Chapter 27
At the on shore command center, Xin Xiaocao stood in front of Song Qingyu, narrating what had happened to them in the water.
Song Qingyu frowned slightly when he heard about the Evolutionary creature.
“It exceeded 4000 in non-combat state!” Xin Xiaocao recalled with lingering fear, “That Evolutionary Creature must be higher than even Fourth Step!”
Song Qingyu looked towards the tech department representative. “It was in the shallows. Why didn’t we detect it?”
The wage earner wiped the cold sweat off his forehead with a handkerchief. “This, Chief Song, the Evolutionary Creature might have just appeared. We hadn’t had time to discover it yet.”
“What’s more, this is a chaotic civilization. Technology failure here is common.”
Song Qingyu didn’t press him. Instead, he sent a message to the workers in the nearby waters, ordering immediate withdrawal.
According to the images sent back by the drone, in the tunnel, except for a large number of Eyeworms, the Evolutionary Creature and Si Chen were nowhere to be seen.
There was no sign of whether he was dead or alive.
The tech department representative said softly, “There’s a high probability that he’s… gone.”
Xin Xiaocao was extremely depressed. He sat on a stool and covered his face with his hands. He couldn’t think.
He still remembered Si Chen calling him “Gege”. Such an obedient child. He wasn’t even yet legally an adult. How could he be gone?
And he also heard that Si Chen was an orphan.
No matter how many times it’s happened, Xin Xiaocao couldn’t get used to losing people.
The atmosphere was a little depressing.
Song Qingyu looked stern and said to the logistics personnel, “Bring me a set of equipment too. I’m going in.”
“But, Chief Song!” The deputy team leader was reluctant, “Your combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced once underwater. My personal suggestion is to wait for reinforcements.”
Song Qingyu asked back, “There’s obviously a high level Evolutionary Creature in those waters. If we leave it alone, are you suggesting we just let the employees die?”
The deputy team leader looked at his face and swallowed back what he’d been about to say; that “your life is more precious”.
He didn’t say it because he knew how much Song Qingyu hated hearing this, even though everyone thought it.
Only Evolutionaries with low backgrounds start from the bottom rung of the major companies.
No matter how talented these people are, they can’t stand on their own. The higher you go, the more paths are blocked off. Either choose to change your surname or marry into a major family.
Parents from the Great Families will wait for their children to grow to a certain level before sending them to the major companies for training. They’ll work and gain experience to build a nice resume. And as the child gains more experiences, they might be able to get the qualifications to be a candidate for heir.
Obviously, Song Qingyu had been sent by the Song Family to gain more experience.
But Song Qingyu, who’d received the best education and was raised to be an heir since his childhood, was obviously more like a conscientious corporate drone than Xin Xiaocao.
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He was brought up with the support of his colleagues.
Several doctors hurried forward to check his vital signs.
“All signs are normal!”
“Mental signs are stable!”
“No obvious trauma! No need to replace or overhaul the prosthesis.”
Si Chen took the filter off his face. Before he could speak, with a ‘guh’, he spit out a mouthful of black and red blood.
His stomach was so full he felt like vomiting. He was shaky on his feet and felt like he would pass out at any time.
If he summed up his state in one word, it would probably be over-nutrition-ed.
Song Qingyu frowned. “Can you hold on? Tell me what happened.”
Although he felt that his body was fine, Si Chen still acted as though he were extremely weakened, “Chief… we… met an Evolutionary Creature…”
He clutched his chest and coughed hard.
Blood flowed down from his nose and ears, dripping to the ground.
Song Qingyu raised his chin.
The quick-witted doctors put Si Chen on the stretcher and began to inject him with cell repair solution.
They rolled up the tattered protective clothing on Si Chen’s body, took out the medicine and gave Si Chen an injection in the arm.
Si Chen looked at the production mark on the bottle and thought silently: 350,000 credits.
The Eternal Life Abyss said abruptly, “Yummy. Mom, drink!”
It was already full to the point of bursting but drinking isn’t eating.
Si Chen was momentarily silent and his face that had already showed signs of improvement suddenly turned pale again, “Xiaocao-ge said to split up and run. After we separated, that Evolutionary Creature came straight after me…”
As he spoke, Si Chen arched his back and let out a piercing cough.
The dark red blood on the pure white cloth was so jarring that it stung the eyes.
The doctors had to give him another injection.
This injection was worth 1.2 million credits and it tasted like brown sugar boba milk tea.
“I was so scared that I just dove. I ended up in this pitch-black water… The database told me that I was in the Singer’s territory…” Si Chen’s pupils dilated, his body stiffened. He even began to tremble seemingly unconsciously.
