AGTCTCC Chapter 68
by Volare“Knock knock.”
A crisp knock on the door broke the silence.
Both of their gazes were drawn to it. The next second, the tightly sealed door was opened.
Light from outside poured into the room, revealing the appearance of the two people inside. Qi Xiao’s face slowly appeared behind the door.
She was also taken aback seeing the two people awake. The silence shifted from two people to three.
After a long silence, Qi Xiao slowly said, “Ning… Li An?”
As soon as she said it, she felt a sense of disorientation, as if she hadn’t called Ning Li An’s name completely in a long time.
One of the people in the room quickly responded, “Mm.”
But two seconds later, he wore a puzzled expression and asked, “Am I?”
Qi Xiao’s expression also changed from the initial shock and confusion to seriousness.
Qi Xiao reached out, and the page projected from her wrist showed only one person’s video record.
——Experiment Body Number 053.
Qi Xiao dialed the number.
The video connected.
Wu Zhen’s face appeared enlarged on the screen, and he looked at the screen with a smile.
He asked, “What’s wrong?”
Qi Xiao looked at him and asked, “You’re out again?”
She was also a little surprised inwardly, as it had switched so quickly. Before, it would take a long time before seeing the other person.
Wu Kun tossed his hair, indifferently hummed in agreement, and said, “I don’t know why, but the feeling of being restricted by Wu Zhen is much less.”
Wu Kun asked again, “What about that photo?”
Qi Xiao: “Wu Zhen just woke up, so it wasn’t convenient to forcefully snatch it from Chu Qi in front of him, but he shouldn’t be suspicious.”
Wu Kun chuckled lightly, harboring deep malice even towards his other self: “Mm, his brain can’t be suspicious.”
Qi Xiao: “…”
She looked at the face on the screen. This child was found by the lab himself and actively requested human modification.
At that time, experiments on humans were not something that could be made public, and would undoubtedly be met with resistance.
But Ning Li An was extremely enthusiastic about it, completely disregarding the reactions of others, focusing only on the experiment.
Therefore, it was impossible for this experiment to be leaked, so it was chosen on Planet C079.
Planet C079 was prosperous at the time, and more importantly, it was far from the Main Star, so they wouldn’t have to worry about it reaching the ears of the Main Star management for the time being.
When she found the lab at the time, Ning Li An, as the main person in charge, was very shocked and didn’t know how this child had found this place.
This child actively made a request to Ning Li An, saying that he wanted to switch with another experiment body.
Qi Xiao didn’t remember the specific number of the experiment body, but Ning Li An was very interested in this child’s spiritually developed body and agreed.
Ning Li An simply told the other people in charge that this was his neighbor’s child. He smiled very naturally, just like later, when he sent his own child to be injected with serum.
Later, although that experiment was abandoned, this child actually survived.
The other people in charge of the lab unanimously decided that this experiment body had been polluted and couldn’t repeat the next experiment.
Ning Li An was unwilling to give up on this child and locked him in a closed lab to study him alone.
Later, this child was injected with the Experiment Body Number 054’s serum, and unlike the others, he developed another soul.
——Wu Zhen.
As a later soul, Wu Zhen was indifferent to everything.
He was different from Wu Kun, who was smiling even when he was in excruciating pain during the serum injection.
Qi Xiao unconsciously imitated Wu Kun’s character, slowly learning Wu Kun’s way of always smiling, because Ning Li An paid too much attention to Wu Kun.
In fact, Wu Kun initially occupied the body for the longest time, while Wu Zhen only appeared occasionally.
Later, Wu Zhen appeared for longer and longer periods of time.
To the point that now, Wu Zhen mostly controlled the body.
Qi Xiao thought of Ning Li An, her smile stiffening slightly as she moved the camera, showing the scene in the room to Wu Kun.
Qi Xiao: “Didn’t you say it would take a long time? Why did you emerge from your cocoon so quickly?”
Wu Kun brought his entire face closer to the camera, staring at the two people in the room, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes for a moment.
Wu Kun: “?”
But after only two seconds, he straightened up again.
“But isn’t that a good thing? You don’t have to wait that long to see your lover.”
Wu Kun: “So, aren’t you happy?”
Qi Xiao stared at Ning Li An’s face in the room, wearing a blank expression, and Sang Quan Shi Li next to him, with the same expression.
Qi Xiao: “…”
She didn’t speak, and Wu Kun knew without thinking, so: “Since you’re happy, why are you dwelling on his time frame?”
Qi Xiao still didn’t speak. On the other side, Wu Kun saw the screen cut off, but his face didn’t change much.
He stared into the air, his gaze directed towards Xiang Li and the others’ location, a strange emotion flashing quickly in his eyes.
He didn’t know when this body would switch back to Wu Zhen’s soul, so he had to quickly take advantage of the time he controlled the body to destroy the Main Star’s defense barrier.
Only by experiencing it themselves would humans realize that Chu Qi and the others’ so-called management was just a formality.
Wu Kun thought that there would always be people who were greedy for life and afraid of death who would eventually choose to rely on him in order to survive, even if it was only one person.
He came to the window. This was the best view of the Main Star, and he could see the greatly reduced edge of the barrier at a glance.
Outside the barrier, countless disgusting Polluted Entity insects were wriggling, trying to enter inside.
