MCDWTBS Chapter 41
by VolareWith the sound of the bone-white snake tail “pa pa pa” lashing against the soul, Serra abruptly awoke from a drowning-like state, guided by a gentle force, and plunged into his originally damaged body.
Intense pain surged back, a thousand times stronger than before. Serra felt every cell in his body turn into grains of sand, mixed with mud into clay, then endlessly forged and reshaped by raging fire.
The excruciating pain caused the small ball of light that his soul had condensed into to become erratic, but Serra endured it. He felt Edwin’s bloodstained hand pressing against his insectoid cocoon. The bloody, sweet smell and the clean, metallic copper scent of Edwin’s body made Serra forget everything, even the pain became insignificant background noise.
“Hoh, love brain.”
The bone-white little snake curled itself up and wrapped around Serra’s wrist. A lively, somewhat neurotic girlish voice chattered incessantly:
“Teacher Lin, you must protect my bones, you can’t return them to those perverts of the Church, remember that! They use my bones as firewood, it’s disgusting, oh right, Teacher, your body is really cute, look at this little chubby face… Hey… I wish I was a humanoid creature too, Teacher, can you imagine, I am a planet now! And, and it’s about to go out, am I going to die, boo hoo… Teacher Lin, you must come and rescue your student…”
“…Student Yun, what planet?”
Serra did his best to calm down in the midst of the agony, striving to discern Yun Jiaran’s words. As he expected, the four students who were in the car accident with him when saving people probably transmigrated with him. He had already found the rich second generation who became the Saint and Yun Jiaran, and the state of these two students was more worrying than the other.
The Saint might be controlled by the Pope with a divine artifact, and Yun Jiaran… seemed to have transmigrated into the extinct Mother Chong.
“Eh? Teacher, you’re listening? Boo hoo hoo… Teacher, my energy is about to run out, I can’t possess this bone anymore, Teacher, you can only rely on yourself to get through the transformation next–”
“–Is it the planet in the sky above Capital Star? That small orange-red star?”
Serra had to interrupt Yun Jiaran’s rambling, saying his instinctive guess. Capital Star was very large, not only did it have the manors and some territories of the four Chong noble families, but also a floating imperial city suspended in mid-air – the Sky City where the Golden Feather Royal Family resided.
Because the imperial city was forever shrouded in sacred golden light, resembling a bird’s wings protecting it, the royal family called themselves the Golden Feather. This golden light that eternally shrouded the imperial city came from a small and decaying star. It hung distantly above Sky City, mysterious and magnificent, but without a name.
Most Chong speculated that it was probably a satellite launched by the royal family with a special energy core, that always shone. No one would associate this small star with holiness or the Mother God, but Serra had a strange premonition.
That star was the body of the Mother God, the origin of the Mother God. When Serra first transmigrated into a male Chong pup, the first time he tried to connect to his Chong power, he saw that magnificent star, as if summoned by her.
“Ah, is that so, haha, haha…” The girl laughed awkwardly for a while, understanding the teacher’s persistent quest and pressure from Serra’s silence, her voice weakened, and she admitted:
“It seems so. Alas, Teacher, I was joking before, the extinction of a star would take tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of years, I will definitely live longer than you, Teacher, this time you don’t need to bother to rescue me.”
“Rest assured.” Serra’s voice was gentle and steady, the childishness of a pup was slowly receding, and in a trance, he sounded like the firm and gentle university teacher on Earth again:
“I will find a way, you are safe now, that’s good.”
“I am safe, Teacher, who can do anything bad to a ball, haha.” The girl’s voice sounded without a trace of gloom, still impassioned and full of vitality: “I actually feel quite powerful, even if it’s small, it’s still a star, if I launch myself, I can stand shoulder to shoulder with the sun! I just don’t know how to use this power, now I can only briefly possess a few special items of the Church… I feel like I am living like an evil spirit, haha, if I could help Teacher and these Female Chong and Sub-male Chong more, they are systematically exploited, without even a chance to turn over, I really want to burn all the anti-human criminals to death!”
The girl was indignant, but her voice was getting farther and farther away, just as she said, her energy was about to run out. Serra’s soul flickered anxiously for a moment, then patiently coaxed:
“Student Yun… Jiarun, can I call you Jiarun? Don’t forget where you came from, protect yourself, we will meet again. Thank you for saving me, thank you for helping Edwin, helping these Female Chong and Sub-male Chong.”
