Chapter 963: Ideas (Beginning of Month—Requesting Monthly Votes)

Lu Mi showed no visible emotion, watching Green and waiting for him to continue.

At this moment, the psychiatric ward was eerily quiet—no patients wandered the halls, no relatives passed by, only occasional nurses moving through.

Green glanced left and right, then said:

“Son of the Divine, this is your chance to make Li Keji pregnant. You must act personally.”

Make Frank Li pregnant? I don’t have that ability—I can only get myself pregnant! Lu Mi muttered inwardly, then glanced at Green and said:

“You’re coming to me over something this trivial?”

Green smiled awkwardly.

“If I did it, Li Keji would need forty weeks to carry the child—too long to be useful in the short term, and something strange might happen soon.”

So you truly possess the extraordinary ability to impregnate anyone, regardless of gender—pollution is a blessing, a source of power… but why are you so fixated on making Frank Li give birth? Is it symbolic? A sign that Frank Li has truly become the child of the Mother? Lu Mi’s mind flashed with one thought after another.

He suddenly recalled that Li Keji, the dream-image of Frank Li, was a special figure—he had been shaped by the Fool’s subconscious, revealing the extraordinary in matters related to mushrooms, and from the dried mushroom incident, his latent allegiance clearly leaned toward the Fool.

If Frank Li truly became a child of the Great Mother, then her influence would seize this unique point in the Dream City, allowing her to manipulate its development with deep, effective control.

Although the Great Mother and other demonic deities desired balance, and Frank Li falling into their hands was preferable to being controlled by the Heavenly Sovereign, they might still be collaborating with Him on this matter.

Frank Li had been brought to Mu Shu Hospital’s psychiatric ward by official forces—that represented the Heavenly Sovereign’s will—yet the Great Mother was one of Mu Shu Hospital’s major shareholders; perhaps they had already reached a private agreement on this specific event.

Lu Mi calmly told Green: “In this city, my power is also restricted—I’m no better off than you.”

Green smiled and explained:

“I know. I only want to use your divinity—even if it’s limited, it’s still divinity.

“Once you make Li Keji pregnant, the hospital’s obstetrics department will provide reproductive technology and extraordinary power support—you can have the child born within four weeks.”

Of course… Mu Shu Hospital’s obstetrics ward is one of the Great Mother’s symbols in this dream… it’s already been somewhat polluted, with multiple medical staff having become the Mother’s children…

If every hospital’s obstetrics ward in the Dream City gradually became fully corrupted over time, and the issue remained unexposed, does that mean all newborns in the Dream City will become the Mother’s children?

Generation after generation, everyone in the Dream City will be the Mother’s child… and in the end, whether it’s the Fool or the Heavenly Sovereign who awakens, they will both bear the identity of the Great Mother’s child—in a metaphysical sense?

The more Lu Mi thought about it, the more unnerved he became.

This was a slow, insidious influence—a frog slowly boiled alive. Given enough time, the Great Mother would inevitably achieve her goal.

Of course, this assumes that the Fool and the Heavenly Sovereign failed to mount an effective resistance, and this dream endured for at least five generations—centuries.

These great beings are no fools… Lu Mi sighed, then gave a slight nod to Green:

“Alright.”

Green beamed, speaking in a prayerful tone:

“May the Radiance of Motherhood endure forever!”

He stepped closer to the ward’s iron door, peering through the small window barred by iron grilles; Lu Mi took two steps forward as well.

Before them stood a broad, muscular back clad in a blue-and-white striped patient gown.

The figure crouched in the corner, fiddling with something.

As Lu Mi’s gaze shifted, he noticed several mushrooms growing where the wall met the floor—brown caps, white stems, glistening as if freshly transplanted from a rain-drenched forest.

Thud. Lu Mi slapped the iron door. Green immediately stepped aside, letting him take the window.

Hearing the knock, the figure rose and darted to the door, revealing a face thick with beard—Li Keji, the biology teacher from Star Tutoring, the real-world “Legendary Druid,” Frank Li.

Lu Mi could see the Fool’s subconscious had localized Li Keji’s image—he wasn’t cast as a foreign teacher, so his eyes were dark brown, his facial contours softer.

“Finally, someone’s here!” Li Keji exclaimed cheerfully. “Tell your director and head of department—I’m not mentally ill. I just have ideas too many people can’t accept.”

His gaze was pure and fervent.

I can only accept it to a limited degree… Lu Mi silently grumbled, having read *The Great Adventurer 6: The Future Ship*, then asked seriously:

“What is your idea?”

