Shen Run is an office drone.
Fresh out of college, she joined an outsourcing company, working like a beast of burden: two days off a month, phone on 24/7, delayed wages a common occurrence, a...
Chapter 21 Chapter 21 The Curse of the Evil God
There was still something to do the next day, so Chen Run got up at around seven in the morning. When she opened the door, she was shocked to see that the entire living room and kitchen were sparkling. Even the corners and cracks and old dirt that gave her a headache were cleaned out, and the air was much fresher.
Chen Run walked around the living room like she was visiting an art gallery. When Chi Shuangliu opened the door and walked out, she said with a look of shock, "Brother Chi, did you clean this? It's so clean!"
Chi Shuangliu accepted the compliment calmly and asked with a smile: "Why are you up so early? Don't you want to sleep a little longer?"
Chen Run shook her head. "No, I'm going to go to the Sun Umbrella Company building later to see what's going on." She thought for a moment and said, "After all, it's not good for you to stay here all the time."
Chi Shuangliu's eyes were covered with a thin layer of creepy gloom, but his voice was gentle as if it was cut by a spring breeze: "You don't want to be with me so much?"
"No," Chen Run waved his hands repeatedly. "Aren't you sick? I'm afraid it will delay your treatment."
Lu Kuo had tricked her into coming here to die with the excuse of taking care of a patient. She still thought that Chi Shuangliu had some rare disease.
After hearing her explanation, Chi Shuangliu's expression softened slightly: "It's okay, it won't affect anything."
He acted quite normal, and still had the energy to do so much work. Chen Run didn't think there was anything wrong with him, so he nodded and said, "That's good."
She thought about it last night. The top management of Parasol was fighting so fiercely. If she lost her job, she would have to find a way to make a living. So she planned to go out and look around today to see if there was any part-time job.
As she spoke, she walked towards the kitchen. "I might be back late today, so I'll make you a pot of rice and some leftover hot pot from last night. If you're not feeling well enough, you can use the leftover hot pot."
Her cooking didn't taste very good, but she was fast and finished a pot of fried rice in less than five minutes. Chi Shuangliu didn't stop her, but just leaned against the kitchen door and carefully wrote down the steps of how she started the fire and cooked.
After the two of them finished their meal, Chen Run was afraid that he would be bored at home alone, so she took out the second-hand tablet that her college roommate had given her and gave it to him. Only then did she go out with her canvas bag on her back.
After she left, Chi Shuangliu took the trouble to clean up again - unlike most people who dislike housework, Chi Shuangliu actually enjoyed it. The place was filled with her residual scent. Her purple-black tentacles swept around, searching every corner, and the suction cups kept shrinking and expanding, absorbing the refreshing and pleasant smell factors to their heart's content.
The tentacle was no longer satisfied with just wandering around the living room, and followed the scent to her bedroom door. The tip of the tentacle opened and grasped the handle of her bedroom door.
In the human world, the bedroom is the most private nest, which represents privacy, territory and inviolability.
The smell that obsessed him was behind the door.
Feeling a little out of control, he tried to turn the doorknob.
The doorknob didn't budge; she had locked it when she left.
What a vigilant little girl.
He was so engrossed that he even ignored the sound of the key opening the door until he heard a woman's scream.
"ah--"
Chi Shuangliu stopped moving and looked coldly in the direction where the sound came from.
Fang Yi's heart almost stopped.
She came back specifically to pack her things, but when she opened the door, she saw a strange man standing in the living room. When she screamed, he turned towards her.
The pupils were pitch black.
But this seemed to be just her illusion. He blinked, and his pair of black and white eyes looked at her steadily: "Chen Run's roommate?"
Fang Yi hadn't recovered from the shock of that glance. Her legs were weak and she barely managed to hold onto the door frame to steady herself. She stammered, "Yes, I, I came to get something."
She then remembered to ask: "You, who are you?"
Chi Shuangliu smiled and answered ambiguously: "Chen Run brought me back."
This answer was enough to make people think a lot. Fang Yi gradually came back to her senses, and her heartbeat gradually returned to normal: "Are you her boyfriend? When did she start dating? I haven't heard about it."
