translator: loop
The stuttering system was extremely bold, but also extremely cowardly. At the slightest threat it obediently gave in.
The large screen of the console was divided into five parts, each displaying different places. The food in each picture was marked by the system, with conspicuous red frames around them and even a few notes.
“There seems to be a lot of surplus,” Chu Si said, leaning closer to the screen and sweeping his fingers across. “What places are these pictures showing…”
In the first picture, there was a single bed, a wardrobe attached to the wall next to it, a folding table, and a portable refrigerator next to the table. A large red frame directly encompassed the entire refrigerator.
The note next to it read:
Number of items: 17 (approx.)
Detectable protein: 312g (approx.)
Detectable calories
…
“This is a prison guard’s room, right?” Chu Si quickly glanced at the notes and commented, “All nonsense. If you have the time to measure those insignificant things, why don’t you just mark the room number and do something practical?”
He spoke while heavily knocking on the little stutterer’s ‘brain’ twice.
The stuttering system didn’t talk back, and the entire screen froze quietly for about two seconds. Suddenly, a line of words flashed by. But the words disappeared almost as soon as they appeared, and the whole screen returned to normal.
The only difference was that those notes on the screen were replaced with room numbers and specific locations at the request of Executive Chu.
Sa’e let out a laugh, not holding back.
Chu Si tched: “Did you see those words that flashed by just now?”
“I saw clearly, there seemed to be a line: Playing the piano to a cow.” Sa’e replied causally, with a smile at the corner of his lips, obviously happy to see Chu Si being insulted.
Chu Si: “…” This son of a bitch little stutterer definitely grew too brave.
He didn’t know which part of his expression poked Sa’e wrong, but the other party suddenly turned his head, frowned slightly, and asked, “What’s this? Our Executive Chu, whose eyes are no worse than a microscope, didn’t see it clearly?”
Chu Si pursed his lips, and replied indifferently: “I had an eye injury before, but I have no problem aiming and shooting at something from a hundred meters away. Spare yourself, Mr. Prisoner, and don’t try to take advantage of it.”
Sa’e: “…”
“If you can dismantle and reorganize this stuttering system, and cure its intermittent mental disability, the next time you make trouble, I may be able to turn a blind eye.” Chu Si, while noting the positions of those foods on the screen, added this sentence.
Ding—
“Warning, please do not talk about such trivial issues in the sacred surveillance center. Reminder, in order to save energy, the screen displayed on the screen will be switched off after three seconds, the countdown is 3— 2— 1—”
“If you dare switch off, I’ll demolish your brain,” Chu Si said calmly.
Ding—
“0.99— 0.98— 0.97—”
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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The only difference was that the villa belonged to Chu Si, so he could casually open things, but these cabinets… were locked.
“0.72— 0.7— 7— 7—”
“Don’t 7 anymore, unlock this row of cabinets.” Chu Si knocked on the second level C cabinet and urged the stuttering system.
SkyEye was put on the spot and forgot to act broken, immediately following his command. A ding sounded and the entire 5×12 cabinet row popped open their cabinet doors.
Chu Si didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry. He reached out and searched the cabinet marked on the screen, and found two sheets of what looked like pills.
He instantly looked disgusted, and flicked the corners of the sheets twice with his fingers. “Concentrated nutrition tablets, I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry.”
There were 12 tablets on each sheet, and each tablet could provide an average-sized human body with the necessary amount of water and basic nutrition for three days. It was a must-have for space traveling, and the only disadvantage was that it was difficult to choke down and had some side effects.
After taking a nutrition tablet, there was a low probability that a person would experience stomach pain, headache, and a low-grade fever within 8 hours, and gradually improve after 8 hours.
Others didn’t know, but Chu Si was sick of the taste of the tablets.
Because he once had to rely on this thing for nearly 8 months to maintain his life, and it was truly like pinching his nose and swallowing blood. After that, every time he saw a concentrated nutrition tablet, the smell of blood mixed with the sour and bitter flavor of a nutrition tablet would float up in front of his nose.
With a clattering sound, he shook the two sheets of nutrition tablets in his hand and said to the SkyEye system, “You call this thing which has no color, smell, or taste, food? “
Ding—
“I’m sorry, after scanning multiple—”
The little stutterer had not yet finished speaking when Chu Si had already slipped the nutrition tablets into the pocket of his suit pants.
Little stutterer: “…” If you’re going to complain about it then don’t take it!
Sa’e: “My dear Executive, you really are too shameless.”
Ding—
“That’s right— right— right— right—”
Chu Si shrugged: “Thanks for the compliment.”
“Given the principle that the person who finds it gets a share, shouldn’t Executive Chu give me some of the spoils?” Sa’e said with a smile.
Chu Si turned around and headed for the door, “Sorry, I was never one for principles.”
Without looking back, he gave a command to the stuttering system, “The guard rooms are still locked, I’m going over there now, unlock them.”
The stuttering system was silent for two seconds before playing a recording of what Sa’e had just said: “You really are too shameless.”
The whole thing was played three times.
Chu Si: “…”
Sa’e: “…”
Since entering the Space Prison, everyone’s blood pressure had soared.
Chu Si opened the door and was about to greet the big and small mops in the corner when he felt a person suddenly press up behind him. Sa’e lowered his voice and behaved like a qualified thief: “Since Executive is heartless and unreasonable, I’ll have to take it without asking.”
As soon as the words left his mouth, Chu Si dropped his gaze and saw Sa’e’s long, thin fingers feel into the pocket of his pants and take out a sheet of nutrition tablets.
He held the 12-pack of nutrition tablets between his two fingers, as if it were a card, and waved it in front of Chu Si’s eyes.
Chu Si: “…”
The sheet in front of him disappeared with a shake and a flip of two fingers, not too different from a magic trick.
