Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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“To be honest, I thought you wouldn’t come to see me.” Black Shadow smiled when he saw Yan Leyang. It was the first time Yan Leyang saw Black Shadow smile.
Before this, he always thought that Black Shadow was the same type as Lang Shiyi, but it turned out that they were not, because Lang Shiyi was cute when he smiled, while Black Shadow looked perverted, that was… very perverted.
Black Shadow was smiling, but no one knew how he did it. The corners of his mouth were raised, but his eyes had no curve at all, which made him look a little scary.
Unlike Lang Shiyi, although Lang Shiyi’s smile was small, anyone could sense that he was happy at that time.
So Yan Leyang commented very objectively: “You look disgusting when you smile, and if you smile at me, my lover might get jealous.”
“I understand.” Black Shadow made a gesture to Yan Leyang to sit down. Yan Leyang sat down opposite Black Shadow, looked at the table full of food in front of him, and sighed.
Yan Leyang picked up the chopsticks but did not touch the food: “It feels familiar. The last time we met here was when Zhou Jiu wanted to give you to me.”
Black Shadow smiled and nodded, not caring whether he was given or not: “At that time, I really didn’t care, even if I was given to you.”
Yan Leyang raised his eyebrows: “You mean it matters now?”
“Of course, I don’t want to be handed over to someone else by a monkey. I don’t need a fake and inferior master.” Black Shadow smiled and said a sentence with a huge amount of information. Yan Leyang was even stunned.
In fact, he didn’t expect that Black Shadow would know so much. Yan Leyang took a deep breath: “Then what are you going to do?”
“Hold still for now. If the Matrix can really create humans, then I will kill him.” Black Shadow licked his lips. “He is not even a human being.”
“Then what is a human?” Yan Leyang asked again, and Black Shadow was stunned.
“Someone who is born human, or becomes human later in life?” Yan Leyang tapped the plate with his chopsticks. “You should know that the ‘perfect’ human civilization in your eyes also evolved from backwardness. No one is born noble.”
“You really know a lot.” Black Shadow smiled even more sincerely, “You know a lot about human society?”
“No, I don’t understand the human society here.” Yan Leyang leaned back in his chair, “You can think of me as a being from a parallel universe.”
“I’ve heard of this theory.” Black Shadow nodded.
Yan Leyang smiled and said, “I don’t know how I came to this world, but there are indeed humans in my own world.”
“I exist in a world where humans are not developed.” Yan Leyang looked up at the ceiling. “We haven’t left the stars. We are just enjoying the universe.”
Yan Leyang hummed and continued, “We imagine that there are aliens outside the universe, and one day we will establish contact with them. More than a decade ago, we had popular movies with robots as the protagonists.”
Black Shadow listened in silence, with his hands clasped together on the table.
“People at that time would wonder if human civilization was just a breeding ground for a mechanical civilization. Although they couldn’t create robots like those in the movies, humans began to think about this issue early on.” Yan Leyang shrugged, “Anyway, they didn’t figure it out until I came to this world. Instead, mechanical movies became less and less popular.”
“But my roommate in college didn’t think it mattered.” Yan Leyang smiled, “He asked me a question at the time, ‘If that life can even create civilization and have emotions, then what’s the difference between it and humans?”
“Brother, the genetics thing should have been eliminated in our world long ago.” Yan Leyang pointed to his head, “You guys in the interstellar world are all atheistic materialists, but you are creating a god for yourself.”
“Have you ever seen humans?” Yan Leyang asked again.
Black Shadow opened his mouth but no words came out. He indeed had never seen one before, since Zhou Jiu was just a fake human being.
“I’ve seen them.” Yan Leyang sat on the chair, “both good and bad.”
“Have you read my novel about raising cats? Do you think the human world is particularly beautiful?” Yan Leyang asked again, “Then do you know that some humans have antisocial personalities? They trample on cats’ heads with high heels and throw dogs off tall buildings.”
“They are in their 50s and still don’t have a job. They rely on their parents for food and clothing. They are irritable and easily angered. They also like to hide behind the Internet to attack strangers. They are so easily incited.”
Yan Leyang said this and pointed at himself: “It’s the same as us.”
