Chapter 91
Chen Zhizhou had a splitting headache. His whole body felt light, as if he were walking on clouds.
Without him noticing, his arms were already covered with bloody marks from his own pinching.
This exam venue was assimilating them. More intensely after entering the floor corresponding to their assigned numbers.
Chen Zhizhou had almost exhausted all his strength resisting this sleepiness.
If you were to fall asleep in a normal exam, at most, you’d have to hand in a blank paper and try again next year; if you were to fall asleep in this exam, you may never to wake again.
Chen Zhizhou planned to resolve this quickly, so he went straight to Room 9.
Snow-white snake scales appeared on the surface of his skin.
Chen Zhizhou held on to the wall and stumbled along the way, feeling like he’d been walking for a century.
But on the map, he was actually only halfway to his goal.
Room No. 9 was at the far end of the corridor.
Chen Zhizhou turned back and looked at the empty corridor behind him, suddenly regretting this decision.
Truth be told, he wasn’t actually hellbent on going to Baidi University for graduate studies. Being able to qualify for the exam was confirmation enough of White King’s acknowledgement of his abilities.
Chen Zhizhou was very talented. He had never encountered any setbacks in his life. For him, it has always been a matter of whether he wanted to do something and not whether he could do it.
But at this moment, Chen Zhizhou had to admit that he had been diminished; because he was beginning to doubt if he could do this.
But just retreating like this? It was only natural that he’d feel a bit unwilling. What’s more, he still carried the weight of the expectations of his entire family.
Chen Zhizhou gritted his teeth and touched his waist.
His transformed hand was long and slender; sharp nails grabbed a scale and pulled hard.
Blood spurted out.
The severe pain cleared his head for a moment.
Of course it was painful to have his scales pulled out.
Chen Zhizhou’s father was a direct descendant of the Chen Family, ranking fourth in its hierarchy. The head of the Chen Family was his uncle.
His father’s talent was mediocre and he had only reached the Fourth Step after taking countless gene evolution pills. He was from a Great Family, but he couldn’t fit into the society of the Great Families.
His father’s greatest achievement was birthing a good child; he was far from worthy of being the heir and there was no way he could ever compare with those geniuses.
But Chen Zhizhou was different. He was the hope of the whole family.
He has been undergoing biological modification since he was a child and his training has been endless.
As a child, whenever he fell behind his rivals or failed to get first place, his father would angrily pull off his scales. It was just painful enough to serve as punishment without affecting his condition the next day.
Chen Zhizhou had not felt this familiar pain for a long time.
A white snake scale fell to the ground, making a metallic ding.
Chen Zhizhou wasn’t obsessed with winning but he couldn’t lose.
It was this thought that kept him moving forward.
Finally, Chen Zhizhou arrived in front of Room 9.
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A chill shot up from the soles of his feet.
A thought suddenly burst into Chen Zhizhou’s mind: In this constant half-awake state, how could he be sure that he wasn’t in a dream?
He took a deep breath and slowly closed the door. Then he closed his eyes and started to back away.
Chen Zhizhou didn’t want this 25 points anymore. He wanted to get out alive.
If the eyes deceive, then rely on intuition and instinct.
Because of the biological transformation, in some ways, he was more like an animal than a human.
He walked with his eyes closed, his survival instinct now surpassing his sleepiness.
Chen Zhizhou retreated the entire way until his back was against the iron door he’d come in.
He opened the door and quickly fled.
Chen Zhizhou walked into the elevator. But he couldn’t help but look back, taking one last look at the corridor of the lab area.
This was his greatest regret of this day.
From out of the abyss, Chen Zhizhou saw a pair of eyes.
**
Si Chen walked out of the elevator reeking with the stench of blood.
After one last check of his equipment, just in case, Si Chen drank a tube of gene medicine and then opened the door to the laboratory.
He took out the map and found that there were no operating rooms on the 13th floor; instead, there was an “incubation room”. Next to the incubation room was the archives.
And so, without any hesitation, Si Chen walked to the incubation room.
But the room was locked.
Si Chen took out the key he had taken from the researcher on the 11th floor. The key fit.
Had Si Chen been thinking normally, he would have probably wondered how a key on the 11th floor could open a room on the 13th; he would have wondered if there was a conspiracy afoot.
But right now, he was operating on instinct. He turned the key and opened the door.
The room was very spacious. Its four walls were divided into squares of uniform size by countless iron frames. In each grid, there was a sealed square iron can.
The style of these tin cans was very special. It was glass inside with a metal fence-style cage covering its outside. The content of the can was just vaguely visible.
Si Chen took one off the wall.
The water in the box was so turbid it had already turned green.
“This is metal used to contain high-dimensional creatures…” Si Chen held the brick-sized box and said to himself, “It’s not completely sealed, probably for observation purposes.”
As he moved, the contents of the box seemed to awaken.
A long, thin, chopstick-like black insect flashed past the edge of the glass.
It was completely black, with white pustules bulging on its body. The front end had a round annular mouthpart ringed with fangs.
This Eternal Life Abyss larva looked a bit strange.
After all these years, it was still alive; as expected of a race named “Eternal Life”.
Adult specimens could easily starve to death due to insufficient nutrition, but larvae could survive under such conditions.
