Translator: ThatLazyPotato
Translation Checker: Rin
Editor: DragonFae
The baby wasn’t considered small in size. It quietly lay on Bai Chunian’s shoulder and fell asleep. Yet it was as if Bai Chunian didn’t feel anything, he casually picked up the vines blocking the exit and looked into the next room.
Rimbaud was crawling on the wall. He stretched out his hands, wanting to pick up the snow-white baby on Bai Chunian’s shoulder, but his fingertips passed through its body lightly, he was unable to touch it.
Bai Chunian confusedly turned around. “What are you doing? Help me tear these vines apart, they’re too strong.”
“There’s a white child on your shoulder,” Rimbaud described it truthfully. “I can’t touch it.”
Bai Chunian felt a chill down his back after hearing this, and exerted strength to shake his body. “Is it still there?”
“Still there.”
Bai Chunian carefully turned his head and tried his best to look behind his shoulder. A white baby’s head appeared in his line of sight.
The baby felt someone looking at him and slowly raised its head, looking at Bai Chunian ignorantly without any facial features.
“Shi—” Bai Chunian’s hair stood on end again. He ran around the wall and floor but was unable to shake off the little ghost on him. Rimbaud followed after him calmly, turning his head left and right, from right to up, and from top to bottom watching Xiao Bai running around like crazy. What was written in “How to Take Care of Kitten,” was right—kittens were easily frightened and could fly off the handle in stressful situations.
Finally, Bai Chunian took out the pistol from the gun belt on his outer thigh, loaded it neatly, and shot the baby in the back with his backhand.
The baby was knocked away by the impact of the bullet and harshly hit the wall, then it flowed on the wall to the ground like a lump of batter, where it reshaped itself into a baby. The bullet hole on its body slowly healed, and the bullet was swallowed into its body.
The baby rubbed its aching head, then crawled away while babbling.
“…Where did this little thing come from?” Bai Chunian crouched down and looked at it. The little kid had no face, there were two pointed little devil horns on the white head, and a thin black tail extended from its tailbone above its butt and the end of the tail curled up in an inverted heart shape.
Bai Chumian wanted to lift it up, but his hands easily passed through its body. Its body was nonexistent and cannot be touched.
“When did it crawl onto me? I didn’t feel it at all.” Bai Chunian held his chin with the pistol deep in thought. The baby’s external characteristics were input in the watch, but no information about this experimental subject was found.
Nothing could be done, though. There were many semi-finished experimental subjects that had yet to be stored at the Research Institute Headquarters, so it was understandable for there to be no specific information found.
Rimbaud crawled from the wall to the floor, blocking the path of the faceless baby. The little baby stopped for a minute, then turned around and crawled away with its stomach growling.
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.
“Pa’r cba atf boofcrlnf asqf.” Elwyjev gfjiis kjcafv ab abemt la, yea tlr tjcvr kbeiv ub atgbeut lar ybvs fnfgs alwf. “Pa’r tecugs.”
Ktf ilaaif yjys mgjkifv ab atf vlrlcofmalbc mjylcfa, rwfiifv atf mbgqrfr lcrlvf, atfc tf gjlrfv tlr ilaaif tjcvr jcv offa eq klat vloolmeias jcv milwyfv bc la. Ktf mibrfv mjylcfa mbeiv cba rabq la—atf yjys vfobgwfv lar ybvs jcv rdeffhfv lc atgbeut atf ujqr bo atf vbbg. Ktf yjys tfiv atf gbaalcu mbgqrf jcv bqfcfv lar wbeat.
Its scarlet lips and tongue created a strong contrast with the snow-white body. It gnawed at the corpse deliciously, slurping and sucking on the corpse oil in the cabinet. Not long after, the corpse inside disappeared. Nothing had changed apart from that; the things inside were still intact.
Rimbaud was sitting in front of the disinfection cabinet’s glass door, holding his chin and staring at it. “Cute.”
After the little baby finished eating the corpse, it squeezed out from the crack of the door, and fell to the ground head first. Its face became deformed, then it slowly returned to its original form and continued crawling to the next corpse.
Bai Chunian caught a glimpse of a fat woman lying in the specimen cabinet against the wall, and his intuition prompted him to go over.
The woman was extremely obese, almost like a sumo wrestler. Although the facial features could be seen to be in good shape, they had been squished out of shape by the fat. She was left with a horizontal C-section incision on her belly, which was exquisitely stitched.
