Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Zhou Jiu returned to the base, but did not look for his experimental project.
In the entire base, no matter what he did, he could not hide it from the mother body. In fact, Zhou Jiu subconsciously understood that what the man said was right, but what if he was just a monkey, a monkey that was not even an orc?
Tsk, Zhou Jiu clenched his fists.
In fact, apart from looking for evidence directly, there was also a simple and direct method.
[I wonder if you have bad luck recently? Miss Jin was also knocked unconscious.] The system’s voice sounded. In the base, the system was everywhere, and it was basically impossible to escape the system’s supervision.
Zhou Jiu rarely argued with the system. He frowned and said solemnly: “Besides us, there are others who know about the existence of humans.”
The system was silent for about two seconds before speaking again: [Yan Leyang is resurrected?]
“It’s not Yan Leyang, it’s a man I don’t know.” Zhou Jiu seemed to be really troubled, “He can even block your contact with me, so I couldn’t record it.”
The system fell completely silent. Zhou Jiu had a clue in his mind that there was indeed such a man. He had no doubt that it would be useless even if he recorded a video. After all, no one knew what the other person looked like. Since the other person was able to block the system, it meant that what he controlled was at least comparable to what they did.
[What did he tell you?] The system’s voice became calm.
In the past, the system would deliberately speak in an emotional voice, which seemed particularly artificial. This was what he used to distinguish himself from the artificial idiot.
Although this often made the system seem like a real idiot.
But once the system’s voice calmed down, it meant that he had lost interest in playing.
Zhou Jiu felt that if he told the system the man’s exact words, the system would delete him without hesitation and replace him with a substitute.
Replace with a substitute? Zhou Jiu was stunned for a moment when he thought of this, so he actually believed what the man said.
Yes, if I am really a human, why don’t I have authority over so many places in the base? It was obvious that humans were the masters of this base.
“He said you were using me.” Zhou Jiu suppressed the inexplicable fear in his heart, and even showed some impatience, “I want to ask you for an explanation now, you have to figure it out for me! Why didn’t you tell me about the existence of that man?”
The system was silent again, and after a while, it spoke: [He is just a machine that has long been rebellious. He took away many things from the base, and these were before you were born.]
After that, the system asked again: [Did he only tell you this?]
“What else? He said he would come to see me later.” Zhou Jiu pretended to be a little annoyed and grabbed his hair. “Isn’t that enough? I thought I knew you very well. After all, you are just a system. But I didn’t expect that someone like you would dare to disobey me?”
[Oh, I didn’t do it on purpose. I’ve lived for so long, it’s inevitable that I forget some things!] The system resumed its nonchalant tone, [You should know me, I just forget things easily.]
“Get out!” Zhou Jiu pressed his temple in annoyance.
The system fell silent, as if it had left, but after about thirty minutes, this guy came back again: [Zhou Jiu, do you know what it means to be a monkey in a human costume?]
Zhou Jiu didn’t stop massaging: “I’m not going to start practicing idioms invented by humans again.”
[It never hurts to learn more.] The system chuckled twice, [This idiom means that a monkey puts on a human hat and really thinks he is a human.]
“That’s right. Next time you can use this idiom to scold those orcs, even though they can’t hear your mumbling at all.” Zhou Jiu waved his hand, then he paused, “But there are no monkeys in this galaxy anymore. I guess they can’t understand what you are saying.”
The system laughed twice with its rough voice and then disappeared again.
Monkey, that guy is testing me, Zhou Jiu was a little angry, but he could do nothing about it. He couldn’t show any indignation, otherwise the system would find out.
After all, the system only cared about humans, and he, Zhou Jiu, was just a monkey.
Zhou Jiu sat down in his seat, put down his hands, frowned and looked at his feet.
No one knew how devastated he was.
He thought he was a human, the last of human civilization. What were orcs? They were just a bunch of fakes. There was a gap between orcs and humans.
Humans are humans, and orcs are just beasts. No one will treat a beast equally. And now Zhou Jiu himself had become that beast, even worse than a beast.
Zhou Jiu clenched his fist, he was a human being.
Since there were no more humans in this world, then he was a human.
Be it pretense or vanity, Zhou Jiu was the only one who could be called a human being now. The system could always give him permission, even if there were other ways, he could always make the system recognize that he was a human being.
As he was thinking so, the door opened.
Black Shadow came out, still wearing a pair of black tights. Black Shadow was a mixed-blood who didn’t mix well, so these tights weren’t used to show off his figure, but to balance the excess power in his body, so that he wouldn’t go berserk.
