coobybook Chapter 504 "Infecting the World" - Male Mother (115)
Chapter 504 "Infecting the World" - Male Mother (115)
Chapter 504 "Infecting the World" Male Mother (115)
Lu Liruan, refusing to believe it, picked up the fruit on the other side and took another bite...
But it is true!
The two fruits have swapped flavors!
What's going on?
Lu Liruan was completely bewildered because this matter defied common sense. Although Lu Liruan had seen many illogical things, this was just too strange.
Seeing Lu Liruan's expression, Zhao Linchuan showed a satisfied expression.
Every time he performs this skill for someone, the other person will show this expression, which makes him feel incredibly accomplished. However, there aren't many people who would let him perform this, since it goes beyond the scope of magic.
Magic tricks are all about illusions, but his tricks didn't involve any illusions at all; there was a real change. This couldn't be explained by magic. If people pressed him for an explanation, he wouldn't be able to explain or resolve the situation. So, he could only demonstrate this skill to a small group of people.
This small group of people were basically his colleagues from different branches.
He didn't like the kind of acting Fan Zhenxiang did; he preferred the kind of acting Lu Liruan did, which provided a lot of emotional value, especially when she looked at him with bright, sparkling eyes, Zhao Linchuan found a very happy feeling.
He's not interested in girls... but he's amazed and interested in girls' surprise at his magic tricks... that's just how narcissistic he is.
"How's it going? Aren't you awesome?"
He saw that Lu Liruan still looked dazed: "I can change other flavors too, let me see..."
He walked towards the dining table that had already been set out. An Tang saw him glancing at the dishes on the table and hurriedly warned, "Hey! Everyone hasn't eaten yet! There are a lot of people today, and we ordered everyone's favorite dishes. Don't mess around here!"
Gao Shiyi, standing to the side, smiled but remained silent, already used to this kind of scene.
Zhao Linchuan clearly didn't listen to An Tang's words. He pointed to the sweet and sour pork on the table and said to Lu Liruan, "Would you like to try an apple that tastes like sweet and sour pork?"
“Hey! I already said…” An Tang immediately spoke up, as sweet and sour pork was one of her favorite dishes.
"Li Ruan may only get to eat an apple with the flavor of sweet and sour pork once in her life~" Gao Shiyi suddenly said gently from the side. Although her tone was very nice, she couldn't hide the teasing tone in her voice. She was actually teasing the little girl along with Zhao Linchuan.
"Just keep going along with this nonsense! Is this how you always indulge Lao Cheng?" An Tang was both amused and exasperated, noticing that everyone else around them seemed indifferent as well.
And Lu Liruan...
A hint of anticipation appeared on the little girl's face.
no……
What's so exciting about apple-flavored sweet and sour pork, or apple-flavored sweet and sour pork?
An Tang finally turned her gaze to Liao Tingyuan, thinking that someone with Liao Tingyuan's personality wouldn't be the type to cause trouble, right?
But An Tang saw it clearly... Liao Tingyuan didn't care about the sweet and sour pork or the apple, but he did care about the little girl!
He didn't even glance anywhere else, his eyes were fixed on the little girl's face, and the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned! This was clearly... a face that showed he was happy because the little girl was happy!
An Tang was utterly speechless at the sheer variety of people in the room.
He shrugged and sighed, "Fine, Li Ruan might be the only person who eats an apple that tastes like sweet and sour pork."
Seeing that she had agreed, Zhao Linchuan carried the plate to Lu Liruan. This time, he didn't need to act strangely like before; he moved much faster.
But that also makes it seem even more magical.
Lu Liruan watched his every move closely, and after he indicated that he was done, she tentatively took the new apple and took a bite...
Ok?
It really tastes like sweet and sour pork!
But this is too strange... It's clearly a plant, but it tastes like hot sweet and sour pork. Lu Liruan's expression was a little strange.
"Alright, that's enough playing around this time, let's all eat..."
An Tang abruptly ended the magic show, then interrupted Lu Liruan's curiosity to continue exploring, and gave Liao Tingyuan a wink.
Liao Tingyuan reached out and took the apple from Lu Liruan's hand, then said casually, "Eat your food properly. After you finish eating, I'll let him tell you why."
Lu Liruan: ? ?
What kind of parent's comment is this, trying to coax their child to eat?
