Translator’s note: I had to move up and move down part of the text to make the sequence of events make sense. Basically, I moved up Si Chen’s Friday events up to appear before Ji Chuyao’s weekend events. orz
Chapter 21
Because of Ji Chuyao’s “mediocre aptitude” comment, Si Chen’s excitement died a quick death.
The Eternal Life Abyss rubbed its stomach. “Mom, hungry, hungry.”
This creature was a little rice bucket, so long as it was less than 80 percent full, it would feel hungry.
To top it off, it wasn’t just hungry by itself. It passed on this mistaken feeling of hunger to Si Chen.
So much so that even Si Chen was getting flustered from hunger.
Si Chen said expressionlessly, “No, you can not be hungry.”
The Eternal Life Abyss stopped making trouble and Si Chen no longer felt hungry.
In order to save money, he specially arrived at the company during lunch time.
Si Chen ordered the staff meal that he most often ate. There was tomato with scrambled eggs-flavored nutrient cream, braised beef-flavored synthetic meat and most importantly, a real egg.
He ate two sloppy bites and then suddenly, overwhelmed by the nausea from within him, he hastily put down his bowl and chopsticks and rushed to the toilet to retch.
His team leader, who happened to come to the cafeteria to have a meal, was treated to a panoramic view of the entire scene.
The team leader also noticed the high collar Si Chen was wearing today and the red marks on the exposed backs of his hands. It looked like someone had sucked it.
That afternoon, the team leader asked hesitantly, “Xiao Chen, you’re not planning on taking maternity leave in the future, right?”
Although from the perspective of marrying into a wealthy family, birthing a child would be advantageous; but if Si Chen takes maternity leave, their research group was going to be useless!
Because of various factors such as advances in technology and metaphysics, it isn’t impossible for men to have children these days.
Even in order to defraud companies of maternity subsidies, some scheming male couples would form a family and make a contract to each bear three children.
Si Chen: “…”
He almost couldn’t resist punching his team leader.
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It was early in the morning and Ji Chuyao has just woken up.
Ji Chuyao unplugged the charging cable from his inner thigh and stretched.
As a cyborg, he didn’t need much sleep. If necessary, he could go without sleep for a month.
However, as a living person, sleeping was truly a kind of spiritual enjoyment. A good night’s sleep still felt amazing.
The curtains automatically opened and the LED display windows revealed a scenery of cherry blossoms and snow-capped mountains.
The air filter automatically lowered the temperature and the blown air carried the chill of snow-capped mountains.
Today was the weekend. Corporate drones could choose not to go to work.
Although this mattered not to Ji Chuyao since he never needed to go to work. However, Si Chen was coming to visit him at his home today.
After more than 20 years of continuous transformation, Ji Chuyao no longer needed food to survive. He had replaced some of his internal organs and he only needed to drink the prepared nutritional supplement every day.
Although it was called a “nutritional supplement” it was different from the nutritional supplement used by the people at the bottom to satisfy their hunger and barely survive. His nutritional supplement was more like a mixture of evolution fluid, gene medicine and energy solution.
Since he was still recuperating, his current nutritional supplement was more expensive than his usual daily one.
In the past, no matter how much the rich spent on food, there was a limit; but since the advent of High Dimensional Invasions, this limit has disappeared.
He was the only one at home.
But he was accompanied by a host of programmed intelligent machines.
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Butler No. 2: “The arsenal has been checked. All mechanical weapons are ready for use.”
Butler No. 3: “All the surveillance cameras within the home has been turned off. We have made sure the Old Master can’t secretly call up the backend data.”
“Oh yes, we’ve also checked the Old Master’s location. He is currently waiting outside the company for Madam Chu to get off work. The Old Master has been waiting for three days and the Madam is still working overtime.”
Ji Chuyao nodded. Feeling that everything was now safe, he felt very satisfied.
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Si Chen changed into regular clothes and then took a taxi to Ji Chuyao’s villa.
Because Ji Chuyao had given him temporary permission, not only did security not stop him, but they even allowed Si Chen’s taxi to drive all the way to Ji Chuyao’s door.
Two streets away from Mingyun Villa is the most prosperous business district in Jiangchuan.
In such an area where every inch of land was abhorrently expensive, a swath of land had been forcibly partitioned off and a private community was built for the use of the direct heirs of the Great Families.
Si Chen has no idea just how rich the Ji family is. But the virtual training ground on the first floor of their basement really broadened the borders of his imagination.
Ji Chuyao showed him a wall of firearms. “These are some of the models that are in circulation on the market. Save for some laser guns and electric guns that aren’t equipped with energy pumps, all of them are filled with empty bullets.”
The metallic luster of the firearms created a moving sight. Paired with the bright and pristine white surroundings, it was simply heart-pounding.
Ji Chuyao smiled and said, “You can use these firearms as you like. If you don’t know to use them, I will teach you.”
