Fren
Shi Youchen came out of simulation room No. 3 and was about to go back to his room to take a shower when he ran into Yan Zhiyuan, who was drenched in the rain, on the corridor bridge.
"What's wrong? Things aren't going well?"
Yan Zhiyuan shook his head, his tone neither happy nor unhappy: "He knows everything, but even so, he still doesn't want to accept that method."
Such an answer was actually within Shi Youchen's expectations.
Because he believed in Lin Zhouze's mind and understood Lin Zhouze's temperament.
"Since he's unwilling, you probably won't force him." Shi Youchen's tone was not too serious. "Then we can only use other methods."
Yan Zhiyuan looked up suddenly: "Is there any other way? Didn't you say that the only way for the inferior to recover is to awaken and become a superpowered person first?"
"Just because you don't have it now doesn't mean you won't have it in the future." Shi Youchen patted his wet shoulder and said, "Go back and clean up. I'll need your help with something later."
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"When?" Yan Zhiyuan was still in a low mood and lacked interest.
Shi Youchen looked up at the ripples on the water above and said, "Wait until He Xian comes back."
Yan Zhiyuan frowned. "You let him out? What about those people in Simulation Room 3?" Only then did he notice Shi Youchen's unusual attire. "You wouldn't be..."
Shi Youchen removed the rings from his hands one by one, saying calmly, "Xiaoyue became a cyborg because of Lin Zhouze. She might have been influenced by his philosophy to some extent, and she rejected my proposal."
"She said she's willing to live as she is now and doesn't ask for anything else." Shi Youchen chuckled. "So, if I let He Xian arrest them, it would seem like I'm vindictive."
Yan Zhiyuan sighed: "Everyone is like this, so righteous and awe-inspiring."
Shi Youchen put away the rings and said, "Except Xiaoyue, five of the six transformation subjects have already gone to prepare. We'll start when He Xian returns."
"Okay, got it." Yan Zhiyuan suddenly realized something and asked curiously, "What about the other one?"
Shi Youchen recalled everything that had just happened in Simulation Room 3, his eyes looking meaningful: "There's one more... You'll know in a moment."
The two arranged their next steps and went back to their respective rooms.
Half an hour later, they met again at a place at the bottom of the Mirage Abyss.
The surroundings were pitch black, and the bright blue light that permeated every corner of the Mirage Abyss didn't leak in at all. However, from the huge clock standing in a certain position, it was easy to see that this was the former black arena area.
The original arena area was set up specifically for those warmongers, but now those unruly troublemakers like them have been cleaned up after Shi Youchen took full control of the Maintenance Bureau, so there is naturally no need for the black arena area to exist in the Mirage Abyss.
Therefore, except for the Bell of Judgment, everything else was dismantled and reconstructed. Now, the place under the bell is an altar.
Seven straight pillars with dark patterns are evenly distributed around the altar. The pillars extend upward, and their tops are immersed in the endless darkness.
Each pillar is wrapped with silver chains, which look like a smaller version of the chains that once existed on the floating island.
The pedestal in the center of the altar flickered, and if you looked closely, you could see clusters of light floating there. Those light spots kept changing colors, blending perfectly with the surrounding darkness.
"What's up there?" Yan Zhiyuan was here for the first time and was not yet used to the pure darkness. From a distance of about a long corridor, he could only vaguely see that there seemed to be something tied to those long pillars.
Shi Youchen glanced at them and said, "The tools for the energy sacrifice ceremony, as I just told you, are these five."
"..." Yan Zhiyuan's vision flashed, and he finally saw those strange black shadows clearly.
A dog's head, a bird's beak, crocodile claws, deer antlers, and sheep's hooves—it doesn't look like a normal "human" body at all. No wonder he didn't recognize it at first.
"Why are they all such basic fusion bodies? Shouldn't this kind of experimental body be eliminated long ago?" Yan Zhiyuan asked in confusion.
"Do you think they have a choice?" Shi Youchen took a few steps towards the altar, then raised his hand and opened a crack in front of him.
He Xian pushed a person out of the crack.
"Oh, Old Yan is here too." As soon as he came out, he noticed Yan Zhiyuan behind Shi Youchen, greeted him, and then tightened the chain on his hand, "Don't move." This was said to the person tied up with white chains.
Yan Zhiyuan tilted his head to look at the man's face and thought he looked familiar. "Who is he?"
At this time, the man's eyes fell on Shi Youchen's face. He suddenly trembled all over, and the chains collided with each other, making a tiny empty sound.
Shi Youchen looked at the pair of unfocused eyes, frowned, and asked He Xian: "What's going on?"
He Xian said, "As soon as I arrived at the area adjacent to the Feller family, I noticed him following me stealthily, so I simply turned around and arrested him." He chuckled, "Guess what? Coincidentally, he reacted."
The reaction He Xian described was what Shi Youchen had told him. Before destroying the Nigra auction venue, Shi Youchen had planted a mark on the auctioneer that would resonate with the energy of time and space.
——Shi Youchen asked He Xian to disguise himself and go to District 13 in order to make it easier to find the auctioneer with the mark on his body.
