Chapter 103: Cheng Ran’s Life Experience
The person he’d dated in his last life was actually scum, which really wasn’t a pleasant memory for Shi Qingyang. Every now and then, whenever he thought about it, he’d think of himself as a failure.
He’d been born into the ordinary working class, and his parents had died early. He’d had to depend on himself for everything, and was inevitably battered and bruised by the end . However, without knowing how he got so lucky, he unexpectedly had a chance to do things again…
While Cheng Ran went to school, Shi Qingyang took Zheng Gaoyuan to the registration venue for the National Radiation Energy Competition–which was at the Radiation Energy Association.
In fact, most of the applications could be completed online, but because Zheng Gaoyuan had never registered his level with the Radiation Energy Association, he had to go there in person to register him.
“Master, lately I’ve been in a good mood.” Zheng Gaoyuan’s face was full of excitement. These days, he’d been in the spotlight among the Zheng’s family and in other places. He felt very good.
“I’m afraid you won’t be in a good mood in the next few days,” Shi Qingyang said.
“Master?”
“Before the competition, you need to do surprise training. I specially spent money to rent a practice room below. After that, you’ll practice with me every day,” Shi Qingyang said. Zheng Gaoyuan’s experience in dealing with mutant beasts was naturally not lacking, but he unfortunately didn’t have enough experience in dealing with humans. He needed to exercise well.
“Master…” Zheng Gaoyuan almost cried. He still wanted to live a few days of his own life
The practice room rented by Shi Qingyang was the best one. It costed a lot of money. It was located at the bottom of the Central City Radiation Energy Association. Here, even level 8 masters could practice their combat skills to their heart’s content, and it was absolutely confidential. Besides helping Zheng Gaoyuan experience real battle, he also wanted to improve his own strength.
Even if his current life went much smoother than his previous life, and even if he had the memory of his previous life, Shi Qingyang dared not slacken. Moreover, he felt that his pursuit of strength would never stop.
“Keep attacking!” Shi Qingyang opened his mouth to Zheng Gaoyuan in front of him. Now he had suppressed his strength to level-4. He only used level-4 radiation energy output and only used level-4 fighting skills. Even so, Zheng Gaoyuan still couldn’t touch him.
Zheng Gaoyuan gritted his teeth and attacked more fiercely. Unfortunately, although Shi Qingyang had only used a level-4 protective shield that could be broken by one of his combat skills, he could build the protective shield too quickly. Just after he released his level-5 combat skills, Shi Qingyang had already covered himself in seven or eight layers of protective shield. Not only that, Shi Qingyang occasionally had time to attack him.
“Your attack speed is too slow,” Shi Qingyang also said.
Zheng Gaoyuan didn’t have time to talk at all, but he still couldn’t help cursing inwardly–his master was the only one in the world who would practice his combat skills regardless of whether he was eating, drinking, or resting. Wasn’t it abusive to compare his speed with his master’s? In fact, his speed was already very fast!
After Zheng Gaoyuan used another combat skill, Shi Qingyang finally took the time to use two level-4 combat skills in succession to beat Zheng Gaoyuan, who had exhausted his radiation energy.
As soon as he laid down, Zheng Gaoyuan didn’t move an inch. On the one hand, it was because he had formed this habit back when he’d been fat. On the other hand, it was also because he had been beaten for so long that he could no longer bear it.
Shi Qingyang went to Zheng Gaoyuan, who had been gasping for breath, and poured him a bottle of medicine: “This is medicine made by Ranran himself. Once you’ve eaten it, you must work hard. Today you specially practice level-5 protective shields. Your speed of generating a protective shield must be reduced to within one second!”
“One second?” Zheng Gaoyuan was shocked and opened his mouth. Now he could only raise two level-five protective covers in three seconds, which was one and a half seconds. Although it was only half a second different from Shi Qingyang’s requirements, it wasn’t easy to save this time!
“I only need half a second. Even if you’re slower than me, you can’t be too slow.” Shi Qingyang’s hands moved, and a protective shield appeared on his body: “Practice makes perfect. As long as you practice more and carve the movements into your bones, your speed will naturally become faster.”
What he spoke was from the bottom of his heart. Now when he fought with people, sometimes his body reacted faster than his mind. Before his brain could process, his body would react instantly.