The Eternal Life Abyss in the box began to hit the glass, obviously restless. It probably wanted to go out.
The Eternal Life Abyss inside Si Chen’s body let out a threatening roar: “Squeak!”
With this roar, the walls, covered with Eternal Life Abyss larva specimens, seemed to come to life.
They writhed wildly in their containment boxes. Some of them were so strong that they made loud thuds as they banged against the glass.
Si Chen hesitated for a moment and asked, “…You want to eat them?”
Even though he couldn’t smell it through the glass, Si Chen felt that eating these Eternal Life Abyss specimens should be a great supplement.
The Eternal Life Abyss replied: “No eat, bad, make stomach hurt.”
Although there was something wrong with its brain, it was, after all, a naturally bred and healthy Eternal Life Abyss; an existence much nobler than these genetically modified sea cucumbers in storage boxes!
Si Chen put the box back.
Beyond this wall of Eternal Life Abyss larva, was an operating counter.
Si Chen pulled out one of the drawers, where within he saw a bottle of injectable sedative. Another bottle with the Khaos Manufacturing trademark was a special medicine used to curb physical pollution in humans. A third bottle did not have a production label. Although it was sealed and stored, most of its contents had evaporated, leaving a thin layer of transparent mucus at the bottom.
Si Chen uncorked the bottle, poured it out and smelled it.
This smell was somewhat familiar.
It was the cell fluid from the body of an Eternal Life Abyss mother.
Si Chen had only encountered it once in his life, when it had been given to him by Shen Yanxing before he became an Evolutionary.
It was used to lure the larvae of the infant Eternal Life Abyss into the host body.
Si Chen tried to get the gears in his brain moving. “They must have been implanting Eternal Life Abyss here…”
So, Child of God No. 13 was actually an Evolutionary who’d been implanted with an Eternal Life Abyss?
Si Chen left the incubation room and walked into the archives room opposite.
All the information in the cabinets had been cleared.
Si Chen finally found a USB flash drive with a burned chip in the trash can, as well as a pile of blood-stained waste paper.
Si Chen pulled out a chair, brushed off the dust, and sat down in front of the table. He began to patiently put the paper pieces together.
He’d put together puzzles before and it didn’t take him long to piece together the shredded pieces of paper.
The sheet of paper was missing several pieces. Fortunately, overall, it didn’t affect its readability.
-I am number 13. By the time you see this piece of paper, I’ll be dead.
-I’ve discovered that this so-called Children of God Project is nothing but a big lie.
-We do certainly absorb pollution. My mutation causes me so much pain every day that I can’t even sleep. My eyesight is failing, I have no energy, my thinking is slow… I am gradually turning into the most loathsome pollutant; a monster named god.
-Kuafu just wants to use our bodies to complete his evolution. He wants to break through the limitations of dimensions, become a true god who transcends countless universes, becoming the one and only master of those civilizations.
-Sooner or later, he will** and become a god.
-What can I do? Escape with all the test subjects? True, we can indeed escape. But what about everyone else in the secure base?
-I have this crazy idea in my head.
-This idea requires everyone else’s help and I’m not even sure if it will work.
-I do not know who you are. But if one day, you see my diary…
-Then we should have…succeeded?
However, the handwriting of the last two succeeding lines of this page was obviously different.
[What you can see is just what I want you to see.]
[Do you like this story?]
Si Chen rubbed his brows. “The priority level of this world should be very high.”
If the world they lived in was in the fourth dimension, this world was at least of the same level as the mechanical civilization created by the Carolians, coming from the eighth or ninth dimension.
The Carolian Civilization was the origin of the Machine Core.
This was probably the origin of Khaos Manufacturing.
After all, in the previous video, Song Kuafu had said “found” rather than “join”.
The last Space Fold from the birthplace of the mechanical civilization is still shrouded in the polar glaciers. It is a tacitly acknowledged forbidden area for humans.
Si Chen looked shocked. “No way, White King couldn’t have opened an S-level Space Fold for us to take the exam in, right?”
He thought back to the various mutants he had encountered on the road.
They were generally at levels three to four, not beyond their capabilities to handle.
Perhaps, because of the Children of God Plan something happened to this world.
In the end, Kuafu failed to ascend.
There was still fifty minutes left before the meeting time.
Fortunately, he wasn’t far from Room 13.
Si Chen walked out of the archives room and looked down at the map in his hand.
He was silent for a long time and found that he could no longer identify the direction from this bird’s eye view.
The layout for floor 13 was somewhat more complicated.
Si Chen’s pride in his intelligence suffered a devastating blow.
Fortunately, he carried a plug-in cheat with him.
Si Chen asked, “Little Abyss, which way should we go now?”
The Eternal Life Abyss came out from the back of his hand, went all the way up and sat on Si Chen’s shoulder.
In the past, the Eternal Life Abyss had no head. But now, a bulge has grown in the center of its body.
This made it look less like a starfish and more like an octopus.
The tip of its tentacle pointed out a direction. “Squeak!”
It was indeed its mother’s good son.
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Too cuuute o((>ω< ))o LA is the group leader now
It is indeed it’s mother’s good son
I absolutely adore cubs in novels. Its the naivety that babies have towards their mother and the affectation they have ( 〃▽〃)
Thanks for the chapter~~~
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