"However." He Xian seemed a little puzzled, "This guy is not from the Feller family, and his energy attributes are wrong."
Shi Youchen stepped forward, raised his hand and slapped the man on the head. The chains on his body began to shake and slowly turned dark red.
"This guy is from the Belmond family, his name is Fren. According to seniority, he is also Labriel's uncle." He Xian told all the information he had investigated.
Shi Youchen looked at the man thoughtfully for a moment, then pinched his face with two fingers and lifted it up: "Fren Belmond?"
Fren didn't know what he wanted to do or why he came to arrest him again this time, but he knew that he probably couldn't get out.
So he started to curse the person in front of him crazily: "You dare to catch me, you bastard? Do you think I don't know who you are? I should have gone to Yue Ling that day and let them know what you did, you bastard!"
Shi Youchen was holding the lower half of his face tightly, so his words were a little unclear. But everyone could hear clearly that the words he uttered were becoming more and more vulgar and filthy.
He Xian's expression turned cold, and he exerted more force with his hands. The chain wrapped around the man's neck and tightened rapidly. "Oh... Shit... Cough..." His head tilted back, and a short, shrill sound came out of his throat.
Shi Youchen let go of his hand, lowered his eyes, and looked down at him as he struggled on the edge of suffocation. "You may not believe this, but I didn't expect you to be from the Belmond family. Nigra is one of the places where those old guys from the Filler family sell their stolen goods. I thought they would send someone from the clan to supervise it."
"You have a smart father." Shi Youchen had already roughly deduced what had happened. "I said before that your only advantage was being obedient. Now it seems I was wrong."
"You're not obedient."
There was an obvious glint of mockery in his eyes, and even though Fren was forced to look up, he could still see it clearly.
"You're just mediocre and a coward."
"If you could just stay cowardly and not run off to District 13 like a smartass, and stay home honestly, I wouldn't be able to do anything to you for a while."
"If you hadn't been so foolish to follow He Xian pretending to be 'me' when you found him in District 13, you wouldn't have been caught by him so quickly."
Shi Youchen asked He Xian to loosen the chains that bound Furen.
"Your father's efforts are really in vain." In addition to mockery, there is also a trace of almost invisible pity in his eyes. It is hard to tell whether he is feeling pity for Fren or someone else.
Without the chains, Furen finally recovered. Just as he caught his breath and was about to attack in anger, he looked up and met Shi Youchen's eyes.
"What? You don't even have the courage to attack me?" Shi Youchen's tone had returned to being calm.
Fren tried hard to raise his hands, but found that his limbs seemed to be out of control of his brain, so he could only continue to curse uselessly.
"You traitor! Bastard! Bitch! You will die a horrible death! You will be torn to pieces! You will be stuck in the mud and never be able to escape! Everyone around you will betray you and spit on you." Fulun cursed as if he remembered something and suddenly changed the subject, "Ying Yungui is also a rotten-assed traitor! You two bastards will definitely be exposed!"
When He Xian and Yan Zhiyuan heard this, they wanted to take action at the same time, but Shi Youchen stopped them.
He suddenly smiled inexplicably and called out to the darkness nearby, "Come out." A tall man quietly walked to Shi Youchen's feet and knelt on one knee. "Mr. Sasa, what can I do for you?"
As the man spoke, a few feathers fell from his hand. Fren looked over and found that he had a pair of huge wings behind him.
"you!"
Shi Youchen glanced at him and said, "Why, does he look familiar to you?" He said in a playful tone, "It's normal to feel familiar. After all, he's a lot I've handled before. Speaking of which, Lot 1 originally belonged to me. Why are you surprised?"
Furen muttered "Madman, madman" and took a half step back, but was slapped by He Xian.
Shi Youchen didn't look at Furen again. Instead, he said to the experimental subject, "You need a name." Then he pretended to think for a few seconds, "From now on, you will be called 'Furen'."
"yes."
"But we can't have two Furens here, so I'll leave him to you first." Shi Youchen waved his hand, telling him he could take his men away. "Don't kill him, leave him alive."
"yes."
...
After Furen left with Furen, Shi Youchen called out to the two people beside him: "Okay, stop standing there, let's get started."
Yan Zhiyuan didn't say anything. He Xian carefully observed his expression and asked, "Are you... really okay?" He hated being taken advantage of the most. Even though he was not the one who was being madly insulted just now, he was still filled with anger at this moment.
"I asked you to make a special trip to District 13. Is it just to capture him and kill him?" Shi Youchen rolled his eyes and asked He Xian.
"Indeed." He Xian walked to the edge of the altar, to where the long pillars were, and after checking them one by one, he said, "It's almost absorbed."
"Well, let him out." Shi Youchen said, turning to Yan Zhiyuan, "I'm going to force their energy into Labriel's body. You will be responsible for supervising the records and handling any accidents at any time."
Yan Zhiyuan seemed to have just come back to his senses, said "oh", and was about to walk to He Xian's side.
Shi Youchen's voice sounded behind him: "He looks a lot like Li Luo, doesn't he?"
"I'll tell you what's going on after it's over."
Yan Zhiyuan suddenly turned around and saw a smile on Shi Youchen's lips in the darkness.
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