Chapter 29
Si Chen took the time to send the gifts to Ji Chuyao.
In order to express his sincerity, he also bought a batch of new parts from the company’s intranet. He then packed them together and sent them over.
Of course he knew that Ji Chuyao didn’t lack for any of these things but the intention was what mattered.
Otherwise, if he kept smooching off Ji Chuyao, it would be…embarrassing.
Si Chen’s sense of morality wasn’t that strong. He was simply worried that if he continues to owe him like this, someday, he won’t be able to pay him back.
The courier who came up to pick up the goods was an autonomous robot. For convenience, he’d been built into a bucket-type shape instead of a humanoid one. Its stomach opened up to hold packages.
Si Chen stuffed the packages into the compartment and with a “Thank you for your patronage!” the robot sped off.
The courier fee was three hundred credits.
Si Chen sent the packages in the morning and in the afternoon, he received a message from Ji Chuyao.
Ji Chuyao: You sent the gifts to my home address. Does this mean I can go directly to your place next time?
Si Chen: .
Si Chen turned off the phone and did not reply.
He gave it some serious thought and felt that he wouldn’t mind if the other party came to stay for a day or two.
Although being lovers for him seemed difficult, being friends shouldn’t be a problem.
Don’t take the initiative, don’t refuse. If asked, he’s a good gege. If asked again, then you’re being a good person.
A lot of information had been released in the Production Department’s internal group chat; all of which were gathered during their exploration of the Space Fold area during the past few days.
Si Chen gave it a rough read through. The other companies had also sent employees from the neighboring areas to rush over. The number of investigators multiplied several times in an instant and they were able to carry out an intensive clean-up of the area.
Although there had been many dangerous High-Dimensional Creatures within it, the major companies gained very little.
They’d defeated a lot of monsters but none of the dropped items or equipment was anything that anyone needed. On top of that, more than a dozen employees had died. To sum it up, it was a loss.
Not everything from a High-Dimensional world can be used by humans.
Most high-dimensional items, because they possess lethal properties, can only be kept in specialized containers for safekeeping lest they bring harm to the world.
The Eyeworm, a previously unknown High-Dimensional Creature, has now also been included in the illustrated record on the official website.
Si Chen clicked it open and took a look. It has been officially named the ‘Eyeworm’, number 1873. The Association has determined it to be moderately dangerous, with weak physical attacks but strong mental pollution abilities.
As Si Chen was looking at it, an eyeball popped out from the back of his hand.
When the crack appeared on the back of his hand, only bright red flesh was seen and not a single drop of blood flowed out.
Truth be told, it wasn’t very painful. The back of his hand was a little swollen, like an inflamed wound. It wasn’t very comfortable.
Si Chen patted lightly. “Go back.”
The Eternal Life Abyss suffered a slap and gave an aggrieved “ow”. It retracted its eyeball. “Mom~”
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Eternal Life Abyss: “Play~”
It wanted to play with him.
Si Chen pondered for a moment, then took out the children’s literacy book from before. He propped it open in front of the Eternal Life Abyss and said perfunctorily, “Once you’re read all the characters on it, Mom will play with you.”
The Eternal Life Abyss: “…”
The back of Si Chen’s hand cracked open once again. This time, no eyeball appeared; only two small black tentacles came out of the slit, stubbornly holding the sides of the book.
Si Chen was browsing through the notices of possible upcoming High-Dimensional invasions on the official website.
With recent developments to science and technology, the accuracy rate of early warning systems for High Dimensional Invasions has increased to 60%.
Ji Chuyao suggested to him before to practice actual combat.
Si Chen thought it quite sensible.
Fighting monsters in a virtual game and fighting monsters in reality are indeed two completely different experiences. No matter how tense and stimulating the virtual game may be, the brain very clearly knows that it is all a simulation and that the person won’t be fatally injured. Moreover, in the real world, things always turn out a lot more complicated.
Si Chen had sent him a few locations that were predicted to experience invasions of around danger level A.