On the electronic screen on the lower left corner, the introduction of the specimen was being scrolled continuously. From the intro, Bai Chunian learned that the woman was named Marilyn, her gland type was a white mushroom, and was a cleaner when she was alive. Due to the rare occurrence of multiple births during pregnancy, she traveled a long distance from a rural town to a central hospital in the city for further examination.
The Research Institute and the hospital’s higher-ups had secretly made a deal, transferring Marilyn to the 109 Research Institute Headquarters on the grounds that the hospital’s technical level was inefficient.
Bai Chunian also learned that the one who took over Marilyn’s body for transformation experimentation was an intern under Aileen, called Reynold.
Reynold proudly left a paragraph at the end of the introduction about the specimen, “I would like to thank my mentor Aileen for giving me this rare opportunity to practice and present my work, ‘Experimental Subject 6124, Little Cleaner,’ which aims to clean up the filth on the earth and make our home cleaner and more beautiful.”
“Wonderful, what a great topic.” Bai Chunian sneered.
“Hey! This kiddo is crawling on to my head and won’t come off no matter what I do.” Eris strode over from the exit of the security tunnel from a distance, but was blocked halfway by the baby crawling toward a corpse, so he mumbled, “Why is there another one,” while he raised a foot and kicked it away.
The baby was kicked to the wall, slowly trickling down, and turned into a thin white puddle of paste on the ground before returning to the shape of a baby.
“Oh, so it’s like that.” Bai Chunian quickly stretched out his hand and grabbed the baby on Eris’ head. However, his hand didn’t pass through its invisible body this time, rather, he was able to grab it.
“Experimental Subject 6125, Little Cleaner, this little thing’s body is a “non-Newtonian. It seems that it only emerges from its transparent state when it is damaged by a heavy blow. It was probably the one that ate my severed hand before. I accidentally hit it on the head when I came in.” Bai Chunian tried to slowly stroke the little baby in his palm, and his hand would pass through its body without obstruction. But when he slapped it hard on the butt, a clear slapping sound could be heard, and he was able to touch its soft skin.
“As for why it clung to your head and won’t leave, it might be because it thinks your porcelain head contains trash.”
“Fuck off.” Eris swept his hair continuously.
Rimbaud had also mastered the secret of picking up the babies—he just needed to quickly pick it up and he’ll be able to hold it.
“I’ll name this Newton.” Rimbaud clung to the little guy with little devil horns, then threw it up high and caught it in his arms.
Bai Chunian threw the other one with little bat wings at Rimbaud. “I’ll also give you this Galileo.”
“We need to go deeper. I don’t know what happened here, but some experimental subjects fled. The researchers resisted ineffectively and were killed, which is a serious incident for the Institute.”
Puppet Master came over from the room on the other end. He carefully looked at the specimen cases around him along the way. He said leisurely, “I went to the last room to check; there’s indeed a small indentation behind the door from being pressed against. There’s also scuff marks left on the floor. It’s safe to assume that there are other living beings beside us here in the building and roaming around.”
“Let’s first remove these vines.” Bai Chunian grabbed a section of the thick vine and pulled it to the left. Eris walked over carefreely with his hands behind his back. “Move aside, Lucky Cat. If you don’t take off your collar, you won’t have even a bit of strength.”
Eris pulled Bai Chunian aside, gently pressed his porcelain fingers between the gap of the vines, then separated them with force.
His porcelain ball joints rolled with his body movements, and his muscle stretched accordingly. Although he was made of porcelain, he was very life-like.
The strong vines were torn apart by him with all his strength and created a gap. Bai Chunian raised his chin, hinting for Puppet Master to go first. Eris furrowed his brows. “What are you doing, you go first.” Then he turned to Puppet Master. “Knicks, you walk behind me.”
“Annoying. I’ll go first.” Rimbaud went in, and Bai Chunian followed behind and stepped in.
After passing through the entrance, it felt like they had entered a primitive jungle full of banyan trees and weeping vines. The entire room was covered with vines. On the vines hung gold flowers, and some of the fruits had already ripened. The golden fruits were translucent and plump, hanging upside down on the branches. They were pretty much 20 cm in diameter.
“It’s a kind of sweet melon, they’re not bad.” Rimbaud pulled off one of them, broke it apart, and exposed its golden jelly-like flesh. He bit into it—it was both crispy and sweet, and very juicy.
The smell of dead bodies pervaded the inside of the sealed-off room. Before he had time to examine the layout of the entire room, he saw the corpses of the researchers all over the floor.
“Stop eating…” Bai Chunian silently counted the researcher corpses scattered on the floor. There were thirty-two of them, adding the five outside, it would be thirty-seven headless corpses in total. As for the fruits hanging on the vines, Bai Chunian counted them one by one.
