Chapter 74: LV1-2 Brutal Stage
As Bentham died, Bai Yi lowered his head slightly and sighed.
An overwhelming sense of fatigue filled his body, making him go weak all over. If he could, he really wanted to find a place and fall asleep, even if it meant that he might not wake up again. However, now wasn't the time to sleep. Bai Yi panted heavily and painfully, bearing with the discomfort coming from all over his body.
Looking at his companions fighting in front of him, Bai Yi took a deep breath.
Bai Yi's simple words before stirred up everyone's fighting spirit, and they were all fighting frenziedly with those monsters. Woolf, especially, was the most agitated out of all of them, and even Momo and Sharpei seemed quite maniacal as well. Although Bai Yi's goal was to fill them with the will to fight again, he did not want them to duke it out with those monsters just based on zeal and hot-bloodedness.
"Use one of the prison cells as our base and gang on up any monsters nearby. We will take turns to undergo treatment and recover our strength."
If only Hong Qi Hua were here, she would've definitely brought them to do this long ago. However, Bai Yi was stunned after he shouted his instructions at them. Only Mavis, Heloise, and Pupu slowly stopped, but the rest of them didn't seem to hear his instructions and continued clashing with the monsters. Not only this, but from Woolf's actions it seemed like his only goal was to kill as many monsters as possible, without any regard for his own safety or life.
Why?
Suddenly, Woolf rushed into the middle of three monsters, a swing from his blade instantly chopped off one the monster's head. When the other monster behind tried to bite him, he actually opened his own mouth wide and 'kacha!', Woolf and that monster both clamped their jaws down on each other, both of them refusing to let go. The two of them shook their jaws vigorously, flesh and blood spraying everywhere. Heloise beside him wanted to pull Woolf back, but was swept away by Woolf's tail. In that direction, Momo saw Heloise flying over to her and she actually raised a short sword, preparing to hack it into Heloise.
If not for Heloise dodging fast enough, she probably would have died from Momo's blade. At this time, Heloise and Mavis also felt that something wasn't right.
LV1-2 Brutal Stage!
A thought immediately surfaced in Bai Yi's head.
Bai Yi did not know how it happened, but the mindless state that they were in now obviously suggested the symptoms of the LV1-2 Brutal Stage. Damn it, we can't go on like this! We definitely can't go on like this, we can't battle mindlessly or else we would all die from each other's hands in the end!
Bai Yi gritted his teeth, summoning all the remaining energy in his body and moved forward.
"Yeye, are you there? You can definitely see everything that is going on here, so open the door!" Bai Yi ran and shouted to the air.
"I'm sorry, I can't open the door, that is my duty!" Yeye said calmly. Although the independent consciousness that she just formed was extremely astounded by Bai Yi's group just now, she still had to stand by the duties that were set for her. After all, she still wasn't a totally independent entity.
After hearing what Yeye said, Bai Yi raised his head and gritted his teeth tightly again.
Bastard!!!
Bai Yi sucked in a deep breath. Putting the matter of how to go out aside for now, as long as we're alive, we'll find a way. The important thing now is, how do I stop their mindless and savage states now?
Bai Yi rushed over, and Momo attacked even Bai Yi. Bai Yi smashed Momo's short sword away and hugged Momo tightly, but Momo actually used her teeth to bite Bai Yi's shoulder viciously. That savage and crazy look was worlds apart from the usual adorable and sweet Momo. Bai Yi bore with the pain and carried her to a prison cell by the side, throwing her all the way inside.
"Mavis, help me guard Momo, be careful of getting attacked by her." Bai Yi said to Mavis.
"En…!" Mavis nodded with her bloodshot eyes. Apparently Mavis was also now quite agitated, just that she could still control herself.
Seeing Mavis nod her head, Heloise also rushed towards Woolf and Bai Yi dashed towards Warner. After Warner killed one his opponents and roared towards the sky, Bai Yi rammed into him and sent his fat and round body flying into another prison cell at the side. Pupu at this time also very intelligently rammed the door shut, and used his fat body to block the door.
Bai Yi was taken aback for a moment, this lazy and fat pig was actually smarter than he thought.
Bai Yi immediately rushed towards Woolf next, and at this moment Heloise was being unimaginably anxious nearby. Woolf's expression now was both savage and excited, tearing monsters apart with his greatsword and being seemingly invincible. That heavy greatsword in addition with Woolf's immense strength could split anything in half with just a touch.
On the other side, Sharpei too didn't possess any trace of its usual intelligence, and clashed with another monster, biting at each other. The level of savagery and brutality made people turn their eyes away.
Heloise and a few others had initially thought that this was just Bai Yi's words evoking everyone's fighting spirit, but thinking about it again it was just them going crazy.
Although Woolf and Sharpei looked very brave and fierce now, Bai Yi wasn't optimistic at all. The blood from their bodies had never stopped flowing, and even now they were just probably burning through all their last bits of energy to explode with strength. However, with the state that Sharpei and Woolf was in now it really was not easy to approach them. If they were just a little careless they could end up losing their own lives.
"Yeye, what state are Woolf and the rest in now? You know this, right?"
"…!" Yeye apparently hesitated with Bai Yi's question, seemingly thinking about whether she should tell him or not. After processing everything meticulously, Yeye suddenly realised that there was actually no restriction to keep things secret. Sure enough, when Sunlight was taken away, various loopholes appeared in Yeye's duties as an artificial intelligence.
"The LV1-2 Brutal Stage doesn't actually have a clear boundary with the Binging Stage."
"Due to gene fusion and binge eating, the lifeform will undergo huge changes in their physical shape, but their soul is only suitable for their original form. The body that they have is a stable form of life born from countless years of natural selection. This incongruence between the physical body and the soul will make these evolved lifeforms abnormally frustrated and brutal, causing them to often kill and destroy for no reason at all. This is the reason behind their brutality. However, based on the period of time that you guys had assimilated with the activated cells for, it definitely shouldn't be at that stage yet. This should be due to the stimulation of multiple continuous battles which caused you guys to enter this brutal state early." Yeye immediately explained.
Woolf, Warner, Sharpei and Momo… seemingly they were the ones that had the most brutal battles and suffered the greatest shock just now. That was why they descended into that state.
"Soul?" However, Bai Yi was stunned at another piece of information in Yeye's words.
"You think that humans don't have have souls?"
"No, but haven't we always been unable to prove this?"
"Doctor Wang always said this: Don't deny the existence of something just because you don't know about it. Perhaps it is just that you haven't reached the requirements to know of it yet. One of the sins of human beings is how they use their own shallow wisdom to look at the enormous and limitless world… Treating everything that they don't understand or not know as a definite non-existence…" Yeye wanted to continue her lecture but Bai Yi interrupted her.