“I don’t hate humans, nor will I blindly worship them.” Yan Leyang smiled, “Because they are the same as us.”
“What’s funny is that you worship humans so much, but before the beastmen appeared, some people believed that humans were the original sin.” Yan Leyang shrugged, “Because they evolved too quickly, they had more empathy, just like the beastmen now.”
“There is no difference between us. If you insist… the only difference is we can turn into animals, right?” Yan Leyang even found himself laughing when he said this. “The development of you beastmen must have been driven by humans. Otherwise, why do you call yourselves men?”
Black Shadow’s hand seemed to move.
Yan Leyang added: “But they didn’t try to turn you into humans completely, like the current bullshit Matrix Advent plan. You know what I mean.”
“But these are just your imaginations.” Black Shadow sneered, “You have human blood, so of course you think there is no difference.”
Good man, that doesn’t make sense. Yan Leyang sighed, and he reached out and touched his chin: “To be honest, I actually hate to talk about bullsh*t equality for all, because people are born unequal, including us animals.”
Black Shadow kept smiling and let Yan Leyang continue speaking. Perhaps it was because Yan Leyang had human genes, or perhaps it was because of something else, Black Shadow seemed particularly patient.
“We have an old movie there. I remember it very clearly. My grandma took me to watch it.” Yan Leyang licked his lips and continued, “Black and white movies have no color and are only projected on a screen. They are purely flat.”
“Unbelievable.” Black Shadow commented, “The place you are in is really very backward.”
“You’re right.” Yan Leyang nodded. “That movie tells a story about a woman in the old days who was tricked into a brothel. There was also a vicious madam who talked nonsense. I think the ‘matrix’ is very similar to that madam.”
“Are you scolding me?” Black Shadow asked with a smile. The mother body is the madam, so what were they, who worked under the madam, doing? It went without saying.
Yan Leyang waved his hands: “No, no, no, just listen to me.”
“The vicious madam deceived those girls and some were even killed by her. If you think about it carefully, isn’t she very similar to you?”
Even though Black Shadow didn’t have a good temper, he could feel the veins throbbing under his temples at this moment. He wanted to trick Yan Leyang into talking, but he always felt that Yan Leyang was scolding him in a roundabout way.
“Later, the light of righteousness shone in, and the girls were liberated.” Yan Leyang put his hands together on the dining table, “Then they had a new life of their own.”
“So what you mean is,” Black Shadow called Yan Leyang “you,” not out of respect, but because he was really impatient, “as long as I abandon the vicious madam, I can have a bright future like those girls? A wonderful new life?”
“This is such a heart-warming fairy tale.” Black Shadow praised without emotion.
“Well, no. I don’t know whether you can have a new life.” Yan Leyang changed the subject again, “I just like a line in the movie.”
Black Shadow raised an eyebrow, indicating that he was willing to hear more details.
“Stand up, don’t kneel.” Yan Leyang said: “I like this sentence very much.”
“Stand up like a human being. You have all called yourself a human being for such a long time. There is no need to kneel down like an animal.” Yan Leyang pointed at Black Shadow: “Of course I will not use those girls to compare you. They have much more dignity than you.”
“They are worthy of respect, and I just want to scold you.” Yan Leyang smiled with his tiger teeth, “I am not a person who is good at speaking and can persuade people to turn back from their mistakes. I just look down on you.”
“Don’t try to create a god, and don’t use my thin bloodline to make a fuss, you bast**d.”
….
Teacher Bai led Lang Shiyi inside and said, “Are you sure the mecha needs to be further strengthened? This is already one of the most powerful mechas in the interstellar space.”
Teacher Bai took Lang Shiyi to the elevator, which went directly to the eleventh floor. When they got out of the elevator, they stepped on a circular corridor and faced the huge head of the mecha.
“This mecha is twelve meters tall. Look at its shell.” Teacher Bai pointed at the mecha’s eyes and said, “This material is definitely the strongest available today…”
Before he could finish his words, he heard a loud bang.
The mecha’s eye was hit. Lang Shiyi took back the gun on his arm and put down his arm in front of Teacher Bai’s stunned eyes: “It still needs to be strengthened.”
Teacher Bai was stunned for a long time, and finally could only utter: “Wow, incredible, I am very interested in your body now.”
