ATDIWR Chapter 101

Chapter 101 Ji An’s Mental Ability Concretizes: Unicorn

Ji An held Gu Jinsheng’s hand, but his eyes looked out the window, his brows soft, a smile on his lips, “Xue Bi will be very happy knowing this.”

“We’ve already told her, but this is what she deserves. Compared to her sacrifice, a statue is nothing,” Jiang Fuzhong glanced at Ji An in the rearview mirror, and strangely asked, “Researcher Ji is also in a good mood today?”

“Yes, there’s happy news recently, it’s indeed good,” Ji An replied with a smile.

Ji An felt Gu Jinsheng’s grip on his hand tighten for a moment, likely unable to control his emotions again.

There were still some matters to handle at Luo City Base, so Gu Jinsheng couldn’t leave for the time being. Ji An stayed with him. Seeing that Chinese New Year was approaching, although Ji An still had experimental projects on hand, he didn’t bear to enter the laboratory.

This was his first year spent with Gu Jinsheng, and Ji An couldn’t bear for them to be apart for it.

Gu Jinsheng worked non-stop for several days before the New Year, and finally, on New Year’s Day, he could spend it at home.

Early in the morning, Gu Jinsheng made various delicacies for Ji An. Ji An just woke up and ate, only needing to be responsible for eating. Gu Jinsheng wouldn’t let him do anything.

When the midnight bell rang and fireworks lit up the sky outside, Gu Jinsheng knelt on one knee in front of Ji An, “Xiao An, I love you, let’s get married!”

Gu Jinsheng looked at Ji An with deep eyes, his fingers trembling, white with tension. Ji An had just agreed to be with him, was proposing marriage too soon? But Gu Jinsheng couldn’t wait any longer. What he wanted was not just the words ‘boyfriend’, but also the legally recognized identity.

He hoped that everything about him could be decided by Ji An, including his life and death.

Ji An lowered his eyelashes, watching Gu Jinsheng’s Adam’s apple bob. He stood up and kissed him, then slipped his ring finger into the ring. He looked at his finger with the ring and smiled, “You secretly measured my finger size, it fits perfectly.”

Gu Jinsheng’s hanging heart finally relaxed. His sharp features softened with tenderness. “Xiao An, look outside.”

In the night sky, dazzling fireworks exploded, forming a line of text: Xiao An, let’s get married! – Gu Jinsheng.

The fireworks reflected in Ji An’s eyes, brilliant and captivating.

Gu Jinsheng looked back at Ji An, “Xiao An, thank you for agreeing to me.”

“Jinsheng, I also want to thank you. Thank you for appearing in my darkest childhood and bringing me out of the gloom, showing me the light, and sowing the seeds of a prosperous era.”

“Thank you for still remembering me, and after years of meeting again, still willing to hold my hand and lead me towards the light!”

“And thank you for falling in love with me. And I love you too.”

Gu Jinsheng suddenly pulled Ji An into his embrace, and whispered next to Ji An’s ear, “Xiao An, why do I like you so much? I like you so much that my heart beats for you every moment. As long as I see you, I have to desperately restrain myself.”

Ji An let out a soft chuckle and kissed Gu Jinsheng’s thin yet very kissable lips.

Do all cold people sound especially moving when they speak sweet nothings?

Outside, fireworks were dazzling, inside the bedroom, it was warm and intimate.

As Gu Jinsheng and Ji An became one, something rolled out from Ji An’s brain. At the same time, the Thunder Dragon seemed to sense it and flew out from Gu Jinsheng’s Sea of Consciousness.

When Ji An woke up the next day, he saw Gu Jinsheng and the Thunder Dragon staring at each other, eye to eye, neither giving way, neither yielding to the other.

This kind of Gu Jinsheng was like a kindergarten child, completely different from his calm, self-possessed, wise, and powerful appearance outside. It was a side no one else could see except him.

Thinking of this, Ji An felt even more moved. He walked over and hugged Gu Jinsheng.

Gu Jinsheng reached out and put his arm around Ji An’s slender waist.

“What’s wrong? Why are you bickering with the Thunder Dragon first thing in the morning? How did it make you angry again?” Ji An’s voice was still a little hoarse just after waking up, making it particularly sexy when he spoke in Gu Jinsheng’s ear.

Gu Jinsheng almost lost control, “The Thunder Dragon stole something from someone’s house and brought it back.”

“Oh, stole what?”

Ji An looked over curiously and saw the Thunder Dragon’s huge body protectively wrapped around something. When Ji An looked over, that thing also looked back.

Ji An met a pair of incredibly gentle eyes. Those eyes were beautiful, so beautiful that they seemed to encompass everything in the world, nurturing countless living beings. They were as pure and flawless as a saint, filled with compassion.

