Chapter 108
Si Chen stared at the message on the screen for several seconds. He was half-expecting that the next message to pop up would be, “Transfer me 500,000 credits”.
Why 500,000 and not 5 million? Because his bank card didn’t have that much.
Si Chen: What’s the matter?
Asking for help must be a great embarrassment for Turing. The word “typing…” kept appearing and disappearing and it took a long time before the next message came in.
Ji Chuyao: Can you come to a Space Fold?
Si Chen: When?
He looked at Ji Chuyao’s profile picture in the chat box and asked, “Isn’t he still in the folding area?”
Turing’s eyes focused on the word “he” for a long time.
Ji Chuyao: Yeah.
Ji Chuyao: I didn’t expect that this Space Fold would contain redundant data that I’ve cleared out before.
Turing didn’t actually need to ask for help. His situation was far from dire, much less a danger to his existence.
It was only that his heart was filled with a strange emotion due to all these long abandoned complex data.
He thought for a while. This emotion was probably called sadness. Or… loneliness?
When people are sad, they become vulnerable.
Turing reckoned that he wasn’t completely human. But by the time he realized it, the first message had already been sent.
The rest of the messages after that were purely of a courteous remedial nature.
Si Chen: What do you want me to do?
Turing changed the topic: Wasn’t your exam scheduled for 14 days?
Si Chen: It ended early.
– How is the result?
– I passed.
– Good.
Si Chen thought for a bit and asked: Is Ji Chuyao okay?
… Turing fell into a long silence.
He was holding his cell phone and sitting on the ground, his eyes wandering.
He was on a circular platform, not a big one. Surrounded by a ring of glowing white pools.
In the distance, were metal doors embedded in the curved wall.
In these pool, countless “Ji Chuyao” were floating.
Some were complete specimens but most were incomplete.
There was no flesh or blood visible on these mutilated bodies. They were only broken metal parts, soaked in liquid metal, waiting to be dissolved.
His eyes were a crystal clear blue-green, like a piece of Peruvian blue opal.
Ji Chuyao: I left something in Jiangchuan. In my house. Go there. I’ve already granted you permission.
Ji Chuyao: It’s the key to enter this Space Fold. Ask Smart Butler No. 1.
Si Chen: OK.
Turing cleared the chat history and put down his phone.
The round platform he sat on was like a spider web, with delicate lines spreading outward. Simple, metal wires filled the entire expanse.
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This were the data streams he transmitted outwards. The staggering amount of calculations being made was enough to down any super intelligent machine.
Dea cba tlw.
Ktlgv msmif, rlweijalbc kbgiv, lclaljilhlcu.
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But Si Chen had no choice but to go.
Ji Chuyao had saved him more than once before.
He was cold and sharp by nature, but he wasn’t some cruel-hearted ingrate.
Si Chen originally planned to stay in Baidi City for a while to get familiar with the local customs and to improve Song Bai’s favorability towards him.
But because of Turing’s message, he immediately applied for a ticket back to Jiangchuan.
When he received the call, Song Bai was very surprised. “Don’t you want to stay and rest for a couple of days?”
He hasn’t even finished playing this match.
Song Bai also wanted to observe Si Chen’s condition post-division of the Eternal Life Abyss.
Si Chen: “I want to leave early and come back early.”
Song Bai gave a helpless “en” and said, “Alright. I’ll arrange a steward for you. If there’s anything you need in the future, please contact him directly.”
“By the way, remember to take the real estate certificate with you.”
Many of the children from the Great Families would have such a person with them, one who is assigned by the master to stay by the young master’s side and be responsible for helping with tasks. In addition, they also serves as informants for the children’s parents to enable them keep track of their children’s whereabouts, preventing potential heirs from acting too outrageously.
Such people are often under employment contracts that last more than a hundred years. They are brainwashed and trained from birth. It is the new form of slavery.
Ji Chuyao had them too and Si Chen has even met them. They were the two cylindrical-shaped robots in his home.
Compared to humans, everyone in the Ji Family prefer to use robots.
That afternoon, Si Chen met the steward Song Bai had arranged for him.
When he saw the person stepping out of the car, he couldn’t help being surprised.
