Chapter 53
Hearing what Zeus said, the people in the dining hall raised their glasses to give him face.
The amber-colored white wine in the goblet exudes a charming sweet aroma.
After Zeus put down the wine glass, the signal was interrupted and the monitor went black, leaving the people in the dining hall looking blankly at each other.
Many of them made to speak but hesitated.
Al took a step forward and said softly, “My lord, shall I take you back to your room?”
The movements of the 24 nanny robots waiting around completely synchronized at this moment.
Wine came with the dinner. Every time a main dish was changed, the back kitchen served wine fermented from different ingredients.
A number of Evolutionaries were drunk and had to be helped back to their room by the nanny robots.
Si Chen also stood up.
Suddenly, he was stopped by Number 14. “You’re Si Chen, right?”
Si Chen looked back at him, his eyes like cold arrows that appeared unexpectedly in the darkness.
He’d never given him his name.
Number 14 was still sitting on his chair with a carefree expression.
“Those are some nice eyes.” Number 14 narrowed his eyes slightly, crossed his hands and put them behind his head. “How about we get to know each other? My name is Dongfang Changye.”
Si Chen stared at his face and after a long moment, he slowly broke into a soft smile. “Okay, Gege.”
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Si Chen returned to his room with Al leading the way.
The way back was confusing. Past the hall, there were several winding metal corridors that led the way back to their rooms.
Though they all left the dining hall together, people kept branching off down different passageways until fewer and fewer people were walking together.
Si Chen walked neither fast nor slow.
He compared the two paths — the path they took to the dining hall and the path they took to get back to the room — in his mind and confirmed one thing. This corridors were “alive” and they were moving.
Without Al as his guide, he might not be able to get out at all.
And around his room, there seemed to be no other humans.
Al sent him to the door, with his long tail twirling and rubbing against Si Chen’s calf. “My lord, do you need me to stay?”
At dinner, Si Chen had taken note of the other people’s nanny robots.
All were young and beautiful without exception.
How should he put it? These Machines had a really good understanding of people’s weaknesses.
The humans that Si Chen saw in the film were called the Radiant people.
For the Radiant people, their tail was their most important mating organ; rubbing their tail against someone was a definite come-on.
Si Chen coughed. “There’s no need today. By the way, where are my two Machines?”
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Al replied, “They should be done formatting soon. They’ll be sent to you shortly.”
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He sat on the sofa and stretched out his legs, frowning. “A fool can see that there’s something wrong with this base. Moreover, the Machines here aren’t weak… In addition to the Machiens, there are a lot of new energy weapons.”
“That blood test… just what is it?”
“Also, this is only a Level 2A Space Fold. Why is there a Level 8 energy core?”
He knew too little information.
Here, the only thing Si Chen could trust was the infant Eternal Life Abyss.
“Moreover, the energy cores of the mechanically transformed fail here.”
This Space Fold has obviously gone out of everyone’s control, including the Sixth Step Evolutionary Ji Chuyao’s.
Come to think of it, a mishap had also happened in that insect civilization Space Fold where he’d met Ji Chuyao.
Si Chen sighed and came to a conclusion, “Sure enough, I can’t enter an instance with Ji Chuyao. This person is unlucky and will only bring me down.”
It was still better to work hard on his own.
The Eternal Life Abyss let out a “squeak”, expressing his deep agreement with this conclusion.
At eleven o’clock in the evening, Si Chen was about to fall asleep when the doorbell finally rang.
Al stood at the door with the two formatted Machines, the smile on his face was just right.
It was late at night and the light in the corridor was dimmed.
Al: “I brought them, my lord.”
Si Chen looked at the two Machines beside it.
Ji Chuyao and Ji Yuanji had the exact same calm expression on their faces. They stared straight ahead, expressions indifferent. They looked more like “machines” now than they ever had before.
“Master.”
Two cold human voices sounded.
Si Chen went cold. He begun to suspect that these two were going to shoot him in his sleep.
His crime? Making the heirs of the Ji Family call him ‘Master’.
“This is normal for newly-fomatted Machines.” Seeing Si Chen’s hesitation, Al explained, “They have yet to form their character. Just take your time. There are charging ports in the room. You can use those to recharge them when their energy gets low.”
Si Chen: “Okay.”
Al brought the two Machines in front of Si Chen and left quite conspicuously.
Although they still looked exactly the same, Si Chen felt like the two were separate beings to who they originally were.
Seeing this scene before him, Si Chen felt a shiver go down his spine.
Probably because Ji Chuyao has always been so responsive to him.
Although the previous situation was plenty weird, Si Chen was used to planning for the worst possible situation. However, Si Chen did have this illogical feeling, a feeling that Ji Chuyao still had a way.
When people face difficulties beyond their ability to handle, they will inevitably want to ask for help.
This idea was too weak though and Si Chen didn’t allow himself to consider it seriously..He couldn’t help this expectant feeling though.
Si Chen took a deep breath. “You guys stand guard outside the door.”
“Yes, Master.”
Two Machines, one large and one small, responded and stood obediently by the door.
Si Chen had his hand on the doorknob. He looked at the two figures from behind, was momentarily silent before he finally closed the door.
It may be because of his tired heart or it may be that the Eternal Life Abyss’ state was affecting him but Si Chen felt extremely sleepy, so sleepy that he could fall asleep standing.
However, it has always been difficult for Si Chen to fall asleep in an unfamiliar environment.
He lay on the bed, closed his eyes and wanted to force himself to sleep but he was extremely uneasy and he couldn’t restrain his irritability.
Palpitations, chest tightness, dizziness, breathlessness.
Si Chen held his palm and felt the cold sweat on his palm.
He understood that he was probably falling ill.
