Phantasmal Genesis

Translator’s note

I found out today that Ren Yu Yan was a woman…I’ll update the previous chapters…

The two of them returned to the base, and they started looking into the recent activity of those people in the network monitoring system.

And what they found was that these people hadn’t even looked at a book or communicated with anyone recently. They had suddenly gone from having normal, ordinary lives to turning themselves in.

There wasn’t any prior agreement or communication between them, it was utterly unthinkable that they had memorised such a long and extensive document like the [Things to note before the exam].

It wasn’t a short excerpt with a hundred words, in that document, Zhang Shan Hai had roughly estimated at least thirty thousand words!

And these people were all ordinary humans, the highest education they had gotten was undergraduate degrees. In their background information, they didn’t have a record of learning any quick memorisation techniques.

Such a group of people had recited the exact same obscure thing in such a short time without a single word difference, it was unthinkable.

In his gut, he felt that this was most likely an abnormal situation.

“I thought of someone.” Ren Yu Yan suddenly spoke up.

“Xiao Bi.”

Hearing this name, Zhang Shan Hai knew what she was thinking. The image of an 11-year-old girl appeared in his mind, wearing a simple dress and a fragile impression.

Such a fragile and young girl was evaluated in the department as [Someone whom even god would have to treat with some respect].

“She isn’t one of us, and not only that, she’s just an elementary student.” Zhang Shan Hai reminded.

Despite the fact that she had abnormal abilities, they had easily decided to mislead her to prevent her from saying that sentence.

And, Xiao Bi was still an elementary student.

A person of that age didn’t even have a fully developed brain, and exposing her to excessive amounts of abnormal incidents would eventually affect her thinking and possibly create a degree of danger.

“I agree with you, but we were the ones that made contact with her. You should know better than me, how long can we even fool her for? 10 years? 20 years? 50 years? Or her entire life?”

Ren Yu Yan’s eyes met with Zhang Shan Hai’s.

“She will eventually find out the truth, and we might still need a lot of her help in the future. If not, are you planning to wait until we don’t have a choice?”

“Or, you think that you’re capable of deciding her entire life for her?”

“……”

Zhang Shan Hai was deep in thought, he wasn’t a brainless villain, and he could understand where Ren Yu Yan was coming from.

He spoke calmly, “We cannot decide other people’s lives, but if you’re correct, we need to establish a moral compass for her and keep her under our control.”

“It’s fine if it’s for our use, if not, we will have to kill it regardless.”

Ren Yu Yan furrowed her brows.

“You…”

Talking about killing an eleven-year-old was uncomfortable for her.

Looking at her expression, Zhang Shan Hai knew what she was thinking, and her face was full of wrinkles.

“Have you been reading manga recently?”

“How many times have I told you……”

“It’ll rot your brain!!”

……

A police car was stopped in front of an elementary school, and two uniformed men got off the car and went towards the principal’s office with documents in hand.

They had already spoken with the principal the last time they were here, and they were able to easily get Xiao Bi in front of them this time.

“Knock knock knock…”

“Principal?”

There was only Zhang Shan Hai and his partner in the principal’s office right now, and both of them breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the girl’s timid voice.

It was fortunate that rather than anyone else, it was a young girl like this, who would still become anxious when called into the principal’s office in school, that had gotten an ability.

“Please enter.”

The door was slowly opened, and a delicate girl dressed in a blue and white school uniform entered. After gently closing the door behind her, she stood there nervously with her head down.

“Xiao Bi.” Ren Yu Yan called out at her warmly.

Hearing her voice, the girl raised her head in confusion, and the moment she saw Ren Yu Yan, she was elated.

“Big sister? Big brother? Why are you guys here?”

Xiao Bi’s abnormal incident was handled by the two of them, and since she was a child, she wasn’t recorded in the database. To everyone else, that abnormal incident was just an abnormal incident that had happened outside the control of science.

Following the core values of society, they chose to prevent affecting her childhood as much as possible and only surveilled her from the sidelines.

As Zhang Shan Hai had said, if it wasn’t for their use, they would have to kill it regardless, it was the most humane thing they could do.

And after Ren Yu Yan had successfully bribed Xiao Bi with a piece of candy, Zhang Shan Hai could finally relax. The three of them left the school and drive towards the west city district police station.

The superintendent had been waiting for them in the station, and the walked up to them the moment they entered, speaking with a bitter voice, “In the past day, 27 more people came, we don’t have any more space to lock them up in and most of them are being held in the interrogation rooms, but there’s still people coming in to turn themselves in.”

From yesterday, the operations of the west city district police station had basically been stopped, most of the employees here were armed and watching the people who had come to turn themselves in warily.

Zhang Shan Hai spoke, “Are there any open interrogation rooms? Bring one of them inside, we’ll get some results today.”

Hearing that, the superintendent perked up and immediately arranged for someone to free up an interrogation room.

Xiao Bi sat next to Ren Yu Yan, she was visibly afraid, but she couldn’t help herself from looking around curiously.

Zhang Shan Hai took a glance at the man that was being brought in and flipped through the documents he received.

This man’s name was Wu Qiang, and he was the first person to have turned himself in.

At the moment, Wu Qiang was also confused, he had been locked up for a day in the station, and to his knowledge, the test should’ve ended a long time ago!

Or, did this test intend for him to stay in jail for a couple of years before it would end?

And just as his thoughts started to run wild, Zhang Shan Hai spoke.

“Wu Qiang?”

“Yes, that’s me.”

“Recite the entire [Things to note before the test].”

Wu Qiang looked at him in confusion, he didn’t understand what was going on with this test, why would the people in the virtual world know about the [Things to note before the test]? Isn’t this set in 2018!

“You don’t need to care about why, just recite the entire thing or we’ll consider you to have given up on this test.” Zhang Shan Hai was already used to their reactions, and he knew what the man was thinking with just one glance.

Luckily, Wu Qiang had read through it once, and it was still fresh in his memory. He recited the entire thing effortlessly.

Zhang Shan Hai looked at the paper, following along with Wu Qiang’s every word. He was secretly shocked, yet again another person had recited it without missing a single word.

This kind of superhuman memory was truly hard to accept!