Luo Ze'en was startled by Gu Qingqiu's reaction. "It smells like peaches... sweet and fragrant, and quite pleasant."
Gu Qingqiu gave Luo Ze'en a deep look, then slowly withdrew her hand. "I'm going to take a shower. Someone will arrange your accommodation."
If Gu Qingqiu had any doubts before, her doubts had now reached their peak. She quickly returned to her capsule, opened the cabinet where the egg was hidden, and carefully took the egg out and held it in her arms.
The little life inside the egg seemed to sense Gu Qingqiu, and seemed to subtly tilt its weight toward Gu Qingqiu.
Gu Qingqiu revealed a loving smile that she herself didn't even realize, her warm hand stroking the cool eggshell. "Baby, Mommy thinks she's found him."
She paused, then continued, "But it's not safe here. Mommy has to leave soon. Mommy will take you away safely. Be good and don't come out too early."
Whether the egg understood Gu Qingqiu's words or not, it shook slightly again.
Gu Qingqiu gently stroked the egg for a while, then carefully put it back in its original place.
While he was taking a shower, the male protagonist's system, which had been quietly disappearing, suddenly reappeared. Its mechanical voice even sounded somewhat surprised: "[Host, how come your experience bar has suddenly reached 85%? Have you finally figured it out?]"
"Yeah." Gu Qingqiu stared at the shower gel bottle labeled "Lily" for a long time. "By the way, System, a post-apocalyptic world must have a very high difficulty level, right? Will there be a lot of bugs or something?"
Male Protagonist System: [I haven't heard much about that. At most, some key plot points might be delayed or brought forward for various reasons, but the overall outcome won't change, like the zombie horde event before the time reset. Is your question about the bug in the male protagonist this time, Host?]
Gu Qingqiu smiled meaningfully, "It's nothing. I was just thinking about my purpose in completing the mission, the reason I was chosen by the system, and..."
Male Protagonist System: [What else?]
Gu Qingqiu said casually, "It's nothing, I was just wondering if a world could be hosted by two people."
The male protagonist system remained silent for a long time: [Probably not? The energy sources that can be collected in a world are limited, and repeatedly supplying them to hosts isn't cost-effective. Besides, I haven't sensed the presence of any other system besides myself in any of the worlds I've experienced.]
Gu Qingqiu said quietly, "Could it be that you can't sense it because the other party's system level and permissions are higher than yours?"
The male protagonist system fell silent, it was unclear whether he had been hit where it was supposed to be or was having an existential crisis.
Perhaps because this world comes with an intelligence buff, Gu Qingqiu found that she seemed to have figured out many things that had troubled her before. She also gradually realized that ever since she was "picked up" by the female supporting character system after her death, she seemed to have been manipulated by the system and forced to complete some tasks. But what was the purpose of completing these tasks?
The next day, when Gu Qingqiu saw Luo Ze'en, his expression was very strange, and his eyes kept glancing towards Gu Qingqiu's stomach.
Gu Qingqiu frowned as he stared at her. "What's wrong with you?"
Lozen hesitated for a long time before finally speaking, "Um... Dr. Gu... are you... are you researching some strange project? For example, for example..."
Gu Qingqiu listened to him ramble on for a while without getting to the next point, and tapped the table impatiently, "Can't you just say what you want to say?"
Lozen thought for a moment, then said earnestly, "Dr. Gu, I know you have made many contributions to the future of humanity, but... well... those experiments that use mothers to nurture strange species are... unnecessary... at least... although... using other women for such experiments does seem inhumane, you could try it on a large animal first!"
Gu Qingqiu's eyes darted around, and she immediately guessed the reason—Luo Ze'en might have awakened his possession ability again ahead of schedule. She didn't know where he had kissed her yesterday when she wasn't paying attention, but he probably only heard her and the baby's two-line conversation. Fortunately, the conversation with the system was in her mind, otherwise she probably would have given herself away.
But now...
Gu Qingqiu said with a forced smile, "How did you know that? Did you plant spies in our Southern Base?"
Seeing that Gu Qingqiu did not deny it, Luo Ze'en thought his guess was correct. He breathed a sigh of relief and immediately denied it, "How could that be? I don't need to! I'm just concerned about you, Dr. Gu. After all, we... have that kind of relationship."
Gu Qingqiu stood up and sat in Luo Ze'en's lap, her slender fingers running through Luo Ze'en's hair, teasingly curling it. "What kind of relationship? Did I agree to it?"
With Wen Xiang in his arms, Luo Ze'en's breathing became noticeably faster. His arms naturally wrapped around Gu Qingqiu's now slender waist. He had never imagined that the usually serious and unsmiling Dr. Gu Qingqiu would have such a side. He swallowed almost imperceptibly. "Then what do you want me to do to make you agree to be my girlfriend? I'm willing to do anything for you."
"Oh? Is that so?" Gu Qingqiu smiled. "My request isn't particularly high. I just hope you can get a level 5 zombie crystal core for me. If you can do that, I'll be your woman from now on."
"A level 5 zombie crystal core?" Lozen exclaimed in surprise. This was not something that could be obtained easily. Half a year ago, many members of the Thunder Squad were seriously injured in their attempt to obtain a level 4 zombie crystal core, and one member even lost an arm as a result.
"Can't you do it?" Gu Qingqiu immediately got up from Luo Ze'en's arms, her expression turning serious. "Then let me tell you, I have no mind for romance right now. Do you know what will happen in the future? The South Base laboratory has discovered the mutation of the zombies. At this rate of evolution, it might not be long before a super-powerful zombie king evolves. If you can't even get a level five zombie core, do you think humanity can survive against the zombie king? If we don't have a tomorrow, do you think I'll be at peace spending these last few months with you?"
After hearing these words, Lozen's expression also became serious. He strongly agreed with Gu Qingqiu's words. Not only agreed, but he had personally experienced the arrival of the zombie horde and knew that once the zombies evolved to a level that humans could not fight against, then the extinction of humanity was only a matter of time.
"Is this level-five zombie crystal core particularly important to your experimental research results?" By the time he asked this question, Lozen had already received the answer.
As expected, Gu Qingqiu nodded heavily and gave an affirmative answer: "As long as you can obtain the level 5 zombie crystal core, I guarantee that I can develop a zombie vaccine within two weeks. As long as the zombie vaccine is mass-produced and widely used before the zombies are fully evolved, I guarantee that humans can survive."
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