Shen Jie: “…”
Shen Jie found it difficult to assess Lin Ze’s remarks.
He had a few things he wanted to say but didn’t know where to start.
“What is the Judgment Society?” he asked the system in his mind.
[System: The Judgment Society is the upper-level organization of the alien alliance. The people in the organization claim to be knights welcoming the arrival of the King of aliens. They use this as a reason to search for potential alien talents around the world, letting them fight and devour each other, cultivating them into large-scale disasters, and then continue to develop the lower ranks. In simpler terms, it’s a somewhat inhumane pyramid scheme organization.]
Shen Jie: “Do they ever consult the King about their actions?”
[I’m not sure about that. However, the current leader of the Judgment Society is a powerful individual from the “Fate” category, capable of foreseeing the future to some extent. So, many aliens believe what it says.]
[One of the most brainwashing statements is, “A new King is about to be born, judgment brings finality. At the end of the apocalypse, the world will be reborn.” That’s also where the name “Judgment Society” comes from.]
Sounds very edgy.
Shen Jie fell silent for a moment, unable to resist tapping his fingertips, and said, “Who is the leader of the Judgment Society?”
System: [Hmm… perhaps you know You Know Who?]
Shen Jie: “If you’re referring to the villain without a nose in the movies, then yes, I do know.”
Zong Lin often brought back some movie DVDs collected from the ruins when he went on missions in the wilderness, and they would watch movies together at home during their breaks. There were all kinds of genres in them.
The movie he remembered was said to be quite famous before the apocalypse.
System: [Ahem… that’s about right. The masked appearance does indeed make it look like it has no nose. Not only does it have no nose, it also lacks eyes and mouth.]
[Although I know its name, I can’t mention it. No one dares to. Because as soon as it’s mentioned, it will sense it, and sensing it can establish a connection, which may directly involve you, the host. According to the timing, it’s about to ascend to Rank One now. The attack methods of the “Fate” aliens are unpredictable and difficult to defend against. It’s better for you to keep your distance from it.]
Shen Jie thought of something and said, “You mentioned attack methods. Does it include locking the probability of something?”
The system pondered for a moment and replied, [That is indeed one of its abilities, but there are many limitations. If it’s a remote attack against a strong individual of the same Rank, it may only be able to directly influence certain surroundings and objects around the opponent, and it also requires a considerable cost.]
Alright, the case is solved.
The culprit behind Zong Lin’s inability to wear the suppressor.
There are many drawbacks to not being able to wear the suppressor. One is the increase in infection value, which also affects normal life.
Zong Lin hasn’t dared to touch him forcefully these past few days.
[Leave that aside for now, host, Lin Ze is reaching out! Everything on the “Undead Soul Corpse” is highly infectious and should not come into contact with the body—quick, get away!]
“Do I look like I can dodge right now?”
Shen Jie’s expression was blank.
Both of his hands were shackled with metal handcuffs, and his pitch-black eyes watched as Lin Ze approached, with something brewing inside them.
The blood on Lin Ze’s wrist was still dripping, falling onto Shen Jie’s clothes.
The expression on the other party’s face had already returned to gentleness, and his gaze at him was like that of someone looking at a patient in need of surgery.
“Too bad, if you had obediently swallowed the ‘Egg of Metamorphosis’ just now, the effect would have been better. That thing is specially prepared for you ordinary humans, gradual transformation increases the success rate.” Lin Ze said.
“If I do it myself, you might die.”
The number of ordinary people who died from body collapse due to exceeding an infection value of 100 was far greater than those who became aliens.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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Unlike the foul odor of the red eggs from before, it was rather fragrant.
It was reminiscent of incense burning in a coffin, mysterious and distant.
“Don’t keep that same expression,” Lin Ze murmured softly, “You should be more desperate, more angry. That way, your chances of becoming an alien will be greater. I’ve been looking forward to becoming companions with you, Shen Jie.”
As he spoke, Lin Ze’s fingertip, stained with blood, drew closer and closer to Shen Jie’s pupils—
—-
On an abandoned highway, three people, one tall and two short, were walking.
