Chapter 34 Will the wheelchair-bound man, who eats white-cut black glutinous rice balls, also become a cute and silly goose? ...

"That's so kind of you..." Pei Qing muttered, feigning politeness.

"How about this, you lend me some of these credits first, and I'll pay you back when I have enough credits."

Pei Qian had her own agenda. It was perfectly normal for her to be new here and not know anything. It just so happened that someone came out to help her out of the predicament, so there was no point in making excuses.

Moreover... she glanced subtly at the few people standing behind the wheelchair-bound man, who were clearly in a protective stance and exuding a menacing aura.

This wheelchair-bound man seemed quite formidable, unlike ordinary people. Such people are never unsolicited; they must have something they're after.

Pei Qing was unfamiliar with the place, so she agreed and decided to come and see what this person was up to.

Luo Yu had been watching Pei Qing for a long time; in other words, he had been observing the spectacle from the sidelines for quite some time.

Whether he could tell that Pei Qing, as a newcomer, didn't understand what credit points were, or he saw her being harassed by a small group, he didn't care at all.

But when he clearly saw that the troublemaker with mental strength close to A-level was so easily scared away after discovering something, Luo Yu suddenly became interested.

This newcomer seems quite interesting.

What's even more interesting is that she doesn't seem to realize the potential deterrent power she possesses.

Two strangers, each with their own ulterior motives and who had been complete strangers just five minutes before, were now sitting together leisurely, having a meal.

"YUE! What the hell is this?! How can it taste so awful?!"

Pei Qing enthusiastically stuffed the mushy food in front of her into her mouth, but the next second, she spat it out without the slightest hesitation.

Pei Qian looked at the person in front of her who was mechanically eating bite by bite without changing his expression, with admiration, seriously suspecting that he had lost his sense of taste from being in prison.

As she watched, a wave of acid reflux rose in her stomach.

If Pei Qing had to describe the taste of this mosaic-like thing, she could only say it was a hundred times worse than the cheapest nutrient solution.

This stuff looks semi-liquid on the surface, but when you eat it, it has a disgusting texture similar to a dry sponge.

It sucks up all the saliva in your mouth, and you can't chew it properly no matter how hard you try. In short, this stuff is awful in terms of color, taste, and texture!

Pei Qing absolutely refuses to admit that Shen Rong'an's cooking has spoiled her palate!

You know, some things you only truly appreciate after you've lost them...

The black-haired woman, A, sighed dramatically.

The man across from her, having finished his meal, looked up at Pei Qing's slowly unloaded plate, his glassy eyes darting around in confusion. "Why aren't you eating?"

Pei Qing slumped onto the table with a look of utter despair, stretching her hand out into the air. "I, Pei Qing, would rather starve to death! I'd rather jump off this cliff than eat a single bite of this awful food in the cafeteria!"

"Is it... very hard to eat?"

Luo Yu stammered a little, it was uncommon for him to ask, "Is it really that bad? But I've been eating this kind of food since I was a child in the lab, except for the period when I needed to be injected with nutrient solution."

He pursed his petal-like lips, suppressing the inexplicable emotions in his heart, and glanced at the number on Pei Qing's bracelet. It was actually from Zone E?

Luo Yu concealed the probing look in his eyes and asked casually, "With your strength, how come you're in Zone E? You should at least be assigned to Zone B, right?"

It's illogical that my mother didn't contact me earlier when such a talented newcomer joined the base.

Pei Qing lay sprawled on the table, listlessly fiddling with the biodegradable tableware in front of her, poking the mosaic to pieces.

Hearing the question from the other person, she rolled her eyes inwardly and replied dismissively, "I don't know, I was just assigned here."

Luo Yu didn't know what else to ask, so he simply remained silent and watched Pei Qing's actions.

As she poked around, she seemed to suddenly discover something interesting, and kept looking under the table.

Sure enough, it wasn't a hallucination; something was touching her calf from time to time.

Sticky, damp, soft, with a slight fishy smell from the deep sea.

At first, Pei Qing thought it was the other person's doing it on purpose. Although she didn't know why, she had always had some inexplicable trait, so it wasn't surprising that she attracted something.

