CH 75.2

One by one, the containers were opened.

The emerged test subjects appeared pale, with swollen and wrinkled skin, lifeless eyes, and sluggish footsteps. They obediently followed Dr. Brown’s orders, walking towards Si Huaixi. The scene resembled a horde of zombies from a post-apocalyptic world. Si Huaixi instinctively furrowed his brow.

Most of these subjects possessed telekinetic abilities, manipulating objects to float and attack Si Huaixi. The shattered glass vials on the floor gradually levitated, numerous sharp glass fragments menacingly aimed at Si Huaixi. However, he effortlessly blocked them. 

They were too weak—moving aimlessly, with vacant eyes and slow control. Even the least powerful telekinetic ability users in the apocalypse were stronger in combat than them.

Si Huaixi glanced at this group of feeble test subjects, a hint of disdain flashing in his stern eyes. He then used his telekinetic power to send the glass shards back at them. The slow-moving subjects were instantly injured by the shards, losing a significant portion of their fighting strength. Dr. Brown watched dumbfoundedly, muttering, “This is unscientific! How can so many telekinetic Omegas fail to deal with a single person?”

Kyle couldn’t concern himself with that anymore. Witnessing how Si Huaixi swiftly solved a large portion of the test subjects, it was evident that the remaining subjects posed no threat to him. Kyle hurriedly urged Dr. Brown, saying, “There’s still one subject left! Quickly release Angel! He already knows of your existence. If he finds our location, we’re done for!”

Dr. Brown abruptly snapped back to reality, glaring at the unscathed Si Huaixi on the screen, and pressed the button to release the test subject Angel.

“Wait! Si Huaixi disappeared from the surveillance feed!!!” Kyle’s sudden exclamation made Dr. Brown instinctively look at the monitor and press the button simultaneously.

Boom!

The wall was violently demolished. Amidst the swirling dust, Si Huaixi walked in, his cold azure eyes meeting Kyle’s terrified gaze. Kyle was instantly filled with terror, his fear of death compelling him to desperately push his wheelchair as far away from Si Huaixi as possible.

“Where do you think you’re going?” 

Despite the chilling tone, Kyle’s body stiffened as Si Huaixi’s slender and distinct hand reached the wheelchair.

“You almost escaped.”

Kyle felt the icy intent to kill in Si Huaixi’s voice, and his breath sent shivers down his spine. He stiffened his neck, dare not turn around, but the person behind him had already grasped the wheelchair. 

The wheelchair came to a halt, and Kyle was propelled off it by the counterforce, landing on the ground. In an instant, he hit his chin, his gums bleeding profusely. Yet, he still dared not look back.

With his feeble legs unable to support him, he crawled on the ground with all his might, desperately trying to distance himself from that monster! 

Not hearing any approaching footsteps, a sense of relief washed over Kyle’s heart, and he continued to crawl using his arms. However, a series of gunshots shattered his hope. 

Bang! Bang! Bang! 

Bullets pierced through Kyle’s palm, lungs, and abdomen, causing his face to twist in pain as he uncontrollably cried out in agony.

Crouched on the ground, bleeding profusely, Kyle’s vision began to blur. He vaguely saw Si Huaixi looking down at him, his icy expression nearly devoid of emotion. 

“Have you repented?” Si Huaixi’s cold voice subtly trembled. Kyle was terrified. He didn’t want to die. 

The pain was unbearable, and upon hearing Si Huaixi’s question, he began to imagine whether those people he had killed had suffered like this too.

“P-please… I beg you… spare me… I’ve repented… I’m truly scared now… Aren’t we blood brothers? You can’t shed the same blood and kill your own brother, right? I’ll kowtow to you, to Pei Zhaozhou… As long as you forgive me, please, don’t kill me… W-waaah…”

Kyle pleaded for mercy, sobbing uncontrollably. His hideous appearance couldn’t match the turmoil within him.

Si Huaixi, with pitch-black pupils, looked on without any emotion or ripples. He raised his gun and pointed it at Kyle’s forehead.

“Why isn’t it you who’s dead?”

Kyle closed his eyes in a mix of fear and despair, seemingly resigned to whatever would happen next.

Several seconds passed, stretching out like a prolonged clock, yet the sound of the gunshot never came.

Kyle hesitantly opened his eyes, only to find Si Huaixi, who had been holding the gun, lowering his hand. His furrowed eyebrows struggled, but suddenly, all movement ceased, and he stood still.

Turning his head, Kyle saw a girl with closed eyes by Dr. Brown’s side.

It suddenly dawned on him that she was the experimental subject, Angel.

Si Huaixi was now trapped inside Angel’s ability, ‘Paradise,’ unable to regain consciousness, which was why he hadn’t killed him.

“Dr. Brown, save me and get me out of here,” Kyle weakly pleaded for help.

Dr. Brown, not wanting Kyle to die either, quickly found some first aid supplies to stop the bleeding, temporarily preserving his life.

