eurekapd Chapter 110 Egg City
Chapter 110 Egg City
"Please, come with me..."
Hong stood in front of Qin Yangming. She was a head shorter than Qin Yangming. At this moment, she was looking up at Qin Yangming pitifully, with mist rising in her eyes.
Qin Yangming, who was still in a daze, finally came to his senses. He looked at the girl in front of him who was about to cry, and saw the people around them who were looking at them with undisguised contempt, and he seemed to understand something.
"Bah! Two pure bastards, actually standing together, how shameless!"
"I'm afraid my eyes will get dirty just by looking at it! What the hell!"
People passing by immediately spotted Qin Yangming and Hong, the two anomalies. They started pointing at the two and cursing as if they had seen a scene of betraying their teacher and ancestors.
Gradually, more and more people gathered around, and even an old lady in an apron holding a spoon spat out a mouthful of thick green saliva straight towards Qin Yangming's face.
Qin Yangming dodged it easily by tilting his head. The saliva missed Qin Yangming's head and flew backwards to the ground, with a burst of corrosive black smoke rising up.
Qin Yangming's eyes were filled with murderous intent, but at this time Hong held her hand tightly. Qin Yangming noticed that Hong's palms were full of sweat and her lips began to tremble. The girl was already extremely scared at this time.
"Let's go..."
Qin Yangming held Hong's little hand, and Hong seemed to have the strength to move her legs again, and she pulled Qin Yangming and quickly fled from there.
The two of them turned many corners and finally entered a narrow and dark alley. The alley was damp and smelled musty, as if only rats lived here.
Hong finally led Qin Yangming to stop in front of a tattered wooden door at the end of the alley.
Hong knocked on the door. After a rustling sound, Qin Yangming saw an old lady with silver hair tremblingly opening the door.
As soon as she entered the door, Hong couldn't bear it any longer.
"grandmother!"
When she saw her grandmother, whom she had depended on for everything, all the grievances she had suffered came flooding back to her heart. She threw herself into the arms of the hunchbacked old woman, unable to hold back her tears any longer.
"Honghong, be good and don't cry..."
Grandma stroked Hong's back with her hands that were as dry as tree bark, and comforted her gently in her old voice.
"They also said...I am a bastard..."
Hong was sobbing, and grandma's cloudy eyes were red. After a while, Hong stopped crying.
Grandma then looked at Qin Yangming who came in with her and said:
"Young man, thank you for sending Hong back..."
As she spoke, she picked up a cup of tea on the table and handed it to Qin Yangming.
Hong said to her grandmother with red eyes:
"No, grandma, this is the follower I summoned during the awakening ceremony today..."
Grandma seemed to have heard something extraordinary. Her face froze instantly and the teacup in her hand fell to the ground with a crash, splashing scalding tea all over the floor.
"what!"
Hong screamed in fright and looked at her grandmother suspiciously, not understanding what had happened.
Grandma's old face was full of shock. She pointed at Qin Yangming with two trembling fingers and said to Hong:
"You said...you said he was...the one you summoned?"
Hong thought her grandmother was blaming her, and she felt even more guilty. Her already red eyes were about to burst into tears.
Grandma seemed to have suffered a great impact, and her short body was about to fall to the ground.
Seeing this, Qin Yangming took small steps and in a blink of an eye he was in front of his grandmother and gently held her steady.
Qin Yangming felt his grandmother's hand on his arm, gripping it very tightly, and he looked into her eyes.
The old man, who is already in his twilight years, was filled with excitement.
"It's true, the prophecy is true!"
There were even tears glistening in her cloudy eyes.
Hong felt something was wrong and asked what was wrong. Grandma didn't say anything, just shook her head, turned around and walked to the corner of the small room.
Qin Yangming saw her opening the mahogany box in the corner with great effort. There was a thick layer of dust on the box. When grandma opened it, the dust flew up and formed a cloud of dust, which enveloped her figure and added a sense of mystery to her.
She took out a scroll, which was ancient and seemed to be made of sheepskin.
She slowly unfolded the scroll. There was a picture of a person on it. His face was not clear. He was wearing a black robe, had a thin figure, and stood with a sword on his back, as tall as a pine tree.
Hong leaned forward to take a look curiously, while grandma held the scroll to her face and kept comparing it with Qin Yangming.
“Like…really like…”
Qin Yangming was confused and had not yet figured out what was going on.
He finally couldn't help but ask:
"Old man, may I ask... where exactly is this place?"
Grandma handed the scroll to Qin Yangming and answered the question irrelevantly:
"Young man, what is your name?"
"Qin Yangming."
"Nice name... nice name..."
Grandma murmured.
She must have been exhausted, so she sat up on the bed and stared at Qin Yangming for a long time before answering his question.
“This place is called Egg City.”
"Egg City?"
"Yes."
Grandma's hoarse, old voice echoed in the small room.
"This is a city created from an egg, so it is called Egg City."
