Translator’s note: In case anyone missed it, as I’ve said in the novel summary, Si Chen isn’t nice; he’s no saint.
Chapter 11
Under Ji Chuyao’s guidance, Si Chen opened the official website of the Evolutionary Association.
For those with low EQ: This interface is ugly.
For those with high EQ: It’s minimalist, gives off very retro vibes
The official website was mainly divided into two sections — announcements section and the transactions section.
Announcements featured related policies and news related to High Dimensional invasions.
“According to the energy readings, a Space Fold may occur in the xx area in the coming week. The danger level is expected to be between A and 2A. Residents in this area are advised to take the necessary precautions.”
Theoretically speaking, any place in the world can encounter a High Dimensional invasion.
Even in the Safe Zones, though the occurrence frequency is only less than 1, it wasn’t completely nil.
For areas where a Level 4A or above Space Fold has occurred, even after the Space Fold, no people can live there anymore.
Places where humans can live are now very limited. Even knowing that a High Dimensional invasion will occur where they live, they wouldn’t know where else to go.
Everyone wanted to squeeze into the Safe Zones. That’s why residence permits in the Safe Zone were getting more and more expensive.
Posts for the buying and selling of High Dimensional items could be found in the transactions section of the official website. Because this was a government platform, the posts were somewhat credible.
The official website required you to log-in with your citizen ID. Si Chen took out his ID card and inserted it into the slot of the computer. His personal information was displayed on the platform.
【Si Chen】(Visitor)
Si Chen clicked on his account. The basic information had already been pre-filled. The only things he needed to fill in were “Evolution Path” and “Transformation Surgeon”. The former was drop down selection.
In actuality, this “Transformation Surgeon” was more like a “guarantor”. In other words, if Si Chen were to embark on a path that was detrimental to society, Ji Chuyao would also be imprisoned.
He entered “Mechanical Transformation” and filled in Ji Chuyao’s name under Transformation Surgeon. As soon as he pressed the Enter key, a scan box popped up on the website, asking Ji Chuyao to scan his ID.
When Ji Chuyao took out his ID card, Si Chen checked his birth date and found that he was currently 25 years old.
Because the life expectancy of human beings has increased significantly, 25 years old was now the legal age of majority.
After he finished his registration, there appeared a pop-up box. ‘Congratulations! Your registration was an Evolutionary was successful!’
[Si Chen] His tag had been changed from (Visitor) to (Evolutionary) and a new “Forum” section was opened.
Si Chen gave it a quick glance through. In the forum were various topics — ‘Space Fold survival strategies’, ‘Evolutionary upgrade channels’, even ‘Seeking same-sex opposite-sex friends’. Here, they called going to the Disaster Zone to find resources as “entering an instance”.
Si Chen was still a little dazed. “Is this alright?”
Ji Chuyao: “What else were you expecting?”
Si Chen: “…”
Although he’d heard that the Evolutionary Association’s management was very loose, this seemed a little too loose.
What Si Chen didn’t know was that under normal circumstances, the approval process would have taken a month and there would have been a government representative to verify what he’d submitted.
But because Ji Chuyao’s authority was so high, it greatly reduced the barriers to entry.
As the highest ranked heir of the Ji Family, Ji Chuyao was very busy even though he was barely a legal adult.
Though he’d only been in the hospital for half an hour, he’d already answered three calls.
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Si Chen quickly completed the discharge procedures.
As could be expected of a private high-end hospital that charges by the hour, when he left, he was given a big care package.
Si Chen opened it and saw that there were seven bottles of Level 3 gene medicine. They’d been mixed with edible pigments and gold foil to make them into different colors. It was all very gaudy.
Level 3 gene medicine was now useless to him expect as a painkiller. He originally thought of selling it on the black market, but when he looked carefully, there was a line of small characters engraved on the bottom of the glass bottles: “To Our Esteemed Guest Si Chen”.
It seemed that he could only keep them for himself.
Si Chen left the hospital and bought a bunch of white chrysanthemums by the side of the road.
When Si Chen saw the employee ID card in the Space Fold, Si Chen realized that he had returned to Zhuangshan.
A few kilometers away from Changming Hospital was his hometown.
Unlike the urban areas, it was an uncivilized, backwards and violent place. It was the place he had so desperately tried to escape from.
But it has really been a long time since he’d last been there and now he really wanted to go and visit home.
Si Chen flagged down a taxi. He said, “To the state orphanage on Xinhe Street.”
The driver’s expression suddenly became hesitant. “This…it’s already four o’clock in the afternoon. It’s almost night time, it isn’t advisable to go there now.”
Si Chen had lived in Zhuangshan District for more than ten years. He knew very well what this urban slum area looked like at night.