Zheng Gaoyuan was speechless and choked. It was easier to say than to do. He was afraid he would be treated as someone whose hand was spasming by people who didn’t know what he was doing, just like Shi Qingyang was…
Shi Qingyang and Zheng Gaoyuan stayed in the exercise room for a long time. Shi Qingyang used up all his radiation energy that had not been used much since he arrived in Central City. Zheng Gaoyuan was extremely embarrassed because every time he threw up a protective shield, it would be smashed by Shi Qingyang.
Of course, this was also related to the fact that he liked to lie on the ground every time he had a rest.
When he finally left, Zheng Gaoyuan had failed to activate the protective shield within one second. Shi Qingyang gave him a bottle of muscle relaxant produced by Cheng Ran: “Make persistent efforts, I will check it tomorrow.”
“Master!” Zheng Gaoyuan’s hands trembled as he put the medicine on them.
“Your Master, I, had been like this every day,” Shi Qingyang took a look at him and said. He attached great importance to his body and would never let his body be damaged. Of course, it was the same with Zheng Gaoyuan. Now Zheng Gaoyuan could continue to practice as long as he had a good medicine and a half-hour rest.
As soon as he came out of the practice room, a staff member of the Radiation Energy Association came to ask if he could take a picture. Shi Qingyang dodged away, but Zheng Gaoyuan raised a smiling face.
There was no doubt that before long, Zheng Gaoyuan’s news would appear again. Although he looked in a mess, in the eyes of his fans, he was probably a model of inspiration.
Shi Qingyang sent a message to Cheng Ran next, asking if he wanted him to pick him up at school. Just after he’d sent it, he saw Liang Liang again: “Shi Qingyang? I bumped into you this morning. I’m sorry. I didn’t recognize you at that time… I didn’t expect you to be Zheng Gaoyuan’s master and the man who won against Feng Linqiu. How awesome!”
Shi Qingyang turned his head and saw Liang Liang looking at him admiringly. However, this attitude always gives people a feeling of being “excessively forced”–the worship expressed by him was somewhat exaggerated.
Liang Liang in his last life had been much better than he was now… Shi Qingyang felt some emotion, but soon returned to normal. In his last life, he had been nearly 30 years old when he arrived in Central City. When he met Liang Liang, he had been 25 years old, which was much more mature than now. The present Liang Liang… Liang Liang was six years younger than him, so he should be only 18 now?
“Shi Qingyang, will you come here every day for exercise?” Liang Liang glanced at Shi Qingyang secretly and lowered his head. Since Feng Linqiu asked him to please Shi Qingyang, he had read a lot of Shi Qingyang’s materials and made a lot of preparations… Anyway, he didn’t want to let Feng Linqiu down.
“Eh, isn’t this the professional homewrecker?” Once Zheng Gaoyuan finished letting the other person take photos, he saw Liang Liang at a glance.
Liang Liang’s face immediately turned dark.
Shi Qingyang had already received Cheng Ran’s reply at this time. He hated Liang Liang, but he wouldn’t do anything to such a weak and helpless man in public: “Let’s go quickly, Ranran said he was waiting for us.”
“Let’s go right away!” Zheng Gaoyuan immediately said, turning his head to bare his teeth to Liang Liang.
Watching Shi Qingyang and Zheng Gaoyuan leave together, Liang Liang frowned. This Zheng Gaoyuan has interfered in his affairs twice, which was really troublesome… But as long as someone was a man, they would surely want someone to worship him unconditionally. Even if there was no love, they would feel soft if such a person appeared around him…
As long as he continued to work hard, Shi Qingyang would be moved–whatever he wanted, except for Feng Linqiu, he would get!
While Shi Qingyang had met Liang Liang, things on Cheng Ran’s side hadn’t been calm.
Feng Linqiu was really interested in Cheng Ran. He used to look down on others, but somehow he felt a sense of intimacy towards Cheng Ran, and even thought that they were the same kind.
Obviously, Cheng Ran didn’t even have radiation energy, but he didn’t hate Cheng Ran. Today, knowing that Cheng Ran was going to the college, he even went there to greet him in advance.
The Research Institute of the Feng family specialized in radiation energy and also helped people customize radiation inducers. Even if it had nothing to do with the Feng family, the professors of Central Academy had communicated with the researchers of the Feng family. They would naturally have no problems if they wanted to go there…
In order to observe well, Feng Linqiu found an excuse to stay in the lounge of the professor that Cheng Ran visited, and secretly listened in on the conversation between Cheng Ran and the professor. After he eavesdropped, he discovered Cheng Ran’s extraordinary qualities.
Cheng Ran had never been to Central City in his life, nor had he received a systematic education, but he had many ideas about radiation inducers. Moreover, he had only been able to enter the library of Central Academy for about ten days, but it seemed that he had read almost all the books in this field.
