Chapter 9
With paper and pen in hand, Si Chen recorded the plants along the road.
The prosthetic eye was indeed very useful. Not only did it have night vision but it also marked special energy fluctuations in his field of vision.
As a result, Si Chen discovered many plants. The only problem was that he had no connection to the network and so couldn’t find out what the plants were.
Regardless, he knew that all these things could be sold outside. And each would go for a good amount.
It was for this reason that many people were willing to take risks going to the Disaster Zone after a Space Fold.
The Serpent Staff Group where Si Chen worked has even set up a special department to collect raw materials for their medicines.
The Eternal Life Abyss obviously wasn’t as interested in plants. The only responses it gave were “can eat” and “can’t eat”. The reason why it classified it as ‘can’t eat’ was either because it was poisonous or it may simply not be able to beat it.
Along the way, Si Chen’s vegetable basket gradually filled to the brim. Those who didn’t know any better would think was shopping in an outdoor supermarket.
Not only could the Eternal Life Abyss identify which plants were edible, it also served as an automatic early warning system, sending warnings for dangerous creatures nearby.
When it sensed mortal danger, Si Chen would take the long way around to avoid becoming the prey of some High Dimensional creature.
After a couple of hours, he was forced to stop working. It was getting colder.
The humidity here was too low. Even when the temperature dropped, it didn’t snow. The buffeting winds though were sharp as knifes, carrying with them flying sand and rocks, scraping rough the side of his face.
Si Chen stopped in front of a ruin.
This used to be a residential area. Most of it was now buried in the sand, with only some of the roofs poking out. Fortunately, the remaining ruins were enough to shelter from the wind and sand.
Because there was no one to keep watch at night, even if he was extremely sleepy, Si Chen was unwilling to close his eyes.
He was a man of strong will, especially when it came to being hard on himself. In his early days, in order to take the university entrance exam, Si Chen would plan every minute of his life. Like a precise machine, he executed it meticulously for three years. Naturally, resisting sleep was easy for him.
But this wasn’t sleepiness from lack of rest. Rather, it was an after effect of his evolution.
Ordinarily, a new Evolutionary would be under close observation for a long period of time after his transformation. This was to ensure that there was no rejection of the merge. Si Chen was the only Evolutionary, who after his transformation, slept for a while, ate a warm meal and then set out on the road alone.
His lethargy was the harbinger of the rejection. It would have been enough to cause alarm bells to ring in the minds of most Evolutionaries.
These days, the probability of a wild Evolutionary is very small.
Like knowledge, evolutionary resources are also monopolized by the upper class.
So Si Chen didn’t know the source of his sleepiness.
Wrapped in a quilt he’d picked up, he curled up in a corner. Holding his legs close together, he fought back his drowsiness.
But a human’s will is limited after all.
Si Chen pinched and pinched. But after a while, with his head leaning against the wall, he fell asleep, completely dead to the world.
His lips were parted slightly. The tired look on his face gradually eased and he seemed to be sleeping soundly. Only that behind his closed eyelids, something rose and fell, as if something was moving around.
A small black tentacle pushed out the prosthesis installed in his left eye socket.
The Eternal Life Abyss wrapped its abdominal muscles around his round prosthetic eye and made its way out of Si Chen’s eye socket.
Compared with when they first met, the Eternal Life Abyss has grown a lot. It has even lost its fur.
It had also grown another mouth. The newly grown mouth was a small circle, lined inside with pointed deciduous teeth. They looked exactly like Si Chen’s newly grown fangs.
Only disabled Eternal Life Abyss cubs will be abandoned by their mothers.
This one had been abandoned by its own mother due to its mental retardation. A normal Eternal Life Abyss would have grown a main brain under its abdomen but this one didn’t.
But despite being mentally deficient, even this Eternal Life Abyss had noticed that Si Chen didn’t seem to be its mother.
First of all, mom wouldn’t put me back in her body.
Secondly, mom doesn’t like eating vegetables.
Of course, most importantly, this mom doesn’t respond to it.
The Eternal Life Abyss is a cold and emotionless creature belonging to the Longevity species. It is also the absolute overlord of the Eighth Dimension universe. What they pursue are benefits and greater power. They have long abandoned feelings in the course of their evolution. Even self-reproduction developed for greater strength.
Because of its mental deficiency, this Eternal Life Abyss cub has some mental activities that others of his kind did not.
It had become “attached” to Si Chen.
Its new mother was weak and not in very good health. But she hadn’t abandoned it.
So it won’t abandon its mother either!
So, the Eternal Life Abyss shook off the layer of ice from its body, squirmed back inside and while it was at it, helped Si Chen reinstall the prosthetic eye.