"Ok ok, I admit that you are right, but how do we recover them from this state?"
"Enter LV2 Metamorphose Stage."
"Are you joking with me!" Bai Yi couldn't help but rage, how were they able to enter LV2 Metamorphosis Stage at this time?!
"I'm not joking, the reason for the brutality is due to the incongruence between the body and soul. If you successfully go through metamorphosis and enter the LV2 Metamorphose Stage, a new balance will be reached and awaken your absolute lifefield at the same time, entering a whole new level." Yeye described in detail. Just like she said, she didn't patronize Bai Yi but seriously answered his question, and she even provided a solution that would solve the problem at its roots.
"Then why am I ok?"
"The transformation in your body is very complex. I haven't done any detailed tests on you so I'm not really sure. However, there are still some similar precedents from before and my guesses. Are you sure you want to hear me explain?" Yeye said calmly. Bai Yi was just asking in frustration, he didn't think that his body was really different from everybody's else. This really surprised Bai Yi but it wasn't the time to ask about this in detail now.
"Then how do I stop them now!" Bai Yi did not know how to respond to Yeye.
"1. Make them lose consciousness, but this is an inferior method. With their brutal state now, a normal amount of force can never make them lose consciousness, but if you use too much power then you might kill your teammate accidentally. 2. Hypnotize them to become quiet or fall asleep."
"How do I hypnotise them?"
"Your eyes!"
"My… eyes?"
"Hypnosis: Using actions, colors or many other external conditions to give suggestions to a hypnotised subject, weakening their ability to judge and self-awareness, or distorting and causing them to lose their senses. Don't you think that the confusion mimicry of your eyes is very similar to this?" Yeye explained.
"I got it. I'll try but I hope that after everything ends, you can explain to me in detail about everything that's going on." Bai Yi said. At this time, Woolf and Sharpei's situations were getting worse and worse. Bai Yi didn't dare to waste any time, even if he had zero prior experience he had to try that 'hypnosis' thing.
"The detailed information is all with my sister, so I only know some surface information and not the core data." Yeye said lazily.
"That's fine too, we'll talk about it later." Bai Yi said, lowering his head and covering his eyes with his hands.
Hypnosis…how the hell do I do this?
Chapter 75: Have You Despaired!
Bai Yi's eyes magnified the effects of a butterfly's 'warning coloration' and 'protection coloration' to the utmost.
If a normal person saw a brightly patterned snake, 99% of their hearts would skip a beat and jump in fright. This was the information transmitted to us through the snake's form and coloration… Warning! However, the warning signal transmitted through eye contact with Bai Yi was even more intense, transforming into an 'intimidating' effect.
If an example really had to be given, it was similar to what people called 'frightened dumb'.
Other than that, Bai Yi's eyes still had the 'confusion' effect from the protection coloration, just like how a person would sometimes overlook some things in certain situations.
However, no matter if it was mimicry, warning, or protective coloration, they were all passive effects. Other lifeforms had to look at them first to create an effect. In normal situations it wouldn't be able to display its greatest potential.
Bai Yi's eyes weren't actually too special. He just combined the mimicry, warning coloration, and protective coloration together through the power of the activated cells and manifested it in his eyes. However, just this slight transformation triggered a crucial qualitative change, causing him to be able to transmit such information to other lifeforms actively, creating the greatest 'intimidation and confusion' effect!
This was Bai Yi's eyes now… They weren't some mystical god or demon eyes, but just an evolution of the biological form.
……
Hypnosis: Using sound, actions, colors, etc. to transmit unique stimulus through the five senses to the brain, using this to befuddle the hypnotised person's self-awareness and judgement, and at the same time causing their senses and awareness to distort or disappear.
Bai Yi thought about the simple information he knew about hypnosis. From the looks of it, it really seemed like the two had great similarities like what Yeye said. However, Bai Yi still did not know what he should do exactly. To speak of it, Bai Yi only obtained the ability the to intimidate and befuddle his opponents a few minutes ago, how could he know what he should do?
However, some things must be done, and Bai Yi would never want his friends to die in this place because of his mistakes.
Bai Yi and Yeye's conversation was broadcasted through the speakers in the circular walkway, so all of them heard everything clearly.
Heloise was forced to retreat from Woolf's attack again, and looked at Bai Yi expectantly. Mavis hugged Momo tightly, stopping her frenzied struggling, and forcefully kept her head still in one direction. They watched Bai Yi's back together, the back that carried the hopes of everyone here. The young man that appeared in a hurry carrying a baby girl at hospital back then had already grown up to this stage.
Bai Yi slowly walked towards Woolf with his eyes closed.
Bai Yi's body was now stained with blood, and his breathing was painfully heavy, but he still gave off a firm and strong feeling. Not just the people in the circular walkway, but Yeye and the Progenitor watched every moment here.
Bai Yi raised his head and sucked in a deep breath.
"WOOOLLLLFFFF!!!"
A sudden shout, and the hoarse voice echoed in the ears of everyone in the circular walkway. Even those monsters who were in the middle of devouring food involuntarily turned their heads and looked towards Bai Yi. Woolf's crazy actions also paused after his name getting shouted and he looked over in that direction as well.
Bai Yi's eyes opened!
Bai Yi opened his eyes at the moment Woolf turned his head. It was really difficult to describe the change in Bai Yi's eyes in that instant. His eyes were just like multi-colored black holes, seemingly sucking everyone's minds inside of them. All the soft fur on his body swayed by itself, the color on it seemingly slowly gathering into his eyes.
Calm down!
Bai Yi stretched out his right hand and held it up in mid-air, just like he was gently pacifying Woolf. The two of them clearly had a distance of at least 7-8 meters between them, but the madness in Woolf's eyes really started to calm down, and the malevolent expression on his face receded as well. Moreover, his expression became more and more relaxed, and with a few 'pits' and 'pats' Woolf and the few monsters around him fell onto the floor, falling into a deep sleep.
Momo looked in the direction of Bai Yi as well, looking at the back view of her daddy, similarly becoming more at ease, and stopped struggling.
Bai Yi panted heavily with deep breaths, his chest feeling unimaginably heavy. It felt just like a bellows with a hole in it, no matter how hard he tried to breath there didn't seem to be enough air. However, even so Bai Yi slowly turned around and headed towards Sharpei. At this time, Sharpei's attention was also attracted by the shout previously and happened to look at Bai Yi.
"Shar… Pei!" Bai Yi's voice this time was incredibly weak, as if every syllable he spoke took all the strength in his body.
Bai Yi opened his eyes again, and stared at Sharpei silently. He stretched out his right hand and waited quietly. After a while, Sharpei with a malevolent expression on his face and body full of blood walked towards Bai Yi. 'Da, da, da', the steady footstep sound seemingly in sync with everyone's heartbeats, causing all of their hearts to tense.