That professor meeting with Cheng Ran in the first place was likely because of Cheng Ran’s identity. After they actually talked, they became interested. In the end, they even had someone substitute their class for them…
They say that when God closes a door, he will open a window for people. This was true. Although Cheng Ran had no radiant energy, there was no doubt about his talent in research. It was not without reason that Cheng Xuze would like him. As for the mysterious pharmacist of the Cheng family…
If he was right, Cheng Ran might be working as an assistant to the pharmacist. After all, from Cheng Xuze’s attitude, Cheng Ran knew the pharmacist very well.
Feng Linqiu listened for a whole morning before he invited him to dinner. Although Cheng Ran didn’t like Feng Linqiu, he couldn’t drive him away, so he had to ignore him. In the afternoon, Feng Linqiu found a researcher from his own research institute to discuss with Cheng Ran.
This researcher had real ability. His research on radiation inducers was more thorough than that of the professors of Central Academy. Cheng Ran naturally wouldn’t give up such an opportunity easily. More importantly, when talking with the researcher, the research direction inadvertently revealed by the other side was somewhat similar to his own research…
Cheng Ran didn’t say anything about his research at all, but after overhearing some words mentioned by the other party, he raised the guard in his heart.
The Cheng group would conduct such research because they had found the queen ant. Although Shi Qingyang had never seen any similar mutant beast since then, radiation had covered the earth for thousands of years. Who could guarantee that others hadn’t found such a creature?
However, if some people had discovered such beasts, why had people like him and Shi Qingyang never appeared in human history?
Cheng Ran thought this over a lot. Although he became more careful when asking questions, he could always ask the right questions unintentionally.
“It’s good that you have so many ideas at such a young age. What’s your name? Are you interested in coming to our laboratory?” The researcher from the Feng family was over 60 years old. After he was suddenly called over, at first, he hadn’t been pleased. But after chatting with Cheng Ran, he became interested.
Of course, Cheng Ran’s knowledge wasn’t as good as that of a person who had studied this field for many years. However, at Cheng Ran’s age, it wasn’t easy to understand so much knowledge. Their research institute had been trying to cultivate talents, and he naturally had an interest in Cheng Ran now.
“Grandpa Liu, his name is Cheng Ran, but he is Cheng Xuze’s grandson. How could he possibly join our research institute?” Feng Linqiu said with a smile.
“Cheng Xuze?” The man frowned. “Cheng Ran? Your father… Is his name Cheng Hong?”
“Do you know my father?” Cheng Ran looked surprised.
But he didn’t expect the man to be even more surprised. He stared at Cheng Ran for a long time, then went to look at Feng Linqiu. After a long time, he calmed down: “Cheng Ran, Cheng Ran…”
As a researcher, this man surnamed Liu couldn’t cover up his expression well. Even Cheng Ran could clearly see his strange appearance, not to mention Feng Linqiu. “Teacher Liu, did you know his father?”
“Yes, we’ve met before. I didn’t expect you to be so old…” The man surnamed Liu spoke, but after Feng Linqiu asked him, he didn’t say anything more.
Feng Linqiu always knew that the people in the research institute had some strange problems. Although he was puzzled, he didn’t continue his questioning, he just planned to go back to ask his grandfather. Whereas for Cheng Ran, he didn’t know why, but he felt a palpitation in his heart.
At that time, he received the message from Shi Qingyang and said goodbye to several people in front of him.
“Cheng Ran, I’ll take you back?” Feng Linqiu took the initiative to follow him out.
“No,” Cheng Ran refused directly.
“We’ve gotten to know each other, it’s nothing for me to send you back… Cheng Ran, did you know that our Feng Research Institute specializes in radiation inducers? Its knowledge reserve in this respect is far superior to that of others,” Feng Linqiu smiled and said. He had seen Cheng Ran’s attitude just now. To please someone, you had to find the right medicine for the case…
Cheng Ran’s eyebrows wrinkled slightly. It couldn’t be denied that he was really interested in the Research Institute. At least, that researcher’s reaction had made him very curious…
However, Cheng Ran knew very well that if the Feng family was really studying something in the same field as the Cheng family, it was impossible for them to tell him this knowledge for no reason. “Sorry, someone has come to pick me up.”
“Ranran!” Shi Qingyang’s voice rang at the right time. Cheng Ran smiled and immediately moved forward.
