After the delivery workers left, Feng Yi closed the door and dragged the newly arrived scale to a flatter area.
He took off his coat, dropped his phone, and kicked his shoes aside.
Taking a deep breath, he slowly stepped onto it.
The platform shook under the sudden heavy weight.
[203.9 kg]
Feng Yi: "..."
When had his weight secretly surpassed 200 kilograms?!
What?!?!
Could it be the non-stop eating on the way back that did it, could he have eaten too much?
Should he digest for a while and weigh himself again in an hour or two?
His weight was increasing too quickly, and Feng Yi really didn’t know what it could grow to.
Thinking it over, Feng Yi called the butler.
"My weight has now increased to 200 kilograms, how much more will it increase?"
"That varies from person to person, it’s uncertain," replied the butler with a relaxed tone.
"Then give me a minimum estimate," Feng Yi asked.
"500."
"500 kilograms?"
"Kilograms."
Feng Yi: "..."
The butler continued: "Even if you have a developmental problem, it won’t be less than 500 kilograms. If it’s lower than that, it means there’s a high chance that your evolutionary path has already failed."
kilograms—that’s the weight of an adult male polar bear!
With that weight on two legs, wouldn’t the ground tremble as he walked? Running was simply unimaginable!
500kg... with that kind of weight, could he still drive out? The car seat wouldn’t hold!
As if knowing what Feng Yi was thinking, the butler said unhurriedly, "That’s why you must stockpile enough food before that. The actual rapid growth phase isn’t very long. But you must get through it. As for the rest, I don’t know much. You’ll have to deal with that yourself."
Feng Yi: "If I didn’t ask about these, would you not tell me?"
"Actually, even if no one told you, you would figure it out yourself, maybe even more clearly than I know. Trust your instincts."
"Instincts?"
His instincts weren’t saying anything right now!
"Can’t you give me some advice? Even if you haven’t been through this, you must know more information, right? Isn’t that something you learned while serving Madam Feng?"
"In fact, no. Madam Feng only left me a handwritten notebook on raising young," said the butler.
Feng Yi: "..."
Say that again!
What notebook?!
Young?!
The butler flipped through his notebook, looking carefully at the words, "Oh, to be exact, it’s ’Care and Disease Prevention for Juvenile Evolution’."
Feng Yi: "..."
He took a deep breath.
"Juvenile?"
Feng Yi tried to keep his tone even.
"I’m already, 24 years old now!"
Butler: "We tend to measure by evolutionary stages, not by how many years you’ve been born."
Feng Yi held back, then struggled to say, "So you’re telling me I’m only... a ’baby’ right now?"
The word was hard to even say!
"Not quite," said the butler.
Feng Yi exhaled in relief.
But then he heard the butler continue, "At your current evolutionary stage, your status is akin to that of egg-laying or ovoviviparous animals during their ’hatching phase’."
Feng Yi: "..."
So, am I like a "fetus" in an egg right now?
Unworthy to even be called a "baby"?!
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Gathering his thoughts, Feng Yi spoke to the butler about the incident with the police today.
"They didn’t suspect me this time, it wasn’t related to me, and they just asked a few questions. But what if I encounter some other issue in the future that implicates me personally, what should I do then?"
"You can contact me, and I will handle it."
"How will you handle it?" Feng Yi was curious.
"I’ll contact a specialized team to resolve such incidents, you’ll be fine as long as they don’t catch you red-handed and there is no substantial evidence," the butler explained.
Feng Yi understood. It was probably some powerful legal and public relations teams at play.
But then...
"Hiring such a team must cost a lot of money, right?"
"The expenses will be deducted from the inheritance Madam Feng left you."
"Oh."
Feng Yi wasn’t reluctant to part with the money; from the tone of the old butler’s voice, it sounded like his grandmother had left him a considerable fortune!
To hire formidable legal and public relations teams, substantial financial resources were definitely required.
That could indeed alleviate certain future worries.
These answers from the butler made Feng Yi realize a few things.
The initial billion he received was merely to provide him with some financial security. The money was his, and how he used it was his business. The old butler wouldn’t intervene, nor would he constrain his spending habits.
However, every action during the evolution could affect the process.
For instance, the stress responses in Feng Yi’s body and the evolutionary deviation that occurred after he took part in the two-month scientific expedition.
And, the wealth that the butler and his grandmother left was meant to serve as protection; it couldn’t provide all the help or be by his side throughout everything.
To draw a comparison, in the natural world, the mother of ovoviviparous animals only provides a certain level of protection to the embryos, which essentially derive their nutrition from the egg itself, rather than being continuously nourished by the mother like in viviparous animals.
Relatively independent, without much dependency.
As for the "next stage of evolution" that the butler often referred to...
If Feng Yi could successfully evolve to the next stage and survive, it would be similar to the hatchlings of egg-laying or ovoviviparous animals, which have "hatched successfully and survived."
Thus, this was still only a trial period. The ease of impact on the evolution was one aspect; on the other hand, without genuine approval, the butler wouldn’t come by his side to help wholeheartedly.