003 Nuo Nuo doesn't know much.

After unlocking the special talent "Crawling King," Fang You's crawling speed had significantly improved—

When Fang You and Xia Nuo spent time together on a regular day, she would always excitedly crawl towards Fang You. Sometimes, if Fang You started off too slowly, he would even be caught and smooched by Xia Nuo.

But now, even if Xia Nuo exerted all her effort, she could no longer keep up with Fang You's crawling pace!

Watching Fang You crawl all over the floor, Fang Guanghui nearly spat out his tea.

"Damn... Could my son be the reincarnation of a cockroach? He can actually crawl so fast now!"

Well, crawling on his own is pretty good as well.

It's certainly better than me having to ride a horse!

Fang Guanghui also breathed a sigh of relief.

"You have crawled 0.3 meters (3701.1/10000), you have crawled 0.4 meters (3701.5/10000)..."

Having learned his lesson from being caught by Xia Nuo during that crawling race, Fang You also realized something.

Although relying on his dad to crawl could also accumulate system progress, he was still in the rapid growth phase of infancy.

Crawling wasn't just for completing the system goals, but also for exercising muscle strength, promoting brain development, enhancing balance abilities—and all these were greatly beneficial for growth and development.

He couldn't afford to be lazy now.

I should continue crawling!

While Fang You was crawling, Xia Nuo always followed behind, chasing after him.

"Wo, yi!"

Xia Nuo uttered babbling sounds that didn't form coherent sentences.

At the same time, he also gradually became interested in this little fellow trailing behind him.

Most babies, if they can't achieve their goal, would certainly start crying anxiously.

But Xia Nuo didn't show any signs of this.

Despite always following behind and making circles around his own bottom, she still seemed tireless and joyful.

Wonder if she's a natural fool or just inherently cheerful...

"Hua... ho... hey—"

Little Xia Nuo let out a vibrato, continuously blowing bubbles with her mouth, drool trickling down from her lips.

Alright, deemed an innocent fool at first glance!

Lin Yi scooped up her daughter in her arms and wiped off her drool with a tissue.

She had just finished wiping it when Xia Nuo continued to make "pu, pu" sounds, non-stop blowing bubbles.

Quite rhythmical.

It was as if she was practicing b-box!

At this moment, Fang You was also tired from crawling, and he needed to replenish some energy.

He crawled over to Chen Xuan, tugging at her trouser leg, with an utterly calm expression.

"Mommy, milk."

"Alright! Mommy will go prepare it for you now."

Chen Xuan's breast milk wasn't as plentiful as Lin Yi's, and they had already started providing solid food and formula a while ago.

However, fortunately, her son wasn't picky about food at all, which made Chen Xuan, as a mother, quite relieved.

Watching her son clearly express his needs and grab his bottle to suckle on the milk with vigor.

Seeing her daughter blowing bubbles in her arms, Lin Yi almost felt like throwing up:

"Ugh... Why does our Nuo Nuo always drool so much?"

"It's pretty normal for a child to drool before the age of one..." Chen Xuan thought this was nothing to worry about.

"But I've never seen You You drooling!"

Lin Yi pouted, wearing an expression of someone wronged.

Seeing this, Chen Xuan quickly consoled her sister:

"Oh come on, what's there to be anxious about? Drooling a lot is so cute... Our You You doesn't do that. It's so boring; he doesn't act like a child at all!"

Fang You furrowed his brow and squinted his eyes into slits, casting an unfilial glance at his mother.

"There's very little that You You can't do, but Nuo Nuo... there's too much she can't do..."

Lin Yi grew more Emo as she spoke, "You see, You You can already call you mom so smoothly, whereas Nuo Nuo still can't..."

"This kind of thing takes time, don't rush... Haste does not bring success, Nuo Nuo is already doing so well, give her more encouragement!"

Chen Xuan stroked Fang You's head, her gaze filled with expectation:

"You You, is that okay?"

?

Mom, are you expecting me to say "okay" and then strike your bestie's heart even deeper with shock?

