Chapter 92
Si Chen actually hesitated for a couple of seconds whether to believe the Eternal Life Abyss.
It wasn’t that he thought the Eternal Life Abyss would harm him. It was mainly because he didn’t believe in the Eternal Life Abyss’ IQ.
But now, life had given him no other choice.
Si Chen pulled out a piece of paper, took a pen and wrote a few lines on the paper, taking this chance before he becomes completely stupid.
-Remember to leave the experimental area and return to the residential area before 22:00.
-Meet up downstairs before 20 o’clock. If there is no one, go back alone.
-People you can trust: Lin Jiali (female, android, with black nameplate X-05), Chen Zhizhou (male, White Snake, X-09).
-The priority of the Eternal Life Abyss in your body is greater than of the above two.
-If you have nothing to do, read the notes on the test paper. You may be mentally degraded but it shouldn’t be to the point of being unable to read.
-But if you can’t, then there’s nothing you can do about it. Forget the exam and just wait to die.
Si Chen really wanted to get a tattoo of this memo. It was a pity there wasn’t enough time.
He folded the paper, put it into his shirt pocket, and said to the Eternal Life Abyss, “If I don’t remember, remember to remind me.”
The Eternal Life Abyss replied, “Squeak~”
Si Chen walked in the direction given by the Eternal Life Abyss.
As the most dangerous floor in the Khaos Manufacturing Institute, there were many sealed rooms on the 13th floor. It contained many different “experimental tools”. It wasn’t just the Eternal Life Abyss.
After so many years, some of the experimental tools had died. But overwhelmingly, most had continued on living in various terrifying forms.
For example, the room next to the archives room. On the map, it had no name, only a cold number designation: 071.
High-dimensional creature 071 was imprisoned inside. This was a crustacean that looked like a centipede. By eating its own kind alive, it reproduced from generation to generation.
In the past, the researchers valued 071’s digestive ability, studying its digestive system to make Child of God No. 13 more perfect.
Now, it was a room full of giant centipedes. Even if Si Chen could take them on, his vitality would inevitably be severely damaged.
The most important thing was that these things looked totally deceptive.
Although the Eternal Life Abyss took Si Chen on a long detour, he managed to avoid all possible dangers almost by instinct.
7:27pm. Si Chen successfully arrived at the door of Room 13.
There was a narrow glass window on the iron door of this room.
There was a seal with black characters on a white background on the door. “Do not open the seal. Open at your own risk.”
Si Chen stood on tiptoes and took a look. It was pitch black inside.
He waited for a moment, quick as the blink of an eye, a thick crimson tentacle suddenly slammed against the glass window in front of him.
Because he’d been prepared, Si Chen was not particularly surprised.
He took out the test paper and said, “There is a full grown Eternal Life Abyss locked inside.”
The test paper remained unchanged.
It seemed that this test paper was an experiential one. Just knowing was useless. He had to open the door to be considered successful in answering the question.
Si Chen could feel the Eternal Life Abyss’ uneasiness.
The Eternal Life Abyss’ tentacles hugged his neck tightly. It quietly moved from his shoulder to hide behind his collar. It then slid down his spine, pried open the bright red seam on his back and then got back into his body.
But there was no other way; this was 25 points, after all.
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The black mist burned against Si Chen’s skin like phosphorus fire. The admission ticket pinned to Si Chen’s collar gave off a dim light, flickering like a candle, driving away the black mist.
The test paper Si Chen put in his pocket gradually heated up.
[Test Question 2: What is in Room 13 of the Khaos Manufacturing Institute? 】
Answer: Eternal Life Abyss.
Maybe because the magnitude and gravity of what was inside was simply so immeasurable, the answer given by the skin paper was very crude.
A cold breath hit his face, and Si Chen felt like a frozen corpse, his movements became extremely slow.
Under his skin, dark blood boiled.
Si Chen could almost hear the “gurgling” sound.
The blood boiled in his body, easing the stiffness.
Si Chen pressed forward with his body, trying to close the door of Room 13.
But Child of God No. 13 refused to let things go as he wished.