Gao Shiyi, sitting next to Liao Tingyuan, burst out laughing. Across Liao Tingyuan, she smiled at Lu Liruan and said, "Yeah, don't let Tingyuan chase after you with a bowl to feed you."
It was obvious that they could tell from Liao Tingyuan's tone that he sounded like a parent.
A group of people at the table kept their distance from the plate of apple-flavored sweet and sour pork.
An Tang raised an eyebrow, took the serving chopsticks, and put two pieces into everyone's bowl. Then she said seriously, "Don't waste any. Here, although it doesn't taste the same, it's still edible, isn't it?" No one dared to disobey her, and everyone silently ate it.
Zhao Linchuan was forced to eat three pieces.
After finishing their meal, Fan Zhenxiang wanted to continue playing games with Lu Liruan and the others, but Lu Liruan's mind was not on the game at all.
"What exactly happened? If you don't tell me, I'll go find Teacher Liao and tell me!" Lu Liruan pressed.
"Actually, it's my special ability." Zhao Linchuan had kept everyone in suspense for long.
"I know it must be your special ability, but what is this, a trade?"
"We usually call this...conversion?"
"What do you mean?" Lu Liruan didn't quite understand.
"My ability is not simple; it's about exchanging the taste of two objects..." Zhao Linchuan raised his hand.
"So...not only can you exchange flavors, but you can also exchange colors?"
As soon as Lu Liruan finished asking, she saw Zhao Linchuan pause for a moment, while Fan Zhenxiang, who was playing games alone but had been listening to them, chuckled twice: "Haha! He really can't do that!"
Lu Liruan thought to herself, "How did I manage to ask someone such a sensitive question?"
If you can exchange scents but not colors, then you can't really call that ability "exchange".
"Transformation is an internal change, while color is a surface change. My ability can only occur internally, and it's not a one-step process!" Zhao Linchuan clearly had a very mature explanation for his ability.
"Simply put, we need to 'extract' it first." He looked at Lu Liruan: "Anyway, that's the gist of it, you understand?"
“Go on, I may be illiterate, but I don’t have a comprehension problem.”
"Fan Zhenxiang didn't understand at the time. I explained for a long time, but he still didn't understand. He didn't understand himself and then said that I wasn't speaking properly..." Zhao Linchuan pouted at Fan Zhenxiang with an air of "I used to have so much energy."
"Hey Zhao, don't force me to pull your hair again!" Fan Zhenxiang didn't even look up, but Lu Liruan sensed from his words that... they might have actually had a hair-pulling battle before.
Zhao Linchuan touched his soft bob and coughed lightly, drawing Lu Liruan's attention back to him.
"You have to extract the substance you want to transform from inside the object first, and then you can transform it into something else. Actually, you don't necessarily have to exchange the two." He pointed to the apple: "So you can actually taste a mixture of pear and apple flavors on one apple, while the other pear has no flavor at all."
Upon hearing this, Lu Liruan's first thought was...
What does it taste like to eat a pear that has no flavor at all?
Zhao Linchuan clearly hadn't expected that this was what Lu Liruan was most concerned about.
He continued, "But what can be seen with the naked eye, such as color and size... these are things that my abilities cannot extract or transform."
Lu Liruan thought to herself, "That's true. This is already fantastical enough. If the attributes that can be seen with the naked eye also change in an instant, that would be too much."
"His ability is only stable inside the space. Outside, it's either very simple little things like apples and pears, or anything else. That's why he can only do magic tricks with apples!" Fan Zhenxiang shouted!
"No one will think you're mute if you don't speak! Don't ask me to play games with you later!" Zhao Linchuan hissed, threatening him angrily.
But he did not refute it.
"Actually, there's something else that's quite special."
"What?" Lu Liruan couldn't think of any other derivatives of this ability.
“I can extract my perceptions and then transform them into matter. That way, if anyone carries something that contains my perceptions, I can locate that person’s position at any time.”
"Amazing...a human tracking device..." Lu Liruan indeed thought this was amazing.
"If your senses are extracted, will you become a vegetable until that person returns the things?" Lu Liruan asked seriously.
"Who's in a vegetative state!" Zhao Linchuan was startled by Lu Liruan's choice of words.
"I only extracted a part of my senses, I didn't dig out my brainstem! Why am I in a vegetative state!" Zhao Linchuan felt like he was talking to a brick wall.
