Chapter 294: Beauty Like a Flower (End) (3K+)
Liu Sheng opened her eyes, and before her was the long-unseen private room.
She blinked, feeling as if everything was a lifetime ago, a mix of unfamiliarity and familiarity.
A gasping sound came from beside her, along with painful groans.
"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah, it hurts so much ah ah ah, my head is gone, ah ah I'm going to die! Ah ah ah ah!"
Liu Sheng looked at Jiang Caibin, who was clutching his neck and rolling on the ground, and said irritably, "Shut up, your head is still there, you're not dead yet, get up quickly!"
Fortunately, the formation she set up was not only anti-peeping but also soundproof, otherwise it would really cause misunderstandings.
When Jiang Caibin heard this voice, it was like seeing the sun in the darkness; he suddenly seemed to find his backbone.
"Liu Sheng Jie?" He tried to open his eyes, looked at the familiar yet somewhat strange face before him, recognized it for a moment, then immediately sprang up excitedly, about to pounce on Liu Sheng.
A grotesque tentacle stretched out in front of him, with eyes on it rolling around, staring intently at Jiang Caibin.
The warning was obvious.
Jiang Caibin swallowed, quickly stopping his steps.
"What happened to me? Where is this?" he asked blankly.
"You were bitten, and then I chopped off your head, so we came back," Liu Sheng said calmly, as if it were an extremely common occurrence.
"This is Chang'an."
"Chang'an?" Jiang Caibin scratched his head and muttered, unable to fully comprehend for a moment.
In this high dimension analysis, due to time being constantly manipulated, they had truly experienced almost ten years, causing his memories to be extremely chaotic.
Fortunately, Liu Sheng was very accustomed to such situations and quickly sorted out her memories, so she was relatively normal at this time.
After the city was burned, and all the infected people were incinerated, Liu Sheng took Jiang Caibin and traveled to the nearby towns.
As she expected, because they hadn't cut off the source of infection in time on the first day, some people had carried the virus out of the city that day, eventually spreading it along the way, causing people in nearby towns and villages to gradually show symptoms of infection.
Liu Sheng could only rely on the world's given containment plan to slow down the infection process and prolong lives, but she was powerless against the fact that those infected would eventually mutate one day.
Moreover, this infection phenomenon spread further and wider, becoming more and more prevalent.
Gradually, Liu Sheng and Jiang Caibin slew more with their swords, saving very few.
Many times, there was simply no time to treat them before they were already infected and mutated.
Later on, even Jiang Caibin accidentally contracted the virus.
Liu Sheng could only decisively resolve him.
Jiang Caibin and she were two lives in one body; with his death, she naturally had to withdraw.
She just wondered how Little Little was doing…
Until she left, Little Little still hadn't completed her evolution.
She wondered if it was because natural New Humans inherently evolved with difficulty, or if the environment was truly damaged by that biochemical weapon, affecting Little Little's evolution.
Thinking of this, Liu Sheng's mind stirred.
The world displayed the analysis results.
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【Name: Beauty Like a Flower Box】
【Analysis Completion: 97.54%】
【Effect Description: 1. Replacement: Place a similar item into the box, specify a target, and the target's corresponding item will be replaced; the more similar, the higher the success rate; 2. Charm: Extreme charm ability, cast illusions to make the target obey oneself, effect depends on the user's appearance, the higher the appearance, the stronger the illusion, even able to create illusions; 3. Self-harm: Can comprehensively improve physical fitness through self-harm, the higher the pain level, the greater the improvement.】
【Influence Rank: A】
【Analysis Evaluation: Beauty like a flower across the Star Sea, life and death vast as light-years (Learning to write judgments, borrowing is not plagiarism!)】
【Points Gained: 3 (Currently 7)】
【Analysis Reward: Never-Stopping Camera】
【high dimension Analysis Count: -1 (Remaining 0 times)】
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Trying to ignore the incomplete 100% completion, and also ignoring the world's sour poem, Liu Sheng asked: 【So did Little Little become a New Human?】
【Does that matter?】 The world retorted.
Indeed, based on their ability to meet in this world, it was evident that Little Little ultimately degenerated into an abyss trash, which is to say, a weird objects.
A wave of sorrow surged in Liu Sheng's heart.
She wondered, if she hadn't intervened, what would Little Little have become?
Constantly bullied by those people, and those accusations that she lacked certain qualities, eventually falling into complete self-loathing.
Her hands were too beautiful, which was wrong.
Disobeying her elder cousin, she had no sibling affection.
Disobeying her parents, she had no heart, no conscience.
Unwilling to accept the scholar's affection, she had no heart.
Unable to bear a son, her uterus was not good.
No matter what, she was always disliked in every way.
But Little Little was not one to be bullied.
Liu Sheng had long seen that Little Little was essentially a sociopath; she held grudges and meticulously planned to kill those who had bullied her, leaving behind trophies, and keeping them in her favorite place, under the locust tree of the ancient temple.
Liu Sheng was very clear about this point, because this time she had helped Little Little do this.
In her previous life, perhaps her actions were exposed, leading to a counter-attack from all the victims' relatives, or perhaps Little Little became disgusted with her own limbs and inner self, and her heavily sinful self became an empty shell of beauty, thus she could be admired forever, without any flaws to be criticized.
Finally, she became Lu Siniang, lying deep within the embroidered bed.
But thinking of the familiar ruined walls in the Weird Domain illusion earlier, Liu Sheng was momentarily in a trance.
Could it be that Little Little originally brought about the world-ending catastrophe?
Who was the cause, and who was the effect?
