Chapter 106
Si Chen tried hard to digest what Song Bai said.
Two roads diverged in the woods.
The first way was to live in ignorance but possibly happiness. He didn’t need to understand the truth of the world nor did he need to shoulder any expectations and responsibilities.
All that Si Chen wanted when he was a child — identity, status and wealth — he actually already has. He could stop right there.
The most extravagant dream he ever had as a child was no better than his current life.
The second way was to live with eyes wide open. Si Chen would be trained as an heir to understand the truth of the world. He might never have a peaceful life and he would embark on another heavy road. And this was the path White King himself had walked.
Song Bai waited quietly.
Si Chen did not answer immediately but asked, “Teacher, since you can live again, why don’t you continue?”
Song Bai smiled sarcastically, “There has never been anything I’ve wanted that I’ve never gotten. I didn’t manage the first time and I didn’t manage the second time. If it still doesn’t work the third time, some of the things I have always believed in will be destroyed.”
He was extremely proud and always believed that man can conquer nature. He would rather blame his mistakes on his weak body and short life span. How could he be willing to admit his incompetence?
Song Bai looked young with eyes clearly contrasted black and white. He has always looked at the sky with his black eyes and at people with white.
However, at this moment, Si Chen saw in his eyes an age that was disproportionate to his appearance.
Si Chen couldn’t help but ask, “Teacher, how old are you now?”
Song Bai replied expressionlessly, “18. Men will remain young until they die.”
Si Chen: “…”
Si Chen weighed the pros and cons briefly, and then said slowly, “I choose the second option.”
He has no lofty ideals or ambitions.
Si Chen knew that he was no swimming dragon trapped in shallow water. He was nothing more than an unscrupulous hyena. If an existing system works better for him, he didn’t care how many people it oppresses. He didn’t care how many ordinary people’s ashes are burned behind his comfortable life.
But now that he knew, he couldn’t help but to go and see.
As for option one, it sounded like an easy way to die in an accident.
Song Bai might be sincere at this moment but people always change.
It sounded quite pathetic to place one’s hope for survival on the mercy of others.
No superfluous emotions appeared on Song Bai’s face. “Okay.”
He tapped his fingers on the coffee table. “Then let’s talk about the Eternal Life Abyss. Call it out.”
Si Chen whispered, “Little Abyss.”
The Eternal Life Abyss timidly crawled out of Si Chen’s body, its tentacles hugging Si Chen’s arm tightly.
It was filled with fear in the face of Song Bai’s attitude.
Song Bai didn’t have any particular attachment for this piece of flesh that fell from his body.
But at this time, it was inevitable to feel a kind of anger, like how a mother might feel being abandoned by a grown son.
Song Bai pointed his finger at nothing in particular and a small wave of wind stirred up under the Eternal Life Abyss’ body.
Like a dandelion, it floated onto Song Bai’s palm.
“Squeak! Squeak!” In fear, streams of translucent mucus dripped from out the Eternal Life Abyss’ body and it instinctively turned to Si Chen for help, “Mo-…Mom!”
Si Chen almost stood up but Song Bai glanced at him and Si Chen forced himself to sit back down.
Song Bai lifted the Eternal Life Abyss’ tentacles and checked Si Abyss’ body.
The small tumors on the Eternal Life Abyss’ body trembled.
“A sub-adult body.” Song Bai’s tone was very calm, “Its development isn’t bad. Barely acceptable for an Eternal Life Abyss of its age.”
In fact, Song Bai’s evaluation was unfairly biased.
Generally, an Eternal Life Abyss would grow by its mother’s side; the mother providing food for its young. An Eternal Life Abyss mother would generally be between the Fifth and Eighth Step. Thus, naturally, catching food for its child couldn’t be any easier.
But Si Chen was maturing and growing along with the Eternal Life Abyss.
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The food he’d provided were of levels that went far beyond what someone of his level should have been able to provide. He had come close to death several times just to raise this child.
