translator: xiin
editors: apricot & juurensha
Memories rose up from his mind. Perhaps because he’d taken too much medicine, but Wu Jin felt like he was telling someone else’s story. He was clearly very familiar with the memories, but he could strip away the feelings and feel only a strange, dull pain.
“I saw… a door. I was locked inside the door and watched the researchers from the R-Code Base come in and out.”
Researcher Song and Mao Dongqing exchanged glances, then nodded and confirmed, “It’s Brother Wei’s memory. It’s possibly from the first transformation.”
Wu Jin continued, “I saw him… Wei Shi walked past the door.”
The pen that Researcher Song was using to take notes paused, and he looked surprised, “You saw Brother Wei in Brother Wei’s memories? Is the subconscious overlapping? This is very rare––at least, I’ve never encountered it. What does the door look like?”
Wu Jin tried to think, “Grey brown.”
“What kind of texture? Any decorative pattern? Was it hollow or––”
“Iron door, very heavy. Diamond pattern, diamond pattern inlaid with a circle in the middle.” Wu Jin exhaled in a sigh, “Like… eyes.”
There was a bang.
Even Researcher Song was shocked and turned towards Mao Dongqing at the same time. The Floating City law enforcement marshal’s ever-stable arm seemed to suddenly tremble, breaking the teacup that had been placed at the corner of the table.
Mao Dongqing stood up abruptly and took away Researcher Song’s notes, “Ask later. For now, let Little Witch rest first.”
Researcher Song was dazed for a while before finally nodding hesitantly, “I still suggest that Little Witch should accept psychological counselling before entering the subconscious again––but his condition is better than I expected.”
In fact, it was better than all the other similar cases he’d taken over.
Not only had Wu Jin resisted the emotional lock, he’d also been able to easily gain Wei Shi’s trust––Wu Jin seemed born for emotional lock guidance.
He looked at Wu Jin, “It becomes easier after getting through this stage. After Brother Wei’s second transformation, you can take advantage of the stress to bring him out directly. The faster he undergoes the transformation, the better––of course, you have to remember that the most important thing you have to take care of is yourself.”
“You and Brother Wei are both patients.”
Two hours later.
When the machine started up again, Researcher Song watched as Wu Jin entered and let out a sigh, “I’m going to get some sleep for the second half of the night. You’ll keep watch?”
Mao Dongqing nodded.
After Researcher Song left, Mao Dongqing took out the consultation notes from the session just now.
He didn’t hesitate to feed them into the shredder.
He sat there in silence for a long time before opening a communication, “I need all the data that wasn’t destroyed in the R-Code Base from back then, yes, encrypted and sent to the laboratory.”
The instrument buzzed, and Wu Jin slowly opened his eyes.
There was the clang of bells in the dormitory, and Wei Shi, who was fiddling with something, ran over in surprise. In his blurred vision, Wu Jin could see that a clean path had been cleared out on the messy ground.
Wei Shi had long legs and had no problem stepping over hurdles.
Wu Jin was the only one who was short and couldn’t see the light clearly.
The youth was clearly clumsy and awkward when it came to tidying up.
Most of the pots and pans were tossed beneath the bed, and the cupboards were stuffed too full to be closed properly. Wei Shi was carefully sewing together a crooked eye mask for Wu Jin to put on.
The needle and thread was the same as that of the stitched characters in Mao Qiukui’s little padded jacket––it seemed the big boss had also snatched away the needle and thread.
“Iron powder, zircon, activated charcoal.” Wei Shi helped adjust the eye mask for Wu Jin, “After adding some water, it will heat up. Close your eyes. I’ll hold and carry you wherever we need to go.”
Wu Jin nodded obediently, “How long did I sleep for?”
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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Wu Jin was about to take it off for him, but Wei Shi leaned over instead. He lined himself up with the outside of the little shortie’s eye mask, and their noses bumped together.
The youth couldn’t keep his Adam’s apple from shifting.
Wei Shi made a muffled sound, “Done.”
Wu Jin: “No…”
Wei Shi: “It’s done when I say it’s done! Close your eyes and don’t move. I can see your eyelashes shaking!”
Wu Jin argued, “I didn’t open my eyes!”
Wei Shi coughed and analyzed it himself, “Then it’s because your eyelashes are too long!” They curved and hooked into him! “Enough, let’s go out. We’re going to the training room today!”
The youth skillfully put on shoes and pants for Wu Jin, then walked quickly to the training room with the little shortie in his arms. Unlike the Crosson Show where shooting ranges could be seen everywhere, the ones in the R-Code Base were a precious ‘resource to be traded for’.
Wei Shi handed in the green cards, then set Wu Jin down on the floor on top of the blanket. The little shortie’s soft hands stroked the blanket, as though feeling out his own fixed position.
