Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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“The Matrix didn’t kill you.” Fu Mingxuan couldn’t help but tease when he came to look at the Black Shadow.
In fact, now that the Matrix had finally taken action, they also understood what the hell the Matrix was going to do. Fu Mingxuan came here just to sound out the clues from Black Shadow.
While the Black Shadow was still alive.
That’s right, he was not dead yet. Who knows what the Matrix has put in Black Shadow’s body? It’s quite remarkable that Black Shadow didn’t self-destruct when he was caught.
The black shadow ignored Fu Mingxuan. Fu Mingxuan just smiled and called out to the door, “Mr. Yuan, please come in.”
Mr. Yuan? The Black Shadow was stunned for a moment, then turned his head to look. Sure enough, he saw his half-brother, the one who was completely different from him.
Probably because as a panda, this guy was too round when he was born, so his name was Yuan Yuan, which sounded like a joke and had no meaning.
Oh no, there was still meaning, after all, it was that woman’s love for him.
“What did you ask him to do?” Black Shadow laughed. “Are you planning to provoke me? Then why not get Yan Leyang over here? Maybe you can let me fight him one-on-one. When I’m in a better mood, I’ll tell you something.”
The Black Shadow really wanted to kill Yan Leyang. It was the kind of thing where he was fine at first after he was scolded, but when he got home, the more he thought about it, the angrier he got, and finally he couldn’t help but want to smash this guy’s head off.
“Then you might be beaten to death by him.” Fu Mingxuan punctured his fantasy, “You were beaten into this by him, have you forgotten?”
Yuan Yuan felt a little awkward after entering. There was a laser cage between him and the Black Shadow. After the Black Shadow finished speaking, he spoke cautiously: “Brother.”
“Stop pretending. Calling me brother is so awkward.” Black Shadow didn’t want to see him at all. “Can you take this guy away?”
Fu Mingxuan didn’t respond, so Yuan Yuan quickly said, “I came here to persuade you.”
Black Shadow looked at him without saying a word. He shifted his posture, not wanting to accept some bullsh*t apology, but simply wanting to see what kind of bullsh*t this guy was going to spout.
“Me, me, me.” Yuan Yuan looked around in a panic.
In fact, Yuan Yuan really hated Black Shadow at the beginning. He knew that his mother’s coma was caused by this guy. This disgust lasted until he found out that Black Shadow was his half-brother.
He still disliked him, but he could no longer completely hate him.
The fact was, Yuan Yuan’s mother abandoned Black Shadow and gave all her love to Yuan Yuan. Before that, he didn’t even know that he actually had a brother.
“Is the clichéd plot about to begin?” Black Shadow suddenly asked.
Yuan Yuan didn’t react: “What?”
“I’m talking about that clichéd plot.” Black Shadow returned to his usual expressionless look as he spoke, just like when he first met Yan Leyang. “It’s always like this. A happy-go-lucky naïve guy like you will melt the heart of a gutter-raised guy like me. That’s what literature always says.”
“I don’t know what you saw, but reality is reality. The reality is that your mother was almost killed by me, and strictly speaking, we have an irreconcilable relationship.” Black Shadow shrugged.
“Don’t play some bullsh*t brotherly love drama with me. There’s no such relationship between us.”
Yuan Yuan fell silent.
He wanted to refute, but after thinking it over, he had to admit that Black Shadow was right. He still didn’t like Black Shadow. Black Shadow was his brother, and at the same time, he was an outsider who destroyed his original family environment. No one would like such an outsider.
“Thinking about it, it’s really unlikely that I’d like someone like you.” Yuan Yuan sat on the ground. “I don’t have any big goals. I just want to live a life of idleness and wait for death.”
“And what I hate most is people like you, even if you were not my brother.” Yuan Yuan smiled. “You’re much better than me. If there was a choice, Mother might have preferred you to be the healthy one.”
“You are very capable, although as of now, your capability has not been used in the so-called right way.” There was actually no such thing as blood relationship between brothers.
At least they didn’t have that before. One of them was a great white shark, the other was a giant panda. Although they were born to the same mother, their species and even their living environments were different.
One lived in the sea, the other on land. Yuan Yuan just wanted to live a life of idleness and wait for death, while Black Shadow wanted to drag everyone in the world down with him to be buried with him.
A giant panda living in an ivory tower could not convince a great white shark that swam out from the depths of the sea of blood for revenge. He could not even find a reliable point to support his own ideas.
“Do you need me to take you out?” Fu Mingxuan asked, “I don’t think we can get anything out of him now.”
“No, I want to stay here.” Yuan Yuan looked at the Black Shadow.
The Black Shadow was a little sleepy now and did not react after hearing Yuan Yuan’s words.
Fu Mingxuan nodded to show that he understood, then walked out the door, closed the cell, and left after saying only one sentence: “Call us if you need us.”
“Mother is dead.” Yuan Yuan suddenly said.
A feeling of fatigue came over him, and the Black Shadow felt very sleepy, but his mind was suddenly awakened.
