An infinite journey starting from paradise

[With all due respect, although you now possess various special abilities, your physical strength is still at the level of an ordinary human. You will still die if you are killed.]

[Faced with an enemy several times your size, there's a high probability you'll... fail. I don't understand why you, who always planned carefully before taking action, have suddenly become so aggressive?]

"I'm not going to die anyway, so what's wrong with being a little wild?" Lin Shangren said in a matter-of-fact tone.

【Eh? 】

"Everything I will do next will only facilitate the future. No matter what, I will meet He Huan, rescue her, and something will happen between us.

So, before this, before this critical time point that determines everything that happens in the future, I will definitely not die. Even if it is..."

Suddenly, Lin Shangren slashed his sword across his neck, using the "Night Fighting Eight Directions Hidden Knife Style" to cut his throat.

However, before Feng Ling Yueying's blade touched his neck, a branch above his head suddenly broke without warning, blocking the blade and his throat.

"See. The consciousness of this universe doesn't want me to die. Similarly, I can't do anything out of the ordinary. Like, say, slaughtering the entire Eden Organization, rescuing Hehuan and Linyin, and letting them live the lives of normal girls without having to endure years of torture.

If I do this, the future and the present will not be logically consistent, and this universe will not be able to complete its so-called sacred timeline. Therefore, it, the consciousness of this universe will not allow me to do this. Right, my lovely system. "

「Well…it’s not that cute~ Hehe~(?′?`?)」

Looking at the little system pretending to be confused with him, Lin Shangren didn't say anything more.

He actually didn't hate his current situation: Lin Shangren was not interested in grand things like "cosmic consciousness". Although he seemed to be led by the nose by that thing, he also knew very well that he really couldn't resist now.

Instead of dwelling on these trivial matters, it would be better to use the "bonus" it gave him to do more. At least, he could save a few poor girls.

As for whether he will talk with some great existence like cosmic consciousness when he has enough power in the future... Well, I can only say that Lin Shangren is a very vengeful person.

Lin Shangren, who was closing his eyes in deep thought, moved his ears slightly, and he vaguely heard the rustling sound of footsteps.

"Hoo~ It's finally here."

Soon, the group entered the range of the shadows that Lin Shangren could currently control. Through the shadows' perception, Lin Shangren confirmed the number of people coming and their general location.

Diving back into the shadowy swamp, he unleashed a left jab, a right whip kick, and a left straight kick, gathering his strength for a sure-shot strike. He peered in to confirm the enemy's position, then thrust his finger down.

Since the attack after the enchantment of guaranteed hit cannot cause instant death, Lin Shangren set the effect of Eagle Finger to "painful enough to cause coma".

"what!"

A member of the recovery team suddenly let out a shrill scream and then fell straight down.

"Hey, what's wrong with you all of a sudden?!"

The teammate who was startled was about to reprimand, but ended up becoming the next person to be hit.

"Enemy attack! Defense!"

The members of the recovery team responded immediately. They stood back to back and formed a defensive formation.

But this is meaningless. Under the dimensionality reduction attack of the rule-based ability, ordinary people have no power to resist at all.

They had no idea what was happening and could only wait in panic for the pain to come, and then fell down one by one in excruciating pain.

"Only these people?"

Lin Shangren hid in the shadows for a while. After confirming that there were no more reinforcements around, he left the shadows and walked towards the group of fully armed recovery team members who had fainted on the ground.

He twirled the dagger in his hand, turned over the people lying on the ground one by one, made them lie prone on the ground, and then cut their throats and pressed them to let the blood flow.

【Name: Okamon Hikawa】

[Race: human male]

[Identity: Mercenary leader of the Eden Organization, captain of the recovery team.]

[Status: Coma]

"This can temporarily keep him alive and serve as a mouthpiece." Lin Shangren said softly.

"As for this..."

He looked at a mercenary lying on the ground with interest.

