Chapter 19
These days, eating non-synthetic food isn’t cheap.
Therefore, Si Chen gave great importance to this food delivered to his door. He rolled the pasta into a nice pile and cracked a sterile soft-boiled egg in the very center. He sprinkled it with grated cheese and seaweed as garnish.
The taste was between air chocolate and cloud cake, fluffy and soft. The cooked eyeballs burst with rich juices. Pity that Si Chen didn’t like sweets very much and after eating, his throat felt a little swollen.
Si Chen could feel the Eternal Life Abyss swimming happily in his body. “Mom~ delicious!”
“Happy!”
For some reason, Si Chen felt a different sense of satisfaction and accomplishment in his heart.
Mercy, sympathy, devotion; the higher emotions are always all about self-sacrifice.
Si Chen has already silently assumed part of a mother’s duties and he didn’t even notice. — Duties like finding food for one’s child.
He opened the children’s literacy book and cleared his throat, “Come out, it time for class.”
The Eternal Life Abyss didn’t know what class was but it understood that its mother was calling it.
Arching its back, it pushed aside the prosthetic eye and obediently crawled to the front of the children’s book.
“Read after me — Heaven and Earth are mysterious and yellow.”
“Squeak – squeak – squeak -squeak”
“The universe is prehistoric.”
“Yu…squeak…”
Just like a good student is not necessarily a good teacher, Si Chen had already completely forgotten how he himself had learned to read.
He learned advanced mathematics at his adoptive father’s house when he was just six years old. In his eyes, reading was as natural as breathing.
When he was studying in the orphanage, Si Chen knew how to write after seeing it once and could recite whole texts after one listen through. He couldn’t understand why some people couldn’t do the same.
So it wasn’t completely incomprehensible why he got beaten up in the orphanage.
But obviously, not everyone has such superior innate abilities.
Si Chen just read two lines and the Eternal Life Abyss’ body was already tottering. It spread out on the book and fell asleep.
The Eternal Life Abyss’ second head was much bigger. It now looked like a capital “Y”, and it was vaguely developing in the direction of an “X”.
Si Chen poked it with his finger. Not only did the Eternal Life Abyss not wake up but a large puddle of water flowed out from its abdomen.
He thought there was something wrong with its body, but after some research, he found that the transparent liquid should be the Eternal Life Abyss’ saliva. A full bag of it had accumulated in its round mouthparts.
With some disgust, Si Chen went to the sink to wash his hands.
He remembered that scene in his dream and subconsciously looked up at the mirror. The light around the mirror was turned on, illuminating Si Chen’s somewhat pale face.
Sophisticated and detached. Even though he was twenty-two years old, he still had a face between a teenager and a young man, very pleasing.
There was no abnormality. The world was still normal.
Si Chen lowered his head again. But unbeknowest to him, the figure in the mirror did not lower its head. Rather, it looked down at him from its higher position, raising a shallow, gentle smile.
Because the Eternal Life Abyss wouldn’t cooperation, Si Chen didn’t put it back into his body. Instead, he cut out a milk carton and put it inside, stuffing a few balls of cotton as a quilt.
When he woke up the next day, the Eternal LIfe Abyss had already returned to his body. There was also some black castoff left in the box.
The castoff had a thick, fleshy texture and smelled like sun-dried shiitake mushrooms.
Si Chen turned on his phone. He clicked on the Evolutionary Association’s official website and searched for keywords such as “Eternal Life Abyss” and “Skin shedding” but found nothing.
He thought for a moment and prepared to take it to the laboratory for anatomical research.
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In the early days of the cataclysm, in order to prevent the High Dimensional Creatures in the Space Folds from running out and massacring humans, the Alliance had dropped several nuclear bombs in an attempt to wipe out the Disaster Zones.
Unfortunately, this measure was unsuccessful. High Dimensional invasions are still able to appear at any time, harvesting lives. And this wrong decision shrouded the whole world in a nuclear haze. Gene medicine to counteract the nuclear and industrial pollution became a necessity for humans. To this day, everyone has yet to experience clean rain and snowfall.
Si Chen arrived at the company. He put on protective clothing and went through the security check, joining his research group.
His colleagues were lazing about at their workstations. Si Chen walked into the operating room alone and locked the door on his way in.
“This utter Roll King!” Xiao Zhang looked at Si Chen’s back. He took out the file of unfinished data from yesterday and frowned, “Since Si Chen joined our team, our team has been the first in terms of progress for four consecutive months. I’ve received more than one hundred thousand credits in performance bonuses. It’s just that I have to work overtime every day and I have to study college courses by myself once I make it back home. I haven’t had a social life in three months.”
Another of their colleague, Xiao Wang also sighed. “True, I heard that Si Chen was only willing to sign a one-year employment contract. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be assigned to our team. This feeling of winning while lying down is so comfortable. I’m afraid once Si Chen leaves, I won’t be able to write my thesis…”
The employees of their neighboring research group passed by with some experimental materials. They clenched their fists at this group of Versailles.
Damn, why weren’t they blessed with that kind of luck at their group?
