Chapter 95
It was clearly a familiar appearance but at this mont, it felt strange to him. yan seed to notice Gu Yesheng’s gaze on his body and sighed. “I’m sorry, it is as you can see.”
Gu Yesheng could feel the instinctive emotions colliding in his body and his hands clenched uncontrollably again. It seed that only the sharp sensation in his palm was his sustenance at this ti. He stared at yan for a long ti. This was the man he respected most in the world.
He hadn’t spoken for so long that his voice was inevitably hoarse. “Why?”
There was slight movent in yan’s expression and he finally shook his head slowly. ”There is no why.”
He continued, “There is no why when it cos to the renewal of the world and the elimination of outdated dogma.”
He slowly raised his head and gazed out the window. It had started to rain and the sky was full of a dark haze. It was as if there was an invisible hand strangling the throat, excessively low and suffocating. yan seed to be thinking of sothing and his expression was a bit distant.
It wasn’t known if the intermittent words were addressed to Gu Yesheng or to himself. “The world has been under the rule of the ability masters for too long. However, humans are still ignoring the filth and decay of this system. 20 years ago, the city of Bethelar was reduced to hell due to the greedy war between ability masters yet those in power chose to commit greater atrocities to cover up their sins and erase the ugly strokes of history. Hundreds of families of chanics living in the city of Bethelar died overnight. The planet was destroyed and it completely turned into the dust of the universe.”
Such a past seed painful to him but there were no tears in his eyes.
His voice gradually eased. “Among the people back then, there were won who had no strength to bind chickens, old people in their final years and babies who were crying on the ground. Yet those with abilities were blinded. In the eyes of the ability master families, so many lives weren’t worth the honest and upright evaluation from the external dia.”
“There are too many things like this. The tragedy of Bethelar repeats itself in so corner of the universe.” At this point, yan made a low laugh. “Do you know why the allied governnt is so afraid of chanics and are trying to crack down on them? It is because those people discovered that the weak and humble group under their hands has gradually beco an existence above them. They are afraid that their long-term bloody rule will be completely exposed and they will be punished for all their cris in the past.”
“Even if everything is due to those in power being obsessed with power, the fault is their own.”
Every word fell into Gu Yesheng’s ears like a heavy hamr, stimulating Gu Yesheng’s mind. For the first ti, he found he couldn’t see through this man who looked mad.
“Is that why you hate the world?” Gu Yesheng’s eyes were bloodshot as he looked at yan. “Is that why you deliberately approached ?”
Mayan looked at him. “No, I really saved you.”
Gu Yesheng was taken aback for a mont.
He always rembered when he was eight years old. He had just received the sad news about his parents’ death and before he had ti to grieve, he was given the burden of being the new heir. The process of forcibly stimulating his ability was cruel and difficult. He was abandoned in the mountains. At that ti, hungry wolves all over the mountains were chasing behind him. Such a small child desperately ran through the mountains in order to survive. Finally, he had no way to escape and fell down a rushing waterfall.
He woke up and saw this man. The man was dressed in old traveler’s clothes and looked kind. “You are finally awake. How do you feel?”
It was yan who accompanied him through his difficult tis in the mountains and forest, who accompanied him back to the Gu family territory and faced the family elders who made him feel fearful.
This mory had gradually grayed out because it had been too long but the details of each fra were clear.
yan seed caught in the mories and sighed with regret. “At that ti, I had been wandering through the interstellar space for too long. I never thought I would save a child who had nothing to do with . I still rember the look in your eyes at the ti. There was hatred and indifference, but also the ambition to tear everything apart. It was like looking at another . Who would’ve thought the ability you would awaken later would be so surprising?”
yan’s tone instantly beca passionate. He didn’t disguise his identity and his expression was more revealing as he stared at Gu Yesheng. “You know, at that ti, the concept of ability weapons was just starting. The future prospects and implentation made feel lost in confusion. It was precisely due to your appearance that I suddenly saw the hope of achieving my dream.”
yan slowly walked to Gu Yesheng and it seed like he was looking at a treasure. “There is one thing I have never lied to you about. Ah Sheng, you are indeed the best gift that God gave .”
Gu Yesheng didn’t speak. He watched the face close to him and felt sothing that had been built up for many years suddenly start to collapse. His chest rose and fell a few tis and then he started retching uncontrollably.
“Recognize reality. You are destined to belong to . I have injected a gene chip into your body. All I need to do is absorb your ability to complete the energy filling and the interstellar weapons can be quickly activated. The world will soon beco what I want! What a historic mont this will be!”
yan glanced at Gu Yesheng and spoke with pity. “Don’t worry. The research and developnt technology of these ability weapons have been perfected. Be good and cooperate well with us. Then you can suffer less pain.”
