translator: xiin
editors: apricot & juurensha
The clouds outside the window were scattered and sparse.
The living environment for the entire Azure Cosmos had been artificially created. Each of the four big cities maintained their own oxygen and temperature control, having carved out livable spaces from the originally barren landscape.
Floating City’s seasonal changes were usually determined by the Meteorological Research Office and the Tourism Bureau. As a result, autumn was particularly long, and winters were short, followed by an early spring.
The day of the Autumn equinox was also referred to as the ‘Autumn Festival’.
At this time, there were only a few days left before the Autumn Festival, and the entire city had undergone both magnificent and luxurious decorative changes.
Looking down from the high tower of the Floating City military base, one could see the city with its blurred lights and shadows. The moat was stained pink with genetically improved cherry blossom petals as well as the flamingos who’d taken over the banks.
Further inwards, law enforcement guards had surrounded Red, who’d just come back, and were listening to him show off. Arjun came in from somewhere, leading a flamingo on a rope, and he paced in an imitation of the way Mao Dongqing walked the guinea pig. While walking, he even imitated the way Mao Dongqing spoke.
The young men of the guard team wanted to laugh but ultimately didn’t dare to. Zhou Nan, the psychologist, sat in a corner and smiled as he peeled an orange and stuffed it at Wu Jin.
In the tower, Wei Shi retracted his gaze.
Researcher Song opened up the terminal’s projector, “All of the relevant information is here.”
“The research on making a ‘scabbard’ for the ‘swords’ was set up 40 years ago. However, the technology is far less sophisticated than the creation of human-shaped weapons.”
“According to Mr Wu’s memories when he entered the emotional lock, the memory of ‘children lined up to enter the transformation room’ should have been his first experience undergoing a transformation between the ages of 6 and 8. What’s more, I heard Mao Dongqing say that Little Witch saw a purple-brown closed door in his memory, with a dense diamond decorative pattern––like eyes.”
Wei Shi’s eyebrows were twisted together, and the look in his eyes was deep and frightening.
Researcher Song sighed, “Doctor Zhou Nan said that his claustrophobia is related to this. However, last time when I went to the R-Code base, nobody was able to find the door. Based on the description of the pattern––it’s very similar to the outside door for the genetic reproduction room.”
“Little Witch’s blood test with its high concentration of MHCC resistance as a side effect also supports the fact that he’s been genetically transformed. And, I’m guessing, the dosage for the first modification was quite large.”
“Of course, none of this is as convincing as direct evidence.” Researcher Song glanced at Wei Shi and spoke again slowly, “News came in from the technical team yesterday.”
“The surveillance chip that was destroyed at the R-Code Base back then has been restored as much as possible. We were able to extract video recordings from 10 years ago.”
Wei Shi paused, “Open it.”
The recovered surveillance video recording wasn’t very clear, but researchers in white lab coats could be seen walking around. This section of the monitoring was aimed at the transformation room with the highest specifications within the R-Code base. Test tubes, needles, and monitoring probes could be seen everywhere.
Someone came in leading a group of children.
The recording stopped at a specific frame.
Wei Shi suddenly clenched his fists.
Researcher Song enlarged the details. In the low-definition video recording, they could still make out the young boy with the small curls in the crowd. He looked to be about eight or nine years old, appeared soft and gentle, and he didn’t dare to fall behind the other children for even a moment.
A young Wu Jin.
“I’ll ask the technical team to make a copy of the video for you.” Researcher Song stopped looking at the screen, and his voice was filled with emotional ups and downs, “These were all ‘scabbard’ experimental subjects.”
“Six years ago, the R-Code Base was disbanded. From the list that was found on-site, it can be inferred that they were still at the base, just like Wei Yan and Shao Yu. The problem lies in the time period four years ago. All records disappeared, and at that time, Shao Yu suddenly left R-Code Entertainment and defected to the Empire. Something must have happened during this period.”
A long time later, Wei Shi ordered, “Continue looking for Shao Yu and keep an eye on the R-Code Base.”
Researcher Song nodded, “There’s also Little Witch––”
“I hope that you can ask for as many clues as you can.”
Beneath the Floating Base tower.
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The black cat and a flamingo were clumped together, fighting. Zhou Nan finished washing his hands and suddenly received a message from Wei Shi.
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“If you have to ask, then you’d better find something to distract him. Don’t trigger his psychological shadows halfway through!”
A few minutes later, Wei Shi held a bag of oranges and went to find Wu Jin, who was bathing the little Pterosaur by the river.
