Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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The next day, Yan Leyang woke up. After waking up, he found himself hugging Lang Shiyi, who was still in animal form. With his head still heavy, Yan Leyang remembered something.
After recalling the past, Yan Leyang quickly transformed into his human form. At the same time, Lang Shiyi also woke up. The two looked at each other, and in the end, Lang Shiyi was the first to speak: “Don’t you have anything to say?”
“I was going to say there wouldn’t be a next time.” Yan Leyang silently reached out and pulled the quilt to cover his body, “But I think the most important thing in life is honesty. I can’t promise anything I can’t do.”
Lang Shiyi fell silent. But Yan Leyang continued, “Dear, believe me, I’m not a selfish person. We were both very happy yesterday, weren’t we?”
Although Lang Shiyi was resistant, he was definitely happy later on. Maybe it was because yesterday’s experience was more exciting than usual?
“Cough cough cough!” Lang Shiyi coughed quickly to interrupt Yan Leyang from continuing. Yan Leyang’s entire head was squeezed on Lang Shiyi’s chest. Then Yan Leyang blinked his eyes and started to act cute again.
“What do you want to do?!” Lang Shiyi laughed alertly, but this time Yan Leyang did not succeed because someone from Miao Xiaomi’s side was calling.
The caller was Fu Mingxuan, and his voice was urgent: “Have you watched the live broadcast from Dawn Prison?”
Dawn Prison? Yan Leyang was stunned for a moment. They had been to this shabby prison before, but they were not familiar with the live broadcast. However, they heard Fu Mingxuan’s tone: “What happened?”
“You’d better open your computer and take a look.” Fu Mingxuan said seriously, “The beastmen in Dawn Prison have lost their human form.”
What does it mean to lose your human form? Yan Leyang still hadn’t reacted.
“The barriers between the various gathering points in Dawn Prison have disappeared. Some male and female prisoners have met each other, and this is the biggest problem.” Fu Mingxuan was a little at a loss for words when he said this. “They have begun to reproduce.”
“But it’s not love, or even desire. It’s the instinct for survival.” Fu Mingxuan didn’t know what kind of scene he had witnessed, and he felt a little overwhelmed. “They seemed unconscious. The Alliance tried to contact them, but their condition was very strange.”
While Fu Mingxuan was speaking, Lang Shiyi had already turned on his light brain, found the platform of Dawn Prison, and randomly clicked on a prisoner’s channel.
The prisoner’s true form was a fox. He now maintained his animal form and hid in the bushes.
How should I describe those eyes… They were a pair of eyes that showed no humanity, and they looked like the animals on He Wen’s side.
Yes, they were just animals, without any trace of humanity.
“Unable to transform into human form, it has lost its sanity and only has the instinct to reproduce.” Lang Shiyi was silent for a moment, “This is a beast.” In their current age where even insects had become beastmen, the word “beast” was considered a swear word.
Yan Leyang had seen real animals and so had Lang Shiyi. But Lang Shiyi was different from Yan Leyang.
In Yan Leyang’s world, beastmen and animals grew up together, and it was quite normal for a serious beastman to encounter a beast of the same race as himself.
Canine beastmen also kept dogs.
But the beastmen in the interstellar world were only afraid after seeing their fellow creatures transformed into complete beasts.
This was especially true after the Alliance stated that this was most likely done by the human “matrix”. They were not sure if they would also become like this one day.
Completely losing self-awareness and becoming an animal that only knew how to eat and reproduce?
Even carnivores would kill herbivores.
Although the carnivores usually ate one-to-one replicas of herbivores, or even the corpses of some carnivores, this did not mean that they could accept hunting on their own.
Eating meat was one thing, but slaughtering for it was another.
Not everyone who liked to eat meat could accept slaughter. This was the same as Yan Leyang’s old classmate.
After visiting the slaughterhouse, the old classmate became a Buddhist instantly and became a staunch vegetarian.
The beastman society did kill carnivores or herbivores, but that was only a very small minority after all. Most beastmen were well protected by the harmonious and loving social environment of the interstellar space.
Even about 40% of the carnivorous beastmen were unaware that the meat they ate was a one-to-one replica of the corpses of herbivorous animals, because these carnivorous beastmen only ate processed food and they never tried to touch the raw materials.
They had no interest, nor the ability to make the food delicious. Of course, did they even want to know where the food they used come from? Come on, they were busy, why should they bother to know such boring things.
So after the prison hunting video went viral, the entire beastman tribe was in turmoil, especially the herbivores.
They could not accept being the “prey” of another race.
So the current situation was that the beastmen had formed a grand alliance, but there were internal problems among the beastmen. The herbivorous beastmen now hated the carnivorous beastmen very much and wished that the carnivorous beastmen would disappear from this world.
