Chapter 107 (1/2)

Chapter 107

Chapter 107: Qing Shui and Zhuo

Translator: Letty  Editor: DarkGem

“Correct! I don’t see a reason why I shouldn’t think of myself as the G.o.d of this world!” Zhuo burst into wild laughter. “You are too timid, do you understand? With all that respect and awe for nature, you can’t make great success in research!”

“Humans are supposed to respect to nature, the road to evolution isn’t glory but a one way trip with trepidation.”

“Don’t speak to me of your coward theories. I only believe in myself. And the one who is standing here is me, I’m the person who chooses whether you live or die. This is the difference between a coward and a G.o.d.”

“Well,”—Qing Shui was undisturbed—“what makes you think that you have control over the whole situation?”

“Interesting, you’re telling me that you have a plan B or something?” Zhuo asked, discarding Qing Shui’s threat. “Just give up, I know you better than anyone since day one. Your degree of mutation is lower than mine and so is the amount of connections and opportunities in the inst.i.tute. You’re just simply less than me, there isn’t even a slightest hope for you.”

“I know. I’m always less than you, and that’s why I always pay more attention to you,” Qing Shui said, raising his right arm while speaking.

His movement was clearly seen by Chang, who had been paying close attention to Zhuo. From the disorderly gaps between bushes, Chang faintly saw a familiar scar on Qing Shui’s forearm. It was the product of Qing Shui’s gene-alteration experiment, and Chang had one as well.

The hidden representation of the scar would be palpitating.

“What is this?” Zhuo demanded, noticing the scar, too. His tone rose with confusion.

“I have done what you’ve been thinking, the gene-altering experiment. You’re the most intelligent person I’ve ever known, guess whose gene I mixed with mine?”

“Gene...” Zhuo gazed at the scar. A moment later, his expression changed, the reality hitting him hard, and he finally tasted fear. “Mine...You mixed mine with yours?”

“Bingo! I extracted your DNA from the hair that you left in my lab. How ironic! You should have been the person to complete this experiment, but you think of yourself as a G.o.d, and because of that, you just won’t allow yourself to remain trapped in that average body, will you? You have pursue perfection in every way, yet that became your downfall.” Qing Shui laughed in a way that he had never done before. His mouth widened, and he smirked at Zhuo “Unlike you, I don’t think a human needs to be perfect. Since when you achieve the peak of intelligence among all humans, physical strength is no longer a must-have.

“Therefore, comparing the end result of attaining perfect combination of strength and intelligence, I prefer advancing my brain.” Qing Shui laughed loudly and wildly. “Fortunately, I succeeded. You would never catch me again, from now on. The incredible secondary Encephalon Mutation has blessed me!

“Even though I’ve attained that quite some time ago, I still put up with your temper and greed. As you said, you have much more resources and connections than me, because you came first.” His guffaw vanished, instead, he gave Zhuo a scornful look. “Did your advantages constrain me? No. The world still belongs to those with brains.

“In fact, to snare you into my game, I’ve set up 17 traps for you. But you were never conscious about them, why?” Qing Shui looked into Zhuo&rsq

uo;s pupils, as if his stare could see through the man’s soul. “I was smarter than you already. That is the only truth you need to know. Your poor mind could never realize I began my revenge a long time ago...

“And the last thing… Your special force, you’ve more than a hundred of them, and thanks to them, I forbore my growing desire until now. Zhuo, you’re doomed, you only have three left.”

Qing Shui only tapped lightly on the muscular arms that choked his neck, and that gene-altered soldier, who was boosted by the red fog concentrate, loosened his finger in a daze.

Upon regaining freedom, Qing Shui guffawed again, his face distorted with ecstasy. “Today is your downfall. For all the nights I endeavored in plotting, for all the days I disguised my true self, I shall let you savor the taste of death.

“Zhuo, you’ve nowhere to escape.” Qing Shui’s expression resemble Zhuo’s insanity. “I was never the villain, remember that. I respected you, and that’s why I let you know what you’re dying for.”

The gene-altered soldiers lost their consciousness and collapsed when Qing Shui dropped his last word.

For the first time, fear seized Zhuo. His instincts and quick-witted mind drove him to escape without hesitation.

At the same time Zhuo fled, Chang felt pins and needles over his scalp, stunned by Qing Shui. His heart shuddered, and hair stood on end; an eye twinkled. It was as if an invisible wave bl.u.s.tered over the land, with which his mind drifted away. In that brief moment, his past and future kept flas.h.i.+ng in front of his eyes, the scenarios shuffled and replayed, causing Chang to get lost in the hallucination. It was a weird experience, and Chang forgot about his plight and blacked out from the apparition.

Before he had become completely comatose, he heard Qing Shui’s voice in haze.

“You can’t run away even if you’re probably the fastest among us. How could you possibly run away from my mind?”

The inky darkness then corroded Chang’s last bit of consciousness.

As if Chang had a long and steamy dream, he recalled fragments of memories in a trance. For example, that piece of tissue paper that he used to use to tease girls when he was in kindergarten; that nest of caterpillars that he and his playmate discovered underneath a brick of an old house; and that movie he saw a few years ago.

Those events that had been forgotten in his life became star lights that twinkled on the black canvas, s.h.i.+ning, spinning, as if they were eager to unfold themselves. They twirled before approaching Chang one by one, and later burned to ashes.

When the canvas lost the last star, Chang regained his consciousness. His face first wrenched with pain,but in the next second, he opened his eyes.

“Ah!”

Besides the red fog, endless green was the first thing he saw. The plants were about seven meters above him. While glancing over them, Chang also sensed the jolting.