Chapter 427: Chapter 370: Today

How could the autumn of Su City be merely described as beautiful?

A night breeze rises, as if a palette has been overturned.

It falls into Su City, illuminating the autumn of the Jiangnan Wu Region.

The moon sets, the crows caw against the frost-filled sky, fishing fires by Jiangfeng echo with sleep-filled sorrows.

Outside the Gusu City lies Hanshan Temple, the midnight bell reaches the passenger boat.

In the water towns of Jiangnan, the lanterns first light up, enveloping everything in tranquility.

Here, you need not approach; just wait, just like a thousand years ago on a particular night, standing on the bridge at the western outskirts of Su City with the poet Zhang Ji, waiting for the moon to slowly set, listening to the unending flow of water, centuries of unspeakable vicissitudes flickering faintly in the shifting light.

Diamond Home is not far from Hanshan Temple and Jiangfeng Bridge Pier, with a straight-line distance of about three kilometers.

The small villa’s dining room is brightly lit, Lu Li sits under the crystal chandelier, gazing at Liu Kexin, who sits opposite in a purple princess dress, unable to restrain himself from exclaiming, “Kexin, you look truly beautiful tonight.”

Liu Kexin chuckles lightly, “So I’m not usually beautiful?”

Lu Li sincerely responds, “You’re always beautiful, it’s just that before, you dressed more smartly, unlike tonight, where you’re dressed like a princess.”

These words come from the heart, with no exaggeration.

In the past, Liu Kexin would mostly apply some foundation and a light lipstick, beautiful as she was, it was her natural good looks that carried through.

Tonight is different, Liu Kexin has put on a very delicate light makeup, with bright red lipstick adorning her lips, coupled with an eye-catching purple princess dress, giving off a look that’s bright without being vulgar.

The visual impact is strong.

Lu Li feels as if a princess he once imagined while reading novels has stepped into reality.

In front of others, Liu Kexin always puts on a leader’s face, yet with Lu Li, she appears somewhat shy, “You like to make me happy. Shall we begin dinner now?”

Lu Li looks at the candle in the center of the table and the heart-shaped candles arranged around, nodding slightly, “Okay.”

Aunt Huang, from not far away, quickly goes to turn off the lights.

A hazy beauty gently ripples through the dining room.

A moment later, the chef team, hired at a high cost by Liu Kexin, starts pushing small carts to deliver the food and red wine.

A tall female waitress pours a half-glass of top-grade red wine from Margaux Winery that has already been decanted, for each of them.

Lu Li raises his wine glass and clinks it with Liu Kexin’s, taking a sip, as a dry taste spreads across his tongue, bringing a refreshing experience, like musical notes dancing on his tongue, “This wine is nice.”

Liu Kexin, with a hint of charm, says, “If you like it, you can drink more, I have several bottles over here.”

Just as Lu Li is about to speak, he suddenly notices that the red wine he drank isn’t digested by his stomach, but under the action of an upgraded stomach, it disintegrates completely, releasing a lot of energy, which is then absorbed by his body.

Hmm?

Can my stomach actually convert matter into pure energy?

Lu Li feels slightly surprised.

Since the fifth deep evolution, he hadn’t eaten anything and wasn’t aware of this.

Now, discovering this fascinating scene, his interest is naturally piqued.

What does this mean?

It means that even if Lu Li exhausts his energy and cannot absorb it externally, he can still rely on eating food to recover.

Just as he is pondering, the appetizer arrives.

A common dish – seared foie gras.

The two of them taste the food and converse, the atmosphere growing increasingly warm.

Soon, the appetizer is finished.

The second course, the soup, is also served.

This time it’s a wild mushroom soup.

Lu Li hasn’t eaten much Western food before, and after tasting it, he finds the flavor quite good.

The third course is a side dish, seared silver cod.

Then, it moves on to the main course segment.

This time, it’s a Wagyu Tomahawk that’s served, said to be priced over three hundred US Dollars per pound.

Lu Li tastes it, and can’t help but admire how the steak lives up to its value.

The blend of marbled fat and lean meat, the rich and tender, yet mildly flavorful texture truly leaves one savoring it endlessly.

While conversing with Liu Kexin, he secretly ponders, “Although the Wagyu Tomahawk comes from a distant land, Earth offers countless delicacies better than this, could I really just watch as a gamma-ray burst destroys Earth, and never eat those innumerable delicious foods again?”

At this moment, Lu Li is filled with thoughts.

Desperately wanting to protect Earth from being destroyed by the gamma-ray burst.

He gradually makes up his mind that after a warm evening with Liu Kexin, he must find a way to solve the gamma-ray burst issue.

Before long, dinner concludes.

After wiping his lips.

Lu Li stands up, holding Liu Kexin’s hand, and walks slowly upstairs.

As he holds Liu Kexin’s hand, Lu Li can clearly feel a slight tremor from her.

It is evident that Liu Kexin feels both excitement and nervousness about what might happen next.

…

They arrive in the bedroom upstairs.

Petals of roses are scattered around, candlelight subtly illuminates, filling the room with romance.

With just a glance, Lu Li can see how much effort Liu Kexin has put into tonight.

Especially at this moment, he can sense that Liu Kexin, who has just entered the room, is somewhat restless, both looking forward to and fearing what’s to come.

Actually, this is a very normal emotion. How could a girl not be nervous doing this kind of thing for the first time?