Crimson tentacles emerged from the black mist, as thick as water buckets. It squeezed through the gap that was about to close, widening it, aiming for Si Chen’s neck.
No. 13 wanted to drag Si Chen into the black mist.
Si Chen’s pupils dilated slightly and he saw a vague humanoid figure in the black mist.
Si Chen immediately raised his ax and slashed at the tentacle grabbing his neck.
The blade opened a long gash on the side of the tentacle. On the surface of the wound were lumps of rotting minced meat but not a trace of blood could be seen.
More tentacles squeezed out from the edge of the door, like a giant open hand, trying to hold Si Chen firmly in the palm of its hand!
From out the gap on Si Chen’s back, dark black tentacles as thick as water pipes also came rushing forward.
Compared to the elder in front of it, it appeared particularly slender and soft.
But a blazing flame soon appeared on the surface of the dark black tentacles.
The red fleshy layer that made up the surface of No. 13 was burnt to a deep ebony.
The Eternal Life Abyss tried to communicate. “Chirpchirp!! Squeaksqueaksqeak——”
However, the adult Abyss in the black mist remained unfazed.
It went in to attack again, driven solely by instinct.
It couldn’t understand.
This Eternal Life Abyss had long since died.
Before the disaster, No. 13 was an internationally renowned scholar in the field of mathematics.
There is an old saying that “heroes emerge from troubled times.” The last days certainly went beyond just mere ‘troubled times’. But out of the hidden instinct of self-preservation, many bright stars were born at this critical moment of life and death.
The first batch of test subjects selected by the Khaos Manufacturing Institute were the most dazzling stars among this lot.
No. 13 had the best compatibility with the Eternal Life Abyss clone. Therefore, he was also the first person to receive the Eternal Life Abyss transplant.
Many times, Kuafu had treated him like his own child.
After all, these mutant Eternal Life Abyss specimens were cloned by Kuafu using the one he had in himself.
An Eternal Life Abyss can live forever but its hosts cannot.
Unsurprisingly, No. 13 was originally the new vessel Kuafu had chosen for himself.
The narrow corridor was splattered with pieces of flesh, smelly and sticky.
Black mist was pouring out from the crack in the door and enveloped Si Chen.
Si Chen’s body tingled. Thin burning blisters emerged on his skin.
These blisters, hidden under his clothes, cause a sharp sting when rubbed against lightly.
He was still holding on to the door. Even if his intelligence was declining, Si Chen knew instinctively that he could not let No. 13 walk out of this room.
Si Chen clenched his teeth. Because of the excessive force being used, the dark blood vessels under his skin were particularly eye-catching.
His blood was like gasoline, roaring in the engine.
The force inside the door suddenly lightened.
However, Si Chen could not be happy for long. Because even with the help of the Eternal Life Abyss, he was still not strong enough to close the door.
A pale hand suddenly appeared on the edge of the iron door.
The hand groped down and grabbed Si Chen’s wrist.
It was obviously a human hand but it felt extremely moist and sticky to the touch, like a tentacle that had simply taken the form of a human hand.
Si Chen’s arm instantly turned black.
He couldn’t even move. Once he let go, the door would be completely flung open.
This hand went all the way up, and the moment it touched Si Chen’s collar, its movement stopped slightly.
No. 13 touched Si Chen’s admission ticket; or rather, his own lab nameplate.
The light on the admission ticket had grown extremely dim. There were now even cracks on the rusty metal nameplate.
Another pale arm poked out from the crack in the door. Still, it was a left arm.
It could be inferred from this arm that No. 13 had more than one pair of arms. He must be shaped like the Thousand-Armed Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara in Buddhism.
In the hand of this arm was a glass box filled with a clear liquid.
A brown-black shrunken walnut kernel was floating up and down in the liquid.
The hand put the box into Si Chen’s pocket.
The push from inside the room instantly disappeared.
There was a loud “bang”.
Si Chen finally closed the door. His whole body was wet with bodily fluids overflowing from his pores. He couldn’t tell whether it was blood or sweat.
He stared at the bright lamp above his head for several minutes before he came back to his senses.
The Eternal Life Abyss’ tentacles seemed to have been broken and were hanging limply.