Wu Jin fell into a daze. It seemed that he’d never seen the big boss carrying a plastic bag before, but looking at it seemed to be quite a unique experience!
There were quite a few people by the river. Red, who was nearby, jumped up directly, “Brother Wei, you’re here, ah, this place is very romantic. Hehehe, I won’t bother you guys––”
Wei Shi walked over to the riverside and sat down with Wu Jin.
The man’s long, straight legs were folded casually, his shirt collar undone. He’d just come out of the tower, and the darkness in his gaze hadn’t yet dispersed.
The big boss didn’t say a word as he began to peel an orange.
Wu Jin was currently drying up the little Pterosaur. He ‘ahh’ opened up his mouth and waited to be fed.
Wei Shi stuffed a slice at him.
Wu Jin: “…… Brother Wei, isn’t it a little sour?”
Wei Shi stuffed him with another slice.
The small round face practically collapsed. Wu Jin puffed up his cheeks, “Sour, ahh, sour, sour––”
Wei Shi: “How old were you when you learned to dance?”
Wu Jin hissed as he inhaled, all of his attention focused on the orange, “Around seven years old. The dean said that there was a class for anyone who was interested.”
Wei Shi: “Dean?”
Wu Jin tried hard to digest the orange, “I was abandoned as a child and sent to the welfare home!”
Wei Shi’s eyes flashed slightly. The Federation had generous fertility benefits, and few offspring were abandoned even if their parents were unmarried. Citizens were entered into the gene bank from birth and wouldn’t be lost. Taking another ten thousand steps back, such a cute and well-behaved little boy would definitely be extremely popular on the adoption lists.
Wei Shi: “And then?”
Wu Jin finally understood. The big boss was trying to check his residency status! However, Wu Jin, as an illegal immigrant, wasn’t afraid at all. He didn’t understand how he’d transmigrated over, but if the big boss could figure that out, then he’d be a real immortal! He wouldn’t just call him big boss, but would change his method of address and call him daddy instead!
Wu Jin was smart and honest, “After that, I went to primary school, became a glorious student, and was even a little team leader for a year. I didn’t need to take an examination for junior high school, and it was assigned at random. After that, I attended junior high school. I was the first in my grade for the middle school entrance examination. In high school, I took science as my major, and then for the college entrance exam…”
The shadows in the man’s eyes darkened, and he looked straight at Wu Jin, attempting to capture the subtlest of expressions on the youth’s face.
There were no flaws.
If it hadn’t been for the blood tests, the emotional lock, and even the surveillance, even Wei Shi himself would believe this ‘memory’.
Wei Shi peeled off another slice of orange and distracted Wu Jin’s attention.
Wu Jin trembled and shivered as he looked at it.
Wei Shi: “What about before seven?”
Wu Jin: “I-I don’t remember! Ahh, the dean said that I was silly as a child. My brain development was relatively slow, maybe… ahhhh don’t peel it anymore, I don’t want to eat it ahhh––”
A middle-aged lady who was fishing by the river finally couldn’t watch on anymore. She spoke in a critical tone, “Don’t bully others! There’s a military base beside us. If you keep using sour oranges to commit domestic violence towards your boyfriend, do you not think that I won’t call the police on you?!”
Then, she admonished Wu Jin, “You as well. Why are you so obedient? Do you eat whatever he tells you to eat? Don’t you know how to punch him…”
A few minutes later, Wu Jin smoothly ran away and gulped down mouthfuls of water at the entrance to the base.
Red laughed loudly, “How could it be? How could we have such sour oranges in our base?! Oh, right, just now, someone gave my big brother a bunch of coupons. If you want to buy some weapons for self-defense, you can get some of them from me. They’re for paint jobs and inscriptions––”
“I originally also wanted to show you around the armory, but it’s been sealed up by Brother Wei over the past two days. There’s a whole bunch of decoration teams coming in and out, making a lot of noise…”
In the high tower.
Researcher Song received the feedback and was also stunned for a moment, “The timeline doesn’t match.”
“From the monitoring, it looks like Little Witch was at R-Code Base at least during the time when he went to primary school. It’s impossible for one person to have two completely different sets of memories. What’s more, arts and science––the Federation divided them into four branches hundreds of years ago. Also, what is a team leader?!”
The assistant to the side read through the materials, “From Mr Wu’s description of his living environment, the expansion of the arts and science branches 800 years ago seemed to have taken place between the 20th and 22nd century. Over 90% of Mr Wu’s gene sequence can be matched to the East Asian genes recorded in the early 20th century. His ancestral background consists of 62.7% Southern Han, and 12.2% Yi Clan…”
Wei Shi: “His common sense knowledge, and scientific and technological knowledge only goes up to the 21st century.”
