Chapter 94
Maybe it was because he had just woken up; although No. 9’s speech was slow, his thinking was extremely fast.
Si Chen reacted. “You mean, Kuafu doesn’t dare to do anything when the sun, or No. 13’s eyeball, is staring at him. But after dark, Kuafu will appear?”
No. 9 nodded.
“Is the person in the black mist Kuafu?”
No. 9 nodded again, looking a little dazed.
Si Chen hesitated for a moment: “But at the Khaos Manufacturing Facility, I saw No. 11 and No. 13. They were also in the black mist.”
No. 9 replied, “Because, we are all pollutants.”
He didn’t want to explain too much, but Si Chen looked completely confused.
No. 9 paused and said, “The Eternal Life Abyss is highly polluting. Creatures close to it will undergo varying degrees of mutation, lose their sense of autonomy, and become pollutants. This is the most terrifying characteristic of the Eternal Life Abyss. Song Kuafu used this characteristic to spread pollution disease around the world.”
“The only effective medicine for this disease is sold only by Khaos Manufacturing. And that is how the Khaos Group become a behemoth that no one could contend with.”
Some arms dealers try to make a fortune out of the country; Song Kuafu made his fortune out of the world; sucking the blood of the entire planet to fill his own pockets.
“However, decades later, Song Kuafu could no longer control the pollution disease. Humanity was struggling to survive under the raging pollution and was on the verge of extinction… Therefore, Song Kuafu decided to save the world.”
“In the beginning, Song Kuafu and the director wanted to create human weapons. Mutant people who would retain their sanity and fight against other pollutants. The ‘Children of God Project’ came into being. They selected 13 test subjects from around the world. They used to Eternal Life Abyss to transform us.”
“Later, they discovered that we, the Children of God, could not only be used as weapons to kill pollutants but also as containers to absorb the black mist. So, Kuafu decided to devour all the Children of God, to complete his evolution and break through the Ninth Step.”
Si Chen couldn’t hold back and interrupted him: “What is the black mist?”
“It’s what’s produced after the death of mutated humans. It’s highly polluting. But it is also a type of energy that can allow Evolutionaries to evolve. The black mist has replaced the Eternal Life Abyss as the a new source of pollution.”
“Is Kuafu Song Kuafu? The founder of Khaos Manufacturing.”
No. 9 thought for a moment, nodded and shook his head, looking a little tired. “Stop talking. It’s getting dark.”
Si Chen took a couple of steps forward, then slowly stopped. “Can you still walk? Do you need me to carry you?”
No. 9 controlled Chen Zhizhou’s body and slowly stood up.
With the snake’s tail, he was almost two meters tall when standing. Even so, there was still a long length of tail trailing behind him.
No. 9 said, snake tongue slipping between his lips, “No need. His distorted form is similar to mine.”
By this time, the sun had already fallen halfway down the horizon. There was more black dust billowing in the air, as if someone was burning paper money.
Si Chen chose a double room.
It was close to the lab area and the accommodation conditions were obviously much better. There were even wool quilts in the closet.
It was obviously not ordinary wool, having remained undamaged despite the many long years. Si Chen touched it and thought that it felt like the White Goat’s down.
Dark was at 10pm. The sun was set to rise at 4am.
Si Chen originally thought that he and No. 9 would have six hours to spend the night together.
Six hours was enough for him to understand the ins and outs of the matter.
However, after Si Chen laid out the quilt, he looked back at No. 9, who was leaning against the door with the door open. It seemed like he had no intention of coming in.
His dark eyes, whose whites could not be seen, carried a different kind of strange feeling.
“I won’t go in.” No. 9 took off the admission ticket from his collar and gently threw it to Si Chen, “No matter what, don’t open the door at night.”
Saying so, No. 9 took a step back and closed the door.
He disappeared into the black mist.
The sun had finally set and through the window, one could see that it was pitch black outside.
It seemed to be extremely cold this night. Si Chen was covered with a woolen blanket and was still shivering from the cold.
He wasn’t sleepy yet. He simply sat up and organized his backpack.
This kind of backpack is nicknamed the “dry food bag”. It is made from the skin of high-dimensional creature 817, which looks like a toad. Because of its skin’s remarkable elasticity, the bag might not look big, but it can hold a lot.
The most important thing in this bag were the remains of the Children of God that he collected today. A shriveled brain and a ball of jelly-like red meat.
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“You can’t eat these.” Si Chen whispered.
Although he was very tempted, No. 9 was standing outside the door.
If he ate them, Si Chen was worried he might not see the sun rise tomorrow.
He placed another layer of containment bags over the containment boxes. Unfortunately, it had little effect and the aroma in the room became stronger and stronger.
There then came some noise from outside the door.
It sounded like someone was moving around restlessly.