…
In an unknown time and space, on a desolate planet devoid of intelligent life, amidst a stretch of ruins, there was a remarkably well-preserved building.
It stood out incongruously in the wasteland.
Even more striking was the cold, silver-glowing metal spacecraft parked inside the building, its protective force field still emitting a faint blue light.
But the adjacent courtyard, perhaps due to some change or explosion within it, had become a strikingly abrupt patch of ruins, like an ink stain on white paper.
This was indeed identical to the outside.
Suddenly, a small pebble rolled down the ruins, followed by more pebbles and bricks falling, as if something was breaking out from within.
Finally, a shriveled, dark brown hand emerged from the ruins.
Then, another equally withered hand.
After pushing aside the bricks, a pair of fair arms stretched out, using all four hands to push away all the broken walls and rubble pressing down from above.
From the ashes, a beautiful head emerged.
Then, a naked upper body.
But no one would harbor any impure thoughts about this, because behind this body, there was a wide-open chest cavity, filled with mostly dark brown, dried internal organs, which, though appearing lifeless, strangely pulsed, seemingly still functioning.
Four hands propped up the body, below were four legs: two long legs with graceful curves and skin as white as snow, and two atrophied, stiff, and dark legs that dragged behind because they were longer than the other two.
These things were all found by her in the county government's morgue.
These were all her belongings; at the time, she had cut these parts off with a strong will and sealed them under the locust tree of the ancient temple.
As a result, she was caught, and these things were also dug out as evidence in her case, but they didn't serve their purpose in the trial; instead, they served her evolution.
During her evolution, she was extremely sensitive to various particles in the world, and she could feel a peculiar substance not belonging to dark matter invading this space.
This substance possessed the attributes of living beings, was extremely aggressive, extremely vital, and highly contagious, while also resembling a weapon that could disrupt particle order.
And for some unknown reason, it was attracted by her aura, gathering like hungry dogs sniffing meat.
Although there was a protective force field blocking it, after an unknown period, these substances still gradually eroded the protective force field and invaded it.
Not only that, even the peculiar space formed during her evolution, which Liu Sheng Jie called the Weird Domain, could slowly be devoured and infiltrated, eroding her dark side and transforming it into a more twisted, deranged existence with only bloodthirsty instincts remaining, almost affecting her evolution because of this.
It was probably something Liu Sheng Jie hadn't anticipated either.
Fortunately, she had a premonition and used her remaining sins to complete the eroded dark side.
Thus, she became what she is now.
Dragging her dry, blackened feet, her snow-white bare feet stepped on the broken bricks and tiles, she looked up at the crimson sky, then with a forceful push from her four legs, she leaped onto the wall.
Looking out, all she saw were ruined walls.
At this moment, a small black sphere rolled out from the ashes, bouncing with great elasticity onto her shoulder.
With a hint of nostalgia, she gently stroked the sphere with her fair fingers, then her withered hand gently reached out to cradle the sphere, placing it into the fleshy box on her back.
As soon as the sphere entered, it immediately sprouted fine tentacles, like roots, burrowing into the flesh and absorbing nutrients.
Looking around, the spaceship reflected a cold gleam in this wasteland, entering her sight.
The tentacles tugged at her heart, telling her to go inside.
…
It wasn't just Liu Sheng who was concerned about Little Little's fate, but also countless Star Network netizens in an unknown time and space.
Among them was Snake Taoist.
He felt a bad premonition as soon as he heard of the military's involvement.
He remembered the expert who had slaughtered an entire planet back then, also prompting the military to act; for some reason, the military didn't bring him back for trial, but directly launched a super-dimensional strike, completely destroying the already lifeless planet.
Would Little Little also face such a situation…
But he was just an ordinary citizen without power or influence, so worrying was useless.
With the sudden interruption of the live broadcast, there was no more news of Liu Sheng Jie and Little Little, and “The Metamorphosis,” this long-running program, silently disappeared.
At first, many people were concerned, wondering why a program had just disappeared so quietly, where Liu Sheng Jie and Little Little had gone, whether there was some unspeakable conspiracy, or if it meant the Federal Empire was tightening its grip on entertainment.
However, there were no answers to any of it.
Fortunately, entertainment on the Star Network was endless and iterated extremely quickly; before long, these netizens who had originally vowed to seek the truth no longer mentioned these things.
And Snake Taoist, busy with his daily extra roles and commercial performances, gradually had no time to think of Liu Sheng Jie and Little Little.
Life always had to go on.
Day after day, year after year, time flowed by.
Snake Taoist only occasionally recalled that he was the only person alive who had truly seen them.
But these were just sentiments in a midnight dream, forgotten upon waking.
Until one day.
In the early morning, before dawn, Snake Taoist yawned as he walked towards the door.
Someone was rudely pressing the doorbell, making a continuous racket.
Snake Taoist, whose nerves were being bombarded, irritably shouted, "Coming, coming! If it's a delivery, just leave it at the door, why are you pressing so much? But why would there be a delivery so early? No matter what you are, in short, you don't know that disturbing someone's good dream is tantamount to murder…"
Opening the door, his rambling curses abruptly stopped.
Snake Taoist looked at the somewhat familiar, exquisitely beautiful face before him, and the four hands and four feet extending from beneath the robe, his mind a blank.
"Didn't you want to be my master?"
"Though it's a bit late."
"But now, I'm here."
Perhaps she would hope Liu Sheng could invade the Federal Empire and destroy the military, but for now, it's not possible.
Objectively speaking, her power is too meager; she has no authority, nor sufficient ability, so she can only leave a small mark in this world for now.
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