Various fierce emotions rushed wildly into Gu Yesheng’s mind along with fragnts of mories. The sound that was close at hand inevitably felt a bit distant.
Seeing the teenager whose thoughts were gradually collapsing in front of him, yan’s eyes drooped slightly and his smile beca cold. It seed that it wasn’t as pleasant as he expected now that the goal was close at hand.
His last sentence was directed at the mbers of the organization in the corner. “His psychological defense has been completely broken. Implent the last step.”
yan no longer looked at the empty Gu Yesheng on the instrunt and left.
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In the ti that followed, Gu Yesheng was muddled and shattered.
He repeatedly shifted between drowsiness and sobriety. The instrunt stimulated his ability to gush out again and again, depriving him of his physical strength but also pulling away his sense of reason.
However, the progress wasn’t as smooth as expected. yan originally thought that the years of betrayal would be the last straw to crush Gu Yesheng. He never thought that the process of obtaining the ability was much more difficult than he expected. The quick and vigorous actions of the outside allied governnt were pushing him to the edge of the cliff. He hadn’t been found but there wasn’t much ti to waste.
Two days passed and there was still nothing. yan was finally unable to hold back. The door of the control room was pushed open. yan leaned on his cane as he walked in with a cold expression. “What’s the matter? Isn’t it just the extraction of an ability? Why is it so slow?!”
The organization mbers felt cold when they saw his expression and fell silent.
After a while, soone hesitantly explained. “Sir, we don’t know why but every ti things are on the right track, there always seems to be a force stopping it. The mont the ability density is about to et the import conditions, all the connections will be cut off instantly.”
yan’s gaze was on the figure on the big screen. “This is impossible. There must be sothing wrong.”
In the white room, Gu Yesheng was lifelessly lying on the instrunt. His hair covered his face and his expression was like a dead person.
This should be the best state for absorbing abilities. However, if the pace continued to be so slow, it would be difficult for Gu Yesheng to last on the injection of nutrients until the project was completed. The cause must be found.
yan’s eyes flashed and he turned toward the room where Gu Yesheng was located. The white star light at the top was particularly dazzling and the person on the instrunt didn’t react at all to the loud noise of the door opening.
yan watched the figure that didn’t show any signs of life for a long ti and tentatively called out, “Ah Sheng, how have you been these two days?”
It was unknown if Gu Yesheng had completely fallen unconscious or if he couldn’t hear the words, but the only response was a long silence. yan glanced at the person next to him. The mber flinched. “Sir, he has been like this for the past two days.”
yan frowned slightly. “Get him up.”
At this mont, he had so worry about Gu Yesheng’s physical condition. If physical energy was really consud too thoroughly then the plan of extracting the ability was likely to stall here.
The others didn’t dare to disobey. They imdiately stepped forward to adjust the lock of the instrunt. Then they carefully lifted Gu Yesheng up and placed him in front of yan. Gu Yesheng had already beco skinny after just two days of this.
yan reached out and gently lifted the hair. He examined this weak and still extrely exquisite face and sighed slightly. He was about to say sothing when the eyes suddenly opened. The indifference and sharpness in these eyes was like an invisible knife and yan instinctively took two steps back. “You aren’t...”
Before he could finish, the organization mbers next to him let out lung-tearing screams. They fell to the ground hysterically and the feeling of excessive pain caused their body to twist in strange and terrifying postures.
Gu Yesheng didn’t have the support of the people around him and his body shook slightly. There was a strange paleness on his face and his dry lips were curved in an almost crazy smile. “I should’ve been completely destroyed... Sir, did you want to say this?”
“It can’t be...”
yan knew too well about Gu Yesheng’s ability. The instrunt used triggered a violent backlash. Once a hole was opened in Gu Yesheng’s heart, the hidden beast was enough to swallow everything.
His excessive astonishnt ssed yan up for a mont. Then his line of sight fell on a blood stain on the shackle of the instrunt. It was thick, sticky and moved like a line toward the ground.
Gu Yesheng’s hand was also stained with layers of dried blood.
He looked at yan’s face in the midst of the waves of dizziness. Everything in his vision seed to be completely separated from reality and he was being constantly torn at by chaotic hallucinations.
He breathed heavily and vaguely heard his low-pitched voice speaking to yan while also reminding himself, “I can’t be ruined here. There is soone waiting for to go back...”
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