Abyss Sequence-Chapter 371 - 28: Hypotheses on the Evil God’s Mark
The Abyss Hunt didn’t happen, and Yan Luo found himself in a state of confusion, self-doubt clouding his thoughts as he sat blankly on the villa sofa, unsure of what he was really thinking about.
Wang Lingyu pushed the door open, walked through the hallway, and spotted Yan Luo sitting dazed on the sofa. She turned to Sasa, who was sitting on the other side, and asked, "Has he been like this ever since he heard the news?"
Sasa nodded, "Yes. Yan Luo probably never considered such a thing; after all, he’s only nineteen this year and won’t reach the legal age to get married until next year."
How does it feel to be suddenly told you have offspring at an age when you’re not even eligible to get married?
"How wonderful..."
Wang Lingyu exclaimed sincerely as she glanced at the photo Sasa had obtained from Li Xinyue.
Sasa looked at Wang Lingyu in surprise, "Aren’t you jealous?"
Wang Lingyu looked at Sasa quirically, "Why would I be jealous?"
This surprised Sasa even more, "Li Xinyue is pregnant with Yan Luo’s child!"
Wang Lingyu tilted her head, "So what? It’s because I brought her over that she got pregnant. Would being pregnant make her more significant in Yan Luo’s heart? Whether as a lover or a friend, his regard for someone doesn’t change due to relationship status. If I was going to be jealous, I would have forced him to cut ties with you all a long time ago, but would I do that? No, because it would hurt Yan Luo’s heart and make him resent me."
No wonder Wang Lingyu had been Yan Luo’s classmate for many years and secretly admired him; she had thoroughly analyzed Yan Luo’s personality.
"Besides, I’m still young and unlike Li Xinyue, I don’t have a family estate to inherit, so I haven’t thought about offspring. Besides, wouldn’t Li Xinyue’s child call me ’mom’? A child I wouldn’t have to raise, and I can just hand over to Li Xinyue when they’re upset—I couldn’t be happier!" Wang Lingyu said with a smile.
Sasa was dumbstruck by Wang Lingyu, suddenly realizing that she was strong enough to be Yan Luo’s lover, yet not without her quirks.
Wang Lingyu then added, "Of course, this is just my current thought, and I don’t know how I’ll feel in the future. Maybe someday I’ll want a child with Yan Luo out of envy for Li Xinyue’s child?"
"Didn’t you say my reproductive cells have a hard time naturally impregnating a woman, Sasa?"
Yan Luo finally snapped out of his daze and asked Sasa.
Sasa shrugged, "As you said, it’s ’hard,’ not ’impossible.’ Logically, there’s only a very small chance of natural pregnancy, but what can I do now that we’ve hit the jackpot?"
"But speaking of which—"
Wang Lingyu raised her voice to draw Yan Luo’s attention, "I still feel a bit mad about you getting someone else pregnant. As compensation for this and because I can’t go to Alfheim with you due to the academy starting early, I want you to fill both me and Senior Sister Sasa up!"
Sasa realized that the attack had suddenly extended to herself and immediately stood up, "What does this have to do with me? I still have experiments to do!"
However, Sasa was immediately held down by Wang Lingyu, unable to escape.
Wang Lingyu said with a smile, "Senior Sister, if you run away, how will I handle it alone? Even if you’re weak physically, you can still help me bear some of the burden, can’t you? Come on, take it off!"
Yan Luo sighed at the chaos unfolding in front of him.
Wang Lingyu promptly turned her head and glared at him, "What are you sighing about? You take it off too!"
Yan Luo felt that Wang Lingyu just wanted an excuse to jump into bed, and what that excuse was didn’t really matter to her.
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The news of Li Xinyue’s pregnancy slightly disrupted Yan Luo’s plans. He wanted to go to Celestial Sea City to see Li Xinyue, but she refused.
It’s only been a month since Li Xinyue became pregnant, and their child can’t even be considered a ’fetus,’ not having taken on any basic form yet.
Once placed in the artificial womb, the baby takes a year and a half to be born, but once born, it can crawl, take half a month to walk, and usually start talking a month after birth.
This is what normal baby development looks like, while those developing within a mother’s body are considered premature.
With no way to go to Celestial Sea City, Yan Luo had nothing much to do.
The distribution of the second batch of Evil God’s Marks had already been completed during Yulia’s surgery, with nearly three hundred applicants successfully obtaining the mark.
At the original review speed, Yan Luo only needed to conduct ten rounds to review all applicants of Crimson No.2.
The issue was that, with the application form now widespread, not just Crimson No.2 Hunters, but those from other Exploration Towns also signed up.
Some Crimson No.1 and No.3 Hunters, upon hearing about the distribution of Evil God’s Marks, relocated their operations to Crimson No.2.
It’s been quite some time since the Crimson No.1 Hunters came to cause trouble, and the mastermind, Daoist Li, had long been apprehended, so Yan Luo and the other Crimson No.2 Hunters permitted the Crimson No.1 Hunters to arrive.
However, once it was known that some Hunters came from Crimson No.1, the homeborn Crimson No.2 Hunters would warn them not to cause trouble, or risk being expelled like before.
Thanks to Yan Luo’s reputation and the lure of the Evil God’s Mark, the outsider Hunters dared not cause any disturbances in Crimson No.2.
With nothing else to do, Yan Luo couldn’t just stay idle; he ventured into the Crimson Abyss once again to hunt demons.
Nowadays, Yan Luo’s main reason for entering the Abyss was no longer for money. The Forbidden Demon Abyss’s annihilation had earned him a substantial reward from the Lingquan City Government, enough to repay the gravity chamber loan and leave him with plenty of spare funds.
Even after setting aside part of his funds to support Sasa’s lab, what remained was still a fortune for many low-level Hunters.
He went into the Abyss simply to hunt demons and become stronger!
With the Abyss materializing, spatial stone extraction became easier, enabling Crimson No.2 to produce spatial pouches.
Wearing an exosuit and a spatial pouch, Yan Luo ventured into the Crimson Abyss without using a motorcycle.
Motorcycle speeds no longer met his needs, so he preferred to travel light.
Half a day into the Crimson Abyss, Yan Luo reached the Bone-Eroding Plain border with the Dark Forest; along the way, he hunted two City-breaking Level demons residing in the Dark Forest—compared to other parts of the Crimson Abyss, the Forest had too few City-breaking Level demons; he encountered only two along the way.
In the past, Yan Luo would have avoided them, but now City-breaking Level demons had become his prey, and encountering them brought nothing but excitement.
Upon reaching the Bone-Eroding Plain, Yan Luo pursued City-breaking Level demons and killed any Deadly-Level demons he encountered, not bothering with Dangerous-Level ones.
Soon enough, Yan Luo located a City-breaking Level demon using his knowledge and defeated it effortlessly.
Sitting on the demon’s back, feasting on the giant badger’s flesh beneath him, he shook his head, "The quality is too poor."
Having savored the pleasures of Alfheim, returning to hunt demons in the Crimson Abyss left Yan Luo feeling a stark difference.
The magic power within the flesh was not the issue; it was the texture.
Alfheim demons’ meat was tenderer, whereas the Crimson Abyss demons’ meat was dry, offering a gritty texture—like eating something fake... No, indeed it was fake!
While hunting demons granted strength, it couldn’t transform his cells; Yan Luo had to honestly consume demon flesh to absorb magic power.
It was at this moment that Yan Luo suddenly thought of a question.
Could the Evil God’s Mark also serve as something to ’control magic with willpower’?