Suddenly, Sharpei opened its huge jaw and everyone's hearts raised to their throats.
However, Sharpei just stretched out its tongue and licked Bai Yi's hands, and slowly laid down in front of him.
Everyone released a breath they had been subconsciously holding in… However at this moment, Bai Yi suddenly felt the world go black around him, his heart pumped once violently and suddenly stopped. Bai Yi stood still like that quietly, as blood slowly flowed out profusely from his shut eyes, sliding along the contours of his face.
Seeing Woolf and Sharpei calm down, Heloise and Mavis finally relaxed and ran over, intending to find a prison cell to guard as their base like Bai Yi instructed. One must know, these prison cells were used to lock up these monsters, once they closed the door, those monsters would definitely not be able to come in.
After bringing Woolf and Sharpei into the prison cell, Mavis suddenly realised in shock that Bai Yi hadn't moved at all from his initial position.
Mavis instantly thought of something and sprinted to Bai Yi's side, discovering Bai Yi with his eyes closed and blood flowing down from his eyes. Mavis checked for his breathing…none! She then placed her fingers on his neck, there was still a pulse but after two beats, she could tell that it was rapidly weakening.
"Heloise, come and help me!" Mavis instantly shouted.
Heloise heard Mavis' voice and looking at her panicked expression, she knew that something was wrong. She immediately threw Woolf aside and ran towards her. The two of them laid Bai Yi onto the floor and carried him into the prison cell, immediately closing the door to the cell right after.
Mavis opened the first aid kit, took out an adrenaline shot and quickly administered it to Bai Yi. She then immediately began her CPR on him. Although Heloise couldn't be of much help, she still learned some basic treatment from Mavis and Sara during this period of time, and she similarly started to do emergency treatment on Woolf and Sharpei.
Pupu, Warner and Momo locked the door, and stood guard very seriously at the door. In the whole team now, the only people who still had the ability to move was the three weakest members of the team.
On the outside, too many monsters died, and a thick stench of blood filled the air, driving the remaining monsters even crazier. More than half of the monsters had died and were consumed by the other monsters, but this kind of savage battle still had no signs of stopping, almost as if it would never stop until only one remained.
Everyone stared at Mavis trying to resuscitate Bai Yi, silently hoping, praying…
After half an hour of emergency treatment, Bai Yi's signs of life slowly became weaker and weaker. Mavis laid on the floor in the end, almost giving up hope. At this moment, everyone stopped everything that they were doing, and Momo bit on her lips, an expression of wanting to cry but stubbornly refusing to, quietly standing beside Bai Yi… Daddy!
Don't tell me that Bai Yi won't make it as well…
……
At this time, outside the giant door, Yu Han's golden python winded itself around Hong Qi Hua's left arm and body. Yu Han left's arm grabbed onto her right hand, gradually pushing it backwards. On Hong Qi Hua's hand was a sharp willow leaf knife, the same willow leaf knife that she had gotten from Bai Yi at the start.
"I'm sorry." Yu Han said coldly, and his left hand slowly increased its force. Yu Han pressed her hand which was holding the willow leaf knife slowly towards her heart, slowly but forcefully stabbing it in bit by bit. At this moment, Ning Xue and Khina was actually not beside them.
Hong Qi Hua's body twitched slightly, and blood gushed out continuously from the wound. A trace of regret and disappointment flashed across her eyes. I'm sorry, Uncle Bai. Bai Yi and Momo's faces flashed across her mind at the end, and she slowly closed her eyes.
At this moment, the right eye of the Progenitor who was silently watching everyone flashed, and blood flowed down from it.
Yu Han bound Hong Qi Hua with his snake and still held onto her hand, not discovering anything abnormal. After a long while, Yu Han finally ascertained that Hong Qi Hua had died, truly died without signs of life left.
After a long while, Yu Han finally stood up again, silently staring at Hong Qi Hua's corpse.
Actually, Yu Han did like Hong Qi Hua. She was neither servile nor overbearing, proud and independent, not relying on anything, not accommodating to anybody, just like a proud plum blossom in winter, attracting Yu Han deeply. Part of it was definitely because she was a beautiful girl, but it was also a part of the attraction. However, he still killed her in the end, because he clearly knew that he would never be able to have her.
Yu Han slowly turned around, walking along the passageway out… At this moment, Yu Han truly changed, from the young man some capability and schemes back in the school to a truly ruthless and ambitious character… Forbearing, resolute, and heartless!
Chapter 76: Tears
"I'm sorry Bai Yi, Momo!" A regretful murmuring seemed to come from the darkness, Bai Yi's dazed consciousness could actually hear Hong Qi Hua's final regrets. Bai Yi did not know where this voice came from, but he felt it just as deeply as if she were speaking in his heart.
Hong Qi Hua… died!
Hot tears slowly flowed down from his eyes, sliding down his face. The one that should say sorry should be me! My greatest regret is that I still have something I have yet to say to you… Qi Hua!
I am an idiot, I always thought that I had enough time, why do I only know how to treasure things after I lose them!
Countless scenes flashed past Bai Yi's mind - Martin getting smashed into pieces in front of him; Sara blocking the door, showing Momo her last bloody smile; Hong Qi Hua lying on the floor, her heart stabbed by the small willow leaf knife that he gave her, and at last her eyes full of regret and emptiness… Bai Yi's tears flowed continuously.
How can I die in this place!
How can I!
I have not made up for my mistakes, I haven't brought my friends out of this cruel world, how can I just let myself die here, HOW CAN I!!! Bai Yi screamed in his heart, his expression becoming incomparably malevolent. Everyone around him instantly jumped in shock seeing his expression, thinking that some strange transformation is happening to Bai Yi.
At this time, Bai Yi's blood that had initially stopped flowing and turned cold, gradually started to circulate again, rapidly gathering towards his heart, stimulating his heart, from nothing to something. Beat… beat, the heart that had completely stopped initially actually started to beat again.
"AHHHHHHHH…!!!" Bai Yi suddenly roared fiercely, his eyes almost bulging out of his sockets.
Bai Yi's eyes were completely bloodshot, and the colored patterns on his limbs slowly disappeared. Bai Yi's eyes seemed to absorb these colored patterns, forming a circle of strange patterns around his pupils. Everyone just happened to meet with his eyes, and all them seemed to have descended into a world like that in a kaleidoscope, their consciousness lost in an instant.
Bai Yi came alone to the door, looking at the 10 plus gene-fused monsters outside.
Intimidation!
Bai Yi's pupils instantly expanded again, and in the eyes of the gene-fused monsters the colored patterns of Bai Yi's eyes were instantly reflected. The monsters seemed to have seen their worst nightmares, and immediately turned around and ran away in fear and anxiety. Even farther away, those monsters who were still approaching them also seemed to have felt the aura of some primordial beast, instinctually feeling fear and avoided them hurriedly.
