Chapter 212: Odds, odd variations, dual personalities.

The original host, Bai Anyi, has a very ordinary experience and personality compared to the other hosts Chi Xiaochi has taken.

He is a quiet and gentle person, rarely socialized, a white coat cleaned all year round, a frame of square gold glasses, is the usual concept of the kind of young talent, at the age of 20 to become a master's degree in archaeology, worship of giant creatures, life favorite is the Jurassic period, the second love Yongchuanosaurus, the third love of herbaceous amniotic plants.

Since talking about boyfriends, the amniotes have taken over.

His boyfriend, Jiao Qingguang, is also a scientist, specializing in drugs that inhibit class A globulins, and is a senior in the pharmaceutical engineering program next door.

The two met at an intra-institutional conference, where Bai Anyi and Jiao Qingguang presented their newly published papers as representatives of their respective departments.

Jiao Qingguang published the title "Experimental study of nanomedicine for targeting therapeutic class A globulin secretion", and Bai Anyi published the title "On the restoration of peaceful Yongchuanosaurus".

After Bai Anyi gave a brief summary of the paper, it was time for the customary question-and-answer session.

Jiao Qingguang raised her hand.

Bai Anyi was a bit curious, not knowing what he could ask himself, so she nodded him up, "Senior Jiao."

Jiao Qingguang stood up, sharply saying, "I would like to ask, what is the relevance of your paper? Who cares about the Jurassic when the real problems have not been solved?"

In the face of such a sharp question, Bai Anyi just froze for a second, and then smiled gently, "For things that are down to earth, there are activists like Senior Jiao to do them. It's also because of people like Senior Jiao that we can look up to the starry sky of ten thousand years ago with confidence."

After the meeting, Jiao Qingguang apologized to Bai Anyi.

He scratched the back of his head, "It's my fault for being so impulsive. Shouldn't have embarrassed you in public."

Bai Anyi knew that Jiao Qingguang was a staunch anti-alienist, and since he was the only one whose paper topic had nothing to do with current reality, it was no surprise that he was disgruntled, and his attitude towards himself was extraordinarily sharp.

He gave a polite yawn, "It's fine, just an academic discussion. Our profession is often questioned about relevance, I wouldn't mind."

Bai Anyi was so good-tempered that it made Jiao Qingguang even more anxious: "I'll treat you to some ice."

Bai Anyi looks at her watch and says seriously, "My mentor told me to go to her office after I finish my report. We'll meet at the east gate at 4:30 p.m., okay."

Later on, Bai Anyi and Jiao Qingguang fall in love like a clichéd school story.

Jiao Qingguang came out to her family in high school, and Bai Anyi grew up in an orphanage, so there was little to stop them from falling in love.

In terms of their outlook, the two are not particularly dissimilar, except for their different attitudes towards the Alien.

Bai Anyi was so conservative and tolerant that he was shy about holding hands, and so dedicated to his research, that the most romantic thing Jiao Qingguang did with him in their two-year relationship was to walk hand in hand in the playground at night.

As an undergraduate, Bai Anyi took a double degree in astronomy and archaeology, and he would tell Jiao Qingguang stories of starlight transmitted from thousands of years ago that may now be extinct.

Bai Anyi's world and social circle are very simple, so after awakening such a weird ability, his first thought was to tell Jiao Qingguang.

When Jiao Qingguang first heard it, he thought he was joking.

But seeing Bai Anyi's expression, Jiao Qingguang panicked, and after trying to stabilize his emotions, he persuaded him, "Go and register quickly!"

Bai Anyi blanched, "I don't want to. ...... I only tell you, can you help me, keep this secret?"

He had the common problem of freedom for those who read too much, and what's more, he longed for the stars and the ancient centuries as much as he did, and thought he knew that he loved freedom.

He'd always had a tolerant attitude towards shifters, as well as the sentiment that things hurt.

Jiao Qingguang became anxious, he put his hand into his coat pocket and looked straight at Bai Anyi : "It's not a matter of what you want or don't want! Do you want to do something with your powers?"

Bai Anyi is stubborn and cannot be pulled by nine oxen.

He said negatively, "Yeah, I want to do something, I want to take myself and do research! I want to try and see if my powers can help me with my research! OK?"

