AGTCTCC Chapter 75
by VolareChapter 75: The Day It Snowed – It Was My Twent…
Chu Qi, inside his mech, kept his eyes fixed on Xiang Li’s back, the buttons on the console flashing incessantly.
Xiang Li exuded an imposing aura, but a closer look would reveal the trembling fingers gripping his weapon.
A “ding” resounded.
Amidst the countless roars of the Polluted Entities, he keenly caught the sound of a message notification, or perhaps it was the vibration of the communicator on his wrist.
Xiang Li paused in his slaughter of the Polluted Entities and looked down. It was a message from Lin Wu.
[Lin Wu: Xing Zi Mu has no Spiritual Power protection; his mind is too easily influenced on the battlefield. I’ve already taken him back.]
[Lin Wu: How are you feeling? Can your body handle it?]
Xiang Li’s gaze lingered on the blue holographic screen for two seconds before he finally realized it was Chu Qi’s communicator.
Chu Qi felt his consciousness blurring to the point of not being able to see clearly. Naturally, he didn’t notice the faint blue holographic screen, only that Xiang Li was suddenly standing motionless amidst a pile of Polluted Entity corpses.
Xiang Li raised his hand, swiping up and down through the chat log with Lin Wu. He knew it might not be right, but an urge welled up from the bottom of his heart.
What didn’t he know about Chu Qi? Hadn’t Old Yan said his body was completely healed last time? Why ask like this?
[Lin Wu: I’ve examined Xiang Li’s genetic chains.]
[Lin Wu: Gene fusion is already a fantastical concept, especially since Xiang Li is a product of their complete inexperience, an experiment created purely from imagination.]
[Chu Qi: He’s not an experiment.]
[Lin Wu: .]
[Lin Wu: Xiang Li’s genetic chains were assembled by dissecting and piecing together genes from multiple experimental subjects. To put it bluntly, it’s taking a piece from here and a piece from there, slapping it on regardless of whether it fits.]
[Lin Wu: That’s why Xiang Li, whether in terms of emotions, personality, or anything else, is so extremely fragmented. His genetic chains are also constantly at risk of collapsing.]
Chu Qi’s voice message was concise. Faced with Lin Wu’s long string of text implying “Xiang Li is beyond saving,” Chu Qi simply asked, “What to do?”
[Lin Wu: Re-splice his genetic chains, inject them into his bone marrow, and regenerate the replacement.]
[Chu Qi: Risk factor.]
The other party didn’t give a specific numerical assessment.
[Lin Wu: Failure is fine; after all, he won’t die. But if it succeeds, he might turn into an ordinary person. The trouble is, if his body rejects the newly fused genes afterward, it’s very likely to cause him to collapse and die.]
[Lin Wu: So it’s best to pray for his surgery to fail.]
Xiang Li didn’t dare read any further. He only snapped back to his senses when the blue screen went dark. He turned his head and met the gaze of his black mech.
The mech’s outer shell was covered in a lot of goo, constantly emitting a “sizzling” corrosive sound.
Chu Qi noticed that Xiang Li’s emotions were abnormal at the moment. He wanted to call out to him, but his attention was drawn to a Polluted Entity slowly wriggling not far from Xiang Li.
Chu Qi: “!”
The Polluted Entity moved little by little towards Xiang Li. Inside the mech, Chu Qi’s hoarse voice was muffled. He opened the mech’s hatch and shouted towards Xiang Li.
By the time Xiang Li reacted, the Polluted Entity’s gaping maw was about to suck on Xiang Li’s calf.
The little snake on Xiang Li’s wrist took the initiative, enlarging its mouth and swallowing the Polluted Entity whole.
Then, it returned to Xiang Li’s wrist and fell asleep again.
Recently, the little snake seemed to be constantly sleeping. Every battle, it couldn’t last too long before falling asleep again.
Wu Kun, who had been lurking in the shadows, watched Chu Qi without any protection, the smile on his lips becoming more and more exaggerated.
He waved his hand, and countless Polluted Entities, as if receiving an order, swarmed toward Chu Qi.
Xiang Li saw the scene before him, his breath faltering for a moment, and ran towards Chu Qi.
Chu Qi breathed a sigh of relief after the little snake swallowed the Polluted Entity. It was only at this moment that he realized his body could no longer muster any Spiritual Power.
The remaining little Spiritual Power in his body, the silver-white light cluster, slowly dissipated from Chu Qi’s fingertips.
Chu Qi merely glanced at it, his face still devoid of any expression. He took out a glass bottle from a hidden pocket on the side of his black uniform.
The scarlet, blood-like liquid inside was poured into his mouth without the slightest hesitation, drinking it all in one gulp.
When he saw Xiang Li running towards him, he turned his head as if sensing something.
Xiang Li’s speed was astonishing. He rushed to Chu Qi, one hand tightly gripping the other’s arm, the other hand blocking his face, isolating him from Spiritual Power.
The Polluted Entities didn’t slow down at all, slamming straight into the Spiritual Power barrier urgently erected by Xiang Li, one after another.
In front of the two, the Polluted Entities in front were directly smashed into mincemeat, and countless more disgusting things were “smashing” towards them.
Unable to withstand it, Xiang Li retreated a few steps. Chu Qi reached out and grabbed Xiang Li’s arm, facing Xiang Li.