It even knew that the end with the pupil (the scanners) should face forward. What a clever baby!
When Si Chen closed his eyes, the Eternal Life Abyss had also lost its vision. That was why it had come out to have a look.
It entrenched itself in Si Chen’s body and fell dormant.
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Si Chen was awakened by a strong sense of crisis.
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His body was sore and swollen, but he staggered to his feet. He looked around warily.
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The ground began to tremble.
The Queen had caught Si Chen’s scent and rushed forward relentlessly like an approaching tsunami.
The Queen caught up with him and burst out of the ground.
This long worm was smaller than when Si Chen saw it the first time, but it was still humongous compared to a human body.
The Eternal Life Abyss’ saliva flowed all over the place. “Mom, there’s so much meat.”
Si Chen felt that the Queen might be thinking the same thing.
Probably understanding that it was impossible, the Eternal Life Abyss was very sensible and didn’t clamor for food.
The Queen’s two bodies, one in front and the other in the back, blocked all of Si Chen’s escape routes.
They opened their mouths, combined their roars and formed diffused sound waves. The surrounding buildings were crushed to pieces and Si Chen, who was in the center of the sound waves, suffered temporary deafness.
Trapped in the middle, he clenched his teeth as he watched the approaching sandworms.
The Eternal Life Abyss took over his body.
It understood better than anyone that it was completely impossible for the current Si Chen to defeat the Queen.
The Queen is a High Dimensional creature on the Sixth Step. Even thought it was seriously injured, its big and strong body made it fearless of any attack. While Si Chen was barely on the path of Evolution.
Even with the Eternal Life Abyss in the driver’s seat, it was still a hopeless task.
But they still chose to fight.
People can be weak, but not cowardly.
Five days have passed since the Space Fold occurred.
Only that, because of serious injuries, the Queen did not evolve. It had used most of its energy to maintain its vital signs and to repair injuries.
The Queen was the overlord of her own space dimension. She had forgotten the last time she had received such a severe blow.
This kind of fury made it want to come to this world immediately and crush all these Low Dimensional creatures. At the same time, there was also an inexplicable fear — this Low Dimension universe seemed to be different from what they’d imagined.
It wanted to torture these human, wanted them to shed every last drop of blood while they writhed in fear and died in pain. It would make this Low Dimensional species understand their own weakness, to quake in fear at the mere sight of them.
But this knife wielding ant, looking at it coldly obviously didn’t understand what fear was.
And this made it furious.
Especially since, right the next second, this ant took the initiative to attack!
Utterly ridiculous!
The short, sharp knife cut pale white marks on the Queen’s skin.
One of the Queen’s bodies pulled out its tail and aimed it straight at Si Chen.
Eyes indifferent, it could already imagine its prey’s bloody mangled body.
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Although he fought hard, Si Chen himself didn’t expect too much.
When he actually faced death, he was not afraid. He only felt it was a pity. After all, no one would inherit the millions of credits in his bank. It would simply be handed over to the state treasury.
If he had the chance, he would have wanted to donate the money to the charities founded by the conglomerates. Even if the donation would be plundered, at least a few tens of thousands would reach those who really need it.
The huge worm lifted its tail, casting a shadow on the ground. And Si Chen was right in the middle of that shadow.
He could feel the huge force pressing down the top of his head. The strong wind was like a huge palm, pushing him firmly to the ground.
Si Chen subconsciously closed his eyes.
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Ji Chuyao got good grades in his mechanical theory class. He’d even broken the speed record for mechanical installation.
As a well-rounded talent, his repair skills were also excellent.
So instead of being too upset, he jumped into the ditch and put the broken leg back together.
It was a blessing in disguise as he managed to pick up a motorcycle that still had fuel in the ditch.
Ji Chuyao violently opened the lock and rode the small motorcycle over the uneven ground. He drove it hunched low, like a delivery boy who was about to be late for a delivery.
But that was just a comparison; the speed of the small motorcycle still wasn’t that fast.
Although Ji Chuyao had already calculated the shortest distance, the Queen would still reach Si Chen one step ahead of him.
So, he made a risky move and instead of taking the shortest path, he drove up the hill instead; rushing towards the cliff without any hesitation.
From his angle, he was just in time to see the sandworms breaking out of the ground below.
His auxiliary system blared out a warning, saying that in his current state, he had less than a 20% chance to win against the Queen. It was suggesting that he turn around and get replacement parts.
The motorcycle’s power system spewed out flames and it flew towards the sky with Ji Chuyao on it.
He let go of the bike’s handles in mid-air and drew the sword from his elbow.
