Abyssal Distortion Files

That night, in a business hotel.

Zhou Mo and Li Yang stood facing each other in front of the bar. "Brother Li... how old are you this year?"

Li Yang thought for a moment, "Twenty-eight, I guess."

T...twenty-eight, Brother Li, do you not need money for food and drinks usually?" Zhou Mo felt that Li Yang was like a god.

"I usually only eat two meals a day, one in the morning and one in the evening, both at the nursing home," Li Yang said calmly.

Nursing home?

Zhou Mo gasped. "If I remember correctly, Brother Li, weren't you in the army? Don't you have demobilization pay?"

Li Yang nodded, "I do, but I donated it all to the nursing home."

Awesome.

It was already late today, and Li Yang and Zhou Mo planned to stay in a nearby hotel for the night, but after searching their pockets, they couldn't even scrape together 30 yuan.

"What should we do..."

Looking at Zhou Mo's troubled expression, Li Yang pointed to the county hospital across the street. "Actually, the hospital isn't cold at night, especially the chairs on the second floor are very spacious. If we go early, we should be able to grab a seat."

Zhou Mo: "..."

What kind of homeless life did you live before, big brother?!

Seeing that the two of them couldn't even scrape together enough money for a room after searching all their pockets, the woman at the hotel front desk couldn't help but weakly ask, "If you two are really tight on money, you can check out the online loans next to you..."

Hearing the word 'loan,' Li Yang turned and left without looking back.

Seeing this, Zhou Mo quickly grabbed Li Yang, "Hey, Brother Li, wait a minute, where are you going?"

Li Yang glanced at him, "If we don't go to the hospital, the chairs will be taken."

Zhou Mo couldn't help but cover his face and weep. "Then how about this, Brother Li, let's go back and search those people's bodies to see if we can find some cash?"

Li Yang shook his head. "I've already sent the address to the police station. The police should be there by now."

"T...two, how about this, I'll open a room for you, and then I won't register you. You can leave at eight in the morning, okay?" The woman sitting at the bar suddenly asked.

Zhou Mo turned his head. "No money?"

The woman nodded. "After all, everyone has difficulties when they're away from home."

Zhou Mo and Li Yang exchanged glances. "Brother Li, we have a place to stay?"

...

Second floor of the hotel, the room at the very end.

Zhou Mo threw himself directly onto the bed. "Ah... I didn't expect my first time staying in a hotel to be with a man."

Li Yang didn't speak, but instead inspected the room, and then silently went to an outlet and reached out his hand.

Seeing this, Zhou Mo stood up with a jolt. "Brother Li, that's electric!"

Ignoring Zhou Mo's words, Li Yang had already guided the metal piece inside the socket to touch his finger. A current instantly surged into his body and began to quickly converge towards the crystal in his brain!

Li Yang looked at Zhou Mo. "I know it's electric. How can I charge without electricity?"

Charge?

Zhou Mo looked at Li Yang with a curious expression. "So, Brother Li, your ability is released by consuming electricity?"

Li Yang answered while absorbing the current, "It's not just electricity, the sun can also do it, but it's more convenient to replenish with electricity."

"Doesn't your ability have any consumption?"

Zhou Mo reached out and touched his chin. "I do have some, but I use mental energy. According to what my sect leader said, I belong to the idealism under the mystical branch."

"There are two branches under mysticism, idealism and materialism. Soul and spirit are invisible and belong to the idealist school."

"And Brother Li, you rely on electricity to replenish, which is used to control metal changes, which is visible, so it should be a branch of materialism."

Li Yang shook his head. "I don't understand these. My sect leader didn't tell me about these."

"What did your sect leader tell you? My sect leader is a super big talker. Once he starts talking, he can't stop at all," Zhou Mo couldn't help but complain.

Li Yang recalled.

「The flesh and blood body is weak. Although you can use my ability now, you cannot maximize it.」

「Only by abandoning this body, reconstructing the body with metal, and using the core to carry consciousness, your ability will be improved, reaching the photoradiant level or deeper.」

"If I completely abandon my body, will I still be me then?"

「You can be you, or you can not be you.」

「Have you ever thought about this question, the past you, the present you, the future you, which one is the real you?」

「The future you may become cruel and bloodthirsty, the present you is wavering, and the past you doesn't even dare to hurt an ant.」

「These can be one person, or two people, three people.」

「The flesh and blood body will continue to be swayed, influenced, and changed by external things, but I will not.」

「I can't feel the temperature of the world.」

「I can't feel what is joy.」

「I can't feel what is anger.」

「Everything in the world is changing, but I have never changed. Others cannot sway my will, and the environment cannot affect my thinking.」

「From this moment on, countless me became one me, adhering to the original idea and never changing.」

「Do you think this is wrong?」

Li Yang shook his head. He couldn't agree with this point of view at the moment, but he couldn't completely deny it either.

So he is very conflicted now. He has to make a choice between power and humanity.

If he doesn't transform into steel, he can't have stronger power, but if he transforms into steel, he will lose all the feelings of being human.

"I can only take it one step at a time."

...

The next morning.

Chen Ye returned to the rental house and completed the handover with his clone.

When his main body was with Zhou Mo, he also left a clone to help his sister go through the school enrollment procedures, and then returned home to wait for Chen Ye's main body to return the next day to complete the handover.

People often say that they are overwhelmed, maybe this is the benefit of a clone, they can do many different things at the same time.

Chen Ye had just returned home, but found that Chen Yao was sitting by the window and seemed a little depressed. "What's wrong, Yao Yao?"

Chen Yao pointed to the tree that had been cut down below the unit building. "The tree is dead..."

The tree is dead?

Chen Ye looked down and found that the trees in the community had been cut down, and even the roots had been uprooted.

「Master, that lung cancer guy」

"I know it's him."

「He made your sister sad, he must pay...」

"You can take a break."

Chen Ye said in his heart and reached out to stroke Chen Yao's head. "For me, who never grieves in autumn, I am not sensitive to this kind of thing, or even indifferent."

"Looking at the cut down tree is no different from the broken chopsticks in my hand, but for Yao Yao, the two are completely different."

"She doesn't want to see the passing of life."

"Whether it's a tree or a dog, in her eyes, they are all living lives, which is two different feelings from looking at chopsticks that have already died."

"It's like a corpse is there, and a living person turns into a corpse in front of you. The process of life disappearing in the middle is what she doesn't want to see, because that reminds Yao Yao of herself in the past."

"Feeling her own life flowing away, but powerless, she can only choose to accept it, which is a great pain."

"I can't comfort her about this."

"Because people can't empathize, the needle is not pierced on my body, so I can never understand her feelings at this moment."

"Maybe one day she will adapt, but adaptation is a kind of numbness."

「Then just don't let her see these, for you, this is not difficult, my dear master」

"Tearing you up is not difficult either."

「The weather is nice today, master」

"Do you think I should tear it in half, or tear it page by page?"

「What do you think of the current international situation?」

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