Chapter 42
With the end of the Space Fold, the area lost all spiritual properties.
The burning teddy bear gradually died down, leaving a pile of ashes on the high end office chair.
The smell inside the room wasn’t very good.
Si Chen opened the window to let the fresh air in.
Most of the dolls had been buried in the flames, leaving only two souvenirs in Si Chen’s pocket.
One was Xiao Zhou and the other was White Dress.
Although, he thought it should be impossible, Si Chen couldn’t help lifting the doll’s skirt to take a look.
Sure enough, there was nothing inside; no hidden props.
According to general principle, after the final boss is defeated, a big treasure box will drop.
Si Chen rummaged through the boxes in the office but found no treasure box, only a couple stacks of experiment records.
— “On the Fusion and Transformation of High-Dimensional Creatures on Different Paths of Evolution”
— “On the Artificial Cultivation of Spiritual High-Dimensional Creatures”
The subjects of the first experiment were female nurses.
Judgement on the experiment’s result: Failed product.
Everything else on this experiment’s records were torn up.
As for the second stack, it described in detail the investment plan of the House of the Mind in Pinglin; the establishment of the rehabilitation center and the process of selecting the “petri dishes”.
Individuals like Xiao Zhou were the so-called petri dishes.
It was a very familiar pattern and it reminded Si Chen of the state orphanage he stayed in as a child.
White Dress had told him that forgetting was a kind of protection.
Si Chen’s expression gradually turned ugly. He took some time to memorize all the contents of the record and then lit it with the lighter to burn.
With the end of the High-Dimensional Invasion, the dolls in the claw machines disappeared, leaving only blank iron sheets.
The game machine in the hall was completely scrapped.
Si Chen went back downstairs. The patient rooms on the second floor had returned to its original appearance. The walls on both sides were scorched black from the fire. The iron railings on the windows were twisted and deformed and the ground was covered with unknown oily dirt.
In almost every room was an unconscious patient with an incomplete doll in a glass box beside the bed.
Yu Lian was falling asleep on a hospital bed. Si Chen shook him awake. Yu Lian opened his eyes dimly and saw the bright sky outside the window. His expression was still a little dazed. “It’s over?”
Si Chen asked back, “You still want to continue?”
A black drone flew in and stopped in front of the two. The only thing installed on the drone’s mechanical cavity was a loudspeaker. “Hello, this is the Pinglin Branch of the Security Management Bureau. Do you need assistance?”
“Emergency medical assistance starts at 100,000 credits and 20,000 credits for basic material assistance~ 20% discount for citizens of third grade and above~! Resources are limited, so buy now if you need it.”
Blue exhaust flames came out of its tailpipes.
Si Chen said slowly, “We encountered a supernatural disaster. And the High Dimensional Creature in it had the ability to turn humans into dolls.”
He walked to the next room and opened the door so that the drone could take pictures of the scene inside. “When we got here, these Evolutionaries had already half-transformed. Even now that the Space Fold is over, they haven’t woken up yet.”
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The voice in the drone suddenly turned serious. “Understood, we will immediately send someone to investigate.”
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In return for his statement, Si Chen had received 2 citizen points. If you accumulate enough citizen points, you can advance your citizen grade.
However, given the number of points needed to advance, compared to the points you could obtain in daily life, this thing was nothing more than a useless consolation for most people. The government used it as a pretense to say that there are means to upward mobility in the world only that some people aren’t working hard enough.
The Evolutionaries on the second floor of the rehabilitation center have all been sent to nearby hospitals. As for whether they could ever wake up, that wasn’t Si Chen’s primary concern.
Beggar Yu Lian took out the mobile phone he’d just bought. “Ge, do you want to exchange contact information? We can go to an instance together next time.”
Now personal data are all stored in the smart terminal and can be restored on the new device with one click by swiping the ID card and fingerprint verification.
Si Chen did not refuse.
His barren social network finally had someone other than colleagues, classmates and Ji Chuyao.
Yu Lian stood by the side of the road, waiting for the bus. He hesitated and then said, “Si Chen, I won’t be turning myself in for the time being.”
Si Chen had on a pair of newly bought sunglasses and he glanced slightly towards him.
The corners of his lips are naturally raised and he seems to be smiling even when he isn’t.
Yu Lian took a deep breath. “I still have things to do. Once everything is over, I’ll go and report everything to the Safety Management Bureau.”