Ji Chuyao began to plummet but he would never reach the ground; not completely.
Because at that very moment, not only his body, but also his consciousness left his control.
[Machine God’s Descent]!
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The expected pain and death did not come.
The gorgeous silver sword light was bright. It was like something that came out of a dream. Hot green liquid poured over Si Chen’s body.
The worm’s tail was cut in half.
The belated pain caused the Queen to let out a piercing cry.
Ji Chuyao held a long and narrow silver sword in his hand. Beautiful blue lines appeared on the surface of the blade.
He was facing the Queen, with his back to Si Chen, who was lying on the ground. Compared with the urgent look he had before the battle, the expression on his face now appeared puzzled.
“Ji Chuyao” didn’t understand why he appeared here.
After the mechanical transformation of this body, it became a little uncoordinated; especially the two cheap metal prosthetic legs that were just installed. Compared to his actual own body, the gap was huge.
But as they say, ‘Since I’m already here…’.
Ji Chuyao raised his eyes to look at the Queen, his pupils shining with a faint light.
He drew a small arc with the sword, the long blade drawing a clear line on the ground, “Move a bit farther away from me.”
Lest you get hurt.
It was a pity that Si Chen didn’t hear it.
As soon as Ji Chuyao arrived, the Eternal Life Abyss judged the danger to be over and gave up controlling Si Chen’s body.
Si Chen’s overdrawn body completely shut down and he completely passed out.
For some reason, Ji Chuyao found superfluous data in his mind.
The superfluous data translated to “unhappy”.
He decided he was going to take the Queen as sacrifice for his bad mood.
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Zhuangshan District.
The secretary reported meticulously, “Director Ji, all the energy guns have been deployed. Please review.”
Ji Sicheng stood atop a high vantage point, sunglasses on his face. He said coldly, “Okay, let’s begin quickly. Blow this place away!”
For this operation, the Machine Core Group had the nearby residents evacuated.
“Yes!”
Just when the secretary was about to issue the order through the electric current, cracks appeared in the dark matter barrier in front of them; like glass hit by a heavy object.
Everyone present was shocked.
The shattering of the barrier is a sign of the Space Fold ending.
The cracks spread out in waves, gradually covering the entire dome.
“Crack”, a non-existent clap sounded; it sounded in another dimension of the universe.
Killing the High Dimensional creature that open the Space Fold can also eliminate the barrier and terminate the High Dimensional invasion ahead of its natural end.
The barrier dissipated.
They were hit by an onslaught of heat and everyone present squinted their eyes in discomfort.
A landscape like a tropical rainforest unfolded before everyone’s eyes.
But what was truly eye-catching was the sliced cliff not far off.
This was obviously not natural; the fracture was smooth and oblique and it went all the way through to the bottom of the cliff. A deep trench had been gouged into the ground.
From amidst the flying dust and dense smoke, Ji Chuyao came out carrying something in his arms.
The thing appeared to be human, wrapped in a blanket.
Ji Chuyao wasn’t in good condition. His body was split in many places, cables were broken, condensation was dripping everywhere.
Especially beat up were his legs; they were reduced to metal skeletons, thin as bamboo poles. He was using the renowned sword “Sky Blue” as a crutch.
Ji Sicheng was overjoyed. He dropped his cane and ran forward, howling as he ran, “My son, how did you get here! Your mother, that stinky bitch, has been holding meetings at the company every day. You and I, father and son, we’ve only got each other! If you die, then how will Dad live!”
Ji Chuyao: “Really?”
The sound had a strange and cold metallic quality.
Ji Sicheng was shocked. He stood up straight and his mouth hung open. Because of his shock, he spent too long thinking of what to say.
He missed the best time to ask.
Ji Chuyao’s body wavered and he fell to the ground with a bang.
Medical staff and maintenance engineers rushed forward with stretchers. While they were at it, they also carried away the unconscious Si Chen.
Ji Chuyao was immediately wheeled into the operating room. But the package he left behind aroused Ji Sicheng’s strong curiosity.
According to the scan, it was a heavily injured individual. He was displaying symptoms of a High Dimensional organism merging rejection.
Old Man Ji stepped forward. He lifted a corner of the cloth covering Si Chen’s face and performed a facial scan and search.
Relevant information instantly flooded into Ji Sicheng’s mind.
Si Chen, male, 22 years old. No criminal record. No parents. Grew up in a state orphanage on Xinhe Street, Zhuangshan District.
Studied in Donglan University, majoring in gene biology, graduated in the 47th Year with a bachelor’s degree in biology. A fifth-class citizen in the Safe Zone; an employee of the Serpent Staff Group.
