Chapter 423: Chapter 307: Year-End (Part 2)

But according to Li Peifeng’s speculation, this should only be a temporary negative effect caused by the transformation. In two days, his appetite should return to normal...

"Normal my ass, I’m no longer a normal person!"

Drinking bowl after bowl of porridge, even though it was scalding at over eighty degrees, his transformed mouth could still adapt and swiftly cool it with saliva before Li Peifeng gulped it down.

Noticing the increasingly inhuman changes in his body, Li Peifeng felt somewhat complex emotions, but these did not affect his eating or fiddling with his phone to check WeChat messages.

Since Li Peifeng only got up at noon today, he had quite a few WeChat messages, both work-related ones from the project group and greetings from the girls.

Early at seven thirty.

He Yimeng: "You did well last night, the labor fee is two thousand, plus the watch I owe you thirty-five thousand, I’ll pay you back when I have money later."

Early at eight.

Huang Tianxuan: "Don’t contact me anymore, I’ve blocked you, don’t reply."

Li Peifeng tried to send a message to Huang Tianxuan, but it resulted in a red exclamation mark; he was indeed blocked and chose to temporarily set it aside and respond to He Yimeng first.

"Don’t put on pants and not recognize your owner, acting so distant I thought you were wild."

He Yimeng replied quickly, with a panda emoji cursing, and Li Peifeng responded similarly with an emoji in return. After a round, He Yimeng stopped the emoji battle and asked, "Did you only do it with me last night?"

This was a wonderful misunderstanding; He Yimeng perhaps still saw Li Peifeng through old eyes, thinking his condition was good last night and misjudging his prowess. Li willingly let it continue to be wonderful, simply replied with, ’Yes.’

He Yimeng: "Liar, I don’t believe you; Wu Wenyue was beaming this morning... aren’t you tired?"

Li Peifeng sent ellipses to try to end the conversation, but He Yimeng persisted relentlessly.

"I’m really curious why you do this, having everything is certainly lovely, but you also have to endure equivalent troubles, physical and mental double-layered troubles. Aren’t you afraid of a shortened life?"

"I’m really not afraid!"

Li Peifeng sighed lightly, not immediately replying.

To date, aside from his brain, his heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, and other organs have largely been transformed.

Even if analyzed from a physiological structure, he is still human, but practically, internally he is completely different from regular human species. Calling him ’superhuman’ is a bit exaggerated; referring to him as ’technological evolved (transformed) human’ is more fitting because all his organs come from a highly technologically advanced alternate plane, realizing a leap evolution of the human species.

According to the system’s explanation, Li Peifeng living to over two hundred years is no problem at all, and with effort, living up to three hundred is also very likely. Moreover, his appearance and physical functions will maintain very well, definitely not like ordinary people losing labor ability at eighty or ninety years old.

Li Peifeng is also unlikely to experience a shortened life as He Yimeng said. Optimistically looking ahead, when he is two hundred years old, he might not have entered an elderly state yet, still going to the gym, bench pressing, and dating women in their twenties and thirties.

Regarding this, Li Peifeng finds it paradoxical not to be happy. Although ordinary people wish to live more years while enjoying youth and health, Li Peifeng himself can actually do it yet feels rather nostalgic.

"By that time, they probably won’t be around anymore."

This is a very crucial issue, which Li Peifeng realized ever since he first obtained the [Steel Kidney] transformation. But at that time, the pressure from the system was imminent, and he didn’t take this issue seriously. While the system no longer issued mandatory tasks later, the issue started to linger in his mind, becoming his greatest trouble.

Because if following the normal life’s steps, it’s nothing more than finding a partner to marry and have children. Yet no matter what, Li Peifeng’s beloved wife, even his offspring, will predecease him.

His life is destined to be one of continual experiences of separation and death. Li Peifeng cannot imagine what kind of severe blow his spirit will endure in the future.

If he were truly an immortal Cultivator, it wouldn’t be an issue, as time would eventually heal all wounds. But in reality, there’s no cultivation method to achieve immortality; his longevity comes from transformation, and despite living long, after hundreds of years, death will still come.

And as a hundred years pass, with family and friends successively passing away, facing the remaining hundred years, Li Peifeng doesn’t know how to get through them.

Simply remain solitary, being an observer to avoid it?

Absolutely impossible, Li Peifeng is not a monk, cannot sever emotions and desires, moreover, [Steel Kidney] won’t allow it either.

In fact, Li Peifeng believes that life itself is a collection of desires and emotions; living requires these two things as support. Without them, humans lose direction and self-destruct. The longer-lived one is, the stronger the need for desires and emotions, and not strong enough to counter the long years!

Objectively speaking, the strongest innate human desire is sex, a thing imprinted within genes, and for any biological entity incapable of eternal life, the singular ultimate aim within its genes is reproduction.

Subjectively speaking, the strongest emotional need for humans is love; the pursuit of true love is heartfelt admiration and fervor, with people finding joy in love and being loved, seeking the existence of self.