The Thunder Dragon’s body slowly moved away. Ji An saw it stand up. Its body was as pure and flawless as snow, like a white horse, but far beyond compare. It had a single horn on its head and a pair of pure white wings on its back that were slowly unfolding.

Ji An was so struck by its beauty that he involuntarily held his breath, “Is this a unicorn?”

Ji An looked at the Thunder Dragon in surprise, “Where did you steal it from?”

Ji An had already recognized what the unicorn in front of him was. It wasn’t a true physical entity; it should be a concretization of a Power User’s ability.

Their home only had the Thunder Dragon as a concretized ability; this unicorn must have come from outside.

The Thunder Dragon glared at Ji An angrily, “An An, why are you like this too? Is a dragon the kind of dragon that steals things?”

Ji An then said, “Then Thunder Dragon, where did you abduct such a beautiful unicorn from?”

Gu Jinsheng snorted softly, “You can’t say for sure. You kept bothering Ji An to concretize something with his mental ability for you to play with before. Who knows if you saw someone else’s concretized unicorn was beautiful and stole it back now.”

“That’s not it at all! It wasn’t stolen by the dragon, nor abducted by the dragon!” The Thunder Dragon loudly protested, “An An, do you really not remember? This is the concretization of your mental ability.”

Ji An’s eyes were blank, “I don’t remember.”

The Thunder Dragon said with disappointment, “Beauty leads to trouble, lust is a knife above the head. An An, you were so carried away by Gu Jinsheng that you couldn’t even control your mental power, and Jiao Jiao just came out by itself.”

“Jiao Jiao?”

“That’s the unicorn, Jiao Jiao is its name,” the Thunder Dragon replied.

The unicorn walked over lightly and rubbed intimately against Ji An’s face.

For some reason, Ji An inexplicably felt a very close connection. He reached out and stroked the unicorn’s head. The unicorn nuzzled in Ji An’s arms, then looked at Gu Jinsheng with its large eyes. Gu Jinsheng also reached out and rubbed the unicorn’s head.

“How cute, such a cute ability concretization appeared without me knowing.”

Gu Jinsheng said, “Try putting it away. If it’s truly your ability concretization, you should be able to recall it.”

Ji An tried to recall it and indeed drew the unicorn into his Mental Domain.

Perhaps because he didn’t have a Zombie Crystal Core, the unicorn didn’t disappear when recalled but quietly stayed in Ji An’s Mental Sea of Consciousness. When Ji An observed it with his spiritual sense, it also looked back at Ji An gently.

“It really is the concretization of my ability,” Ji An was energized.

Gu Jinsheng was also pleasantly surprised, “Xiao An, your mental power is very strong. You can concretize at Tier 4 mid-level. Generally, only High-level Power Users can concretize abilities, and concretization is quite draining on abilities, which is why few people will concretize their abilities. Some High-level Power Users won’t concretize even during battle to conserve energy, just using original energy.”

Ji An looked at Gu Jinsheng, “Then why do you always concretize the Thunder Dragon?”

Gu Jinsheng didn’t expect the topic to suddenly shift to himself and coughed, unprepared.

The Thunder Dragon’s red eyes darted around, loudly proclaiming, “It’s because this guy wants to mate! He first concretized me just to see how powerful his ability was.”

“Later, when he met you, he concretized me again to show off to you, wanting you to see how powerful his ability is.”

The Thunder Dragon’s onslaught stripped away Gu Jinsheng’s facade, leaving him rarely red-faced.

Gu Jinsheng forcefully recalled the Thunder Dragon, which was constantly shouting, “I’m not going back! I want to snuggle with An An and play with Jiao Jiao!”

Without the noisy Thunder Dragon, the atmosphere became even more awkward.

Gu Jinsheng released several cages from his space, containing some different animals.

Gu Jinsheng said, “These are animals not infected with the zombie virus and not mutated. I originally wanted to give them to you yesterday.”

Ji An smiled teasingly, “Was that meant to be a dowry yesterday?”

Gu Jinsheng glanced at Ji An, “Yes, the entire fortune of a live-in son-in-law.”

Gu Jinsheng tapped a few times on his phone, and Ji An received a message, a string of numbers.

“This is my password,” Gu Jinsheng said, “From now on, I am marrying into your Ji family. You must treat me well.”

Ji An was not shy; he said frankly, “Since you’re marrying into my family, I will treat you well.”

“Don’t worry, since you’re marrying into our family, you won’t be shortchanged on the bride price.”

Ji An took out a bracelet from his space, “This is my latest upgrade. It has tens of thousands of cubic meters of space inside.”

“Mustard Seed Space.” Before, a few thousand cubic meters was already astonishing, now it’s tens of thousands.

Ji An said, “It doesn’t count as Mustard Seed Space. Mustard Seed Space should be infinitely large. Like the space necklace around my neck.”