[Data update] Evolutionary (First Step), biological type.
Why was this person in the Disaster Zone?
Why did Ji Chuyao walk out with him in his arms?
How did he become an Evolutionary?
Ji Sicheng thought for a long time.
The people around were cowed by the cold aura emanating from Old Man Ji. They were so scared, they didn’t even dare to make a sound.
Ji Sicheng coughed. “What are you all standing around for? Haven’t you called for a doctor yet?”
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Zhuangshan District, hospital. ICU.
Si Chen opened his eyes and saw a metal ceiling above his head. Cold tubes were connected to his body.
Once someone realized that he was awake, a green light came on by the door.
Because of the existence of different types of Evolutionaries, nowadays there are two types of hospitals.
One is a hospital for mechanically transformed people and the other is a general hospital for other types. The doctors on hand at the two hospitals are also quite different.
Si Chen was sent to a general hospital. Because he’d been brought in by the Ji Family, the hospital dared not neglect him in the slightest. He was given the best room and the best medicine.
With the current level of medicine, a low-level Evolutionary like Si Chen, so long as he had breath, he was sure to be healed. They just had to fill him up with few bottles of medicine and wait for his body to regenerate.
It was just that Si Chen’s drug resistance was a bit too high. The dosage he needed was more than ten times that of ordinary people.
If they hadn’t seen it with their own eyes, everyone would suspect that the hospital was running a scam to swindle money.
After regaining consciousness, Si Chen’s first reaction was that he was still alive.
Second reaction: It’s a pity that he lost his cart of fresh vegetables… Oh no, High Dimensional organisms.
There were still lingering aches in his body from being crushed, as well as extreme pain from his empty stomach.
The Eternal Life Abyss had just woken up and was waiting for food. “Mom, hungry! Hungry!”
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Because of his inability to feel pain, Ji Chuyao woke up a little ahead of Si Chen.
When he woke up, the engineers were re-soldering his mechanical parts.
Because of overuse, his energy core was completely shattered and he fell from the Sixth Step all the way back to the First Step. Fortunately, the family still had spare parts. The most urgent thing was they be able to repair him back to a whole working body.
Afraid that Ji Chuyao would be bored, the engineers thoughtfully put VR glasses on him, so that he could go online directly.
Ji Chuyao opened the social media app and his inbox was flooded with messages from relatives and friends from everywhere.
– I heard that you went to Zhuangshan do some research and you strayed into a Space Fold?
– I heard that you and your classmates met a Sixth Step High Dimensional creature in the Space Fold?
– I heard that you saved someone from the Space Fold. Someone pretty. How pretty?
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-I heard that you fell in love with a commoner and eloped with him to the Space Fold. Uncle Ji was so angry that he mobilized 88 energy cannons to break it open and get to you!
Ji Chuyao: “…”
This was getting outrageous.
Wait does he know he’s a replica??
Thank ya for the chappiiee~
Only the main body knows about the replica; the replica doesn’t know about main body. So, this arrival by the main body isn’t a conscious move by the replica, replica-JCY was going in there thinking he might lose against the Queen
Ahaaa aight thnx babe, I just thought that with his intelligence he would at least have a clue as this tech should be well known to the higher-ups. Idk
Thnx ya for the chappiie~
Thanks for the awesome chapter! 🤣❤️
how did the last message came to be lmao?!
Хм, я не все понимаю, но думаю, что понимаю достаточно для чтения
Спасибо за перевод 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
*извините, неправильный язык
Хм, я не все понимаю, но думаю, что понимаю достаточно для чтения
Спасибо за перевод 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
🤣🤣🤣 this is so much fun!
Thanks for the chapter!!
Gossip is really a horrible thing. Get a part of the truth out and when it gets back to you, it doesn’t resemble the original even the slightest.
Also, Ji Chuyao being confused about emotions is cute, and… the Eternal Life Abyss is also… oddly… kinda disgustingly… cute.
Thanks for the chapter!
The little girl in my heart squealed horribly when the eternal life abyss cub popped the prosthetic eye out. Eyes popping out… no.. nooooo… 😱
I’m confused, which is the main body? The robot-JC or the human one. And what happened in this chapter, who or what took Robot-JC.
The main body of Jiang Chuyao is the non-mechanized, (in)human one dressed in a western suit. That one knows of his replica’s (who had 37% of his body replaced by mechanical parts) existence because he created him apparently, but the replica doesn’t know he’s a replica. During the fight against the Queen insect, the main body possessed the replica.
*I meant Ji Chuyao, not Jiang Chuyao
The eternal life abyss is adorable 🥰
and im ngl I like the replica Ji Chuyao better rn