Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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By the time the little boy was forced to wear a diaper and sit on Seb’s lap, he had already mentally rehearsed at least twenty different ways Yan Leyang could die.
Seb and Yan Leyang randomly found a shop to sit down. Yan Leyang sat opposite Seb, watching Seb’s hand that was pinching the child warily.
He knew that Seb wouldn’t easily lay a hand on the child, after all, if he didn’t have a hostage, Yan Leyang could snap his head off in the next second.
“I can’t go back, and I don’t want to go back.” Seb looked at the drink in front of him and smiled. “If I died, would you be sad?”
Yan Leyang remained silent for a while, unsure of what Seb was thinking, so he cautiously asked, “Do you want to hear the truth or a lie?” This subtly expressed Yan Leyang’s stance.
He knew that Seb was still smiling. He understood what Yan Leyang meant, and he didn’t feel angry or surprised. Yan Leyang was always like this.
Despite the urgency of the situation, Yan Leyang, while extremely tense, still found time to make light of things, always turning the tense atmosphere into something like a joke. This wasn’t intentional on Yan Leyang’s part; it was probably an unconscious action.
Perhaps Yan Leyang himself couldn’t stand the overly oppressive atmosphere.
“I don’t think it’s a big deal for you to go back. Your brother is probably about to open a private amusement park for you.” Yan Leyang didn’t really know what kind of person Seb’s brother was, he only knew that the new ruler of the snake clan cared a lot about his younger brother.
He had never met that monarch. He only knew that the monarch looked similar to Seb and that they were born in the same family. Yan Leyang didn’t know what kind of past they had, nor did he really want to know.
He was a ruthless guy, yet he was helpless against his bunch of younger brothers. If it weren’t for their blood relation, Yan Leyang would even suspect they were having an affair.
…Wait a minute, even if they’re blood relatives, it seems like they could still have an affair, so Yan Leyang looked at Seb with a strange expression.
“Whatever you’re thinking, clear your mind now.” Seb didn’t know what Yan Leyang was thinking, but judging from his expression, he knew he was definitely not coming up with anything good.
No need to know, it’s definitely not a good thing anyway.
The child, held captive in Seb’s arms, kept his head down the entire time, barely noticeable.
“So what exactly do you want to tell me?” Yan Leyang propped his head up with one hand. “To be honest, whether you go back or not has nothing to do with me, right?”
“I’m not interested in any of this. You didn’t come here just to talk about this, did you?” Yan Leyang curled his lip. “If there’s anything more important, just say it.”
“You should know that the animals from Dawn Prison have escaped.” Seb frowned. “They’ve been affected and will never turn back into humans.”
“Unless the mother body dies completely.” Seb lowered his eyes.
“Actually, this isn’t a transformation, after all, no one can completely turn an orc into an animal in such a short time.” Seb chuckled as he said this. “It’s an infection, and the antidote is in the Mother Body’s base.”
Yan Leyang finally put away his carefree attitude, his eyes widening slightly, as he looked at Seb.
Seb continued, “Since it’s an infection, and they’ve turned into animals, do you think… it’s possible that the orcs they bit might also mutate?”
“And now, hundreds of millions of criminals in Dawn Prison have escaped, and nobody knows where they went.” Seb released his grip on the child’s neck. “Those animals were enhanced, and there are also cyborgs among the criminals.”
“They certainly can’t get into places like the capital planets of various races, but that might not be the case in the slums.” Seb looked up at Yan Leyang, whose face was serious. “You should understand what I mean.”
Understand? Of course I understand! That’s precisely why I feel a chill run down my spine and my hair now stands on end. Those criminals escaped from prison days ago; who knows where they are now?
Moreover, unclaimed planets like Thundercloud Star seem even more terrifying. Thundercloud Star was ruled by various gangs, and even different cities had different smaller gangs, making it very difficult to manage.
“The Mother body is truly despicable,” Yan Leyang couldn’t help but say. “She herself came from human society, doesn’t she know that doing this kind of thing is immoral and may damage her karma?”
He didn’t know if it was just his imagination, but after Yan Leyang finished cursing, the kidnapped child seemed to glance at him.
