Chapter 75, Chapter 12 is so gentle that it is almost disgusting. ...
Do you think the little snake will grow bigger in the future?
Will it be big?
In fact, Shengqing's snake tail is quite thick now. Although Yan Hao has a thick filter in his mind, always feeling that his little snake is weak, helpless and pitiful and needs to eat more, but objectively speaking, the thickest part below Shengqing's waist is as thick as a tree stump, and the thinnest tip of the tail is as thick as an adult's wrist. He is fully capable of hurting people, and this is why the staff in the circus had to lock him up every time he was exhibited.
He's not even an adult yet...
How big would Shengqing be when he grows up? Would he fill a two-meter bed? Could he be as big as a room? Wouldn't a room be too small? If he grows that big when he grows up, wouldn't he be easily spotted in the city? What if he were caught and taken to a lab for research?
If I really died of illness, simply setting up a gene trust for the little snake wouldn't be enough. Even if I could use my connections to solve the identity issue for him, what if the little snake's true identity was discovered?
The little snake is so stupid, how could it possibly be a match for those cunning humans? It might be fooled by a few words. What will it do then?
Being cheated out of money is bad enough, but what if he is locked up and sliced up for research? What if he is sold to some irregular and black-hearted circus, where he is only fed a little bit of rotten meat every day and starves like a snake?
No, no, no…
I'm still worried.
As he thought about it, Yan Hao became more and more panicked. When he realized how ridiculous the hypothesis of dividing the inheritance due to a sudden illness that he was seriously considering was, the reading of the will was nearing its end, and the oral and written instructions left by the old man before his death were about to begin.
At this moment, a glaring red exclamation mark suddenly popped up in Yan Hao's retina.
Naturally, the others couldn't see what Yan Hao saw. They only saw his face suddenly change and he was about to leave.
Everyone in the Yan family had different expressions. One of them, a less familiar member of the side branch, saw this and said sarcastically, "Oh, this guy is really busy. He doesn't even have time to listen to his own grandfather's will?"
There was a whisper around.
Yan Hao turned a deaf ear and was about to walk out.
A woman with delicate makeup suddenly grabbed him. Frightened by Yan Hao's unhappy expression, her expression was obviously a little embarrassed. Until the middle-aged man next to her gave her a look, she had to bite the bullet and give him a slightly flattering smile again.
"Xiaohao..."
"No matter what it is, listen first."
After all, the woman was a rising star in the entertainment industry and still had some looks. If it were any other man, he would probably have started to feel pity for her, but Yan Hao's face became even gloomier.
He completely ignored the woman and glanced directly at the middle-aged man next to him whose nose looked a bit similar to his.
When the man was looked at like that, he subconsciously wanted to dodge, but then he immediately reacted. He probably felt it was too embarrassing, so he deliberately cleared his throat and straightened his back.
"There's no rush for anything." The man wanted to act like a father in front of Yan Hao and said in a very didactic tone, "Your grandfather's will hasn't even been read yet, is this how you treat your grandson? As the eldest grandson..."
Looking at his biological father and his stepmother, who was probably a few years younger than him and of unknown generation, Yan Hao suddenly remembered his mother, about whom he had little memory.
In fact, he had heard a long time ago that his mother and father had a very good relationship in their early years, so good that in order to marry her, the man rejected his wife who was arranged by his family for business, and his relationship with the then Mr. Yan became very strained. He once threatened to marry Yan Hao's mother even if it meant breaking off all ties. This matter caused a sensation in the city at that time.
However, this love that moved countless netizens did not remain as romantic as a fairy tale.
Soon after the marriage, Yan Hao's father was completely panicked when he found out that he was really abandoned and even his son's name did not inherit the fixed "Bai" generation.
At this time, the man, who was no longer hindered by the outside world, began to become dissatisfied, arguing and blaming each other constantly, so much so that he did not shed a tear when the woman died of illness.
As far as he can remember, Yan Hao was raised by the nanny at home, and his relationship with this biological father was no different from that with any other stranger.
And now this stranger was actually acting like a father in front of him? Isn't this too funny?
He ignored her and looked at the lawyer who had stopped reading the will. "Does the law stipulate that those who do not fully listen to the will's distribution will have their inheritance rights revoked?"
The lawyer was a little surprised, but quickly regained his composure, pushed his glasses, and said in a deep voice, "There is no such rule."
"Yeah, you all heard it, right?" Yan Hao showed a helpless expression and shrugged slightly. "Grandpa didn't stipulate this himself, why don't you ask? Besides, he didn't leave any words for me, so why should I stay and listen?"
The moment he stepped out of the room, Yan Hao walked briskly with a faint smile on his lips, in stark contrast to the slightly anxious questions in his mind.
"What's going on? Can you explain why you suddenly developed a high fever?"
This is a normal reaction during growth.
How could this happen during the growth period?
Yan Hao hurried out of the hospital gate. The driver downstairs opened the door for him from a distance. After he sat in the back seat, the car started immediately.
Although there were no specific instructions, the driver, Xiao Zheng, was very sensible and did not leave through the main gate. Instead, he avoided the reporters who were already waiting outside for big news and chose to leave through a quiet path at the side door.
The journey was smooth.
[Okay, I understand.]
Yan Hao hadn't looked at it carefully before, but now he finally had time to carefully check the pile of densely packed text sent by the system.
The first line of prompts with a different font from the others was particularly eye-catching, and Yan Hao noticed it at a glance.
The content is not long, only two paragraphs. The gist is that the rescue mission has been completed two-thirds and part of the information of the mission target has been unlocked.
He followed the instructions and clicked on the rescue mission information, and found that the information that was previously sealed with a small gray lock was no longer in a gray state that could not be viewed.
[You can check out the newly unlocked information, which records the process of adulthood and what you might discover.]
