On the shallow waters near Star Sea Ind, a small white boat quietly floated on the sea. A fishing rod stood at the stern, while Chen Yu loungedzily in the cabin, with a sunshade umbre shielding his face from the ring sunlight.


    Even though the sunlight wouldn''t harm him, not even if magnified by a focusing mirror and directed onto his skin, the tropical sun was still blindingly bright. So why not block it out?


    Besides, although he had rowed out here ostensibly to fish, Chen Yu was actually just lying in the cabin sleeping, and there wasn''t even any bait on his fishing rod.


    For Chen Yu, this was merely a way to enjoy a rxing holiday. Whether he caught any fish was of absolutely no importance to him.


    After all, if he truly wanted to eat fish, he could summon them to fill his boat with just a single thought. Why bother with the tedious effort of fishing?


    As for enjoying the fun of fishing… Rather than catching fish in the sea, Chen Yu would much prefer to try catching bigger prey—perhaps even reeling in a dragon; now that''s what he''d call real fun.


    Speaking of dragons, Chen Yu opened his half-closed eyes and turned his head from the cabin to nce at the nearby dock. Jounouchi Hiromi was waving at him, her white straw hat perched jauntily on her head.


    Today, Jounouchi Hiromi was dressed in a breezy ensemble: hot shorts, a bikini top, and a red short-sleeved shirt tied stylishly at the chest, showing off her wless figure.


    Her impossibly white, dazzlingly long legs and toned waist, with visible abs and hip lines, were mesmerizing, giving no hint that she was a woman who had just given birth recently.


    "Hubby!" Jounouchi Hiromi called out to Chen Yu.


    After taking a quick look around to make sure no one was watching, she decisively lifted her leg and jumped directly onto Chen Yu''s small boat, causing it to wobble precariously, almost flipping into the water.


    Chen Yu casually pressed a hand against the edge of the boat to stabilize it, restoring its bnce effortlessly.


    Watching Jounouchi Hiromi now lying down beside him in the cabin, Chen Yu finally drawledzily, "You''re an adult now. Don''t you realize how heavy you are? What if you sink the boat?"


    "Hmph! Are you saying I''ve gotten fat since having the baby?" Jounouchi Hiromi entwined her bare, gleaming legs around Chen Yu''s, looking like a white serpent coiled tightly around him.


    Facing her yful usation, Chen Yu simply pushed her thigh aside with one hand and took the white straw hat off her head, cing it over his own face. "Don''t cling so close. Aren''t you ufortably hot?"


    "You''re so annoying!" Seeing Chen Yu''s rxed demeanor, Jounouchi Hiromi pretended to be upset, giving him a shove. But shortly afterward, she raised one finger to draw circles on Chen Yu''s chest, her leg rubbing against him as she sweetly teased, "Hubby~!"


    With Jounouchi Hiromi acting like this, Chen Yu found it impossible to keep pretending to sleep. After all, her finger wasn''t just drawing circles—it was manipting the flow of his blood, causing it to surge and even boil.


    If this happened to an ordinary person, they''d have already exploded into a mist of blood and flesh like a human bomb. But for Chen Yu and Jounouchi Hiromi, this was just a harmless couples'' joke.


    "What are you up to, darling? Are you already thinking about giving Little Yixi a younger sister so soon?" Chen Yu removed the straw hat from his face and casually dropped it onto Jounouchi Hiromi''s head.


    "Of course not!" Jounouchi Hiromi snapped, lifting the straw hat off her face before asking, "I wanted to ask you—weren''t we here to inspect theboratory? Why are you lying here asleep?"


    "It''s just ab. I can see everything inside while lying here. Why would I need to go in physically?" Chen Yu repliedzily, still unperturbed. Even though Jounouchi Hiromi had stirred his blood cirction for a moment, it hadn''t affected the inherent slothfulness in his essence.


    As for his im to see theboratory while lying down—being a demigod meant that with his heightened perception, he could survey everything within a five-hundred-mile radius. Even a single fish surfacing for air within that range wouldn''t escape his notice, let alone theboratory beneath their feet.


    Star Sea Ind spanned a square kilometer, but half its area was upied by a small hill. To preserve the ind''s natural beauty and maintain unobstructed views from the vi, theboratory had been embedded within the hill.


    Yet even with this setup, the space was insufficient to house a world-ss medicalboratory.


    Thus, the construction team had no choice but to excavate, hollowing out the underground of the entire Star Sea Ind.


    Of course, relying solely on construction machinery to hollow out the ind would pose numerous challenges, especially regarding environmental impact and potential geological instability. These were crucial considerations during the nning phase.


    However, with enough money, those issues became trivial. And when Chen Yu informed the Freemasons and Skull and Bones, they became entirely non-issues.


    One or two transcendent individuals capable of controlling the earth element—or spellcasters proficient in the spells "Turn Stone into Mud" and "Turn Mud into Stone"—could handle the entire process effortlessly, without causing any harm to the ind.


    As for the excavated soil, it could be repurposed for constructing airports and docks, which required vast quantities of sand and earth to reinforce their foundations.


    Especially for the dock: although private airnesnding on the airport wouldn''t require much space, the dock had to amodate Chen Yu''s multi-ton aircraft carrier-sized yacht. Without a sufficientlyrge berth, such a massive vessel wouldn''t fit.


    Indeed, aircraft carriers often don''t dock directly at ports because the water depth is insufficient or the berth size isn''trge enough. Supplies and transfers are typically handled via smaller boats.


    Fortunately, Star Sea Ind''s geography presented no such issues. While the shallow waters around the ind were indeed shallow, the seabed plunged sharply just beyond the shallows, often reaching depths over thirty meters—ample depth for constructing berths to amodate an aircraft carrier.


    With the underground of Star Sea Ind hollowed out, the possibilities for construction were endless. Building a world-ssboratory might be aplicated endeavor, but with sufficient space, the remaining challenge was simply funding.


    Driven by an abundance of money, even in a ce like the Maldives—where traffic and infrastructure pose significant challenges—24-hour shifts enabled the construction of a top-tier medicalboratory within just a few months.


    When Chen Yu arrived on Star Sea Ind, he had already scanned the entire ind and theboratory beneath it through his divine perception. Any necessary adjustments or issues requiring attention had been ryed to Mackie for corrections just the day before.


    And that was the real reason Chen Yu was leisurely reclining here, half-asleep, pretending to fish.