However, seeing the seemingly oblivious and normal demeanor of the person opposite her, she hesitated again.

Pei Qing subtly glanced around. The man opposite her seemed to have some influence, and those who had made things difficult for her earlier were now keeping their distance. Only the two of them were sitting at the table.

On her way to the canteen, she discovered that there were an unusually large number of species in the prison that were in a semi-animalistic or non-human form.

In this era of interstellar species fusion, although pure-blooded humans are rare, due to certain conventional beliefs and the fact that humans' vigorous reproductive capacity makes their genes the majority, everyone will spontaneously exhibit a harmless state, that is, maintain a human-like form to the greatest extent possible.

The general term is "human" by default. Of course, "human" here does not refer to human beings, but rather to almost all races.

Aside from a few mentally unstable individuals who insist on displaying racial traits, those with abnormally obvious bestial characteristics are people suffering from genetic diseases.

With today's advanced science and technology and stable gene fusion, the occurrence of genetic diseases under non-external induced conditions is one in a billion. Even if the prison's leader has extensive connections, it is impossible to gather so many people in a short period of time.

No, perhaps there's another possibility: it could be an experiment...

This prison is not as simple as it appears on the surface.

Pei Qing wasn't stupid; in fact, she was quite clever. For example, she knew clearly that many people approached her with ulterior motives; she knew the welfare center had hidden her birth information; and she had always been aware of her unusual physical characteristics and the fragmented memories that inexplicably surfaced in her mind…

All of these things, everything, were as meaningless to her as those gazes directed at her—whether filled with doubt, pain, tenderness, sorrow, or fervor.

He doesn't care.

Pei Qing was lost in thought. The scheduled meal time hadn't ended yet, so she didn't have to go back to that tiny room. Staying here for a while was fine.

"Hmm?" Suddenly, her eyes flickered slightly.

That sticky sensation returned, incredibly gentle, slowly creeping up to her ankles, cool and refreshing like jelly, or like an extremely delicate ribbon, yet carrying a slightly tingling, electric-like feeling.

This electric shock sensation refers to a feeling in a physical sense.

.

Wait a minute, she looks like she really got an electric shock!

But it doesn't hurt at all, and it's quite fun, just like static electricity in winter.

Pei Qing held her breath and carefully felt the unique texture. The thin, jelly-like ribbon-like material seemed to have tiny, gelatinous protrusions distributed on it, and the electric shock sensation seemed to come from there.

Pei Qing secretly looked under the table, but found nothing.

Could it be something transparent? It moves and climbs along it; it must be a living thing.

interesting.

Pei Qian stared intently at the person opposite her, carefully observing his facial expressions.

Luo Yu felt a little uncomfortable under her gaze. His long eyelashes trembled, and a faint blush rose to his cheeks, standing out against his almost translucent white skin.

"What's wrong?"

Pei Qing stared at it for so long that he thought something had gotten on his face, so he couldn't help but reach out and touch it. His tender skin was immediately covered with several red marks.

"Ah, it's nothing."

Pei Qing smiled, revealing all eight of her teeth.

She felt the sensation of that thing slowly disappear just as the two of them were talking.

Pei Qing focused her attention on Luo Yu's lower body—don't misunderstand, on his wheelchair—and watched as the blanket covering his legs moved almost imperceptibly.

She caught the slightest, most minute sound.

It was indeed related to the man in the wheelchair.

But why does he himself appear completely oblivious?

There are many species in the ocean with tentacles, but few are delicate enough to seem to have independent consciousness.

Just as Pei Qing was pondering, that sensation returned. She showed no emotion on her face, but her left hand swiftly reached under the table like lightning.

"ha,"

"We've caught them."

Pei Qing raised her head, a few strands of black hair falling down, and the corners of her mouth curving upwards.

The flesh felt sticky and slippery to the touch, and the twisting force was considerable. The electric shock sensation was much stronger than before, which seemed to be its attack method, but it was harmless to Pei Qing.

She pulled the translucent object onto the table and examined and kneaded it carefully, oblivious to the horrified and shocked looks on the faces of the others.