He planned to make use of his paid vacation to enter one of the Space Folds.
These locations were all near Jiangchuan, reachable in 1 to 3 days by car.
By the time Si Chen was done with these tasks, the Eternal Life Abyss had already fallen asleep in front of the book.
Si Chen scratched its tentacle, soft and bouncy, like jelly.
Eternal Life abyss: “…chirp?”
Si Chen threw several balls of paper in front of it. “Choose one.”
The Eternal Life Abyss grasped the nearest ball of paper and handed it to Si Chen.
Si Chen opened it and glanced at what was written. The location was in the Pinglin District 700 kilometers away, an inland Disaster Zone; danger level A; recommended evolutionary level: 1 to 3.
**
Pinglin District
This inland city is one of the transportation hubs connecting several major regions. Therefore, although it is marked as a Disaster Zone, it is much more prosperous than the place where Si Chen had grown up.
Even so, save for the city center where the space-time state is relatively stable, only temporary housing are built in most of the rest of the district.
Si Chen walked out of the station, wearing a mask, sunglasses, gloves and carrying a bag. He made sure he was tightly wrapped.
In the bag were items he’d prepared for this ‘instance’.
They included an energy gun, a medium-sized containment bag, gene medicine, nutritional cream, a change of clothes, gauze, and wash-free disinfectant.
For this trip to the Disaster Zone, Si Chen had specially put on the Serpent Staff Group’s Production team uniform.
The uniform was pure black, with the dark pattern used for the trademark of the Serpent Staff Gene, reflecting golden in the sunlight.
Making oneself known to be an employee of one of the major conglomerates can save oneself a lot of trouble when walking around the a Disaster Zone.
For example, some thieves scoping the station slowly turned their heads away when they saw Serpent Staff Group trademark on him.
Not all of the 300,000 employees of the Serpent Staff Gene are qualified to wear uniforms. Either they are powerful or they are Evolutionaries. Either way, they’re people that shouldn’t be provoked.
Because they had received advance notice, the place where the Space Fold was predicted to occur had already been cordoned off by the Safety Management Bureau.
It looked empty inside, like a dead city. This was because the residents had already been evacuated early on. They’ll wait until the warning is lifted before coming back to assess the situation and decided whether they’ll rebuild.
Si Chen walked to the registration desk at the entrance. He took out his ID card and handed it over.
The staff swiped his card on the machine and his personal information was displayed on the screen.
“Si Chen. Evolutionary (mechanical transformation). 22 years old.”
Unless occurring in the wilderness, there are rules as to who can enter the Space Fold before the high-dimensional invasion occurs.
Those who go in without paying the fee are called “stowaways”. If you’re discovered, it can go onto your credit record and if done often, it may result in being arrested by the Safety Management Bureau.
With a simple swipe by the staff, 500,000 credits were deducted.
Fortunately, Si Chen was a full-time employee of the Serpent Staff Group’s Production department. The company issues coupons every month, which directly deducts 450,000 credits.
“So expensive.” As a person who was living in abject poverty only a couple of months ago, Si Chen still couldn’t help feeling distressed.
The staff looked up with a half-smile, “This is expensive? Money’s needed for the reconstruction of the Disaster Zone, right? Money’s needed to pay for overtime work, right? Money’s needed to cover pensions, right? So, learn to be content.”
This time, the circled area was 10 kilometers in diameter, which wasn’t very big. It covered several settlements and suburbs.
Si Chen walked into the predicted Space Fold area and before he’d walked for too long, he saw some of his colleagues on the side of the road.
It used to be a bakery and the owner had locked the door. But the door lock had since been picked open.
A curly-haired man in a suit was making coffee while another large man sat on the stairs nearby, wiping his arm.
The large man should be mechanically transformed. His left arm from the elbow down had been replaced with a gun barrel.
The man glanced at his uniform. With a smile on his face, he asked, “Want to form a team?”