As she spoke, she looked at him. His forehead, eyebrows, nose, jawline, every line seemed to be carefully carved, with a deep and sharp beauty, even a little weird. However, this beauty was poisonous, as if looking at it a few more times would take one's life.
Her eyes seemed to be hurt. She lowered her head in a hurry, not even daring to change her shoes. She swept the things piled in the corner of the living room into her backpack and left as if escaping.
If it were any other time, she might have been a little jealous that Chen Run could actually hook up with such an extremely handsome guy, but now she just felt it was extremely weird and couldn't wait to leave.
As soon as she stepped out of the door, his voice caught up with her slowly: "You don't look well, do you need help?"
Fang Yi's back stiffened. After a moment's hesitation, she mustered up the courage to look back at him. She saw a smile on his lips and a gentle and calm expression. Her fear immediately dissipated a lot and she laughed dryly, "It's okay. It's a little hot. Thank you, handsome man."
She closed the door and left with the things in her arms. Chi Shuangliu's expression returned to indifference and he retracted the tentacle that was at the back of her head.
When Fang Yi walked out of the family compound, she suddenly felt a chill.
Shen Run's boyfriend and she had never met before, so how could he conclude that she was Shen Run's roommate?
She had a secret that she had never told anyone. She had a very high spiritual intuition since she was a child and could sense things that others could not. Anyway, her boyfriend Shen Run made her very uncomfortable.
Fang Yi felt a chill on her back again. Not daring to think too much, she lowered her head and jumped onto the bus.
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The place where Chen Run rented was an old residential compound from the last century. A rainwater pipe ran from the roof to the bottom of the building. There had been cases of thieves climbing up the pipe to break into houses and steal. The residents protested several times but no one cared, so everyone had no choice but to install anti-theft nets.
It was already dark, and dents appeared on the water pipe one after another, making a creaking sound under the heavy load, as if something invisible was climbing up the pipe.
The depression stopped at the fifth floor.
After a moment, the protective net on the right side of the fifth floor was pulled and deformed by an invisible hand, and the invisible monster seemed to have entered the room.
At this moment, Chi Shuangliu was standing in front of the stove, fiddling with it with interest. When he noticed the intruder breaking in, he snapped his fingers lightly and delivered a fatal blow in the first time.
But there was no response from the other party.
Chi Shuangliu narrowed his eyes slightly.
Soon, a silver-blue robot with an anthropomorphic shape and flexible joints appeared in the living room. Although it shrank its body in time, its nearly two-meter height still made a mess of the living room.
The display screen on the robot's chest lit up, and soon, Louis's face was projected on the screen. He looked at Chi Shuangliu holding a spatula in one hand and flipping the wok in the other. His eyes lit up and he said in surprise, "Oh my God, you've fooled us all. You're actually an intelligent creature."
His Chinese was stiff but fluent. He leaned forward slightly and asked anxiously, "What exactly are you? Human? A completely evolved mutant? An alien?"
Chi Shuangliu looked at the mess in the living room he had cleaned. He smiled gently and said, "For someone whose death is imminent, your mentality is surprisingly good."
It was the first time Louis heard him speak. He was surprised again for a moment before he couldn't help laughing. "Do you think it's fun to say such harsh words now? You should have already felt that your ability is ineffective against robots. Because of the distance limit, your influence on me is minimal. You can't do anything at all. No matter how powerful you are, you can only be taken away by me now."
He shrugged, the old white man's arrogance clearly visible. "You seem quite smart. You should know that resistance is useless. You can leave with my robot and suffer less."
Chi Shuangliu put down the spatula, leaned against the stove, and smiled casually: "Really?"
Looking at his posture, Louis could also tell that he was not going to cooperate obediently. He snorted coldly: “Elizabeth, do it.”
The robot raised its hand, a flash of lightning passed by, and a circular arc of electricity enveloped Chi Shuangliu. He was trapped in a small electric prison, with electric currents dancing around like silver snakes.
Chi Shuangliu lightly pressed his palm on the electric cage. The electricity crackled and the smell of burning flesh came out. His palm was soon charred black by the electricity.
But soon, the charred part cracked and fell off, and the flesh turned into sprouts, wriggling madly and growing to heal the wound. After a few seconds, the palm was as smooth as new.