Shen Yanxing took off his sunglasses. “Judging from your expression, you certainly weren’t expecting this.”
A year has passed. Shen Yanxing’s appearance hasn’t changed much, though his eyes have become a little fiercer. There was also a scar on one eyelid.
The feeling he gave off went from ordinary white-collar worker to wild hunter with bloodied hands.
Though it had been a surprise, after some thought, Si Chen felt that it wasn’t particularly surprising.
After all, all of this started when Shen Yanxing kidnapped him to be their surgeon.
Shen Yanxing said, “I shall be taking the young master to Jiangchuan.”
Obviously, Shen Yanxing had also undergone training before taking up the job.
White King hadn’t been joking when he offered to let him pass the exam through a back door.
He had already arranged everything before the exam even started.
Si Chen thought for a while and replied, “…I’m not used to being addressed like that. Just call me by my name.”
The car Shen Yanxing drove was an off-road vehicle. It ran on energy stones and was much faster than RVs and buses.
As soon as they left Baidi City, a signboard automatically rose on the front of the off-road vehicle.
It was the symbol of the Weeds Organization.
“With this, we’re less likely to be robbed in the wilderness.”
They were, after all, the crime organization currently with the largest sphere of influence in the wilderness; the one constantly wanted by the Safe Zones.
Si Chen closed his eyes and meditated in the back seat of the car. He suddenly said, “Can you enter the Safe Zone?”
Shen Yanxing looked at Si Chen through the rear view mirror. “I have several sets of ID cards and I can freely change my face. As long as they don’t specifically check, there should be no problem.”
He tried hard to make his staring less blatant.
Si Chen: “I’m still using the prosthetic eye you gave me.”
After he got rich, he bought several prosthetic eyes but they were never as comfortable to use as this one. So he’s always kept it.
Si Chen activated detection mode.
Shen Yanxing was currently in standby mode and his surrounding energy fluctuations were around 9,000.
Dongfang Changye was on the Fifth Step and in non-combat mode, his energy fluctuation were at around 9800.
Based on this, it could be concluded that Shen Yanxing was probably around the Fifth Step.
But Si Chen tried meausuring himself and found that his energy fluctuations were rated at less than three thousand.
The data from prosthetic eye detection can only be used as a rough reference, it is not absolute.
Shen Yanxing gripped the steering wheel harder. “I saw.”
“There’s a locator in it.” Si Chen asked, “Can you remove it?”
Shen Yanxing’s looked even more surprised than he had. “I wasn’t the one who put that there.”
“Where did you get the prosthetic eye?”
Shen Yanxing: “Sir White King gave it to me.”
Although they were foster father and son in name, White King’s forster children were actually more used to referring to Song Bai as ‘sir’.
There were those who called him ‘dad’ but as they grew up, that title changed from ‘dad’ to ‘sir’. Because Song Bai couldn’t quite accept having adopted sons who looked to be in their 70’s or 80’s calling him ‘dad’.
Si Chen: “…”
Si Chen still didn’t know how frightening Song Bai could be.
Song Bai assigning Shen Yanxing to look after Si Chen had been the result of careful selection.
First off, the person taking care of Si Chen can not be too weak, otherwise if they were to come under attack, it would be unclear who would be protecting whom.
Secondly, they cannot be too strong. Outside, people on the Sixth or Seventh Steps are already powerful people second only to the heads of the Great Families. Most of them have already made a name for themselves, have embarked on their own paths. Being placed subordinate to Si Chen would inevitably be hard to swallow.
That left only Fifth Step Evolutionaries.
Other adopted sons would have also listened to Song Bai’s words but they might not be quite as dedicated as Shen Yanxing.
Song Bai had never been selective when picking up children, it all depended on first impressions. Therefore, the quality of his adopted children varies greatly. Some even wound up in jail when they grew up. Song Bai equally cared not all.
Among his more than hundred of children, Shen Yanxing was considered to have good qualifications.
Song Bai knew that Shen Yanxing was Si Chen’s brother and had been inquiring about Si Chen’s whereabouts these past years.
Song Bai’s only request to him was that he not reveal his true identity.
Shen Yanxing didn’t know the reason for it but it wasn’t important.
