Chapter 29: Who Secretly Had a Baby for Me?
At five in the morning, before the sky had brightened, Xue Yu’s alarm went off.
She shot up with a start, startling Zhou Siyan. He propped himself up and asked in a low voice, “Are you going back to the mining district?”
Xue Yu threw off the covers to get dressed. “Yes. I’ve been away from the mining district for too long. I have to go back and show my face. Otherwise, if the leadership comes to check and finds out I haven’t been to work for a month, it would be bad if they fired me.”
The White Tower did not allow for unemployed vagrants or wanderers. Everyone had to have a job.
Everyone was like a screw, fitting tightly into the great machine of the White Tower. Useless screws would be discarded.
When changing jobs, there was at most a one-month grace period.
Once the grace period was over, if a patrol officer found you still lazing around in your dorm, you would face the risk of being expelled.
Zhou Siyan: “Why don’t you go back tonight after dark? I’ll go to the archives later and modify the information on the seahorse spirit body to that of an ordinary water-type spirit body, to make it easier for you to get promoted later.”
Xue Yu thought that made sense. This matter couldn’t be delayed.
In ten days, it would be the White Tower’s annual selection competition. If you achieved a certain score in the competition, you would have a chance to be promoted.
She was going to participate in the competition, so the fact that her seahorse spirit body had supreme reproductive abilities could not be exposed.
Xue Yu thought that delaying for a day probably wouldn’t be a big problem.
She had been exhausted from the journey these past few days. She lay down next to the baby again and yawned widely. “Alright, then I’ll rest here for a day. It’ll be a good way to recover from the hardship of accompanying you during childbirth.”
When she woke up, the sky was bright.
The baby had also woken up long ago and was running all over the bed. She was very well-behaved, but also full of energy.
She would crawl from one end of the bed to the other, then come back to see if Xue Yu was awake. If Xue Yu wasn’t awake, she would crawl around again and then come back to check.
After Xue Yu got up, Zhou Siyan came in from outside with a bottle.
He was wearing a cotton shirt, but the buttons were not fastened to the top. A few were open, revealing a hint of his pectoral muscles.
After all, she had “eaten” them so many times before. Xue Yu subconsciously glanced a few times.
Zhou Siyan felt her gaze but didn’t avoid it. He pulled the crawling baby over and handed her the bottle.
After Xue Yu had washed up and returned, Zhou Siyan was in the kitchen preparing breakfast. He was holding the baby with one hand and arranging bread and milk with the other.
Xue Yu walked up behind him. “Do you need me to help you with the baby?”
Zhou Siyan: “No need.”
Xue Yu looked around the house and ran back to the kitchen to ask, “Zhou Siyan, how much is the rent for this apartment per month?”
Zhou Siyan: “Eight hundred.”
“Really?” Xue Yu almost punched the wall. “Why is my small dorm in the mining district two thousand a month! Damn capitalists!”
Zhou Siyan explained, “I only moved in three months ago. This apartment is inherited. The previous director died, so his position and apartment became mine.”
Xue Yu’s back tingled. “How did the previous director die?”
Zhou Siyan arranged the bread, his eyes calm. “I killed him.”
“No wonder you got promoted so fast. It was through killing.” Xue Yu’s face was pale. She laughed dryly and walked out of the kitchen.
Back in the living room, she saw Zhou Siyan’s resume on the coffee table.
Entered the military academy at twenty, joined the extreme sexual conservatives at twenty-one, and then went for an internship.
Graduated at twenty-two and joined the Public Security Brigade. Two months later, he took over as the captain of the Public Security Brigade.
After that, his promotions were rapid: staff officer of the special forces, captain of the special forces, team leader of the Security Division, deputy director of the Security Division, director of the Security Division.
In just one year after graduation, he was promoted every one or two months, almost without a break, and jumped to the position of director of the Security Division.
Xue Yu sensed something.
She took out her Cloud Sound Box, unfolded the screen, and entered the White Tower’s internal news network.