After all, it would be better if he died outside. If he died in Dr. Brown’s laboratory, what would happen to the funding from the Odysseus Empire that supported his research? Although Kyle was now an abandoned prince, he still carried the blood of the Odysseus royal family.

Fearind that Si Huaixi might wake up suddenly, Kyle couldn’t stay here any longer and urged Dr. Brown to take him away.

However, Dr. Brown’s eyes gleamed with desire, looking at Si Huaixi as if observing an exciting and enticing experimental specimen.

Kyle felt like he was going mad. How could he dare to provoke such a person!

The mental experimental subjects from before couldn’t even resist Si Huaixi for a moment. He didn’t dare to hope that this experimental subject, Angel, could truly erase Si Huaixi’s memories.

Right now, all he wanted was to escape, the farther the better!

“Dr. Brown, are you crazy?! Do you still want to keep this monster? If he wakes up, we won’t be able to leave!” After nearly facing death once, Kyle angrily confronted Dr. Brown without restraint.

Dr. Brown looked at the now awakened Si Huaixi, his pupils filled with astonishment.

Meanwhile, his pride and joy, the experimental subject Angel, coughed up blood. Her breath gradually faded away, her fair and radiant skin rapidly aging. In the blink of an eye, she appeared like an eighty-year-old, her breathing ceased, yet a peaceful smile remained on her lips.

Si Huaixi narrowed his gaze, looking at this unique psychic illusionist.

She used her psychic abilities to create an illusion resembling a heavenly paradise, escaping the pain of reality, but in doing so, she forgot herself, forgot time, and even her body ceased to develop.

But now the dream was over. The forgotten time returned to her, taking away the accumulated four hundred years.

Time…

Si Huaixi’s eyes seemed absent and lost in a trance.

In Angel’s illusionary paradise, everything became beautiful, with no recollection of any sad or painful memories…

Brother Pei was still alive. He hadn’t left his side, he didn’t let him go for the search of that damned K108 spaceship alone, no explosion…

Brother Pei safely returned. In the illusion, he would never wake up suddenly, look at the empty bed beside him in the dead of night, crying in despair, regretting the cruel reality that Brother Pei would never come back.

The child in the illusion was born safely…

Si Huaixi was fully aware that it was an illusion. In the split second of piercing through it, his desolate heart hesitated, wanting to linger a bit longer in this illusion.

Counting the days.

If Brother Pei were still alive, the child would have been born by now.

The Sinful Star.

In a hidden underground clinic belonging to a notorious black-market doctor, the doors remained tightly shut today, causing annoyance for the local residents seeking treatment on the Sinful Star. 

The gangster, whose arm was bleeding from a fight, wanted to kick open the door. However, he was deterred from forcefully entering, as he thought the heartless doctor might stab him with a knife in the middle of the night. Instead, he muttered a few curses and left.

Yi Chengze caught wind of the clatter, making a mental note of the troublemaker. The next time the ruffian came to him for surgical stitching, he decided he would swap the painkillers for an analgesic that heightened pain sensitivity, allowing the guy to relish double ‘pleasure.’

However, today Yi Chengze was exceptionally busy, as he had to deliver the future unpaid labor force for his clinic. Due to Pei Zhaozhou still being in a coma, a cesarean section was the only option.

During pregnancy, due to the lack of pheromone supplementation from the absent biological father, despite Yi Chengze’s numerous attempts to concoct a synthetic pheromone resembling that of a Soybean’s biological father, the undernourished Soybean had to be prematurely delivered.

Half a month ahead of schedule.

After skillfully suturing the remaining wound, Yi Chengze placed Pei Zhaozhou back in the specially designed medical pod, finally finding the energy to inspect his unpaid labor force.

Gazing at the newborn on the operating table, the delicate features with petite facial features, and the newborn’s fair and tender skin, as delicate as a lotus doll, along with the thick, fan-like eyelashes.

In the instant the eyes opened.

The newborn’s eyes were of a pure, pristine, deep-sea blue, clear and bright.

Evoking the image of a sky-sea.

That distant, legendary ocean suspended in the midair of the sky, clean, ethereal, and dreamlike.

Smiling brightly, the black-market doctor, Yi Chengze, said, “So, you’re born now, and it’s time for you to work and make money for me!”

The Little Soybean immediately frowned, her fair and tender face resembling a fragile block of tofu, her wide, deep-sea blue eyes glaring at Yi Chengze accusingly.

Since the Little Soybean had just been born and her vocal cords were not fully developed, she could only communicate telepathically, as she had done before.

[I want to apply for one day off per week!]

Yi Chengze sneered coldly and said, “No way!”

In recent days, through television news, the Little Soybean had learned quite a bit about the Empire and now voiced her resistance to this newly appointed heartless capitalist.

[According to the Empire’s labor law, there must be at least one day of rest per week. What you’re doing is illegal, and besides, I’m not even a day old yet!]

Yi Chengze scoffed, “The Sinful Star doesn’t abide by the Empire’s laws. We have no labor laws here. So, you better obediently work for me!”

The Little Soybean’s fair and tender cheeks instantly creased, appearing as adorable as a puffed-up pufferfish.

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