Shi Qingyang had seen Feng Linqiu around Cheng Ran long ago. He knew that Feng Linqiu was interested in Cheng Ran. He was naturally clear about the reason why Feng Linqiu was here. But he was surprised to see Liu Shijin when he got closer.
Liu Shijin, one of the people who studied him in the Research Institute, had taken a lot of things from him, including cells, blood, hair…
When Shi Qingyang came to Central City this time, he had the idea of destroying the Research Institute. However, he did not expect to meet people from within it so soon. What was the purpose of such a person standing beside Cheng Ran? His eyes narrowed slightly, but Shi Qingyang didn’t reveal anything. “Ranran, let’s go.”
“Good.” Cheng Ran nodded.
Feng Linqiu looked at Cheng Ran deftly following Shi Qingyang. He wasn’t happy. He glanced back at Liu Shijin and found that Liu Shijin was playing with his contact terminal, which could only contact specific people.
Why was Liu Shijin acting so strangely before? Feng Linqiu opened the contact terminal to ask his grandfather, but he didn’t expect that as he dialed his grandfather’s contact number. Feng Yunhong’s contact came: “Linqiu, did you take Liu Shijin to see Cheng Ran?”
“Yes, Grandpa. Is there any problem here?”
“Cheng Ran’s situation is a little special. I’ll tell you when you come back.” Feng Yunhong said to himself: “Cheng Ran… Cheng Ran… Is his talent reflected in this aspect?”
The Feng Family had existed for a long time and had been very prosperous. However, with the increasing number of Feng family members, there were inevitably some conflicts, and there were more struggles for power and profits.
At that time, he had suffered some injuries, but his strength hadn’t been affected. The children he’d sired, however, had been very ordinary…
Later, when he was out of the city to hunt, driving a mobile fortress in the wilderness, he accidentally caught sight of a man.
The man was seriously injured and dying at that time. There were many mutant beasts around him, but those beasts didn’t dare to come near…
At that time, there were so many mutant beasts that he could only hide far away until the man died…
When the man was alive, the beasts did not dare to move at all. Once he died, all the beasts swarmed in. He took advantage of that opportunity to snatch a fragment of the corpse from the feasting of the beasts and saved it in the box he had been carrying.
This corpse fragment, he had taken to the research room of the Feng family. After research, it was found that the genes in it were similar to but different from those of human beings…
As for that gene, they had studied it for several years without results, and it could not survive if they wanted to re-cultivate it. In the end, they came up with a way to integrate the genes of ordinary people with those of that person.
At the beginning, they chose a total of hundreds of samples, half of which used his genes, and the other half found different people. In the end, only two children survived. One was Feng Linqiu, and the other was Cheng Ran.
Feng Linqiu was a natural radiation user. Just after he was born, Feng Yunhong had brought him back to the Feng family and raised him as his grandson. Cheng Ran… He’d had the best fusion at the beginning of the experiment, but after he was born, he rejected radiation energy.
Since Cheng Ran rejected radiation energy, many experiments could not be carried out at all. It could be said that it was a complete failure. However, he was the only person whose genes were similar to those of Feng Linqiu’s. At that time, he had been worried that Feng Linqiu’s body would go wrong, so he simply kept Cheng Ran. He had planned to use Cheng Ran to do experiments if Feng Linqiu ever encountered problems.
Originally, this was the end of the matter. Cheng Ran should have grown up in the laboratory and been trained by them. But somehow, someone suddenly spotted him and began to check their laboratory. Chinese officials even entered the laboratory several times.
In order not to expose the situation in the laboratory, he had to seal all the experimental data and then send Cheng Ran away.
Cheng Hong’s wife’s brother was a researcher in the laboratory. Cheng Hong was also the father of the child. Naturally, he was the best one to raise the child. He wouldn’t be suspected. When Cheng Hong left Central City with the child, others would naturally find nothing…
Over the years, Cheng Hong had been giving them feedback on Cheng Ran’s information, data, and performance. Cheng Ran had basically been captive animal, and his situation had never been known to outsiders.
At first, they had still been hopeful about Cheng Ran, but as time went on, they became increasingly disappointed with him.
Unlike Cheng Ran, Feng Linqiu’s performance had been getting better and better, and his talent was a rare Double-S… when Feng Linqiu’s talent came out, he didn’t care about Cheng Ran. After all, as long as the Feng family had another level-9, he didn’t have to worry about the decline of the Feng family. Judging from the situation at that time, Cheng Ran wouldn’t even live long.
They just didn’t expect that after so many years, Cheng Ran would appear in front of them once again.
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