Dirty, messy, violent. No lamps, no lights. If you dared to go there, you accepted the consequences.
A smile appeared on Si Chen’s face. “I can pay more for the fare. Sir, I bought a return ticket to Jiangchuan tomorrow. So, I’d like to be able to visit the state orphanage today. I grew up there when I was young.”
Because of the High Dimensional invasions, there is very little travel between the major regions, especially between the Disaster Zones and the Safe Zones.
There was only one long-distance bus to Jiangchuan from Zhuangshan a week. If you miss it, you’ll have to wait until the next week.
The driver looked at him carefully then stepped on the accelerator. He said earnestly, “It’s very chaotic over there at night. So, be careful when you walk by yourself.”
Si Chen was sitting in the back seat, looking out the window as buildings gradually became shorter and shorter. His voice was weak but his expression was extraordinarily cold, “I know, thank you, sir.”
It was five o’clock in the afternoon when the taxi stopped at the intersection. The sky was getting a little dark and hazy.
The driver said, “The state orphanage is just past here. Cars can’t get in there so this is as far as I go.”
Zhuangshan District. Xinhe Street.
It was known as “Zhuangshan’s Garbage Dump”.
Xinhe Street was very narrow and uneven, piles of household garbage and industrial waste were left without any care on the ground. The walls are covered in messy graffiti, mostly ads for “organ donation” with the prices clearly marked; 200 for a heart, 30 for a kidney, 50 for an arm.
Because it had just rained, the mud on the ground was thick and sticky. There was a drunkard lying on the ground by the trash cans. He was emaciated. Who knows whether he’d even wake up again.
The most crowded place here was the mahjong parlor. People gambled there, took drugs, sparing not a single thought for tomorrow.
Si Chen took a deep breath of the stale air. He felt an inexplicable excitement.
Almost as soon as he got out of the car, Si Chen felt hidden eyes staring at him from the dark, from the residential buildings above, from the dark alleys around.
The men were smoking cigarettes, squatting on the street, looking at him, this outsider.
Their eyes were indifferent and numb, as if they were sizing up prey.
Whenever he came back before, Si Chen would always contact the people from the state orphanage to pick him up.
But things were different now.
Si Chen thought for a moment, then punched the dilapidated wall next to him.
Cracks spread like a cobweb on the one-meter-thick stone brick wall. Instantly, those uneasy eyes disappeared.
There was a faint smile on the corner of his lips but it quickly faded.
He had nothing to be proud of. He’d now seen a higher and wider sky and knew that he’d been rolling in the mud all along.
Holding the flowers, Si Chen silently adjusted the expression on his face.
Smile. It can’t be a sneer. It has to be a gentle, polite smile.
He opened the door and entered.
If someone was an orphan raised by this state orphanage, looked good, and paid money to the state orphanage every month, it would be difficult for the staff not to remember him.
The auntie nurse looked at the visitor and a pleased smile appeared on her face. “Xiao Chen! Why are you here? Are you here to see Thirteen again?”
Un-adopted children are only known by their numbers. Thirteen was an orphan who grew up together with Si Chen.
They had also experienced a High Dimensional invasion together. It was a Level A spiritual invasion. Being Level A it stood to reason that the survival rate should have been around 50%. However, the entire state orphanage, except for him and Thirteen, had been wiped out.
After that, the state orphanage changed staff. Si Chen was also sent to another area to study.
Si Chen nodded slightly. “Yes. I came to Zhuangshan on a business trip. So I thought I should come and have a look.”
Auntie: “Xiao Chen is so mature. After so many years, you’re the only one who’s willing to pay to support Thirteen. I will take you to the second floor.”
Thirteen was 24 years old this year, two years older than Si Chen. He was long past the adoption period but since Si Chen would send money to the state orphanage every month, even after he turned 18, there was still a place for him here.
The auntie nurse opened the door. It was a single room with an adult lying on a small child’s bed.
His whole body was severely burned, most of his facial features had melted away. He was missing all his limbs and a feeding tube was inserted in his mouth. Like a human swine.
Although the conditions were crude, it could be seen that the auntie has taken good care of him.
Si Chen was very moved. He took out two banknotes and stuffed them into the auntie’s hands, saying sincerely, “Thank you.”
The auntie put the money away. “Hai, why are you being so polite?”
The conversation between the two woke up the sleeping man.
Thirteen raised his head with difficulty. He looked towards the door and let out a whimper. His vocal cords were damaged and he couldn’t speak at all.
The auntie smiled and said, “Thirteen’s seen you. He seems very happy…Xiao Chen, take your time catching up. I won’t be bothering you now.”
“Thank you, Auntie.” Si Chen replied with a smile.