The assistant was stunned.
The research room suddenly fell silent. A long time later, the assistant began to tremble as he spoke up, “Professor Song, do you think that it’s possible that time and space was distorted, and he was sent over from a thousand years ago––”
Researcher Song turned his head.
“Can monkeys recreate the <Complete Works of Shakespeare>? For things that only exist in your imagination, the probability of them happening is 0.”
It was absolutely impossible.
However, judging from the existing clues, all their speculation had come to a dead end.
In the silence, Wei Shi spoke up, “If he came out of the genetic reproduction room,” The man’s voice was cold, “Go and find out who he was cloned from.”
Researcher Song was suddenly inspired and came back to his senses.
Genetic reproduction would explain the problem of Wu Jin’s genetic sequence. If they could find the source for the reproduction, they could find R-Code Base’s purpose in creating ‘Wu Jin’.
The assistant nodded quickly.
On the virtual screen, the computing core that calculated at ten thousand teramegabytes per second matched up Wu Jin’s genetic sequence with the source database’s data samples.
“Found it!” The assistant spoke up excitedly, “The genetic sample C72235AY8 is a 70% match with Mr Wu’s genes. It’s stored in––Blue Star’s underground Warehouse 6. It was one of the warehouses that the R-Code paid out four years ago to cover their debts.”
“C72235AY8 sample’s owner information is only available on paper, and the data and remains are stored in the same warehouse.”
Wei Shi paused.
The man’s fingers moved like electricity as he sent a message through the terminal. Soon, the technical team hacked into the monitoring feed for Warehouse 6.
“This warehouse is very out of the way. Nobody’s been in there for a few years since R-Code was disbanded.” Researcher Song leaned over and said, “I’ll send someone over as soon as possible.”
Wei Shi shifted his gaze and looked at the sample bar code marked ‘C72235AY8’.
“Little Witch was genetically reproduced, not cloned.” Researcher Song spoke in a low voice, “Also, one’s growth environment, personality, and emotional influences all determine how life unfolds.”
Wei Shi nodded and looked down at the base of the tower, his gaze following the last rays of light before twilight. Wu Jin, who was modestly learning how to use an anesthetic dagger from the guard team, had bright and sparkling eyes.
The one and only.
At night.
Red drove a flashy suspension car and ran to the market with Wu Jin under Wei Shi’s instructions. By the time the two of them came back, they had eaten so much they lay there in the suspension car and couldn’t get down. Red’s stack of coupons was now short one ‘gun customization’ voucher.
Wu Jin repeatedly told Red to keep it a secret.
Red patted his chest in guarantee, done!
Floating City was different from the Crosson Base. Without Captain Zoe’s surveillance, Wu Jin was bold enough to live in the big boss’s mansion.
With a city full of flamingos to play with, the black cat was unwilling to return home even late at night.
Outside the window, the mist was scented with flowers, and lights were scattered here and there. On the other side of the window, a soft, prone Wu Jin was sprawled out on the big bed.
The big boss was in the tower nearby.
The old antique radio was still tuned in to the same channel.
“Going further down the agricultural economic road. The holiday edition of the breeding course, FM 126.X. Hello, Azure Cosmos’s <Rabbit Raising Classic> will teach you how to dye a rabbit pink to adapt them to the festive atmosphere––”
The robot was very solicitous toward Wu Jin, sending in supper, gaming machines, a virtual cinema account, and mobile game money card, as well as a champagne rose.
Wu Jin turned off the radio and lay down on the bed to reply to messages on his terminal.
Hudi had sent over a music demo. Wu Jin hummed for a long time and modified his high pitched accompaniment for him.
Thin Fire: I’m participating in the selection for the most attractive male in womenswear in the competition circles. Click the link to vote for me!
Wu Jin voted and helped pass on the link.
Caesar: bmd
Wu Jin received this secret code and quickly ordered delivery for Caesar, arranging to have it sent over to White Moonlight in secret.
Ever since Zoe had started regularly monitoring Caesar’s terminal’s ‘sent messages’, Caesar only used the first letter of every word to send secret messages.
Caesar: idfs
Wu Jin: Brother Caesar, don’t worry! Generally speaking, it will be very difficult for Brother Caesar to starve to death!
Caesar: npydxtwl, wygzyndw, qdnbd.
Wu Jin’s eyes dimmed, “……” He-he couldn’t understand it.
The last message at the bottom contained the dormitory surveillance video from the Crosson logistics department.