She searched for the previous captain of the Public Security Brigade, the chief of staff of the special forces, the director of the Security Division, and so on, before Zhou Siyan took office…
Good grief, they were all dead!
The previous captain of the Public Security Brigade had died, and three days later, Zhou Siyan had taken over.
The previous chief of staff of the special forces had died, and the next day, Zhou Siyan had been promoted to take his place.
It was the same with the director of the Security Division. The day the previous director died, Zhou Siyan had taken over his position.
Could this person have climbed up by stepping on others’ corpses?
Just as Xue Yu was wondering, Zhou Siyan came out with the baby, holding a plate with slices of bread with ketchup in his other hand.
He placed the bread on the coffee table in front of Xue Yu. “Eat up. It’s freshly toasted.”
Xue Yu chewed on the bread, still staring at the resume on the coffee table. “Zhou Siyan, the previous captain of the Public Security Brigade, and the chief of staff of the special forces…”
“I killed them too.”
Zhou Siyan calmly finished her sentence. He sat on the carpet with the baby, putting a singing donkey toy in the baby’s hand.
Xue Yu swallowed the bread in her mouth. “You didn’t just kill people to take their positions, did you?”
Zhou Siyan didn’t deny it, only saying, “Everyone is like this. This is the mechanism of the White Tower.”
Xue Yu didn’t say anything more and silently chewed on her bread.
Two minutes later, Zhou Siyan looked up at her. “What are you thinking about?”
Xue Yu smiled cheerfully. “According to this promotion mechanism, if I kill you now, wouldn’t I be able to become the next director of the Security Division?”
The furrow between Zhou Siyan’s brows relaxed. He stretched his head towards her. “Come on. Promotion, wealth, and a dead husband.”
Xue Yu pretended to squeeze his neck, then quickly let go.
After breakfast, the two of them discussed. Xue Yu would look after the baby in the house, and Zhou Siyan would go to the archives to modify the information on the seahorse spirit body.
Before leaving, Zhou Siyan was changing clothes in the bedroom. Xue Xiaohai crawled into the room, so Xue Yu had to follow.
She sat on the bed with the baby and watched Zhou Siyan change.
Zhou Siyan was very particular about his clothes. He had a shirt, tie, and cufflinks.
He stood in front of the full-length mirror, his muscles lean and smooth, with broad shoulders and a narrow waist. There was a white scar on his abdomen, a mark from the C-section.
He put on his shirt and looked at Xue Yu through the mirror. He suddenly said, “I forgot to ask Dr. Lin a question before.”
Xue Yu: “What question?”
Zhou Siyan: “Where exactly did your eggs enter my body from?”
“…” Xue Yu coughed lightly and covered Xue Xiaohai’s ears. “Where else could it be? It’s from there, uh, the urethra, or something, anyway, it just entered your body.”
Zhou Siyan: “But the fetus developed near my stomach.”
Xue Yu: “What are you trying to say?”
“I suspect it entered through my mouth,” he said, slowly buttoning his cufflinks. “At that time, I felt like you sprayed in my mouth a lot.”
Xue Yu was speechless and just smiled. “Is this question worth discussing?”
Zhou Siyan: “I’m just curious.”
After Zhou Siyan left, Xue Yu sat cross-legged on the carpet, her head propped up on one hand, watching Xue Xiaohai crawl around on the foam mat.
Blueberry, Heimei, and the little seahorse were all gathered around the baby, playing with her.
During this time, there was a knock on the door. She tiptoed to the door and looked through the peephole.
It was a strange man, who seemed to be the deputy director of the Security Division.
Xue Yu ignored him and went back to the living room.
Fortunately, the soundproofing in the apartment was very good. Even if Xue Xiaohai made noise, the sound wouldn’t get out.
Half an hour later, there was another knock on the door. Xue Yu went to look and saw that it was Feng Qizhou.
She ignored him again, just standing by the door, wanting to see when Feng Qizhou would leave.
But Feng Qizhou didn’t leave and stood at the door for a long time. They were separated by just a door. He stood with his head down, one hand on his abdomen, his thoughts unknown.