Wei Shi stuffed him with a pair of earplugs and a bag of small goldfish biscuits, “Good.”
With that, the youth turned away, taking off his training jacket and picking up the gun.
The 15, 16 year old Wei Shi had only touched a gun a few times. He only had three strips of bullets and shot very slowly. Unlike 10 years later when he’d already mastered the equipment, the youth of today still handled the gun like he was handling an enemy.
Wei Shi narrowed his eyes, straightened his back, and carefully pulled the trigger after estimating the trajectory––
Wu Jin quietly tugged down his eye mask.
In his blurry field of view, the big boss’s body seemed suffused with a weak light. The dim light reflected off several places, and it should be the moisture from his sweat.
After each shot, Wei Shi would close his eyes and review the trajectory of the bullet. The youth frowned, and it was obvious that the static ring number didn’t satisfy him. Half an hour later, the youth came to crouch down in front of Wu Jin.
Wu Jin quickly put the eye mask back on and waited obediently for the big boss to take it off himself.
“How come you didn’t eat the biscuits?” Wei Shi frowned.
Wu Jin looked at him with rounded eyes. It seemed that the big boss was born for guns. When he came down from the target shooting position, his entire person was sharp and determined, creating a contradictory temperament––
It was like a sword that had just come out of its sheath.
Wu Jin picked up a small biscuit and stuffed it into Wei Shi’s mouth.
The youth’s neck abruptly turned red as he criticized harshly, “How can you be so overly familiar? Forget it––come here.”
Wei Shi took Wu Jin’s hand and tugged the unsteady little dwarf to the target shooting position. “Every time I shoot, you’ll eat a goldfish biscuit. Two if I hit the 9th ring, and three for the 10th ring. Am I clear?”
Wu Jin nodded repeatedly, then turned to look at the big boss’s gun.
Wei Shi immediately offered it up to him like a treasure, “Careful. Don’t press it randomly! It’s dangerous, you know––fine, if you really want to touch it, I’ll let you touch the trigger. I’ll hold it for you.”
A soft little hand was placed on the trigger. Wei Shi covered him anxiously from behind, the youth half kneeling on the ground. He held Wu Jin in his arms from this position, and there was suddenly a stir deep in his memories.
It was as though this scene had already happened before, but he just couldn’t remember it.
Wu Jin rested quietly in his arms.
Their postures coincided perfectly with memory.
“Even a monkey can kill people with this.” The big boss raised his eyebrows in the Crosson arena––
The little monkey paused then held the hand of the youth behind him. Wei Shi stared, his eyes huge. He’d told the little shortie to touch the gun, not himself!
Wu Jin spoke softly, “Relax your shoulders.”
Relax your shoulders––this had been the command the man had given against his neck back in the White Moonlight training room.
The young Wei Shi in the R-Code Base paused, then followed Wu Jin’s instructions to control his shoulders and arms.
Maintain your center of gravity. In the Floating City training base, the man had held the gun for Wu Jin, his military boots pressed against a pair of quivering little white shoes.
Wu Jin used his small feet to signal the big boss to separate his legs, “Center of gravity.”
He slowly supported the big boss’s right hand, “Shoot.”
There was a bang.
The top record refreshed. 8th ring.
Wei Shi stared at Wu Jin in amazement, then abruptly hugged him like he was afraid Wu Jin would slip away from between his fingers.
The little shortie raised his head and smiled as he rubbed against his neck.
Time slowly went by. Wu Jin dozed on and off in the training room. Every time he woke up, he could hear the sound of slow gunshots––he moved his blanket to the scoreboard, squinted, and saw that the target scores were soaring all the way up.
By the end of the day, Wu Jin looked at his own hands via the lights from a dim street lamp.
He could feel himself slowly recovering.
Wei Shi was overjoyed, but still insisted on removing the little shortie’s clothing and pants and helping him wash up. When they went to bed, he also covered him up with the quilt and tucked him in.
Wu Jin was wrapped up tight in the quilt, and he didn’t know how the big boss dealt with the temperature––he was pressed together with him and so hot that he was sweating everywhere.
The youth gestured between himself and Wu Jin’s small body, “You eat too little.”
Wu Jin opened his eyes wide, “It’s like you’re weighing up the meat and ribs!”
Wei Shi’s face was blank as he tried to scare him, “Yes, if you don’t eat properly, you’ll be eaten.”
During the morning of the next day, the schedule for the second round of transformation was released. All applicants had to pass through an examination to determine the direction of their transformation––
The application time for Wei Shi was shorter than any of the other genetically modified students, so he could only seize every opportunity he had to work hard.