【Name: Turtle Head Naoki】

[Race: human male]

[Identity: Ordinary mercenary of the Eden Organization, member of the recovery team]

【Status: Playing dead.】

Lin Shangren said frivolously, "Seeing your companions fall one by one for no apparent reason, you fell down and pretended to be dead before being attacked. You're quite smart, aren't you?"

"Damn it! Beast!"

The exposed turtle... Turtle Head suddenly stood up, interrupting the desperate struggle. Trained in the United States, he is proficient in various American Iaijutsu techniques. He prefers the traditional Colt Peacemaker revolver to the ordinary semi-automatic pistol.

In an instant, he emptied the magazine at Lin Shangren!

However, contrary to his expectations, at such a close distance, he fired instantly but missed. The bullet he fired seemed to be pulled by some force, just glancing past Lin Shangren's body without causing any damage to him.

"Good marksmanship, he even picked up a revolver. Ha, he's not even as good as the big coward in the wilderness."

He wanted to continue resisting, but the next moment, he felt a piercing pain and then passed out.

"A falling branch, a bullet that happened to miss—that sort of thing barely makes sense in terms of probability. I'm curious, if I commit even more abnormal, illogical acts to kill myself or seek death, how can you force me to survive?"

My Lord, I advise you not to create any more complications.

"I know, it's just a joke with the supreme cosmic consciousness." Lin Shangren shrugged.

"Now it's time to get down to business."

After wiping Turtle Head's neck, Hayashi Shangren walked towards the unconscious Okamon Hikawa, cut his tendons, and woke him up with the Eagle Finger.

"Are you awake? Next comes the interrogation. Remember to breathe deeply. It's normal to feel pain."

Chapter 31 Squinting Eyes

"There are nearly three hundred permanent guards, nearly a hundred researchers, and five hundred students serving as experimental subjects."

Lin Shangren twirled the dagger in his hand while reviewing the information he had been forced to extract in his mind:

"The academy's top leader is Hokari Hide, Hokariha's father. However, due to the long-standing lack of success in the cloning project, and the serious experimental accident that occurred last week, he is no longer relied upon by the Eden Organization.

In the experimental accident last week, Hokari Ei's wife Suzumoto Emi died unexpectedly... It seems that the current time point should be when Rin was born.

According to Fan Kariye, Fan Kari Ying will soon discover how to use pain to improve Sleeping Beauty's adaptability to the paradise system. Then he will discover Hehuan's existence and then he will wait for an opportunity to steal Hehuan away.

What I need to do is to kill him before he reaches out to Hehuan, and then take Hehuan away from the Eden Organization temporarily..."

Lin Shangren looked at the timer on his wrist.

"94:10. Almost two hours have passed. The problem now is how to find the place where the Eden Organization is holding He Huan."

"Please... please... please kill me!!!"

Okamon Hikawa's pleading interrupted Lin Shangren's thoughts. Tortured by the Eagle's Finger to the point of mental breakdown, he now only wanted a quick release.

"I'm thinking about something! Can you be quiet for a moment?!"

Lin Shangren impatiently pressed his finger against his forehead and ended the tool man's suffering with an Eagle Finger shot with the effect of "painful to sudden death" to thank him for his help in providing intelligence and replenishing weapons and ammunition.

"Give my regards to Shakya Anhehua, Amen Hukeba."

After paying slight respect to the corpses on the ground, Lin Shangren turned and walked towards the hidden bushes in the distance.

Rather than finding the place where Hehuan was imprisoned, he currently had a more immediate problem to solve.

"What should I do with you?"

Lin Shangren looked at Aoi Caiyue who was hidden in the bushes by him.

She was still sleeping soundly, her chest rising and falling slowly with each breath, and there was a hint of white at the corners of her mouth, but with a slight smile, as if she had dreamed of something interesting.

"Of course, we can't let her go back to that school, but it's a bit inconvenient to take her with us like this... Anyway, let's wake her up first."

Lin Shangren walked a few steps closer and squatted down.

Only then did he realize that he had accidentally pulled off the buttons on the front of Aoi Nazuki's clothes during the fight, and his white bra could be seen through her half-open front.

