Chapter 130 - 109: Second Stage 4
I confirmed that the Source Crystal could slow the spread of the cancer cells in my body.
I was desperate to conduct a proper human trial. I wanted to escape the shadow of death completely.
But I didn’t dare.
I didn’t have the courage to personally implant that cold crystal into my own body.
I was afraid of failure.
I was afraid of becoming one of those mindless, walking corpses from the morgue.
She trusted me so much.
She didn’t have a single doubt, telling me with a smile that she would do anything as long as I could get better.
On the third day after the Source Crystal was implanted, her skin began to fester, growing a thick carapace.
On the fifth day, her bones began to twist, making a cringe-inducing cracking sound. Her hands transformed into sharp, bony claws.
On the seventh day, she completely lost her sanity, turning into a monster that knew only how to roar and destroy.
I returned home.
I pushed open the door and saw the floor covered in blood.
I also saw... Yaya, lying in a pool of blood, her body torn to pieces.
And that monster, my wife, was hunched over our daughter’s corpse, gnawing on it...
I killed her.
I used all my strength and a fire axe to cut off her head.
After she died, her body rapidly dissolved into a pool of foul-smelling pus.
Lin Ye silently closed the document.
Previously, the doctor’s plea—"I’m human, too. I don’t want to go to the Celestial Abyss"—had stirred a faint trace of pity in him. Now, it vanished completely.
He feared death himself.
He didn’t even dare to experiment on his own body.
So he implanted the Source Crystal into his wife.
He was an absolute monster.
The next few entries returned to the unnumbered diary format.
Date: 2049.3.11
The world is getting more and more chaotic.
The war between humanity and the Celestial Abyss has reached a fever pitch.
Cities are destroyed every day. Tens of thousands of people die every day.
Is the end of the world really coming?
Fine by me.
Yajing and Yaya are gone. What’s the point of me living alone?
The cancer cells in my body seem to have developed a resistance to the Source Crystal. They’ve started to spread again, slowly.
Even with the Source Crystal extending my life, I’m still going to die.
Just a little more slowly.
Official organizations worldwide have finally classified Source Crystals as top-tier radiation sources and highly toxic substances.
All related research has been banned.
The Dongjiang City First Chemical Plant, which had once attempted to purify and smelt Source Crystals, suffered a massive explosion and was forced to shut down.
Afterward, an area radiating several dozen kilometers out from the chemical plant was designated a highest-level contamination zone.
All personnel were forcibly relocated, and all businesses were ordered to move by a deadline.
This city is dying.
Lin Ye’s eyes narrowed.
’So that’s the real reason it became a dead city.’
Date: 2049.4.14
I’m going to die.
I can feel the life draining rapidly from my body.
I didn’t leave with the refugees.
I’ve returned to the Third People’s Hospital.
Let this be my final destination.
Yajing, Yaya, I’m coming to join you.
...
(The diary breaks off here for a long time.)
I heard a ROAR.
A deafening CRASH, as if something had fallen from the sky and smashed through the hospital roof.
I walked out of the morgue.
There, amidst the rubble and debris, I saw it.
It was a... humanoid creature with wings.
It stood three to four meters tall, its entire body covered in coarse, dark brown fur. It had a ghastly green face and sharp fangs. Even folded, the pair of tattered, fleshy wings on its back radiated a sense of power.
It seemed to be heavily injured. There was a huge puncture wound in its chest, from which fluorescent blue blood flowed.
It came from the sky.
From that rift.
...
#002
Date: 2049.4.15
It’s still alive.
Although it’s in a deep coma, its vital signs are incredibly strong.
I dragged it into the underground morgue.
I’m amazed by the structure of its body. Every inch of muscle, every single bone, seems like a perfect creation born for battle.
What shocked me even more was that I successfully extracted rice-sized Source Crystals from its blood!
This proves that they can achieve perfect symbiosis with Source Crystals!
The Source Crystals are the source of their power!
My theory was correct!
Since this Celestial Abyss Race can fuse perfectly with Source Crystals, then... what if I were to transform myself into one of them?
Could I then... truly master the power of the Source Crystals?
#005
Date: 2049.7.22
Experiment Log: 30ml of fresh blood and 5ml of cerebrospinal fluid extracted from the Celestial Abyss Race specimen (Codename: Winged Demon) for intravenous injection.
Simultaneously administered a low-concentration Source Crystal extract via intramuscular injection to observe bodily reactions.
First week: The level of cancer markers in my body began to plummet.
Second week: A follow-up CT scan showed the liver metastases beginning to shrink.
Third week: All cancer indicators... completely gone.
I’m cured.
I... succeeded!
...
#006
Date: 2049.7.26
My body is showing abnormalities.
Lately, my right shoulder blade has been overcome by bouts of unbearable itching.
It’s as if something is trying to grow out from inside the bone.
At the same time, strange, dark brown hair has started growing on my body.
It’s not human hair.
[Image]
The document contained only a single blurry photo, taken in dim light.
The background of the photo appeared to be a room with anatomical charts hanging on the walls.
A bare-chested man stood with his back to the camera.
His back was no longer flat.
On his right shoulder blade, a large, ugly mass of flesh bulged upwards, tearing through the skin. A twisted bone, wrapped in viscous gore, pierced through from within.
It was the... embryo of a wing.
Below the photo were just a few short lines of text.
I’ve become a monster.
What is this? My back... it’s grown a fleshy wing...
Is that mine?
No, that’s not mine.
No, that *is* mine.
It’s...
Ours.