Si Chen thought for a while. “Doctor said that the wanted criminal had manipulation abilities. There’s a high probability that you won’t be sent to prison. At most, you’ll be fined and detained in a detention center.”
Yu Lian smiled at him but said nothing. The smile was vaguely helpless.
This Space Fold had lasted for a total of three days. It wasn’t long but Si Chen felt like it’d been a lifetime away.
Si Chen booked a hotel and took a shower in his en suite bathroom. Through the hazy steam, he saw the blue and purple bruises on his body.
These were the traces left by the battle. The most serious one should be on his abdomen where he’d been pierced by Spider Lady.
But half a day later, the wound on his abdomen had scabbed over and a new layer of pink tender flesh had grown. In a few days, even this scar will completely disappear.
Si Chen’s appearance was already superior. You could say he was uniquely blessed. After having the Eternal Life Abyss implanting in him, the lines of his body became smoother and more elegant. Looking at himself in the mirror, even he himself would be tempted.
Too bad he wasn’t all that tall.
The Eternal Life Abyss called out in a low voice, “Mom, sleepy.”
It had eaten that quasi-Feathered Snake God and its stomach was swollen. It desperately needed sleep to digest it.
Because of their symbiotic relationship, the Eternal Life Abyss’ predicament obviously also affected Si Chen.
He dried his hair, held back his drowsiness and went to the Evolutionary Association in Pinglin.
The Association offered identification and appraisal services for various High-Dimensional items. They could also help sell them.
This time, in the Space Fold, in addition to the meal provided by White Dress, Si Chen also got a lighter, an energy core, two dolls and a medical record book.
As for the iron chain, kitchen knives and red lamp, their supernatural properties had been used up in the Space Fold. They were now just ordinary daily items that because of serious damage, couldn’t even be used normally and could only be sold as scrap.
Si Chen took out the lighter, energy core and medical record book for appraisal. It cost 30,000 credits.
Even though his monthly salary was now hundreds of thousands, Si Chen still felt a little distressed by the price.
You must know that when he was in high school, his total annual living expenses had only been 30,000 credits.
After all, in the school cafeteria, adding a meat dish at lunch would already cost a hundred credits.
The staff scanned the three items with a fluorescent stick emitting purple light and then handed them back. “The appraisal report will be issued within 7 days and it will be sent directly to your personal information terminal.”
There were several messages from Xin Xiaocao on his phone, asking how he was doing.
But Ji Chuyao had been the one to send the most messages. There were dozens of them one after another.
Si Chen took a rough look over. Most were about the admission policies of major colleges and universities. Occasionally, he shared some daily life news. Most were questions asking whether he’d come out yet or not.
Si Chen: I just got out.
He waited for a while didn’t receive an immediate reply. So he put away his phone and booked a ticket back to Jiangchuan.
In order to save time, Si Chen paid the high price for the express ticket. In about 28 hours, he should be back at Jiangchuan.
Because he had a premonition that after falling asleep, it will be pretty hard to wake up for some time, Si Chen would pinch his thigh every once in a while to keep himself awake.
Si Chen got the notion that Evolutionaries implanted with the Eternal Life Abyss must make easy targets for a surprise attack.
The ambushers just had to wait for the host to fall asleep while leveling up and they could kill him in his sleep.
Because there are no signal towers in most of the suburbs, Si Chen didn’t see the reply from Ji Chuyao until he arrived at the transport station in Jiangchuan.
Ji Chuyao: According to the report, many Evolutionaries in Pinglin District have turned comatose.
Ji Chuyao: Do you have time to talk?
Si Chen: Another day
Ji Chuyao: Alright
After politely ending the conversation, Si Chen took a taxi for the two hours’ drive to his apartment.
He locked his door and lay down on the bed, letting sleep overtake him.
He dreamt of the great maze again. The maze was arranged with green plants and bushes several meters high, blocking out most of the daylight. Small flowers of various colors dotted the green hedges.
Si Chen remembered that he had been here before but from a different entrance.
He walked forward in a daze, wandered around the maze for a long time and finally found the person trapped in the middle of the maze.
White Dress was still sitting on the grass, trying to solve the endless jigsaw puzzle.
Looking at it from afar, Si Chen saw that the puzzle was as big as a lake and White Dress has only completed half.
