Chapter 148 A Roomful of Babies

Zhou Ze pursed his lips.

Fine,

The black tea thing could wait for now,

He couldn't forget the purpose of coming here;

Immediately,

Boss Zhou reached out and pointed to the ceiling above:

"The person I'm looking for, is he up there?"

"You can't go up, you can't go up!"

The female clerk was clearly terrified, but she still shouted like that.

"Newspaper."

Zhou Ze pointed his fingertip forward,

A very weak sha qi was activated and struck the female clerk's neck.

"You can't go up..."

The female clerk lost consciousness

and collapsed on the ground.

Clapping his hands,

Zhou Ze turned around and started walking upstairs.

The space upstairs was much larger than Zhou Ze had imagined. Past the corner of the staircase was a large living room. This wasn't a simple combination of a storefront and upper floors anymore. It was more like his own bookstore knocking through to the neighbor's to grow vegetables. This meant the staircase led directly to the third floor.

A stainless steel door appeared in front of Zhou Ze, which surprised the boss somewhat. The door was very thick and not the kind of flimsy, decorative anti-theft door for homes.

For example, the lock cylinder took Boss Zhou five seconds to snap off.

Sometimes, Boss Zhou thought he was wasting his talent by not being a thief.

The door opened into the kitchen, which was very clean. There was fresh fruit and vegetables on the counter, indicating that the person lived quite well.

Pushing open the kitchen door,

Zhou Ze was directly shocked by the sight before him.

"Heh..."

Boss Zhou chuckled.

Even he, who had seen the world,

felt an extremely absurd sensation at this moment, in this scene.

The living room floor was divided into small grids with glass. The walls and ceiling were also covered in grids, densely packed and neatly arranged, like a honeycomb.

Moreover,

each grid contained a baby, lying there naked. Some seemed to be sleeping, while others were moving unconsciously.

One baby is cute,

Two babies are quite cute,

Three babies are a bit noisy,

A room full of babies neatly arranged in front of you is just hair-raising.

Zhou Ze couldn't even extend his foot forward. He wasn't sure if the glass layers could support his weight. What would happen if he stepped on them and injured the babies inside?

Who arranged this place, and were all these children artificially inseminated?

There were probably more than two hundred babies in this room. Zhou Ze would never believe they were born to one person.

But in fact,

Zhou Ze was quickly proven wrong.

After Zhou Ze tentatively extended his foot to confirm that the glass could support his weight, he carefully stepped into the living room. To the left, in the blind spot from the doorway, was a bed. A woman was lying on the bed.

The woman was very plump and had fair skin, but she gave off a greasy feeling, like a character in an oil painting.

The woman was simply lying on her back,

her legs bent.

Her belly was very high,

indicating she was pregnant,

but the heartbeat inside sounded like small wooden mallets striking a drum.

Boss Zhou had dealt with many pregnant women when he was a doctor in his previous life, but this was the first time he had seen such a terrifying fetal movement.

"Glug... glug... glug..."

The sound of water boiling,

followed by the "whoosh" of a stream;

Finally,

a soaking wet baby slid out from between the woman's legs with a "splat" and fell off the bed.

Zhou Ze leaned forward subconsciously, kneeling on one knee to catch the child.

It was just an instinct. Although the environment here seemed incredibly strange, Boss Zhou still instinctively caught the baby at this moment.

However,

after catching it,

Zhou Ze realized something was wrong.

This child,

was too light!

In fact, the weight of a newborn is very inconsistent. Normally, it can be six or seven *jin* (a Chinese unit of weight, approximately 500g), and eight or nine *jin* could be used as a name in ancient times.

Premature babies weigh less. Zhou Ze remembered that the domestic record seemed to be a 400g premature baby successfully saved by a hospital in Shenzhen, less than one *jin*.

But the one in his arms,

when you held it,

you didn't feel any weight at all.

It was clearly so big,

but apart from the greasy, slippery touch, you couldn't feel any weight.

This wasn't a baby,

at least,

it wasn't a normal child!

Zhou Ze slowly put the child down, as if putting down a ball of air. Then, Zhou Ze's gaze fell back on the woman in the bed.

The woman's eyes were closed,

and her bulging belly had softened,

making her seem

very lazy.

Zhou Ze didn't think she was giving birth just now. Childbirth should be sacred and painful, but she made it seem like laying an egg.