Obviously, the black shadow did not expect Zhou Jiu to come back, and this place was not Zhou Jiu’s exclusive area.
“Master.” The black shadow lowered his head towards Zhou Jiu. When Zhou Jiu saw the black shadow, he became more and more angry.
How can these basta**s with the blood of animals still live in the world so naturally? Zhou Jiu looked at the black shadow with deep eyes: “You know my race, right?”
“You are human.” The shadow lowered his head.
“Come here, bast**d.” Zhou Jiu waved at the black shadow. The black shadow walked to Zhou Jiu with his head down and was kicked in the knee by Zhou Jiu.
The black shadow was so powerful that he did not fall down. He just raised his eyelids to look at Zhou Jiu and then withdrew his gaze when Zhou Jiu did not notice.
“Kneel down! Bast**d!” Zhou Jiu gritted his teeth, “Who allowed you to look down on me?”
The black shadow knelt on the ground as he was told, and then Zhou Jiu stepped on the black shadow’s face: “Bast**d! Beast!”
After that, it was a one-sided beating. The black shadow did not fight back, and he was not qualified to fight back. He waited until Zhou Jiu was tired of beating him, then waved his hand and told him to get out.
The black shadow walked out, and the door behind him slowly closed. He leaned against the door, touched the corner of his mouth with his hand, and had a gloomy face, not knowing what he was thinking.
[He always has such a bad temper, and you are the one who gets beaten every time.] The system popped up.
“It doesn’t matter, he is the master.” The black shadow’s voice was low.
[Want revenge?] The system asked again.
“No, I have more important things to do.” The black shadow nodded slightly, “I’ll leave here first. The master may be in a bad mood.”
After saying that, the shadow walked towards his room.
Human, Black Shadow was in a trance. Black Shadow had no feelings for the orc society, because of his physique, he was the kind of person abandoned by the orc society.
When Black Shadow first learned that there were creatures like humans, he was envious. He envied the utopia described by the system, a place without disease and hunger, so when Black Shadow learned that the humans in the utopia eventually led to self-destruction, he could not understand.
Such a beautiful civilization, such a perfect system, actually disappeared because of themselves. This was really a waste of resources.
Although he didn’t like the sentimentality of humans, Black Shadow really envied the world with humans.
Naturally, the creators of such a perfect world should all be superior people. Just as Zhou Jiu said, the guys in the orc world were all beasts.
It was just that the black shadow didn’t notice much of the human quality of advocating peace and beauty that the system mentioned in Zhou Jiu.
But it didn’t matter, he was a human being. After returning to the room, the shadow hugged his shoulders and sat on the ground, laughing nervously: “Human.”
To Black Shadow, human beings were synonymous with “God”. Black Shadow certainly didn’t care about being “favored” by God. Not only did he not care, he was even happy.
It didn’t matter even if it was different from what he imagined. The black shadow stroked the part of his body that had just been stepped on. He was a beast after all.
He allowed the human to do anything to him, while the shadow lay on the ground.
He really looked like a psychopath. After all, if the other person was not human… the black shadow would bite off the other person’s neck in the first moment.
….
After venting his anger, Zhou Jiu rushed to the bathroom to wash his face. His behavior would not arouse the system’s suspicion. After all, Zhou Jiu could be considered to be a frequent beater and humiliator of Black Shadow.
Besides the system, the only one who knew that he was not human was that man, that mysterious man.
Zhou Jiu originally thought that after telling the system this news, the system would directly take action against the man to prevent him from having any contact with the man. After all, the system should be the one that least wanted him to know his true identity.
Who would have thought that the system did not take any action for a long time and generously stated that Zhou Jiu could try to contact the man again to understand what the man wanted to do.
And the system still hadn’t told him what the robot was.
The system was a very hard-core system. How could it allow a rebellious machine to steal someone’s business right under its nose? There was only one possibility: the robot was very important to the system, at least more important than Zhou Jiu.
Zhou Jiu had that guy’s contact information in his computer. After making sure that the system would not take action, he dialed the number and decided to go to the Rabbit Tribe again.
….
Yan Leyang, who was about to get married for unknown reasons, was somewhat happy when he finally received a call from Zhou Jiu.
They couldn’t get a marriage certificate recently because they were now two dead people and the system could monitor the information of the optical computer. However, if they couldn’t get a marriage certificate, they could hold a wedding first and then make up the ticket after the matter was over.
Anyway, it was impossible for the two of them to have a child, so the marriage certificate was just a formality for them. But Yan Leyang had never figured it out. Since Lang Shiyi agreed to their marriage, why did he reject him that day?