Si Chen had already placed both admission tickets on the door. This was the most effective measure he could arrange at the moment.
This was the protection that came from the Children of God.
To a certain extent, candidates could be protected from pollutants at night.
Si Chen ignored the footsteps outside the door.
He checked his other things.
Test paper, experiment records, a researcher’s suicide note, a Child of God’s letter, a USB flash drive… plus No. 9’s narrative.
All the clues had to be connected together to reveal the truth behind this absurd world.
After the death of the first generation Children of God, Kuafu did not become a god as he wished. And half a century later, because he could not control the pollution, he tried to create a second generation Children of God.
The background of this world was already very clear. Si Chen lowered his head and pieced together No. 13’s note once again. “It’s just that it’s still unclear what the first generation Children of God did…”
There was a piece of paper missing, [Sooner or later, he will** and become a god].
Si Chen poked the hole with his fingertips: “Are the missing words ‘eat us’?”
Just as he was thinking this, there was a sudden knock on the door.
This knock on the door seemed very polite. It went three times — knock, knock, knock.
Si Chen’s heart was beating very fast. His hand fell on the ax lying beside the bed.
He grasped the ax and stood up. The bloody scent from the ax filled the air and a faint look of murderous intent appeared on Si Chen’s face.
After finding that no one was coming to open the door, the person outside the door whispered, “Si Chen, it’s me.”
It was Chen Zhizhou’s voice.
But Si Chen wasn’t going to let down his guard because of this.
He still remembered what No. 9 said, telling him not to open the door at night no matter what. Moreover, Si Chen was already well aware of the consequences of opening the door from last night.
He would be dragged into the black mist and assimilated into the abyss; becoming a portion of fertilizer.
Chen Zhizhou’s voice sounded weak. “I know what you are thinking… No. 9 has left. He also took Kuafu away. I was alone outside the door and could only rely on my admission ticket to keep standing. There’s so many pollutants nearby. I can’t hold on anymore.”
After saying that, Chen Zhizhou coughed violently.
Si Chen still didn’t answer.
So, the person outside the door chuckled. “How heartless. We even slept in the same bed last night.”
Obviously, this was not Chen Zhizhou.
As his words fell, Si Chen clearly saw signs of movement on the door handle.
The handle of the door was slowly being pressed down. The iron door even made the same “squeak” sound as an old wooden door.
Si Chen stared at the door, his heart beating fast. The ax handle in his hand was almost crushed from how tightly he was holding it.
If adrenaline is secreted appropriately, it can significantly improve a person’s mental state; excessive secretion, though, can cause a series of physiological problems such as hyperpnea and rapid heartbeat.
Si Chen couldn’t control the secretion of hormones in his body, but he obviously had a strong heart.
Even at such a tense moment, his mind remained calm.
‘Dong long’; there was a muffled sound at the door.
What Si Chen was worried about did not happen.
The door was unlocked, but due to various restrictions, Kuafu could not open the door.
Si Chen let out a long sigh of relief and put the axe down.
But the moment he turned around, Si Chen’s heart stopped.
A face had appeared outside the window next to the bed.
It was a pale face, like that of a dead man. Its eyes were pitch black, with no whites.
Si Chen had seen this face in the video. It belonged to the scientist, the director of the Khaos Manufacturing Institute.
Now, Kuafu was standing by the window, looking at him coldly.
“……Fuck.”
Si Chen calmed down and cursed softly.
Kuafu looked around the room. When he saw the containment boxes, unabashed desire and greed appeared in his eyes.
Si Chen took a deep breath.
He sat beside the bed and held up the containment box containing the flesh and blood of Child of God No. 11, letting Kuafu, who was outside the window, clearly see what was inside.
Si Chen opened and closed his mouth, silently mouthing, “Are you looking for this?”
Kuafu didn’t answer, but his expression revealed everything. His long, sharp nails dug into the glass.
Si Chen closed his eyes and thought for a moment.
People like Kuafu, they probably craved power and adulation.
When he opened his eyes again, Si Chen’s expression looked particularly ardent and pious. “You must be Kuafu. I saw those experiment records. It was a truly ingenious idea. I myself had a very annoying enemy in the past. He had gouged my eye out. So after becoming an Evolutionary, I tuned him into a human swine, able to eat only through his nose.”
Si Chen gestured wildly, an extremely excited expression on his face. “Have you ever seen a human swine? They’re conscious but cannot move. I had him lie on the hospital bed and look at me day after day.”
Kuafu made no move but he seemed to be listening to Si Chen’s words carefully.
Si Chen: “You must know that I am not from your world. I don’t care about the life or death of these people. Winners are king, losers are bandits. Being nutrients for your body should already be the greatest honor for these ants.”
He had a smile on his face and looked even more sick than Kuafu.
“I’m here for a test, sir.”