Bai Yi turned around, and looked towards a camera inside the prison cell.
"Yeye, are you really not opening the door?" Bai Yi asked.
"I'm sorry, I really want to open the door, but the duty placed on me makes me unable to do so." Yeye's voice came from the air. Honestly speaking, even Yeye's simple autonomous consciousness was very shocked by them.
"There should still be a temporarily safe place here, right? Can you tell me where it is?"
"Walk out from here and follow along the left side of the walkway. In 400 meters there's a passageway, I will open it for you guy. The passageway connects to a small research laboratory, its where the researchers conduct some simple experiments, there should be tools and medicine that you guys need there. However, can you guys reach that place now?" Yeye at this time also seemed to treat herself as one of Bai Yi's team members. However, because Yeye by nature had to follow the programming set by her creators before, she couldn't act according to her own will completely.
"We can, there's no problem." Bai Yi nodded, and patted on the others inside the room.
After looking into Bai Yi's eyes again, the rest of them finally woke up from their daze and stared at Bai Yi in surprise. Bai Yi's eyes, isn't it too magical? It already almost couldn't be explained by reason anymore, a lifeform's evolution, can it really evolve continuously in such a short period of time?
"We will go out, there's a passageway 400 meters away. We will go there to rest first, Yeye will open the door." Bai Yi said to everyone.
Nobody doubted Bai Yi's decision, even if there were still numerous gene-fused monsters outside now. When the bunch of them helped each other to the walkway, they realised that all the gene-fused monsters immediately ran away from Bai Yi after seeing him from afar.
"Bai Yi, your eyes?" Mavis asked.
"Nothing much, just a deeper level of evolution of a lifeform's mimicry, letting me obtain a stronger power." Bai Yi explained dully. But...every piece of strength had its price, and the change in Bai Yi's eyes came from the shock of Hong Qi Hua's death. If he had a choice, Bai Yi would rather not have this power.
Mavis saw that Bai Yi didn't seem to want to continue on this topic, and she also intelligently chose not to continue asking. The group of them safely came to the small laboratory that Yeye mentioned, and the facilities inside were all very complete. Mavis and Heloise who had the lightest injuries, as well as those who still could move began to use the medicine and equipment here to start their treatment.
After Bai Yi entered the room, the colored patterns in his eyes slowly disappeared, but the colored pattern on the hair on his limbs did not return. After confirming that it was safe, Bai Yi finally fell on the bed heavily.
Everyone got alarmed again, but after Mavis checked she spoke to everyone: "There's no problem, Bai Yi's body was just too over-fatigued, and he fell into a deep sleep to recover. Be at ease, his vital signs are very stable, there won't be a situation like just now."
Mavis' explanation finally made everyone let out a breath of relief, so it's just over-exhaustion!
……
When Bai Yi woke up again, it was already 3 days later. When Bai Yi opened his eyes, he realised that it was very dark, terrifyingly dark. Bai Yi stretched out both his hands to try and touch what's around him, and he could be sure that he was lying on top of a bed. However, he couldn't tell anything beyond that because his body was so weak that it felt like it didn't belong to him, he could barely move anything.
Mavis had been taking care of Bai Yi all along, delight went through her heart when she finally saw Bai Yi opening his eyes, but when she saw Bai Yi's movements afterwards, her heart immediately dipped.
She saw this kind of situation in other patients before… loss of sight!
"Bai Yi, are you awake?"
"En, is that Mavis?" Although his expression was very calm, the way he tried to feel around with his hands couldn't escape Mavis' eyes. "Is there light here?" Bai Yi asked.
Mavis' heart ached, not knowing how to reply Bai Yi.
"So it's like that…" Since Mavis didn't reply, Bai Yi could guess the answer. Bai Yi understood his own body the best, the last two transformation and usage of his eyes were utterly abnormal. If one were to say that these transformations did not come with any side-effects to his eyes, Bai Yi wouldn't believe it himself.
"Don't worry, it should be able to recover." Mavis immediately consoled him.
"En." There wasn't much of a change in Bai Yi's expression.
"I'm serious, your blindness is not congenital, but due to over-usage of your eyes. Normally, as long as you have enough rest and let yourself recover, your eyesight should return soon." Mavis explained, and gave Bai Yi a check-up seriously.
This check-up took a few hours, during this period the rest of them also got to know of Bai Yi losing his vision, and they all waited uneasily for the results.
"Relax, Bai Yi's vision did not disappear completely, just that his ability to sense light is very weak now. This definitely has something to do with the transformation of his eyes before. I think that as long as he can master the changes in his body he will be able to regain his sight again. Maybe his eyes will even become completely different from before." Mavis said to the rest of them.
"Hahahahaha, see? What did I say? Bai Yi will never die so easily!" Woolf said boisterously.
"It's just blindness." Heloise reminded.
"En En." Woolf immediately nodded his head. Bai Yi felt a wave of gladness and laughter, did Woolf and Heloise finally get together? Although everyone was a monster now, the feelings between each other wouldn't be estranged just because of appearances.
But, Hong Qi Hua!
Bai Yi did not know where her voice came from then, but Bai Yi could be sure of one thing: that was definitely not his hallucination. Hong Qi Hua, was really dead.
……
"I didn't think that you would still be alive." Yeye looked at the Progenitor in surprise.
"What's so strange about me being still alive?" The Progenitor replied, and in front of her was the naked Hong Qi Hua.
"Nah, it just feels strange. An artificial intelligence that oversees all experimental monsters, and the Progenitor that caused everything. There's actually only the two of us non-human lifeforms left here in this huge research facility." Yeye thought and said. "So, why did you want me to bring Hong Qi Hua's corpse here?"
"I don't know."
"You don't know?" Yeye said in surprise.
"En, I don't know, because I don't know how it would turn out. So, I hope that you can keep this a secret from Bai Yi's group." The Progenitor explained.
"Why must it be kept a secret?"
"I don't know either."
"You're really an idiot, you don't know anything." Yeye was speechless at the Progenitor.
"That's right, I'm really very normal, I have neither the resolution nor the confidence… So, I will place my hopes on them." The progenitor said, and few tentacles stretched out and grabbed hold of Hong Qi Hua's naked body, slowly lowering Hong Qi Hua into her stomach, as her tummy area changed and swallowed Hong Qi Hua whole. After a while, Hong Qi Hua disappeared completely inside the Progenitor. From the looks of it, she seemed just like a pregnant woman.
"I really don't get what you are doing. It's so boring talking with you! You're really about to die, so see you! I'll keep it a secret." Yeye's voice became distant.
"No matter what, I'm also considered… your half-daughter!"
