novelraw Chapter 1055 - 757: Children of the Outer City
Chapter 1055 - 757: Children of the Outer City
Street No. 375.
Li Zheng and his group walked out from the Teleportation Gate, looking at the familiar street, Li Zheng took a deep breath: "Let’s go to the research institute first, and say hello to the professors."
Today is the last day of the holiday, starting tomorrow, Li Zheng might have to begin his monotonous and tedious training again, so he wanted to give a quick notice to let the doctors prepare.
The group arrived at the research institute and easily found the Gravity Room where Zhan Zhouzhou trained.
Originally, Feng Yue monitored here in the control room, but during Li Zheng’s holiday, Feng Yue was assigned by the professor to follow him, so now Professor Rothschild had temporarily taken over.
"Daddy!" Little Sakura was left here in Zhan Zhouzhou’s care, staying in the control room while Zhan Zhouzhou trained. Seeing Li Zheng, she leaped like a swallow returning to the nest, landing in his arms, her little face affectionately rubbing against Li Zheng’s neck: "Waa waa, Sakura missed you!"
Li Zheng weighed Little Sakura in his arms, laughing and crying at the same time: "I don’t think you missed me at all. Otherwise, how did you gain so much weight in just fifteen days?"
"Waa!" Little Sakura protested, shouting: "I’m just growing, not getting fat!"
"Alright, alright, you’re not getting fat, okay?" Li Zheng fondly held her with one hand, while the other lightly pinched her cute little nose, making the little girl squirm.
"Mirel Mom, Sakura missed you too!" The little one stretched out her arms towards Mirel, asking for a hug.
"Really?" Mirel picked her up, pretending to struggle, teasing her: "Oh wow, you really got heavier, I almost can’t hold you anymore."
"Nooo~~ I’m just growing, really not becoming fat!" Little Sakura grabbed a Red Poli on her shoulder, pointing at them: "Don’t believe me? Ask the Polis, they can testify, I really eat much less than before!"
"Pol..." The Red Polis looked at her with suspicious eyes.
"Say it!" Little Sakura bared her teeth fiercely, yet cutely.
"Poli Poli! Poli Poli!" The Red Polis nodded repeatedly, as if expressing: whatever she says is right, you better believe her.
"Hahaha, okay okay, I believe you. Now let them go, you’re squishing them." Mirel set Little Sakura down, pointing at the place where the Polis were squashed into a thin line by her small hand.
The body of the Poli Race is mostly made up of water, so they have little intelligence, and they don’t feel pain. Even when being pulled like clay by Little Sakura, they think she’s just playing with them and feel happy.
Due to their unique structure, the Poli Race can’t generate spiritual power in the conventional sense.
Li Zheng once took some time to try checking their spiritual power but didn’t detect even a slight fluctuation of it inside the Red Polis.
He was very curious about how the life phenomena of the Poli Race were actually born.
People in the Outer City had also caught some Polis in the Matrix to forcefully bring them back for research. Not only did it yield no results, but those forcibly brought back would refuse to absorb water and let themselves dry up and die.
Little Sakura released the Red Polis, her face filled with anticipation, asking: "Mirel Mom, since you guys are back today, are we having a dinner gathering tonight?"
Mirel hearing this, understood Little Sakura’s true thoughts, chuckled and shook her head: "You little foodie, so this is what you’ve been waiting for!"
"Hehe." Little Sakura giggled, shaking Mirel’s arm coaxingly: "Let’s have a dinner gathering, please? I really want to eat Mirel Mom’s cooking."
Mirel, pestered to no end by her, had no choice but to say: "Alright, alright, tonight we’ll invite Aunt Zhouzhou, Uncle Feng Yue, and Professor Uncle, and have a dinner gathering, okay?"
"Yay!" Little Sakura happily jumped up, her head hitting the ceiling of the control room with a bang, yet she didn’t feel any pain, landing with a silly grin.
Li Zheng leaned close to the monitor, watching Zhan Zhouzhou’s progress. Over the past fifteen days of his absence, she made remarkable strides, adapting to a gravity multiple that has surpassed seventeen times, and today she’s attempting seventeen and a half times gravity environment.
According to Professor Rothschild, Zhan Zhouzhou had already tried under seventeen and a half gravity more than ten times today, with cumulative endurance time exceeding an hour!
From initially enduring a few tens of seconds, to this time persevering for nearly fifteen minutes, her progress was astonishing!
However, even now, Zhan Zhouzhou could only lie in the gravity field, her skin and flesh being pulled by gravity, sagging down her sides, even her bones are slightly deformed.
It’s imaginable what kind of terrifying pressure must be endured by the internal organs inside her body.
Li Zheng had felt the same countless times, understanding that this was a process one must go through every time overcoming a gravity limit, and it may take over ten days to make substantial progress.
On the monitor, Zhan Zhouzhou seemed to have reached her limit, her fingers trembling slightly.
Professor Rothschild immediately noticed this detail and quickly reduced the gravity coefficient, restoring Zhan Zhouzhou’s body to normal in the gravity field visibly.
The scene looked quite weird, especially female-specific organs remarkably regained their standlike posture after the gravity decrease, akin to bamboo shoots proudly sprouting after spring rain.
"It’s too strange, without bone support, how is it held up?"
Li Zheng could never figure this out, ultimately attributing it to Zhan Zhouzhou undergoing multiple reinforcements from various angles after entering the Matrix, thus her muscles developed a strange memory ability.
As the gravity decreased to zero, Zhan Zhouzhou had already made full adaptation and walked out of the gravity field, heading straight for the control room: "Back."
"Hmm." Li Zheng smiled: "Thank you for taking care of Little Sakura, the little one’s appetite made you spend a lot."
"It wasn’t too much of a burden." Zhan Zhouzhou looked at Little Sakura, and said: "I watched this little one grow up. She used to be so tiny, looking like a dinosaur-head bat, adorably ugly. Didn’t expect in her childhood phase she could become such a cute little girl, must’ve been hard on you."
"What..." Li Zheng’s expression turned dour: "What do you mean by that? How was she mistreated following me? Did I ever deny her food or drink?"
"Nothing to do with food or drink." Zhan Zhouzhou said flatly: "But the child is already this big, when are you planning to arrange cultural lessons for her?"
"???" Little Sakura turned her head, looking at Zhan Zhouzhou, utterly bewildered.
Although she didn’t catch what she said, Little Sakura clearly sensed a chill penetrating to her bones.
It seemed like the greatest nightmare for every race’s children at her age!
"Mirel and I as her parents are not even anxious, yet you as an aunt are really keen, huh." Li Zheng squinted slightly, "Speaking of education... there seems to be no schools in the Outer City?"
He suddenly realized, after walking through so many districts in the Outer City, he never once saw buildings resembling schools.
Strictly speaking, aside from Kang’er’s grandson Basil who is considered a child, he had almost never seen any signs of youngling activities from all races in the Outer City.