Damn, it feels like this generation of parents is a bit hard to deal with...

Under his mother's urging, Fang You chose to put down his milk bottle and then blurted a few noises at his mother.

"Hey hey, Lin Yi look, our You You is also spitting now!"

Chen Xuan excitedly boasted to Lin Yi.

Xia Nuo joined in with her spit bubbles, as if trying to converse with Fang You.

Then she struggled in Lin Yi's arms to turn her body around, and crawled towards Fang You, who was getting ready to continue with his milk.

Fang You, seeing his little nemesis starting to drool, prepared to crawl down from the couch to avoid getting his face smeared.

At this point, Xia Nuo finally showed some urgency, she sped up her crawling pace, and then suddenly turned red and shouted:

"yo, yoyo!"

Xia Nuo's crisp call stunned all three people present.

"Huh?"

"Did you just hear that?"

"Yes, I think I heard it too..."

Babies usually find it easier to produce explosive sounds like 'b' and 'p', which is why 'daddy' often comes easier than 'mommy'.

But Xia Nuo, who couldn't even call dad or mom, had just shouted "You You".

"Yiyah..."

Both mothers were astonished, Lin Yi hugged and kissed Xia Nuo over and over.

"Oh my... How much our Nuo Nuo likes You You, why don't you just marry him when you grow up?"

"Sure, our You You likes Nuo Nuo a lot too!"

Chen Xuan agreed to the marital arrangement, "Come on, You You, you need to play with Nuo Nuo more."

She picked up the unwilling Fang You and placed the two babies together.

Xia Nuo embraced Fang You and prattled, then planted a slobbering kiss on his face.

Yet again, Fang You's face was smeared with drool.

Disgusting!

Since weaning off the breast milk, Fang You's growth energy supply mainly relied on formula and complementary foods.

However, his intake of growth energy wasn't as high as before.

Every time he consumed energy, it only increased by a range of 0.5 to 0.8.

Indeed, breast milk's nutrients are the richest!

Thinking of how Xia Nuo was still able to breastfeed, Fang You could only envy her.

Envy was almost wearing out, he was nearly crying.

Upgrading required more growth energy, and current Fang You could only progress by stacking quantity.

So, he started showing off day and night!

"Mommy, hungry."

"Daddy, make the formula!"

Fang You learned fast, crawled a lot, his energy consumption was high, and formula was quickly finished, can after can.

Fang You's parents were both civil servants in the county town, and though they worked within the system, their jobs were not very relaxed.

Dad often had to go to the grassroots level and would always come home late from work.

Mom had to return to work after her maternity leave ended.

Now, during the daytime, Fang You was cared for by his grandmother.

Xia Nuo's family hired a nanny to take care of the child.

...

Before they knew it, Fang You and Xia Nuo were already eight months old!

Fang You had successfully completed the growth goal [Crawling], unlocking the talent [Unremitting Energy].

[Unremitting Energy: Consumes less physical strength during exercise, making it easier to recover from fatigue]

Now, Fang You only needed to sleep 10 hours a day to be full of energy.

He no longer felt as tired as he used to and seemed to have endless vitality every day.

Paired with the growth potential breakthrough from [Reverse Life], he could now learn even more skills!

He learned to stand!

He learned to walk!

He learned to speak very long sentences!

He even learned how to do somersaults!

Fang You was growing almost every day.

Fang Guanghui and Chen Xuan were always hoping their son would do something spectacular.

Meanwhile, looking at Xia Nuo, she had just learned to call for her mother:

"Miamia, Mama!"

"Your mom is right here..."

Sweaty Lin Yi called her daughter over with clapping hands on the other side.

Xia Nuo frowned in thought, then still crawled towards Chen Xuan, drooling all the while.

Lin Yi was truly about to cry!

But being able to talk normally was already quite good...

Although her daughter did not seem as smart as Fang You when compared, she was fortunately very cute and adorable.

By this time, Xia Nuo had grown a head of shiny black hair.