Yan Leyang ordered another ice cream for the child and gently comforted him, “Eat something, don’t be afraid.”
Fear? No. The child’s gaze fell on Yan Leyang’s face: “What does ‘damaging one’s karma’ mean?”
It seemed to be just a question out of curiosity; presumably, Seb wasn’t as fierce as he had seemed before, so the child relaxed.
“It’s because you’ve done too many immoral things that after you die you can only be reincarnated as an animal.” Yan Leyang suddenly fell silent again, realizing he couldn’t explain what the animal realm was.
After all, this is an orc world, and even if it was explained clearly, it would still sound like an insult.
“You can pass this message on,” Seb suggested. “Meow Xiaomi, or Hutch, either one will do.”
“And what about you?” Yan Leyang asked. “I’m delivering the message, then what are you doing?”
“Me?” Seb was momentarily stunned, then asked a completely irrelevant question, “Do you know what the Matrix did to me?”
“Those other Sebs are all clones of me. You should know I’m mentally unstable.” Seb laughed again as he said this. “To be honest, I don’t really want to go back. I want to leave.”
He didn’t say where he was going after leaving, but Seb was now a wanted criminal. His clones had committed too many evil deeds, and he himself had a criminal record.
Seb had nowhere to go; his only option was to return to the Serpent Clan and seek his brother’s protection. But Seb didn’t want to go back to the Serpent Clan, so where else could he go?
Go to hell.
Yan Leyang looked at Seb: “Do you want to die?”
“Not necessarily.” Seb’s smile finally faded, and he looked somewhat tired. “Maybe I won’t die.”
He just didn’t want to be in places where there were people anymore.
“You know, for mentally ill people like us, an unfortunate childhood is a standard feature.” Seb remembered that Yan Leyang especially liked to tell some strange and bizarre stories.
Yan Leyang nodded but did not reply.
“I’m no exception,” Seb shrugged. “My brother and I get along very well because our mother was mentally ill.”
“During this period, my memories were chaotic. To control me, I was confined to my own memories.” Seb pointed to his head. “I killed her, more than once. But no matter how many times I killed her, I couldn’t escape.”
“When I woke up in the nutrient tank, I realized it was all a dream.” Seb’s voice was calm. “Just because I’m mentally ill doesn’t mean I can be so obsessive that I don’t care about anything.”
“My brother is perfectly normal.” Seb looked into Yan Leyang’s eyes. “But I’m a psychopath because I’m too fragile. I can’t handle that kind of torment.”
As Seb spoke, he tried to twitch the corner of his mouth, but failed: “I like cute people, whether male or female.”
“You should have heard about my past, my first wife. Of course I loved her. When I loved her, she was all I could see.”
“She was so good, but one day I suddenly discovered that she was injured, just a scrape on her knee, but I couldn’t bear it, the outside world is too dangerous.” Seb stopped there and didn’t continue.
Yan Leyang continued, “So you ate her because you thought she would be safe in your stomach?”
“Pretty much.” Seb pouted. “I’m an incurable lunatic, and I have a vindictive personality.”
“I just came to remind you.” Seb pushed the child, and Yan Leyang caught him just as the child was about to fall.
“Goodbye.” Seb turned and left. He was going to leave, but Yan Leyang didn’t know where he was going, and to be honest, he didn’t want to know.
Maybe this guy was courting death, or maybe he was planning to perish together with the mother body… Well, it didn’t seem that much different from courting death.
Anyway, if he never got to see Seb again, Yan Leyang would definitely feel more fortunate than regretful.
However, Seb’s brother, who was obsessed with his younger brother, could never know that he would never see his original younger brother again… But “Seb Paradise,” which his brother opened, was a pretty good place to remember him.
After all, the ground there was crawling with Sebs.
Yan Leyang glanced at the trembling child, patted the child on the back, and then opened his personal terminal to send a message to Miao Xiaomi, Hutch and the others.
Only after confirming that all messages had been sent successfully did he turn his attention to the child beneath him.
“Are you an orphan?” Yan Leyang asked.
This wasn’t Yan Leyang idly scolding the child; the main reason was that the child’s clothes were extremely dirty, clearly worn for many days.