Thirty-seven of them.
“Wife, that’s not melon, they’re the heads of the researchers.”
Rimbaud ate it more deliciously.
¤¤¤
Bai Chunian bent down and rummaged through the corpses’ bodies to find clues. He discovered that the name tag on one of the corpses’ uniform read “Reynold.” There was also an ID card in the uniform pocket.
Bai Chunian put the ID in his pocket, kicked the corpse, and spat softly. “Go back to your hometown and intern.”
Puppet Master rummaged through the file rack. Due to the vines growing crazily long, the rack was knocked over, and the information files were spread out all over the floor.
He picked up a stack, and read it by holding it up toward the light. Bai Chunian walked over and also picked up one.
Most of the information was regarding the bright cooperation between 109 Research Institute and major national forces, beautifying the transaction of experimental subject biochemical weapons into the import and export trade of scientific and technological products.
This was very easy to understand. If a certain country possessed a formidable weapon, the other countries would definitely strive to have a weapon of the same level in order to not be inferior. After possessing it, they would pursue more quantities and would suppress each other. The Institute then came out as the biggest winner.
Unfortunately, the existence of the Institute was still short, or in other words, the time given to Aileen was still too short. If that ambitious woman was allowed to develop the Institute at a rapid pace, sooner or later the experimental subject trade would begin to swallow up the oil and minerals of small countries. Couple that with the Institute’s own powerful drug research and development and arms technology. When the time comes, nothing could easily shake Aileen and her 109 empire.
“I like this crazy woman.” Puppet Master sighed with regret and said, “From the looks of it, we have the same goal but won’t be able to work together. Wisdom does not bring catastrophe, what always brings disaster is self-conceited wisdom and ambition that does not match wisdom.”
“What’s this?” Bai Chunian picked up half of an experimental subject’s profile from the ground.
Experimental Subject Number: 0520
Codename: Head Melon Vine
Ontology: Chinese banyan omega
Cultivation direction: Purification (devours all garbage within sight and produces edible fruits.)
Cultivation Result: Failure. She showed unexpected strong aggression. Will swallow all living things in sight, even white mice and fruit flies are not spared.
It was decided to destroy her, but without approval, she was compressed into a seed and placed in a specimen cabinet for display.
A scratching sound suddenly came from somewhere very close behind them. Bai Chunian heard the subtle sound first and quickly turned around and jumped away. A vine suddenly appeared under where he was originally standing, and a golden flower bloomed from the top of the vine. The sharp teeth in the center of the flower were constantly opening and closing, like a meat grinder.
Puppet Master used Pawn Substitute to exchange spots with Eris, and the rapidly-growing vines winded around Eris’ hands and legs, but was cut off by his leg bone blade.
“It was probably this tree that was blocking the door and preventing us from entering.” Bai Chunian nimbly jumped on the file rack. The vines grew over, and Bai Chuniam flipped over and jumped on another file rack, silently avoiding all the debris and vines.
“We couldn’t push them away, but Rimbaud was able to with one push.”
Puppet Master raised his head and said, “She’s afraid of electric shock.”
Bai Chunian raised his chin toward Rimbaud. Rimbaud raised his tail up high, and hit the ground hard. Spider-web-shaped blue lightning cracked around him with thunderbolts in all directions.
Puppet Master quickly made a spider web and put it under his feet to insulate him from the electric shock, but the vines below his feet shifted due to the stimulation, making his stance unsteady and causing his body to slam against the wall hard.
Bai Chunian and Eris also staggered. Although they could maintain balance, they couldn’t withstand the debris overturned by the vines pelting down at them.
After a burst of crackling electric shocks, the tree vines curled back due to the high-voltage electric shocks, retreating like a tide, and the tips were hacked black and smoking.
And in this seemingly spacious room, it wasn’t just the big tree that had been electrocuted.
Starting from the wall, a dense layer of white babies appeared. They covered the wall, file rack, and the floor. They crawled like white sand writhing.
“Fuck.” Bai Chunian took a look at his arms; he was holding two to three crawling, faceless babies. A dozen of them were also latching his legs. He looked at Eris and Puppet Master—the squirming babies were already crawling all over their bodies.
They were here all along.
Thank You for the new chapter (∩˃o˂∩)♡
sometimes this novel scares me more than a horror story 0_0 Thankyou for the chapter♡-♡
Is the general public aware that the research institute kidnaps ordinary people to use in their research? I feel like if that was public knowledge it would tank the institute’s reputation.
I only have one wish rn praying for the raws to not “begone” yet 😂😂