“She woke up not long after you were caught. That’s quite interesting. She was clearly diagnosed as brain dead, so I wonder if you did something to her.” Yuan Yuan stared into Black Shadow’s eyes.
“Will she die after waking up?” Black Shadow seemed indifferent. “You killed her? Well done.”
“She committed suicide.” Yuan Yuan pointed to his neck. “She strangled herself because I told her about your existence and why you did it. By the time I heard the alarm and rushed over, she was already dead.”
Black Shadow felt his heart skip a beat. He knew full well that the woman’s death wasn’t due to any guilt towards her eldest son, but simply because she had harmed so many people in Dawn Prison.
Of course the woman felt guilty, but this guilt was not directed at the black shadow. Instead, she felt regretful. Perhaps she regretted why she was soft-hearted and did not strangle her disappointing son to death.
Black Shadow leaned against the wall. He felt his upper and lower eyelids fighting each other. “Is it about to start?”
“What is about to start?” Yuan Yuan asked.
“The beastmen’s final carnival is about to begin.” Black Shadow stared at the light above his head. The light shone through the cage and projected onto his face. The pale light was cut into a shadow by the bars of the cage, and a black shadow fell on the Black Shadow’s eyes.
The Black Shadow was like a struggling and roaring beast, screaming for revenge on the world.
He never imagined that one day, a casual “She’s dead” would drain all his energy and spirit. Without a goal, it was as if the roar was forcibly suppressed before it even came out, which was not very comfortable.
He never even got an answer from the woman from beginning to end.
Black Shadow found himself unprepared for this moment. What was he feeling? Sad? Disappointed? No, he hadn’t felt disappointed since the woman had dumped him. Happy? Well, a little, even a bit of a sense of relief.
After that last bit of excitement faded into reality, he seemed to be left with only numbness. Everything in the world seemed to be covered by a layer of fog to him, and his perception of the world began to become unclear.
All that remained was endless fatigue after the absurdity.
The woman turned into a cold tombstone, and soon so would he. He wouldn’t live much longer.
Oh, he finally realized that he was actually dying.
But in the face of eternal death, everything he did and pursued seemed to be meaningless.
The ending was already written, so what was he still struggling with? He was like a clown, who was not even very funny.
“I seem to have been playing this game for too long.” Black Shadow said this without any context.
Yan Leyang wanted to blow up the Matrix directly, but the problem was that it was a solid block. He couldn’t reach it by sheer willpower. After all, this wasn’t some classic, hot-blooded youth manga where you could become a god through sheer gaggle and sheer willpower.
There wasn’t even a small universe for Yan Leyang to burn.
They had to come up with a safe plan, and Yan Leyang was the best choice. After all, he was a human shield with human blood in his veins, which was better than other ordinary beastmen.
“Those herbivores chose this moment to cause trouble,” said Marshal Miao Miaomiao, who was in charge of defense, feeling a little annoyed. “They’re out protesting on the streets every day. If they had the guts, they’d go to the mother body’s side and protest.”
“They should indeed be thankful that they live in interstellar space, before the advent of artificial meat. Do they think that carnivores at that time would listen to their advice?” Miao Miaomiao felt that the hair on his body was about to become bald. He was a long-haired cat himself, and he had been under too much pressure recently. The sewers at home had thus been blocked by him many times.
“It’s terrible.” Miao Miaomiao cursed.
Yan Leyang on the side nodded. Lang Shiyi was right next to him. In this situation, Yan Leyang didn’t dare to let Lang Shiyi stay away from him.
“The problem now is that the Matrix’s defenses are f**king insane.” Miao Miaomiao lit a cigarette for himself. “Honestly, you might get arrested. If you’re a pure beastman, you probably won’t even have the right to be space trash.”
“I’ll give you that mecha. All we cats can do is stabilize the situation here. We have no way to deal with the mother body.” Miao Miaomiao didn’t really want to say such discouraging words.
He felt that as long as he operated well enough, he would have no problem facing the wolf tribe.
But when facing the Matrix, they planned for a long time and finally concluded that they could not break the Matrix’s defenses.
It was like a group of people with the sharpest swords and long hair, while the other side only had one person. This should be a good thing, but the other side was driving a starship.
They hadn’t even had time to throw their spears, and it wasn’t even clear if human-thrown spears could scrape off a bit of the coating on the tall starship. When the starship’s collider might blow them away along with the ground.
They tried, but it was obvious that their efforts were in vain.
As for why the mother body had such strong attack power and why it didn’t just attack the entire beastman tribe, it was probably out of that damn humanistic concern.
And the mother body most likely wanted to pick up ready-made facilities. Although he didn’t like the beastmen, the beastmen’s cities and facilities could still be used.
“We originally wanted to find the Snake Tribe to see if we could cooperate. After all, the current Snake Tribe’s monarch is eager to destroy the mother body.” Miao Miaomiao said, blowing out a puff of smoke. “But the problem now is that the Snake Tribe’s technology is similar to ours. We fight in close combat with spears, while they use catapults for long-range attacks.”