Lu Liruan was unaware that she had already been categorized together by Zhao Linchuan and Fan Zhenxiang.
"If you distribute your senses across many people, wouldn't you be able to track the movements of many people at once?" Lu Liruan asked curiously.
Zhao Linchuan nodded at first, then looked troubled.
"A perception can only be extracted and transformed once. That is, after I extract the perception the first time, I cannot extract it again. After extracting the next perception, the first perception will automatically dissipate..."
"So you can only track one person at a time?"
Lu Liruan was quite interested in his ability, so she leaned back on the sofa armrest, propped her chin up with her hand, and asked him earnestly.
Seeing how much she cared about him, Zhao Linchuan also became interested in chatting. The two of them, one with a bun hairstyle and the other with a bob, sat on the sofa and started discussing.
However, there's Liao Tingyuan in between...
Since finishing their meal, Liao Tingyuan has been sitting next to Lu Liruan, reading a book.
She listened to Lu Liruan and Zhao Linchuan talking, but did not interrupt.
Zhao Linchuan clearly wanted to sit next to Lu Liruan, while Liao Tingyuan in the middle seemed engrossed in his book, not even lifting his head. Zhao Linchuan couldn't say to him, "Brother Liao, could you move aside? I'm planning to sit with her."
After glancing at Liao Tingyuan several times, she finally sat down on the other side of Liao Tingyuan and spoke to Lu Liruan across from him.
Lu Liruan didn't feel awkward at all, because at home, she and Liao Tingyuan often sat on the sofa like this. Lu Liruan would watch TV dramas or variety shows, while Liao Tingyuan would quietly read a book, making the room very peaceful and cozy.
Lu Liruan was already used to it...
Seeing that no one else felt awkward, Zhao Linchuan could only continue speaking to Lu Liruan through Liao Tingyuan.
During this time, when he saw Liao Tingyuan move even slightly, he subconsciously shut his mouth.
As a result, Liao Tingyuan only turned one page of the book.
Zhao Linchuan: ...
What am I so nervous about? Although everything seems fine, and Fan Zhenxiang, who is playing games and is flushed with anger, is sitting next to him, he inexplicably feels uneasy and the atmosphere is a bit off.
But what Lu Liruan said was indeed something he was thinking about as well.
Haven't you thought of any solutions?
Lu Liruan didn't have any other thoughts, but she felt that if his skill could be used in a wider range, wouldn't it be like the kind of area-of-effect attacks in games?
That's so cool...
"Actually, I have tried it. For example, I transferred my perception to an apple, then divided the apple in half and gave it to two people to eat."
"And the result?" Lu Liruan asked curiously.
"It is indeed possible to track the movements of both people simultaneously," Zhao Linchuan said, twirling a strand of his hair with his fingers as he recalled the events.
"And then?" Lu Liruan leaned towards Zhao Linchuan, but from Zhao Linchuan's perspective, Lu Liruan looked as if she were resting on Liao Tingyuan's shoulder, with only her cute head showing.
"And then... my senses vanished." Zhao Linchuan shrugged.
Lu Liruan casually asked, "Huh? Is there a time limit to this? How did it disappear?"
"It's not exactly a time limit, but my senses do weaken over time, though there's no set time when they'll completely disappear."
He seemed somewhat at a loss for words, finding it difficult to speak: "The apple vanished so quickly...it really was..."
"Huh?" Lu Liruan hadn't reacted yet.
“The object I sense and transform must be on the person I’m tracking! At first, the apple is in the person’s stomach! But it’s usually gone by the next day!” Zhao Linchuan stared at Lu Liruan.
Lu Liruan: ...
Ok.
She now understood why he wasn't there the next day.
With the conversation going on like this, it was unrealistic for Liao Tingyuan to pretend he hadn't heard anything. He put down his book, glanced at Lu Liruan, and leaned back. With this action, the line of sight between Zhao Linchuan and Lu Liruan was suddenly cleared.
For a moment, when their eyes met, both of them were a little...
"What about other things? Why don't you give other things to someone to carry around?" Lu Liruan suggested.
“First of all, what can be divided into arbitrary parts? And what about having someone wear it all the time? Of course, I can’t just tell someone I’m going to follow you and ask them to carry this with them, can I?” Zhao Linchuan looked somewhat troubled.