Chapter 35

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Chapter 35: Star Death Reality Show (XVIII)

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“What time is it?” Xue Jiahui asked, half lying in bed. She seemed to have recovered from being held hostage and losing her memory. At least, she appeared to be much better.

Lara, who had opened the door with a midnight snack, glanced at the time: “It’s almost 11PM, you should rest.”

“Wait a little longer.” Xue Jiahui smiled at Lara and whispered, “Soon… Soon…”

Lara put the midnight snack on Xue Jiahui’s bedside and said, “Don’t stay up too late. This is an unusual time for you. You should pay attention to rest.”

Xue Jiahui smiled and looked at Lara faintly. She didn’t speak. Her eyes were darker than ever in the low light, which should have aroused Lara’s vigilance, but Lara was too tired to notice. One day on this planet was four hours longer than that of her home planet, which she was unaccustomed to, so she could only struggle to get used to it.

“I’m going to go to sleep. Goodnight.” Lara went to the door, stretched out her hand to twist the doorknob, and turned to Xue Jiahui.

The lantern at the bedside was dim and could only illuminate Xue Jiahui’s little face. Her mouth was curved in a smile, but there was no smile in her dark eyes: “…Goodnight, Lara.”

A strange feeling welled up in Lara’s mind, but she was too sleepy to think about it and turned the doorknob.

A figure stood outside the door of this room. In the dim light, he seemed to be an emissary from hell. He walked into the room uninvited, and his shoes made a harsh creaking sound on the old floor.

“Qi? You….. Where have you been? Dr. Lu, he was looking for you everywhere.” Lara was frightened, and Xue Jiahui sat up in bed and looked at him silently.

He gently nodded to Lara and said calmly: “I just came out from somewhere. You were close by, so I came here first.”

“Where have you been? Is something wrong?” Lara hadn’t recollected herself yet, but suddenly she saw Qi Leren take out a gun—a heavy black handgun.

As if she had seen something incredible, Lara opened her mouth slightly. She didn’t have time to think about where the gun had come from, and she didn’t know what he wanted to do with it. Everything around her seemed to fall into slow motion as he shot. She was stunned to see this horrible scene happen before her eyes: Qi Leren, who had been missing for a long time, suddenly appeared in her room, took out a handgun, and fired several shots at Xue Jiahui sitting on the bed!

Bang— The first shot hit Xue Jiahui’s head, and Lara stared at it. From this distance of several meters, Xue Jiahui’s forehead burst open and plasma and brains burst out together, blooming into a bloody flower in the air.

Bang— The second shot continued to hit Xue Jiahui’s head, and the twisted lower half of her face became a fountain endlessly spraying blood. Her torn head was like a watermelon smashed by a hammer that had been broken on this clean and tidy bed.

Bang— The third shot hit Xue Jiahui’s heart and her upper body clung to the bedside, tilting to one side, and knocking Lara’s midnight snack off the bedside table.

Bang— The sound of midnight snack landing and the gunshot sounded at the same time, and then two more horrible gunshots drew a bloody end.

The bullets in the chamber had been emptied, and the white smoke rising from the muzzle slowly drifted away in the cold air like in an old-fashioned movie, while Xue Jiahui, who had six shots in her body, was already a blood bag that has collapsed and bled on the bed.

The young and calm murderer retracted his arm, skillfully loaded it with new bullets, closed the chamber, and turned gently. He silently told the witness that he could start the second round of killing at any time.

In these short seconds, Lara’s mind went blank. She even forgot to scream and escape. She just stared at the cruel scene like a frightened domestic cat.

“You… You…” Lara squeezed out two incomplete syllables from her throat, shaking all over.

The murderer glanced at her and calmly said, “Look at her.”

The tone of the command stiffened Lara’s neck, and she just looked at the unrecognizable corpse. Although she had still been a living person sitting there little more than ten seconds ago, Lara felt that there could be no worse thing in this world—but she was wrong.

The body moved.

Lara’s eyes almost bulged out of her head, and her mouth gave a spasm-like, shaking breath. She saw Xue Jiahui’s bloody body move slowly… From under the blanket soaked with blood, a sticky tentacle poked out and pressed on the bloody body, then a second and third…

A “monster” abandoned its host’s body and was breaking from the broken skeleton, tearing off its disguised appearance, and coming into this world with its true appearance!