The person in the black robe was walking at the front, caressing a blood-red crystal ball in their hand. Behind them was a young boy, carrying a white-haired, white-eyed girl on his back.
The boy had a very youthful and cute face, appearing to be around seven or eight years old.
The girl was much taller in stature, so even though she was being carried, her legs could only drag on the ground, and her white dress was stained with dust.
The wound on the girl’s chest, pierced by an arrow, had not yet healed, and she lay gasping for breath on the boy’s shoulder.
Through the torn clothes revealing a large hole, one could see the wound on her back wriggling in an attempt to heal, only to be repelled by an unseen force.
“Sir, if we can’t use the spatial gate, why can’t we even ride a car?” The young boy seemed a bit tired, looking at the abandoned car beside the highway.
The person in the black robe said, “In the domain of the ‘Repairer,’ transportation is prohibited.”
“We can still fly,” the young boy’s back squirmed as if trying to grow something.
The person in the black robe said, “Flying is also prohibited. The airspace is its testing ground.”
The young boy pouted, raising his nose, “Tsk. So many rules. If it weren’t for Grape Sister’s injury needing that guy’s attention, I would have wanted to rush to ‘Eden’ now. Didn’t the King’s aura appear there before? Maybe it’s about to arrive soon, and I need to prepare quickly…”
The white-eyed girl suddenly spoke, her voice as soft as a thread of air.
“Master, L acted against orders and took action in the city,” she said.
The person in the black robe paused its hand on the crystal ball and calmly said, “I sensed it.”
“He originally intended to destroy the hospital. Infecting Zong Lin’s partner as our companion was just cleaning up the mess left by Luo Yu,” they continued.
The white-eyed girl asked in confusion, “Infect? Why not kill?”
“Every official member of the Judgment Society has the opportunity to select and cultivate individuals,” the person in the black robe explained. “Although I also think killing would be a quicker solution. But let it be. It’s its freedom and right.”
“…So why did the King’s aura appear for a moment and then disappear?” the young boy next to them muttered. “Is it because I haven’t burned enough things usually? Bundled paper is expensive. The pocket money Mom gave me before wasn’t enough… I still need to help Mom transport pills more often recently to earn some money.”
The Mother he mentioned was the Queen Ant in the “Ant King’s Garden,” the producer of the “Egg of Metamorphosis.”
Aliens above A rank could absorb the mist into their bodies, becoming Mobile Catastrophe.
However, there were also special cases where the host could only take root in one place.
The Queen Ant was one such case. Because she constantly laid eggs, she couldn’t move from her position.
The young boy’s memories began in his mother’s egg.
When he woke up, he was already in the Queen Ant’s nest, surrounded by warm water, which made him feel very comfortable.
However, when he turned over, he accidentally pierced the egg membrane, so he could only walk out with it soaked.
He found that he and his brothers around him looked different. And they were even wearing a layer of tattered cloth.
Out of biological instinct, he called the first creature he saw “Mom,” but his Mom told him that he wasn’t her biological son.
He was a chosen alien.
Aliens usually retain memories from their human past, but he didn’t remember anything.
When he woke up, he just felt a severe headache.
But his Mom still took him in and provided him with food and shelter.
When he was bored, he would use the blood from food as paint to draw on the ground. His mom scolded him for wasting food, but in the end, she indulged his behavior.
After all, there was plenty of food, and his happiness mattered most.
Later, he was found by the gentleman, who taught him many things and traveled with him around the world, seeing many different landscapes of fallen areas.
The gentleman told him that they were originally people abandoned by the world.
So now it was their turn to destroy the world and rebuild their own homes from the ruins.
This was fair and reasonable, wasn’t it?
—-
Lin Ze’s blood-stained fingertips touched Shen Jie’s pupils.
Shen Jie didn’t blink, which surprised him.
At this moment, a huge shake suddenly came from the outer wall of the hospital space.
Lin Ze’s expression changed slightly.
He remembered the scene when Shen Jie threw the phone out of the vent before the mist fully spread.
The signal in the room was blocked by him, but before the domain fully formed, the thrown phone could still send messages.
