"This shouldn't hurt, right? Is it injected directly? Damn it, it's in English. I can't read it. What the hell does it say? Shit, I should've studied foreign languages more. Did I stop recognizing English the moment I passed CET-4?"
Long Qian held the white sheet of paper in his hand and muttered to himself.
He couldn't read the English on it either.
Could it be a letter?
But this wasn't how English compositions began.
He set the paper down, then took out a tube of blue liquid and examined it closely. He discovered that these Super Soldier Serums were rather unusual. They had needle-like tips, except the needles were made of glass.
It didn't seem to be the same as the Super Soldier Serum that doctor had injected into Captain America in the Marvel Universe.
He remembered that doctor using other equipment when injecting Captain America. He had indeed used several tubes, hadn't he?
This tube had to contain at least a hundred milliliters.
Did that mean he had to inject all of them for it to work?
Four tubes, four hundred milliliters—it sounded terrifying.
"Is this really reliable? This blue is a little too bewitching."
Long Qian studied the Super Soldier Serum in his hand through the sunlight. He felt as though the blue liquid was tempting him.
Suddenly, his hand slipped, and the Super Soldier Serum fell straight from his grasp.
He instinctively reached out to catch it.
This was Super Soldier Serum, an exceedingly rare item from the Marvel Universe. If it broke when it hit the ground, it would really be gone.
If all four had to be used together to achieve the effect, wouldn't breaking one be a massive loss?
But as he reached out to catch it, he slipped sideways and crashed heavily onto the floor. The Super Soldier Serum stabbed into the lower back near his kidney.
"Fuck... It hurts, it hurts, it hurts so much! Damn it, System, you set me up..."
The sudden pain brought tears to Long Qian's eyes. He nearly bit his gums bloody. It hurt! It hurt too damn much! For an ordinary person, this kind of agony was almost unbearable.
Most importantly, the damn thing had stabbed him in the kidney area.
If pain had levels, this would absolutely be at the highest tier.
The blue Super Soldier Serum vanished at a speed visible to the naked eye, burrowing into Long Qian's body and driving the pain deeper into his soul.
"Male God, what's wrong?"
Qing Qing had been washing fruit in the kitchen when she heard something fall in the living room, followed by Long Qian's heart-wrenching cries of pain.
When she rushed out of the kitchen, she saw Long Qian curled up beside the windowsill, with some glittering golden liquid seeping across the floor.
"Qing Qing, it hurts. It really hurts!!!"
Golden liquid was now seeping from Long Qian's body. It seemed as though even his blood was gradually turning golden—or perhaps it had already become golden.
He gripped Qing Qing's hand so tightly that his fingernails nearly sank into her skin.
But Qing Qing did not pull away despite the pain. Instead, she sat down on the floor and drew Long Qian into her arms.
"Male God, it's okay. I'm here."
As soon as Qing Qing finished speaking, she noticed something resembling a shattered glass test tube nearby.
But she could not figure out what it was.
"Qing Qing, there are more on the table. Bring them over and inject them into me."
Long Qian's powerful rationality overcame the pain. No, perhaps he was in so much pain that he had gone numb.
He had been stabbed without knowing what was happening. If he passed out later, wouldn't all this suffering have been for nothing?
"This is Super Soldier Serum. It can strengthen the body. I can't inject a Super Gene, so I can only strengthen my body a little."
Seeing Qing Qing's tightly furrowed brows and how worried she was, Long Qian hurriedly explained.
There probably wasn't anything in the Super Seminary Universe that could strengthen the body like this.
Even if there was, it probably wasn't as perfect as Super Soldier Serum.
After all, this was something rather famous in the Marvel Universe.
"Mm..."
Although Qing Qing did not know why Long Qian wanted to do this, she thought that since he wanted to do it, he must have had his reasons.
She waved a hand, and the metal box containing the Super Soldier Serum flew before her. Just as she was about to pick up a tube, a sheet of paper covered in strange symbols drifted over.
She quickly picked up the paper from the floor. The writing on it was not a language of the Divine River Body that she recognized, so she immediately activated the Eye of Insight, scanned the words, and translated them.
To her surprise, this written language perfectly matched one of Earth's languages.
However, she did not dwell on it. There was not much useful information on it.
Then Qing Qing asked in an incredulous tone:
"Male God, this paper marked Top Secret says: Instructions: Optimized Super Soldier Serum. Can be injected or taken orally. Oral consumption is more effective!"
"???"
Long Qian was full of question marks. Was this reasonable? This was somewhat different from the plot he had seen. What kind of joke was this? Taken orally? Did it even come with flavor options?
Could America's scientists be a little more serious? A little more serious? A little more serious?
Important things had to be said three times.
"Fuck, I injected it too early!"
"Huh, it's apple-flavored. There's strawberry too. I couldn't make out this one..."
Before he could finish speaking, Long Qian's head tilted to the side, and he fainted.
"Yan, that's the situation!"
Looking at the still-unconscious Long Qian, Qing Qing stood on the balcony with one hand pressed to her ear, reporting through dark communications to Angel Yan, who was far away in Angel Nebula.
Long Qian's body had now changed—changed visibly. Golden blood was no longer seeping from his body.
His muscles were now full and defined, giving him what human civilization on Earth called a perfect physique.
If Long Qian could have been described as thin and weak a few hours ago, he was now very muscular.
Most importantly, Long Qian's blood was golden, and the pool of blood on the floor had actually disappeared on its own.
This was why she had no choice but to report Long Qian's current condition to Angel Yan.
"Super Soldier Serum. Did you detect any components from it?"
Yan, dressed in casual clothes, sat on a sofa by the window and asked gravely.
This thing had considerable research value to them. Anything belonging to Long Qian had research value.
And there was also the golden blood. What exactly had caused it?
She was also deeply worried about Long Qian's condition. Like her, Qing Qing was unable to examine Long Qian's body data even with the Eye of Insight. However, judging from the video footage Qing Qing had uploaded, there should be no danger.
"No. There are no traces left on the Male God's body. But I collected some related information from Earth. Several decades ago, during Earth's World War II, a country researched this project, but they failed!"
Qing Qing told Yan about the information she had collected. After all, she had found those fragmented details by infiltrating America's database and searching through inconspicuous records.
"I understand. Protect him well. He is the future, and he is hope!"
Yan nodded. Since that was the case, the so-called Super Soldier Serum must have come from the real world—the world Long Qian came from.
After ending the dark communication, Yan carefully examined the images Qing Qing had uploaded. It had to be said that Long Qian now was somewhat different from the Long Qian she had met a few days ago. Though his face had not changed, his body had changed greatly.
"The real world... what kind of world is it, exactly?"
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