In addition to being in poor health since he was a child, Si Chen’s health examinations have also recorded mental illnesses such as “anxiety neurosis”.
That was why he had written down his name in the House of the Mind’s medical record book.
As he got older, the frequency of panic attacks became less and less. By the time he was attending college, Si Chen had nearly forgotten what this felt like.
He stood up and found himself trembling all over.
Is there surveillance in this room?
Could someone be watching him?
Once he falls asleep, will the Machines outside break into his room?
Why did Shen Yanxing install a locator in his prosthetic eye?
How did Dongfang Changye know his name?
Why was White Dress staying by his side?
Why did Ji Chuyao take care of him?
Si Chen moved the sofa and put it against the door of the room.
This wouldn’t be enough to stop anyone but it will at least it make some noise once the door is opened.
Pushing the sofa against the door almost exhausted all his strength. He knelt down on the ground, panting heavily.
However, what frightened Si Chen even more was that the door had just been pushed open a crack.
A hand rested on the edge of the door.
Why did it have to happen at this time?
A little of the light from the corridor came seeping in. Si Chen stared intently at that hand, his hand going to his holstered gun. But because of his incoming panic attack, his hand was trembling violently.
“… Si Chen?”
Ji Chuyao’s voice came from outside the door, “It’s me.”
Si Chen was unmoved. His eyes widened. At the moment when half of Ji Chuyao had squeezed in, he pressed the trigger.
There was little distance between the two and had it been an ordinary person, this shot would have seriously injured, if not outright killed, him.
Fortunately, Ji Chuyao was no ordinary person.
The bullet hit Ji Chuyao’s body and ricocheted off, as though it had hit a steel plate. There was no bleeding, only slightly sunken hole from the impact.
Si Chen stepped back with his gun raised, his voice was very calm. “Don’t come over, I can’t control myself right now. Wait for me for two minutes… Just two more minutes.”
According to past experience, half of his panic attacks last between 5 to 10 minutes. 4 minutes have now passed.
Si Chen seemed to be remaining calm and only he knew what kind of state he was in right now.
He was on the verge of a breakdown. Rationally, he knew that he was not going to die, that he was safe. But every cell in the body was clamoring for him to flee.
Although the lights were not turned on in the room, Ji Chuyao had night vision.
He could see that Si Chen’s pupils were abnormally constricted. His face was flushed, he was hyperventilating. His nose was breaking out with cold sweat.
Ji Chuyao has read Si Chen’s file.
In order to prevent any accidents, as Ji Sicheng’s official successor, anyone who “accidentally” appears beside him will be investigated repeatedly.
Only those they’ve deemed clean would be allowed to stay. The unclean ones, the Ji Family will find a way to make them disappear from Ji Chuyao’s life.
This “cleanliness” pertained more to a cleanliness in one’s background than a moral one.
Ji Chuyao knew him better than Si Chen imagined.
After all, it took less than 1GB to store these data in his database.
Ji Chuyao closed the door behind him. He didn’t turn on the light.
Sudden light can further aggravate his condition.
Ji Chuyao lowered his voice. “You’re safe now.”
“I know they were trying to format me, but they didn’t succeed. It’s just it’s only now that my consciousness came off standby.”
Si Chen knew he was hearing Ji Chuyao’s words clearly but his brain had stopped functioning completely. In his extremely irrational state, he couldn’t parse out effective information at all.
He could feel Ji Chuyao approaching in the dark.
The Eternal Life Abyss, affected by its host’s emotions, had inevitably taken on an offensive stance.
The inconspicuous red line on Si Chen back had split open, more than half of the body of Eternal Life Abyss’ body had made its way out. There were four tentacles in total, each of which was as thick as a water pipe.
Si Chen growled threateningly, “…Get out!”
Ji Chuyao took a step forward and took Si Chen’s hand.
Ten fingers clasped together but the price was that tentacles suddenly tightened around Ji Chuyao’s neck.
His physical strength wasn’t low but the Eternal Life Abyss’ mucus corroded welts onto his skin.
Ji Chuyao knew that he could actually simply wait a few minutes just as Si Chen said.
But he had admitted that he was unable to resist this weakness in his human nature.
This weakness to take advantage of a person’s vulnerability, a person’s emptiness to get in.
Si Chen in his normal state was a wall.
Whether crying or pleading or beating in anger, it was difficult to elicit any response.
Now a little gap had appeared in that wall.
“Don’t be afraid. Relax… No one can hurt you.” Ji Chuyao also knelt in front of him, lowered his head and kissed Si Chen’s trembling fingertips, “Least of all, me. Believe me.”
translator’s notes: have your ever clipped your nails too short and it resulted in an infection? Well that’s what’s happening to me now. It’s so painful…
Si Chen panic attack with baby going haywire—I’d back off and give him a second! Lmao! Thanks for the updates 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣
It would scared me as f*ck, if I were Si Chen!
And I hope you will recover really soon, but I can’t understand you because I have really long nails
Thank you for your translation 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍
i clip my nails pretty short but i never got that… hope you get better soon 🥲
Thanks for the chapter!
Well, when will the main boy come out because I’m starting to like Ji Chuyao a lot. I’d almost approve of the union of the two. Oh, I wish you all the best for your infection, I hope you get well soon!
Thanks for the chapter 🌹
OMG when I was young, I would leave my nails long before I cut them short cus my school doesn’t allow long nails. ( ´_ゝ`) Maybe I cut it too short to break the skin barrier but it would feel weird and uncomfortable before I would develop pus inside my finger near the nail and I would have to squeeze it out constantly. (Both finger and toe) I hurts and it’s very annoying. But I’ve learnt to not cut too short and deep which prevents it ever since I’ve went to poly as they didn’t care much.
Thanks for the chapter~~~