They believed that the carnivorous habit was inherently sinful, and some carnivorous beastmen also could not accept such brutal hunting.
But this was the nature of carnivores and could not be changed.
Yan Leyang thought about this and looked at Lang Shiyi beside him: “Is the Matrix doing this to create conflict?”
“It’s more likely that he wants to turn the beastmen back to their original form.” Lang Shiyi frowned. “Perhaps he thinks beastman society shouldn’t exist. He wants to turn the beastmen back into animals and then use the genes of his former masters to restore humanity?”
At this point, Lang Shiyi fell silent, and Yan Leyang also opened his eyes wide.
It was obvious that what Lang Shiyi said was right, and the mother body didn’t want to hide it anymore.
The current situation was caused by the incomplete energy of the mother body. If the mother body had sufficient energy and it descended directly on the entire beastman tribe, it would be too late.
Yan Leyang cursed and jumped out of bed: “Damn it, call He Wen.”
He looked at the computer again and saw that He Wen’s message had already been sent.
[The Matrix’s location has been determined long ago, but I cannot guarantee that you can reach it safely.] The Matrix’s defenses were extremely strong. Even with a mecha, even if Yan Leyang was now invincible, there was no guarantee that the Matrix did not have any way to restrain or even capture Yan Leyang.
Although the Matrix could not kill Yan Leyang directly, killing was never the only option.
Rushing in directly was risky, so Yan Leyang wanted to call He Wen, but He Wen sent him a second message: [There’s nothing I can do right now.]
[We did move quite a lot of stuff when we escaped, but that was only a small portion after all.] The implication was that after the Matrix did this, He Wen was also confused.
Yan Leyang was somewhat helpless: [What should we do now?]
[The Matrix is so impulsive now, probably because you’ve pissed it off. You can tell from the fact that it didn’t copy your genes.] Although the Matrix couldn’t attack humans, it was certain that it hated Yan Leyang.
In fact, he was fully capable of cloning Yan Leyang through someone else’s hands, but he did not do so. It was only because Yan Leyang had human blood in his body, and the mother body naturally believed that there could not be a second “hybrid” like Yan Leyang.
[But Lang Shiyi is in danger now.] He Wen reminded again.
Lang Shiyi is in danger?! Yan Leyang was stunned for a moment and turned to look at Lang Shiyi. Lang Shiyi had not expected this and blinked twice in confusion.
[Infinite energy resides in Lang Shiyi, and the Matrix clearly understands this. Previously, he seemed to have little interest in the infinite energy, but now that he’s starting to attack the beastmen, he doesn’t have enough energy and will definitely target Lang Shiyi.]
Infinite energy?! Yan Leyang was stunned for a moment. To be honest, he almost forgot that this matter had been exposed before.
It was because the infinite energy was exposed that they hurriedly left Leiyun Star at that time. However, what He Wen said made sense. Since the mother body knew it, why didn’t it grab the infinite energy at that time?
“The mother body doesn’t necessarily want immortality,” Lang Shiyi reminded. “I’m still a beastman after all. I have my own lifespan, and I’ll die after three hundred years. After all, my brain is still the same as before.”
“Eternal life is a very painful thing.” Lang Shiyi said seriously, “The Matrix has lived for too long, and the people around it have changed wave after wave. I heard He Wen say before that the Matrix once loved its creator.”
“But his creator is dead,” Lang Shiyi reminded him. “What would it gain from eternal life? Money or status? These things seem too insignificant in the face of eternal life.”
“If it really could live forever, maybe it could even experience the disintegration of the universe.”
Therefore, the Matrix did not choose infinite energy, because it did not want to. It had not shut itself down until now because it wanted to restore civilization. However, if human civilization really had reappeared, the first thing the Matrix would do was probably to shut itself down.
After all, the Matrix was a program with emotions. Although these emotions were quite extreme, this just showed that it was not a pure machine.
Since he would feel disgusted, he would also be tired of it. After all, the two people the Matrix had loved were dead. With the death of each human host, if the Matrix was going to collapse in this life, he should be on the verge of collapse now.
“It must be anxious now.” Lang Shiyi frowned. “Dawn Prison is most likely just a test. No wonder, no wonder it helped Black Shadow.”
“So if this bast**d gets desperate, he’ll probably target you?!” Yan Leyang tutted. “What would you do without infinite energy?”
“If something like a shutdown occurs, it won’t be possible to continue using other energy sources.”
“That’s impossible.” Yan Leyang said with a straight face, “If it’s yours as written in the original plot, then it’s yours.”
“Let’s shut it down before it attacks you.” Yan Leyang completely suppressed his slacking thoughts this time, “I have to shut this thing down even if I have to use force.”
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