Luminous chains hung from his wrists and ankles. The chains connected his pale limbs at one end and to the void at the other.
He raised his head and smiled at Si Chen, “You’re here again.”
To have someone who looked exactly like you smile up at you…
It was actually a somewhat strange feeling.
Si Chen sat down beside him. The two of them were now sitting on the grass. He started putting puzzle pieces together.
There were too many pieces and they piled up like a hill. The images on the topside were also irregular.
Si Chen compared the images of two pieces and put them together. He asked softly, “Why are you putting together a puzzle?”
“Because…” White Dress turned his head slightly and gave him a faint smile, “I did something wrong.”
Si Chen thought for a moment and said, “So you were locked up here?”
White Dress continued, “It’s like a wild animal in a cage.”
Si Chen’s hand stopped.
White Dress saw a hair curled up atop his head. He felt a little like touching it.
And so he really did. And when he raised his hand, the iron ring around his wrist crackled with electricity.
“I know what you’re thinking. Don’t pity me.”
White Dress’ eyes narrowed slightly. “I got into this cage myself.”
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Si Chen’s breathing was heavy and under his tightly closed lids, his eyeballs were moving rapidly. It was like being stunned and unable to wake up.
A thin trail of dark blood spilled from his nostril.
Si Chen’s body subconsciously adopted the safest sleeping position — lying on his side, curled up and protecting his soft abdomen.
This is a baby’s position in the mother’s womb.
A long, blood-red line ran down his back along his spine. It ran all the way through the back, just short of reaching the tailbone.
Flesh and blood rumbled and a narrow slit opened. Not a trace of blood flowed out. Only that since the body had been torn, it was inevitable that there would be some swelling and inflammation.
The pitch-black tentacles of the Eternal Life Abyss emerged.
After eating that quasi-Feathered Snake God, it had grown huge. It was now at least half the height of a person. The tentacles were long enough to wrap around Si Chen’s waist, enough to wrap around his waist twice.
But the Eternal Life Abyss didn’t want to grow up so big.
No matter how ignorant it may be, it still had a vague notion that grown-up children would have to leave their mothers.
Therefore, it intertwined its eight tentacles, wrung them tightly, squeezing out all excess liquid from its body.
Those liquids were then absorbed by Si Chen.
It really wanted to eat Mom.
The Eternal Life Abyss’ mouthparts were dripping with saliva. But in the end, it just sucked through Si Chen’s clothes, not daring to bite.
Its baby teeth have been replaced and its newly grown small fangs were slightly curved. It also had serrated ones on the sides of its mouth for shredding prey, removing the need to chew.
Even one bite would leave a scar and Mom will definitely find out.
The Eternal Life Abyss had wrung all excess moisture from its body and it now looked like half-dried seafood. It also no longer needed such a large space.
As a result, the red line on Si Chen’s back also gradually shortened, until it was only 15cm long.
It burrowed back in like an octopus into a jar.
Outside the apartment door, separated by several walls —
Ji Chuyao stood at the door of Si Chen’s house. He didn’t knock. In his eyes, a blue-green light shone slightly.
That energy fluctuation just now had been very strange.
It was like a High-Dimensional Invasion had occurred.
A high dimensional invasion in Si Chen’s room? Feels like it should’ve been White Dress who caused this disturbance.
Thank you for the chapter ❤
This is so good!
Why our Puppy boyfriend chooses Edward Cullen’s flirting method???
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Baby wants to eat mom, so cute! Baby wants to stay in mom…. Okey dokey. Good thing “mom” was asleep when he nearly split apart. Then there’s White Dress. Probably a very good thing Si Chen was visiting during Baby’s digestion issues…😳😳😳
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Does the Eternal Life Abyss barely fit inside its mother’s body now? What about when he’s fully grown?!
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Love the eternal abyss! I hope it stays as si chens child and doesn’t turn into a enemy. Thanks for the chapter!!
So Si Chen’s erasing of evidence files implies White Dress might have been artificially created through human experimentation of which Si Chen was a successful subject, which also explains why he looks like Si Chen, and considering what happened to his orphanage, at full power/unchained he is likely strong enough to open his own high-dimensional domain/instance. It’s possible The House of Mind might be the sponsor behind this as well but it’s not like human experimentation wouldn’t have occurred to the people of this dimension since evolutionaries exist.