Inside the barrier, the places that had already fallen had countless Polluted Entity eggs, and it was unknown when they would all hatch.
Then, they would devour all the living things inside the barrier in one bite.
Wu Kun shuddered with excitement just thinking about it.
And that photo…
Wu Kun thought of the photo that had been taken away by Chu Qi, and the smile on his lips rarely dropped.
There wasn’t a single person around him, but he could still feel the thin layer of ice gradually spreading from the surrounding objects, directly sensing Wu Kun’s low pressure.
That was his, and he had to get it back.
When Wu Zhen occupied the body and lost the photo, he even wanted to die together with this person in his body.
His eyes deepened a few degrees, and the fingers at his side gradually curled in, his nails almost digging into his flesh.
The thought of someone else in his body made Wu Kun disgusted, especially when they made idiotic expressions and played some moronic games with his face.
Under the operation of Yan Zhou Ping and Yu Han, the chip in Ke Man’s body was successfully taken out.
Yan Zhou Ping notified the others quickly as soon as he saw Ke Man open his eyes after lying in the healing pod for several days.
When Xiang Li came down, he was holding that metal box in his hand.
Before Ke Man could say his first word, he opened the box and shoved the photo in Ke Man’s face.
Xiang Li: “Do you recognize them?”
Although Ke Man didn’t know why he felt weak all over and couldn’t move after waking up.
He looked at the photo in front of him, trying to recall the blurry figures, and shook his head slightly.
Xiang Li then retrieved the previously taken image projected at the time from the motherboard. The faces on the screen were clear.
Xiang Li: “.”
Ke Man consciously glanced at it a few times, and then inexplicably felt a little familiar.
Ke Man nodded, wanting to speak, but found his throat terribly dry, as if there wasn’t a drop of water, and a hoarse sound of air came from his open mouth.
Ke Man was stunned, his mind blank for a moment, and his face visibly turned pale.
His gaze swept around, as if looking for something.
Yan Zhou Ping pulled two wires from the machine next to him and connected them to the pipes on Ke Man’s body.
The machine next to him displayed what Ke Man wanted to say.
Yan Zhou Ping stated that since Xiang Li became mute last time, he had been painstakingly deciphering Xiang Li’s words every day, and had learned his lesson and invented this machine.
On the machine, neat black calligraphy was written——
[Someone came to the military academy, ambushed, they took away many people, they cut people into many pieces, tell Colonel Chu!]
Ke Man scanned around. Everyone looked at the words displayed on the machine, but no one spoke, and a panicked feeling suddenly surged in his heart.
He subconsciously looked for his younger brother, scanned around again, and his entire body stiffened.
[Where’s Ke Shi Zhuo?] he asked.
Still no one spoke.
[Where’s Ke Shi Zhuo?]
The screen on the machine flashed again, still the same sentence.
Xiang Li: “Ke Shi Zhuo is dead.”
Xiang Li spoke somewhat bluntly. He didn’t know how to tell Ke Man, so he directly spoke in his usual manner.
“He… is.”
Xiang Li suddenly wanted to add a few words of comfort, but the words reached his lips, and there were countless words in his throat, but he couldn’t put together a complete sentence.
In the end, he simply didn’t say anything.
Xiang Li had lived for more than six hundred years, and it seemed like a long time since he had experienced the death of a friend. Death seemed to be something very far away from him.
Death, he had seen it so much six hundred years ago, and hadn’t seen it since. It was a very rare and very common word.
To Xiang Li and the others.
The others were the same, unable to open their mouths.
In the healing pod, Ke Man felt as if his soul had been extracted after hearing Xiang Li’s words.
Ke Man: [Ke Shi Zhuo is it…]
His throat rolled up and down several times, unable to say it, unable to speak it, and unable to even think of a complete sentence in his mind now.
He closed his eyes, feeling weak all over, and the screen next to him displayed his words.
[Mm.]
After a long time, the screen changed.
[Understood.] he said again.
Ning Le felt uncomfortable with this atmosphere. To put it bluntly, the few of them who had lived for more than six hundred years were only “slow” in their emotions.
This atmosphere suddenly made them feel a little flustered.
She looked at Xiang Li, who was standing next to her with his eyes lowered, wondering what he was thinking.
Her eyes moved imperceptibly to Ke Man’s sentence “Understood” on the machine screen.
She thought that Xiang Li might be better at expressing emotions.
In her peripheral vision, Xiang Li took the lead to walk out, his figure disappearing in place in an instant.
Almost everyone else thought that Xiang Li had gone to find Chu Qi, but at this moment, he was looking at the “Celery Flower” flower shop in front of him.
He happened to meet Qin Lai, who was holding a large tray of sunflower flowers in one hand, carrying a small stool in the other, and accompanied by a sweeping robot.
Qin Lai raised his eyebrows, threw the small stool at the door, sat down, and started cracking sunflower seeds.
He glanced at Xiang Li a couple of times, spitting out the shells as he asked, “What kind of flowers are you buying?”
Xiang Li: “I came to ask about your parents’ affairs.”
Qin Lai frowned in confusion, what did it have to do with his parents?
He sized up Xiang Li, and then thought of the iris bouquet that Xiang Li had bought before, and his brain involuntarily began to actively expand his own imagination.
“You were rejected, and then you wanted to hear my parents’ love story to find yourself, and how to have a handsome boy like me?”
Xiang Li: “…”