Si Chen put his hands in his coat pockets and kept his eyes fixed. He passed by without saying a word.
The man stared at his back and reminded, “Don’t be too arrogant. The uniform you wear implies that you’re rich. Be careful in the Space Fold. Anything that happens here can be blamed on High Dimensional creatures.”
Si Chen paused, turned his head and said, “Thank you.”
When Si Chen walked away, the big man lowered his voice and asked, “Should I make a move?”
“Don’t.” The man took out a Teru Teru Bouzu from his pocket. The thin black lines on the doll’s face outlined a crying expression and it wasn’t until Si Chen’s figure disappeared in the distance that it returned to his original smiling face.
The man “tsk”-ed. “That’s a hard bone; better let others chew on that. It’s a pity. I bought this doll at a high price and it can only take effect three times. I didn’t expect to already use it before the invasion even begins. That’s one use gone.”
*
Lone wolves like Si Chen are actually rare in a Space Fold.
Everyone basically comes as a team. If something were to happen, there would at least be someone to look out for you.
Since the Space Fold had yet to begin, Si Chen sat on a chair by the side of the road.
He took out his mobile phone and browsed through his social accounts to pass the time, waiting for Space Fold to begin.
Ji Chuyao already knew that he planned to go into an instance alone.
Good fighters cannot be bred in greenhouses. Although he was a little worried, he didn’t stop him.
Ji Chuyao: It’s a pity. I was planning to go with you. But I’m still not done with my surgeries.
Saying so, he sent a sticker of an aggrieved dog.
Ji Chuyao: But I took a look into the backend and according to the registration, the level of Evolutionaries in this instance is very average. Tier 3 at most.
After all, it was only a lowest-level Space Fold. The value of any retrieved items wouldn’t be very high. For high-level Evolutionaries, it wasn’t worth going.
Ji Chuyao: Be careful of High-Dimensional Creatures and be careful of unfamiliar Evolutionaries.
Si Chen: En. Okay.
Ji Chuyao: Once you get back, I’ll treat you to dinner.
Si Chen wanted to reply, “Alright”, but a red exclamation mark suddenly popped up on the screen.
He glanced up and the phone displayed “no signal”.
Si Chen put the phone back in his pocket, making sure it was in there properly. He understood that the High-Dimensional invasion had begun.
It was dusk now, and the sun was about to sink below the horizon. Si Chen could hear his own slight heartbeat.
In the past, he had always encountered and faced these disasters passively. This time, he’d took the initiative to welcome it.
He had to admit, it felt quite different.
It felt like he was reaching out to grab fate by the throat for the first time.
Unlike in the insect civilization he’d encountered before, the geographical environment of this Space Fold changed in any obvious way; only that the buildings seemed to have suddenly become old and the wind blowing had the stench of decay.
It was 7 p.m. The last rays of natural light disappeared and the street lights automatically turned on a warm yellow.
Si Chen let out a foul breath. Just as he was deciding where to go, the phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated.
His phone’s ringtone echoed around this empty street. It’s sounded like it was hastening his death.
But he clearly remembered that before putting away the phone, he turned it off. Moreover, he always kept it on in silent mode.
Si Chen took out his phone and looked at the caller. The screen showed an unknown number.
His fingertips were numb from the vibration of the phone.
At that moment, he already understood what kind of high-dimensional civilization he has encountered.
A supernatural disaster.
Excited!!!
Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️📱👀
Phone always on in silent mode, so relatable
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+1 Phone always on in silent mode, so relatable😄
Here we goooooo! I feel like I just got onto a rollercoaster.
Thanks for the chapter!!
Oooh! Anything can happen~
Thanks for the chapter 🌹
Phone ghost: Grr! I will haunt you!
Spirit Body Si Chen: I. Will. Haunt. you.
Phone ghost: eep!
Oh I have expectations for this 🤩
I feel while people on the mechanical route would have better resistance and survival rate, people with spiritual would have better chances of obtaining good stuff here!