Gu Jinsheng shook his head, “Don’t tell me, Xiao An, that’s your secret.”

Ji An was stunned for a moment, then suddenly smiled. Gu Jinsheng was like this, always protecting him in his own way. His promises were always fulfilled.

Ji An didn’t mention the Mustard Seed Space again, “Storage space items over ten thousand cubic meters are indeed difficult to make. They require higher material quality, otherwise, they will collapse under the pressure of compression. This strand of sandalwood is the most spiritually rich wood I’ve encountered after collecting wood for so long.”

“I was afraid Wu Youyang would ruin the material, so I worked on it myself. I didn’t expect it to open up tens of thousands of cubic meters of space at once; it really exceeded my expectations.”

Every time Ji An developed a technology, he would hand it over to the people below him to work on, while he himself developed new projects.

It had been a long time since Ji An had personally worked on space storage items.

Gu Jinsheng took the space storage item and felt a shock when his spiritual sense swept inside. The space was truly enormous, completely on a different level from storage space items with a few thousand cubic meters.

And that wasn’t all. Ji An released a treatment pod from his space.

Gu Jinsheng recognized this treatment pod. It was the original one, handmade by Ji An himself, unlike the later ones which were machine-processed.

Ji An said, “I was idle a while ago and also upgraded this treatment pod. Now it’s fully intelligent.”

“Fully intelligent?”

“Yes, originally, if a leg was broken, suitable bones needed to be cultured extracorporeally first, then the person would lie in the treatment pod, and the bones would be placed inside for treatment. With this upgraded version of the treatment pod, a person can lie directly inside and not have to worry about anything. It can scan the entire body by itself, determine where treatment is needed, automatically generate data, collect samples, culture, perform surgery, and treat,” Ji An said, “As long as someone can crawl into the treatment pod with a breath left, it can even prevent explosions. However, the current anti-explosion level isn’t high yet; it still needs upgrading.”

Every item Ji An developed was already amazing and incredible. Gu Jinsheng thought that was the extent of it, but he didn’t expect Ji An to have upgraded it, making it even more astonishing after the upgrade. If anyone else were here, they would probably be covered in goosebumps by now.

Gu Jinsheng asked, “Is the fully intelligent treatment pod technology mature?”

Ji An nodded, “The technology is mature, but the cost is too high, not suitable for mass production. For now, the combination of ordinary treatment pods and artificial targeted extracorporeal culture is still the most economical and practical.”

“I can do some more research. If the cost can be lowered, fully intelligent treatment pods can enter ordinary households. Then no one will need to go to the hospital; they can just lie down inside for treatment when they are sick.”

Ji An said to Gu Jinsheng, “This is also something I specifically upgraded for you, a gift for you.”

Gu Jinsheng’s dark eyes gazed steadily at Ji An, “Xiao An, sometimes I wonder if this is all a dream I’m having. The Apocalypse is too difficult, so I’ve fantasized about you.”

Ji An smiled and lay in Gu Jinsheng’s arms. His hand lifted Gu Jinsheng’s chin, “Do you know how they talk about you outside?”

Gu Jinsheng raised an eyebrow, “Living off a sugar baby?”

It did seem like that. In fact, he hadn’t done much, only what a commander should do. All the other miracles seemed to be invented by Ji An. Then he relied on Ji An’s inventions to rise step by step, eventually even taking over the Luo City Base, which was previously on par with or even slightly ahead of him.

Ji An laughed, “You wish. They all say you are the Chosen One, which is why I came to you, and even voluntarily, bringing my entire fortune.”

Gu Jinsheng looked at Ji An and said, “Compared to being called the Chosen One, I’d rather they say I’m a sugar baby.”

Ji An burst into laughter. Gu Jinsheng looked at Ji An’s relaxed brows and eyes, thinking that this person finally belonged to him, and his heart was filled with warmth.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Ji An entered the laboratory. This time he didn’t bring anyone, going in by himself.

Wu Yu was a little anxious about it and specifically went to Gu Jinsheng to inquire about the situation, “Commander-in-chief Gu, Dean Ji went into the lab without bringing a single assistant this time. Is he still holding a grudge against us because of previous events?”

Gu Jinsheng said, “No, Xiao An isn’t that petty.”

“That’s good.” Wu Yu thought about how open Ji An was with his work; he gave away the core technology of the Mental Scanner just like that. If it were him, he absolutely couldn’t do it. No matter how much he wanted the Apocalypse to get better, he couldn’t do it.

It had to be said, Ji An’s breadth of mind and ideological realm were far beyond compare.

About three days later, Ji An emerged from seclusion. Gu Jinsheng came to see him immediately, though he was still one step behind Wu Yu.

Gu Jinsheng felt that Wu Yu probably hadn’t done anything else these past few days but guard Ji An’s door.