Si Chen’s growth rate was quite astonishing.
Maybe it won’t be long before he’d be looking up to him instead.
As an older brother, Shen Yanxing didn’t feel jealous. He only felt proud.
His younger brother has alwas been a genius.
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It has to be said that the Weeds insignia was more useful in the wilderness than any of the Great Family vehicles.
They didn’t even have to pay tolls along the way.
The car was equipped with an autonomous driving system and no real-time control was required.
Si Chen was sleeping in the back seat. The backrest of the rear seats could be folded down to become a folding bed, just barely servicable enough for sleeping.
When he opened his eyes, Shen Yanxing was still sitting upright in the driver’s seat.
Si Chen asked, “Were you looking at me just now?”
He was naturally more sensitive to other people’s gaze.
Shen Yanxing’s back straightened just ever more slightly. “Yes. According to Sir White King’s instructions, I need to observe your condition. He said that you have just completed a very important transformation and that it is likely that something would happen while you are in a comatose state.”
While Si Chen had been sleeping, the Eternal Life Abyss had occasionally ran out disobediently. Like a puppy circling its territory, it rubbed against Si Chen’s body, scent marking him.
It no longer remembered who Shen Yanxing was. But it did vaguely remember that golden durian smell on him.
Someone with this scent had caught it before! And took it away from its mom!
With Si Chen asleep, it didn’t dare sleep let it find its mom gone when it wakes.
Si Chen couldn’t say that he liked Shen Yanxing but for some reason, he didn’t dislike him.
It took a total of 6 days to drive from Baidi City to Jiangchuan District. During those six days, Ji Chuyao didn’t send any new messages.
Shen Yanxing completed his disguise in the car. His special characteristic is that he is formless and except for sex, other features can be changed.
His heroic face gradually turned average, until he finally looked exactly like the ordinary person on his ID card.
This ordinary person was a fifth-class citizen of the Safe Zone and worked as a freight driver, often making trips between the Safe and Disaster Zones. He didn’t have the money to marry and have children. His parents gave birth to six children and he was the fourth and was always ignored.
No one knew that he had died at the hands of mutants in the outskirts seven years ago.
It was one o’clock in the morning.
After passing the security check, the off-road vehicle made for Si Chen’s staff dormitory in Jiangchuan.
Si Chen asked, “Where will you sleep at night?”
Shen Yanxing fell into deep thought. “Your living room?”
“Then I’ll go to the company tomorrow…”
“I’ll accompany you.”
Si Chen took a deep breath. “I am 23, not 3.”
“I’m sorry. It’s sir’s orders, I can’t stray too far away from you.”
Si Chen was silent for a moment. “Can you take me somewhere else instead? I won’t be going home today.”
He gave Ji Chuyao’s home address.
Si Chen still needed to go to Ji Chuyao’s house to get the key.
Shen Yanxing suddenly raised his eyebrows. “According to the information in the database, this seems to be someone else’s home?”
The home addresses of ordinary people weren’t actually marked in the Weeds database.
In his database, there was a note pinned to this location: Ji Chuyao’s (Ji Sicheng’s son) suspected address in Jiangchuan District.
Si Chen: “Yes.”
Shen Yanxing couldn’t help but ask, “Why are you going there?”
“To see my boyfriend.” Si Chen put his hand on the backrest of the seat in front of him. He lowered his head and spoke into Shen Yanxing’s ear, his expression full of pleading, “Can you not tell Teacher White King about this? Gege. “
Thank you for the chapter!
Gege hahahaha gege will go Grr to your boyfriend hahahaha
Gasp it’s coming full circle!!
omg, hehehe! can’t wait to see ji chuyao again! i love the interactions between them, thanks for the chapter!
Gege! Hahahahahaha! So hilarious… Thanks for the update 🤣❤️
acting coquettish to your brother?! hell yeah 😂😂
Si Abyss: Protection Mode! No durians will get past me
You can’t say “no”, gege
Thank you for your translation 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
司辰 你这次可玩儿大了
沈雁行真的是你哥啊 😂💀
Translation bc mtl sucks:
Si Chen, you’ve really overreached your limits this time
Shen Yanxing is actually your brother 💀😂