Translator’s note: Sorry for not releasing a chapter last Friday. I have guests over and was busy throughout the day.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone! =) This is such a lovely chapter for Christmas. (Well, every chapters for HDINV isn’t exactly good for happy events. Haha)
Chapter 95
This was the third night in the exam venue.
Lin Jiali was alone in the room, bandaging her wounds in silence.
Almost every two minutes, she would open her backpack and check her remaining nutrient solutions.
After leaving the Khaos Manufacturing Facility, Lin Jiali had finally managed to shake off that state of extreme hunger.
In just three days, half of the dry food she’d brought had been consumed. There were still 10 days left for this exam.
Drinking nutrient solution was useless. What she needed was special medicine.
Lin Jiali took care of the wounds and lay on the bed. Though she had her eyes closed, she was unable to fall asleep for a long time.
Anxiety made it difficult to fall asleep despite being extremely tired.
Before, she could sleep peacefully because she knew someone was keeping watch. But now, she was alone.
She had no idea what happened to the others…
Lin Jiali sighed and covered her aching stomach.
The black mist tonight seemed to be thicker than usual.
Even with the door closed and the admission ticket put on, wisps of black mist still overflowed from the paper thin crack under the door.
Her sleep that night was particularly uncomfortable, especially during the second half of the night when there was a knock on the door. There was also Si Chen’s cry.
She heard Si Chen’s pained muffled cries outside the door, his tone full of pleading, asking Lin Jiali to open the door.
To be honest, Lin Jiali was shaken for a moment. Her hand was already on the door handle. But the urgency in the other person’s tone shook her awake.
Opening the door open at night was not a wise choice.
If the situation was really as dangerous as he said, Si Chen wouldn’t have had so much time to cry by her door.
Lin Jiali stayed up until dawn.
Almost as soon as four o’clock arrived and the sun rose, she impatiently opened the door.
Si Chen’s body was nowhere in sight.
Lin Jiali breathed a great sigh of relief.
…
…
In a residential building on the other side.
In a narrow room.
Chu Dongliu glanced at Song Ziyu who was holding his pregnant belly.
During the day, after the two unexpectedly met on a narrow road, they too chose to join forces.
At first, Chu Dongliu didn’t want to partner up with a pregnant man. After all, it was immediately apparent that Song Ziyu’s big belly was affecting his combat effectiveness.
But Song Ziyu said that he had information to exchange.
Chu Dongliu coughed and politely refrained from asking who the child’s father was. “Then tell me. What’s this information?”
Song Ziyu’s face was a little pale. “If you want to go to the lab area, you need to find a researcher’s work permit in the residential area. Otherwise, you will be barred outside.”
Chu Dongliu thought for a moment. “Work permit… I think I’ve seen one of those before.”
During the day, Chu Dongliu accidentally found a vending pharmacy by the roadside. Inside, standing guard, was a lizard-like mutant doctor.
The red lizard was even wearing a doctor’s uniform. It was particularly ferocious and aggressive.
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After drinking the medicine in one go, the black stain that had spread to the Chu Dongliu’s waist faded back to his thighs.
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After all, it was something that belonged to a mutant human.
Song Ziyu nodded slightly. “That’s good. We should be making relatively fast progress. It’s only the third night. When the time comes to enter the lab area, we will rely on our own abilities.”
When he said this, Song Ziyu didn’t know that the Honor Roll Team next door had already been to the lab area.
There was even an Honor Roll King, who not only finished his own test questions, but also solved Song Ziyu’s questions while he was at it.
Solving other people’s questions and leaving nothing for others to solve.
How truly terrible.
Chu Dongliu had no objection to this.
Judging by the size of Song Ziyu’s belly, he looked to be five months pregnant.
There is a school of thought that believes a fetus is regarded as a tumor by the mother’s body. And all pregnancy symptoms are the mother’s body’s attempt to save itself.
Song Ziyu had never realized this so clearly.
He could clearly feel that the thing in his stomach was like a blood-sucking insect, sucking every last bit of nutrient from him.
By Song Ziyu’s estimate, if left unchecked, on the day this fetus is born, he will definitely die.
Therefore, after a moment of silence, Song Ziyu said, “Do me another favor.”
Chu Dongliu: “Hm?”
Although the Song Family and the Chu Family have no special relationship, they themselves share a shallow friendship since they studied at Beicheng University together.
Song Ziyu forced between his teeth. “Help me deliver the baby.”