Si Chen’s eyes suddenly lit up. To him, Ji Chuyao now appeared more handsome than he ever had before.
“This training ground needs to be used with VR and neural connectivity equipment.” Ji Chuyao tried his best to make his explanation easy to understand, “It can simulate any of the known Space Folds from Level A to 2A. But special equipment is required .You can pretend this is a holographic online game, except that the map is a bit smaller.”
With that said, he helped Si Chen hook up the neural connectivity equipment.
“Actual combat is the best way to accumulate experience.” Ji Chuyao pressed down on Si Chen’s shoulders, guiding him to sit. He then put on the VR headset, glasses that can be affixed on the head, for him. “Don’t worry, it’s very realistic. But you won’t…”
He paused, “Be seriously injured.”
What Ji Chuyao wanted wasn’t some delicate greenhouse flower.
The first time they’d met in the Space Fold, Ji Chuyao knew that he and Si Chen were the same.
Ji Chuyao turned on the apparatus.
Si Chen felt a sense of weightlessness.
After a very short period of dizziness, the scene in front of him suddenly changed.
He found himself in a tropical rain forest. The scenery around him seemed very much real. Si Chen could even smell scent of damp vegetation in the air.
Just a few meters away, a Mothman was staring at him.
He only had a knife in his hand.
Ji Chuyao’s voice entered Si Chen’s ear. “Cold weapons are the most primitive weapons of human beings. In a Space Fold, they have more applications than hot weapons. First, you must master cold weapons and hot weapons will merely be an extension.”
“Since this is your first training, I’ve chosen the setting you’d be most familiar with. The place where we first met. In the future, I’ll guide you to recognize more types of High Dimensional creatures. You have to learn to fight. Don’t waste your talent.”
Almost as soon as Ji Chuyao finished speaking, the Mothman in front of him fluttered its wings and rushed towards him with a scream.
Si Chen instinctively dodged, the Mothman’s wing swept across his face.
Burning pain erupted on his cheek.
Si Chen wiped his face with his hand and it came away with blood.
Was this real or virtual? The boundary between what was virtual and what was real blurred at his moment.
Si Chen looked at the Mothman perched on the tree. His brain, having judged that a crisis was before him, was already secreting adrenalin.
He gripped the knife tightly.
“Kill it.” Ji Chuyao said coldly.
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In the 300-square-meter virtual training ground.
Under the control of the main system, the moldable metal was constantly changing its shape to simulate the various scenes and High-Dimensional creatures.
For example, since he wasn’t connected to the system, for Ji Chuyao, the Mothman that Si Chen faced before was just a flying iron lump.
Ji Chuyao sat to one side with his arms propped up.
On the small square table in front of him was a glass of milk tea and a data analysis screen.
On the screen, all of Si Chen’s data can be seen at a glance.
Physical strength, endurance, explosive power, accuracy…
It has been 5 hours since the training started.
Si Chen has encountered 11 simulated High-Dimensional Creatures. In total he has had seven wins, one defeat and three draws.
The draw here referred to Si Chen dying together with High-Dimensional Creature.
Si Chen looked as though he’d been fished out of the water. There were also various degrees of abrasions and redness all across his body.
As Ji Chuyao said, he wouldn’t be seriously injured though that didn’t mean he wouldn’t be hurt.
Si Chen’s movements with the blade had become more and more proficient and cleaner.
Clean meant efficient — less energy consumption, stronger attack power.
Finally, because of depleted energy, Si Chen staggered and fell to one knee on the ground, unable to stand up again.
Ji Chuyao terminated the neural connection.
Suddenly brought back to the real world, Si Chen was momentarily blinded by the dazzling incandescent lights above his head.
He collapsed on the ground, panting heavily.
Ji Chuyao took off his virtual glasses and just as he expected, he was met with the sight of a pair of reddened eyes.
“Is that the bloodthirst seeping into your eyes?” Ji Chuyao asked.
Si Chen recalled his near-death experiences in the virtual world: “…Did I really die a few times there?”
Ji Chuyao did not deny it. “En. But once the system detects that the player’s brain thinks he’s dead, the system will release neural currents to wake the player up. There is no need for you to worry.”
There is a theory in the field of medicine that if a person’s brain thinks he is dead, then this person might actually die.
Si Chen didn’t speak for a long time. He was so tired, it was difficult to even move his fingers.
Ji Chuyao bent down and picked him up from the ground.
Si Chen resisted a bit. “…No need.”
This resistance reached its peak when he was carried to a place that looked like a bathhouse.
In the center of the bathroom was a circular bathtub filled with steaming light blue liquid.
This was the diluted gene medicines that the smart butlers had prepared in advance.
Ji Chuyao had a gentleman’s hands. Even when he carried Si Chen, he had his hands clenched into fists, letting Si Chen’s body rest on his arms.
Carrying Si Chen, he stepped into the tub and said softly, “Your body has overloaded and needs to be repaired.”