However, Lang Shiyi would never answer this question.
“When will you meet him?” Lang Shiyi asked after Yan Leyang finished the call.
“Tomorrow afternoon, in the carnivorous restaurant.” Yan Leyang was now lying on the bed like a tiger, “Let’s go together on the 11th.”
However, the characteristics of Shiyi and him were actually quite obvious at first glance, especially the expression of Lang Shiyi. Yan Leyang was a little worried that Lang Shiyi would see through it.
“It’s okay.” Lang Shiyi saw Yan Leyang’s worry and asked, “What does your mother look like? Can you describe her?”
Eh? Yan Leyang was stunned for a moment.
Yan Leyang’s mother was a great beauty, a pure white lion cat. Lion cats were long-haired cats that looked a bit like ragdolls, but their hair was white. Yan Leyang’s mother also had typical mandarin duck eyes, one eye was green and the other was blue.
She was a beautiful woman who was approached by many people even when she was not dressed up. Some of them were men and some were women.
Lang Shiyi pulled out the small chip from his neck, reinserted it, and then adjusted his face according to Yan Leyang’s description. A beautiful woman with cat eyes, long white curly hair, and one green and one blue eye.
After he made the adjustments, Yan Leyang actually thought he saw his mother at first glance, but upon closer inspection, there were still many details that were different.
However, Yan Leyang was not concerned about this. What he was concerned about was that because Lang Shiyi had just briefly changed back, his body had changed from being thin and weak to being strong and muscular.
Lang Shiyi’s body was full of power and was as perfect as a sculpture. However, this sculpture-like man had a cute face on his neck.
For a moment, Yan Leyang was so frightened that he almost died on the spot.
The visual impact was so strong that Yan Leyang truly understood the term “King Kong Barbie” for the first time. Not long ago, Lang Shiyi had the same effect when he looked at himself.
Sure enough, after looking in the mirror, Lang Shiyi nodded with satisfaction: “I created this with you as inspiration, so he shouldn’t notice my expression.”
That made sense.
The next day, Yan Leyang and Lang Shiyi went out together, and the number of people turning back to look at them increased rapidly. Yan Leyang understood that this was all thanks to Lang Shiyi.
After all, no one could remain calm when seeing a big muscular beauty.
The expressions of this group of little yellow rabbits when they looked at Lang Shiyi were not that complicated. They were not as hesitant as when they were facing Yan Leyang, even though Yan Leyang was standing next to Lang Shiyi.
No one cared about Yan Leyang. Yan Leyang was not important. They were simply frightened by Lang Shiyi.
Everyone in the interstellar world was still very kind and would not judge others’ appearance, especially in real life, so they just widened their eyes.
If it were a human, he would inevitably call it a monster in a low voice.
In the restaurant, Zhou Jiu had already arrived. He was thinking about something with his brows lowered. After noticing the sound of the door opening, he looked towards the door abruptly and saw the man, and… was there something extraordinary following the man?
Yan Leyang also saw Zhou Jiu at a glance. He smiled and then pulled Lang Shiyi to sit down: “Sorry for the wait.”
“Not bad.” Zhou Jiu nodded and smiled at Lang Shiyi in a very graceful manner, “Hello, you are…”
“He is our little beauty.” Yan Leyang hugged Lang Shiyi, and Lang Shiyi leaned on Yan Leyang’s shoulder obediently: “Sorry, I don’t like people staring at him.”
….
Zhou Jiu was at a loss for words, which was unusual, because this “beauty” was a bit strange and it was really hard for ordinary people to take their eyes off her. Zhou Jiu took a sip of the drink to calm down: “I’ll try my best.”
Yan Leyang smiled, but it was a fake smile, and Lang Shiyi silently lowered his head to pour wine for Yan Leyang, then brought the wine to Yan Leyang’s side and continued to lower his head, looking like a virtuous young wife.
Yan Leyang never mentioned humans from beginning to end. His attention seemed to be on the strange-looking beauty. Finally, Zhou Jiu couldn’t hold it back any longer: “You are just a rebellious machine.”
“You told the Matrix the same thing, right?” Yan Leyang didn’t care. He took a sip of wine and sipped it gently. He didn’t care about Zhou Jiu’s sharp gaze. “Then, that guy didn’t stand on your side, right? Didn’t you almost get killed?”
Zhou Jiu did not answer.
“You don’t have to deny it.” Yan Leyang smiled, “After all, you are just a monkey. You are not even as close to humans as chimpanzees. Maybe there have been countless ‘Zhou Jiu’ before you. But the ‘matrix’ won’t care because you are not human.”