Chu Dongliu looked shocked.
Song Ziyu quickly added, “I’ll do it myself, just help me keep watch.”
He took out a knife. He sat on the bed and made air cuts over his stomach.
After getting a feel for the general direction, Song Ziyu bit down on his shirt and made a decisive cut on his stomach.
Altogether, a total of seven layers was cut to reach the uterus.
Song Ziyu hadn’t used any anesthetic and his hands were shaking from the pain.
Chu Dongliu held his bloody hand and snatched the knife away. “I’ll do it.”
The fetus in his belly made a particularly sharp cry, harsh and abnormal, like a sheep’s cry.
Chu Dongliu stretched his hand in, as if to scoop out the aberration. However, this White Goat, almost as though already conscious, hid deeper within.
Truthfully, putting your hands into someone else’s bloody abdominal cavity was a true test of mettle.
For a moment, Chu Dongliu even felt that like he was suffering from mental pollution.
Chu Dongliu’s prosthetic eyes lit up slightly as he turned on scanning mode. He grabbed the mutant by the neck and pulled it out along with its umbilical cord.
It was an incompletely formed fetus. There were pointed goat horns on either side of its head.
Chu Dongliu pinched its neck.
Song Ziyu collapsed on the bed, like he’d died once. He could clearly feel his stomach leaking.
The pain was so intense that he was starting to feel a little numb.
Without needle and thread, Song Ziyu had to hold his cut belly together and spray the surface of the wound with gene medicine.
His self-healing ability was not that strong and he will probably need to lie down for a day to recover.
Thank goodness he was a Fourth Step Evolutionary. An ordinary person would have died long ago.
Chu Dongliu had heard of Song Ziyu before. The most promising among the younger generation of the Song Family.
But it was like the Song Family’s entire share of outstanding talents had been sacrificed to Song Bai; for several generations they failed to produce anyone with any considerable talent.
These days, a person less than 1.75 meters tall was almost certainly from a poor family, who did not have the money to improve his genes when he was a child.
Song Ziyu was not tall. 173cm, half a head shorter than Lin Jiali. He looked younger than his peers.
Before, Song Ziyu’s grades in school were only among the top five. Chu Dongliu was at the same level and in the same major and had always gotten the top spot.
Therefore, when Chu Dongliu saw him at the exam venue, he immediately thought he’d gotten in through his connections.
Looking at things now, it wasn’t entirely true. At the very least, Song Ziyu was certainly decisive and merciless on himself.
Song Ziyu weakly took out his test paper. “The first question, it’s been answered.”
[What is the name of Child of God no. 11’s child?]
Answer: White Goat
The sky outside the window had turned fish belly white.
Chu Dongliu wrapped the fetus in cloth and threw it in a corner.
He heard Song Ziyu’s voice. “I need to rest today. I can’t go out with you to find a work permit. You can leave me by myself.”
Chu Dongliu was hard-spoken but soft-hearted. “We’re competitors. That I didn’t strangle you to death while you were in labor is already me being nice. See if you’d get the same treatment if it were Shen Qiu instead.”
There are three pillars within the Khaos Manufacturing Group. Despite being nominally in charge, the Song Family is the weakest overall.
For many years, the Shen Family has always wanted to be in power.
Like in the other large conglomerates, there is one big family that has absolute dominance. Otherwise, just internal friction alone could drag down the company’s development.
If Shen Qiu were here, he probably would have no qualms with killing him.
Song Ziyu was a major obstacle on his road to future succession.
The moment he raised his head, Chu Dongliu’s vision blurred for a moment.
To him, Song Ziyu, lying on the bed, looked like a different person. He had grown horns and hooves. His eyes were dark and his hair had turned into wriggling tentacles, like Medusa’s snake hair; but because he had no fur and only skin the same color as tumors, he looked much more disgusting.
Chu Dongliu was startled and blinked violently.
The scene in front of him finally returned to normal.
“… Delirium.” He rubbed his brows, “It’s so fucking annoying.”
With a cold face, he said to Song Ziyu, “I’ll be back in the evening. You’ll have to create your own luck.”
Some people are like that.
He was obviously doing a good deed but acted like a debt collector. It was a sign of low EQ.
Fortunately, Song Ziyu didn’t mind.
He whispered, “Thank you.”
Chu Dongliu walked out the door, gun in hand. He found his beloved motorcycle parked by the door.
There was half a tank of gas left in it.
He was going back to the clinic to get the work permit he’d left on the ground yesterday.
