This 50% glucose injection was incredibly viscous. It had to be sucked and licked through that tiny opening before it would flow out, leaving Chen Nan rather speechless. Even this tiny bottle has picked up a woman's traits. Sure enough, all things under heaven share something in common with people.
After downing a bottle of glucose, Chen Nan carefully felt out the condition of his body.
Other than the cloying sweetness in his mouth, he felt nothing else. But as time passed and the progress bar reached 30%, Chen Nan began to feel as though his body had been hollowed out.
Alarmed, he immediately started drinking the second bottle of glucose. The first time was unfamiliar, the second time came naturally. With his first experience under his belt, the speed and amount flowing from the second bottle increased dramatically.
Even this kind of thing required a knack.
The second dose of glucose went down, and that hollow feeling quickly vanished. But Chen Nan did not dare relax. He took out the remaining three glucose doses from the box, snapped them all open, and set them aside.
He could not wait for the hollow feeling to return. Chen Nan had already noticed that once it appeared, the loading speed clearly dropped as well. It was probably related to adapting to the energy.
Thus, the third dose of glucose went down as well.
Without further ado, after Chen Nan had fully digested all five doses of glucose, the loading progress reached 95%. Chen Nan knew that the energy in his body should be enough.
A short while later, the progress reached 100%, and the entire AI System began carrying out all kinds of data-processing procedures. Chen Nan could only take out another five doses of glucose and drink them in batches before the AI System finally fused completely with his brain.
Once the fusion was complete, he immediately came to an understanding: the AI System loaded into his brain would no longer consume enormous amounts of energy as it had before.
Whatever energy his brain ordinarily required, the AI System would require the same. In other words, it had become one with his brain, a component of it.
It was like the difference between a clever brain and a foolish one. Though their functions differed enormously, the energy they consumed from the body was not all that different.
This was the first major change after the fusion. As for the other changes, Chen Nan felt them with exceptional clarity as well.
Most notably, the glowing lines in his eyes had changed.
They were much gentler than before and no longer looked stiff or raw. Moreover, they could provide far more information.
Not only that, Chen Nan discovered that his eyes themselves had changed. It was nighttime now, yet his eyes had gained night vision.
This had originally been a function of the AI glasses, but it had now been bestowed upon his own eyes. It allowed him to see his surroundings without the slightest obstruction. And when he looked at his own body, he found that his eyes had gained infrared imaging as well.
What made him even more comfortable was that it could provide all kinds of explanations for the infrared images.
When he looked at his thigh, labels and explanatory text would appear in his vision—the equivalent of the AI glasses' display.
For example, a line would connect to a blood vessel and identify it as the femoral artery, the vessel highlighted in bright red. Another blood vessel ran alongside it, rendered in a cool blue hue and identified as the femoral vein...
As long as Chen Nan focused his attention on a certain spot, the relevant information there would appear within his field of vision for him to examine.
"The AI System has completely fused with my nerves, and it's brought about such enormous changes!" Chen Nan muttered in astonishment.
Now, no matter where he looked, an analysis of what he saw would appear. The benefit this could bring him was beyond measure.
Still, with all those prompts constantly swaying around in his vision, Chen Nan had not fully adjusted to them. He knew he had to adapt, but at the moment, he wanted to rest and hoped he could switch them off.
The instant he had that thought, all the information in his eyes vanished, and his vision returned to how it had been for an ordinary person.
Though he wanted to rest, after going through something like this, he could not fall asleep for a long time even while lying on the floor.
It was not until the latter half of the night that he finally drifted off in a daze.
For Chen Nan, being able to sleep at all was truly a very happy thing.
But the Wang siblings and the Prefecture Office had no sleep in them whatsoever. By now, the Wang siblings had caught the scent of a tremendous crisis, because someone had informed them that the Patrol Bureau seemed to be secretly investigating them.
This investigation was an assignment handed down from above and was extremely confidential. If that person had not happened to be involved in the operation as well, he would not have known about it.
That man also had dealings with the Wang siblings, especially in those filthy matters, so he gave them a warning.
This immediately threw the Wang siblings into a state like a pot exploding. Though they considered Chen Nan a tremendous threat, their conclusion had only been that he might take action after becoming a Transcendent.
They had never expected someone to begin investigating them so soon.
