681: Chapter 670 681: Chapter 670 “Mayor Wang, what is going on here?
Why isn’t this man taken away!” Thor, seeing Mayor Wang and Song Yun chatting amiably, also knew that the young man who had hit him must have a significant background.
Although he was considering retreating, he still needed to save face!
“Mr.
Thor, there might have been some misunderstanding here!” Mayor Wang said, while instructing people to help Thor towards the exit of the sales hall.
Qi Yu stayed close by Thor`s side, glancing back at Song Yun from time to time, his eyes showing less resentment and more fear.
Song Yun also cupped his fists towards the people around and said, “Folks, today, we are all men!”
“Haha, Shen Zhou, never short of real men,” said the man who had spoken to Song Yun earlier, laughing.
After finishing his business, Song Yun told the sales lady that Xiao Hua had taken a liking to an apartment, and she immediately offered a 10% discount.
The apartment, originally priced over 500,000, was now just over 400,000.
Song Yun, delighted, opened a sack and started taking out money.
“This…
cash?” the sales lady exclaimed in surprise, seeing the stacks of cash.
“You know, people usually transfer money for such large transactions.
Who pays in cash like this!”
“No problem,” Song Yun chuckled.
“Aren’t there fees with card transactions?
And there are taxes too.
I pay with cash, so you can earn a bit more.”
After taking out about 480,000, that was enough for the apartment.
Soon after, they sent over the contract, and once signed, Xiao Hua officially owned her first property, of course, in her mother`s name.
After sorting everything out, Song Yun took Xiao Hua to find Song Yuxue, letting the two little girls go play.
Although Zhao Yan’s mood hadn’t been great since Song Yun arrived, Song Yun couldn’t be bothered with her.
Returning to the headquarters late after reviewing documents, Song Yun stretched lazily, planning to head back.
Meanwhile, in the villa, Qingluan sat serenely on the sofa, trading her usual novels and magazines for a book on the I Ching.
Entering and seeing this, Song Yun was a bit curious.
After inquiring, he learned that Qingluan had recently hit a bottleneck, and her method to break through was to study various other subjects—an aid as in video games where a character often has multiple auxiliary professions, similarly applied to martial artists in real life.
“Qingluan, let me help you out!” Song Yun said with a smile.
“Always reading isn’t fun!”
“Oh?
How do you plan to help me?” Qingluan put down her book, smiling at Song Yun.
“How about watching a movie or something?
That can be quite cultivating too.
I have quite a few great movies.
We could watch them under the moonlight.
That`d be delightful.
And it could soothe the mind too!” said Song Yun.
“Oh?
What kind of movies do you plan to watch?” Qingluan asked, smiling.
“So many!
My collection’s pretty extensive.
It depends on what kind of movie you want to watch—horror, romance, sci-fi, action, drama, comedy, or even erotica—all available!” Song Yun chuckled.
“You’re asking to die again,” Qingluan snorted coldly, picked up her book, and walked upstairs.
Song Yun casually followed her up, then solemnly said in Qingluan’s room, “Qingluan, I feel…
my muscles have instantaneously strengthened, a bit like steel.”
“You mean your muscles turned into steel?” Qingluan, slightly opening her mouth in surprise, looked at Song Yun.
“Yeah, look!” Song Yun extended his right hand and slightly tensed his muscles, knocking on them with his left hand, producing a series of ‘ding ding dang dang’ sounds.
“It`s likely a result of evolution!” Qingluan confidently said.
“But… this thing isn’t lasting!” Song Yun recounted his experimental results from headquarters.
Qingluan pondered for a moment, then said, “Everything comes at a price.
Gaining something always implies a trade-off somewhere else.
I think this is a balancing mechanism your own genes have created.
If you had no time limits on your abilities, you could really become the world’s top assassin, the first on the War God List!
Even Azure Dragon would stand no chance under your long-term attack!”
“Yeah, I knew such outrageous things couldn’t really exist in this world,” Song Yun said.
“But this is enough for me.
At least it’s an extra lifesaving trick!
In a fight, it won’t hurt when others hit me, and I can hit back.
Haha, it’s almost like having an extra layer of armor!”
“Indeed,” Qingluan nodded.
“Make good use of your ability.
As far as I know, you’re not the only one with such miraculous powers in this world.
The people you’ll meet in the future might also possess incredible abilities.”
“Ah?
Really?” Song Yun asked in surprise, always feeling he was the chosen one, stumbling upon good fortune and such so-called supernatural abilities.
But now Qingluan mentioned there might be others with different superpowers too?
“Yes, but those fall under the category of biochemical weapons, still in the research phase.
You know the Judge, right?” Qingluan continued.
“Yeah, isn’t he in Beijing?”
“Do you know why he’s confined there?” she probed further.
“I’m not sure, wasn’t it because he killed someone?”
“Heh, actually, I also got this from Sister Que: the Judge is really just a half-finished experiment,” Qingluan dropped a bombshell.
“What?
A half-finished experiment?”
“Yes, all these things might sound mystical, but they derive from pharmacology.
Like the Onmyojis from Japan, their so-called shikigamis are like a kind of mental stimulant.
So don’t take these too seriously.
Even your hardening, it’s easy to explain—it increases the rapid growth of your body cells but confines them within a specific range, which increases density.
The immediate effect on you is making your muscle and skin tissue hard,” Qingluan explained.
Song Yun felt a bit dizzy for a while, “If it’s as you say, isn’t the whole world full of superheroes now?
One breathing fire, another spraying water, wouldn’t that be chaotic?”
“Heh, that won’t be the case.
Mainly because the difficulty of this research is quite high.
Including Judge, thousands of test subjects were used, and only he succeeded.
The cost of each test subject is basically enough to buy half an aircraft carrier.
And even though Judge’s combat ability has emerged, compared to an aircraft carrier, it’s really worlds apart.
This research was discontinued quite a while ago, and data and records have mostly been erased.
Heh, back then, this project had quite a grand name!”
“What was it?”
“The God Creation Project,” Qingluan revealed.
“It just turned out to be all for naught in the end, with just one half-finished Judge who hardly complied.”