from calling yourself my master, I'll even call you my grandmaster!"
"Deal!"
Saying that, Zhan Zhouzhou turned and walked towards the door with an imposing aura.
"Get ready to lose!"
Li Zheng followed, equally filled with fighting intent.
"Uh..." Mirel, holding a few freshly made breakfasts, asked from the back, "Aren't you going to eat something before your fight?"
Their footsteps paused simultaneously, "Then let's eat before we duel!"
The two of them went over, sat down, picked up bowls, and stared at each other like fighting roosters, slurping their breakfasts.
"Sakura, come eat." Mirel called out.
"Coming." Sakura responded promptly, dashed to the table, and those two skewer snacks weren't even enough to fill the gaps in her teeth.
They finished breakfast under a tense atmosphere, not even bothering to wipe their mouths, and headed straight to the Gravity Research Institute.
Inside the Gravity Field, Zhan Zhouzhou suddenly said, "This time, no using Spiritual Power, whoever intentionally uses it loses immediately!"
Li Zheng: "!!! Whoa, you sly fox, why didn't you say that earlier?"
Who bans the opponent's strongest combat technique before a duel?
Did you think this was ranked matchmaking?
"Fine!" Li Zheng said immediately, "Then you can't use your Genetic Ability, either. If you use it, you lose!"
Zhan Zhouzhou: "..."