Task 6
However, the development did not go as Shi Youchen wished. When he walked a little further to check the situation nearby, Furen took advantage of the gap and ran into the place where the vines had just disappeared.
Gazing at the pitch-black horizon, Shi Youchen's breathing became heavier, and he finally stepped inside. He gathered his meager energy under his feet, and with each step he took, he left behind a withered or dried-up, cracked mark, marking his path.
But to his surprise, no other highly aggressive or poisonous species appeared within the next hundred meters.
Shi Youchen looked at the vegetation around him, which was obviously much shorter, and glanced further away.
This stretch of road was incredibly normal, like an ordinary park outside. There were emerald green lawns, unassuming wildflowers, and camphor trees that didn't overshadow the surroundings.
He knew very well that these things should not and could not appear in this place. Just as he began to wonder if this was an illusion and how to break it, a pool of blood appeared in front of him.
The bloodstain had not dried up yet, and some white juice was mixed in the red color, hooked in it like silk. At first glance, it looked like the reflection of moonlight.
Shi Youchen paused for a moment, followed the bloodstains that looked like a guide in front of him, and walked into a courtyard with a very ancient style.
This garden was obviously carefully maintained, even the weeds were trimmed into different shapes.
When Shi Youchen passed a clump of fishtail-shaped bushes, he saw a figure in front of him. It was an extremely thin figure sitting cross-legged on the lawn, and the figure next to him was Furen.
Furen lay there on his side, seemingly unconscious, his head resting on the man's thigh. Shi Youchen could not see his face, only a pair of trembling black wings.
The skinny guy was tearing the black wings apart with all his strength, and even buried his head in them to nibble on them for a few times.
Shi Youchen took a step forward, and "crack" and "crack" sounds came from the ground. Cracks began to extend rapidly forward from where he stepped. The cracks caused by the sudden aging of the land wrapped around the man and swallowed him, and then merged and stuck together after rapid rejuvenation.
He controlled the rhythm of the energy conversion with incredible precision, so precise that the man's body was buried in the ground, but his head just emerged from the ground. Furen was pushed aside and continued to lie on the ground without moving.
Shi Youchen stared at the head and walked closer, finally standing in front of the man, looking down at him: "What are you? Are you a human, or a vengeful spirit that has taken over a human body?"
He didn't know if the other person understood what he said; he only saw the mouth move, but no sound came out. Shi Youchen used the tip of his shoe to touch his chin and lifted it up, revealing a face so shriveled and even slightly deformed that it was impossible to tell its age.
"Tsk." The look was a bit creepy. Shi Youchen moved his toes and kicked his face to the side, then drew out the dagger from his waist and stabbed it into the back of his neck.
However, the man seemed completely insensitive, his facial skin not even moving. He turned to look at Shi Youchen blankly, seemingly confused as to why he had suddenly done this. The blood trickling from his neck was almost pink, with a bitter, astringent smell that made Shi Youchen feel uncomfortable.
"What's the point of living in such pain? Go reincarnate and go to a new world." A flash of tenderness flashed across Shi Youchen's eyes, and then he squatted down and stabbed the knife into his lower head under his puzzled but pleading eyes.
"...Mr. Sasa..." Fren regained consciousness. His bloody black wings trembled twice, and he slapped the ground and turned around. He struggled to move forward a few steps, raised his head and shouted softly, "Don't... kill him..."
"?" Shi Youchen drew back the knife, brushed off the blood, walked over to steady Furen, and let him lean against him. "What did you say? What happened between you and him?"
Furen looked frail, but Shi Youchen could sense through touch that his internal life force was stable. "He...he saved me," Furen said, stretching his wings as if to prove something.
Shi Youchen saw that although the feathers on the wings were damaged, the wounds that had refused to heal before had shown obvious improvement, and even the pulsation of the meridians on them became stronger.
"I was invaded by the nightmare while I was on the periphery, and those things were attached to my wings. He met me when I was running around unconscious, and helped me exorcise the core of the nightmare." Fren regained some strength and struggled to stand up and walk towards the man.
Shi Youchen said, "It's too late. I destroyed his brain. He won't survive." Hearing this, Furen shuddered and lowered his head dejectedly, "It's my fault."
Shi Youchen stood up and said, "Let's dig a hole and bury him as a token of our apology." He walked to the head but paused. Furen followed closely behind and asked hurriedly, "What's wrong, Mr. Sasa?" Then he stuck his head out to look.
As he looked, he happened to meet the eyes on the ground. "..." Fren's expression, which had been full of frustration and sadness, froze. After staring for several minutes, he finally confirmed that the head, the person, was indeed alive. "You?"