Xiang Li turned his head, meeting Chu Qi’s eyes in a daze. He looked at the empty glass bottle at Chu Qi’s feet.
“What is this?”
Chu Qi said, “The last bottle of Spiritual Power Supplement.”
Mentioning this, Xiang Li thought of the message he had just peeked at, and pursed his lips. “I’ll send you back.”
Xiang Li was right in front of him, but Chu Qi now…couldn’t see anything at all.
Chu Qi knew the medicine was starting to work.
He was just a little sad that he couldn’t help Xiang Li at all now.
Chu Qi nodded, “Okay.”
But as soon as Xiang Li took a step with Chu Qi, the attacks around them intensified, searching for different angles, attacking from all 360 degrees.
Lin Wu stood to one side, watching Xiang Li and Chu Qi look like food, attracting a circle of ants. The upward curve of his mouth instantly changed, his whole person extremely fragmented, as if split into two completely different halves.
“…”
“You lied to me again.”
His voice sounded without waves, but inexplicably carried a hint of sorrow.
Two seconds later.
“They owe me.”
“They didn’t do anything wrong.”
Instantly, his entire person became furious.
“This is my body! What are you, an outsider, doing here pretending!”
“I went to the management back then, I have evidence, I just wanted my home.”
“But what about them? They ruined my evidence, said I was sick.”
“They’re the ones who are sick!” His voice turned cold.
“They want to pull the wool over everyone’s eyes, so I will make everything public and let everyone know about their disgusting experiments.”
“They are all sick! Only if I take over the entire Main Star will humanity have a future!”
Looking at the already withered planet, Wu Xing said, “I don’t want this.”
Wu Xing: “This is not the Main Star I wanted. You lied to me.”
Wu Kun tilted his head: “I can rebuild a utopia that belongs only to you and me.”
“I haven’t harmed those humans. We can start over slowly.”
Wu Xing: “…”
Countless Polluted Entities were in front of them, their roars continuous and unrelenting. Houses collapsed, every brick and tile gnawed away by the Polluted Entities, and no place was spared.
Wu Xing: “I hate this,” he repeated.
Wu Kun felt Wu Xing’s movements and gritted his teeth, “This is my body. Stop it.”
Originally, the time his soul appeared was getting shorter and shorter. His soul power couldn’t compete with “Wu Xing.” He couldn’t stop “Wu Xing” from doing what he wanted to do.
Wu Xing: “The day I first appeared was also a snowy day.”
He blinked, shaking off the snowflakes that had fallen on his eyelashes.
Wu Xing said, “That day, I was locked in the basement, with only one window to see outside.”
“The basement was very warm, but you were cold.”
Wu Kun didn’t want to listen to Wu Xing’s nonsense. He watched Wu Xing walk up to Hill while talking.
Wu Xing: “I know you.”
Wu Xing: “My body has your blood.”
Hill: “.”
Hill also remembered the time when he was forced to have his blood drawn by humans. The piercing screams of his people were about to break his eardrums. After a long time, he nodded.
“Your honor.”
Xiang Li supported Chu Qi, staring at Chu Qi’s face, a bad premonition flashed in his heart: “Chu Qi?”
Chu Qi turned his head: “What’s wrong?”
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly vomited a mouthful of blood, his waist bent down, and blood poured from his mouth as if it would never stop.
Xiang Li: “!”
“Chu Qi!”
Spiritual Power in Xiang Li’s hand transformed into a knife, cutting open his wrist, and blood containing black Spiritual Power spurted out instantly.
He tremblingly brought his wrist to Chu Qi’s mouth, but the person in his arms had no consciousness, naturally unable to open his mouth.
Xiang Li’s vision blurred. He blinked, the wound pressed into Chu Qi’s mouth, his fingertips trembling slightly with fear. He didn’t know when it started, but the person in his arms also began to blur.
He wanted to reach out and rub away this uncomfortable feeling, but it eventually turned into drops of tears that fell into the bright red liquid.
“Chu Qi, don’t sleep. Drink a little, please, drink a little…”
No one responded.
The wound healed quickly, so he cut it open again and again, and fed him again.
“I beg you!”
“Chu Qi…”
“Just drink a little, okay? I beg you!!”
The commotion here attracted the attention of several other people. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Wu Kun struggled to control his arm.
He stepped forward, closing the distance between himself and Hill, and his arm actually went straight through Hill’s chest.
Hill was already uncomfortable due to the cold, and looked down at the arm that had penetrated his entire body.
Wu Kun: “Disgusting,” he commented.
He would always remember when he ran to the laboratory door in desperation, only to be able to exchange himself for his family.
They were conducting inhumane experiments on his body. Why should a later soul forgive them for him?
Wu Kun felt his soul becoming heavier and heavier, and could no longer control his body. He mocked Wu Xing.
Wu Kun: “What, you have feelings now?”
“You hate this, do you think I like it? This is my body!”
Wu Xing: “…”
Wu Kun suddenly seemed to lose all his strength and murmured, “That day, it snowed—”
“It was my twentieth birthday.”
Wu Kun’s voice grew smaller and smaller until his entire body was controlled by Wu Xing.
Wu Xing lowered his eyes and whispered, “Happy birthday.”
“I’m sorry.”