Dow and Carbon-Based Monkey Breeding Guidelines

Chapter 574

An hour before midnight.Bells echoed throughout the city.

Ji Xun, who was resting at the table, opened his eyes and noticed that the flowers on the terrace had already bloomed.His palms were still pressed against the pages.A storybook about adventure.

Yes.He remembered.He was reading this book before falling asleep.An adventure story about a solution man.The protagonist thinks in terms of the reactions of those complex mixtures in his body.He moved his fingers to find the last paragraph he had read before falling asleep.

"...the solution man shook his body vigorously. He shook himself up and became calm and intelligent again. Now he moves on to the next move..."

Ji Xun scanned the line and couldn't help smiling strangely.He felt no need to read such a meaningless book.There are many more interesting books in the study, more arithmetic and theory.If he needs it, he can also ask the housekeeper Tuoba to put new books in the demand list, and he will be able to find new reading materials in the warehouse tomorrow.

But that's not something to rush into.There was only one hour left until midnight.

He walked out of the study.The butler, covered in a smock, was waiting outside the door.He nodded to the other party, indicating that he had heard the bell.

The housekeeper Toba, still wrapped himself in a dusty smock, squeezed out a sinister smile from his rough and wet face.Ji Xun looked at it calmly.Toba has no real life, just a very delicate robot.Although it is set up in such a grotesque appearance, it is actually responsible for the cleaning and maintenance of the entire house.Its shape comes from a book Ji Xun read in the past, about how a person who was persecuted by a slave owner was destroyed and abused, used as a petri dish for fungi and viruses, and finally became an unkillable monster.

Still, that's just a robot.A housekeeper who imitated the story.

Toba's lifelike, menacing eyes fell on his face.It giggled and laughed.

"Are you going to the lobby?" it asked.The voice was more vague and harsh than Ji Xun's memory.

"A little later."

"So maybe you're looking for some entertainment?"

Ji Xun thought about it for a while.He wanted to refuse directly, but tonight, he felt a little strange.He is already at home, the most stable and comfortable place in the world, but he feels that everything is out of harmony.

He looked around the corridor.The decoration in the room tonight is warm and soft.The ground is covered with soft rose-red blankets, rose-shaped lights hang on both sides of the aisle, and the air exudes a refreshing woody aroma.Baskets were hung on the walls, filled with fruit, vegetables and fine wine.Phantom emerald stars, decorative insects, danced in the corridors.At the end of the corridor, a gold and silver deer head hung there, looking at him and the butler from a distance, blinking its gentle eyes from time to time.

Ji Xun walked over.The deer's head drooped tamely for him to stroke its antlers.Engraved on its head was a symbol of the Ethical House, which he figured was a giveaway on Promotion Day.Still, he felt something was wrong.

The butler was still giggling.

"You're still not feeling well," it said, "perhaps you'd like some food?"

He shook his head.Some families have many chefs dedicated to making soups, meats, desserts, spices, or simply to carve beautiful ice cubes and roots.He had been a guest in such homes, but never in his own.He, and the other owner of the house, have little appetite for appetite.

The butler brought him a glass of calming water.He drank it down and asked Toba, "What is he doing?"

"Same as usual," Tuoba said, "you'd better take a rest before going to see him. I think you look bad."

Ji Xun lowered his eyes silently.When the butler proposed to find some entertainment for him for the second time, he no longer objected, but let Toba lead him behind a certain door in the corridor.Behind that door is a space of pure darkness.He heard his footsteps fall in the void, making sonorous but ethereal echoes.The voice seemed to step on his heart, outlining an unknown void.

Tuoba supported him to sit in a soft void.It asked him if there was any show he wanted to watch, and Ji Xun shook his head flatly.

"You arrange it," he said.He knew that was what the butler was waiting for.

The butler gasped excitedly, howling like a wild animal.Ji Xun thought that its intelligent design might be too faithful to the original story.Wait until after midnight and he'll think about making some adjustments.

Toba has started its show.That must have been a well-designed play.From the depths of the dark floor glowed dim lights.They are deep purple, indigo and off-white.Within each sphere of light is a body, but it is not purely dead, or mindless living flesh.They have all been lovingly remodeled and spruced up by the housekeeper.

A pale and grinning skeleton with a long dragon-like tail at the end of its spine; a team of tin men dressed in colorful costumes, their faces as flat as metal mirrors; a plump woman with pink eyes and dark blue hair, long A maw full of tusks stretching from her chest to her navel; a fish with feathers; a man who replaced his eyes with two thin periscopes.

"Sing! Dance! You dead people!" cried Toba. "Have some fun for your master!"

So these dead people started to swim.They hovered under the dark and transparent floor, like diving in the abyss, and finally came to the ground one by one.The quacking and laughing skeleton flew around the main seat, blowing a fierce and biting cold wind.The Tin Woodman in his ugly clothes moved his limbs ridiculously stiffly, and performed a skit about the battle.

They worked together to hang an old male corpse in the air, and in a violent whirl, they threw him into a pile of cobalt blue meat paste and a skeleton.The skeleton jumped down and danced on the floor with the pink-eyed woman.The man with thin periscope eyes sang high and low, and a pair of braided-haired wings flapped above his head.

The dead rejoice.Every 1 minute, different repertoires are staged and different songs are sung.dance.Courtship.duel.Sentenced.They took off the skull's head and filled it with the blood of the woman with pink eyes, and the blood became clear and fragrant wine.They offer the head that holds the wine to the throne.

Ji Xun put the head on his lap, and looked at the performance below without emotion.Tuoba was behind the seat, tapping his heels to the accompaniment.When the corpse of an old man in work clothes and his hands replaced by iron braces was swallowed by the blue-haired woman, he only moved his fingers slightly.After another few minutes, he lowered his eyes.The show came to an abrupt end.

Toba tapped his heel.The stagnant dead slowly sank downward, disappearing into the bottomless darkness.

The butler asked, "What do you think?"

"I don't remember such a story in the study." The master replied indifferently.

"It's an old script," Toba said.It giggled again.

Ji Xun drank the wine in the head.He still doesn't feel right about himself.He seemed to have just woken up from a long dream, but in fact he only rested briefly for a quarter of an hour.In this family, he was not the one who was indulging in fantasy.

"How long until midnight?" he asked.

"Six quarters of an hour. Are you going to the antechamber?"

"No," Ji Xun said, "I'll go see him first."

They walked out of the dark room and back into the long corridor with a rose-red carpet.Tuoba led him to a higher floor, ten floors.

"As a bedroom," Tuoba said as he walked, "his arrangement is a bit out of the ordinary."

Ji Xun walked up indifferently.When they finally pushed open the door on the top floor, what they saw was a boundless gray ocean.It was raining continuously, and the thunder was rumbling.The person he was going to see was wearing a loose hospital gown, sitting on a ledge a little far from the door.Ji Xun stepped forward to wake up the other master of the family.

"Jing Huang." He called out.

(End of this chapter)