Yan Leyang didn’t know how to respond, so he could only say dryly: “The metaphor is very appropriate.”
Now the only person who could still cooperate with them was He Wen who came out of the mother body. He Wen also realized the seriousness of the problem and made an appointment with Yan Leyang to meet on Thundercloud Star.
Yan Leyang’s brother Lang Shiyi’s every move was now under surveillance, and someone was needed to attract the mother body’s attention, and the best candidate for this was Hutch.
Hutch’s identity as the leader of the second planet was quite appealing. Coupled with Hutch’s own understanding of humans and his talkative personality, he was the perfect choice to attract attention.
As for where Hutch could have come into contact with humans, Hutch explained that it was in dreams. He had this mysterious feeling. He said that before he became an adult, he often had a dream in which he dreamed that he was in another world, and then he spread some of his experiences.
He also said that because the experience was too real, he once suspected that he had gone to some extraordinary parallel time and space, and that he and Yan Leyang also met in that world.
Hutch was just a dreaming shell in a parallel space, but he was telling his real experience.
Although he was not as good at talking nonsense as Yan Leyang, it was enough to attract the mother body’s firepower. Fortunately, the mother body did not have extra energy to continue transforming beastmen into beasts, otherwise Hutch would never take the risk.
However, all the prisoners in Dawn Prison had disappeared. About a month after they turned into beastmen, all the monitors failed one day. When they were repaired, there were no criminals left in Dawn Prison.
The criminals had escaped.
Dawn Prison’s planet wasn’t huge, but it was still a planet after all. There were three hundred to four hundred million criminals inside. How could so many of them disappear overnight? The Alliance didn’t even have any warning of such a large-scale displacement.
Meow Xiaomi took this opportunity to cooperate with Hutch and other ethnic leaders to bring down a group of high-level officials in the alliance and even made an extraordinary move.
At his initiative, the first batch of undercover agents of the Matrix were directly executed, even though these undercover agents were all beastmen.
In fact, over the years, the voices calling for reinstating the death penalty had never subsided. After all, if a strong guy who had killed countless beastmen could live safely in the Dawn Prison… Well, not safely, but as long as he was strong enough, he would definitely not die immediately.
So this was unacceptable. Miao Xiaomi’s restoration of the death penalty naturally angered a group of people. Oh, not really angered, they were just a group of stupid and kind idiots who always believed that human nature was good and felt that killing those heinous criminals was no different from killing those vicious executioners.
But their voices were much quieter, probably because it was a life-and-death moment for the beastmen.
On the streets of Thundercloud Star, a pale-faced man leaned on a cane with one hand, looking at the city that was both familiar and unfamiliar to him.
A young man nearby saw that he was alone and dressed quite conspicuously, so he came up to him and said, “You are new here, right?”
“Yes.” The man smiled, “But I know this city quite well.” He pushed the hat on his head with the handle of his cane.
“For example, at night there is always a woman wearing fishnet stockings standing there. She is not doing some shameful job, she is just an ordinary gang member.” The man pointed to the street corner.
The young man was stunned for a moment, and the man continued, “Oh, and your real name is Wang Zhi. You are the second child in your family. Your mother died not long ago, and your father is an alcoholic.”
“Based on my analysis, the most likely thing you’re planning is to rob me.” The man paused, reaching out to touch the young man’s brow. “I don’t really like enthusiastic kids.”
The young man felt his head spinning, and when he came to his senses, there was no one in front of him. When he tried to recall, he found that he had forgotten what the man looked like.
The man attracted a lot of attention as he walked down the street, but he remained indifferent, as if he didn’t care about anything.
Walking to the door of a noodle shop, the man looked inside, as if he saw something, and walked in without hesitation.
“Hello, can I share the table?” the man asked the blond young man opposite with a smile.
The blond young man, Yan Leyang, reacted immediately and almost instinctively protected Lang Shiyi beside him with his hands. When he looked up and saw the man looking at him with surprise, he still did not let down his guard: “Sorry, there is someone across from me.”
“It should be just one person, but there are two seats here.” The man frowned, “But all the other tables in the store is full, so this is the only one left. This is my first time here.”
“Sorry.” Yan Leyang refused without any psychological burden. “If you insist on sitting down, I might just beat you up.”
The man smiled, raised his hands high and walked out without any persistence.
“Sir?” Another girl came up to chat. There were many people here who came up to chat for no apparent reason, especially when the man was obviously not a local.
“Sir, may I know your name?” the girl asked enthusiastically.
“Seeds,” the man said calmly, “or sparks?”
The girl was stunned for a moment: “This name is quite rare.”
“Maybe.” The man’s eyes fell on another man approaching from a distance, “He Wen.”
“What?” The girl didn’t hear clearly.
When He Wen came over, he noticed the man. When his eyes met the man’s, He Wen frowned. After entering the noodle shop, He Wen looked back, but the man was gone.
Probably left.
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