Yan Hao checked without saying a word.
It is indeed as the system said, high fever is just a normal reaction during the growth period.
Now Shengqing is experiencing the most important moment in his life. He is about to transform from a green boy to a mature adult.
This process is not easy.
It is also easy to judge when a snake enters adulthood. Before entering adulthood, the snake's appetite will increase sharply, and it will store at least 3 days of food to facilitate its energy consumption during its subsequent sleep.
After entering adulthood, the patient will first become drowsy, followed by a continuous high fever. The duration of this period is not fixed and usually lasts for 1 to 3 days.
During these 1 to 3 days, the temperature of the snake's entire body will gradually rise to an alarming level. At the same time, the bones that were originally tightly connected will become loose and begin to grow rapidly, which is equivalent to breaking all the bones in the body.
If the snake can endure the intense pain and burning sensation, it will wake up once all the bones in its body are formed, and successfully enter adulthood.
Otherwise, if you can't bear it, you will die.
Even if they survive these three dangerous days, the metamorphosis period doesn't end. During the first week of adulthood, snakes are still not very good at switching between forms, so they will uncontrollably transform into snake form.
Between the third and fourth weeks, the snake begins its first molt, which hardens the scales and bones that were previously brittle.
Yan Hao looked up at the semi-transparent display screen in the air, which only he could see. The column about the task progress clearly showed that it was currently two-thirds completed.
One third of it was achieved during the Yongxing period. Back then, he worked tirelessly day and night, finally rescuing Shengqing from the brink of death. Day after day, he administered medicine and fed him, and only then did his injuries gradually begin to heal.
Two-thirds of this was achieved after arriving in Binhai. By then, Shengqing's injuries had almost healed, and with adequate nutrition, he began to enter a belated period of transformation.
The final third reveals that as long as Shengqing reaches adulthood, all the rescue missions will be completed, and the ever-chattering system will leave on its own after a one-month observation period.
Yan Hao was not interested at all in whether the system stayed or went. He just glanced at it casually and was soon attracted by another line of very small words.
The name column of the mission target is blank, and the two words "Sheng Qing" are not in the name, but appear after the race.
He suddenly froze.
In other words, the little snake didn't actually have a name of its own. He thought his name was Shengqing, and most likely only knew he was a Shengqing from the vague memories he inherited...
He thought it was his name.
But Shengqing wasn't his name, it was a racial name. Just like people are people, birds are birds, and flowers are flowers, Shengqing is Shengqing...
That's right...
So when I called Shengqing "Xiaoqing" before, did I keep calling him "little snake...little snake...little snake..."?
Driver Xiao Zheng looked through the rearview mirror and noticed that the boss sitting in the back seat suddenly smiled. He wondered if it had something to do with the mysterious boy named Qing.
If he calculated carefully, he had been with Mr. Yan for five or six years. He didn't know him very well, but he had a certain understanding of him. However, since the boss came back from Yongxing last time, he had obviously changed a lot.
Become...how to say it.
He had seen his boss and the young man interacting from afar before, and it was generally quite warm and harmonious.
Especially the look the boss gave the boy—perhaps he himself didn't even notice it—was so gentle it was almost sickening.
When Xiao Zheng first saw the usually stern boss talking to another teenager in a hoarse voice, he didn't think that the boss had suddenly become gentle. He just felt that Yan Hao was like being possessed by a wandering ghost.
Creepy.
Today was the same. He just received a message back to Mingyue Bay and immediately guessed that something must have happened to the young man, otherwise the gentleman would not be so anxious.
And in fact, it was true. Not long after getting in the car, the boss in the back seat received a phone call.
At Xiao Li's distance, he couldn't really hear who was calling. But based on the boss's reply, "Got it, I'm on my way back," he figured it must be the Mingyue Bay steward calling.
Even in Xiao Li's simple understanding, he felt that it was not good for his boss to leave so casually when his family had just left, but as an outsider, he had no right to judge the right and wrong of the grievances within the wealthy family.
As long as the boss pays enough, what does it matter to him? Just do your job well.
Xiao Li glanced at Yan Hao's expression in the dark through the rearview mirror, calculated the distance in his mind, stepped on the accelerator to speed up and drove towards one of the forks in the road.
It's almost here.
Yan Hao watched the current situation of the little snake at home through the system's real-time broadcast. He saw the little snake lying motionless on the bed. His heart seemed to be tightly grasped by a pair of invisible big hands. Even his breathing became sluggish, and the pain like needles spread densely.
Even though he knew the driver was going very fast, he couldn't help but urge him, "Hurry up."
He blamed himself in his heart.
Recently, due to the old man's critical illness, the group is in a turbulent period. As the heir, Yan Hao has become extremely busy. He has to appease employees, shareholders and partners, deal with emergency decisions, and pay attention to market fluctuations.
He was busy, but that wasn't an excuse. He shouldn't have been so careless. There were so many clues, like how the little snake had been eating a lot lately, as the housekeeper had mentioned a few days ago, and how the little snake behaved every time he went back...
If he had been more careful...
If I had known earlier...
Wait, when the housekeeper called just now, he only said that the young master had a low-grade fever. So how did he know Shengqing had a fever and how did he enter Shengqing's room?!
In an instant, Yan Hao's heart skipped a beat.
He began to carefully recall the tone and every detail of the call, while quickly recalling all the information he had about his butler...
It seems his name is Li Qichang?
I remember that during the interview, Li Qichang wasn't the most outstanding of the group, but he was the most calm and efficient. Over the years, he's never had any issues at work, and while he's had some minor quibbles, he generally knows how to prioritize.
I think he should know what to say and what not to say, right? But what if, what if...
The scenery outside the window quickly receded.
Yan Hao's lips were tightly pursed, his face as dark as ink.
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