"I told you not to resist." Louis smiled and shook his head. "This is tens of thousands of volts, and you didn't get instantly electrocuted into charcoal. It's truly terrifying absolute power. I'm afraid not even an S-rank can do that."
His eyes became hot: "Elizabeth, take him away, be gentle!"
This is a residential area, and China's official superpower patrol team is world-famous for its strictness. He doesn't want to cause himself trouble, and it would be best if he could take Chi Shuangliu away without paying any price.
Elizabeth's large mechanical arm reached into the electric cage and tried to pull Chi Shuangliu roughly.
"Please don't be so anxious, ma'am." Chi Shuangliu turned his head away and said with a smile. He turned his gaze to Louis and said abruptly: "Your genetic disease is very interesting."
Louis' pupils shrank suddenly.
Every psychic has a genetic disease, and almost every psychic's genetic disease is different. The genetic disease is the psychic's biggest flaw. Knowing the psychic's genetic disease is equivalent to knowing the opponent's fatal weakness. Therefore, every psychic's genetic disease is top secret.
How could Chi Shuangliu know what his genetic disease was?
He quickly calmed down and sneered, "You want to scare me with this? It won't do you any good to anger me." He raised his chin arrogantly, "Originally, I wanted to build a base for you like Lu Kuo did. Now it seems that it would be more appropriate to lock you up in a laboratory and soak you in nutrient solution."
Chi Shuangliu had no sense of being trapped. He crossed his arms and said, "There's an idiom in China called 'Ye Gong likes dragons'. You should know what it means, right?"
He said lazily, "Like you. You seemed to be passionately devoted to the robot manufacturing industry, but due to an accident many years ago, you were disabled for life and had to transform yourself into a half-human, half-machine ghost. Because you are not truly human, you have lost the ability to reproduce and were kicked off the family's list of heirs. Your beloved fiancée also married your brother instead. Although you have become powerful, you are no longer a core part of the family. You hate your other half's mechanical body, but you have no choice but to rely on it. So you try every means to research simulation technology, so that you can look exactly like a human."
He smiled teasingly, "Oh, by the way, you even named your robot Elizabeth, which is the name of your fiancée."
These things are the darkest and most resentful secrets in Louis' heart. He has never mentioned them to anyone, but Chi Shuangliu actually revealed all his secrets!
His mind was shaken violently, his pupils shrank suddenly, and he even forgot to let Elizabeth continue to attack.
"So, your genetic disease is..." He drawled out, speaking word by word: "Self-paradox."
As soon as he finished speaking, Louis's mechanical arm seemed to have its own consciousness and grabbed his neck.
Chi Shuangliu chuckled. "You're quite right. Currently, my ability does have a distance limit. The farther the distance, the less impact you will suffer. However... this is enough."
Louis fought desperately against his rebellious robotic arm. He pressed the control button of the robotic arm desperately, but it was of no use. The five steel fingers kept tightening. His eyes turned white, saliva flowed uncontrollably from the corners of his mouth, and his only remaining left leg kicked hard.
"You must be curious about how I know what your genetic disease is." Chi Shuangliu said jokingly: "Since you are dying, I can tell you a secret."
"As long as the distance is right, I can know the genetic diseases of all superpowered people."
"Everyone thought that the evolution of superpowers was caused by the meteor shower more than ten years ago, but that's not the case."
He laughed grimly, "This is my 'gift' to mankind."
The meteor shower brought with it material fragments from the universe he once lived in, which allowed him to break through the restrictions in a short period of time and temporarily restore his strength. Using this limited time, he gave all mankind a curse - supernatural evolution.
The evolution of superpowers is accompanied by painful genetic diseases. The more powerful the superpowers are, the more painful the genetic diseases are. The genetic drugs developed by major companies can only slow down the disease but cannot completely cure it. If one is not careful, the superpower users will die in extreme pain. After Chi Shuangliu lifted the ban, he can control all superpower users through genetic diseases, which cannot be changed or disobeyed.
——The so-called superpowers are just honey wrapped in poison. Ordinary people who are unaware of this are still trying to acquire superpowers, while those with superpowers are working hard to evolve and upgrade.
He has always hated humans and that has never changed.
With a "click", the mechanical arm broke the human's fragile cervical vertebrae.
In just 13 seconds, the genetic disease took away a strong A-level.