To use life as an experiment
by M1zushiAn Yu didn’t know how long he had been unconscious for. It wasn’t until the sound of the rain gradually became clearer in his ears and the darkness slowly diminished from his vision that he realized there was no one left in the garage, nor were there any jellyfish—only a ground covered in blood and a lone leather glove in the corner.
The terminal showed that the survival value was 82.4% due to the inflammation of his hand wound, unmetabolized neurotoxins, and excessive hunger.
He went over to pick up the glove. The glove looked stiff and cold on Qin Zhilu’s hand, but when he grasped it, he realized that the leather was actually quite soft.
He put on the glove and quickly left the foul-smelling garbage dump.
Just as he reached the door, a figure lit up in the distance.
A burst of static suddenly exploded in his ear.
An Yu paused for a moment before realizing it was coming from the earphone that had never emitted a sound before.
The noise continued for over ten seconds before Billy’s voice abruptly came through, “Hello, hello? Who’s on this frequency… An Yu? Can you hear me?”
“Incredible… it’s actually working,” An Yu said in disbelief.
He had long been used to the fact that there were countless technologies in this world that he was unworthy of touching, but people using abilities to control technology still amazed him.
“Thank heavens! If I can connect with one, then the rest will be easy,” Billy sighed with relief, “Law is with you, right?”
“Um…” An Yu looked at the broad figure approaching in the distance, “He’s missing.”
“Missing? I’ll look for him later. Oh right, we’re about ten kilometers apart. Do you need any help?”
An Yu quickly remembered that Billy was purely an intelligence type, useless in a fight, so he said, “Can you go back to the resource station for me?”
“Sure, I’m pretty close. What do you need?”
“There’s bread in the cabinet on the first floor.”
“How much do you want?”
An Yu replied without thinking, “Everything.”
“…You must be starving to death,” Billy muttered, “Alright then, I’ll search for Law’s frequency ASAP.”
“Thank you. I have something to handle here as well.” An Yu said softly, then cut off the communication.
The figure in the distance had just reached him, it was Lieutenant Chu Ning. He breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing An Yu, “Thank goodness, you’re still alive! I went out in the dark to search for the energy core and saw many giant jellyfish so I hurried back to inform you. Where’s Qin Zhilu?”
An Yu looked at him strangely, “If you haven’t seen him, why are you asking me?”
“Isn’t he with you?”
An Yu shook his head, “Aren’t you afraid of him?”
Chu Ning was puzzled, “Why should I be afraid?”
“Don’t you realize it yourself?” An Yu paused, then pointed at him, “Your head is glowing like a breathing lamp.”
Chu Ning’s skull had become completely transparent, and a human brain floated inside of it. The brain was gradually shrinking while the surrounding nerves grew thicker, entwining and trembling like jellyfish tentacles.
An Yu jumped up, using the momentum from his kneeling position to slam his knee into Chu Ning’s abdomen, and stabbed his shoulder with a knife!
Thick, bubbling blood splattered out, but Chu Ning remained unfazed. He easily threw An Yu off, and tentacles spread out from under his sleeves, waving wildly.
“You missed your only chance to escape,” he said and pointed to his head. “The knife should always aim for the vital spots.”
An Yu saw his own reflection in those cold eyes, looking like a fragile ant.
His pupils shrank sharply, and he tried his best to cut off the tentacles wrapped around him. After he freed himself, he turned around and ran away, exposing his vulnerable back to Chu Ning.
The tentacles pursued him from behind, hooked around his neck and dragged him back!
“I didn’t realize before that you’re just a genetically pure human. Where do you think you can run?”
An Yu’s chest heaved violently, and he once again used all his strength to cut off the tentacles wrapped around his neck, and ran away!
Before he ran a few steps, the tentacles whipped him to the ground and dragged him back violently!
His shoes scraped off on the ground, but he didn’t care. He cut through the tentacles again and ran!
“What a tenacious human being,” Chu Ning’s voice sounded eerie, as if it were separated by several layers of sea water.
Every time the tentacles pierced An Yu and started to release a bit of genetic material, An Yu would sever those tentacles, and Chu Ning allowed this little act of defiance, dragging him back again and again!
This game of toying with his prey excited him so much that he could barely maintain his human form. The whites of his eyes turned transparent, and blood spread through his pupils as more and more tentacles burst from his body.
Chu Ning was so exhilarated that he didn’t notice that An Yu was running faster every time, as if he could suddenly shift forward a short distance. After repeating this many times, that short distance became more than 10 meters.
Although he would tremble after being caught back and become sluggish when cutting the tentacles, An Yu’s initial burst of speed became faster and faster! He moved so quickly that it seemed like the surrounding space was shifting. As he dashed forward, instead of being caught up by the tentacles, it was more like he stood still and waited for the tentacles to drag him back.
Finally, An Yu was completely ensnared and dragged back into the aberrant’s embrace.
His bleeding feet stood barefoot in the stagnant water. He was dying and his hands were weakly pulling at the tentacles around his neck.
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An Yu had no intention of running away anymore. It seemed like he had resigned himself to his fate; his eyes were low and the blood from his forehead rolled down to his eyelashes.
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“I remember this alarm, hmm…” Chu Ning tried to recall, “Oh right, it means your survival value is below 60%. You must be really afraid of death if you run so desperately, right? Let me free you from that fear.”