The door was closed. The auntie’s voice could faintly be heard from beyond the door, “Sigh, it’s been such a long time since I’ve seen such a kind and sensible child as Xiao Chen.”
Si Chen sat down beside Thirteen’s bed and stared at him quietly.
Si Chen’s expression was very happy. “Back then, we all grew up together in this orphanage. Now, only the two of us are still alive. Long time no see, gege.”
Thirteen’s eyes filled of horror. He struggled, trying to retreat, shaking his head vigorously.
Si Chen pointed to his silver eye. “Do you see this? You said before that I have such beautiful eyes, so beautiful that you couldn’t help blinding me, stabbing it with a needle. Now that I have a new prosthetic eye, do you still think it looks good?”
He put his face close to Thirteen’s eyes. “Does it look good, gege?”
There was a foul smell in the air.
The quilt covering Thirteen’s body was now wet.
Si Chen smiled and asked, “That’s right. This time, I want to tell gege the good news. I’ve become an Evolutionary. Are you happy for me?”
Madman……
He’s a madman!
Si Chen never called him gege when he was a child. But ever since he was paralyzed at thirteen, he kept calling out “gege“. Sometimes Thirteen had this feeling that Si Chen was looking past his face at someone else’s shadow.
If he could do it all over again, Thirteen would rather be the one bullied in the state orphanage.
Thirteen will never forget what happened ten years ago. A Space Fold occurred in their small state orphanage.
The invading High Dimensional creature came from a spiritual civilization from the fifth dimension. It was incorporeal; having no physical body.
It would attach itself to a person, stimulating the body’s entire potential, harvesting life.
But the human body is too weak. After being invaded by the High Dimensional creature, the people soon died due to excessive consumption.
And so that High Dimensional creature kept moving from one body to the next.
Until in the end, it had possessed Si Chen. But it never came out again.
After being possessed, this docile, weak and resigned cripple became Thirteen’s worst nightmare.
Hot tears overflowed from Thirteen’s eyes.
Si Chen didn’t really want to touch him, so he took out a napkin and wiped away his tears.
“Don’t cry. I brought you something nice.”
He took out the box of gene medicine from his bag. “Level 3 gene medicine. It’s reasonable to say that it can repair all your injuries. It’s a pity that gege lost his limbs so long ago already. There’s probably no way to grow new limbs.”
“Want it?”
Si Chen’s voice was beautiful, like a siren humming along the coast, luring passing sailors.
In Thriteen’s fearful eyes, a strong burst of longing appeared.
“Hehe.” Si Chen squeezed out a few chuckles from his throat.
He opened his hand and the reagent slipped from his hand, smashing to the ground with a crisp sound.
“Hmm!—Hmm!” Thirteen couldn’t speak and could only watch as hope flowed into the sewer.
Si Chen suddenly felt bored.
After so many years, he actually no longer hated those people from the state orphanage much anymore.
Hating also took energy. People hate their enemies but they rarely hate the ants on the side of the road.
He was neither meek nor kind. It was unwillingness and hatred that have kept him moving forward all these years.
Si Chen raised his head abruptly, holding back the sudden onslaught of tears.
“This is the last time I’ll be seeing you.” His expression returned to calm and he said softly, “You’re now released. I’m letting you go.”
Yeah, let’s be evil together
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Wait, so he was possessed? Since he wasn’t an evolutionary before… does that mean Si Chen exhausted the spiritual high dimensional creature instead of vice versa, or was his body so damaged from his early childhood that it became a part of him without there being any notable changes other than personality?
I don’t need the protagonist to be a kind person — rather someone petty who knows when he’s been wronged than a doormat that gets pushed around.
And that spiritual alien is also a curious thing. It invaded Si Chen and never came out again? Then did it combine with Si Chen, was it consumed by him, or did it take over? Hm, either way, the grievances are real, and so are the struggle and the determination to reach further, beyond what he has now.
Thank you for the chapter
+100000
Let go of this bad person. Sounds like the punishment has been dealt and it’s better to walk on… Thanks for the update ❤️
wait, since si chen is 22 years old… he’s not an adult legally yet? 😂
😮😮😮😮 I keep getting shocked every chapter 🤣
Thanks for the translations!
I wonder if his extremely high resistance to meds has something to do with this possession/merge in his childhood
When I saw “human swine” I searched for it briefly before coming back to read and then being presented with the following scene made me low-key feel frightened of the MC 🤦
Oh, so both the MC and ML aren’t human. I can work with that (┐「ε:)
I knew the MC only kept Thirteen alive for revenge the instant human swine was mentioned. What a ruthless lad <3 on the plus side he’s finally letting the guy die in peace now!
My kaomoji looks so deformed pls 😭
off… so he’s possessed by two things, ah