“Although I was a teacher for a short time, you are my best student. You will take care of yourself, right?”
“Really? Am I… am I? Teacher Lin… wuaaaa–”
The impassioned and somewhat neurotic girlish voice suddenly revealed a crack of disbelief, and then sobs could not be concealed, gradually turning into a wail. The girl took advantage of the last moment to stammer:
“I will, Teacher… will take care of myself…”
The girl’s voice gradually became distant, and her remaining power also began to dissipate. The snake-shaped ribs hung on Serra’s wrist, dripping with blood seeping from his skin.
Yun Jiarun had always known how to take care of herself, because besides herself, no one else cared about her.
Her father was a gambler, and her mother was mentally retarded with mental illness. From the first time she ran to the police station in junior high school to report her father for forcibly “sheltering” disabled women, implementing illegal activities, and she and her younger brother had always been solid evidence of her father’s crimes.
But no one believed a little girl’s words. She was dragged home by her father and beaten to near death, but she didn’t give up. Throughout high school, she hid, worked odd jobs to pay her tuition for three years, looking for all opportunities to report her father, occasionally taking advantage of her father’s gambling outings to go home to take care of her mother. Her evidence became more and more, and it also attracted the attention of the media, and she was almost successful.
But one day, when she sneaked home, she found a broken white door curtain hanging at home, her father and brother staring at her with bloodshot eyes, and her mother became a thin body in a thin coffin, sold by her father for a ghost marriage.
She was beaten to near death by her father and younger brother, but she kept staring at her mother in the coffin, her ears filled with her brother’s resentful words:
“You made me a child without a mother! Bitch, beat you to death, let you sue Dad everywhere, let those media come to our door, Dad had no choice but to accidentally beat Mom to death, not let her talk nonsense, it’s all your fault, bitch! Dad, beat her to death too!”
She and her mother, lying in the coffin, were locked in the utility room. A day later, she limped on one leg, burned the wires in the house with a hairpin, smashed the door lock, and set fire to her mother’s body.
Like an unkillable cockroach, she took the college entrance examination three months later and was admitted to a university thousands of miles away.
On the day she came of age, she went to the police station to change her name. She named herself Yun Jiarun, Yun to commemorate her mother, and Jiarun to entrust her hopes to herself – she remembered the *Les Miserables* she had hid in the library to read in high school. In her own miserable world, she wanted to become Jean Valjean, she wanted to escape, to be firm, to be strong, to provide shelter for the people she cared about.
Her personality was as eccentric and aloof as Jean Valjean. After everything, she found it difficult to accept the friendship of her roommates, it was difficult to trust others, and she was often labeled by the counselor as a potential patient with psychological problems. Even if her grades were good, she was one of the students the school teachers were unwilling to pay attention to, until she met Teacher Lin.
Teacher Lin was the only one who never looked at her with strange eyes.
Even if she was extremely unlucky, she was not alone in the new world.
*
As the mysterious power receded, the Chong broke away from the mysterious state and regained their senses. Edwin leaned against the giant cocoon, pressing his bleeding abdomen with one hand, but blood still flowed from between his fingers.
All the remaining robots were summoned back by Edwin, and the damaged defense system of the manor was reactivated. Sison raised his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his lips, and looked at the grey-black giant cocoon with shining eyes, gathering all the Female Chong and Sub-male Chong of the Duke’s Mansion who still had the ability to move back to defend.
“Activate the high-level emergency plan of the Imperial Male Chong Protection Agreement, summon the enforcement team of the capital!”
Sison waved his wings, stirring up energy waves to separate the Chong of the Church, while Eren, who seized the opportunity to chop down a Church Female Chong behind him, paused, and the finger on his wrist hesitated for a moment.
The Male Chong Protection Association, in the Empire, has always been an existence that all Female Chong and Sub-male Chong fear. They are directly under the Imperial Court, protecting the birth, development, and life and property safety of Male Chong at all costs, and imposing harsh law enforcement on Sub-male Chong and Female Chong who dare to offend Male Chong. According to the severity of the Imperial law on Female Chong and Sub-male Chong, the strict criminal law of the Male Protection Association for convicted Female Chong and Sub-male Chong is second only to the religious criminal law of the Church.
But no matter how cruel the Male Protection Association is to Female Chong and Sub-male Chong, their protection of Male Chong is unlimited. Among them, the Male Protection Association has a strict set of protective measures for the Male Chong who are pupating. They will send an enforcement team to become a third party force joining the chaos, and contend against the Church’s wanton behavior.
