Chapter 40: What's the Bad News?

Chapter 40: What's the Bad News?

Kevin's temperature was indeed rising, and rising rapidly.

The normal body temperature of the human body is around 37°, but Kevin's body temperature is constant at minus 30 degrees due to the influence of the Honkai beast gene. The difference between the two is nearly 70°. It can be said that if the opponent is not a fusion warrior with strong physical fitness, the process of heating up alone can burn his organs into waste.

But even if Kevin's body can withstand the damage caused by such a high temperature, this process is still a torture for him.

Even Ai Yue, the creator of the "Fire of Redemption", frowned—although he believed that Kevin would not be defeated by such a thing, he couldn't help but worry for him when he saw with his own eyes the other party's hideous face and trembling body resisting the torture brought by the rising temperature.

But at the moment, this plan is the best version he could get after repeated deductions. The rest would either heat up faster and to a higher temperature, or be too slow, and even the duration of the drug's efficacy would be greatly reduced, making them completely useless.

Fortunately, Kevin, the person involved, had no complaints about such torture. Although veins bulged on his forehead and his entire face was distorted and twisted due to severe pain, Kevin slowly smiled.

Because he could clearly feel that his body temperature was gradually returning to normal. Even if this was just a dream, it meant that he could hug his loved one tightly in his dream.

How could this not make him happy?

Five minutes later, the violent heating reaction finally ended. Kevin fell backward as if exhausted but was hugged tightly by Mei, who rushed over. The two of them fell onto the sofa.

"Mei!" Kevin subconsciously wanted to retreat, but he was so weak at the moment that he could hardly move. "Don't..."

"It's okay, it's okay!" Mei hugged Kevin tightly, feeling the warmth of her lover that she hadn't felt for a long time, and couldn't help shedding tears, "Don't be afraid anymore, it won't hurt me anymore!"

Kevin then felt the frozen sweat melting quietly again, almost covering his entire face. He raised his arms and hugged Mei in his arms: "I..."

He opened his mouth, but for a moment, he didn't know what to say.

Kevin had dreamed of this scene countless times. He dreamed that he turned back into a normal person and hugged Mei tightly. The two of them lay there, saying things that they would never have the chance to say under normal circumstances, and then did nothing until they woke up.

But when the dream became reality, he found himself a little dull.

It obviously wasn't like this before. He used to be the best at making Mei laugh.

Think back, Kevin, and think about how it was done before!

The young couple, who had already fallen into their own world, did not notice that Ai Yue was standing beside them with a look of satisfaction in his eyes.

Reversing the tragedy, making up for the regrets, isn't this what you want to do when you travel to this world?

At this moment, he felt someone pat his shoulder gently. He turned his head and found that Elysia was looking at him with sparkling eyes.

"Shall we go out first?" Elysia came over and whispered in Ai Yue's ear, her breath tickling his ears, "Let's leave this place to the two of them."

Ai Yue naturally would not refuse this suggestion, so the two of them quietly walked out of the house one after the other, gently closed the door, and stayed outside the door for the time being.

"This is the first time I've seen Mei lose her composure like this." Elysia said with a smile, "But even so, Mei with a crying face is very cute, isn't she?"

Ai Yue shrugged and did not comment.

"Thank you again, Ai Yue." Elysia continued, "I'm sure this is the best birthday present Kevin has ever received."

At this point, she showed an expression of sudden enlightenment: "Ah, so this is why you asked Mei to make as much time as possible?"

"Yes, Mei is also part of the gift." Ai Yue smiled, "Otherwise, this birthday party wouldn't be perfect, right?"

"You are so bad~" Elysia smiled with her hands covering her mouth, her eyes curved, "But I like this very much!"

Ai Yue's harmless pranks were a manifestation of his willingness to take the initiative to build closer relationships with others. One has to know that many scholars in the Fire Moth are becoming more and more isolated on the road of scientific research, and in the end, they almost give up communicating with others, making some misunderstandings that could have been eliminated become even more serious.

In Elysia's opinion, such a gap obviously shouldn't exist, but some things are indeed difficult for her to resolve.

The two waited outside the door for a while, and then the door was opened. Mei poked her head out with a red face: "Well, why don't you come in?"

"Excuse me for disturbing you?" Elysia looked at Mei mischievously as she walked inside. "Kevin, are you okay?"

"I'm fine." Kevin managed to sit up straight on the sofa and smiled, "I haven't felt this good in a long time... Thank you, Ai Yue."

"It's just a byproduct of the research. As long as it's useful, that's good." Ai Yue nodded and pulled a chair over to sit down. "But I have bad news and good news. Which one do you want to hear first?"

Mei sat next to Kevin and held his hand. The two looked at each other and said in unison: "Bad news."

"The bad news is that the effect of this potion is not permanent." Ai Yue said, "The principle of this medicine... Forget it, let's skip this. In short, this potion is only effective for three hours. After this time, Kevin's body temperature will drop back to minus 30 degrees Celsius."

Based on the genetic sample obtained from Kevin, Ai Yue determined that the other party's body temperature was so low mainly because after being mixed with the genes of the Honkai beast "Parvati", the part of the human nervous system that regulates body temperature was interfered with, causing the nerves to determine that Kevin's normal body temperature was minus thirty degrees Celsius.

Therefore, the principle of "Fire of Redemption" is actually quite simple. It is to use the gene of another type of Honkai beast with a higher body temperature to create a temporary super-mutation factor, so that it can re-determine Kevin's normal body temperature.

"Three hours?" Kevin was surprised. "So long?"

Ai Yue: "Ah?"

"I thought it would be great if a potion like this could last for an hour." Mei laughed at the side, "We have just prepared ourselves mentally, but... Dr. Ai Yue, this is not bad news."

"Okay, it's a good thing to be content with what you have." Ai Yue shook his head and said nothing about these two useless guys. "Then the second good news is—"

He pulled out a flat metal medicine box from his pocket and showed the three people the ten potions inside. "We still have quite a few of these."