Chapter 96: Chapter 88: Second Deep Evolution (2/10)

Back at Poly Yuxi.

As soon as Lu Li entered the room, he activated his sense of smell to see the picture, X-ray vision, super hearing, and other skills to check things out.

As expected, just as he had speculated earlier, several micro surveillance devices and eavesdropping devices were installed in the room.

Lu Li kept glancing towards those micro surveillance devices and eavesdropping devices.

There was a micro surveillance device installed inside the wall-mounted TV facing the sofa.

There was also one inside the kitchen lampshade.

Under the sofa, there was a bug.

Additionally, the bathroom and two bedrooms all had more or less micro surveillance devices and eavesdropping devices installed.

Lu Li recorded all the locations of these devices.

He analyzed and determined which places were blind spots and committed them to memory.

After finishing the inspection, Lu Li began to observe the external situation.

He hadn’t probed much when he discovered that on the same floor of the opposite building, Wang Yu and the driver Xiaolin, whom he had seen before, were hiding behind the curtains peering through binoculars.

“Old Wang, you’ve really disappointed me.”

Lu Li couldn’t help shaking his head and sighed, “If you had followed me instead, your life would definitely be more comfortable in the future. Unfortunately, you made the wrong choice.”

He pretended not to know anything.

He walked up to a few antiques, took out his phone, and snapped some photos from multiple angles.

Lu Li directly uploaded them to the group with the caption: “Anyone interested, feel free to DM me.”

As for whether anyone would contact him to buy the antiques, he didn’t know for now.

Lu Li had more important matters to attend to and ignored if anyone added him.

He carried a bag of jadeite to his bedroom.

Casually tossed his phone onto the bed.

Lu Li found a blind spot for the surveillance, then took out a piece of jadeite.

“I don’t know why, but when I see jadeite, I get ’craving.’ My evolved stomach is reminding me to eat four or five pounds of jadeite quickly.”

If it were before, Lu Li might have hesitated, wondering if eating jadeite would harm him.

After all, human internal organs are quite fragile. Some might suffer gastric perforation from swallowing even a slightly larger fishbone, leading to life-threatening situations.

However, he had tried eating iron before without any issue, knowing his stomach had evolved and wouldn’t perforate from such consumption.

Naturally, Lu Li had no concerns.

He reached out and broke the jadeite into small pieces.

Immediately, Lu Li picked up a small piece of jadeite and popped it into his mouth, crunching and swallowing.

In theory, jadeite’s hardness is even higher than enamel.

Though it can be crushed with strong biting force, it typically damages teeth.

However, as Lu Li chewed on the jadeite, he didn’t feel any signs of tooth damage at all.

He even felt as if he were chewing on hard candy.

Except there’s no sweetness.

On the contrary, it’s a bit tangy and spicy.

“My teeth’s hardness has actually evolved to be higher than jadeite?”

Lu Li felt quite surprised.

Enamel’s Mohs hardness is about seven.

Jadeite can reach seven and a half.

What does this mean?

It means my teeth are like sharp blades!

“In future fights, even without weapons, a bite from me would strip the skin if not worse,”

Lu Li mused, a little amused, “Am I turning into a dog?”

Never mind.

Forget about the tooth hardness.

Let’s see what the actual effects are.

Lu Li activated his X-ray vision to observe.

He saw the swallowed jadeite slide down the esophagus into the stomach, instantly getting digested.

At the same time, a vibrant energy beam surged up from the stomach!

“Hmm?” Lu Li blinked and said, “The same amount of jadeite, after ingestion, converts into ten times the chemical energy compared to food?”

Previously, eating steel only converted to about four times.

Lu Li was truly perplexed as to why jadeite provided so much energy.

Could it be the saying about jade possessing some kind of spiritual energy is true?

For now, he couldn’t figure it out and decided not to waste any brain cells.

According to the information provided by his stomach, Lu Li continuously consumed jadeite.

Crunch, crunch.

The sounds persisted in the bedroom.

After quite a while of eating, Lu Li finally felt “satisfied.”

Then, he suddenly felt a wave of drowsiness.

This drowsiness was extremely intense.

Lu Li collapsed onto the bed directly, falling asleep without even pulling up the covers.

…

In his dream.

Lu Li saw the Little Golden Man radiating an incredibly intense golden light.

If previously the light on the Little Golden Man was like a candle, now it’s like a nighttime lamp.

He clearly saw the Little Golden Man assimilating the brilliant energy beams into every part of his body.

Mostly into the skin and hair.

Next were the internal organs.

And every blood vessel in the body.

Even each bone.

Lu Li felt as if he was immersed in a sea of energy light.

The sensation was very comfortable, gentle, and warm.

Of course, occasionally, there was also a feeling of itchiness and prickling.

This state lasted for a long time.

So long that Lu Li felt as if a whole century had passed.