Bai Anyi and Jiao Qingguang have their first argument since they met.

The end result was an unhappy split.

Bai Anyi went back to the lab and immersed himself in his experiments in an attempt to relieve his worries.

The eyes were grey and cloudy, and as far as the eye could see, there was fluttering granular dust, dust that was colorful and varied, like a virus under a microscope.

And he was so heavy that the air, which was like nothing to a normal person, seemed to suddenly have weight and resistance, and every time he moved, he felt as if he were under water, and it didn't take long for him to break out in a cold sweat.

He sighed and put down the test tube, which seemed to him to be covered in bacteria, and tried to rest on the table for a moment.

However, an hour later, a team of heavily armed experimenters stormed into the house.

Bai Anyi was convicted of attempting to conceal his competence, as evidenced by an audio recording submitted by whistleblower Jiao Qingguang.

"...... I want to take myself for research! I want to try and see if my powers can help me with my research!"

As he was being forced into an isolation suit and escorted into an isolation vehicle, Jiao Qingguang, who had been waiting quietly, came quickly.

Contacting Bai Anyi's despairing gaze, Jiao Qingguang calmed his nerves and compassionately said, "...... I am doing this for the safety of all mankind."

...... Bai Anyi but smelled the strong odor of disinfectant on him.

After separating from himself, he bathed himself in disinfectant water.

His eyes behind the lenses closed slightly, ignoring Jiao Qingguang for a moment longer.

At first, Bai Anyi thought that the worst thing that could happen to him would be to be expelled from school, forced to wear a collar after a three-month-long closed education on the code of the aliens, and reduced to the status of a free slave under the social machine.

But he thought wrong.

This country has an unusual hatred for aliens who try to hide their identities.

To many people, the fact that an alien is hiding their abilities is a sign of criminal intent.

The society has even spontaneously set up a perfect monitoring organization and a reward mechanism for reporting to sanction these "fish in the net", and they will detain those who conceal their supernormal abilities and hand them over to the monitoring organization for "re-education".

Of course, on the surface, the State still calls for equality for all, but secretly, any action taken by these "watchdogs" is authorized and supported by lawful acts.

On his first day, Bai Anyi confessed to the staff about all his abilities and argued that he could just see some substances suspended in the air and felt the air was heavy, so he didn't feel the need to report it, and he didn't want to lose his freedom for such a boring ability.

The man in the navy blue work clothes didn't look him in the eye the entire time, chuckling softly as he made a horizontal stroke on the electronic record belonging to Bai Anyi.

Bai Anyi doesn't know what this stroke means.

When he was dragged into the shock room, he realized that writing on the electronic record meant that the "prisoner" had made a mistake and "disobeyed" today.

Draw a stroke and electrocute once, three stops at a time.

Draw a full "positive" and the shock level goes up to five.

It was both a punishment and an experiment, testing the physical limits of the shifter.

For Bai Anyi, third gear is torture and fifth gear is worse than death.

During the period of confinement, they had to get up at five o'clock every morning and recite the Abnormal Human Beings Management Law, and in the morning they were tested on a sample of what they had memorized yesterday, making sure that every word was correct; in the afternoon they had to study all the other laws, and in the evening they had to hand in a 1,000-word introspection essay, the contents of which were not allowed to be repeated or repeated, and were not permitted to go to bed in unison until after twelve o'clock in the evening.

When they sleep, they are not allowed to lie down, but can only sit in a transparent "cold capsule" to sleep, built-in a variety of instruments, real-time monitoring of their every move.

And the capsule was made of a special material that would artificially balance and inhibit the class A globulin in their bodies, and was exceptionally strong, not something that could be broken by unusual forces.

When they ate, they had to put their hands together and give thanks to the human race; before they went to bed, they had to recite the "Alien Safety Code" in unison. Blood sampling and human experimentation became a blessing because it meant they could have half a day to a day of rest.

Alien people who are imprisoned in the watchdog institution become prisoners who can't even defecate on their own.

Bai Anyi, a freedom advocate with the stubbornness of a scholar, was recognized as a "restless man" and was often subjected to electric shocks.

He tends to pass out from the immense pain just as the shock begins, and wakes up to be put back in the capsule.

