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Chapter 181 Aunt and the "Blood of the False Curse"

"Wait, you look younger? And your dark circles are gone?" The tea-haired girl stepped forward, seemingly wanting to take a closer look at Xue Dinglu's face.

However, Xue immediately avoided the situation, a move that seemed to leave her somewhat bewildered.

"Wait a minute, I'm thinking, let me organize my thoughts..." Xue Dinglu said immediately, and he directly activated the overclocking mode, making his mind run dozens of times faster.

It wasn't a "soul transmigration" concept; it was that his original body came to this world. It's just that the parallel entities in this world automatically merged into his original body the moment his original body was born.

Similar to how Xue's Law is based on Buddha, Xue's Law is based on Qiao Ling'er.

When Buddha returned to his rightful place, Qiao Ling'er naturally merged into everything Buddha possessed.

His current state is similar to that of Buddha, which means that he is now in a state similar to "pseudo-unification of all worlds".

This is actually the situation that gives him the biggest headache.

Using the experience of a fairy tale world as an analogy, Xue's Law is essentially Captain Green, while Doctor Xue's Law is like Principal Green in the fairy tale world. When Captain Green achieves self-realization, all the "Old Greens" are united in him.

Originally, it wasn't a big problem. After all, Xue Dinglu didn't have many relatives, and his own interpersonal relationships were relatively simple, which roughly matched reality.

But what no one expected was why this person, whose mind was full of medicine and experiments, would think about getting married so early?

He'll only be 22 in 2027, right?
Xue doesn't think he's a love-obsessed person because human love has its limits, and clearly, his love is more focused on a bright future and hope than on any specific individual.

This results in his "indifference" towards everyone, which can also be interpreted as love towards everyone.

Similarly, in the parallel world, he gave more of his love to the world, so he devoted himself wholeheartedly to learning and experimentation.

Xue Daolu finds it hard to imagine why he, a straight-laced man, would choose to get married, especially since it seems like he just had a whirlwind marriage not long ago, without even informing his aunt who raised him from childhood.

It's almost as if he married into a wealthy family just to get research funding, and once he got the funding, he didn't care who she was and just started researching on his own.

Because at 22, I had very few memories of this "wife" until I saw her and remembered her name and identity.

"Think calmly. The problem is huge. Panic won't help." In overclocking mode, the whole world seemed to stand still, giving him more time to deal with these issues. But now he was horrified to discover...

Given my position, I cannot handle this properly in any way.

People probably prefer the doctor who spends 20 hours a day in the lab writing papers and conducting experiments, not this idiot college student who has just come of age and is still being "contaminated" by knowledge.

Therefore, Xue's Law had to come up with the best solution with the extraordinary wisdom of thinking at dozens of times the normal speed. If he didn't know how to deal with it, then he wouldn't deal with it. The best way to solve a problem is not to solve it. Xue's Law decided on one word: delay!

The answer given by this remarkable wisdom is just that: Xue's Law trusts its own intuition.

Everything will be resolved once I leave this world.

When a momentary thought arises, one suddenly feels the vastness of the world.

Thinking of this, Xue's Law felt relieved; the overclocking mode stopped, and time resumed at that moment.

He didn't know the other person, let alone the name "You Xiaoniao." The only familiar thing was that the surname inexplicably made him hallucinate a family that was very good at playing cards.

But seeing the ordinary brown short hair across from her, which wasn't styled like the seafood, I knew she definitely didn't know how to play cards.

However, when the time was up, she didn't feel particularly confused or upset. It was as if this was how the two of them had always interacted. She went straight to the temperature control cabinet and took out a culture dish containing bacteriophages.

“I just thought of a stupid idea on the way here: divide the T-166 phage into thousands of samples, and then put even fewer uninfected samples in each sample. We can try our luck to select the strongest mutant phage to be our next culture sample.” She put on gloves and looked at the grayish-black sample in the petri dish.

Inside this small box are trillions of dormant bacteriophage samples. This ancient virus, which also existed billions of years ago, was not completely defeated when faced with "Zijera". Instead, it showed unimaginable resistance.

"In the next experiment, I will be responsible for culturing bacteriophages and separating samples, while you will further screen out the mutated individuals, striving to develop an effective drug before the pathogenic bacteria mutate."

"Although I think it's unrealistic to expect a cure for bacteriophages, it's the only option. This virus can only spread through bacteria, and it dies very quickly once it leaves the bacteria."

She stared at Xue Dinglu, who was still deep in thought, and paused for a moment.

It wasn't her imagination; her "boyfriend" really did seem much younger, even as if he had returned to the age of 17 or 8, younger than when they first met.

