The two mothers strolled around and soon walked into a women's clothing boutique.
They tried on one item of clothing after another, constantly complimenting each other throughout the process.
Xu Meng exaggeratedly praised Zhang Wanxin for looking good in a short skirt, with long and white legs that were very sexy.
Zhang Wanxin complimented Xu Meng for looking good in a slip dress, pointing out her delicate and sexy collarbones, and her smooth and tender shoulders, which were particularly enticing.
Listening to the mothers' mutual flattery, Lin Zichen couldn't help but size them up.
It had to be said that the two young mothers were really charming.
Both in figure and appearance, they were top-notch, easily scoring at least 8 out of 10.
And they were in the prime of their twenties.
They looked both youthful and mature, exuding a woman's charm from head to toe.
Lin Zichen only observed them for a while before his gaze quickly moved from the two mothers onto Shen Qinghan who was beside them.
A melon-seed face, big eyes, a small upturned nose, cherry lips, tender white skin... one could say she had inherited her mother Xu Meng's beauty quite well, and would surely also be a delicate beauty when she grew up.
After leaving the women's clothing boutique.
The two mothers led their children into a toy store on the upper floor of the mall.
They were there to buy some toys for the kids.
Shen Qinghan walked around and didn't take a fancy to any toys but instead, took an interest in the snacks from 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 to read, hoping to further understand the world through reading.
The two mothers were quite puzzled; at this age, other children all liked toys, so what made their children so special?
Regardless of their confusion, both mothers still bought their children what they wanted.
While buying books, Lin Zichen chose ones related to Exotic Beasts, Genetic Integrators, and Mechanically Modified Humans.
"Zi Chen, these books aren't really suitable for kids. How about we go to Han Han's section and buy a picture book instead?"
Zhang Wanxin pointed towards the children's area ahead and suggested.
Lin Zichen flipped through the books he had chosen and said to Zhang Wanxin, "These books have pictures too, and I like to look at these pictures."
Zhang Wanxin glanced at the pictures in the books—either fierce-looking Exotic Beasts, mutated Genetic Integrators, or various expensive parts of Mechanically Modified Humans—and thought children shouldn't be reading these books, they should be reading more cartoonish children's books. But since her son liked them, she decided to buy them all.
…
Back at home.
Lin Zichen couldn't wait to flip through the books he had brought back.
[You are reading a book, Spirit +1, Comprehension Ability +1, Knowledge +1]
[Achievement: Accumulate a total of one hundred million words read]
[Reward: Gain Biometric Attribute—Divine Human Wisdom Root]
[Total Words Read: 10086/100,000,000]
As Lin Zichen was concentrating on reading, he suddenly noticed several lines of text appear out of thin air.
He glanced at the content and couldn't help feeling a bit excited.
After his initial kicking achievement, another achievement task had finally appeared.
His daily routine, apart from the tedious exercises, would now have to include more reading for leisure.
…
As time passed, day by day.
Eventually, the time came for Lin Zichen and Shen Qinghan to start attending kindergarten.
After discussing, both sets of parents decided to enroll their children in Rainbow Kindergarten, which was closest to their homes, to facilitate picking up and dropping off together.
The school fees for this kindergarten were quite expensive.
But correspondingly, the curriculum was richer than that of average kindergartens.
There were field trip activities.
And foreign language classes.
There were courses for intellectual development and so on.
On the day before school started, Lin Zichen's parents suddenly had to go out of town. Before they left, they dropped him off at Shen Qinghan's house, asking Shen Qinghan's parents to take him to kindergarten the next day to register.
At the neighbor's house.
Aunt Meng said in a gentle voice, "Zi Chen, your mom and dad won't be back until tomorrow night, so you'll stay at Aunt Meng's house tonight, and tomorrow morning Aunt Meng will take you and Han Han to kindergarten."
"Okay, thank you, Aunt Meng," Lin Zichen nodded and said.
Listening to him say this, Shen Jianye, who was nearby, couldn't help but remark with emotion, "Zi Chen is really sensible, even remembering to thank you, Aunt Meng. He's like a little adult. It would be great if Han Han could be as sensible as you."
In the evening, after Lin Zichen and Shen Qinghan had bathed, they went to sleep in the room together.
Shen Qinghan was very happy to be sleeping with Lin Zichen.
She kept looking for conversation and chatting with him.
Talking about how much she was looking forward to going to kindergarten tomorrow and making many friends there.
Lin Zichen just occasionally responded to her, spending most of the time sitting on the bed against the wall reading a book.
[You are reading "Exotic Beasts Compendium," Spirit +1, Comprehension +1, Knowledge of Exotic Beasts +1]
[Cumulative Reading Words: 43.96 million/100 million]
To complete the reading achievement, Lin Zichen maintained a rate of reading 300,000 words a day, persisting for nearly five months.
Yet, he hadn't even reached half of the progress bar.
The difficulty of this reading achievement was more than 10 times higher than the previous leg pressing achievement.
After reading for a while, Lin Zichen felt it was about time to sleep, so he put down the book and got ready for bed.
Meanwhile, Shen Qinghan, who had been chattering nonstop just moments ago, was already lying beside him, fast asleep with a sweet expression, sweet enough that drool had leaked from the corner of her mouth.
Lin Zichen took a tissue and wiped off her drool. As he was doing so, his gaze involuntarily fell on the diaper she was wearing.
Even at the age of four, Shen Qinghan still wet her pants and had to wear diapers on a regular basis.
Her parents had taken her to several hospitals for physical examinations, but none could find the specific cause.
...
The next morning.
Aunt Meng got up early to make porridge and called the two children to eat breakfast.
Lin Zichen had been awake for a while. When Aunt Meng came to wake them up, he had already been exercising in the room for more than an hour.
In contrast, Shen Qinghan had lazily lingered in bed for half the morning before Aunt Meng dragged her out to the living room.
During breakfast,
Lin Zichen quickly finished his porridge and even washed his own bowl, acting very sensible.
Meanwhile, Shen Qinghan, half-consciously scooping porridge into her mouth, struggled to stay awake, caught in a bug-like state of being too tired to eat and too hungry to sleep.
While waiting for Shen Qinghan to finish her porridge,
Lin Zichen sat quietly reading a book, continuously absorbing the knowledge it contained.
He learned that Biological Levels are divided into six categories: Ordinary, Advanced, Rare, Epic, Legendary, and Mythical.
Moreover, each category is further subdivided into nine orders.
These levels have been used by humanity for centuries, obtained from ancient steles in mysterious ruins.
After hundreds of years of exploration and research, humans discovered a very despairing fact.
Due to their weak flesh and blood, humans have an extremely low Evolution ceiling, with the highest being Ordinary Ninth Rank.
To evolve further, one must integrate the genes of powerful Exotic Beasts.
Alternatively, one could also become a Mechanically Modified Human, enabling the flesh to have the strength to rival Advanced-level Creatures, Rare Level Creatures, or even Epic-level Creatures.
And the power of an Epic-level Creature was such that they could withstand a nuclear blast with their bare bodies.
"Withstand a nuclear blast with their bare bodies... Can that really be done?" Lin Zichen found this hard to believe.
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