Once he woke up to find that his arms were burnt in large pieces.

The pain could no longer be felt, the only thing remaining was paralysis and burning.

He was wearing a straitjacket and couldn't move the upper half of his body, so he could only close his eyes and use his feet to stomp slowly on the ground.

There was a young man next door to him with a perm on his airplane head who was allowed to come back and rest for half a day because he had 500 cc's of blood drawn from him.

When he woke up, Airplane Head accosted him, "Man, you're too fierce, aren't you? It's awesome!"

Bai Anyi, believing that he was talking about his negotiations with the "manager" - the name given to the staff member who wears the navy-blue overalls here - said politely: "No."

Airplane Head watched his feet slowly move across the floor and asked, "What are you doing?"

Bai Anyi closed his eyes and said, "I'm stepping on Jupiter now."

Airplane Head: "Huh?"

Bai Anyi moved his feet, with a whole star map in his mind, and said to himself, "...... I jumped over a few comets and came to Titan XV ...... Saturn was like a jewel, and I uncovered Saturn Storm --red and black Saturn Storm, as a shawl, over my body ......"

Imagining it that way eases his pain.

Airplane Head watched him mutter some unintelligible words, so he summed it up in a nutshell by saying, "Nuts."

There are quite a few shifters who have gone insane in the Watchdog, and these people often end up being shipped up to the isolation room, unbeknownst to them.

Bai Anyi had asked the "manager" about their whereabouts, and the answer was another notation in the record book.

Perhaps because Bai Anyi was so difficult to deal with, his "manager" was so disgusted with him that he deliberately targeted him by extending his incarceration date on the grounds that he was "not sincere in his efforts to be rehabilitated".

Later in life, Bai Anyi is also a bit more honest, learning to treat people with silence and resisting only with her heart.

Even if the time passes by bitterly, at least one minute passes by.

His term of imprisonment is finally coming to an end.

Seeing that it was all coming to an end, Bai Anyi was no longer looking forward to the rest of his life as a free man, but only hoped that his mentor would intercede for him to stay in the lab and continue his research, even if it was only to work as an assistant.

Mentors are enlightened enough in their treatment of the alien that they shouldn't ......

This reverie before he fell asleep was interrupted by the sudden injection of hypnotic gas into the capsule.

Without thinking about it, he fell into a deep sleep, and before he drifted off, his remaining consciousness could only catch a hint of the vibration.

...... The "capsule" they used to sleep in was taken away.

He hadn't the slightest idea that he was in the middle of another complete nightmare.

......

Chi Xiaochi's reading of the world line was mercilessly interrupted.

The truck carrying them rolled onto the rock and took a long jump upward.

The "capsule" uses a steel headband to hold their heads in place, and the slightest movement sends an electric shock pulse to the temples, causing numbness in the eye sockets, headaches, and a surge in saliva production, which even spills out of the corners of the mouth uncontrollably.

A painful intake of breath rose and fell in the upheaval.

In another "capsule", a thin girl is very light and therefore vibrates more than the others.

She had a terrible headache and cracked, "Fuck! Fuck!!!"

After the upheaval, all is silent again.

Across the street, Wei XVI is still waiting for an answer from "Bai Anyi".

When he asks "what are you", he means "what are your abilities".

Despite not yet knowing where they would be transported, Chi Xiaochi had quickly developed a mindfulness, "Why don't you start by telling me what you are?"

In Bai Anyi's memory, it was strictly forbidden to exchange more than five sentences among the members of the monitoring organization, and among the imprisoned aliens, there were also "good prisoners" who had suffered a few times and then reformed themselves to work as fighters for the monitoring organization, and who were eager to use this as a way to "make a mark".

As a result, there is perennial silence in the institution. It is possible to spend months together and not know what the other person's abilities are.

What's more, Chi Xiaochi searched Bai Anyi's memories, and there was no one called "Wei XVI" in them.

Of the people on this bus, he only had two familiar faces.

One was that young girl who had just been cursing madly, and the other was an older man who looked quite composed.

Wei XVI hemmed and hawed, "So vigilant ah, little glasses."

He stopped sucking on the "candy" and bit the "hard candy" between his teeth, revealing its true nature.

