Evolving infinitely from ground zero

Chapter 4

The two mothers were shopping, and soon they walked into a women’s clothing boutique.

They tried on dress after dress, constantly praising each other the whole time.

Xu Meng exaggerated how good Zhang Wanxin looked in a short skirt, with long and white legs, very sexy.

Zhang Wanxin praised Xu Meng for looking attractive in a spaghetti strap dress, with a delicate and sexy collarbone, and shoulders that were smooth and tender, particularly enticing.

Listening to the mutual flattery between the two mothers, Lin Zichen couldn’t help but size them up.

It had to be said, the two young moms were truly charming.

Both figure and appearance were top-notch, easily scoring at least an 8 out of 10.

And they were in the prime of their twenties.

They looked youthful yet mature, exuding a woman’s charm from head to toe.

Lin Zichen only glanced over them briefly before shifting his gaze away from the two mothers and onto Shen Qinghan beside him.

Melon seed face, large eyes, cute upturned nose, cherry lips, skin delicate and fair… it could be said he had inherited his mother Xu Meng’s beauty quite well, and he would certainly be a fine beauty when he grew up.

After coming out of the women’s clothing boutique.

The two mothers led the children into a toy store on the upper floor of the mall.

They wanted to buy some toys for the two kids.

Shen Qinghan looked around but wasn’t interested in any toys; instead, she was eyeing the snacks in the snack store across the way.

Lin Zichen was also uninterested in toys and said he wanted to go into the next-door bookstore to buy books and read, hoping to further understand this world through them.

The two mothers were quite puzzled, as kids at this age usually love toys—why were these two so different?

But as puzzled as they felt, the mothers still indulged their children, buying what they wanted.

When buying books, Lin Zichen chose ones related to Exotic Beasts, Genetic Integrators, and Mechanically Modified Humans.

“Zi Chen, these books might not be very suitable for children, you know. How about we go and buy some picture books with Han Han over there?” Zhang Wanxin suggested, pointing to the children’s area ahead.

Lin Zichen opened one of the books he had picked and told Zhang Wanxin, “There are pictures in these books too, I like these pictures.”

Zhang Wanxin glanced at the pictures in the books: some were ferocious-looking Exotic Beasts, others were mutated Genetic Integrators, and there were also expensive parts of Mechanically Modified Humans.

She felt that children shouldn’t be reading these kinds of books and should stick to more cartoonish children’s books, but since her son liked them, she bought them anyway.

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Having returned home.

Lin Zichen eagerly began to read through the books he had brought back.

[You are reading books, Spirit +1, Comprehension Ability +1, Knowledge +1]

[Achievement: Accumulative reading of a hundred million words]

[Reward: Acquired Biometric Attributes—Innate Wisdom]

[Accumulative Reading Word Count: 10086/100,000,000]

As Lin Zichen concentrated on reading, he suddenly noticed several lines of text floating in front of him.

He briefly looked over the content and felt a thrill of excitement in his heart.

Following his initial kicking achievement, another achievement task had finally appeared.

Aside from the dull exercises he had to do every day, he would now have to add reading for leisure.

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As days went by.

Gradually, it came time for Lin Zichen and Shen Qinghan to attend kindergarten.

Their parents discussed together and decided to enroll the two children in Rainbow Kindergarten located closest to home, which would be convenient for joint drop-off and pick-up.

The tuition at this kindergarten was relatively expensive.

But correspondingly, the curriculum was more enriching than a typical kindergarten’s.

There were outdoor activities.

There were foreign language classes.

There were intellectual development classes and so on.

Just the day before school started, Lin Zichen’s parents suddenly had to go out for a trip. Before leaving, they dropped him off at Shen Qinghan’s place, entrusting her parents to take him to kindergarten for registration the following day.

At the neighbor’s home.

Xu Meng said in a gentle voice, “Zi Chen, your mom and dad won’t return until tomorrow night. You’ll stay at Auntie Meng’s house tonight, and tomorrow morning, I’ll take you and Han Han to kindergarten.”

“Okay, thank you Auntie Meng,” Lin Zichen nodded and replied.

Hearing him say this, Shen Jianye, sitting nearby, couldn’t help but remark, “Zi Chen is such a sensible boy, even remembering to thank Auntie Meng. He’s like a little adult. If only Han Han could be as understanding as you.”

That night, after taking a bath together, Lin Zichen and Shen Qinghan went to their room to sleep.

Shen Qinghan was very happy to be able to sleep with Lin Zichen.

She kept talking to him, chatting with him.

Talking about how much she was looking forward to going to kindergarten tomorrow and making a lot of friends there.

Lin Zichen occasionally responded to her, but most of the time, he was sitting against the wall on his bed, reading.

[You are currently reading “Exotic Beasts Illustrated,” Spirit +1, Comprehension +1, Exotic Beast Knowledge +1]

[Total Words Read: 43.96 million / 100 million]

To complete the reading achievement, Lin Zichen maintained an average reading speed of 300,000 words per day for nearly five months.

Yet, he hadn’t even reached halfway on the progress bar.

This reading achievement was more than 10 times harder than the previous leg-kicking achievement.

After reading for a while longer, Lin Zichen felt it was about time to sleep, so he put down the book and prepared for bed.

By this time, Shen Qinghan, who had been chattering nonstop just moments ago, was already lying beside him, asleep with an expression of bliss so profound that drool was leaking from the corner of her mouth.

Lin Zichen took a tissue to wipe her drool. As he did so, his gaze involuntarily fell on the diaper she was wearing.

Even now at four years old, Shen Qinghan still wet the bed and often had to wear diapers.

Her parents had taken her to several hospitals to have her body checked, but no specific reason had been found.

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The next morning.

Xu Meng got up early to cook porridge and called the two children to have breakfast.

Lin Zichen had already woken up early. By the time Xu Meng came to wake them up, he had been exercising in the room for more than an hour.

On the contrary, Shen Qinghan struggled to get up from bed for half the morning before being pulled into the living room by Xu Meng.

During breakfast.

Lin Zichen quickly finished his porridge, even washing his bowl by himself, displaying his thoughtfulness.

Meanwhile, Shen Qinghan was instinctively spooning porridge into her mouth while struggling to keep her eyes open, falling into a bug-like state where she was too sleepy to eat and too hungry to sleep.

While waiting for Shen Qinghan to finish her porridge,

Lin Zichen calmly sat and read a book, continuously absorbing the knowledge from its pages.

He learned that the biological levels included Ordinary, Advanced-level, Rare Level, Epic Level, Legendary, and Mythical—a total of six levels.

Each of these levels was further divided into nine orders.

The above-mentioned levels were something humans had learned hundreds of years ago from ancient stone tablets within some mysterious ruins and had been in use ever since.

After centuries of exploration and research, humans learned a rather disheartening fact.

Because of their frail flesh and blood, humans had a very low evolutionary upper limit, capping at the Ordinary Ninth Rank.

To evolve further, one would need to integrate powerful Exotic Beast Genes.

Alternatively, through mechanical modification, one could give their body the strength to rival that of an Advanced-level Creature, a Rare Level Creature, or even an Epic Level Creature.

The might of an Epic Level Creature had reached the point where it could physically withstand a nuclear bomb.

“Physically withstand a nuclear bomb… Can this really be achieved?” Lin Zichen found it incredibly hard to believe.

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