But it still raised its little tentacles to comfortingly rub the side of Si Chen’s face.
Then, the Eternal Life Abyss rolled up the memo in Si Chen’s pocket and handed it to him. “Squeak.”
Si Chen took it, opened it, took a look and asked slowly, “Little Abyss, what time is it now?”
The Eternal Life Abyss took out the mobile phone from Si Chen’s pocket and placed it on his palm.
In order to save power, Si Chen had made it a point to turn off his phone.
He pressed the power button. After a few seconds, the screen lit up and the phone asked him to enter the power-on password.
Si Chen has a strong sense of boundaries and pays special attention to privacy.
On the phone, on a completely black screen background, there was a white box in the center, waiting for him to enter the answer.
Input the wrong password three times and the system will start the formatting process.
Si Chen clicked on the question mark at the edge of the input box. A reminder popped up on the screen: “E=mc^2, He4”. *
Si Chen remembered the subject but made no move to enter a password.
Just because he remembered the subject didn’t mean he knew the answer.
Si Chen stared at the screen of his mobile phone, his eyes dazed, “Am I stupid? Why would I set something like ‘Find the energy released when helium 4 (He4) reacts’ as my power-on password…?”
***
Lin Jiali stood at the ground floor of the Khaos Manufacturing Institute, covered in blood.
On her body were obvious signs of having been bitten. The white bones on her abdomen, arms, and back were all exposed.
After emergency treatment, the wounds stopped bleeding. But, for the time being, there was no way to recover the flesh and blood that had been swallowed up by No. 5. She would only be able to repair it after leaving the Space Fold.
Excessive blood loss made Lin Jiali’s limbs cold.
She glanced at the time.
There were still 3 minutes left until their agreed upon meeting time of 8pm.
Lin Jiali took the painkiller in small sips.
Compared to her wounds, there was something far more serious that she was dealing with.
Her level of mutation had increased. Having encountered No. 5’s clone, Lin Jiali went through a fierce battle. She had exhausted nearly all of Klein Blue’s energy and yet the result was only a narrow victory.
By the time Lin Jiali regained consciousness, she had already eaten most of No. 5’s body.
The clone didn’t taste good, like stinky rotting meat.
Lin Jiali sank to her knees, feeling so sick that she retched.
She knew very well what the clone of No. 5 was.
He was a mutant human like the White Goats.
It had, however, been able to soothe the pain in her stomach and she managed to gain some energy.
But, given her condition, Lin Jiali really didn’t dare open the door to Room 5.
A mere clone had forced her to reveal all her trump cards; what more a bonafide original Child of God.
So, she gave up on the exam, came downstairs and waited for the other two to come back.
The sun was gradually setting towards the west.
Eight o’clock had come but no one came.
It was possible that they were merely delayed but more likely… Lin Jiali didn’t want to think about it.
Lin Jiali waited for another 20 minutes, the utmost limit that she could wait.
The Khaos Manufacturing Institute was extremely quiet, like a gigantic tomb.
She looked up and held back her tears.
Lin Jiali carried Klein Blue on her back, got on her motorcycle, and left without looking back.
The author has something to say:
* is the most important corollary of Einstein’s special theory of relativity, that is, the theory of mass-energy equivalence. But I really don’t know how to write big things, so I made up the question.
Is this test to see if one of them can become a new child of god? Is that a dumb thought?
is a test supposed to be this dangerous…?
So the Child of God in room 13 still has some semblance of sentience, he understands he should not leave the room he’s in.
I wonder what he gave to SC and why he gave it to him, is it because he recognized his name on the nameplate or because of the nameplate itself?
Also can we really trust LJ now that she has mutated even more?
I think number 13 gave SC another piece of Kuafu. Like the one Little Abyss took from the dead black goat.
Wah so much happened in this chapter. I wonder what the shrunken walnut kernel is? SC went through a lot so it better be good 😤 and look at LA being helpful! So cute… ah but, I wonder why it isn’t being affected the same way SC is?
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It’s a shame but LJL already did very well. The most important thing is to keep her life!!! Meanwhile… I’m still confused whether CZZ survived. 😭