Bang— A gunshot. The shot tentacle broke in a blood flower. The monster jumped out from the bedding, Xue Jiahui’s remaining body carried by it like a ragged pocket, and the skin and skeleton drained of blood twisted around the sticky tentacles, making the monster look like a scarlet nightmare.

“Go!” Lara, who was still frozen in horror, was pushed out the door by Qi Leren and collapsed to the ground, staring at Qi Leren who was firing several shots, shooting while retreating, but the monster that was hit by the bullets made a shrill scream and rushed at them crazily.

Qi Leren took something out of his pocket, threw it hard at the pouncing monster, and slammed the door closed, crushing Laura to the ground. There was the bang of a loud noise, shaking the house crazily, the impact of the explosion blew open the fragile wooden door. The wooden door was blown into several pieces, one of which flew to the ceiling, bounced back several times, and finally fell heavily on Qi Leren’s back! Qi Leren grunted, and Lara was dumbfounded.

When the explosion subsided, the surrounding area was in a mess. Lara felt Qi Leren, who was pressing her body down, move. She asked nervously, “Qi, are you okay?”

Qi Leren groaned, struggled up from her, and fell to the ground sideways.

Lara got nervous and knelt on the ground, patting Qi Leren’s face. “Hey Qi, can you hear me?”

“I’m fine…” Qi Leren took a breath and said, “I was hit by the door. It hurts a little. Just let me rest for a while.”

He repented in his heart and reflected on what he had just done: First, he should not pretend to be forceful, but should run away and throw his hand grenade; Second, don’t overestimate your luck, and remember to hide in the corner next time.

“Is it dead?” Lara turned to look at the exploded room. A big dark hole had been blown out in the center of the explosion, and nothing could be seen where the bed had been.

“If that didn’t kill it, let’s accept our fate early.” Qi Leren slowly propped up his body, and the place where his back was hit still hurt terribly, making his breathing painful. However, by now his ability to stand blows was relatively strong. Chen Baiqi had joked that he had mastered the “gasping and spitting blood technique” and was very resistant to attacks. As long as he lied on the ground for a while, his body would recover and he could continue to be beaten.

Lara quickly gave Qi Leren a hand: “What was that?”

“Amphioctopus, a parasitic space alien.” Qi Leren straightened his body and grinned painfully, but he had to hold back for the sake of his image. “I’ll tell you the details on the way.”

With that, he raised his gun and walked into the exploded room.

The amphioctopus was dead. Although its vitality was tenacious, it was only a creature that could be explained scientifically, and it would not be too strong to overcome. And it was not without weaknesses: when it parasitized the human body, it would borrow the human brain to think, but once the head is shot and the brain dies, it could no longer use the human brain to strategize, and it has to break away from the uncooperating human body and fight with its original body—although it had strong fighting power, it was only a monster after all.

“Who the hell are you?” After leaving her house, Lara followed closely behind the Qi Leren and asked, “Someone from the military? A default actor? An interstellar adventurer? A mercenary?”

Lara’s incessant questioning made Qi Leren feel helpless. He had to stop and show a divine smile: “I am an apostle of God.”

At this moment, Lara’s expression was highly similar to He Yi’s.

Qi Leren didn’t give her time to refute. He asked an irrelevant question: “Do you believe in the existence of God?”

“…My mother believes, but both my father and I believe in science,” Lara said after a while.

“Does science give you the answer to who created this world?” Qi Leren asked.

“The power of nature?” Lara wasn’t sure either.

“Who is the power of nature?” Qi Leren asked again.

“This… This is a natural order, it isn’t anyone, just like how apples will fall because of gravity. This is a law of nature, a law that has existed since the big bang,” Lara said.

“To make a simple analogy, the world is like a program, and the code makes it run. But who wrote the code? Who created the code? You still haven’t answered this question,” Qi Leren said.

Lara was silent because she couldn’t answer.

Qi Leren smiled mysteriously: “You see, even in this era where human beings can sail freely through the universe, we still can’t explain everything, and we can’t answer where the world came from. Before the big bang, this vast universe was just an unmeasurable singularity, and the laws you spoke of didn’t exist at all, but at the moment it exploded, everything was born. Can you imagine this power? Can you answer who created this singularity?”

“…I can’t.” Lara bowed her head in frustration.

Qi Leren smiled and said with a divine air: “Then keep being in awe of the unknown, and never easily deny what you can’t prove.”

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Editor’s Notes: A double upload today since I missed Tuesday. We’ve reached the climax of this arc, what’s gonna happen what’s gonna happen~

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