Si Chen suspected that this soft tone was part of Ji Chuyao’s programming. Even when forcing someone, it sounded like a polite ‘good morning’. He sounded as though he felt he wasn’t doing anything wrong at all.
The hot water reached up to Si Chen’s neck. His tense body gradually relaxed. He felt like a sponge that was absorbing water and expanding.
Ji Chuyao put his hand on Si Chen’s calf and massaged it gently.
Ji Shifu was quite skilled with his hands. Si Chen hummed a few times from his nose. He felt so sleepy.
Before completely passing out, Si Chen still had it in him to think: If Ji Chuyao beds him like this, he’ll just consider it as payment for tuition.
Actually, Ji Chuyao didn’t make any unnecessary moves or impolite actions.
As for him massaging Si Chen’s body, he thought it a part of the body’s repair and did not consider it rude.
Ji Chuyao also noticed the red marks on Si Chen’s body. The redness and swelling caused by the Eternal Life Abyss’ assimilation of the Eyeworm had not completely subsided.
To be honest, at that moment, a wave of complicated data flooded into Ji Chuyai’s heart. Fortunately, after data analysis, he came to the conclusion that no one could have committed such a crime.
Although the possibility of Si Chen having allergies was only 17%, the probability of Si Chen encountering some wild man some place he had no surveillance was only 0.0002%.
In summary, um, it should be an allergy.
Ji Chuyao quickly convinced himself. He then handed over Si Chen to a smart butler, who would be responsible for changing Si Chen’s clothes and sending Si Chen to the guest room to rest.
After dealing with these matters, Ji Chuyao returned to his bedroom.
The butler reminded him that there was a video call from Ji Sicheng.
Ji Chuyao accepted the call and soon, Ji Sicheng’s virtual image appeared in midair.
Ji Chuyao said, “Dad.”
Ji Sicheng glanced at the big bed behind him and finding no one on the bed, heaved a great sigh, “A’Yao, why are you so useless!”
“Aren’t you waiting for Mom to get off work?”
Ji Sicheng: “Cough…Of course, I’m still waiting. But I heard that you brought someone home?”
Over the call, another voice appeared, a cold female voice, “Are you training a ‘Nighthawk’?”
A beautiful face appeared in the video.
The woman wore a high bun and her lips were bright red. She was a hundred and twenty eight but looked a hundred years younger.
This was Ji Chuyao’s mother, Chu Fuxi.
She was the person who currently held power within the Chu family and was one of the shareholders of Eight Directions Technology.
A Nighthawk, in ancient times, was known better known as a shadow guard.
As the successor of a conglomerate, there will always be some things that are inconvenient for one to take care of personally.
Before this, Chu Fuxi and Ji Sicheng had already picked several “Nighthawk” candidates for him but Ji Chuyao refused them all.
The selection of “Nighthawk” cannot be taken lightly as according to the rules, each heir can only choose one Nighthawk to follow him into the “Forbidden Zone”.
Only heirs who’ve obtained recognition with the Forbidden Zone can become true holders of power for the Machine Core Group.
As for what this Forbidden Zone is, it is the birthplace of the mechanical civilization.
The Land of Machines in the Eight Dimension universe.
Every Evolutionary who has been lucky enough to make it back from there has not breathed a word of what they’ve experienced.
Given this condition, naturally, everyone wanted for their Nighthawks to be as strong as possible.
“He’s too weak.” Chu Fuxi said.
Ji Chuyao kept smiling and did not refute,
Chu Fuxi: “Learning to make your own decisions is the first step in growing up and I will not interfere with your decisions.
“I heard that the ‘Nighthawk’ you picked is very good-looking. I hope he is a real ‘Nighthawk’ and not some ‘Nightingale’ to fool people.”
Ji Chuyao looked directly into her eyes. “I know what I’m doing, Mother.”
Thanks for the chapter! These updates are always the highlight of my day.
So Chen is moving his way up the food chain and the socioeconomic chain 🤣
Thanks for the chapter!
my autocorrect strikes again 😅
i wonder if they will meet other intelligent species that are actively trying to communicate with them in the space folds~
New Fold Alien: Happily greets Si Chen, Well met!
Eternal Life Abyss: Mom! Mom! Hungry!Si Chen: …* Smells … delicious?*
If others think of Si Chen as Nightingale and end up severely underestimating him, things could get fun~
And Si Chen thinking it’d be fine to be bedded by Ji Chuyao as long as he does it gently… Well, off to a good start in their ‘romantic entanglement’.
Thanks for the chapter!
Ji Chuyao is a cyborg….in his lower half..right?
So how?~~
I remember he had a boner. 💀
It hasn’t left my mind since I read that sentence and I still can’t imagine… metal rod?? 😭
Oh, everything is not that simple. I love it
Thank you for your translation 💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝
Thanks for the chapter ^^