“Don’t say things that could lead to misunderstandings.” Lang Shiyi walked around the circular corridor and the mecha. “Do you mind letting me participate in the transformation of the mecha?”
“You can also do this?” Teacher Bai was even more surprised this time.
“A little bit.” Lang Shiyi was an all-rounder, and He Wen didn’t mind Lang Shiyi learning knowledge from humans, so strictly speaking, Lang Shiyi’s power may be much stronger than Teacher Bai.
But after all, he didn’t often come into contact with this type of driving mecha, so the rationality of some aspects still needed Teacher Bai’s suggestions. However, if he used this mecha to make modifications, it probably won’t take much time.
“Yan Leyang’s physical data has changed a lot now.” Lang Shiyi reminded. Teacher Bai was stunned for a moment: “Should we test it again?”
“No, I know his physical fitness very well.” Lang Shiyi rejected Teacher Bai’s request.
“Know well?” Teacher Bai blinked in confusion, then nodded as if suddenly realizing something. “Yes, I understand. You should understand him very well. Well, he is your lover after all.”
“Husband.” Lang Shiyi corrected.
“Okay, husband.” Teacher Bai readily agreed.
“Don’t call me husband.” Lang Shiyi was a little disgusted. Teacher Bai shrugged: “I just said what you said. I have no ill intentions. You know that.”
“How’s the situation, with Your Majesty?” Lang Shiyi asked as he checked the data of the mecha nearby.
“Oh? His Majesty has united several trustworthy races… It is said that there are quite a lot of races. It is estimated that in the next two days, the existence of human beings will be announced, and at the same time it will be announced that there are no such creatures as human beings in this world.” Teacher Bai took out the thermos cup hanging by his leg and took a sip.
“Actually, I’m very curious about what the mother body is going to do.” Teacher Bai frowned in confusion, “Humanity has already become extinct.”
“I’m not sure.” Lang Shiyi didn’t really understand this. While he was talking, his light brain suddenly flashed, and it was a message from He Wen.
Lang Shiyi was stunned for a moment: “The mother body’s position has been located.”
“Oh?”
“But Zhou Jiu was captured by the mother body.” Lang Shiyi licked his lips, “Don’t worry about it for now, let’s talk about it after we modify the mecha.”
“Oh, by the way, let’s add another position inside the mecha.” Lang Shiyi suddenly suggested.
“Huh?” Teacher Bai was still chewing wolfberries. “Who is this for?”
“For me. I don’t trust him to be alone.” Lang Shiyi said confidently, “My ability is not much worse than his.”
“Okay.” Teacher Bai shrugged. It was useless for him to stop him. “So what do you think of this spray paint?”
Lang Shiyi looked around: “Is this spray paint black?”
“Yes, it looks better this way, but Yan Leyang’s body is black and yellow, so we can add a layer of yellow later.” Teacher Bai explained, “This mecha can switch between human and animal forms, but the yellow and black in human form looks a bit strange.”
“Of course not.” Lang Shiyi frowned, “The yellow and black look is very handsome, but it doesn’t suit Yan Leyang. Yan Leyang should be cute.”
Cute? Teacher Bai expressed doubts. He still couldn’t forget the heroic look of Yan Leyang when he broke the bull’s head. He would still be scared in his dreams at midnight. How on earth could this thing be associated with cuteness?
If Yan Leyang wasn’t cute, how could he have deceived him so many times? Lang Shiyi was also helpless.
Yan Leyang’s strength had increased so much now, but in Lang Shiyi’s eyes, Yan Leyang was still that pitiful little cutie who would frown and cry at any time.
Although Lang Shiyi had only seen Yan Leyang like this in bed, in Lang Shiyi’s opinion, Yan Leyang was not handsome at all: “Change the coating.”
“Okay, this is easy.”
….
“You were abandoned by your parents, right? They didn’t want you, right? But is the mother body really sincere to you?”
Black Shadow looked at his hands, recalling Yan Leyang’s words.
“They abandoned you. It wasn’t your fault. They brought you into this world without permission and then abandoned you without permission.” Yan Leyang seemed to be smiling at that time.
“It’s understandable that you want to choose to submit to the Matrix. I’m curious, your mother is not dead, right?”