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He suddenly realized something was wrong and Chu Ning began to retract his tentacles, but in that instant, a bony hand tightly grabbed his tentacles!
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His golden eyes suddenly flashed ferociously, and he forcefully drove the tentacle deeper into himself!
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Like a baby’s sucking reflex, Chu Ning frantically absorbed An Yu’s genes. When a muffled pop sounded, he hadn’t yet realized what happened.
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There was deathly silence in the garbage dump, leaving only the pitter-patter of rain and An Yu’s violent breathing.
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The headphones crackled again, and Billy muttered, “Damn it, there are too many mantises near the resource station. I tried to detonate them, but no matter how hard I tried, it didn’t work. This new ability is too damn hard to trigger.If I had known better, I should’ve practiced more with the jellyfish.”
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To prevent Billy from actually feeling ashamed enough to take his own life, An Yu chose to keep his mouth shut.
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He paused, not finishing his sentence “…then I’ll bring them back to the dorm later on.” because he seemed to not have heard the first half of his sentence.
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Suddenly, the whole world became quiet and the sound of the rain had ceased without him noticing.
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That feeling of something bursting out from within his body returned, and his chest went up and down as if his heart was also about to explode.
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But after only a few steps, he fell back down to the ground with a “bang”, motionless, as if he was dead.
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“Fuck, I just saw that your survival value is only 50%. Did you encounter an aberrant?”
“An Yu! Speak!”
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He had to prove his controllability.
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In the pitch-black world, footsteps gradually approached from behind.
An Yu tensed up and reached for the dagger at his waist.
As soon as he touched the blade, the pain from the cut cleared his mind a bit.
As the footsteps drew closer, he held onto his sinking consciousness and reached for the blade again.
A hand suddenly grabbed his waist.
His body tensed up for a moment, before suddenly relaxing.
— His prison uniform had been torn long ago and the familiar texture of leather brushed against his waist.
Qin Zhilu seemed to put his lips close to An Yu’s ear and say:
“Don’t hurt yourself, it’s me.”
“Don’t think about anything, try to control your heartbeat and breathing, don’t pant so hard, you need to learn to manage your stress response.”
He pulled An Yu closer into his arms, letting him feel his presence through physical contact, “It’s normal to be exhausted, you did a good job.”
An Yu had never heard such a gentle tone from his Commander.
He wanted to clearly his expression at this moment, but his vision hadn’t returned. All he could feel was the trench coat wrapped around his body, covering his vulnerable abdomen.
The mysterious turmoil within him suddenly calmed down, and an unfamiliar sensation spread across his heart—perhaps it was that thing called sense of security that the Brain people said he lacked.
Qin Zhilu moved in front of An Yu, opened his coat, and pulled him more tightly into his embrace.
In fact, he could have taken off his coat, but maybe An Yu’s body was too thin. Just like finding an injured little rabbit in the rain, people would instinctively want to hold it closely in their arms.
“Sleep if you want.”
An Yu let out a few weak breaths.
“Sir, can you promise my safety?”
Qin Zhilu seemed to nod, “Mn.”
“I have control over… that thing.” There was a hint of mirth in his weak voice.
Just like a child showing off, a bit proud.
Qin Zhilu was taken aback for a moment, then reached out to gently hold the back of his head.
“Very impressive.”
An Yu followed his movements and leaned his forehead against the Commander’s shoulder.
As his consciousness gradually faded, he murmured, “I’m almost certain about my ability. I’m a rabbit-type distortion, I’m… the same kind as Rabbit An.”
Darkness descended from deep within his consciousness, completely engulfing him.
Qin Zhilu, who was holding him, instantly froze and hesitated for a long time.
“I thought you knew that it was a character from a TV series,” he frowned and said, “The rabbit-type aberrant in District 54 was just an ordinary rabbit gene infection that had been discovered long ago. There is no such thing in this world, at least not yet, like the super-aberrant rabbit you are talking about.”
An Yu could no longer hear anything and his consciousness quickly slipped away, leaving the only connecting between him and the world being the feeling of being embraced.
It was a very novel experience.
Before falling into a deep sleep, he seemed to catch a fleeting thought—
Maybe he was going crazy, but he wondered if the jellyfish that hugged him for so long in the garage was actually his Commander.
Even though he had no evidence.
Author’s Note:
[06 The Hunter’s moment]
There’s a notorious book circulating in the Spire that I find particularly cringeworthy, titled “God An Yun’s Fantastical Abilities”
Before that abomination was published, there was a precursor—a forum post named “Let’s Talk About the Moments When Mr. An Yu Hunted You.”
I prefer to call it “Dead Ducks Group Hype Post.”
Amidst all the fanatical adorating comments, there was one early anonymous reply that particularly stood out:
——“He was barely alive, yet was a bit proud of himself.”
Everyone in the Spire openly mocked this person for fabricating such bullshit. After all, how could anyone be lucky enough to witness such a moment?
But I always felt that person had an unusual identity.
So, being as cautious as I am, I chose to remain anonymous when joining the group and mocking that person.
M1zushi: ok so you know how zombies always want to contaminate “normal” people? I think distortion works based on the same principle, like they want to contaminate(or infect/eat) everything that has a low entropy(or hasn’t distorted to a certain point)
or it’s like a moth being attracted to fire. All the aberrants want to infect an yu and ultimately die in the process
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