The few seconds of advance notice were enough for Zong Lin to rush here at the fastest speed before the domain formed.
“Now I know why you can still maintain such a calm demeanor. You believe that Zong Lin will definitely come in time to save you, right?” Lin Ze looked at him and said.
“I’ve said it before, I’m not like that guy, Luo Yu. Since I dared to deploy the domain in front of Zong Lin, I must have a way to stop him.” He withdrew his fingertips and stood up.
The mucous membranes of human eyes were exposed on the surface of the body, the most susceptible to infection.
He didn’t use much, but enough to skyrocket Shen Jie’s infection level to 100 within half an hour.
In the most desperate, most helpless, and closest place to his lover, watching himself transform inch by inch from bones to fingertips, and then regained new life.
Originally, he wanted to enjoy the process, but now, Zong Lin came too quickly, and he had to go and block him.
Lin Ze turned and walked towards the door of the operating room. After taking two steps, he stopped again and said, “I could have let you drink my blood directly, but the success rate would have been too low, and I really don’t want to see your corpse.”
“I hope when I come back, you will have become one of us.”
“Don’t disappoint me.”
The operating room door slammed shut.
[…Damn, this bastard still has the nerve to say not to disappoint him?]
[Don’t worry, host, as long as you don’t immediately transform, there’s still hope, there’s still hope… I will definitely find a way for you…]
As the system was speaking, its voice suddenly paused, […Huh, why hasn’t your infection level increased?]
Shen Jie: “Because I’m wearing contact lenses.”
[Huh?] The system was stunned.
Shen Jie opened his left eye.
A small black dot was embedded in the center of his vision, with tiny contaminants constantly wriggling inside, slowly spreading with tears.
Lin Ze’s touch happened to be on the center of the left contact lens.
If he had touched elsewhere, Lin Ze would have been a corpse by now.
Despite this, his hand still itched a bit.
The system realized this and exclaimed with excitement: [Host, whatever you do, don’t blink now! Don’t let the contaminants enter your eye sockets. First and foremost, we need to remove the contact lenses—]
[Do you remember what came in the Newbie Starter Pack?]
He almost forgot until the system mentioned it.
Initially, in order to save Luo Yunsen, he opened the Newbie Starter Pack and had the system exchange a bunch of knowledge about tracheotomy, temporarily performing emergency surgery on Luo Yunsen.
The remaining items in the pack were an egg and a card.
At that time, because he was in a hurry to get home, Shen Jie didn’t look closely at it.
The egg was white with silver patterns on it, very round, and looked like it needed to be hatched.
However, Shen Jie had no interest in hatching eggs.
The first thing he thought of when he saw this egg was whether it would be delicious boiled.
The card was made of silver metal, with many complex transistor and metal patterns on it.
At this moment, the card appeared in Shen Jie’s palm.
The name and instructions for use of the item also appeared in front of him.
[Item Name: Independent Exoskeleton]
[Item Description: Are you still troubled by your fragile body? Are you still afraid of encountering aliens? The Independent Exoskeleton, an advanced combat weapon that ordinary people can train to use, your consciousness clone. It can effectively protect your safety and share your daily needs.]
[Usage Method: Consciousness Link, Form Humanoid.]
[What are you waiting for? Create your own personal exclusive exoskeleton image now.]
At the same time, there was a beep from the system.
[Advanced Mission Issued: Escape from the “Despair Hospital” and rescue the survivors trapped in the hospital.]
[Mission Rewards: Exoskeleton Evolution Crystal Card. “Life Egg” hatching.]
the boy is lin ze’s younger brother isn’t he?
Right!? That would make the most sense.
Omg so that’s all true! How creepy!
xD what a big advantage he’ll get being the king’s little brother… (I’m not sure but I think he might like little kids… or only his little sister…)
Egg hatching? Kkkkkkk will we have a raising cubs plot?
The little boy is definitely Lin Ze’s little brother
¿Fue eso una referencia a Voldemort? gracias por el capitulo!😅
Lin Ze was speaking the truth !!! 😱