Wu Jin suddenly remembered that there was still this matter. During the fifth elimination match, the black cat seemed to have done something strange to the health care pillow, making the little Pterosaur very angry.
He quickly went through the whole week’s surveillance video.
The pets entered Wu Jin’s bedroom several times, but none of them touched the pillow.
Wu Jin: “Eh?”
He rewound the surveillance. The black cat ran in and licked Brother Rabbit twice. There was a six hour difference between the two incidents, and the cat’s movements had been exactly the same both times.
It was as though the same video recording had been played back again.
In the Floating Base tower.
Wei Shi had just come out of the armory when he suddenly received a message from Mao Dongqing.
Just now, a man had appeared in the surveillance camera in Warehouse #6 that held ‘C72235AY8’,
Shao Yu, who had disappeared.
Mao Dongqing: “Shao Yu’s goal is probably also the sample.”
Wei Shi’s eyes darkened. The suspension car arrived quickly, “Wait for me.”
Juurensha: Little Witch’s mysterious past! But it’s probably good he forgot it….
xiin: Wei Shi is so so so so sneaky with those sour oranges. and all that secrecy around the armory owo
Thank god he forget everything. Dont want him to remember all those memories in there🥺
Thank you for the update💜
Also young wu jin? Ahhh must be so cute🤯
My brain is exploding oh god so did Little Witch really transmigrated or are his memories fabricated?? It shouldnt be?? Reincarnation?? Not quite. Maybe the 31st century body was sampled from his 21st century one??? That means that when he transmigrated over he died in the 21st century??? QAQ!!! Waiting for the next chapters so i can get out of this crisis!!! Thanks for the chapter <3 WS getting WJs info with sour oranges LMAO
Ohhh… sheeet. That makes a lot of sense. But then what would have happened in the time that he died, reincarnated, and been modified? Also, that four year gap is a little iffy
It was already cleared in this chapter, there is no transmigration. I am starting to think his memories were planted
Maybe that’s the time his memories were fabricated. Cause he should have memories of the 31st century but he didn’t have. It should have been erased. On his memories he run away after the fire. So he must have really started the fire and run away with or without someone. Someone might have helped him get out and erased his memories or it was too traumatic that he forgot about it and has amnesia or maybe it was really altered
I’m shocked
wtf are these revelations. please hold up the unfolding plot my brain can’t follow!!! also, jfc caesar would totes enjoy txt speech. when’s the perv gonna die plsss!
thank you so much for the chapter!!!!!
My brain exploded
“Rabbit Raising Classic..” is this WS’s orders..? Or just influence.. 😂😂
I feel like SY is being too confident about Lil Witch following him before.. it must have a reason and Im guessing it has to do with the pillow..
So Lil witch’s soul transmigrated to his descendant’s body..?
Thanks for the chapter~
Also. Lol at the passerby woman lecturing WS not to bully Lil Witch with sour oranges 🤣🤣
The passerby woman = author.
She came down from the heavens just to scold Wei Shi.
+1 hahaha
‘Domestic violence’ using oranges Gshagahahgshahahaha- 😂🤣😂😂🤣😭😂
so will the next fruit be lemons to limes?
Ppl in this story are really cute 😂😂 Back off Shao yu!
could some good soul remind me the concept of ‘swords’ and ‘scabbards’?
Successfully powerful genetically modified people like Shao Yu (aka asshat), Wei Shi (THE BIG ADORABLE BOSS), and Wei Yan are called “swords”. The “scabbards” are also genetically modified. Their purpose is to help the “swords” regain emotions, curb their bloodthirst, and act as a lifelong partner. The only “scabbard” we are aware of right now is the RCODE Wu Jin.
Zhou Nan try to distract him
thought of distracting in the other ways like verbally
Big Boss put sour orange into Little Witch’s mouth, then Little Witch endure how many slices of it…
I like that “The one and only” even though he’s a clone but he grew up differently and so on. But he’s not!
I guess that pillow….Shao Yu…eww
Thank you for the chapter!
can’t tell what is true anymore… did Little Witch have implanted memories or did he transmigrate?!
thank you for the chapter!
interesting… I still believe his memories are real and also the transmigration
Thanks for the chapter:)
T_T my fantasy scifi book turned out to just be scifi. 💔
And thank you for all your work. I’m always looking forward to reading your updates 😍
Anyw, ever since the first few chapters when xiin said there was a reasonable explanation for Little Witch’s transmigration, I had a theory that, what if Little Witch didn’t grow up in the 21st century and it was actually a whole act to raise him for some purpose like an experiment or something. But that sounded (and still sounds) unlikely (for me), bc to basically create a past timeline and with actual people with cities and the technology (which would be ancient now) seems a bit too much to accomplish.