Song Qingyu was still waiting for him to continue but Si Chen was already massaging his temples. “Chief, I have a headache. It hurts… I can’t remember.”
The doctors were already sweating.
According to the readings, Si Chen’s vitals were all normal, many of his numbers even “exceeded the standard”.
But as soon as Si Chen opens his mouth, he begins to vomit blood. There were bruises of various shades on his body due to the water pressure. He looked completely miserable. Not to mention that he’d just been subjected to the mental attack of the Singer.
In a situation like this, either the equipment was faulty or they were incompetent.
The former was unlikely and the latter would create a bad impression in front of higher management!
Song Qingyu said slowly, “Go and get the medicine, a mental tranquilizer.”
After the tranquilizer with a market price of three million credits was injected into his body, Si Chen’s expression relaxed significantly.
His body felt warm, like basking in the sun in winter.
Si Chen: “In desperation, I dove in and took my chances. It was pure darkness, I couldn’t see anything… I heard the singing and didn’t dare go any further… After the singing stopped, I emerged on the other side.”
“Why did the singing stop? Song Qingyu asked suddenly.
Si Chen’s expression was blank. “I don’t know.”
Every employee wore a personal terminal before entering the water. Not only can you communicate with the Internet but it also had a video recording function. It functioned on optical imaging.
The realm of the Singer is impenetrable to light.
Si Chen believed that even if they watched the video, they would find no flaws in his recounting.
Song Qingyu was silent for a moment. He then reassuringly patted the back of his hand and said, “Thank you for your hard work, I’ll give you half a month’s leave. This month’s bonus will be doubled.”
As he spoke, he said to the medical staff, “Send him to the hospital.”
The deputy leader of the Scarlet Bird Group took a step forward and asked quietly into Song Qingyu’s ear, “Is his story credible?”
Song Qingyu paused and then replied, “I can’t think of any reason for him to lie.”
In any case, it was impossible for the current Si Chen to have disposed of that Evolutionary Creature.
Although it sounded incredulous that a low level Evolutionary could have escaped from the Singer’s domain, it wasn’t unprecedented.
Otherwise, how could they have a record of the Singer?
What should be feared is that which cannot be found in their database.
What’s more, Song Qingyu had a vague guess as to why the “Singer” suddenly stopped singing.
As the former leader of the rebellion, the slightest movement from White King would stir up the nerves of countless people.
In a city was big as Baidi City, there will always be some spies and they were there because White King permitted their existence.
Just that morning, Song Qingyu had received a notification from the company that White King had come…
It was a reminder for him to smarten up. No matter what happens, so long as it wasn’t anything excessive, they were to treat it as though nothing had happened.
White King had no children of his own.
Song Qingyu was the fifth child born to the son-in-law of the great-granddaughter of his deceased younger sister.
It sounds a bit confusing, but the two are indeed close blood relatives.
According to the genealogy, Song Qingyu would call White King ‘great grand-uncle’.
With White King around, it was quite reasonable that the Singer would choose not to act rashly.
After this round of questioning, Song Qingyu still decided to go into the water to have a look.
After all, although Si Chen came back alive, the Evolutionary Creature was still missing. It would be trouble if others were to come across it.
Before entering the water, Song Qingyu went and rubbed Xin Xiaocao’s hand.
If he’s lucky, he might even get to meet his great grand-uncle.
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Si Chen lay on a stretcher with his eyes closed and was carried into the ambulance.
The doctors were on standby though after they all consulted with each other, they couldn’t actually find any need for treatment.
They had no choice but to prescribe a few tubes of ineffective gene medicine and send him to a room to rest.
The Eternal Life Abyss hiccupped. “Mom, hold on. Sleepy.”
That Evolutionary Creature must indeed have been very good to be able to satiate this rice bucket.
On the hospital bed, Si Chen breathed a sigh of relief.
He knew that he had now managed to fool his way past Song Qingyu.
That had been too close. He'll have to drive this car a bit more slowly. The wounds on his body begun to heal.
Thank you for the chapter~!
Thanks for the update!
Also could anyone recommend anything similar to this? Preferably with a protagonist like SC
I love this story for the original world building and strong hero. I’m not sure I can think of a close match but for strong protagonists you might try I Rely on Wilderness Survival… or These Side Characters… in the search function on this site. For an amazing world that is kind of like this one, I suggest Traces of the Sun. There are so many great stories out there I’m sure you’ll get tons of suggestions!
Thank you so much for the suggestions! I’m going to look into them all haha
I don’t know if it’s similar but it’s interstellar “Black Sky”
+1 that one is absolutely worth a read (or several)
Out of the depths rises….Abyss Baby and his food shoveler! Omg! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣
you should just go make a movie with that level of acting 😂😂😂
King Bai is super interesting person
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