“What are you trying to prove? Prove that they made the wrong choice by abandoning you?”
“Do you imagine humans as your parents? Because of that warm, desirable uniform, that world, even if you become a beast, you want to keep the gentleness in your imagination?”
Yan Leyang spoke very slowly at that time, as if he was deliberately trying to make it possible for Black Shadow to hear clearly.
He said Black Shadow was a child who burned everything to avenge his parents, to prove that his parents were wrong. But Black Shadow never grew up.
Never grew up? Black Shadow clenched his fists, his breathing a little unsteady.
How to prove it? How to prove it… He was clearly here to get Yan Leyang to talk, but Yan Leyang made him feel uneasy.
Why not kill her, kill that so called mother?!
[What did he say?] Almost at the moment when Black Shadow boarded the starship, the voice of the Matrix came over.
“He scolded me.” Black Shadow subconsciously avoided the main point, “Maybe he wanted to beat me up, but I came out early.”
[He is indeed a very manic guy.] The Matrix did not express its own opinion, [What are you going to do now?]
“Look at that woman.” Black Shadow reached out and pressed his head.
When he was in a bad mood, he always liked to see that woman. It seemed that seeing the once powerful woman lying in bed unable to do anything would make him happy.
He liked this feeling.
The Matrix didn’t say anything. The recent troubles were enough to overwhelm it, and it didn’t have time to test these further.
“Did you take Zhou Jiu back?” Black Shadow asked again.
[Yes, he should be punished, but I will not kill him for the time being.] Since it was planning to descend, the mother body did not have the extra power to make a large space jump for the time being.
Black Shadow nodded.
After landing, he walked straight into the woman’s ward, where there was another person sitting.
A young man, or rather, Black Shadow’s younger brother, but he was different from him. He did not have any congenital defects, so he stayed with the woman and even had a proper name.
The boy stood up immediately after seeing Black Shadow: “Brother.”
After calling him, the boy subconsciously stood between Black Shadow and the bed.
“What are you afraid of?” Black Shadow’s tone was quite kind. “She is our mother, right?”
The boy did not respond, but his body was still trembling. Black Shadow reached out and patted his shoulder: “No one would harm their mother, just like no mother would abandon her child.”
“Before I appeared, you didn’t even know I existed.” Black Shadow approached suddenly, scaring the young man so much that he screamed and fell to the ground.
Black Shadow couldn’t help laughing out loud. He looked at the fragile, indecisive boy on the ground, who was completely opposite to him, and sneered, feeling annoyed.
He never needed to prove anything to anyone. He didn’t have long to live anyway. He just wanted to take all of this, all of it.
Be buried with the deceased.
He didn’t need dignity or anything like that. Even if he proved it, the woman lying on the bed couldn’t see it.
Why did Yan Leyang say that he was proving something? Why did he make him sound so pitiful? He was not a child begging for attention, he was just an Avenger, a bast**d who cooperated with the Matrix.
After driving the boy out, Black Shadow stared at the woman for a long time. He wanted to kill her, but in the end, he gave up. He still did nothing and pushed the door open to go out.
No, he didn’t need to prove anything to anyone.
[What are you going to do?] His light brain popped up automatically.
“I’m a little angry. I’ll try to kill those guys who make me irritated.” Black Shadow reached out and injected the chip into himself. “You know who I’m talking about.”
[Yan Leyang can’t be touched.] The Matrix reminded, [He has human blood and is a descendant of humans. If you do anything to him, my program will stop you, even though this is not my wish.]
God knows the Matrix wished Yan Leyang dead, because Yan Leyang’s existence proved that humans had had a relationship with such strange creatures as beastmen. This was something the Matrix could not tolerate.
“Oh, I’ll try my best. You should also restrain yourself.” Black Shadow patted his suit. “Will I be discovered?”
[I can’t find He Wen’s presence here. If you let me help, they certainly can’t find you either. Oh, you have to stay away from He Wen. If you get too close to him, you’ll be discovered.] The mother body reminded again.
[However, he probably won’t leave his base, but I can’t be sure, considering we may be at loggerheads recently.]
“I understand.” Black Shadow put on his clothes, “I should be back soon.”
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