I didn’t think much of this theory and was waiting for an explanation for the transmigration (smthn like a warp or idk) and then the memories appeared out of nowhere during that emotional lock arc and I thought, what if Little Witch was actually from this timeline to begin with? And my old theory came to mind.
I still don’t hold much hope in it but holy— I really didn’t expect Little Witch to be involved in the R-Code Base stuff. God, I’m really excited for the whole reveal and thank you so much for daily releases and all of your hard work, or the cliffhangers would be worse and I’d end up taking an even longer break ^^;
Thanks for the chapters! 🙂
Thanks for the chapter! This is getting crazy… Okay, so what if 31st century WJ transmigrated to 21st WJ and that’s why he became more intellectually capable when he was 6. He lost his 31st century memories. Then he transmigrated back to the 31st century? Except I don’t know how his 31st century body ended up at the survival show? And his dance physical fitness is the same… Wu Jin is a big mystery, and I love how they figured out the time travel thing, and then dismissed it as too ridiculous.
Doubt it. I think the whole transmigration idea was already debunked in this chapter
“Professor Song, do you think that it’s possible that time and space was distorted, and he was sent over from a thousand years ago––”
Researcher Song turned his head.
“Can monkeys recreate the <Complete Works of Shakespeare>? For things that only exist in your imagination, the probability of them happening is 0.”
Thanks for the Chapter!!!
I swear this has been in my mind since Wu Jin saw thOse memories in the Emotional lock
Another good theory
I swear it’s now a “who am I?” “Where am I” “What am I doing?” kind of, my brain has exploded, thing now!
(Thin Fire: I’m participating in the selection for the most attractive male in womenswear in the competition circles. Click the link to vote for me!) Lil’ Witch is probably in the top 5 of this list XDD [thank you for the chapter ✨❤️🧡 ]
???
Perhaps the body WJ transmigrated into was that of his reincarnation? Or maybe his memory was suppressed and he was sent back through time into the 21st century??? Because it IS noted that he was abandoned as a child, his perception skills were already very good prior to transmigration, that his extremelly good analysis and memorization skills were normal to him (so not things he gained only after transmigration), and he has a very high ability to adapt (my boy went from an idol boy band dance leader trainee to the 11th ranked survival show comtestant in less than 10 months)
But the pretext is that I want to keep it as accidental time travel.
The result from my unworldly brainstorming: Wu Jin actually really originated from 31st century as a genetical reconstruction of a person. Until he was 8 or 9 he lived in R_CODE base a one of the scabbard project subjects-sample, and also got the ‘treatment’ of abnormal dose of MHCC and other gene-based transformation proccess, therefore gaining his high resistance towards that agent and boosting his hearing sensory. But, an unforeseen twist of fate happened, a time slip-crack occur and also interacted with the chemical inside his blood, resulting him got sent back to the 21st century and his body also regressed to a few years younger, and ‘forget’ his past (This is related to him explaining that the Dean of welfare center said that he was quite slow and foolish before he got into school).
Afterwards, he got into another time slip, returning him back to 31st century.
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I also thought that suppressed memory theory was plausible, but the picture I got from the first chapters seems too complete to be called as a deliberate reconstruction/imitation of one’s memory.
After reading this chapter I feel “Surprise! The supposed to be transmigrated character is actually not transmigrated!!! “
Yeah, good for wu jin to forget it🤧 ah my little witch..
Oooo i didnt expect Little Witch to have a mysterious past
I have mixed feelings. I think Wu Jin should be part of these conversations about himself. Wei Shi said he’d give Wu Jin a choice, but he hasn’t actually explained anything to him. Seems dangerous to leave him the dark with Shao Yu hunting him.
Thanks for the chapter!
But they also don’t have enough information. A wrong move can end up very badly. They need to figure out the truth in order to ease little witch into it
Based on the conversation it can be reduced that little witch didn’t transmigrate. So where did he come from
“Professor Song, do you think that it’s possible that time and space was distorted, and he was sent over from a thousand years ago––”
Researcher Song turned his head.
“Can monkeys recreate the <Complete Works of Shakespeare>? For things that only exist in your imagination, the probability of them happening is 0.”
“Little Witch was genetically reproduced, not cloned.”
What is the difference?? Meaning the dead body is revived? If it is reproduced without the original, then isn’t that means it is cloned?
Wu jin hurry call Wei Shi daddy or I’ll do it~ *Whispers” and I’m even willing to kneel🛐
Shao Yu better not hurt Little Witch 😤