As long as the Male Protection Association is present, the probability of Serra’s transformation will greatly increase, but the actions of all the Female Chong and Sub-male Chong in the Duke’s Mansion present, these acts of resisting and attacking the Church’s Male Chong, will invite imminent bad consequences.
“No! No!”
The Sub-male Chong Emino, who didn’t know where he had hidden in the chaos, slapped his Female Chong’s hand away, and shouted sharply: “Do you want to die? You rebelled against the Male Chong! You even killed, killed…”
Emino trembled his eyes, staring at the corpses lying on the ground, among which there were even several Male Chong wearing Church robes! And among them, it is not difficult to recognize the penetrating wounds caused by Edwin’s lightsaber, this bold and reckless Female Chong… he killed Male Chong, and not just one!
He’s crazy, he’s crazy! He has always been a madman! As early as when he rebelled against the male master, Emino knew that Edwin was a scourge, a disaster star, and all the disasters of the Duke’s Mansion were caused by him! He is the source of all evil… When the old Duke was still alive, what was wrong with their lives? Yes, Emino knew that the old Duke was cruel, tyrannical, and even attacked his own Female Chong children, but so what? Emino knew how to coax the old Duke, betray his compatriots, and smile ingratiatingly when the old Duke cruelly abused the young Female Chong. He knew how to make himself live well, live better than other Female Chong and Sub-male Chong, that was enough.
Yes, even when he was the most favored by the old Duke at that time, his life was not as comfortable as after the Young Male Master seized power, but now he is no different from other stupid, lowly Sub-male Chong and Female Chong! The Young Male Master and Edwin, they are complete aliens, they have to overthrow the original rules and change everything, what is the point?!
He had enough, he had enough! It was all Edwin’s fault! Emino screamed:
“The Male Protection Association cannot be allowed to participate! They will protect the Young Male Master, but they will also execute us! But… I am innocent, I did not resist the Male Chong and the Church at all, why should I be implicated? The Young Male Master’s pupation may not be successful, he has already died just now, we all saw it! We might as well beg for forgiveness… I didn’t do anything, I didn’t do anything… I don’t want to die!”
His slender and beautiful body trembled terribly, but the fingers grasping his Female Chong’s fingers were deeply embedded in Eren’s wrist. Eren glanced at him deeply, then raised his hand to contact the Male Protection Association.
“Male parent, I also killed Male Chong, I am going to die anyway.”
He raised the corners of his lips, revealing a smile that was too sharp: “But I hope you won’t die, Male parent, may the Mother God grant your ignorance and cowardice forgiveness.”
Emino stared blankly at the alarm information being sent, his entire face distorted, and he let out a piercing scream, while the Chong in the Duke’s Mansion who still had the ability to move gathered together, and several robots that had not been completely destroyed barely supported a protective shield in front of the giant cocoon.
The Male Chong of the Church stood up with pale faces, the blood of their comrades and Female Chong and Sub-male Chong reflected in their pupils. Many Church Male Chong, from birth, had never seen the blood of Male Chong, because they were always tightly protected and enshrined.
Today they knew for the first time that the blood of Male Chong, like the dirty and lowly blood of Sub-male Chong and Female Chong, was also a dazzling bright red.
The Chong of the Church stood with blank faces, and Sandersfi’s only remaining Female Chong attendant helped him up from the ground. The male Chong bishop, whose shoulders were soaked in blood, looked pale, as if he had just crawled out of the tomb, but his eyes revealed lifelike fear.
He stared at the huge cocoon, which was gradually turning from gray-black to pitch black, his eyes trembling, losing blood. He didn’t even glance at Edwin, the blasphemer who had seriously injured him and should be cut into pieces, but only looked at the giant cocoon, fear like a sea wave, engulfing his sanity.
He knew better than any Chong where the mysterious power just now came from. He knew better than any Chong what the artifact that disappeared from Bishop Sass was.
That was the artifact made from the ribs of the Mother God, that was the remains of the Mother God trampled on and used by the false apostles.
That was the Church’s most obscure secret and the most shameful lie.
“Terminate this transformation, kill Serra, kill that Male Chong.”
He gritted his teeth and said word by word. He looked around at the bloodstained Church Chong around him, whether it was Male Chong, Female Chong, or Sub-male Chong, his gaze even passed through the Female Chong attendant who was constantly shaking because of his order, and looked at the remaining Chong in the Duke’s Mansion.