When the light finally dissipated, he felt as if he had fallen into an abyss.

…

He didn’t know how much time had passed, and Lu Li gradually awoke.

He had a peculiar feeling.

His pores and skin seemed to be breathing at all times.

Yes, just like a nose, his pores and skin were breathing.

Moreover, Lu Li could detect that whenever his pores and skin breathed, they would bring back some special “substance” from the outside world.

These “substances” were indescribable, seemingly formless and intangible, yet he could clearly feel them.

When these “substances” entered his body, they quickly sank into his stomach, were then “digested,” transported to the spleen for purification, and transformed into purer energy.

A magical scene emerged naturally.

The newly born pure energy, after transformation in the spleen, rapidly drilled out from his temporal meridians, surged up to the location of his back molars, penetrated the temples, converged at the top of his head, and finally transformed into another kind of magical energy. It flowed down along the back of his head, down to the spine, and was stored on the Little Golden Man.

He didn’t know if it was an illusion, but after this energy made a circle inside his body, Lu Li felt as if his Spiritual Power had been enhanced.

“Is it just my imagination?”

Lu Li hesitantly opened his eyes.

He looked up and saw two phones just ten centimeters in front of him, within easy reach.

Lu Li didn’t reach out his hand but controlled them with his mind, “Come here! Phones, come here!”

Swish!

The two phones gently floated in the air!

Lu Li was instantly stunned.

His previous Spiritual Power wasn’t nearly enough to “pick up” even one phone.

And now, he could move two at once?

The key was, he didn’t feel any strain at all!

It was as if controlling two phones was not his limit at all!

Lu Li suddenly became excited, ready to experiment further.

Suddenly, he remembered there was a small surveillance device aimed at his bedside.

Although he was lying there at the moment, accidentally blocking the view.

But if he continued to try, it would definitely be recorded.

“No, I can’t experiment in the room anymore.”

Lu Li picked up his phone without hesitation, checked the time, and prepared to go outside for experiments.

Suddenly, he noticed several WeChat messages on the phone screen, along with two or three missed calls.

Lu Li opened them to check.

Then he found, somewhat speechlessly, that it was already the afternoon of the next day.

“Just like the first time I unlocked the gene lock, I slept for a whole day and night.”

He first checked the missed calls, which were from Liu Kexin at 8 PM last night.

“Ugh.”

As soon as Lu Li saw Liu Kexin’s call, he immediately remembered he had promised to pick her up after work yesterday.

After all, she had come out with him to look at jade without a car, so it was only natural to pick her up after work and take her home.

But who would have thought he would suddenly undergo such a “massive evolution” yesterday, falling into a deep sleep and unintentionally standing her up.

He sent her a WeChat message to explain.

Lu Li instinctively opened WeChat.

He hadn’t yet looked for Liu Kexin’s avatar.

He saw that two people wanted to add him as a friend.

One had the online name “Early Summer Gardenia,” clearly female without needing to think.

The other had the online name “A Branch of Red Apricot Emerging from the Wall.”

Hmm, it seemed a bit flamboyant.

Lu Li casually accepted the friend requests, then found Liu Kexin’s account and sent a line of text: “I wasn’t feeling well yesterday, slept all the way until now, sorry for not picking you up after work.”

Liu Kexin replied quickly: “Did you get hit by a baton somewhere yesterday? Do you need to go to the hospital to check?”

This showed she was very concerned about him.

Lu Li felt warm inside and typed back: “No, I was just very tired, shall we… meet tonight?”

Maybe because she heard he was okay.

Liu Kexin returned to her usual self: “Oh.”

Lu Li didn’t mind her, and switched out of the chat interface.

At that moment, “A Branch of Red Apricot Emerging from the Wall” sent a message.

A Branch of Red Apricot Emerging from the Wall: I’m very interested in those antiques you posted in the group. Can we meet to see the real items? If I can confirm they’re genuine, we can negotiate the price.

Seeing the person was interested in buying his antiques, Lu Li quickly replied: Sure, where should we meet?

A Branch of Red Apricot Emerging from the Wall: Come to my company, I’ll send you the address.

The next moment, the person sent an address.

Lu Li checked it, and it wasn’t too far, about eight or nine kilometers.

He didn’t hesitate to get up, grab the antiques, and prepared to go for a meeting.

Meanwhile, Lu Li was still quietly pondering his recent deep evolution.

“It seems this time I’ve evolved my whole being again; I wonder if I’ve developed the transformation ability. I’ll try it outside later.”

If he really developed the transformation ability, then he wouldn’t have to worry about being constantly monitored!

Additionally, Lu Li was very curious; his skin and pores now seemed to absorb free energy from the air, converting it into more refined special chemical energy, which was stored on the Little Golden Man.

He wanted to know whether this special chemical energy had other uses besides evolution.

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