Chapter 6
The power core is every mechanical Evolutionary’s all important source of power and each one is unique.
Ji Chuyao’s power core came from an S-class Space Fold, the product of a High Dimensional being. It was impossible to manufacture with the current technological level of the Blue Planet.
There is an uncertainty about what the civilization of each Space Fold will be. Although the Machine civilization is a major branch of the universe civilizations, it takes five or six times to collide with it once.
However, Ji Chuyao didn’t worry about this matter for too long.
Because he was Ji Sicheng’s only son.
Ji Sicheng was the uncrowned king of this world and Ji Chuyao was the king’s heir.
The noise from the fight just now had been a bit loud.
Ji Chuyao’s experience surviving in Space Folds was obviously much richer than Si Chen’s.
“The noises might have attracted other Evolutionaries who are looking to take advantage. I am temporarily out of combat power right now.”
“Do you know the ‘Law of the Dark Forest’? To put it simply, you need to see everyone you meet as an enemy. This is the best way to survive in a Space Fold.”
Ji Chuyao leaned his head on Si Chen’s shoulder. “So you mustn’t trust me too much either.”
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4 kilometers away from the original charging station.
Ji Chuyao took out his small folding lamp again but made it a little darker.
Si Chen took the repair spray from Ji Chuyao and sprayed it on his burned skin.
A thin film quickly covered the wound.
His chest, back, arms — wherever he had come into contact with Ji Chuyao, had burns of varying degrees.
The mildly injured areas were red with bulging blisters; the severely injured areas were black and completely charred.
The only thing he was thankful for was that his face had escaped unscathed. After all, repairing one’s facial features was much more troublesome than other parts of the body. He might possibly need a prosthesis.
The clothes on Si Chen’s body had been ones he’d pick up on the road. When he lifted his shirt off, the red and black wounds were very eye-catching against his snow-white skin.
He bit the hem of his clothes and sprayed the medicine on his wounds, shivering a few times from the pain.
Ji Chuyao asked, “Do you need my help?”
“There’s no need.”
Ji Chuyao stared at him intently and asked, “Does it hurt?”
Si Chen frowned delicately. “You want to give it a try?”
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But Ji Chuyao didn’t need that. He had installed a smart assistant and the system would alert him if there was any sort of failure. Pain would only affect his actions and judgment.
The gene medicine Ji Chuyao had given him was very useful. Si Chen’s injuries were quickly managed and new cells were starting to form.
Si Che leaned against the tree, wrapped himself in several layers of clothes then closed his eyes to rest.
Ji Chuyao looked away.
There was one thing he hasn’t told Si Chen.
In the twenty-five years since his birth, this was the weakest time of his life.
He had his auxiliary systems, his power systems and mechanical components from higher dimensions…
The price of these things was enough to make any ordinary person into a desperado.
Moreover, because his power core was broken, Ji Chuyao had basically lost the ability to use his heavy weaponry. Now he was just a bag of resources with a strong body and a lot of medicine.
Si Chen’s face was not included in his database. This showed that the other party was just an insignificant little character. According to the calculation of the system, he was someone who would never have interacted with Ji Chuyao or have been a threat to him and so, no information on him had been needed.
Ji Chuyao suddenly realized that this was the first person he knew outside the database.
Ji Chuyao asked, “What’s your name?”
As soon as he finished speaking, he felt that he was being a little presumptuous. After all, Si Chen seemed to need his rest.
Unexpectedly, he got an answer. “Si Chen.”
Ji Chuyao’s voice was gentle. “Chen represents the sun, moon and stars. It’s very suitable for you. Your parents are very good at choosing names.”
Si Chen glanced at him. “I’m an orphan.”
The atmosphere turned a little awkward.
Si Chen hadn’t been the one to choose his own name and in the orphanage before, he had simply been called ‘148’. Later he was adopted, and his adoptive parents must have named him Si Chen.
It was one of the brighter memories in his short life so far.
His adoptive father had been a mechanical engineer and his adoptive mother had been a teacher. In the Disaster Zone, this kind of intellectual family was a bit out of place.
He also had an older brother. He would bring him snacks every day after school and the price would be that Si Chen would help him with his primary school math homework.
Si Chen stayed in this home from when he was 6 until he was 9 years old.
Later, his adoptive father was promoted in his job and qualified to move to the Safe Zone. Unfortunately, there were only three spots.
So he was sent back to the state orphanage.
This was one of the reasons why he was hated by many of his peers in the orphanage.
Is it more painful to never have had or to have and then lose it?
Si Chen didn’t know.
Ji Chuyao noticed that he was saddened but there was too little information related to emotions in his database that he couldn’t analyze the reason for it.
Ji Chuyao asked, “Did I upset you?”
“It hurts, it’s cold.” Si Chen stared at the faint light coming from the gaps in the trees, “I can’t sleep.”
Ji Chuyao quietly moved closer. To be honest, he looked sort of ridiculous, walking on his arms.
He turned up his body temperature and stretched out his hand. “Here, take it.”
His arm wasn’t a mechanical part and there was no way to remove it, so he could only hold it out for Si Chen.
Currently, there are three widely adopted paths to evolution and mechanical transformation is one of them.
Si Chen held this hand with it’s peculiar feel and thought aloud, “Have all the members of your Ji Family undergone mechanical transformation?”
Those who pass the postgraduate entrance examination are given the chance to evolve.