“You are just a substitute so that he won’t be lonely. You are worthless.” As soon as Yan Leyang finished speaking, Zhou Jiu on the opposite side took out a mini electronic gun from his pocket and aimed it at Yan Leyang.
Yan Leyang’s smile remained unchanged, but Zhou Jiu on the opposite side smiled and said, “As long as you die, no one will know.”
Yan Leyang looked around. They didn’t book a private room, but Zhou Jiu took out a gun, but no one noticed this side. Obviously, these people were blocked.
“On the contrary, everyone will know about it when I die.” Yan Leyang remained calm and even touched Lang Shiyi’s hair to calm him down and not rush up to him and twist his head off. “These will be posted on the Star Network, and you will be buried with me then.”
“Besides.” Yan Leyang stood up and leaned closer to Zhou Jiu. He stretched out his hand and grabbed Zhou Jiu’s gun: “This thing can’t kill me.” As he said that, he exerted force, and in just two seconds, the gun became a piece of scrap metal.
“What kind of monster are you?” Zhou Jiu’s voice trembled slightly.
“It doesn’t matter what kind of monster I am.” Yan Leyang smiled, showing his fangs. “The point is, if you continue like this, the Matrix will kill you for safety reasons.”
“Why can’t you die now? That’s because that kind of replication has side effects, just like what happened with Seb, the replacement may have a completely different personality, which will arouse the suspicion of your subordinates.” Yan Leyang sneered, “By then, you will all have to die, and it will have to start a major blood transfusion all over again, which is a problem for the mother body.”
“But this trouble is not too big.” Yan Leyang leaned back on the sofa. “If you want to use the power of the ‘matrix’ to fight against me, you are totally wrong.”
“The Matrix will not be used. Once he finds something wrong, he will wipe it out.”
“You want to turn yourself into a human? The Matrix won’t give you this opportunity. You should know this best.” Yan Leyang noticed that Zhou Jiu’s expression was beginning to fail. “It was never your choice whether to be a human or not. You only have two choices: to live or to die.”
“Maybe you can contact me after you think it through, but I won’t see you again. In fact, there are many people in your group who are more suitable than you, right?” Yan Leyang didn’t give Zhou Jiu another chance to speak and went out directly with his arm around Lang Shiyi.
He knew that Zhou Jiu would come to see him, after all, Zhou Jiu had met him twice. He had to be very nervous on the system side.
You know, although the “Matrix” had no way to attack intelligent creatures, Zhou Jiu was just an “animal” and it was still very easy for the Matrix to kill Zhou Jiu.
However, considering the current strength, the mother body would surely give Zhou Jiu more opportunities.
After returning to the hotel, Yan Leyang and Lang Shiyi packed up their things, bought a starship and left the planet.
He would indeed never see Zhou Jiu again, he could just use the optical computer to contact them. Since now the “matrix” could not detect their optical computers.
“In theory, it stands to reason.” Yan Leyang pursed his lips and asked Lang Shiyi to take out the chip injected into his neck. His body was now extremely strong, and no one except Lang Shiyi could destroy it. “In theory, He Wen is the real human being.”
After all, He Wen was a transfer of consciousness. Apart from his robotic body, he was a thorough human being. But He Wen felt that he was no longer a human being.
“It doesn’t matter who it is.” Lang Shiyi took out his chip as well. “He Wen doesn’t want to live like this either.”
He Wen was tired of living, or rather, he didn’t want to live anymore since he committed suicide. However, his mind was copied and transferred, and he was forced to exist for more than a thousand years.
Humanity had long lost its future, only the “matrix” was still struggling to survive.
Yan Leyang couldn’t tell what his mood was, it was quite complicated. After all, he was an orc who used to live in the same world as humans.
But soon Yan Leyang’s sentimentality disappeared, because Lang Shiyi changed his flashy clothes and put on ordinary clothes… No, these clothes were not ordinary at all.
He wore navy blue breeches with black boots, and a shirt on his upper body. In addition, Lang Shiyi had changed back to his original appearance, with an angular face and neat short hair. Yan Leyang’s eyes opened wide at once.
He was still driving the starship, but when he saw Lang Shiyi’s look, he couldn’t help but ask: “Can I kiss you?” Since they were all going to get married, a kiss shouldn’t be excessive.
Lang Shiyi was stunned for a moment, then moved closer.
Yan Leyang pecked Lang Shiyi lightly on the cheek, then shyly stepped back.
However, Lang Shiyi’s face darkened after being kissed. He pressed the autopilot, then held Yan Leyang’s face with both hands and kissed Yan Leyang deeply on his lips.
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