Lu Li casually sat on the edge of the bed, patted the spot next to him, and said, “Come sit over here and rest for a bit. Shall we chat for a while?”

Hmm, we just finished eating. It’s not like I can go straight at her, right?

Perhaps seeing that Lu Li wasn’t planning to take immediate action, Liu Kexin’s anxiety eased a little.

She walked over slowly and sat down, then leaned her head on Lu Li’s shoulder, and softly said, “What do you want to talk about?”

Lu Li wrapped his arm around her waist, “Just talk about anything.”

As he said this, he mobilized the energy inside him, channeling it through his palm into Liu Kexin’s body, preparing to explore.

Or rather, Lu Li was ready to verify his earlier thoughts.

He wanted to know if, after his fifth deep evolution, he could use higher-level energy to grant others long lifespans, and even… unlock the gene lock!

Liu Kexin noticed what was happening, “Your hand is a bit hot.”

Lu Li comforted her, “Don’t worry, I’m just adjusting your body a bit so you’ll be in better shape later.”

Liu Kexin blushed instantly, “This… you even need to adjust the body for this kind of thing?”

Lu Li chuckled softly, “Don’t you want to be in better shape?”

Liu Kexin felt a bit shy, “I do want that, but…”

The two continued chatting casually like this.

Most of Lu Li’s attention wasn’t on the conversation.

Instead, he was focused on the energy flowing into Liu Kexin’s body, observing the situation.

He infiltrated the specific nucleotide sequences in Liu Kexin’s DNA molecules that carried genetic information.

This is the genetic material, which passes genetic information to the next generation through replication, resulting in progeny exhibiting traits similar to their parents.

Humans have about tens of thousands of genes, which store all the information for life’s development, senescence, and death processes, and carry out crucial physiological functions like reproduction, cell division, and protein synthesis through replication, expression, and repair.

Genes are the codes of life, recording and transmitting genetic information. All life phenomena such as growth, illness, aging, and death are tied to genes, which also determine the body’s internal health factors and are closely related to human health.

Because this matter is too important, Lu Li dared not forcibly “unlock” with his energy.

Upon detecting the genetic material, he immediately activated the simulation function.

He wanted to simulate and deduce how to unlock Liu Kexin’s gene lock.

And what would happen after unlocking the gene lock.

These are things that must be understood.

Otherwise, with one mistake, it would likely result in the other person’s death.

The process of simulating and deducing how to unlock the gene lock is relatively complex.

Even with Lu Li’s level, it still took him about a minute to roughly simulate how to unlock each different gene lock in Liu Kexin’s body.

In the end, he came to a shocking conclusion: although Liu Kexin’s body contains only 25,125 genes and the unlocking methods correspond to them, the number of base pairs composing these genes reaches billions. Breaking each limitation requires an enormous amount of energy.

Lu Li has the ability to unlock some of the more important gene locks for Liu Kexin.

Logically speaking, he could unlock the gene lock for her here.

However, after simulating the situation post-unlock, he suddenly fell silent.

Because Lu Li’s simulation indicated that unlocking one gene lock in Liu Kexin’s body would trigger a chain reaction among all genes within her body.

In severe cases, she could die on the spot.

Even if it’s not so severe, she could turn into a monster.

Lu Li sat there, frowning and pondering, “It takes about ten percent of my current energy to unlock one gene lock. If I want to unlock all 20,000+ genes in Liu Kexin’s body, I would need to be in full energy state over 4,000 times. Most importantly, this process cannot be done separately, otherwise, it would trigger chain reactions, causing her body to collapse and even gene mutations.”

Given these facts, why was I able to unlock all gene locks in my body at once?

He didn’t believe that the fat in his previously plump body could provide that massive amount of energy.

Lu Li had a premonition that his previous ability to unlock all gene locks in his body was likely due to some enormous external force.

Exactly what external force it was, he wasn’t able to analyze for now.

“It seems this world still holds many mysteries waiting for me to unravel.”

With this in mind, Lu Li again attempted simulation without hesitation.

He wanted to see what would happen if he unlocked all the genes in Liu Kexin’s body at once.

Initially, he thought he had already simulated and deduced the method to unlock each gene individually, so simulating a one-time full unlock should be relatively easy.

But in fact, Lu Li found, surprisingly, that with his current super computation ability, he couldn’t deduce the method.

In other words, even with his star-crushing power, he still couldn’t make others “become gods.”

After all, without simulating a method to unlock all gene locks at once, how could he make anyone a god?

“Although I can’t unlock Liu Kexin’s gene locks, it doesn’t mean I can’t extend her lifespan.”

At this thought, Lu Li’s eyes glimmered slightly. He turned and looked at his girlfriend, “Kexin, go take a shower.”

“Huh?” Liu Kexin was a bit flustered, and meekly said, “Am I supposed to shower this soon?”

Lu Li chuckled softly, “Are you trying to back out?”

“No, no,” Liu Kexin quickly waved her hand, “I’m just not quite ready yet… Okay, I’ll go shower. You wait here for a bit.”

With that, she stood up, patted her slightly flushed face, and walked slowly towards the bathroom.

As Lu Li watched Liu Kexin’s departing figure, he couldn’t help but smile. He began humming a song by Liu Dehua, “Today,” under his breath, “Finally, I’ve waited so long for today, finally, I’ve realized my dream…”

Finally, he was going to have Liu Kexin!

Lu Li’s mood had become exceptionally wonderful.

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