Ji Chuyao thought for a while and replied, “‘Flesh and blood are weak, and machinery transcends’, this has always been the philosophy of the Ji Family. It’s neither good nor bad, but it does greatly improve our survival rate and political influence. My father actually think more highly of biological transformation. He said, the further the mechanical transformation, the greater the limitations. He’s been stuck on the Seventh Step since the topmost mechanical civilization is only in the Eighth Dimension universe.”
“Heaven’s Stairway is the Evolutionary’s life dimension. Simply put, the universe has a total of ten dimensions and we are in a fourth dimension universe. The limit of the living body here is the Fourth Step. An Evolutionary who has surpassed the Fourth Step, in a strict sense, is already a ‘Higher Dimensional Being’.”
“Everything an Evolutionary pursues is for the purpose of surpassing …of going beyond the limit given to oneself by the sky, the earth and the universe.”
Ji Chuyao didn’t know the preciousness of this knowledge. He had been instilled with such concepts since he was a child and he didn’t understand what kind of world ordinary people were exposed to. There’s no truth there, only a distorted reality create to hoodwink the masses in order to maintain public order.
“I have been undergoing mechanical transformation since I was very young. Because there is no pain and no anesthesia is required, I watch them operate. Skin, blood, bones. Many parts of my body have been replaced but the organs and torso that were removed were all soaked in a culture solution, they still retain their activity and they can still be used. It’s just that they haven’t been tempered and are very fragile.”
As Ji Chuyao spoke, his voice became softer.
Because Si Chen seemed to have fallen asleep.
Cell repair takes a lot of energy and drowsiness was to be expected.
He put away the folding lamp. When the lamp is fully folded, it is as thin as a sheet of paper. Its market price is 36 million. Netizens have sarcastically dubbed it as ‘the greatest product to come out of the Machine Core’ but it was actually very useful.
In the darkness, a pair of bright red eyes lit up in the bushes.
Ji Chuyao patted Si Chen’s back lightly with his hand and his eyes lit up, emitting a circle of blue light. Mysterious and dangerous.
As a result, the monster hiding in the dark retreated quietly.
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Si Chen was awakened by the heat.
Most of the burns on his body have healed and the newly grown skin had gone from pink to a lighter flesh color.
Si Chen opened his mouth, wanting to speak but his dry lips tore instantly. A metallic taste rose from his throat.
It was sweltering again. And it was worse than yesterday. The air was turning wavy from the high temperature.
“The current temperature.” Ji Chuyao said slowly, “is 87.4 degrees Celsius.”
Due to high temperature and lack of water, even the plants that are supposed to be resistant to the high heat have also turned sickly and burnt yellow.
Even the Eternal Life Abyss, exposed to the sun had turned into something that looked like a flat strip of dried seafood.
If it wasn’t for the Eternal Life Abyss occasionally breathing, Si Chen would have suspected that it had dried to death.
“The temperature here hasn’t reached the limit of my body. But it has obviously gone beyond your tolerance. And it isn’t even noon yet, the temperature will be getting higher and higher…”
His blood seemed to boil in his body. He was sweating profusely. The human body is indeed fragile and vulnerable.
His survival instincts were screaming in alarm. Si Chen drank the gene medicine Ji Chuyao handed over like water but despite that, his body was still on the verge of collapse.
A thought flashed in Si Chen’s mind: If this continues, I will die.
The effect of the medicine he can absorb has exceeded the upper limit of the body’s cells.
Gene medicine can temporarily treat his body’s injuries caused by the high temperature but it can’t make him tolerate the extreme heat.
Ji Chuyao looked at him calmly and said in a regretful tone of voice, “Si Chen, I’m sorry. The medicine I have on me can’t treat you.”
He was a man who’d been mechanically transformed. He carried more condensate with him than gene medicine. The medicine was almost gone.
Even breathing has became painful and hot.
Ji Chuyao could feel the passing of Si Chen’s life and even thought it was very beautiful, like a flower blooming before its death.
“If you are very uncomfortable,” Ji Chuyao said softly, “I can help numb your nerves. We can chat quietly until you stop breathing.”
Si Chen even wanted to laugh at that moment.
Ji Chuyao probably had never even worried about his own survival.
So he wouldn’t be able to understand how hard Si Chen had worked to get to this point.
Everything he had, he earned by himself. Each and every one had been hard-won and so, he was even more unwilling to give them up. Even pain was a badge of honor.
He has never received a gift from fate but he was also unwilling to bow to fate.
Si Chen’s eyes fell on the Eternal Life Abyss wrapped around his wrist.
He remembered the information given to him by Shen Yanxing.
“Do me a favor.” Si Chen took out the pulse cutter from his pocket, “I can’t do a transformation surgery on myself. The severe pain will affect my ability to operate.”
Ji Chuyao looked a little confused.
Si Chen’s voice was weak but also firm, “Help me ‘plant’ the Eternal Life Abyss.”
Oooooohh so this is how it happens
Thnx ya for the chappiiee~
Somehow this writing has me simultaneously anxious and calm.
Thanks for the translation!
Here comes caterpillar savior! Wha…whatever, fighting! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️
will we still see the little abyss worm baby later?
F**k, it’s so scary
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The Eternal—dried seafood—Life Abyss was hilarious 😆😆
Thanks for the chapter 🌹
Once we survive this we need to talk some sense into ML, poor thing is more robot than human. He needs to learn some street smarts! And maybe how to be human! Perhaps we can unblock these capabilities with a kiss? Hehe
Also I have much hate for that family that adopted him then sent him back 🤬🤬🤬 it definitely hurts more being abondend. But that awkward moment where ML was playing his name but then got that response from MC lmao 😂
I really love both of their personalities. It’s so interesting to read how they’ll develop.