Chapter 74: LV1-2 Brutal Stage
As Bentham died, Bai Yi lowered his head slightly and sighed.
An overwhelming sense of fatigue filled his body, making him go weak all over. If he could, he really wanted to find a place and fall asleep, even if it meant that he might not wake up again. However, now wasn't the time to sleep. Bai Yi panted heavily and painfully, bearing with the discomfort coming from all over his body.
Looking at his companions fighting in front of him, Bai Yi took a deep breath.
Bai Yi's simple words before stirred up everyone's fighting spirit, and they were all fighting frenziedly with those monsters. Woolf, especially, was the most agitated out of all of them, and even Momo and Sharpei seemed quite maniacal as well. Although Bai Yi's goal was to fill them with the will to fight again, he did not want them to duke it out with those monsters just based on zeal and hot-bloodedness.
"Use one of the prison cells as our base and gang on up any monsters nearby. We will take turns to undergo treatment and recover our strength."
If only Hong Qi Hua were here, she would've definitely brought them to do this long ago. However, Bai Yi was stunned after he shouted his instructions at them. Only Mavis, Heloise, and Pupu slowly stopped, but the rest of them didn't seem to hear his instructions and continued clashing with the monsters. Not only this, but from Woolf's actions it seemed like his only goal was to kill as many monsters as possible, without any regard for his own safety or life.
Why?
Suddenly, Woolf rushed into the middle of three monsters, a swing from his blade instantly chopped off one the monster's head. When the other monster behind tried to bite him, he actually opened his own mouth wide and 'kacha!', Woolf and that monster both clamped their jaws down on each other, both of them refusing to let go. The two of them shook their jaws vigorously, flesh and blood spraying everywhere. Heloise beside him wanted to pull Woolf back, but was swept away by Woolf's tail. In that direction, Momo saw Heloise flying over to her and she actually raised a short sword, preparing to hack it into Heloise.
If not for Heloise dodging fast enough, she probably would have died from Momo's blade. At this time, Heloise and Mavis also felt that something wasn't right.
LV1-2 Brutal Stage!
A thought immediately surfaced in Bai Yi's head.
Bai Yi did not know how it happened, but the mindless state that they were in now obviously suggested the symptoms of the LV1-2 Brutal Stage. Damn it, we can't go on like this! We definitely can't go on like this, we can't battle mindlessly or else we would all die from each other's hands in the end!
Bai Yi gritted his teeth, summoning all the remaining energy in his body and moved forward.
"Yeye, are you there? You can definitely see everything that is going on here, so open the door!" Bai Yi ran and shouted to the air.
"I'm sorry, I can't open the door, that is my duty!" Yeye said calmly. Although the independent consciousness that she just formed was extremely astounded by Bai Yi's group just now, she still had to stand by the duties that were set for her. After all, she still wasn't a totally independent entity.
After hearing what Yeye said, Bai Yi raised his head and gritted his teeth tightly again.
Bastard!!!
Bai Yi sucked in a deep breath. Putting the matter of how to go out aside for now, as long as we're alive, we'll find a way. The important thing now is, how do I stop their mindless and savage states now?
Bai Yi rushed over, and Momo attacked even Bai Yi. Bai Yi smashed Momo's short sword away and hugged Momo tightly, but Momo actually used her teeth to bite Bai Yi's shoulder viciously. That savage and crazy look was worlds apart from the usual adorable and sweet Momo. Bai Yi bore with the pain and carried her to a prison cell by the side, throwing her all the way inside.
"Mavis, help me guard Momo, be careful of getting attacked by her." Bai Yi said to Mavis.
"En…!" Mavis nodded with her bloodshot eyes. Apparently Mavis was also now quite agitated, just that she could still control herself.
Seeing Mavis nod her head, Heloise also rushed towards Woolf and Bai Yi dashed towards Warner. After Warner killed one his opponents and roared towards the sky, Bai Yi rammed into him and sent his fat and round body flying into another prison cell at the side. Pupu at this time also very intelligently rammed the door shut, and used his fat body to block the door.
Bai Yi was taken aback for a moment, this lazy and fat pig was actually smarter than he thought.
Bai Yi immediately rushed towards Woolf next, and at this moment Heloise was being unimaginably anxious nearby. Woolf's expression now was both savage and excited, tearing monsters apart with his greatsword and being seemingly invincible. That heavy greatsword in addition with Woolf's immense strength could split anything in half with just a touch.
On the other side, Sharpei too didn't possess any trace of its usual intelligence, and clashed with another monster, biting at each other. The level of savagery and brutality made people turn their eyes away.
Heloise and a few others had initially thought that this was just Bai Yi's words evoking everyone's fighting spirit, but thinking about it again it was just them going crazy.
Although Woolf and Sharpei looked very brave and fierce now, Bai Yi wasn't optimistic at all. The blood from their bodies had never stopped flowing, and even now they were just probably burning through all their last bits of energy to explode with strength. However, with the state that Sharpei and Woolf was in now it really was not easy to approach them. If they were just a little careless they could end up losing their own lives.
"Yeye, what state are Woolf and the rest in now? You know this, right?"
"…!" Yeye apparently hesitated with Bai Yi's question, seemingly thinking about whether she should tell him or not. After processing everything meticulously, Yeye suddenly realised that there was actually no restriction to keep things secret. Sure enough, when Sunlight was taken away, various loopholes appeared in Yeye's duties as an artificial intelligence.
"The LV1-2 Brutal Stage doesn't actually have a clear boundary with the Binging Stage."
"Due to gene fusion and binge eating, the lifeform will undergo huge changes in their physical shape, but their soul is only suitable for their original form. The body that they have is a stable form of life born from countless years of natural selection. This incongruence between the physical body and the soul will make these evolved lifeforms abnormally frustrated and brutal, causing them to often kill and destroy for no reason at all. This is the reason behind their brutality. However, based on the period of time that you guys had assimilated with the activated cells for, it definitely shouldn't be at that stage yet. This should be due to the stimulation of multiple continuous battles which caused you guys to enter this brutal state early." Yeye immediately explained.
Woolf, Warner, Sharpei and Momo… seemingly they were the ones that had the most brutal battles and suffered the greatest shock just now. That was why they descended into that state.
"Soul?" However, Bai Yi was stunned at another piece of information in Yeye's words.
"You think that humans don't have have souls?"
"No, but haven't we always been unable to prove this?"
"Doctor Wang always said this: Don't deny the existence of something just because you don't know about it. Perhaps it is just that you haven't reached the requirements to know of it yet. One of the sins of human beings is how they use their own shallow wisdom to look at the enormous and limitless world… Treating everything that they don't understand or not know as a definite non-existence…" Yeye wanted to continue her lecture but Bai Yi interrupted her.