...... That's a strange 24 sided die.

Wei XVI put the dice back in his mouth again, making a crunching sound like biting candy, and said vaguely, "No, I've already shown my sincerity. It's up to you ......"

Chi Xiaochi gave a smile and lifted her finger to point at her glasses.

Wei XVI froze, "Glasses? What are they for?"

Chi Xiaochi calmly played Tai Chi with him, "It's the same thing as your dice."

Wei XVI laughed out loud, "Have a heart, I like you."

The young girl Fang Cai was cursing at was called Ye Huan, and she obviously didn't have a very good temper, so when she heard the two of them gabbing, she said impatiently, "Will you shut up?"

Wei XVI: "I can't. I've spent six more months in that bullshit institution just so I wouldn't shut up. That's a valuable quality you can't take away."

Teenage girls: "......"

While the two of them are bickering, Chi Xiaochi opens up the world line to receive again.

Just at the same time, the vehicle carrying them slowed to a stop.

With a snort, the capsule inside the car opened uniformly and automatically, and the bondage suit automatically popped open its buttons, and there was a great rush of fresh air coming in from the outside, washing out the smell of oil that had been circulating internally inside the capsule.

Of course, for Chi Xiaochi, the world is a dirty place, inside and out.

...... They're free?

In the "capsule" closest to the truck door, a young man with a dirty braid climbed down, wiped his face, gathered courage and pushed open the rear door of the compartment.

The golden sunlight instantly kills, replaces the small light bulb in the car, wheat awn-like pinprick feeling makes everyone in the car close their eyes, and those with sensitive eyes will also have more than tears.

But the young man rolled out of the car with tears streaming down his face in joy.

It's free air, free ......

He lay on his back on the hot ground, greedily breathing in the earthy odor of the sun-tossed earth, tears falling like rain, "I'm free, I-"

He didn't have time to finish his exclamation before he heard an audible audition from overhead, "Cough, cough. Can you hear me."

Chi Xiaochi peeks out of the truck and notices ten other identical trucks, eleven in all, parked in the middle of a wasteland.

Above the wilderness, the grass and trees were smoky, but from afar, the loud sound of waves lapping at the shore could be heard.

Chi Xiaochi frowns, "Brother, is this normal?"

Lou Ying similarly stared, "Not normal."

The world line in Chi Xiaochi's head rolled with almost the exact same broadcasting sound as outside:

"Fellow Shifters, congratulations on having completed your initial trials. But unfortunately, humanity still cannot trust you with the abilities you possess."

Upon hearing this, the next vehicle immediately jumped down and went to check the driver's side.

Pulling open the driver's door, however, he saw an unmanned automatic setup.

"Rest assured, everything you are seeing now is false." That announcing voice did not contain a trace of emotion, "Including the fact that you have stepped out of the hatch and come outside, it is all a false illusion as well. The reality is that you are still lying asleep in the pod, you are just plugged into a special device."

Chi Xiaochi reacted quickly.

Is ...... a function of that helmet?

The announcing voice said, "You can think of this world, as a holographic game. This is a test for one hundred and one of your graduates. There are one hundred and one participants, all in place, with normal vitals and ready to be put to use."

Chi Xiaochi's ears were ringing with sound effects synchronized with the real world.

And the air before him remained murky and heavy.

He checked his card compartment, and the cards inside worked fine.

"Rest assured." The announcing voice seemed to be well aware of their concerns, "All of your abilities are able to be used here without any obstacles. Of course, the limitations of your abilities themselves, also exist."

Climbing out of the car, Wei XVI shouted to the sky, "What do you want to do?"

The announcing voice said, "You are sinners of the state, attempted criminals. Now, do you yearn for a life of freedom, the arms of your family, a comfortable bed? Realize your full potential and fight to live."

...... live?

What does ...... mean?

"This 'game' is about your lives." The announcing voice said, "If you die in this world, your bodies sitting in 'capsules' in the real world will die completely."

There was silence in all directions, then it was replaced by angry cries.

Some people yelled and cursed, others ran to dismantle the "capsule", and in the face of all this, the broadcasting voice reacted to nothing and looked on coldly.