Xue Yu was very nervous. Could Feng Qizhou be pregnant too?
After all, she and Mo Li had had a one-night stand, and Mo Li had gotten hit.
At that time, she and Feng Qizhou had been together for more than two months, and they had had sex quite a few times. Feng Qizhou also liked the woman-on-top position… hmm, that position seemed to make it very easy to get pregnant.
Feng Qizhou stood outside the door for a full half hour before leaving.
Not long after he left, Zhou Siyan returned.
Zhou Siyan said that he had modified the information on the seahorse spirit body in the archives, deleting the point about [supreme reproductive ability] from the source and changing it to an ordinary water-type spirit body.
At the same time, he also gave Xue Yu a training manual for water-type spirit bodies.
Xue Yu decided to take advantage of her free time today and take Blueberry to the spirit body registration center in the afternoon. After registering, she would go back to the mining district.
Zhou Siyan had no objections. To prevent Xue Yu from getting lost, he lulled Xue Xiaohai to sleep and took Xue Yu to the spirit body registration center on the 88th floor himself.
The two of them left the apartment and quickly put some distance between them.
Zhou Siyan was an extreme sexual conservative, and Xue Yu was an open-minded person. The two of them couldn’t be too close.
Sexual conservatives had a great advantage in terms of promotion. More than half of the management in the White Tower were sexual conservatives.
Sexual conservatives had to strictly maintain their lifestyle. If they were reported for being involved in an intimate relationship, they would be investigated and face the risk of being demoted.
Xue Yu walked in front.
Zhou Siyan followed three meters behind. He would often look at the screen of his Cloud Sound Box as he walked, checking the surveillance in the bedroom where Xue Xiaohai was sleeping.
Along the way, they ran into many old classmates.
Many people would stop to talk to her.
“Oh, isn’t that Xue Yu? What are you doing at Manster? What are you doing here?”
“Huh, isn’t this the direction of the spirit body registration? Have you awakened your spirit body?”
“What spirit body did you awaken? Are you going to have a comeback?”
Xue Yu walked with her head down, saying nothing.
She silently chanted in her heart: Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river. Blueberry, you have to make me proud! We will wash away our shame at the competition in ten days!
Blueberry was in the spiritual landscape: Okay, okay!
“Xue Yu, head up, chest out.”
Zhou Siyan, who had been silent, suddenly spoke from behind her. It wasn’t a command, but a casual tone, as if he were saying, “Xue Yu, come and eat.”
Xue Yu’s back straightened, and her shoulder-length hair bounced in a small arc.
The two arrived at the spirit body registration center.
Zhou Siyan handed over Xue Yu’s ID and said, “This is my classmate, Xue Yu. She has awakened a seahorse spirit body and is here to register.”
The registrar first said, “Good day, Director Zhou.”
Then, he opened the White Tower’s spirit body archives on the desktop screen, searched for “seahorse,” and a record popped up.
“A seahorse spirit body, very rare. No one in the White Tower has ever awakened a seahorse spirit body.”
“Ordinary water-type, strength D+, speed E, reflexes C+, good at stealth and camouflage, with a high-speed predation mechanism, and a predation success rate of up to 90%.”
The registrar said to Xue Yu, “There is very little information on the seahorse spirit body. I suggest you practice water combat more. Maybe you’ll have a chance to enter the naval combat department in the future.”
Xue Yu: “Okay, thank you.”
The registrar then asked Xue Yu to summon the seahorse for a photo to be kept on file and asked, “What’s its name?”
Xue Yu: “It’s called Blueberry.”
Blueberry proudly spun in the air, its aqua-blue scales sparkling, and it even blew a stream of bubbles.
“It’s very lively,” the registrar said, handing Xue Yu a data card.
Xue Yu quickly scooped Blueberry into her arms. “Don’t show off. We have to develop discreetly.”
Besides the data card, the registrar also gave her a small bottle of spiritual landscape data activation agent.
After this procedure, Xue Yu could openly parade Blueberry around.