Li Keji was eager to share:

“For humanity, food is the most important thing. Many still suffer from hunger.

“To solve this, we need new crops that meet these conditions:

“One, they must grow in any environment. Two, require no delicate care. Three, yield high output. Four, be harvestable frequently. Five, be nutritionally complete—meet all human needs…

“I found mushrooms satisfy most of these, but not enough—they yield too little, lack nutritional variety, have narrow flavors, and so on, and so on!

“I’ve been thinking: how can I make different mushroom species have different flavors, different nutrients, different traits? Like ones immune to pests, immune to disease, able to self-replicate, tasting like beef, oozing milk when bitten, as tender as fish flesh…”

At this, Lu Mi’s eyelid twitched.

Some of these new strains resemble the mushrooms from White Silver City…

Could all of them be Frank Li’s inventions?

Have I been eating mushrooms Frank Li created?

No wonder I always felt something was off…

Lu Mi glanced at Green, then addressed Li Keji, who was still speaking enthusiastically:

“I accept your claims. I accept your idea.”

“Exactly! Those people don’t understand science—they called the police and arrested me!” Li Keji’s eyes lit up. “I thought long and hard, and finally found a way to realize my vision.”

“What is it?” Lu Mi raised an eyebrow.

Li Keji beamed with excitement:

“Genetic modification!”

For a moment, Lu Mi and Green fell silent.

After several seconds, Lu Mi muttered inwardly:

“So you transplanted all the genes of a cow into the mushrooms?”

Li Keji continued:

“My research has progressed steadily—I already have mature samples.

“Yes, they still have problems, but that doesn’t negate their revolutionary significance.

“Some of these mushrooms moo, some graze, some swim, some run, some drink their own milk—none of that’s a real issue! Yet they call me insane, claim I’m endangering public safety!”

I think the same… Lu Mi was momentarily speechless:

“…”

Green, shaken, remembered something after a few seconds:

“Didn’t you send some dried mushrooms to…”

He stopped mid-sentence.

At that moment, he had fully observed the dried mushrooms’ transformation through the surveillance on Zhou Mingrui’s desk and the building’s entire camera network—he knew their ultimate fate and the hidden dangers they planted.

“I gave some to my colleagues at the tutoring center, but too few to reward students,” Li Keji said regretfully.

Lu Mi exhaled quietly, then told Li Keji:

“Geniuses are always lonely—never understood by others.”

“No, I’m not a genius. I just have a passionate heart and the courage to act,” Li Keji replied—not out of modesty, but because he truly believed it.

“Regardless, your intentions are sound,” Lu Mi could only say.

He raised his right hand, extending it toward Li Keji.

Li Keji understood his intent, reached through the iron bars, and slapped his palm against Lu Mi’s.

“I’ll report your case upward, but I can’t make decisions,” Lu Mi said sincerely.

“Thank you,” Li Keji’s face glowed with gratitude.

As he returned to his bed area and resumed studying mushrooms, Lu Mi walked toward the stairwell and said to Green:

“He’s pregnant.”

He wasn’t.

Before Green could respond, Lu Mi added:

“But it will take a week for the embryo to stabilize. Only then can obstetrics intervene. Until then, no interference.”

“I see… alright, I’ll warn them,” Green said, unaware of the limits imposed on divinity in this world.

Outside Mu Shu Hospital, after watching Green depart, Lu Mi crossed the street and got into Anthony’s gray sedan.

He stared at the hospital’s main entrance, pausing a moment before saying:

“Get Li Keji out of the psychiatric ward within a week.”

Otherwise, the fake pregnancy would be exposed—he’d be suspected.

And by then, the Great Mother’s blessed ones could still intervene and make Li Keji truly pregnant.

No sooner had Lu Mi spoken than he saw two cars parked at Mu Shu Hospital’s entrance—among those stepping out were Huang Jiajia, Huang Beibei, and several well-dressed individuals.

“Is Huang Jiajia bringing help to rescue Li Keji?”

“Huang Beibei wouldn’t openly break the law—so these people are lawyers and officials, trying to get Li Keji released through legal channels?”

“Even if those mushrooms are like biochemical toxins, Huang Beibei can’t change the fact that Li Keji is guilty and mentally ill—but she could arrange a transfer, keep him out of Mu Shu Hospital…”

Is this a covert struggle between two official factions, symbolizing the conflict between the Fool and the Heavenly Sovereign? Does the Fool’s subconscious wish to protect Li Keji?

Lu Mi watched thoughtfully.

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