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Si Chen managed to raise it to the utmost of what it could take, toeing the line between optimal growth and dying from eating too much.
To put it simply, had White King himself raised it, it might also only be to this same level.
But Si Chen obviously did not know this.
Unfortunately, he was completely misled by Song Bai’s words. Thinking of the days when the Eternal Life Abyss would constantly be hungry, he made up his mind to go to Space Folds to feed it more in the future.
Almost as soon as Song Bai let go of his hold, the Eternal Life Abyss spun to its mother’s side like a windmill.
Song Bai said, “Looking at both of your conditions, it seems we cannot wait any longer.”
In biological evolution, there is indeed a ‘level suppressing’ phenomenon. After you have been tempered to the extreme on a certain Step, you then find a way to advance to the next Step.
This was the case for Song Qingyu.
As for the Eternal Life Abyss, it should have advanced to the Fifth Step long ago, but its advancement had been forcefully suppressed.
In order to contain all that extra energy, Si Chen had even installed that small tail.
Si Chen gave an ‘en’. He didn’t have the nerve to say that this was actually his main reason for taking the postgraduate entrance examination.
Song Bai: “You have just made it out of the Chaos Manufacturing Facility, so you should understand. There are two ways to live in symbiosis with the Eternal Life Abyss. The first is through division and the second is through assimilation.”
“Division had been Kuafu’s way. You divide the Eternal Life Abyss into many parts and then assemble them together them when you need to use it. However, Kuafu had the luxury of raising these different parts within different people. You can only raise them in yourself.”
If the limit of the human body is 6, it’s like turning a 7 into a 3 and a 4. The combined total would still exceed the limit, but thus divided, it would only be little uncomfortable instead of completely overwhelming.
Song Bai lowered his long lashes, “Assimilation means doing it my way. The advantage is that you basically abandon your original weak body. The disadvantage is that if you fail in the struggle for control, the Eternal Life Abyss will essentially replace you. However, this one probably won’t fight you for control.”
In other words, only one, either Si Chen or the Eternal Life Abyss would survive.
Si Chen made his choice almost instantly. “I choose division.”
Song Bai was not at all surprised by his decision. For this Eternal Life Abyss to have been raised to be such a mama’s boy, the emotional communication between the two must be two-way.
He whispered, “Being indecisive will lead to endless troubles.”
Si Chen simply petted the Eternal Life Abyss that was rubbing against him. A small smile even appeared on his calm face. “Teacher, have you ever been loved by anyone? The kind of love without any reservation or conditions.”
Song Bai’s eyebrows rose slightly.
“You don’t need to work hard; you don’t need to be strong; you don’t need to better yourself. You don’t even need to give it anything. But you’re still sure that it will always love you, as sure as you are that the sun will rise in the sky.”
Song Bai’s eyes fell on the little monster and he replied, “What I know is that the prerequisite for keeping a pet is that the pet won’t pose a threat to your life.”
Si Chen’s tone gradually turned firmer. “I don’t know if I will regret it in the future, but right now, I want to keep it.”
Song Bai was silent for a long time. “You are really rebellious.”
Si Chen replied, “I’m sorry to disappoint Teacher.”
And yet despite these words, there wasn’t a trace of apology in his eyes.
Song Bai narrowed his eyes slightly. “Actually, it’s fine. Take out that thing.”
Si Chen was momentarily puzzled and then realized that Song Bai must be referring to the walnut-like brain he’d obtained from Child of God No. 13.
He took out the box.
Previously, in order to summon No. 13, Si Chen had buried it in the soil.
Song Bai washed it with water with some disgust. He then handed it to the Eternal Life Abyss. “Eat.”
The Eternal Life Abyss did not take it immediately. Instead, it turned to look at Si Chen. “Chirp?”
The walnut smelled delicious but it didn’t know whether it could eat it.
Si Chen said, “Go on, eat it.”