As soon as she left the registration center, Xue Yu drank the spiritual landscape data activation agent.
After drinking it, her mind instantly cleared!
The spiritual landscape was a virtual screen in her mind.
Originally, the screen Xue Yu saw was just a hazy blue ocean with no data.
Now, after drinking the data activation agent, various data immediately appeared in the landscape.
Landscape Owner: Xue Yu.
Spirit Body: Seahorse.
Name: Blueberry.
ID: AUY37129EO9
Type: Water.
Strength: D+.
Speed: E.
Reflexes: C+.
Characteristics: Good at stealth and camouflage, with a high-speed predation mechanism, and a predation success rate of up to 90%.
Combat Experience: 0.
In addition, there was a tree diagram on the screen. On this tree diagram, there were two shiny fruits, and in addition, there were three flowers.
Xue Yu didn’t understand what this tree meant.
She asked Blueberry.
Blueberry entered the landscape, tapped one of the largest fruits with its tail, and told Xue Yu: This is Xue Xiaohai.
Xue Yu understood a little. This tree probably represented her reproductive ability.
Zhou Siyan had given birth to Xue Xiaohai for her, so a fruit had grown on this tree.
But Xue Yu was confused. Besides Xue Xiaohai, there was another fruit on this tree—who had secretly had a baby for her?
Xue Yu sat on a bench in the hallway, her eyes closed, analyzing the data of the spiritual landscape in her mind.
Zhou Siyan stood to the side. Seeing that she looked unwell, he snapped his fingers in front of her. “Xue Yu, is there a problem?”
Xue Yu pulled her consciousness back from the spiritual landscape and told Zhou Siyan about it.
Zhou Siyan frowned. “There’s a reproduction tree in your landscape, with two fruits and three flowers?”
Xue Yu nodded vigorously. “Yes. Blueberry said that one of the fruits represents Xue Xiaohai.”
Zhou Siyan: “Then the other one?”
Xue Yu spread her hands. “I’m wondering too. Logically, Mo Li shouldn’t be giving birth so soon. Then who is the other fruit? Who secretly had a baby for me?”
Zhou Siyan looked around warily. “Keep your voice down.”
Xue Yu covered her mouth. “Okay, okay.”
Zhou Siyan thought for a moment. “It could be Feng Qizhou.”
Xue Yu’s mind was a mess. “Even if Feng Qizhou secretly had a baby for me, what about the other three flowers? The three flowers represent unborn children. Mo Li is pregnant with one. Then what about the other two?”
Zhou Siyan looked at her. “Shouldn’t I be asking you?”
Xue Yu racked her brains. She had only had relations with Zhou Siyan, Feng Qizhou, and Mo Li. She was sure of that.
Zhou Siyan looked down at his own abdomen. “Could it be a second child?”
A question mark appeared above Xue Yu’s head.
Zhou Siyan: “You held my hand last time. Maybe your ability is so strong now that just holding hands can get someone pregnant.”
Xue Yu glared at him and continued to analyze. “Could it be that Mo Li is pregnant with triplets? That would make sense. You had one, and Feng Qizhou had one. The other three are in Mo Li’s belly.”
Zhou Siyan frowned in deep thought. “Is Mo Li that capable?”
Xue Yu stood up. Blueberry also came out of the spiritual landscape and perched on Xue Yu’s shoulder, its round eyes darting around.
Xue Yu punched it. “Did you sow your seeds everywhere? Was it you? Was it you!”
Blueberry was very innocent and blew bubbles at Xue Yu.
“If Feng Qizhou really had a baby for you, what are you going to do?” Zhou Siyan asked.
Xue Yu was also very conflicted. According to the data of the spiritual landscape, this reproduction tree represented her spiritual power. The more it flowered and bore fruit, the stronger her spiritual power would be.
But with so many children, how would she raise them? She might as well form a mining squad and take the children to the mines.
Xue Yu pretended to be relaxed. “It’s fine. More children, more blessings.”
The children yearn for the mines….