For a moment, the hall was eerily silent, with only occasional scattered voices: "...highly poisonous..." "...Don't...lose your life..." "...So daring..."

Soon, in no time at all, even though it wasn't break time yet, everyone had run away.

Pei Qing thoughtfully played with the translucent, slightly fluorescent blue tentacle in her hand. After coming into contact with human body temperature, the tentacle became even bluer, shimmering with an ominous luster.

However, the most shocked person was none other than Luo Yu, the person directly involved.

At this moment, Luo Yu's expression was extremely complicated. If he had initially approached Pei Qing out of interest, he was now truly shocked by her abilities.

His family has the genetic makeup of marine cephalopods and planktonic cnidarians, and Luo Yu's body has been modified to have a high degree of tolerance to assimilation.

After being injected with a gene serum based on box jellyfish, and after numerous experiments, his body has become almost indistinguishable from the shape of a jellyfish, and his lower limbs have completely disappeared and been replaced by tendril-like tentacles.

He lost his complete body, but gained the ability to be extremely poisonous, as well as a complete bloodline.

In this way, family members can obtain such power without losing anything.

How ridiculous, how happy everyone is!

He became a complete monster, except for himself.

This was the family's choice.

As a useless person with a mental strength of only A, ranked at the bottom of the family and a worthless beta, he naturally became the discarded pawn.

What good is it to have the title of the youngest and most beloved child, as claimed by the president of the Federal Supreme Research Institute?

It's nothing more than adding leverage to the Luo family's long-standing hypocritical schemes.

Luo Yu struggled to regain his composure from his chaotic thoughts. When he looked at the person opposite him again, his eyes were filled with unconcealed panic. "You..."

He suddenly didn't know what to say, because the black-haired woman A opposite him had a peaceful expression, her cheeks were rosy and healthy, and there was no sign of her dying from poisoning.

"You actually..." Are you alright...?

Luo Yu tried his best to control his facial expression, but unknowingly, a subtle joy and inexplicable panic quietly emerged from the bottom of his heart.

That's great...

This is the only person who didn't die from contact with him.

A sudden, intense pain shot through Luo Yu's mental domain, almost crushing and shattering his entire body, leaving him barely able to straighten up.

This is an incurable side effect of the experiment, like a maggot clinging to a bone, accompanying him at all times.

He loathed it terribly, but it was precisely this piercing pain that constantly reminded Luo Yu that he was still alive.

It reminded him that he had long since left that cramped, gloomy glass cabinet; he was useful now, and he would never go back…

No, is that so...?

Salty, fishy seawater, cramped pool, cold instruments...

Chaos, darkness, bloodshed...

Severed limbs, remains, bones...

Countless agonizing screams and struggles, curses and pleas for help...

Luo Yu suddenly realized that he could remember so clearly the expressions and appearances of everyone thrown to the bottom of the pool; he remembered the scenes of everyone struggling to survive; he remembered every blood-soaked night, that red sea...

It turns out that he still hasn't forgotten it.

Were his countless blood-soaked pleas and prayers, which he huddled in the dead of night, finally heard?

That's great...

"ha,"

very nice.

Amidst the intense pain, Luo Yu covered his eyes and suddenly couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Something crystal clear rolled down between his fair, translucent fingers, hit the ground, and shattered silently.

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Author's Note: Waaaaah, I, Water Wolf! am finally back! (Laughs wildly with hands on hips)

The damn experiment is finally over, and I can finally sneak some writing in my spare time, though I doubt it will be very regular (kneeling quietly).

Because! There's also that damn final exam week!

I can only revise the off-track outline while simultaneously writing and reviewing...

The winter break is currently expected to start around January 10th, at which point I should be able to write regularly again...

I got so caught up in following the plot outline that I almost forgot my goal was to do *that* (you know what I mean).

But don't worry, everyone! (Clenches fist!) I'll definitely get everything mentioned in the description! There will also be lots of delicious dishes!

There should be another chapter tomorrow!

There may be minor revisions in the next few days, such as typos in the title, but the main thing is to align it with the previous text!

The title of this witty remark is my lifelong love, and I will never give it up!