A group of scavenging mutant vultures hovered in the sky. They weren’t there yesterday and they happened to be in the same direction as his route.
The motorcycle proceeded forward. When he reached an intersection, he turned a corner.
When he saw the scene in front of him, Chu Dongliu froze on the spot, unable to move for a long time.
There were street lamps on the side of the road. But the power system had been shut down for a long time and these lights were inoperable, serving only as decoration.
Someone was hanging from one of the street lamps, a smile of relief on his face.
Most of his body had been eaten by the mutant vultures. His ribs were exposed to the air.
It was Shen Qiu.
After Shen Qiu entered the Space Fold, the debuff he received was timidity and neurosis.
Under normal circumstances, he should have been able to last a week.
But Kuafu had been extremely angry last night and the black mist was particularly thick.
After spending another night alone, Shen Qiu suffered a mental breakdown.
He chose to hang himself.
The rope used to commit suicide was from High Dimensional Creature 181, the blood-sucking vine, implanted into him since he was a child.
**
This time, Song Bai woke up at 11am.
Already much earlier than anticipated.
After another two or three days, he would probably be able to resume his good routine of waking up at 8 a.m. By that time, he should also already be good to enter the Space Fold.
Song Bai changed his clothes and prepared to go to the school cafeteria for his free meal.
There were some people within the school who knew Song Bai’s true identity but would never expose him.
For example, the cook in the canteen was an undercover agent sent by the Machine Core.
But because his food was so delicious, Song Bai never sent him back.
The cook used to be Ji Sicheng’s personal guard. Big and fat, he was, nevertheless, very tough.
The secret to his delicious food lay not in his cooking skills, but in the extremely expensive ingredients. Every month, the Machine Core spends at least 30 million credits subsidizing Song Bai’s meals.
During the previous Lunar New Year, Ji Sicheng had tasted the cook’s dishes and almost spat it out.
The taste of natural High Dimensional Creatures that have not been specially bred and raised as livestock is really hard to describe.
Ji Sicheng reasonably suspected that White King actually hated the food and simply wanted to bleed his bank card dry.
It was the same today. The dish was made from a new species from the chaotic universe. He heard it was called a Euglena. Although it didn’t look good, it tasted delicious. It was rolled into thin noodles and sprinkled with a meaty sauce made from ground Euglena brains.
He and the Eternal Life Abyss found it sumptuous.
Song Bai praised him from the bottom of his heart. “Master Ji, your craftsmanship is getting better and better.”
Master Ji scratched his bald head. “As long as you like it.”
As he was eating, Song Bai’s phone rang.
He glanced at it and saw that the call was from an unknown number.
But since this person knew his phone number, he was either a real estate sales agent or a big shot from a Great Family.
He chose to answer.
“Lord White King…”
There was a hint of suppressed anger in the speaker’s tone.
Song Bai put down his chopsticks. “En?”
“I’m not questioning you. But, I sent my son to Baidi City to take the exam. Why did he suddenly die on the fourth day?… I just want to know how it happened. I want to know the truth.” The person on the other end of the line burst into tears.
These Great Families all have some special means to detect the vital signs of their direct members.
Some can even transmit back the scenes the deceased saw before their death through the use of high-dimensional objects.
For example, the Song Family has their direct descendants eat an insect called “Twins” when they are young.
The larvae are harmless to humans and a pair hatch from each egg.
The swallowed twin can only survive on the host. Therefore, when the host dies, the other one kept in the insect house will also die.
The Song Family has a secret. Uptil now they have not dared tell anyone. Very few people know.
Song Bai’s “twin” had died many years ago.
Song Bai paused.
Then, politely ask: “Excuse me, who are you?”
Thank you for the chapter and merry Christmas~
Song Bai relaxing because he didn’t anticipate the honor students in the exam. The exam difficulty is upped!
I kinda feel sad for Shen Qiu. I don’t think we know him from the story but description of his death really hit my heart… Happy Holidays!
one death and one more mystery… as if we didn’t have enough already 😭
merry christmas!! thank you as always for all your superb job translating these masterpieces
Thanks for the chapter, and Merry Christmas! Hope you have a restful and loving holiday season.
Shen Qiu’s death was so sudden and unsettling.
Thanks for the chappy!
Happy holidays, enjoy the time <3
Happy holidays and thanks for the chapters! My questions about Song Bai have doubled 🫠
Happy New Year! Thanks for the update ❤️❤️❤️
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