He unfolded the test paper and placed it in front of Kuafu’s eyes.
“Our world has a system for further education. Academic qualifications are linked to future earnings.” Si Chen said, “I am a fifth-class citizen, born inferior to others. If I pass this exam, I can obtain qualifications to be a second-class citizen. However, in this exam, only one person will be admitted.”
He looked at Kuafu, his eyes full of longing. “I know, you must know the answer. I am willing to give the remains of the Children of God in exchange. They asked me to resurrect them. But you see…”
Si Chen raised his head and pulled the collar of his clothes down a little.
Song Kuafu could clearly see the traces of the tentacles on his neck.
“They also want to kill me. You also want to kill me. In this case, I choose to cooperate with you. At least you can still communicate.”
Kuafu was still standing outside the window, his eyes cold and scrutinizing.
Si Chen bit his finger, looking extremely impatient and anxious. “You have nothing to lose, sir. Please…”
Kuafu could speak. It simply depended on whether he wanted to talk or not.
He wrote two words on the glass. “Open the door.”
Si Chen shook his head. “I’m not stupid. You are an existence that I can not compete with. I would rather this deal fall through than take that risk. If you agree, I will put these in this room. You can come and get them yourself the next day. There are still 10 days until the exam ends and I won’t default on my payment.”
Song Kuafu looked thoughtful, as if he was thinking about whether to agree or not.
Finally, he nodded slightly.
If it weren’t for the situation, Si Chen would have wanted to let out a laugh.
“Are you Song Kuafu, the chairman of the Khaos Manufacturing Group?”
After thinking for a moment, Kuafu nodded slightly.
“Did you eat the first generation Children of God?”
Nod.
“Were you killed by No. 13?”
Nod.
“Why do you look like the director?”
Si Chen spoke very quickly, not even giving much time for the pollutant outside the window to think.
Kuafu breathed out a cloud of mist on the glass and wrote these words: He led the wolf into the house.
This “wolf” referred to Kuafu himself.
When he’d found the director, Song Kuafu was already over 230 years old.
Though his mind had still been sharp, his body had been about to rot.
More importantly, his increasingly decaying body could no longer suppress the Eternal Life Abyss, which had been ready to make its move.
And so, Song Kuafu had deliberately given some wrong information.
He made the director think that so long as he implanted the Eternal Life Abyss, he would be immortal like him.
Song Kuafu had once said that he liked gamblers.
Just as he expected, the greedy director had the Eternal Life Abyss removed from his body during an operation and implanted into his own body.
What the director didn’t know was that after so many years, the Eternal Life Abyss and Song Kuafu had already become one. They were indistinguishable from each other.
From this point, Song Kuafu completed his new life in the body of the director.
To be honest, Song Kuafu had never been very satisfied with this body. His favorite was number 13. Among the many test subjects, only No. 13 was implanted with a complete Eternal Life Abyss. The other test subjects were all mutant humans with pieces hobbled together.
Unfortunately, No. 13 had been too disobedient.
“Did you already devour the Children of God?”
Nod.
The test paper in his hand started to heat up.
Si Chen lowered his head and found that the word “Eaten” was crookedly sewn at the bottom of the fourth question.
There were also parenthesized words at the end: (10 points).
The full score was 25.
[Question 4: How did Kuafu kill the Children of God?]
It seemed that the test paper did not fully approve of Si Chen’s problem-solving method.
It even felt that Si Chen and the exam question were colluding, cheating it before its very eyes.
Si Chen put away the test paper and asked the last question, “Then how did you die?”
Kuafu laughed and said something long at normal talking speed.
Unfortunately, Si Chen couldn’t hear, let alone understand.
Kuafu stretched out his pale and slender hand. He knocked on the glass window, asking Si Chen for something. “Now, give it to me. I’ll be here. I won’t move. You go to the door.”
Si Chen was mostly done asking what he wanted to ask.
So, without any expression on his face, he covered the window with a blanket.
How old are you to be so naïve?
A moment later, there came angry knocking on the door.
Si Chen covered his ears and slept soundly to the musical accompaniment.
The author has something to say:
Dr. Xiong: @Song Kuafu, what a coincidence, did you also forgot to download the national anti-fraud app?
Pfft 🤭 Scammed! I do wonder how he was killed though
😂 Thank you for the chapter
Hehe, Si Chen is the best~ So what if Kuafu is close to being an eldritch horror? His mind is still human, and obviously less bright than Si Chen’s.
Thank you for the chapter!
Or, he’s too arrogant from being used to being in a position of absolute control, so his wits have dulled.
Si Chen scamming the elderly is morally reprehensible 😔
scammed so hard 😂
Oh no he’s not dead o(TヘTo)
Gul—li—ble… Did he really think Si Chen would open that door, Pfft! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️
Ahahah
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