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Did that mean the Qilin Bloodline had altered his body?

Shi Wen turned to look at Yan Kexing, who was standing beside him.

Yan Kexing lowered his eyes to look at the results. His eyes were beautifully shaped, and his eyelashes were thick and full.

Professor Yan had a very attractive pair of eyes, and he didn't seem to be nearsighted, either.

That was what Shi Wen thought.

The test results were right there: Shi Wen was indeed not nearsighted. His eyes were perfectly healthy, with no other problems.

After the doctor finished explaining the results to him, he told him he could leave.

He took the report and followed Yan Kexing out of the hospital.

Sitting in the car, he looked over the results in his hand again and again, still wearing a stunned expression.

After fiddling with the report for a while, Shi Wen suddenly looked up at Yan Kexing. "You're not of pure human blood, are you?"

Yan Kexing stopped starting the car and turned to him.

Their eyes met.

Yan Kexing suddenly smiled, the lines of his smile standing out clearly.

Struck by such beauty at close range, Shi Wen nearly lost his composure.

Yan Kexing asked, "Why do you say that?"

Shi Wen listed the evidence one point at a time. "You're not surprised at all that I asked, and you've watched me so many times. You've even given me pointers several times!"

Yan Kexing nodded in acknowledgment. "I am indeed not of human blood."

A multitude of thoughts flashed through Shi Wen's mind, but what came out was, "Then doesn't that make you my senior?"

Yan Kexing smiled again. "I wouldn't mind if you called me Senior Yan."

The hormones coming at him made Shi Wen's face and ears turn red. He looked away. "I mind! I treat you like a brother, and you want to take advantage of me?"

Yan Kexing drove out of the parking lot.

After taking a moment to recover, Shi Wen asked, "What bloodline do you have? Can you tell me?"

"My bloodline has a relatively high security classification, so I can't tell you for now. But if you keep growing at this rate, you should find out soon enough," Yan Kexing said. "I thought I'd made it obvious. You're only just realizing it now?"

Shi Wen thought back over his interactions with Yan Kexing. It seemed Yan Kexing really hadn't concealed it from him.

What had Yan Kexing said when they first met?

Hadn't Yan Kexing said, "I know you"?

In other words, Yan Kexing should have known about his existence long ago.

Shi Wen pinched his fingers together.

Fortunately, he was just a herder running a ranch. It didn't matter if he wasn't all that quick-witted.

Otherwise, dealing with such shrewd people, he'd be sold off sooner or later.

He turned to look at Yan Kexing, who was driving in sunglasses.

Yan Kexing looked incredibly handsome with sunglasses perched on the exceptionally fine, high bridge of his nose.

With that height and those looks, it really was hard to believe a pure human could have grown up looking like that.

Yan Kexing drove Shi Wen to pick up the two puppies.

The two puppies still remembered Shi Wen. The lively one stuck its nose through the bars of the cage and sniffed him hard, whimpering for attention but not barking.

Perhaps because Yan Kexing was nearby, the puppy didn't quite dare bark.

Shi Wen returned to the ranch with bags big and small.

After everything had been unloaded, Yan Kexing reminded him, "Remember to do the test."

Perhaps because they now shared a common background, Shi Wen felt much closer to Yan Kexing and spoke more casually. "Don't worry, I'll do it in a bit."

"All right, I'll head back first."

"Then drive carefully. Call me if anything comes up."

After watching Yan Kexing leave, Shi Wen carried the cage with the two puppies into the livestock shed.

Heiwa had noticed the two puppies long ago. He hadn't barked while Yan Kexing was there, but now he couldn't hold back and kept barking at Shi Wen.

Shi Wen picked Heiwa up and rubbed his neck. "Don't bark, don't bark. I brought you a little brother and sister to help out. You're the boss from now on, so you've got to act like one."

Heiwa wasn't happy. He looked at the two puppies, then at Shi Wen, and kept barking.

Even Shi Wen's attempts to soothe him were no use.

The two puppies looked a little afraid of Heiwa. Even the lively one didn't dare act up, and they huddled cautiously in a corner. Their places in the family were clear at a glance.

New puppies had to be quarantined for a while after being brought home anyway.

The two puppies were shut in, so they wouldn't end up fighting.

Shi Wen wasn't too worried about that.

It was just that Heiwa was terribly jealous of the new arrivals and needed plenty of soothing.

Shi Wen took Heiwa along as he went in and out, opened some treats to feed him, and kept petting him, feeding him, and showering him with praise.

Heiwa's tail gradually rose, and he happily followed Shi Wen in and out again.

Once Shi Wen had soothed Heiwa, he cut forage for the quarantined flock of seventy-eight sheep and waited for the cattle, sheep, and geese on the pasture to enter their pens. Only then did he have time to go inside and test himself with the strips the Abnormal Affairs Bureau had sent.

In the director's office of the J Province Anomaly Management office in N City, Zhu Ji was working with his office software.

He was concentrating on his work.

On the computer screen, the internal office system gave a faint notification. He clicked it with his mouse, and a starred document automatically rose to the top of the list.

He opened it and found a set of personal test data.

Data?

Zhu Ji couldn't help glancing at the system clock—the data had been sent at 18:53 in the evening.

It was real-time data.

He looked at the body of the document.

The data belonged to someone named Shi Wen.

Below were two lines of data in bold:

Divinity: 538

Abilities: 364

The numbers weren't actually that high. The person they belonged to hadn't even reached the intermediate level yet.

But Zhu Ji distinctly remembered that a little over a month ago, the numbers had been less than half as high!

He looked farther down and saw that the table did indeed include the data from May 6.

Back then, Shi Wen's Divinity had been only 222, and his Abilities had been just 150!

How had they shot up so fast?!

Zhu Ji jumped out of his chair as if his pants were on fire and bent over to stare at the data on the large screen.

He checked again. He really hadn't misread it.