What was going on? What ability did Chen Nan possess that could make those above push for such a thing?
One had to know that those above were bound to their Lineage by countless threads.
It could be said that none of them had not taken their money, and none had not enjoyed beautiful girls with special talents at their place.
Therefore, it should have been absolutely impossible for those above to issue an assignment to investigate them.
Yet the impossible had become possible. The only explanation was that Chen Nan was pushing things from behind the scenes. Could it be that someone above was stupid enough to try to rob them after taking their money?
Had they not considered that if the Wang siblings bit back, they could make their opponent unable to swallow the consequences?
As for the Prefecture Office, he was suffering terribly as well. Chen Nan held fatal evidence against him. Once it was exposed, his life would be in danger.
But trying to eliminate the Wang siblings was no different from fighting a venomous snake barehanded. He was caught in the threat of a vice, like a stuffed pancake being seared on both sides by an electric griddle.
The problem now was that what Chen Nan possessed could kill him quickly, while he still had room to maneuver when dealing with the Wang siblings. Even so, he did not dare act rashly.
Because in his heart, he still held one expectation.
That was, Chen Nan was only a small child. No matter how meticulous his thinking was, could he truly never make a mistake?
The assignment he had issued should allow the Wang siblings to obtain some information. And that information would surely drive them to deal with Chen Nan quickly. Then, he could play the game of the mantis stalking the cicada while the oriole waited behind, and perhaps resolve the current crisis.
Thus, this fellow had prepared two plans.
Since he was being scorched from both sides, it was only natural for him to have methods to fight both sides.
Yet there was one thing the Prefecture Office had predicted correctly: Chen Nan really did make a mistake. And for him, it was a fatal mistake.
The day after Chen Nan bought the glucose injections, because he had bought so many that the pharmacy had run out of glucose, someone happened to come in looking to buy it.
That stirred the pharmacy staff's memory of Chen Nan, and that recollection spelled trouble.
He knew Chen Nan because he had certain financial dealings with Wang Yuan'e.
Simply put, this pharmacy was the designated pharmacy for her family's hospital.
This was a psychological tactic.
Whenever patients finished seeing a doctor, the physician receiving them would say while writing the prescription, "Our medicine is a little more expensive here. For the same medicine, you can buy it at **the pharmacy."
Or they would say, "The hospital does not carry this medicine, but as far as I know, **the pharmacy has it."
Then, after the pharmacy sold those medicines, it would give the hospital a certain commission.
It was a scheme, but to Wang Yuan'e, it was only small money. The pharmacy had some connection with her; she was merely doing him a favor, giving him a helping hand so he could make some money too.
So how could the owner of that shop not be deeply grateful to Wang Yuan'e?
It had been rather late last night, and everyone needed rest. Though Chen Nan had come to buy medicine, the owner had overlooked the matter.
But when someone buying glucose asked about it today, it reminded him of last night's events, and he broke out in a cold sweat.
He immediately reported the situation to Wang Yuan'e, and it was no different from dropping a bomb on the Wang siblings.
Wang Yuan'e immediately notified her eldest and second brothers, and their men swiftly gathered there as well.
It was nearly noon by then. Chen Nan made do with a meal, then received danger signals sent by the dogs.
Naturally, he froze for a moment, then understood where the problem lay.
There was no use cursing himself now for making such an oversight. He had to find a way to leave.
A noisy crowd had already gathered downstairs. Chen Nan pressed himself against the window and looked down, immediately recognizing them as the Wang siblings' thugs.
And once those people spotted him, his life would be completely over.
There were at least twenty or thirty people below. Fortunately, they did not know his exact location and needed to split up to search for him. That was his chance to escape.
His heart beat like a drum. Chen Nan quickly packed his things, stuffed three to five boxes of glucose into his belongings, and prepared to flee.
However, he had to wait a little longer. He needed those people to spread out among the different apartment buildings before it was time for him to move. This time, Chen Nan felt certain that calamity outweighed fortune.
There would be no repeat of the last time, when he had brushed shoulders with Death and survived. Having learned their lesson, they would absolutely not let a single child go.
He had no chance of slipping away unnoticed. But if he forced his way through these people's pursuit, was that even possible for him?
Chen Nan deeply doubted it.
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