"Ok ok, I admit that you are right, but how do we recover them from this state?"
"Enter LV2 Metamorphose Stage."
"Are you joking with me!" Bai Yi couldn't help but rage, how were they able to enter LV2 Metamorphosis Stage at this time?!
"I'm not joking, the reason for the brutality is due to the incongruence between the body and soul. If you successfully go through metamorphosis and enter the LV2 Metamorphose Stage, a new balance will be reached and awaken your absolute lifefield at the same time, entering a whole new level." Yeye described in detail. Just like she said, she didn't patronize Bai Yi but seriously answered his question, and she even provided a solution that would solve the problem at its roots.
"Then why am I ok?"
"The transformation in your body is very complex. I haven't done any detailed tests on you so I'm not really sure. However, there are still some similar precedents from before and my guesses. Are you sure you want to hear me explain?" Yeye said calmly. Bai Yi was just asking in frustration, he didn't think that his body was really different from everybody's else. This really surprised Bai Yi but it wasn't the time to ask about this in detail now.
"Then how do I stop them now!" Bai Yi did not know how to respond to Yeye.
"1. Make them lose consciousness, but this is an inferior method. With their brutal state now, a normal amount of force can never make them lose consciousness, but if you use too much power then you might kill your teammate accidentally. 2. Hypnotize them to become quiet or fall asleep."
"How do I hypnotise them?"
"Your eyes!"
"My… eyes?"
"Hypnosis: Using actions, colors or many other external conditions to give suggestions to a hypnotised subject, weakening their ability to judge and self-awareness, or distorting and causing them to lose their senses. Don't you think that the confusion mimicry of your eyes is very similar to this?" Yeye explained.
"I got it. I'll try but I hope that after everything ends, you can explain to me in detail about everything that's going on." Bai Yi said. At this time, Woolf and Sharpei's situations were getting worse and worse. Bai Yi didn't dare to waste any time, even if he had zero prior experience he had to try that 'hypnosis' thing.
"The detailed information is all with my sister, so I only know some surface information and not the core data." Yeye said lazily.
"That's fine too, we'll talk about it later." Bai Yi said, lowering his head and covering his eyes with his hands.
Hypnosis…how the hell do I do this?
Chapter 75: Have You Despaired!
Bai Yi's eyes magnified the effects of a butterfly's 'warning coloration' and 'protection coloration' to the utmost.
If a normal person saw a brightly patterned snake, 99% of their hearts would skip a beat and jump in fright. This was the information transmitted to us through the snake's form and coloration… Warning! However, the warning signal transmitted through eye contact with Bai Yi was even more intense, transforming into an 'intimidating' effect.
If an example really had to be given, it was similar to what people called 'frightened dumb'.
Other than that, Bai Yi's eyes still had the 'confusion' effect from the protection coloration, just like how a person would sometimes overlook some things in certain situations.
However, no matter if it was mimicry, warning, or protective coloration, they were all passive effects. Other lifeforms had to look at them first to create an effect. In normal situations it wouldn't be able to display its greatest potential.
Bai Yi's eyes weren't actually too special. He just combined the mimicry, warning coloration, and protective coloration together through the power of the activated cells and manifested it in his eyes. However, just this slight transformation triggered a crucial qualitative change, causing him to be able to transmit such information to other lifeforms actively, creating the greatest 'intimidation and confusion' effect!
This was Bai Yi's eyes now… They weren't some mystical god or demon eyes, but just an evolution of the biological form.
……
Hypnosis: Using sound, actions, colors, etc. to transmit unique stimulus through the five senses to the brain, using this to befuddle the hypnotised person's self-awareness and judgement, and at the same time causing their senses and awareness to distort or disappear.
Bai Yi thought about the simple information he knew about hypnosis. From the looks of it, it really seemed like the two had great similarities like what Yeye said. However, Bai Yi still did not know what he should do exactly. To speak of it, Bai Yi only obtained the ability the to intimidate and befuddle his opponents a few minutes ago, how could he know what he should do?
However, some things must be done, and Bai Yi would never want his friends to die in this place because of his mistakes.
Bai Yi and Yeye's conversation was broadcasted through the speakers in the circular walkway, so all of them heard everything clearly.
Heloise was forced to retreat from Woolf's attack again, and looked at Bai Yi expectantly. Mavis hugged Momo tightly, stopping her frenzied struggling, and forcefully kept her head still in one direction. They watched Bai Yi's back together, the back that carried the hopes of everyone here. The young man that appeared in a hurry carrying a baby girl at hospital back then had already grown up to this stage.
Bai Yi slowly walked towards Woolf with his eyes closed.
Bai Yi's body was now stained with blood, and his breathing was painfully heavy, but he still gave off a firm and strong feeling. Not just the people in the circular walkway, but Yeye and the Progenitor watched every moment here.
Bai Yi raised his head and sucked in a deep breath.
"WOOOLLLLFFFF!!!"
A sudden shout, and the hoarse voice echoed in the ears of everyone in the circular walkway. Even those monsters who were in the middle of devouring food involuntarily turned their heads and looked towards Bai Yi. Woolf's crazy actions also paused after his name getting shouted and he looked over in that direction as well.
Bai Yi's eyes opened!
Bai Yi opened his eyes at the moment Woolf turned his head. It was really difficult to describe the change in Bai Yi's eyes in that instant. His eyes were just like multi-colored black holes, seemingly sucking everyone's minds inside of them. All the soft fur on his body swayed by itself, the color on it seemingly slowly gathering into his eyes.
Calm down!
Bai Yi stretched out his right hand and held it up in mid-air, just like he was gently pacifying Woolf. The two of them clearly had a distance of at least 7-8 meters between them, but the madness in Woolf's eyes really started to calm down, and the malevolent expression on his face receded as well. Moreover, his expression became more and more relaxed, and with a few 'pits' and 'pats' Woolf and the few monsters around him fell onto the floor, falling into a deep sleep.
Momo looked in the direction of Bai Yi as well, looking at the back view of her daddy, similarly becoming more at ease, and stopped struggling.
Bai Yi panted heavily with deep breaths, his chest feeling unimaginably heavy. It felt just like a bellows with a hole in it, no matter how hard he tried to breath there didn't seem to be enough air. However, even so Bai Yi slowly turned around and headed towards Sharpei. At this time, Sharpei's attention was also attracted by the shout previously and happened to look at Bai Yi.
"Shar… Pei!" Bai Yi's voice this time was incredibly weak, as if every syllable he spoke took all the strength in his body.
Bai Yi opened his eyes again, and stared at Sharpei silently. He stretched out his right hand and waited quietly. After a while, Sharpei with a malevolent expression on his face and body full of blood walked towards Bai Yi. 'Da, da, da', the steady footstep sound seemingly in sync with everyone's heartbeats, causing all of their hearts to tense.