......
Shi Youchen looked coldly at the man who crawled out of the ground, with no clean spot from head to toe, and found that the wounds on his body and the back of his head were still there.
He was very sure that this man's supernatural power was not healing, nor was it time.
"Who are you?" He dug a chip out of his arm, and under Fren's hesitant gaze, he reached out and inserted it into the wound on the back of the man's head, then healed the wound. "Can you understand now? Speak."
"I..." The man was stunned and hesitated for a long time before uttering, "This is... the center of the paradise... I am... Xunlu."
"Xunlu." Shi Youchen called him, his eyes dark as he asked, "Are you human?"
"I... am the experimental subject... Mega Evolution No. 31..."
Xunlu seemed to be not very good at speaking, and his pronunciation was strange, like a mixture of several different languages. Shi Youchen looked down at him and asked, "Do you know what year it is now?"
Xunlu shook his head slowly, "Besides me... there's no one alive here." Shi Youchen twitched his lips slightly and asked, "Are you Super Evolution Subject No. 31?" Seeing the other party nod, he chuckled softly, "Then do you know Wolf Feller?"
Hearing the name, Xunlu's eyes lit up: "I know...Wolf, we...are companions." At this point, Youchen confirmed that he, like Wolf Filler, was indeed one of the targets of the clearing plan, but he didn't know why he appeared in this place.
"Which family are you from?" Shi Youchen continued to ask, but seeing Xunlu's confused expression, he didn't answer for a long time.
Because so much time has passed, and the super-evolution experimental methods at the time were quite radical and not as perfect as they are now, it is hard to say what kind of sequelae it will cause.
It's amazing that he can still remember his own name.
"Forget it if you can't remember." Shi Youchen glanced at the sticky grass under his feet and looked at it carefully from head to toe for a long time.
"Mr. Sasa." Fren suddenly asked, "Can we take him away from here? Just as a handle on the Filer family?" His tone was very cautious, because this was just an excuse he made up, he just wanted to repay Xunlu.
Before Shi Youchen could say anything, Xunlu suddenly muttered to himself: "Scylla... I want to see Scylla... The 2621st daytime..."
Shi Youchen signaled Furen to shut up and listened carefully to Xunlu's whispers.
From Xunlu's fragmented words, Shi Youchen pieced together a story - his wife's name was Scylla, and they had been separated for over seven years. Scylla was supposed to be transferred here with him, but she seemed to have escaped along the way, so in the end, Xunlu was the only one imprisoned in this place.
"How did Scylla escape from the Feller clan?" Fren's question happened to be what Shi Youchen was most concerned about.
Xunlu paused and said, "Scylla... is the daughter of the sea... the ocean will help her." Shi Youchen's eyes fixed: "Is her special ability the chant of the siren?" In an instant, many distant scenes flashed by, and finally all froze in a port.
There was no need for Xunlu to respond, because Shi Youchen knew best that the siren's chant was not an innate ability, but was the result of continuous experimental transformation and integration. It could even be extracted using the human body and injected into other people's bodies for a short period of time.
He Xian had done this to Morrill under the instructions of 07.
Ultra-evolutionary transformation experiments, Wolf Feller's contemporaries, remnants of the association's elimination plan, Feller's clan's secret experimental subjects, transferred from elsewhere, the power of the ocean...
These clues, strung together, were enough to prove many things. Shi Youchen's eyes were like the sky before a storm, dark and deep.
He already knew that it was Scylla who possessed the power of the ocean who had escaped from the Philer family's experimental base and was later captured on the coast of City Z in District 8, causing the Philer family to risk creating a series of port explosions to cover up the incident.
At this moment, the chip in Shi Youchen's brain transmitted news from He Xian and Pei Chanbai - the seal of Batagaka was completed.
So he asked Xunlu: "Do you want to leave here?" Xunlu's words were still intermittent: "Leave... I want to... I want to see Scylla."
Shi Youchen mentally sent a message to He Xian, then took two steps closer to Xunlu and whispered in his ear, "Scylla died at the hands of the Philer clan seven years ago. There's a fist-sized burn mark above her left hip."
Xunlu was stunned. Fulun said with a troubled expression, "Mr. Sasa, this... are you lying to him?"
Shi Youchen looked at him calmly. "Do I really need to lie to him? To a centenarian who's not even conscious?" He then slowly said, "I've seen Scylla, or rather, part of her. Back then, Wolfe wanted to reincarnate and prolong his life, so he secretly asked the Filler family for a number of experimental subjects."
"Scylla is one of them." Thinking of the day when he saw Wolf's pieced-together body, Shi Youchen felt disgusted.
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