She was lying here, but she didn't give off the slightest feeling of being a mother. She was more like a machine... or a soulless zombie.

Walking to the bed, Zhou Ze reached out and touched the woman's body. He found that the woman's skin was very loose. With a little force, a small piece of skin was torn off!

This wasn't a person at all!

"Whoosh!!!"

Boss Zhou simply tore off the skin from the woman's arm.

The scene wasn't as disturbing or bloody as one might expect, because there was no blood. It was more like tearing open an ice cream wrapper, revealing a white vapor.

At this time,

touching it again,

it was soft,

cool,

and a little smooth,

like touching a giant silkworm.

The woman, no, this creature,

seemed indifferent to all of Zhou Ze's actions. It just continued to lie there, as if emptying its mind. It was unclear whether it deliberately blocked all perception of the outside world or had been artificially castrated, leaving only the function of "laying eggs" on the bed.

Zhou Ze wasn't in a hurry to dissect it.

Although this thing gave off a disgusting feeling,

the more disgusting something is, the more unexpected uses it might have.

Directly dissecting it would certainly relive the pleasure of dissecting in college, but there would be no more to play with in the future.

The nail on his left index finger grew out.

Zhou Ze squatted down,

cut open a piece of glass under his feet,

and took out the baby in the grid.

Light,

still very light,

without any weight at all,

giving the feeling that he was holding a cotton candy.

When he picked up the baby,

a black card was revealed underneath the grid.

Zhou Ze picked up the card.

Written on it were the eight characters of birth and the atmosphere of fate.

After putting the baby back,

Zhou Ze opened the second and third grids.

After taking out the babies inside, there was a card inside each of them, recording their birth dates and destinies.

Old Xu wasn't here, otherwise Zhou Ze could have asked Old Xu to analyze whether the eight characters and destiny were good or bad;

As for the old Taoist,

although he was a Taoist priest,

Zhou Ze really didn't dare to trust his professional level.

Fortunately, although he knew almost nothing about these things, he could roughly make out that the descriptions of the fates above were mostly "auspicious words."

Excluding the possibility of deliberately playing tricks to earn incense money,

it also meant that

all the children in this room had good fates. Even if they weren't all destined for wealth and prosperity, they should at least have smooth sailing and be free from illness and disaster. Looking at the fate descriptions of a few of them, Zhou Ze felt they were more likely to become high officials or make a fortune.

Was this some kind of prayer altar someone made for themselves?

Zhou Ze stood up.

He had walked from the kitchen to the living room. There were two more rooms here. Zhou Ze first walked to a door and opened it. Inside was a pool, with a large faucet and a square pool with marble steps.

Was it for bathing?

It wasn't easy to build such a large pool in this residential building. Waterproofing alone was a big project, but thinking about the "spectacle" in the living room, it seemed that the pool in front of him wasn't anything.

Walking to the second door,

he opened it.

In the center was a bronze tripod. The only genuine antiques Zhou Ze had come into contact with in his two lifetimes were the burial objects of his own Yingying. Naturally, he couldn't tell whether the bronze tripod was real or fake, or what its year and meaning were.

Above the bronze tripod was a copper tube, a bit like a range hood, but it wasn't working. Incense and candles were burning in the bronze tripod, but the smoke was spreading throughout the room and wasn't being drawn away.

Opposite the tripod was something that looked like a telescope at first glance, but upon closer inspection, it was a large opium pipe.

Few people still used this to smoke now. A more retro person would play with a pipe. Nowadays, this type of product mostly appeared in movies and TV shows showing opium smoking.

Yellow oiled paper cloths hung around the walls of the room, not knowing whether they were covering something up or simply being used as hanging paper.

When Zhou Ze leaned a little closer to the big opium pipe,

"Glug glug"

a sound suddenly came from the copper range hood above the tripod.

Then,

with a "thump,"

something Zhou Ze had seen lying in a grid in the living room fell down from it,

landing right in the tripod.

"Boom!"

A ball of fire gathered and rose,

then dissipated.

After that,

strands of pure white, thick smoke rose from the tripod,

and naturally flowed into the pipe of the big opium pipe.

Zhou Ze's face

was right in front of the mouthpiece.

But just as white smoke was about to come out,

Boss Zhou directly blocked the mouthpiece with his thumb,

then,

he stuck out his tongue and licked his lips,

and said in a hoarse voice:

"This, beast..."

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