Suddenly, Sharpei opened its huge jaw and everyone's hearts raised to their throats.
However, Sharpei just stretched out its tongue and licked Bai Yi's hands, and slowly laid down in front of him.
Everyone released a breath they had been subconsciously holding in… However at this moment, Bai Yi suddenly felt the world go black around him, his heart pumped once violently and suddenly stopped. Bai Yi stood still like that quietly, as blood slowly flowed out profusely from his shut eyes, sliding along the contours of his face.
Seeing Woolf and Sharpei calm down, Heloise and Mavis finally relaxed and ran over, intending to find a prison cell to guard as their base like Bai Yi instructed. One must know, these prison cells were used to lock up these monsters, once they closed the door, those monsters would definitely not be able to come in.
After bringing Woolf and Sharpei into the prison cell, Mavis suddenly realised in shock that Bai Yi hadn't moved at all from his initial position.
Mavis instantly thought of something and sprinted to Bai Yi's side, discovering Bai Yi with his eyes closed and blood flowing down from his eyes. Mavis checked for his breathing…none! She then placed her fingers on his neck, there was still a pulse but after two beats, she could tell that it was rapidly weakening.
"Heloise, come and help me!" Mavis instantly shouted.
Heloise heard Mavis' voice and looking at her panicked expression, she knew that something was wrong. She immediately threw Woolf aside and ran towards her. The two of them laid Bai Yi onto the floor and carried him into the prison cell, immediately closing the door to the cell right after.
Mavis opened the first aid kit, took out an adrenaline shot and quickly administered it to Bai Yi. She then immediately began her CPR on him. Although Heloise couldn't be of much help, she still learned some basic treatment from Mavis and Sara during this period of time, and she similarly started to do emergency treatment on Woolf and Sharpei.
Pupu, Warner and Momo locked the door, and stood guard very seriously at the door. In the whole team now, the only people who still had the ability to move was the three weakest members of the team.
On the outside, too many monsters died, and a thick stench of blood filled the air, driving the remaining monsters even crazier. More than half of the monsters had died and were consumed by the other monsters, but this kind of savage battle still had no signs of stopping, almost as if it would never stop until only one remained.
Everyone stared at Mavis trying to resuscitate Bai Yi, silently hoping, praying…
After half an hour of emergency treatment, Bai Yi's signs of life slowly became weaker and weaker. Mavis laid on the floor in the end, almost giving up hope. At this moment, everyone stopped everything that they were doing, and Momo bit on her lips, an expression of wanting to cry but stubbornly refusing to, quietly standing beside Bai Yi… Daddy!
Don't tell me that Bai Yi won't make it as well…
……
At this time, outside the giant door, Yu Han's golden python winded itself around Hong Qi Hua's left arm and body. Yu Han left's arm grabbed onto her right hand, gradually pushing it backwards. On Hong Qi Hua's hand was a sharp willow leaf knife, the same willow leaf knife that she had gotten from Bai Yi at the start.
"I'm sorry." Yu Han said coldly, and his left hand slowly increased its force. Yu Han pressed her hand which was holding the willow leaf knife slowly towards her heart, slowly but forcefully stabbing it in bit by bit. At this moment, Ning Xue and Khina was actually not beside them.
Hong Qi Hua's body twitched slightly, and blood gushed out continuously from the wound. A trace of regret and disappointment flashed across her eyes. I'm sorry, Uncle Bai. Bai Yi and Momo's faces flashed across her mind at the end, and she slowly closed her eyes.
At this moment, the right eye of the Progenitor who was silently watching everyone flashed, and blood flowed down from it.
Yu Han bound Hong Qi Hua with his snake and still held onto her hand, not discovering anything abnormal. After a long while, Yu Han finally ascertained that Hong Qi Hua had died, truly died without signs of life left.
After a long while, Yu Han finally stood up again, silently staring at Hong Qi Hua's corpse.
Actually, Yu Han did like Hong Qi Hua. She was neither servile nor overbearing, proud and independent, not relying on anything, not accommodating to anybody, just like a proud plum blossom in winter, attracting Yu Han deeply. Part of it was definitely because she was a beautiful girl, but it was also a part of the attraction. However, he still killed her in the end, because he clearly knew that he would never be able to have her.
Yu Han slowly turned around, walking along the passageway out… At this moment, Yu Han truly changed, from the young man some capability and schemes back in the school to a truly ruthless and ambitious character… Forbearing, resolute, and heartless!
Chapter 76: Tears
"I'm sorry Bai Yi, Momo!" A regretful murmuring seemed to come from the darkness, Bai Yi's dazed consciousness could actually hear Hong Qi Hua's final regrets. Bai Yi did not know where this voice came from, but he felt it just as deeply as if she were speaking in his heart.
Hong Qi Hua… died!
Hot tears slowly flowed down from his eyes, sliding down his face. The one that should say sorry should be me! My greatest regret is that I still have something I have yet to say to you… Qi Hua!
I am an idiot, I always thought that I had enough time, why do I only know how to treasure things after I lose them!
Countless scenes flashed past Bai Yi's mind - Martin getting smashed into pieces in front of him; Sara blocking the door, showing Momo her last bloody smile; Hong Qi Hua lying on the floor, her heart stabbed by the small willow leaf knife that he gave her, and at last her eyes full of regret and emptiness… Bai Yi's tears flowed continuously.
How can I die in this place!
How can I!
I have not made up for my mistakes, I haven't brought my friends out of this cruel world, how can I just let myself die here, HOW CAN I!!! Bai Yi screamed in his heart, his expression becoming incomparably malevolent. Everyone around him instantly jumped in shock seeing his expression, thinking that some strange transformation is happening to Bai Yi.
At this time, Bai Yi's blood that had initially stopped flowing and turned cold, gradually started to circulate again, rapidly gathering towards his heart, stimulating his heart, from nothing to something. Beat… beat, the heart that had completely stopped initially actually started to beat again.
"AHHHHHHHH…!!!" Bai Yi suddenly roared fiercely, his eyes almost bulging out of his sockets.
Bai Yi's eyes were completely bloodshot, and the colored patterns on his limbs slowly disappeared. Bai Yi's eyes seemed to absorb these colored patterns, forming a circle of strange patterns around his pupils. Everyone just happened to meet with his eyes, and all them seemed to have descended into a world like that in a kaleidoscope, their consciousness lost in an instant.
Bai Yi came alone to the door, looking at the 10 plus gene-fused monsters outside.
Intimidation!
Bai Yi's pupils instantly expanded again, and in the eyes of the gene-fused monsters the colored patterns of Bai Yi's eyes were instantly reflected. The monsters seemed to have seen their worst nightmares, and immediately turned around and ran away in fear and anxiety. Even farther away, those monsters who were still approaching them also seemed to have felt the aura of some primordial beast, instinctually feeling fear and avoided them hurriedly.