The person at the center of their discussions, Si Chen was seriously studying the castoff from the Eternal Life Abyss.
The Eternal Life Abyss’ castoff wasn’t difficult to cut and Si Chen carefully cut off a little bit.
It’s cross-section exuded a sweet-smelling juice. It also contianed a faint fishy smell.
Like a medium-rare steak, the myoglobin dripped from the muscle fibers.
The data shown by the analyzer was a mess of garbled characters. The only thing that could be determined was that there was a lot of activity happening within this castoff, comparable to the proliferation of cancer cells.
Si Chen took out 0.1 ml of the gene drug stock solution from the freezer and compared the data. He found that the rate of activity within the 3rd grade gene medicine circulating on the market was only a tenth of the activity within this thing.
Si Chen opened the company’s intranet and inquired about the Eternal Life Abyss. He found that most of it was confidential information and he could get very little.
【Eternal LIfe Abyss】
Origin: Eight Dimension universe, chaotic civilization
Features: (confidential)
Risk level: s
Medicine part: (confidential)
Market Guide Price: Auction
Since parts of it could be used for medicine, it proved that this should be edible.
“Can this be eaten?” he asked.
Since having the Eternal Life Abyss implanted in him, all strange things have been divided into two categories in Si Chen’s brain: edible and inedible.
The Eternal LIfe Abyss had already woken up. It thought for a moment and then replied crisply, “Eat!”
Si Chen put away the castoff and sealed it in a vacuum pack, putting it back in his pocket.
Si Chen still loved his job more than not. If it weren’t for love, there would be no way to excel at doing boring experiments day in and day out.
It was a pity that he only got to work for half a day today before he was called out again.
Xie Yunyang’s body was found by a sweeping robot near Si Chen’s apartment complex.
Supposedly, he was found in the green belt of the complex. Come the morning, he had become a snowman.
There was a hole on the back of his hand and traces of a High Dimensional creature. According to the test, he had died from sudden death.
Si Chen walked into the team leader’s office and immediately saw Jiang Yichen in his black uniform.
The uniform worn by the Safety Management Bureau is an improved version of the military’s uniform, with a well-tucked waist, showing of their good physiques and high spirits.
Si Chen’s expression was just the right degree of surprised.
He looked at his team leader and asked, “Team leader, you called for me?”
The team leader hissed, “Si Chen, did you know that Chief Xie passed away today?”
“What?” Si Chen’s eyes widened in disbelief, “I just saw him yesterday, how could he have passed away today?”
The team leader rubbed his hands together. “And Chief Xie died near your residence. You saw him yesterday too… So, our comrades from the Safety Management Bureau came to find out about the situation.”
His apartment complex had surveillance.
According to surveillance cameras, Xie Yunyang walked into the green belt of the apartment complex by himself. On his way there, he passed by four people. Right now, all suspects were being investigated.
Si Chen was not included among these four people.
Capsule apartment No. 107 was one of the complexes where the Serpent Staff Group housed their employees but Xie Yunyang’s home wasn’t in Chang’an Street.
That he would appear in an unfamiliar neighborhood was very strange in itself.
Jiang Yichen has dealt with High Dimensional Creatures for many years. He knew very well that the person need not be present to kill someone.
This was the second time he and Si Chen have met in a short period of time.
According to the data, the other party didn’t have the ability to commit such a crime. But Jiang Yichen still found some abnormalities.
For example, the excessive amount of gene medicine that Si Chen receives from the hospital every month is enough to completely improve the physical fitness of most people.
When he was in the military academy, his instructor had told him that all coincidences are not coincidences. Everything had a cause and effect.
A row of small light displays appeared in his eyes, analyzing Si Chen’s expression frame by frame.
Nothing unusual.
Jiang Yichen began to ask, “What were you doing last night?”
Si Chen: “When I got home, I read a book and went to bed…”
What is your relationship with the deceased?
“We’ve met a few times. We’re just ordinary colleagues.”
“When was the last time you saw the deceased?”
Si Chen’s voice hesitated for a moment: “In the company. I went with another colleague to deliver the experimental materials.”
Jiang Yichen suddenly raised his voice. “You’re lying!”
He fixed his eyes on Si Chen’s face as though he’d caught a cunning fox exposing its tail.
…
…
To dispel doubts,
the best way is to let the other party think they have discovered the truth and then immediately overturn it.
When he heard Jiang Yichen’s words, he almost couldn’t help laughing.
Si Chen bit his lower lip and looked taken aback. He said timidly, “Actually, my friend just came to see me yesterday. He told me that Chief Xie was following me and sent me a screenshot of the surveillance…”
Jiang Yichen immediately retorted, “That’s impossible. Ordinary people wouldn’t have the authority to access those.”
You would need to log into an official account first to access the backend and see the surveillance.
Si Chen took out his mobile phone and showed Jiang Yichen the chat records between him and Ji Chuyao.
According to the chat records, it was Xie Yunyang who had been following Si Chen like some kind of pervert.
The team leader hurriedly said, “Oh, yes, Captain Jiang. You probably don’t know but Xie Yunyang had pursued Si Chen for a while… Si Chen didn’t agree. Sigh, but I truly had no idea he would even follow him around. Really! He’s almost fifty years old, still so impulsive.”