The youth was almost completely immersed in the gun room. He went from missing completely , to an average of 4th ring, 7th ring then 9th ring.
He had a shocking level of talent, but he also had worked harder than anyone else Wu Jin had ever seen.
That night.
Wu Jin fell asleep. Wei Shi woke up on time, tucked the other person back in, and headed straight to the training room.
Floating City laboratory.
Wu Jin covered up his stomach and came out of the machine, “Prepare to bring Brother Wei out––give me another copy of the stress response data.”
Inside the training room, Wei Shi stared at the target position and suddenly turned off the light and tried to snipe from memory. His forehead was full of sweat from the precise calculation required and the lack of reference coordinates.
Researcher Song stopped Wu Jin, “Don’t look. I’ll read it out for you.”
Wu Jin nodded and thanked him, then listened quietly. His brows were slightly furrowed as he thought quickly, and then he raised his head slightly, “Wait a minute, this segment of training…”
Early morning.
Wu Jin slowly opened his eyes.
Wei Shi, who’d only just returned from the training room, yawned. “I slept well last night.”
The little shortie’s eyes were curved from his smile, “Me too!”
Wei Shi skillfully helped him put on his shoes, “Today is the assessment day.”
Wu Jin immediately cheered for the big boss.
Wei Shi tied up the shoelaces for Wu Jin and suddenly said, “Wait for me.”
I will earn all the glory for you––to protect you and obtain revenge for you.
“Alright.” Wei Shi stood up, patted Wu Jin’s head, and tipped his chin up.
Wu Jin: “??”
Wei Shi stiffened his neck, “Show me.”
Wu Jin immediately squeaked and said, “Big brother, you can do it! Big brother, go go go––”
Wei Shi: “……”
Before leaving, the youth suddenly turned back, “In the future––”
Wu Jin raised his head.
Wei Shi tried to keep calm, “In the future… when you aren’t crying, can I… kiss you like last time?”
Wu Jin froze and thought of how the youth had been red-eyed as he kissed away his tears after the emotional lock.
Wei Shi clenched his fist, “Because, I’ve thought it through, and I’m never going to let you cry again in this lifetime!”
Wu Jin burst out laughing.
The youth seemed to see his acquiescence and leaned in awkwardly.
The little shortie glowed in his field of vision.
He gently dropped a dry kiss on Wu Jin’s cheek.
After that, the youth quickly jumped up, hitting his head against the bedpost.
“I-I’m going first. Wait for me––”
Wait for me.
Wu Jin waved to him and stared in the direction of the youth’s departure with his eyes and eyebrows curved. When he was so far in the distance that he could no longer hear the youth’s footsteps, he turned and connected the communication.
“I’m preparing to bring him out.”
I hope the procedure works, but I’m feeling ominous about what’s gonna happen to Wei Shi too.
Thanks for the chapter
AAHHHH LITTLE BOSS IS SO SHY AND CUTE!!! (wtf on each recent update of most novels on this site I’m I’m screaming) I wonder what was that about the door tho….
Thanks for the chapter! 🙂
Ah, an extra “I’m”….
Also!!! That part where Little Witch instructed Wei Shi was SO GOOD!!! AND!!! THAT PART WHERE WEI SHI ASKED IF HE COULD KISS TOO!! DHJDGNID EVERY SENTENCE IS GREAT!
Ahhh this pure Wei Shi is so soothing (´∀｀)♡ I hope everything’s gonna be fine (๑•́ ₃ •̀๑)
Mao Dongqing freaked out. Who wants to bet that the body Wu Jin transmigrated into was a member of the R-Code base?
Me, I was thinking that he himself was a member of R-Code Base and got implanted with false memories for some reason.
D*mn, people are seeing beyond the horizon while I’m just like ‘what?’. 😱😣
Hey, wait a sec! That can’t be…then why would Little Witch have to get a work visa? When he came to the future, wasn’t he in the same outfit he was before he time-traveled? Maybe when Little Witch let the toxin from the emotional lock go into him, for some reason it also got the memories from one of the instructors? And what about that chip that Wei Shi wanted to put in him a couple of chapters ago?? Also, why did Red shred the papers, I’m CONFUSING MYSELF AHHHHHH
Well, that’s the interesting part. Visa is only for entering and staying in a county that doesn’t have an open border with your country. It does not work as an identification document and you can’t get a visa if you don’t have a passport. After all, if you are not registered anywhere, then you do not have identity, to which a visa can be issued. So…. either the author has never left the country and doesn’t know how all of this works, or Wu Jin has an identity in the future, but his identity has citizenship somewhere else. TBH, I think it’s the former…
+1 with you,Anra
In previous chap, someone said that ‘WJ’ was created to be a scrab(whatever spelling is 😅) which is to prenvent R-Code subject(to be called time bomb / SY) from becoming bersk. It means ‘WJ’ ‘s indentity able to control and manipulate R-Code subject. It will be problem if someone know about ‘WJ’ exist
Sorry for spelling
I think you’re right. It would also explain why besides being an idol wu Jin doesn’t mention anything else about his life. Maybe his memories are blurred or locked away?.