It wasn't until the crowd had been frenzied for five minutes and gradually quieted down that the announcing voice sounded again, "No act of sabotage, other than the completion of the test, will allow you to detach yourselves from this world. This 'game' can only be terminated by us after the winner is recognized."

"Please raise your hands and touch your necks." The announcing voice assiduously said, "There is a collar on it. Rest assured, this collar will only monitor your vital signs, as well as orient you. It is made of a special material, and once forcibly removed, it will shrink inward and strangle you alive, so please use it with caution."

"On your right arm ...... pairs, please roll up your sleeves. There is a dial that doubles as a clock and compass, and also displays detailed data about each of your bodies, which can be viewed at any time when needed. Of course, you can also press the button on the side. It will show you the percentage of bets you're buying in real time."

Someone asked incredulously, "Buy a bet? Buy what bet?"

"Sorry. It's a way for us to make a profit on our foreign operations." The announcing voice explained, "It takes a lot of money to incarcerate and study shifters. And some people, in turn, have a need to want to watch xenos fight. So, we will broadcast the entirety of your 'game' live, and there will be people who will put money down for bets. This is also a way to generate revenue, so please understand."

Chi Xiaochi frowned slightly and voiced, "Why are you telling us about this?"

The announcing voice put on a serious voice: "We must inform you of this out of consideration for the human rights of the Alien. You have the right to know. Moreover, please pay more attention to the odds of this 'game', you can develop all sorts of very interesting ways to play and benefit yourselves."

Some are on the verge of a breakdown: "You are trying to execute us in public! What do you take us for? Game animals?"

The announcing voice said coldly, "It can be interpreted that way."

"Alterans, originally, are an accident of this world. What we dispose of are incompetent aliens who can only cause some minor social unrest and trouble; what we leave behind are aliens who are eager for freedom and have the ability to do so. We will educate and experiment on the latter in the third stage, and sign a contract to be used by the organization and society. This is the 'Alien Elimination and Streamlining Program'. After this program, you will better understand the value of freedom."

The announcing voice collected the coldness in its voice and contained a courteous smile, "In the end, there are only three survival spots. At that time, if more than three people survive, everyone will be uniformly injected with poison. Please, everyone, fight for freedom."

When Fang Cai stopped broadcasting, the man with the dirty dreadlocks, who had been on the same bus as Chi Xiaochi and was the first to get off, violently cut his index finger with a stone.

He formed a gun with his hand and gave a shaky "pop" to the bad-tempered girl, Ye Huan.

In the next second, Ye Huan's head was exploded into a rotten watermelon by a coagulated, high-speed blood droplet.

The dirty braided man took a big breath and, without waiting for the others to come back to his senses, pulled his feet up and ran for the corner of the wasteland.

Instantly, everyone scattered in a birdlike manner and all began to defend themselves against the stranger at their side.

Wei sixteen subconsciously went to grab the nearest, weakest-looking "small glasses": "Hey, you to the side a little ......"

But he grabbed it.

He looked back and saw that "Bai Anyi" had disappeared at some point.

Wei XVI whistled playfully, and without delay, he turned around and ran in a direction, refusing to stay in this place that would fall into the Shura Hell at any moment.

As he ran, he thought, Is Bai Anyi s supernatural ...... ability instantaneous?

At this very moment.

Chi Xiaochi is running deep and shallow in a forest 50 kilometers southeast of the starting point.

Name: Mobile Card (Intermediate)

Duration: Ready-to-use

Number of pieces: 1

Quality: Medium

Type: Single-use product

Exchange points required: 10 remorse

Introducing: Shunde Coconut Double Peel Milk made from fresh buffalo milk, which can only be eaten if you travel 50 kilometers southeast.

...... It seems that when 009 wrote this copy, he was probably doing a mission on behalf of other systems near Shunde and didn't get to eat the famous local double-skinned milk, so he couldn't forget it.

As soon as the dirty braided man cut his finger, Chi Xiaochi used an instantaneous card, long clutched in the palm of his hand, to move from the truck.

The watery, hot air was like substance, surging through his lungs, alive as if he'd been in water.

He hadn't had a very good experience of the crap skill Bai Anyi had when he was bound by the corset, but running, he just felt like he was running in a swimming pool, his body was heavy, his arms and legs were blocked, it was almost like running with dozens of sandbags on his back.