Chu Si had no hope of snatching it back from him, and didn’t even lift a finger, commenting nonchalantly, “Your entertainment skills are quite proficient.”
Sa’e: “Thank you for the compliment.”
Chu Si courteously said: “After the performance is over, please go away, don’t show your hands here.”
The mop that perked up as soon as the door opened seemed to have seen a ghost: “What are you two doing?”
Chu Si’s glance at him immediately killed all his strange thoughts. The mop could only gulp silently and said: “Whatever, whatever, I won’t ask.”
The mop sealed his mouth, and quietly led the little mop to follow behind the two, steering around the wolves in the cages along the way. But even so, he still felt that the eyes of those people could swallow him alive, much more straightforwardly than Sa’e’s gaze.
They soon walked back to the corridor of the guard’s rooms, and saw that all eight doors that had been locked had opened automatically, a mild white light was lit up inside.
“Number two, number three, and number seven.” Chu Si casually divided the labor, and they each separated into different rooms.
“This is the happiest day in the three years I’ve been awake!” Mop said excitedly. He took out all the things in the refrigerator in room two, then piled them with the things Chu Si and Sa’e had found. “Let’s see what goodies we have! Sandwiches, canned goods, spam, smoked sausage, and… ah, just too many to count! Man, this is the first time I’ve ever had anything so fresh, to hell with concentrates!”
Chu Si raised an eyebrow, “Since you’ve said so, the concentrated nutrition tablets won’t be shared with you.”
Mop froze, then shook his head violently: “No, no, no, I didn’t say that, please share with me!”
As he spoke, he fetched the waist-high little brat from behind him, holding up a dark little face toward Chu Si: “Look, we have two begging mouths.”
Chu Si: “…”
“Who the hell is this brat?” He said expressionlessly, “You were the only one wailing from start to finish, I didn’t hear him say a word.”
With a face covered in tangled hair, Mop held the wrist of the little Mop to salute Chu Si, and said with a smile, “Let me introduce you, this is my little princess.”
Two dirty beastly people performing this kind of salute was really hard on the eyes. Chu Si said to the mop: “If you raised this kind of princess in the early years of the planet, you would immediately go to the gallows.”
Mop: “…”
“So she’s a … girl? Your daughter?” Chu Si felt that this little girl was really blind, to follow such an unreliable father.
Mop shook his head twice and hurriedly nodded again, “En.”
Chu Si glanced at him oddly.
“Not biological, but she is my daughter.” Mop seemed to be worried about saying too much to be heard by the little mop, and subconsciously covered the little mop’s ears with his hands, but was immediately peeled off by the latter without a word.
“Why doesn’t she speak? Has she not learned yet?” Chu Si asked.
Mop pointed to his neck and whispered: “Throat injury, temporarily unable to speak, originally it could be cured, and we made an appointment with a doctor in early spring, but it turned out…”
It turned out as soon as winter came, fifty years had passed.
Mop sighed. “I don’t know if we’ll get another chance.”
The little girl herself did not seem to realize anything. She stared at Chu Si with her big, dark eyes. Compared to her muddy face, those eyes were clean and pure.
“Eat something and sleep first.” Chu Si casually nodded in one direction, “Then go back and ask SkyEye to open the special confinement room. There’s some medical equipment in there, which may come in handy.”
In this kind of situation, Chu Si was no longer an asshole. he partitioned the food neatly, and each person got a room.
The room seen on the monitor screen only showed one corner, and was too different from reality.
Chu Si locked the door, sat down at the folding table, picked up some sandwiches, and placed the rest of the food back into the refrigerator.
He peeled open the sandwich and bit into it as he briefly went through the rest of the room and ran his fingers over the seams of the walls.
All of the individual rooms in the Space Prison were capsule-like, and in the event of an emergency, they could be ejected from the prison. Of course you had to find a reliable landing spot beforehand, otherwise being ejected would be like a dead end.
This feature had not been enabled so far, and the gaps between the walls were still highly held together.
There was a separate cubicle in the room with a toilet and a simple shower.
Chu Si ate two sandwiches, one can of food, and half a bowl of strawberries to relieve his accumulated hunger. He opened the simple closet and picked through it for a while, enduring all kinds of discomfort. After finding a prison guard’s navy shirt and trousers, he prepared to take a shower.
He put his change of clothes on the metal rack and unbuttoned his shirt.
The mirror reflected his beautiful chest and abdomen muscles, which were slim but perfectly balanced, and didn’t look like they were trained with fitness equipment. Chu Si put the shirt he had taken off by the sink, and lowered his head to press down on his left rib.
There was a thin, hairline, hard-to-notice scar there. Only when you touched it could you feel the skin there was slightly raised.
He pursed his lips and pressed along the scar.
Click…
There was a slight electronic sound and a piece of skin around his waist opened a gap along the thin scar, about the size of half a palm, like opening a door.
It was a very strange scene. The outer layer of the ‘small door’ was a replication of skin, and the inner layer was made of metal. The opened part of Chu Si’s waist was embedded with a square metal piece the size of a thumb.
If you listened closely, you could hear a ‘tick-tick’ sound inside, and dark numbers were displayed on the metal piece.
123 12:07:21
The number at the end had been decreasing one by one with the sound of each ‘tick’.
THAT WAS A GIRL?? ∑(ﾟﾛﾟ〃) Little princess, you’ve really suffered! When will I finally get to know your name?? 😭
Oh, why he didn’t said her name? I want to know!
And now we’re in movie “In time”
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Ahhhhhhhh so interesting!! What’s this countdown to???? Why is it installed like… THIS? So many questions! Great job translator 🙂
IT’S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN 🎶🎵🎶
Was not expecting mop #2 to be a female child