Qin Yangming suddenly remembered something and asked immediately:
"That... [Egg of Destiny]?"
Grandma didn't know what the [Egg of Destiny] Qin Yangming was talking about, and shook her head slowly.
Qin Yangming continued to ask:
"That mountain in the sky, that furnace that looks like the sun hanging in the sky, and those... strange-looking people... what on earth is going on?"
Grandma said:
"What you said is too profound. I don't understand it either. But I have heard a legend. It is a legend that is spread in the streets and alleys here and everyone knows it."
"A legend about how Egg City was born."
Hong brought a small stool for Qin Yangming, and she also sat on it. The two of them sat on their grandmother's lap, like children listening to a story before going to bed.
"Legend has it that humans have committed heinous crimes that have angered both humans and gods, so the gods have sent down disasters to punish humans..."
"Humanity was nearly wiped out in that disaster, but an old man accidentally found an egg, a magical egg."
"The egg said, I can help you fulfill three wishes."
“The old man said, first, I want humans to be able to survive this disaster, and second, everyone can live and work in peace, form a couple, give birth to children, and reproduce from generation to generation…”
"Third, I also hope that humans can gain more powerful power..."
"After hearing this, the egg seemed to have come up with a good idea. It laughed loudly, jumped up on the spot, and turned several times in the air."
"When it fell to the ground, the egg said smugly, this is easy..."
"Then, the egg activated her divine power and created everything here..."
“That’s also where our city came from.”
After hearing this, Qin Yangming compared the legend with his own memory.
he asked:
"What is that furnace in the sky?"
Grandma looked at Qin Yangming and said slowly:
"That's the light we use, it's artificial, because there's no light here."
Qin Yangming said suspiciously:
"No light?"
Grandma said:
"Yeah, in this underground world, where does the light come from?"
Qin Yangming asked again:
"If this place is still underground, then the mountain in the sky is actually just a giant stalactite?"
Hong interrupted:
"Stalactite? What kind of stone is that? I've never heard of it."
Grandma said:
“The king lives there, and not among us, that he may show his power.”
Qin Yangming said:
"king?"
Grandma nodded and said:
"The king, the king who rules over the Egg City."
"There is only one king in Egg City, a king of the highest status. He is the god here and controls everything here."
"In addition, the king has four attendants in the east, west, south and north. They live down there like us, but in the central area of Egg City."
"The four powerful attendants in the east, west, south and north help the king take care of everything in Egg City. They are the specific rulers of Egg City."
"Except for the king and the four servants, the nobles are the ones with the highest status in Egg City."
Qin Yangming said:
"noble?"
He remembered those strange-looking people calling him and Hong bastards. Were those people the so-called nobles?
Grandma said:
"Nobles are those who have obtained the powerful power bestowed by the egg. Nobles generally have very obvious characteristics, which is also the proof of their nobility that is different from the inferior species."
"After that, you are just a bastard."
When she said this, grandma's voice trembled, and Hong's thin shoulders couldn't help but shiver.
They are the so-called lowly species.
Grandma continued:
"When children here turn eighteen, they will undergo an awakening ceremony."
"Every child will awaken his or her own follower during the awakening ceremony."
"The Followers and the Awakened will establish a very deep connection, and the Followers will help the Awakened fight..."
"Followers are usually illusory spirits. The Followers summoned by the children of nobles are very powerful. There are eyeballs that can take away people's souls, and mermaids whose singing can drive people crazy. The purer the noble bloodline, the stronger the Followers summoned..."
"Some nobles even summoned followers who seemed to come back to life, with physical bodies, accompanying the awakened ones as they gradually grew."
Grandma looked at Qin Yangming deeply and continued:
"And the children of inferior species usually can't even summon followers. Even if they do, they are very weak..."
"The lowly race is at the bottom of this society. They have never had any dignity. They are born to be enslaved, bullied, and exploited..."
Qin Yangming listened patiently to his grandmother's story, but his heart was still restless.
One king and four servants, nobles, lowly people...
Grandma said:
"And our family has always been the purest inferior species, the lowest of the low..."
Qin Yangming thought of the paintings she had seen in the church, and suddenly a terrible guess came to her mind.
At the beginning, the director of the research institute made three wishes to the [Egg of Destiny].
The clever [Egg of Destiny] only did one thing and fulfilled these three wishes at the same time.
She made the inhabitants develop sexual desire for humans.
Developed a strong sexual desire.
In addition, the [Egg of Destiny] also moderately expanded the underground air-raid shelter, which was already quite large at the time, giving people enough living space.
Those children who had the bloodline of the ugly inmates gained strength, grew up, and over a long period of time, transformed into the so-called nobility.
Those pure humans are called inferior species.
As time goes by, things change dramatically, and Egg City is here.
Qin Yangming slowly stood up from the bench. The dim light shone on him, forming a faint black shadow in the corner.
"What a [Egg of Destiny]..."
he murmured.