Strength was growing, and blood was boiling.
In just a few minutes, Chris felt his muscles burning.
The already panicked Chris sped up even more, covering a distance that would normally take over ten minutes by car in less than half an hour.
When he arrived home, Louise asked in surprise, "Chris? Didn't you go to the gym? Why are you back so soon, and all sweaty?"
Seeing Chris's still-frightened expression, Louise didn't even notice the change in his clothes and rushed forward to show concern.
But Chris dared not waste time now; for the sake of his life, he had to quickly find Dumpling to save his hard-won second life.
"Nothing, Mom. I just forgot something. And where is Stewie?"
"What did you forget that made you rush back so quickly?" Louise was relieved when Chris said he was fine, but seeing him covered in sweat, she poured him a glass of water.
Handing it to Chris, she casually added, "Stewie is upstairs, probably playing games? What do you need him for? Did he take your stuff?"
Learning that Dumpling was home, Chris didn't even bother to take the water glass and rushed upstairs.
Taking the stairs two steps at a time, Chris's voice finally reached Louise's ears, "I need his help with something. You don't need to worry."
Looking at the hurried Chris and thinking about what he said, Louise immediately became curious.
"What could an infant help with? This child has been getting stranger and stranger since he left the hospital. He's practically not like someone from the Griffin Family!"
But as soon as Louise's complaint left her lips, she quickly covered her mouth, only sighing in relief after confirming there was no one else around.
Then she began to calculate Chris's birth date.
Regardless of Louise being scared and suspicious by Chris's actions, even wondering if Chris was truly Peter's child.
Chris had already rushed to Dumpling's room and saw a scene that both shocked him and seemed reasonable.
Dumpling was hugging a small teddy bear, gazing at it affectionately, looking as if they were about to kiss.
Chris was seeing such a scene for the first time in reality, which was why he was shocked.
But before he Transmigrated, he had already seen Dumpling's even more outrageous actions on screen, so it also seemed perfectly reasonable.
However, he now had to interrupt Dumpling and rupert's playtime; he could already feel his body getting hotter and hotter, as if it were about to burn.
"Brother, quickly check my body. I feel like I'm about to burn!"
Chris's voice startled Dumpling; he didn't even care about the teddy bear in his arms and immediately looked towards the source of the sound.
"You're asking for it! Who gave you the guts... Have you already Transmigrated?"
Dumpling, in anger, had already pulled out his revolver, but upon seeing Chris's symptoms, he suddenly changed his tone.
From his conclusive words, it was clear that he had long known Chris would encounter this situation.
At this, Chris was first angry, annoyed that Dumpling hadn't informed him of this situation sooner.
But then came joy, because since Dumpling had anticipated such a situation, it meant Dumpling had a way to cure him.
To his surprise, Dumpling seemed to know what Chris was thinking and said, shaking his head, "Whoa, whoa! You're celebrating too early. I only knew you would Transmigrate again soon, but I don't know about the situation you're in now."
Hearing this, Chris's face fell. Was he going to be finished again?
This was too fast! His second life hadn't even begun to be enjoyed. Surely it wasn't the underworld discovering a bug and starting to fix it, right?
Just as Chris's mind was racing, he heard Dumpling speak again.
He first put away his revolver and approached, observing Chris carefully before saying, "But you don't need to worry too much. From what I observe, this looks very much like your body being in a full-power state due to overexertion. It shouldn't be a big deal."
"Eh?"
Chris looked at Dumpling confused, not understanding what he was saying.
How was he overexerting himself? Was it because of those few times he lifted weights without much feeling?
Just hearing Dumpling mention overexertion, Chris assumed it was about the few strength tests he did at the gym, and didn't consider his long-distance running.
Since entering the gym, Chris's training had always been strength training, and heavy-weight strength training at that.
Therefore, Chris didn't realize at first what an intense workout it was to run over ten kilometers in half an hour.
It wasn't until Dumpling performed a series of physical examinations on Chris and explained the results that Chris understood what a foolish thing he had done.
Under Chris's uneasy gaze, Dumpling, holding the examination report, impersonated a doctor and said, "Your body is very healthy! In fact, it's stronger than ever before. I dare say that in all fields of human sports, you could take first place in any event!"
After confirming that Chris's body was fine, Dumpling asked curiously, "So can you tell me why you're so scared? Did you encounter something strange in the world you Transmigrated to?"
With Dumpling's safety assurance, Chris relaxed a lot, but sensing the hot current still rapidly strengthening his body, he was still a bit uneasy.
So Chris recounted in full detail everything about his situation in the Ogre world.
Of course, for Dumpling's physical and mental well-being, Chris intentionally omitted the details of his relationship with Tracy, only saying that he had made a female friend in that world.
And after Dumpling listened carefully, he burst into laughter, even shedding tears.
"Chris, oh Chris! Before, when I said you were infected by my brother's stupidity, I was just joking. I never thought you would actually be so stupid. I'm starting to wonder if you really did catch my brother's stupidity."
Chris scratched his head awkwardly at Dumpling's mockery; he still didn't understand what Dumpling found so funny, so he couldn't retort.
Fortunately, after Dumpling had laughed enough, he wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes and generously explained, "I can tell you clearly that there is nothing wrong with your body.
The situation you are worried about is simply because you killed that Ogre. Then your Transmigrator talent devoured the Ogre's life essence.
And it is precisely with the blessing of the Ogre's life essence that your physical fitness has grown by leaps and bounds.
Now, do you understand?!"
Chris listened to what Dumpling said, first nodding, then shaking his head again and asking, "You said that the warm current is because I devoured the Ogre's life essence; I can understand that.
But why did my body suddenly heat up later? Even when I found you, I felt like I was about to melt. What's going on with that?"
"Heh heh!" Dumpling heard Chris's question, looked at him with a sneer, and then roared, "That's because you, you idiot, ate high-energy food, which greatly supplemented your body's nutrients and activated those life essences.
As for you feeling like your body was so hot it was about to melt, that's because you ran eighteen kilometers in half an hour! An ordinary person running at your speed would have already vomited blood and died!"
Thinking about the protein powder he drank, and recalling how he felt during his university's one-thousand-meter test before Transmigrating.
Chris immediately understood that Dumpling was right; his body changes were caused by overexertion.
It was just because he had never encountered such a situation before that he scared himself and became increasingly nervous.
But fortunately, the misunderstanding was finally cleared, and understanding that his life was not in danger, Chris couldn't be bothered to pay attention to Dumpling's mockery of him.
After all, it was the truth.
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