Jiang Yichen: “…”
Damn it, why does my face sting a bit?
Soon, Ji Chuyao also came to the office as one of the witnesses.
Jiang Yichen was very surprised to see Ji Chuyao.
His mother’s surname was Chu and Ji Chuyao’s mother was also surnamed Chu. The two were very distant relatives but the difference in generations was too wide for them to easily meet.
Before entering the Safety Management Bureau, his father had sent a stack of photos, telling him that he should steer clear of these people. If he doesn’t, he might find himself in some accident. Ji Chuyao was one of them.
“I got a general idea of what had happened on my way here.” Ji Chuyao spoke in a leisurely manner, “Captain Jiang, this must be a misunderstanding. I checked the company’s physical examination report of the deceased from last year. His health hasn’t been good. He’s even undergone repair surgery. Lately, he’d often been staying up late to work. The probability of sudden death is between 0.7% and 14%.”
This probability was already higher than the ssr drop rate of many online games.
The most important thing was that Jiang Yichen only had his suspicions. He had no evidence at all.
He put away the recorder. “I’m sorry. It was my misunderstanding.”
He turned and left.
Looking at Jiang Yichen’s departing back, Si Chen breathed a sigh of relief.
Having a good meal in the Safe Zone was truly inconvenient.
Maybe he could go to the Disaster Zone and try his luck there.
Such a dangerous thought actually popped into Si Chen’s mind.
This was quite unreasonable. You must understand that Si Chen has always cherished his life. He has always erred to the side of caution. The only thing that could be said was that raising children always made people blind.
Because of the incident that afternoon, the team leader thoughtfully gave him half a day off, telling him to go back and have a good rest.
When he walked out of the company, Ji Chuyao leaned over and whispered to him, “You really weren’t the one who did it?”
Si Chen replied calmly, “You think too highly of me. I don’t have that kind of ability.”
Ji Chuyao did not continue this topic.
“You must hide the Eternal Life Abyss well.” He whispered, “It’s much more expensive than the prosthetic eye I gave to you. This is one of the reasons why I hope you can enter the military academy. So long as you’re strong enough, no one will care about how you came by it.”
Ji Chuyao’s expression gradually became indifferent, a faint light shone in his eyes. “You are an unexpected surprise. I really want to see how far you can go. You saved me, my life is very precious so I can help you out many more time. But it is impossible to shelter you forever. You are a product worth investing in and I hope my investment will be worthwhile.”
The yellowish snowflakes that fell from the sky landed on the tip of Ji Chuyao’s nose.
Were this to fall on ordinary people, their skin will probably show red marks but on Ji Chuyao, the snow evaporated in an instant.
Right now, Ji Chuyao gave Si Chen a strange feeling.
But he felt that it was much easier for him to get along with this Ji Chuyao now than before.
Si Chen actually wasn’t used to others being nice to him.
Because this kind of thing would make people dependent and lazy. Moreover, people’s ‘goodness’ could be taken back at any time.
They could talk about money but not about feelings.
Si Chen nodded slightly. “I understand, Mr. Ji.”
“Turing.”
“What?” Si Chen didn’t understand.
Ji Chuyao said, “My other name.”
His voice had a slightly mechanical quality.
Oh~ other Ji Chuyao came out to give his ‘greetings’
lol Turing XD
So, anyone else remember when Si Chen’s orphanage was attacked by a high dimensional spiritual being that entered SC but never left? And the only survivors were SC and his vegetable Didi (that betrayed him) because whoever the high dimensional being possessed would die, their brain turned to sludge.. except Si Chen who showed no ill effects (supposedly).
I think SC is on 3 evolutionary paths now – mechanical (eye), biological (baby abyss), and spiritual (mirror Si Chen), I guess it makes sense – if our ML is gonna have two of him, our MC gotta, too (plus baby).
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YesYesYes! I was also thinking about that! There is no way that thing just disappeared like that, is there? I’m now wondering whether or rather how SC will evolve after eating the shed skin(?) that came of little abyss baby
+1 that’s so smart!!!!!
oooh that was the original ji chuyao speaking at the end!! also another name?! 🧐
Probably wasn’t since it said he was the strongest child it had ever seen and that it had no doubt he will dominate the world in the future, probably the reason why it possessed him. Or it might also be his parent who died and went through some kind of transformation. Dunno.
Hm, something in the mirror
Thank you for your translation 💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝
Well… So many twisty bits! Looking forward to next! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️
So I assume the person in the mirror is another version of Si Chen just like in the dream where that version comforted and hugged him. If that’s the case this other Side Chen is probably that mysterious thing that possessed his body as a child. If there’s two ML’s that are the same then there’s gotta be two MC’s thats the same lol~
It’s turning into the Tsubasa Chronicles
This story is great sci-if and am loving the MC! Thanks for the translation ❤️
What d’ya mean product? That’s ur wife dummy, d’ya wanna die? 🤦
TYFTC!
OMG IS THAT THE MAIN BODY HSHSHSHSHHS