“The Mother God has long foreseen that the one who transforms from the undead will lose all his sanity, eat raw meat and drink blood, like a beast, called a Chong beast. If the Chong beast breaks out of its cocoon, the divine way will no longer exist, and the Chong race will perish. Blasphemers, don’t be obsessed anymore. Your Young Male Master is dead, he died under the artifact, that is the treasure bestowed by the Mother God to the Church, it is the will of the Mother God! The one who is pupating now is just a Chong beast occupying his body! This is punishment for his rebellious behavior!”
Sandersfi’s expression was frantic, he vomited a mouthful of blood, but he didn’t feel any pain because of his agitated mind:
“Privately raising Chong beasts is regarded as an act against God! The Pope has learned of your rebellion and is about to gather the saints to encircle you. But I, the third cardinal of the God Church, the thirty-fourth generation heir of the Crowe family, Sandersfi, promise again that those who stray and know how to return will be given the greatest forgiveness, as long as you surrender immediately, your sins will be forgiven.”
The first to express dissatisfaction was the Male Chong of the Church. The blood of their comrades was still spreading on the ground. How could the crime of killing Male Chong be written off? Even if it was an expedient measure, it would encourage the arrogance of the sinful Female Chong! But Sandersfi’s accumulated power was so great that only a few coughs dispelled all questioning voices.
Most of the Female Chong and Sub-male Chong in the Duke’s Mansion remained unchanged, but there were also a few who showed hesitation. Not all Chong can face death calmly, even the lowly Female Chong and Sub-male Chong are, and the word forgiveness is deeply rooted in the hearts of Female Chong and Sub-male Chong. They are born guilty, and what they seek in their lives is not to be forgiven? The forgiveness from the Church is what they yearn for in their entire lives. If they are not held accountable for the past, they can still linger and pant, and live to the day when they are forgiven and accepted by God.
Moreover, their losses were too severe, and most of the robots were scrapped and could no longer be used. Most of the Chong in the Duke’s Mansion were slender Sub-male Chong favored by the old Duke. They had no combat experience and their levels were very low, while most of the attendants of the Church Male Chong were high-level Female Chong. Even if they didn’t have enough combat experience, the level suppression between Chong was very serious. Not everyone in the Duke’s Mansion wanted to risk their lives to participate in a battle, and the Sub-male Chong and Female Chong who were originally hiding behind the statues and shivering had completely lost any intention of resistance at this moment.
–Forgiveness.
Emino, who had been hiding behind a fountain, suddenly regained his voice. He shouted, kneeling down in the direction of the Church, while weeping and crawling forward on his knees:
“I didn’t do anything! I am different from these bold and reckless blasphemers! Bishop Lord, please give me, the humble one, a little insignificant consideration and pity!”
He slowly withdrew from the team of Chong in the Duke’s Mansion, and a few Female Chong and Sub-male Chong after him also moved slightly, but they couldn’t help but look at Edwin and Sison, because they still remembered the decisiveness and ruthlessness of the military Female Chong who had just killed the Male Chong.
Military Female Chong… have always made other Female Chong and Sub-male Chong both envious and repulsive. They all knew that military Female Chong were the strongest combat power of the Chong race, and the only ones who would truly cause a little bit of fear and importance to Male Chong.
But when they saw Edwin and Sison, they felt that the praise for military Female Chong was an exaggeration. They behaved so clumsily and stupidly in front of the Male Chong, were crude and burly, and were as bloody as ever under punishment. Their so-called honorary epaulets could not provide them with any halo.
In the Duke’s Mansion, no Chong looked down on the unpopular military Female Chong until today.
Until today, they knew what military Female Chong really meant.
They mean a spine that will not bend, a monument made of bones and blood, and a sharpness that is not afraid of gods and demons. They are a group of untamed and daunting beasts, their blood and bones, wildness and fangs, supporting the last bit of uninvaded space for all the hard-breathing Female Chong and Sub-male Chong.
Because military Female Chong exist, Male Chong maintain their last bit of fear and vigilance towards their playthings and tools, so as not to burn themselves.
The steps to leave hesitated again. From beginning to end, Edwin said nothing, neither wavering because of Sandersfi’s alarmist threats, nor moved by the timidity or firmness of his compatriots.
The blood flowing from his abdomen spread under his feet, like a scarlet, ominous shadow. His mind was constantly attacked by the male Chong mental energy remaining in the wound, causing him to feel faint several times and stand unsteadily, but he still stood.