Me ! And i think he was a solution that was destroyed by R-Code, a solution for breaking the emotional lock. And he is the deepest secret of R-Code that even no one know expect researchers envolved
/slammed fist repeatedly
Tsundere awkward Big Brother Wei Shi awwwwwwwwww awwww
Under the hoe to day dark air around the base and transformation looming, they’re acting really sweet sobs. The way Wu Jin repeated the scenario from the past, Big Boss immediately hugged Little Witch, and Little Witch rubbing back hic ;;; A ;;; SO GOOOOOOOODDDDD
Thank you for the chapter💕
Thanks for the chapter! ^ ^
“Then it’s because your eyelashes are too long!”
Omg, dying here because young Wei Shi is too awkwardly cuteeeeee!!!! 😍😍
I’m also very curious about the mysterious door… we’ll see!
Thank you for the hard work!
Thanks for the hard work love the story ^_^
Awkward Wei Shi is soooo cute.
Thanks for the chapter!
They cute and all but I’m still SHAKEN by the fact that lil witch was SOLD to a PERVERT. ╰(‵□′)╯If I’m not wrong, those were his own memories right?
Also, thank you for the chapter!!! ❤❤❤
It should be his memory, maybe. I’m so angry too 😡😡
This is just a speculation, but remember the policewoman in Wu’s memories? I am wondering at this point, maybe, just maybe, Wu was born in this current era, sold to a sex offender, found and then used as a test subject. The policewoman could not take it anymore and used means to erase his memories and identity and somehow sent him to the past where he started anew. But he still ended up coming to the timeline he belonged to? Just my thoughts. .
Maybe his real memories like you said are locked away and what he remembers isn’t what really happened? Because remember the only thing he has mentioned is being an idol
AAAAAAA
YO WHEN HE SAID “Wait for me” I STRAIGHT UP GOT FLASHBACKS FROM THE HADESTOWN MUSICAL AND THAT ONE SCENE WHERE PERSEPHONE ASKS HADES TO WAIT FOR HER TO RETURN THE NEXT WINTER AND HE GOES “I will” AND JUST AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
ALSO WHAT WAS THAT BIT IN THE BEGINNING OF THE CHAPTER WHERE MAO DONGQING FREAKED OUT ABOUT WU JIN DESCRIBING THE DOOR?! WAS WU JIN ACTUALLY ANOTHER RNA EXPERIMENT THAT WAS SOMEHOW SENT TO THE PAST DURING HIS EARLY YEARS IN THE BASE?!?!! HOW THE FUCC DID HE TRANSMIGRATE INTO THE FUTURE ANYWAY?!?!!
W H A T I S G O I N G O N-
seeing how precious the gun is for WS it makes his first presents to WJ even more meaningfully sweet~
Oh hahha is wu jin the ‘key’??? Lol is that why he could bond with the guinea pig? Has a low extroversion score and has good memory??? Damn.
If anyone remembers, at the beginning of the novel, when WJ and WS first met, WJ had thought that WS looked ‘familiar’. Its never mentioned again, but maybe this has to do with something?
Ah! Yes. At that time I thought Wei Shi is the one on the big poster about the champion of Crosson Show (well, summary says omnipotent ML, so I filled the blank that he is champion)… then I forgot all about it. But now, that is nonsense. Wei Shi obviously never made public appearance…. so the poster isn’t him and this “familiarity” comes from different source. Wow! Thanks for pointing this out, it jolted back my memories about Wu Jin first thought when seeing Wei Shi.
Wu Jin instructing Wei Shi on how to shoot is up there as one of my favorite moments so far in this novel. And little Wei Shi is so cute when he’s taking care of Wu Jin 😍
Thanks for the chapter ❤
Ehhhh, it seems Wu Jin is really one of the experiment subject like some readers said??? Iron door? Is it the door where dead body went and the gene being copied??? So…. when R Code disbanded they illegally transported him to the past? Ehhh??? Nani kore?!!
Wait, i suddenly have a guess abt who is WJ. Remember the saying abt R-Code destroying the solution of emotional lock ? What if it’s actually not destroyed ? It’s just in different kind of solution that we thought for ( i personaly think it’s kind of drug) but maybe it’s actually another kind of modified human ? And that is our WJ ???
Ok, just rant lol