After getting permission, the Eternal Life Abyss extended a small tentacle and grasped the walnut, feeding it into its own mouth.
The next moment, Si Chen had his hands over his stomach as a surging heat suddenly rose into it.
He hadn’t even registered what the walnut tasted like.
The Eternal Life Abyss couldn’t control its body and it let out a scream as it changed back to its original shape.
Si Abyss truly was an Eternal Life Abyss nearing full adulthood. Its original body as big as a refrigerator and its tentacles were six meters long when fully extended.
Dark liquid was being secreted from its body’s surface. This was its blood flowing out of burst veins.
Si Chen felt a strange swelling and pain. His body showed no abnormal symptoms save for slightly running hot but Si Chen could clearly feel the burning pain of bursting blood vessels.
This wasn’t his own sensations but the Eternal Life Abyss’.
Si Chen couldn’t help his back from arching. His legs went weak and he dropped onto his knees on the carpet, gasping for air and holding on to the fabric underneath.
The Eternal Life Abyss was in too much pain.
It instinctively wanted to return to its mother’s body and so it wrapped Si Chen with its tentacles.
However, it was truly too big.
Even at through the red line that split Si Chen’s back, the Eternal Life Abyss couldn’t squeeze itself back completely.
Si Chen could feel himself quickly growing exhausted.
Amidst the chaos, Si Chen heard Song Bai’s voice. “Split it into two halves. One slightly stronger and the other slightly weaker. The stronger part will remain in the first cave. Put the other into the fourth cave.”
On the first day he became an Evolutionary, Si Chen discovered that there were ten interconnected cave openings within his body.
Every time a cave is opened, it means that he has advanced another Step.
He now has four caves open.
The first three caves had been successively filled with the food the Eternal Life Abyss had eat. There was still nothing yet within the fourth cave.
Si Chen heard Song Bai’s words, but he didn’t know how to split the Eternal Life Abyss.
But Song Bai’s next move gave him the answer.
Song Bai opened the storage box he had taken out from the warehouse. It contained a wooden dagger.
The wooden dagger was unadorned. It’s only notable feature was that it was surprisingly heavy.
The dagger was thrown in front of Si Chen’s eyes.
Song Bai put his hands behind his back and looked at Si Chen coldly. “Split it down the middle.”
He was as cold as a Queen Mother standing by as she watched a pair of mandarin ducks being beaten apart.
Si Chen held the handle of the dagger with one hand and put the other on the Eternal Life Abyss’ body.
Because of the pain, his voice was very weak. “Little Abyss. Don’t move…”
Song Bai had been prepared to watch an amusing show. He didn’t expect that the Eternal Life Abyss really would stop moving.
Panting heavily, it allowed the slender blade ot slice its body.
Dark blood flowed all over the floor and the entire carpet was soaked with blood.
Si Chen’s body even turned numb after a sudden moment of severe pain.
Just like how the Eternal Life Abyss is able to control Si Chen’s appetite, it can also control his pain.
Many times, when Si Chen was seriously injured, he didn’t feel much pain because the pain had been transferred to the Eternal Life Abyss’ body.
But now, the Eternal Life Abyss closed off the neural resonance channel.
Si Chen’s hands suddenly stopped shaking so much.
In the center, where the five tentacles connected, was the heart of the Eternal Life Abyss.
Si Chen could feel the blade hit something hard but he didn’t know what it was.
But the Eternal Life Abyss had already begun to tremble.
Instinctively, a layer of black scales appeared on its surface to withstand the damage.
Song Bai’s voice was calm. “Continue.”
Si Chen took a deep breath and cut through it.
The Eternal Life Abyss was cut in half. One half had three tentacles and the other, two.
Other High-dimensional creatures would have most likely died were they to be cut into half like this.
But the Eternal Life Abyss’ overly strong vitality kept it alive and lucid.
It was in so much paint that it shivered and let out a small whimper. “Mom…it hurts…”
Si Chen endured his sadness for the moment, turned around and asked, “What next?”