The pitch-black giant cocoon behind him trembled urgently and slightly, causing Edwin to feel a familiar energy overflowing a little, desperately licking Edwin’s wound, so that Edwin could almost see the chubby pup waving his little fleshy hands beside his legs, hugging his thigh, and asking for a hug with a pair of watery caramel-colored eyes.
He’s still alive, his pup is still alive.
Edwin couldn’t actually hear the sounds around him, nor did he care about the thoughts of other Chong. The mother beast, who almost lost her pup, hid the stubborn madness in her seemingly calm eyes. He had no other thoughts, only to kill all the hunters who approached his and his pup’s nest.
Sandersfi’s face twitched as he was stared at by Edwin, he was so anxious that his chest ached, but he never saw a second Chong other than Emino move a step, especially the two powerful military Female Chong, still stubbornly standing in front of the giant cocoon. The anger in his heart made him tremble non-stop, he knew there was no time to waste, when the royal family got the news and participated, all the Church’s plans would become the enemy’s handle, losing both the lady and the soldiers.
“Kill them, kill all the blasphemers! Terminate that Chong beast transformation!”
He waved two tyrannical tentacles, taking the lead to pierce the throat of Emino who was begging for mercy, hanging his body, and then pierced the core of several robots. Sandersfi was unwilling to believe that these blasphemers were so stubborn, the noble apostles gave them verbal forgiveness and forgiveness, what else did they want? What extent can they daydream to?! How dare they? The Church’s thousands of years of operation, the bishop’s unshakable sanctity, could not even get back a trace of their sanity!
Sandersfi vented his tyrannical anger on Emino first, only because he was the closest target. The Church Chong behind him began to attack again, the Male Chong’s tentacles whipped towards the stubborn resisters, and the high-dimensional power almost completely ignored the Duke’s Mansion’s defense system. Edwin’s eyes were blood red, he couldn’t see anything clearly, and he acted entirely on his body’s combat instinct. He bent down, feeling all the wounds on his body tear open again, but he forcibly opened his wings again.
The broken and almost ridiculous black wings firmly protected Serra’s cocoon. Edwin could feel Sandersfi’s tentacles getting closer, he should dodge away, otherwise he would die.
But behind him was his Chong cub, the Chong cub he absolutely, absolutely could not lose again.
Not only did he not dodge, but he propped up his wings and met them, waving the lightsaber in his hand to block the bullets from the opposite side, and was pierced through the wing bones by the Male Chong tentacles in an instant. The pain that directly hit the brain made Edwin unconscious for a moment, and a hoarse cry of pain inadvertently leaked from his tightly pursed lips.
But that was quickly swallowed back by him. He waved his sword backhandedly, preparing to cut off his wing bones, but he didn’t see that the surface of the black giant cocoon behind him, which was trembling slightly, after his muffled groan, fluctuated violently like boiling water. The voice of the abyss monster whispering flowed out of the giant cocoon, filling the entire space in an instant.
The sky darkened, the familiar feeling of fear made the tyrannical killing Church Male Chong involuntarily gather their mental tentacles. The suppression from the power and the extremely angry whispers of the monsters in the abyss made them shudder.
In the rolling dark clouds, countless pitch-black, vine-like tentacles suddenly poured down like a waterfall, engulfing the black giant cocoon. In the ominous whispers, a slender and white, distinctly jointed hand suddenly pierced through the dense and almost viscous pitch-black tentacles.
Covered with thin muscles, slender and powerful arms stretched out in the abyss, the naked, youthful and sturdy chest of a teenager flashed in the darkness, instantly catching the black-haired military Female Chong whose wings were broken and falling. Countless surging black tentacles seemed to have suddenly found their direction, surging towards Edwin like sharks smelling blood.
The last strand of hair of the bloodstained Female Chong was swallowed by the wave-like tentacles, Sandersfi overflowed with blood from his mouth, his Adam’s apple rolled violently because of fear, and he squeezed out a word from between his teeth:
“–Go!”
Without him saying another word, the Church Male Chong ran frantically towards the outside of the Duke’s Mansion with extremely embarrassed speed, leaving behind those Female Chong, Sub-male Chong attendants who had lost their ability to move, and even injured comrades, relying only on their legs. Behind them, the surging black tentacles almost covered the sky, completely covering the huge Duke’s Mansion…