Lin Yi no longer dressed her in continuous onesies but made her look pretty and nicely dressed.

Xia Nuo's big eyes sparkled brightly, sweet smiles filling her brows and eyes.

Looking at her daughter's cute baby face, Lin Yi gradually let go of her worries.

She remembered her original intention.

As long as she grows up happy and healthy!

"Gaga!"

Xia Nuo recently invented a new crawling technique that allowed her to push forward without using her hands, butts up in the air, powering through with her legs, copying the motion of running forward.

Despite the strange posture, it was just enough to keep up with Fang You's crawling speed.

She quickly crawled next to Fang You, who was playing with building blocks, and tilted her head to look at him.

At that moment, Fang You was building a castle with the blocks.

Lately, Fang You would often get up in the middle of the night to secretly browse through his mother's phone to learn childcare knowledge.

Through playing some games, he tried to conduct sensory integration training to improve his focus—

Children with poor concentration can be affected in all aspects of their future.

They struggle to keep up with the pace of lessons, get easily distracted, lose things due to lack of attention, lack self-control, and can't manage their emotions.

A child lacking focus could only live a relatively unsuccessful life!

Xia Nuo watched Fang You for a while, then called out loudly:

"You You!"

"Hmm?"

"What doing?"

"Building blocks," Fang You replied.

"Build block!"

Xia Nuo copied Fang You's words and then happily clapped her hands.

Fang You, a little impatient, retorted:

"Don't be noisy."

Xia Nuo immediately fell silent.

Fang You looked at her oddly, noticing that she was patiently observing the blocks, not crying or fussing.

When exactly did I start having barrier-free communication with Xia Nuo like this...

Fang You wanted a triangular block, and as he was searching for it, Xia Nuo picked it up and handed it to him.

"Here."

"..."

After Fang You took the triangular block, Xia Nuo immediately began clapping her hands.

Her face blossomed into joy!

It was as if she was happy for having guessed Fang You's thoughts.

This time, Fang You didn't tell her to be quiet again; he was also getting used to living with Xia Nuo.

Having a growth companion wasn't bad. It could serve as a daily point of comparison to see where he might be lacking.

"Okay, kids, it's time to eat!"

Xia Nuo and Fang You were placed in their baby chairs.

For lunch today, they had tomato and egg noodles.

Fang You could now skillfully use a small fork to slurp the noodles, slurping away impressively.

Meanwhile, Xia Nuo was still grabbing the food with her hands and stuffing it into her mouth, playing joyfully.

Xia Nuo stretched a noodle, looking like a noodle chef.

She tried to put it in her mouth, starting to eat from the middle.

She bit the noodle in half!

Then Lin Yi reminded her, "Nuo Nuo, don't eat from the middle, eat from the end."

After thinking about it, Xia Nuo lifted her little hand, held the noodle over her head, and with a fistful grip, assumed a surrendering posture.

With two noodles hanging on her hair, Xia Nuo tilted her head and looked at her mom.

Her innocent expression left Lin Yi covering her face in speechlessness, while Chen Xuan laughed hard enough to slap the table.

Seeing someone laughing heartily, Xia Nuo also laughed out loud, blowing bubbles.

She even stuck out her tongue to Fang You, testing his reaction with her cuteness.

However, at that moment, Fang You was a merciless noodle-show-off machine, finishing everything in the bowl without leaving a trace.

[You are eating noodles, Growth Energy +0.5, Growth Energy +0.5, Growth Energy +0.5]

"Another bowl!"

Fang You held his empty bowl high, expressionless and composed.

The noodles made by Xia Nuo's nanny were very chewy, the eggs smooth and tender, and the tomatoes sweet and tangy to taste.

Fang You proudly finished three big bowls.

He even ate all the leftover noodles that Xia Nuo didn't finish!

Before long, the hardworking little Fang You reaped his reward—

[Congratulations! Growth level has advanced to level 4, acquiring the growth goal [Clap Hands with Music]—]

[Clap hands with music 10,000 times to unlock the talent: Rhythmic Mastery]