“What did you say?!”

Fang Chang’s alluring siren voice was now hollering like a street-corner scrap collector.

Only Lu Nongxi was still completely baffled. “What kind?”

“I’ll leave you a child. With a child to keep you company, you won’t be lonely.” Li Zirong turned to explain it to Lu Nongxi. This was the important part; Fang Chang’s opinion could be ignored.

“A child!”

Lu Nongxi’s eyes widened. She was clearly very interested.

Li Zirong kept a straight face as she made things up on the spot. “And once you have a child, when Fang Chang grows strong enough, he can use the child to find his way back to this world. Then you’ll be together again!”

Lu Nongxi’s beautiful eyes sparkled. She really couldn’t stop Fang Chang from leaving, but she could make the rest happen.

Having a child and raising it—what a novel experience!

Fang Chang was already getting anxious. “I’m not even in a male body right now! How am I supposed to leave you a seed? And even if I were, are you sure one shot would do it? I’ve got less than a day left, you know!”

Lu Nongxi immediately gazed at her with a deeply aggrieved look.

Li Zirong cleared her throat and said gently, “I’m not telling you to let her give birth. I’m telling her to let you give birth. Got it? You may not be in a male body, but you’re the Mother Nest!”

Fang Chang no longer cared about keeping up appearances. He planted his right foot on the bed, eyes gleaming with golden light, standing tall and straight with an air of heroic spirit. What a lovely young lady!

“I’m a man!”

Li Zirong looked at her pityingly. “Please get your thoughts straight before you speak. Don’t say such stupid things.”

Fang Chang glared at her and enunciated every word. “I. Am. A. Man!”

Lu Nongxi drew her head in and said, very reluctantly, “Th-then… let’s not have a child…”

“Do you want to be lonely for the rest of your life?” Li Zirong asked her first, then turned to Fang Chang. “And are you really willing to watch her stay lonely like this?”

Fang Chang met her eyes, his expression serious. “Senior! I don’t want to see her stay lonely like this, but that doesn’t mean I’m willing to have a child for her! I’m a man. Even in this body, I’m still a man, through and through! We’ve already wasted enough time here. I still have the Zombie Mother Nest’s corpse with me. It’s time to leave!”

Lu Nongxi felt wronged and miserable. She wanted to cry.

“Then, darling, you can go… I…”

Seeing Lu Nongxi’s tear-streaked face, Li Zirong couldn’t bear it. Still, she didn’t give up trying to persuade her. “Can you really bring yourself to…”

Fang Chang didn’t let her finish. He cut in at once. “This has nothing to do with whether I can bring myself to do it. It’s a matter of principle! I, Fang Chang, am a man who stands tall between Heaven and Earth. I will never give birth!”

Li Zirong asked, “Even if you don’t have to give birth the usual way?”

“Huh?” Fang Chang was dumbfounded. “How else would you give birth?”

“The Zombie Mother Nest is actually more plant-like,” Li Zirong said. Seeing that he’d asked a question, she knew this was her chance and hurried to explain the theory. All she needed was for Fang Chang to agree to produce an offspring—no, to leave a seed.

The basic idea was that the Zombie Mother Nest didn’t give birth in the usual way. It reproduced asexually, like a plant, but needed a catalyst to produce offspring.

To leave a seed for Lu Nongxi, Fang Chang first had to absorb some of her flesh and blood. The part that did the absorbing was the Corpse-Bloom on top of Fang Chang’s head.

Once it had absorbed them, the Corpse-Bloom would enter a bud stage and move from his head to his back. It would then nourish the flesh and blood inside the flower with its own power, eventually producing a second Zombie Queen.

This Zombie Queen, however, would be in her infant stage.

Other zombies were produced by the same process. But the higher their evolutionary level, the fewer offspring they could ultimately produce. A normal Mother Nest couldn’t produce offspring for an upper-tier viral entity like Lu Nongxi. Only Fang Chang, who carried the same upper-tier virus, had a chance of doing so.

“If that’s how it works…” Fang Chang pondered for a moment. Under Lu Nongxi’s adorable assault, he was starting to cave. “I guess… it’s not completely impossible!”

Li Zirong cheered at once, even happier than Lu Nongxi. Fang Chang looked at her, thoroughly exasperated. “I’m not having a child for you, so what are you so happy about?”

“Hehehe!” Li Zirong bounced twice and patted Lu Nongxi’s little shoulder. “Since you’ve decided, let’s go to my lab! I have a device that can distort time. It should at least give Fang Chang enough time to have the child before he leaves!”

Lu Nongxi nodded vigorously, then clung to Fang Chang’s arm and giggled like an idiot. “Hehehe, I’ll be able to raise a child now! It’ll be the fruit of our love!”

Fang Chang did his best to cover his face, not daring to meet her eyes.

Li Zirong patted her shoulder with an old hand’s air of authority. “Don’t be so shy! After today, you’ll be a mother too. You’ll have to be more mature and dependable from now on!”

Fang Chang lowered his hand. His pretty face was bright red, but he refused to back down. “You sound like you’ve got experience. Have you given birth before?”

Li Zirong’s expression turned cold. She was about to give Fang Chang a sharp knock on the head, but the moment she raised her hand, a heavy killing intent wrapped around her, chilling her to the bone. She turned—and met Lu Nongxi’s icy gaze.

She changed her tune, smoothed her hair, then gave a soft snort. “I’ve just done similar work before!”

“An obstetrician?”

“I took care of a certain female mammal belonging to the phylum Chordata and the order Artiodactyla.”

Fang Chang had a bad feeling. “A vet?”

“Raising mother pigs.”

Fang Chang froze for a long while. He didn’t come around until Lu Nongxi hoisted him onto her shoulder and ran after Li Zirong, who was flying through the sky toward the lab.

“Senior, why are you insulting yourself while you’re insulting me?”

With Lu Nongxi’s speed, they reached the lab in no time. Poor Fang Chang was carried over her shoulder, bouncing up and down with every stride. Her two enormous breasts were the worst of it. At first, rubbing against them had felt pretty comfortable, but after getting used to being a girl, he found them a real nuisance.

They were heavy, but soft, and so springy they threw off his balance. Life was hard for girls with large breasts, especially when they had to sprint.

Luckily, there was no one around. The thought of attracting a crowd of men’s stares made Fang Chang’s skin crawl.

At last, when Lu Nongxi set her down at the lab, Fang Chang finally remembered.

Wait, I can fly now. Why did I need someone to carry me?