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Chapter 28 King Priest and Warrior

Yan Jingxing had a dream.

Terrible dream.

What's even more frightening is that both the picture and the sound are very real, and the blood is so bloody that a child would have a nightmare after watching it.

But Yan Jingxing's mentality is still stable.

He was indeed taken aback at first, but soon noticed that he was looking at it from a kind of third-person perspective.

With nothing else to distract him, he could only watch the unlucky guy with his back facing him cut open, and after watching for a long time, he got used to it.

If he could really feel the pain personally, he would have screamed and rolled on the ground long ago.

But the person in front of him was different. Although judging from various physiological reactions such as muscle trembling and dripping sweat, he was obviously still alive; but in the face of such torture, this guy had no intention of struggling at all. His head was drooping, as if he had lost the strength to resist, or——

Are you asleep?Hypnotized?Lost consciousness?
"wait wait wait……"

Yan Jingxing suddenly felt that this person's back was a bit familiar, and his mood suddenly fluctuated.

It looks like a young man.

——This person...could it be me?
The more Yan Jingxing looked at it, the more he felt that it was really him, and he inevitably felt flustered. He didn't know whether it was the illusion caused by fear that drove him to think so, or whether he was really the victim.

No one appreciates his back all day long, so Yan Jingxing couldn't recognize it and couldn't make up his mind.

If the person being dissected is himself, what is his current perspective? Could it be that his soul is out of his body?

After the "victim"'s back was cut open, the bloody operation did not stop there, but continued in a more brutal way:
A white, slender device, like a skeletal hand stripped of skin and flesh, appeared from the side, just like this, bit by bit into the body cavity, tightly grasping the entire spine of that person, and then——

Pulls out easily.

The human body that lost its support spread limply like an inflatable man that had emptied its air, but soon, a brand new spinal bone was inserted back to support the man again.

Every inch of the bone exudes a metallic cool gray luster, more like it was used in some kind of mechanical creation.

With the dexterous cooperation of several devices such as chain saws, tweezers, and bone hands, a reconstruction operation to replace human spine bones was completed in less than a few minutes.

"This...is this all right..."

Yan Jingxing stared wide-eyed, watching that after the spinal bone was stuffed back, the cut and opened human muscles and skin began to heal automatically, and the huge wound shrunk rapidly, until only a blood-colored suture was left in the end.

"So, this person is really not me, right? I don't have this kind of ability..."

Just as he was thinking this way, a strange and huge attraction came from the direction of the "top of the head".

This feeling is very familiar.Yan Jingxing remembered that he had the same feeling when he was about to wake up from the pitcher plant device after the teleportation.

Yan Jingxing's consciousness was involuntarily drawn into the vortex, and finally surfaced in the warm sea water. This process was like a baby coming out of the mother's womb...

*
The boy opened his eyes and sat up abruptly.

The closed pelvic device opened automatically, and the light from outside lightly fell on the surface of his eyeballs.

After waking up, he could feel sweat dripping all over his body, and his clothes were soaked.

Yan Jingxing looked around, gradually recalling the memories before entering the device.

The person in the dream...is it really me?

Yan Jingxing hesitated, stretched his hand to his back, and touched the back tentatively.

"hiss……!"

No strong pain sensation.But the slight bump touched by the fingertips is obviously the touch of a scar.

The retracted fingers twirled for a while and then opened again. You can see shallow blood marks, which means that the wound on the back has just healed not long ago.

His face changed.

The guess that hovered in my mind became a reality——

Yan Jingxing turned his head abruptly, looking at the "chair" behind him.

So this is a surgical device?
but why?Why replace the human spine?What's the point?
"boom!"

Before he could think carefully, another pelvic device slowly opened with a muffled sound.

The little girl with long curly hair tightly covered her left eye with her hand, gasped with difficulty, and slid off the chair.

Yan Jingxing hurried over and grabbed her shoulders.

"Chunzao, Chunzao! Are you alright?"

he cried anxiously.

"fine……"

Ji Chunzao shook his head, leaned into his arms, and whispered:
"It's just one side... one side of the eye hurts... I can't open it..."

Yan Jingxing grabbed the girl's slender shoulders, seeing her strange posture of covering her eyes with one hand, his heart clenched tightly.

Could it be that she is the same as himself...

"boom!"

Another muffled sound.

A third figure emerges from the opened pelvic apparatus.

Xie Yuzhi supported her knees and stood up unsteadily.

She covered her right eye with all her strength, her chest heaved violently, the gaze of the remaining one eye went back and forth, and finally landed on Yan Jingxing's body.

*
What exactly happened in the device just now?
He watched himself being implanted in the spine, thinking it was a bloody dream, but now it seems that this is probably an operation that actually happened to him.

Yan Jingxing couldn't help reaching out to touch the slightly raised bloodstain on his back.

He didn't feel that there was anything wrong with his body, no pain, no discomfort, but just because everything was normal, it made him feel even more uneasy.

Yan Jingxing looked at his two companions.

Ji Chunzao covered his left eye, Xie Yuzhi covered his right eye, the two girls sat quietly side by side, and they also posed in the same pose, looking like a pair of sisters playing tricks in front of people .

They're fine... The feeling of peace of mind temporarily dilutes the tension in his heart at the moment.

"Let me first talk about what I encountered in this device."

After Yan Jingxing finished talking about his experience, he asked them again:

"Did you have the same experience as me?"

"...That's right."

Xie Yuzhi put her hand down, and her right eye blinked slightly twice, as if she was afraid of the light outside, but finally managed to open it.

"I remember very clearly that the device inside used surgery to remove my eyeball, and then replaced it with a new eyeball that I got from nowhere, and stuffed it in..."

Xie Yuzhi blinked her right eye twice again, and this "new eye" looked no different from her original one, as natural as it was born.