Song Bai looked at the blood flowing to the edge of his shoes and said, “Have it go back in. After a while, the incomplete parts of the Eternal Life Abyss will grow back completely on their own.”
In Si Chen’s body, the part that had been split away, just like the Feathered Snake God and the evolved Euglena that the Eternal Life Abyss had eaten in the past, will become part of his power source. Its consciousness will not be preserved.
Because of the pain, the Eternal Life Abyss’ movements were very weak. Practically twitching, it returned to Si Chen’s body.
As it was seriously injured, it fell into a dormant state as soon as it returned.
Si Chen’s spirit also weakened and his whole body grew shaky.
Song Bai picked him up from the ground.
“Can you still walk?” he asked.
Si Chen didn’t answer. He was exhaling more than he was inhaling. If it weren’t for the occasional twitching, he would have looked no different from a corpse.
Song Bai thought for a while then picked up the wooden dagger from off the ground, cut his finger open and squeezed out a drop of red blood.
The bead of blood gathered on his fingertip. It looked not like liquid, but like a gem.
He used two fingers to pry open Si Chen’s tightly closed lips, letting the blood drip into his mouth and down his throat.
Song Bai wasn’t very fond of hi-tech things. He didn’t have housekeeper robot at home. Therefore, he had no choice but to take matters into his own hands and carry Si Chen to the bed in the guest room to rest.
Leaving him on the floor would have been fine as well.
But it would have made him seem too much like a scumbag.
The Eternal Life Abyss in Si Chen’s body gradually settled down and the split body stopped bleeding. After the pain was relieved, Si Chen fell into a peaceful sleep.
Every time he advances to a higher Step, he falls into a sort of coma. Si Chen was used to it.
Song Bai stood by the bed and looked at him. His tone sounded quite puzzled. “…It really worked?”
He didn’t actually know how Kuafu managed to divide the Eternal Life Abyss.
Song Bai’s original intention had been for Si Chen to retreat in the face of this difficulty. But unexpectedly, Si Chen succeeded.
While he was deep in thought, something bulged slightly under the quilt.
Song Bai lifted the quilt and took a look, He found that Si Chen’s little tail was now standing up.
It seemed to now be longer than before.
“Is it because of this tail?” Song Bai mumbled to himself.
He reached out with his hand.
The protective ring on Si Chen’s tail suddenly let out a beam of light.
While this might have been enough to block other people, it was no match for Song Bai.
Song Bai grabbed Si Chen’s tail. It had no fur but was covered with scales. It felt slippery and was made of soft flesh.
When touched, Si Chen let out an unconscious whimper and he raised his waist slightly.
Si Chen’s body curled up and tears appeared in the corners of his closed eyes.
Song Bai fell into a rare moment of silence.
Beautiful things cannot help but be pleasing to the eyes. Fortunately, Song Bai has long lost some worldly desires.
Song Bai let go.
No use dwelling on things he couldn’t figure out.
After all, in the end, the result had been good.
At least Song Bai let go of his worldly desires years ago. As here could be a slightly unsavoury twist otherwise
Little Abyss baby 🥹
They bullied the baby 🥺
He’s such a good boy
Fortunately that worldly desire is gone or I would want him gone even more than I do now. Hopefully Ji Chuyao soon makes another appearance, he’s a lot more pleasant.
I’m also curious how Xi He’s matter will turn put, i like him a lot.
And poor baby Abyss, even in pain doing its best to protect mom Si Chen. Really goes to show that its special, while that guy surnamed Song… heh.
Thank you for the chapter.
Oh? New name? Si Abyss is cute <3
I still can’t get used to how extreme this world is 😭 they’re acting like that’s all ok
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So, SC has these holes in his body. This novel has lot of slightly unpleasant imagery. JC is a robot with no sensations. Assuming the lesser lil abyss went into SC body like usual and the went into a hole (cave in the body).