Bai Yi turned around, and looked towards a camera inside the prison cell.
"Yeye, are you really not opening the door?" Bai Yi asked.
"I'm sorry, I really want to open the door, but the duty placed on me makes me unable to do so." Yeye's voice came from the air. Honestly speaking, even Yeye's simple autonomous consciousness was very shocked by them.
"There should still be a temporarily safe place here, right? Can you tell me where it is?"
"Walk out from here and follow along the left side of the walkway. In 400 meters there's a passageway, I will open it for you guy. The passageway connects to a small research laboratory, its where the researchers conduct some simple experiments, there should be tools and medicine that you guys need there. However, can you guys reach that place now?" Yeye at this time also seemed to treat herself as one of Bai Yi's team members. However, because Yeye by nature had to follow the programming set by her creators before, she couldn't act according to her own will completely.
"We can, there's no problem." Bai Yi nodded, and patted on the others inside the room.
After looking into Bai Yi's eyes again, the rest of them finally woke up from their daze and stared at Bai Yi in surprise. Bai Yi's eyes, isn't it too magical? It already almost couldn't be explained by reason anymore, a lifeform's evolution, can it really evolve continuously in such a short period of time?
"We will go out, there's a passageway 400 meters away. We will go there to rest first, Yeye will open the door." Bai Yi said to everyone.
Nobody doubted Bai Yi's decision, even if there were still numerous gene-fused monsters outside now. When the bunch of them helped each other to the walkway, they realised that all the gene-fused monsters immediately ran away from Bai Yi after seeing him from afar.
"Bai Yi, your eyes?" Mavis asked.
"Nothing much, just a deeper level of evolution of a lifeform's mimicry, letting me obtain a stronger power." Bai Yi explained dully. But...every piece of strength had its price, and the change in Bai Yi's eyes came from the shock of Hong Qi Hua's death. If he had a choice, Bai Yi would rather not have this power.
Mavis saw that Bai Yi didn't seem to want to continue on this topic, and she also intelligently chose not to continue asking. The group of them safely came to the small laboratory that Yeye mentioned, and the facilities inside were all very complete. Mavis and Heloise who had the lightest injuries, as well as those who still could move began to use the medicine and equipment here to start their treatment.
After Bai Yi entered the room, the colored patterns in his eyes slowly disappeared, but the colored pattern on the hair on his limbs did not return. After confirming that it was safe, Bai Yi finally fell on the bed heavily.
Everyone got alarmed again, but after Mavis checked she spoke to everyone: "There's no problem, Bai Yi's body was just too over-fatigued, and he fell into a deep sleep to recover. Be at ease, his vital signs are very stable, there won't be a situation like just now."
Mavis' explanation finally made everyone let out a breath of relief, so it's just over-exhaustion!
……
When Bai Yi woke up again, it was already 3 days later. When Bai Yi opened his eyes, he realised that it was very dark, terrifyingly dark. Bai Yi stretched out both his hands to try and touch what's around him, and he could be sure that he was lying on top of a bed. However, he couldn't tell anything beyond that because his body was so weak that it felt like it didn't belong to him, he could barely move anything.
Mavis had been taking care of Bai Yi all along, delight went through her heart when she finally saw Bai Yi opening his eyes, but when she saw Bai Yi's movements afterwards, her heart immediately dipped.
She saw this kind of situation in other patients before… loss of sight!
"Bai Yi, are you awake?"
"En, is that Mavis?" Although his expression was very calm, the way he tried to feel around with his hands couldn't escape Mavis' eyes. "Is there light here?" Bai Yi asked.
Mavis' heart ached, not knowing how to reply Bai Yi.
"So it's like that…" Since Mavis didn't reply, Bai Yi could guess the answer. Bai Yi understood his own body the best, the last two transformation and usage of his eyes were utterly abnormal. If one were to say that these transformations did not come with any side-effects to his eyes, Bai Yi wouldn't believe it himself.
"Don't worry, it should be able to recover." Mavis immediately consoled him.
"En." There wasn't much of a change in Bai Yi's expression.
"I'm serious, your blindness is not congenital, but due to over-usage of your eyes. Normally, as long as you have enough rest and let yourself recover, your eyesight should return soon." Mavis explained, and gave Bai Yi a check-up seriously.
This check-up took a few hours, during this period the rest of them also got to know of Bai Yi losing his vision, and they all waited uneasily for the results.
"Relax, Bai Yi's vision did not disappear completely, just that his ability to sense light is very weak now. This definitely has something to do with the transformation of his eyes before. I think that as long as he can master the changes in his body he will be able to regain his sight again. Maybe his eyes will even become completely different from before." Mavis said to the rest of them.
"Hahahahaha, see? What did I say? Bai Yi will never die so easily!" Woolf said boisterously.
"It's just blindness." Heloise reminded.
"En En." Woolf immediately nodded his head. Bai Yi felt a wave of gladness and laughter, did Woolf and Heloise finally get together? Although everyone was a monster now, the feelings between each other wouldn't be estranged just because of appearances.
But, Hong Qi Hua!
Bai Yi did not know where her voice came from then, but Bai Yi could be sure of one thing: that was definitely not his hallucination. Hong Qi Hua, was really dead.
……
"I didn't think that you would still be alive." Yeye looked at the Progenitor in surprise.
"What's so strange about me being still alive?" The Progenitor replied, and in front of her was the naked Hong Qi Hua.
"Nah, it just feels strange. An artificial intelligence that oversees all experimental monsters, and the Progenitor that caused everything. There's actually only the two of us non-human lifeforms left here in this huge research facility." Yeye thought and said. "So, why did you want me to bring Hong Qi Hua's corpse here?"
"I don't know."
"You don't know?" Yeye said in surprise.
"En, I don't know, because I don't know how it would turn out. So, I hope that you can keep this a secret from Bai Yi's group." The Progenitor explained.
"Why must it be kept a secret?"
"I don't know either."
"You're really an idiot, you don't know anything." Yeye was speechless at the Progenitor.
"That's right, I'm really very normal, I have neither the resolution nor the confidence… So, I will place my hopes on them." The progenitor said, and few tentacles stretched out and grabbed hold of Hong Qi Hua's naked body, slowly lowering Hong Qi Hua into her stomach, as her tummy area changed and swallowed Hong Qi Hua whole. After a while, Hong Qi Hua disappeared completely inside the Progenitor. From the looks of it, she seemed just like a pregnant woman.
"I really don't get what you are doing. It's so boring talking with you! You're really about to die, so see you! I'll keep it a secret." Yeye's voice became distant.
"No matter what, I'm also considered… your half-daughter!"