The cleanest part of his body was probably the new diaper on his bottom. Oh, and his face too.
The face was wiped by Seb, probably because he couldn’t stand the child’s snot.
This child, which was the physical manifestation of the mother body, had a body that could change in many ways and had no personality, whether as an adult, an old person, or a child.
He could reconstruct himself regardless of gender. As for the clothes he was wearing, they were taken from a child who had recently died. Based on her past observations, the mother body had created this image of a timid and cowardly child.
Thundercloud Star was chaotic to begin with, so no one cared about children, especially those without parents.
These children might be lively and energetic one day, or lying in some corner barely clinging to life, and the next day they would be corpses.
These cubs won’t survive.
Yan Leyang saw that the child was just staring at him without responding and sighed helplessly: “I’ll go buy you a quantum computer and transfer some star coins to you as compensation.”
To be honest, Yan Leyang didn’t want to get involved in this. There were too many children like this on Thundercloud Star, and he couldn’t save them all if he tried.
Moreover, his situation was clearly more dangerous than the child’s. If he interfered too much, he might actually harm the child.
It was best not to look at it or interfere, but at least this child was kidnapped for no reason because of him.
The child was trembling when his neck was being choked, and Yan Leyang felt quite distressed watching him.
Yan Leyang’s family was quite happy. In fact, after he grew up, there were no more children begging for money on the street. So how could he stand seeing such a thin, skin-and-bones child?
But there was no use in disapproving; given the current limited resources, he couldn’t afford to have excessive sympathy.
Yan Leyang dragged the little radish around and washed him clean, bought him a clean set of clothes, and also bought him a backpack, which he stuffed with clothes and food.
After paying for the computer for his child, he suddenly realized that it might not be a good idea.
This kid had so many things in his hands, but he had no fighting skills. Won’t these things be snatched away by someone else in a minute?
So Yan Leyang sent another message to Eleph, sending him a photo of the child and asking Eleph to keep an eye on him and make sure the child didn’t die.
After doing all this, Yan Leyang planned to leave Thundercloud Star directly. He didn’t know where he was going, but he couldn’t stay in one place for long anyway.
At the port, Yan Leyang waited for the starship that Eleph had prepared for him. He looked helplessly behind him, where the child was still following him, his eyes fixed on him. “I have to go. Wait here for someone. An uncle will take you away from here later.”
The child didn’t say anything but instead took two steps closer to Yan Leyang.
He wanted the Infinite energy, but he couldn’t launch a direct attack on Yan Leyang, even though the Infinite energy was right there on Yan Leyang’s body…
As long as Yan Leyang could take him along, he could make those space pirates locate Yan Leyang, and Yan Leyang would be taken care of naturally without him having to lift a finger.
When the human bloodline was damaged, the mother body’s protective mechanism would be triggered, but his body was not equipped with any weapons at all.
Even if the protection mechanism was triggered, this body couldn’t block anything and won’t cause any damage to the mother body, but Yan Leyang would die.
He couldn’t let Yan Leyang go. Thinking this, he stepped forward and grabbed Yan Leyang’s sleeve, looking up at him with a pitiful expression.
Yan Leyang squatted down helplessly: “It’s very dangerous for you to follow me… Do you really have to come with me?”
The child nodded.
Yan Leyang reached out and patted the child’s head: “Wait a minute.”
Eleph and his team arrived at the port three minutes later, by which time Yan Leyang had already left.
Eleph stared at the sky with a heavy expression, then suddenly remembered something: “By the way, what about the child Yan Leyang mentioned?”
“There it is,” his subordinate said, pointing to the large pillar in front of the harbor.
A child was stuck to a pillar about three meters off the ground.
It was really sticky; there were several layering transparent tape on top of each other. The transparent tape from Star World was of very high quality; it wouldn’t be a problem even if you stuck a child on it.
When Eleph and his team got up the ladder, they found that the child was not only taped up, but also had nails hammered into the back of his collar, so he was quite safe.
Eleph stood on the ladder, looking at the child.
The mother body, who was posted by Yan Leyang and stared at for a full three minutes: …
Yan Leyang must die! Die five times!!!
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