The tube top is very tight and doesn't look like it fits well.

"It's not good for development for a woman of this age to wear such tight clothes. Although her current size doesn't require any further development, it can already make many adult women feel inferior because of their cup size... However, it's not good for health after all." Lin Shangren thought.

"Speaking of which, one of her breasts is sunken, which is quite important..."

It is precisely because Teacher Aoi is different from ordinary women (?人?) that she and Lin Shangren can use Morse code to transmit information in the virtual world under the guise of kneading latex.

"Want to check it out?"

Lin Shangren shook his head. "According to the erotic anime routine, whenever the male protagonist does something to a sleeping woman, she will suddenly wake up and give the male protagonist a crisp dabi."

He pointed his finger at Aoi Nanazuki's eyebrows, and the Eagle Finger was activated, with the effect of "awakening".

"Ah! Mr. Suzumoto, don't go!!!"

Aoi Nazuki, who was still sleeping soundly the previous second, suddenly sat up with a scream. The bra that was tightly tied around her chest finally couldn't bear the weight of the sudden stretch, and the pair of big white rabbits that had been restrained for a long time finally broke free from the cage.

(-people-)

“Ah…?”

Looking at the pair of squinting eyes, Lin Shangren was a little surprised. This is not right? Where is the wink? Why are the eyes completely closed?

Aoi Nayue, who had just woken up, was at a loss. She was stunned for a long time before she came to her senses.

"I...what's wrong with me? Ouch, my head hurts a bit. Pah, my mouth tastes fishy and salty...cough cough..."

Aoi Nazuki rubbed her head.

A gust of wind blew by, and she felt a chill on her chest.

It was then that Aoi Nayue realized that she was facing Lin Shangren, a strange man she met for the first time, with her doors wide open. The man in front of her turned his head away and covered his ears with his hands.

Aoi Nazuki covered her chest and looked at Lin Shangren with a puzzled look: "Wu...Mr. Lin...Shangren, what are you doing?"

"Hey, didn't you scream?" Lin Shangren put down his hand but didn't turn around. "Normally, shouldn't a beautiful girl scream after being seen naked?"

"what?"

"nothing."

As he said that, Lin Shangren handed his coat to Aoi Caiyue.

"Wear mine first, and call me when you're done. Also...don't wear such tight underwear in the future, it's not good for your health."

……

On the other side, the core laboratory in the basement of Liuqingguan College.

"Why? Why?! Why can't it be possible!!!"

A Mediterranean man, about forty years old, was frantically tearing out his remaining hair. He knelt before a large petri dish, repeatedly banging his head against the lab table.

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!!! It still doesn't work! It still doesn't work!"

"She clearly has self-awareness, her genes are identical, and she's been inflicted with extreme pain, so why can't she fully synchronize with the Paradise system?!"

With a crazy expression, Fan Kariying looked at the black-haired little girl in the petri dish.

Just as he was about to shock the girl in the petri dish again, the sound of hurried footsteps interrupted his action.

"director!!!"

A researcher anxiously pushed open the door of the laboratory: "Director, the recovery team has also lost contact!"

"Get out!!!"

Hokari Ying roared hysterically, "Don't bother me with this kind of thing! This facility, everything in Eden, is worthless except for paradise!

If they lose contact, go find them! The subjects all have trackers on them anyway. If you can't find them, send more people! Do I need to teach you this kind of thing?"

Facing the furious leader, the researcher, who was just an ordinary employee, said tremblingly, "But...but...Director, the next manager will be here tomorrow to take over. If anything goes wrong, I'm afraid I won't be able to explain it..."

"Huh? The next administrator? What next administrator? I'm the founder of this academy! Where does the next administrator come from?"

"Don't you know? It was the news this morning. The bigwigs seem very dissatisfied with the delay of the cloning project, so they sent another research team to take over the academy. They seem to have found another way to create the next Sleeping Beauty."

The researcher was a little confused. Shouldn't such an important matter be notified to the previous person in charge first?

"Huh? Impossible! Absolutely impossible!!!"

……