Seeing Chi Xiaochi's huffing and puffing as he ran, Lou Ying was also distressed and wanted to say something to make him feel relieved.

Was it cursing that Jiao Qingguang, or the watchdog agency that was behind it all, or the main god that transported him to this awful world line?

Lou Ying was racking his brain for an appropriate expression when he heard Chi Xiaochi simply and brutally start cursing, "Fuck you, a bunch of steel orphans."

...... Lou Ying felt that it would be difficult to surpass the precision of this sentence by cursing anything else, so he chose to keep his mouth shut and only focused on regulating his breathing for him.

However, the original master's supernatural influence was too powerful to be analyzed and manipulated in a short period of time, so Lou Ying was unable to help him, and as the original master was a senior technological dead-end nerd, his physical ability was really limited, so after running for not long, Chi Xiaochi stood at the edge of a small pool, holding his knees to catch his breath.

Lou Ying did not ask Chi Xiaochi why he ran to such a place, and Chi Xiaochi did not say.

The two men swallowed the unspoken words.

--"I'll come to you."

-- "I knew that the you of this world would come to me."

After only a short while, Chi Xiaochi's clothes were soaked with sweat.

He pulled the top half of his jumpsuit off, tied a knot in his sleeve around his waist, and checked the dial on his right wrist again.

After all that panting, his heart was still beating at a hundred and twenty, and his eyes went black for a moment.

He combed through his thoughts.

The difficulty with this world was that he was now stuck in a place where he couldn't break through, and couldn't press his luck with the scummy quest subject.

Wanting remorse value, he had to find a way to be one of those three winners.

At the moment Chi Xiaochi doesn't have a clue, so he's going to look at the odds and calm down.

Unsurprisingly, the tapped screen showed that his odds were currently ranked second to last, just above an eighteen year old girl.

Next to the big odds board, there were actually small live chat screens with different languages scrolling colorfully and quickly on them.

"It's on! Exciting!!!"

"This time is much more interesting than last time... straight to the kill."

"Last time, when they were so slow, shouting a bunch of slogans about love and peace, what good did it do, but in the end, they were still polite on the surface and did it in secret?"

"The woman is dead?"

"Dead. Can't you see the odds data has been cleared? Pity, quite a pretty female with a violent temper, I like it."

"Yo, 17 caught up with 21!"

"Fuck, which area which area?"

"Won't look at it myself. section C1!"

It seems that in the eyes of these bigoted anti-alien watchers, they're just game characters and a bunch of numerical codes that don't deserve to be called beings at all.

Chi Xiaochi snorted and continued to read one by one.

He had planned to stay here and wait for the Lou Ying of this world to come after him.

Among those people, unless there were those who knew dual skills like positioning + instantaneous movement, it wouldn't be that easy to find him as a soft target to pinch right away.

It's not a bad idea to read the reviews while you're at it.

There might even be a messy one that reveals which contestant's powers are what ......

He was swiping through the comments when Lou Ying suddenly called out to him, "Xiaochi, back off."

Chi Xiaochi immediately obeyed, putting down her wristwatch and taking a step backwards, "Huh?"

Lou Ying's voice was rather odd: "...... Look in the water."

Chi Xiaochi was stunned, looked down, and abruptly exploded in a white-haired sweat.

...... He stood at the water s edge, and Bai Anyi s shadow was reflected in the small pool.

And at that moment, something alive crawled out of Bai Anyi's shadow.

Bai Anyi's shadow, to be precise, crawled out of the water.

...... more surprising is that this shadow, and Bai Anyi born exactly the same, wearing a lab coat he used to wear, set a pair of immaculate gold glasses, courteous, polite, and Bai Anyi is the same beauty, however, the temperament is very different from Bai Anyi, both However, her temperament is very different from Bai Anyi's, both cold and colorful, adding a few points of smiling coldness between her looks.

And this person, who looked exactly like Bai Anyi, had just climbed onto the shore, and with a smirk on his face, he asked a single question, "...... You're not my little Bai Zi. Who are you?"

...... Chi Xiaochi decided to retract his arrogant assessment that the original owner was "bland".