"So far I don't feel anything, and there is no organ rejection or anything like that. But I think this is the strangest part, at least it cannot be done with human medical technology."

"That's it, Jing Xing has had his spine replaced."

Ji Chunzao whispered.

"It sounds really scary. It's even more unlucky than me and Yuzhi."

"Hahaha, it's okay."

Yan Jingxing rubbed the back of his head and saw the little girl looking at him worriedly, so he quickly explained.

"I don't have any discomfort in my body now, so don't worry."

As he spoke, he assumed a punching posture and swung forward a few times in the air.

"Look, there's nothing wrong with it, right?"

Yan Jingxing said with a smile.But at the same time, some doubts suddenly appeared in his heart:
"Hey, it's strange... the speed of my punches seems to be different from before..."

Delusion?
Yan Jingxing withdrew his hand hesitantly.

"Speaking of which, have you noticed the mural behind it?"

Miss Xie stood up suddenly and walked to the wall behind the device.

"Murals? Where...there are really, why didn't we notice it when we arrived in this room?"

"It seems that it only appeared after we entered the device."

Yan Jingxing and Ji Chunzao came to the mural.It is different from all the murals I have seen before. Its color is bright red, and the outline on the screen is still twisting slightly, like flowing fresh blood.

"This content seems to be a continuation of the mural in the hall. Wait, this is..."

Yan Jingxing stopped in the middle of his words, and a chill rose up his back.

The content of the mural is about the inhabitants of alien planets who took out three organs from the flesh column and implanted them in their own bodies in a cruel way.

And those three organs are the spine, the left eye and the right eye—

"..."

"..."

"..."

The three young people looked at each other, Yan Jingxing and Ji Chunzao's expressions were a little stiff.

After a while, Xie Yuzhi finally spoke out the conclusion:

"In this way, what we experience in the installation is exactly the same content as in the murals, a continuation of an ancient ritual."

There was even a faint smile on her face.

"We should be thankful. Compared with the cruelty and bloodyness shown above, what we have experienced is obviously a more civilized and advanced ritual of the alien civilization after continuous evolution and improvement, using surgery. During the process There is no pain, and there seems to be no excessive sequelae so far."

No, no, this is the organ that was just replaced!Is your reaction a little too calm?

Having said that...

Yan Jingxing sighed.

After all, things have already happened, and there seems to be no other way but to accept it.

When he turned around, he suddenly noticed something.

"Look. There seems to be text on this device."

Yan Jingxing squatted down and found a different symbol on the back of the three chairs, which looked like an earthworm.

"It's a pity that I don't understand."

Miss Xie shook her head regretfully.

"Words and language are symbols of civilization. If we can understand and master them, we can gain a deeper understanding of this alien civilization. But with the abilities of a few of us junior high school students..."

"—Hey, but I can understand it?"

Ji Chunzao squatted down, and for some reason she began to cover her eyes again—but this time it was her right eye.

"...What? Can you understand these alien texts?"

Xie Yuzhi froze for a moment.

"Ah."

The little girl responded briefly.

The surgically implanted eye, clear and bright, is now staring intently at the symbols on the device.

"Let me see...the one over here, it says, uh, 'wizard'...'prophet'...'sacrifice'? That's about the meaning."

Yan Jingxing and Xie Yuzhi looked at each other, both feeling incredible.

Although Chunzao occasionally loses her temper as a child, she never lies about business matters.Moreover, her behavior at this time did not look like she was joking.

Of course Yan Jingxing believed her.The only problem is-

How did she do it?
Ji Chunzao stood up and walked to the middle device, which was the one that Yan Jingxing crawled out of.

"What's written here is...'Samurai'? 'Soldier'?...'Warrior'? Anyway, it means someone who takes up arms and fights."

Finally, there is the device used to perform surgery on Xie Yuzhi.

"'Chief', 'Chief'... By the way, 'King'! It means king."

Ji Chunzao put down his hands, showing a satisfied smile.

"Wait a minute, Chunzao, why do you suddenly recognize the characters written by aliens?"

Yan Jingxing couldn't help asking.

Xie Yuzhi's question was more direct.She stared into Ji Chunzao's eyes and asked seriously:

"—did you see it with 'that eye' of yours?"

"Yes."

Ji Chunzao nodded.

She covered one eye with her hand again, revealing only the "brand new left eye".

"Since I woke up just now, I feel that something is very strange, as if there is something more in my mind, and I can see things that I couldn't see before, floating around in the air... When I cover my other eye After concentrating, you will gradually see clearly."

"So, it's the words that actively appeared in your eyes?"

She shook her head.

"No, it came to my mind, so I still need to understand it myself, and then say it."

Xie Yuzhi showed a thoughtful expression.

She stood up again, came to the mural, and stared at the content in silence.After a while, a flash of surprise flashed in the girl's pupils.

"So that's the case, this way we can correspond..."

"What did you find?"

"Come and see."

The heads of the boys and girls came together again.

"Have you seen the ending of these three people?"

As Miss Xie's slender jade fingers moved slowly on the mural, what they saw was a clear story line, from which the strange epic that happened on another planet slowly unfolded.

"After the aliens got new 'organs', they all became big figures surrounded by everyone, but in fact, the fate of these three people is different."

"See? The person who got the spine faced the battlefield alone, the person who got the left eye stood in the temple and received the worship of others, while the person who got the right eye walked to the throne in the palace, which undoubtedly symbolized different destiny."

"And according to Chunzao, we can now draw a conclusion: these three people are indeed not the same kind of people, they represent—"

"Warriors, priests, and kings."

Xie Yuzhi's fingers stopped.

"The symbols on the installation are the meaning behind the 'things' we have acquired today."

(End of this chapter)