His dark circles were gone, his hairline had receded, and he looked much more energetic. His eyes no longer held that depressed and lifeless look, revealing the clarity and naivety of a high school student who had just finished the college entrance examination.

Xue's Law: "..." Me, me?

Why would you let a college student who has just started learning clinical medicine conduct this kind of experiment?

Xue Law even just hallucinated the way the two interacted, and it turned out to be the way a professor and his assistant interact in a laboratory.

Did the relationship begin in the lab?
Xue Lude is not good at evaluating his own romantic experiences in parallel worlds, but he doesn't have a good way to deal with it now, especially after using his extraordinary wisdom, he adopts a delaying tactic.

He put down the bacteriophage he had just enhanced with the blood of the curse and said directly, "This is a sample that has become more powerful in suppressing the waste bacteria after mutation. However, I have to go on a business trip for the next two days. You should culture this sample more. When I come back, it may be ready for human experiments."

Xue Law mimicked Doctor Xue's tone as he spoke.

However, these words made her pause for a moment, and Xue Dinglu wondered if he had given himself away.

"Where are you going on a business trip?" she asked.

"The University of Chicago, let's talk to that professor in person." Xue Dinglu immediately thought of his past trip to Chicago and said.

“Okay, then I’ll keep an eye on these samples and results for you. Tell me the methods for separation and selection, and I’ll cultivate a few more samples. When you come back, let’s start doing experiments on mice together.” She didn’t seem to be too bothered by it, as if the relationship between the two was more like that of a doctor and his assistant in a laboratory than that of a couple.

After we came in, more than 80% of the topics we discussed were related to work and research, rather than some emotional problems that Xue's Law couldn't handle at all.

Just as Xue Dinglu was about to leave, a voice suddenly came from inside the laboratory again: "By the way, don't push yourself too hard. We still have time. Get some rest. You looked ten years younger just now. Don't be as anxious as before. Our experimental progress is already very encouraging. Also, I will always support you."

This sentence startled Xue Dinglu. He wondered if it was just his imagination, but he finally realized the pattern of their previous relationship in this sentence.

"Hmm." He simply nodded and left immediately.

I'm too busy right now to think about how to solve such trivial matters. Since the other side has chosen to use a method similar to "Plague Inc." to advance the infection of the wasteland, there must be a deeper conspiracy.

Xue's Law, on the other hand, requires solving the global infection before any disasters erupt, and at the very least, finding the mysterious scholar behind the scenes who has reversed the aging process before the pathogenicity is revealed.

There's no time for him to indulge in romance or feel lost here; if he stays lost any longer, this parallel world will be gone.

Before leaving the lab, Xue Dinglu paused briefly and reminded everyone, "Boston might be in chaos lately. Don't go out; just stay here."

After saying that, he didn't care about the other person's reaction and strode away.

He wouldn't go to Chicago, but rather to Salem, a small town in the northeastern suburbs of Boston, where Ziegler had appeared and which was the first place he needed to investigate.

Before leaving, Xue provided the entire laboratory with a simple procedure for protection and alarm systems.

Soon, he arrived directly in the town of Salem.

This town is considered a holy site for mystics worldwide, mainly due to the trial of a 160-year-old witcher and dozens of witches that took place here in 1692, which resulted in countless wronged souls and widespread panic.

The wrongful conviction resulted in the deaths of more than twenty "witches," and the nearly two-hundred-year-old witcher disappeared without a trace.

Whether the girls who died were real witches or not is no longer important. This place is already infamous, the vengeful spirits cannot be appeased, and occult rituals can easily summon "evil spirits" here.

That was the most recent extraordinary event in the world since the Age of Gods, and naturally it became a sacred place for mystics to investigate.

Xue Law immediately used his imagination to successfully replicate the body of the old mystic "Austin" within him and put his spirit back into the body.

This was the first time Xue Dinglu had conjured something so intricately in his imagination. He was unsure of his technique. He saw the old mystic beside him slowly open his eyes and immediately asked, "How does it feel?"

“I feel great, thank you, sir.” Austin stretched his body, and for the first time, the mystic felt his body was strong and powerful.

……

Shortly after Xue left, a mature woman dressed as a man came to the door of his laboratory and suddenly frowned.

"Xiao Xue, when did he suddenly get married? And when did he learn magic?" The woman looked at the complicated magic incantation at the laboratory door, and finally rang the doorbell.

There was no sound from inside the laboratory. She knew that the girl opposite her was observing her through the peephole, so she immediately said, "I am Xue's aunt. You can call me Xue Sexi, or you can call me Aunt, just like he does to me."

So the witch said.

(End of this chapter)