Sanctuary Starfield Journey

70-10 Snowfall in the East

The corpses' arms had been torn off, their heads thrown out and rolling to Qinglan's feet. Qinglan saw a head fly towards her and immediately jumped back in fright: "What the hell?! This is terrifying in the middle of the night!" Yan Fuxue also took a few steps back, her back pressed against the closed door, reflecting a chilling red light.

A robot crawls out of a pile of corpses; it is made entirely of muscles, ligaments, and bones, and its behavior is driven by electrical waves emanating from a chip in its brain.

Just as the robot was about to stab his neck, Mo Bei saw its muscle structure and immediately used Thunderflame Strike to dodge: "Dongfang Luoxue is related to the robots in Yingju City Ruins!" The robot stopped, and Dongfang Luoxue's voice came from all directions: "Little clever one, do you want to know my past?" Qing Lan shook her head: "No, let me out." The robot quickly severed Xian Niancheng's right hand. Before Xian Niancheng could react, his right hand slid off along a clean cut. The robot picked it up and put it into the newly opened passage next to it.

"When I was very young, my parents called me a genius."

"You're a genius, you're a genius... Tell me, what are you?" A woman stood in front of Dongfang Luoxue, hypnotizing him; she was probably his mother. Four-year-old Dongfang Luoxue spoke, "I am Dongfang Luoxue." His mother, displeased, slapped him away, yelling, "Can't you understand human language?! Go study! Now!" Dongfang Luoxue crashed into the glass, sobbing as he got up and sat down in a nearby chair to read, his eyes darting towards his mother. Meanwhile, his mother walked out of the transparent house, suddenly turning back and pressing herself against the wall.

Qinglan was listening to a story when she was startled by a robot suddenly pressed against her face: "I...I'm not your mother." The robot stood up again and continued telling the story of Dongfang Luoxue.

The robot stood by the glass. Eight-year-old Dongfang Luoxue looked at the fruits of her labor, a long-lost smile returning to her face: "Now my mother will approve of me. I don't want to study..." She pressed a button, and a ringtone sounded.

The ringing of the doorbell pierced Luo's mother's ears. She rushed over, kicked open the door, shattering the glass, and stomped on it as she confronted Dongfang Luoxue, yelling, "You only got this low score this time? How dare you call me?!" Her spit landed on Dongfang Luoxue's face, the murky saliva mingling with the reflection of her 99.5-point test paper.

Dongfang Luoxue kept her head down: "But... I was only 0.5 points short, and this is the arbitration paper..." Her mother slapped her, sending Dongfang Luoxue crashing into the glass. The glass trembled, knocking over the robot as well.

Upon seeing the robot, Luo's mother's face showed disdain: "This is your 0.5 point? It ate it up!" With that, she started punching the robot repeatedly. Dongfang Luoxue quickly grabbed her mother's hand: "No! No! It can move!" Luo's mother gave her a disdainful look and stopped punching the robot: "Let's see."

Dongfang Luoxue began to operate the robot, which moved clumsily, parts constantly falling off. Seeing this, Luo's mother burst into laughter, picking up pieces from the ground and throwing them at Dongfang Luoxue's face: "Is this your future? Is this your talent? If you have talent, everyone is a genius!" A metal needle pierced Dongfang Luoxue's arm, also deeply embedded in his heart.

Dongfang Luoxue burst into tears, and her mother slapped her, saying, "What are you crying for? Go study now!" After hitting her, she left, leaving Dongfang Luoxue with clenched fists, watching her walk out of the room littered with broken glass.

"Old He, that good-for-nothing Dongfang Luoxue broke the glass again. Bring over a new one sometime. I really envy your son's success, unlike Dongfang Luoxue, who's still 0.5 points short." The voice on the other end of the phone said, "You can't say that about Dongfang Luoxue. This test was very difficult; my son was the only one to get a perfect score. He said he pulled the third-place student by 20 points." These words pierced Luoxue's mother's heart like a needle. She looked down at her heart; a red piece of glass pierced through it, dripping blood. The glass was pulled out, reflecting Dongfang Luoxue's blood-splattered face.

"Old Luo? Why aren't you saying anything? But a 0.5-point difference is enough for your son to chase for a lifetime." The voice from Luo's mother's phone reached Dongfang Luoxue's ears as she dissected her mother. Dongfang Luoxue paused briefly, then continued the dissection, noting the corresponding information in her notebook.

Later, Dongfang Luoxue's robot became so agile by referencing human physiology, which earned her a major award in Yingju City and attracted attention in the capital.

Dongfang Luoxue swept her white robe across the podium, tossed the "Giant Rift Lifetime Achievement Award" to the ground, and stepped off the stage, thinking to herself, "Using more organisms for experiments should lead to a technological breakthrough."

In a dark corner, this sentence was written in the notebook. Below Yingju City, Dongfang Luoxue used robots to construct a giant passage, and at its very center, she built a prototype intelligent mechanical brain containing a gene bank.

Beneath the snow-covered forest of leaves that bore her name, Dongfang Luoxue watched the sparks fly through the screen, witnessing her robot complete its mission independently without human control. A swarm of Analyzers hovered in the air, and giant Collectors had completed construction on seven secondary passages. Dongfang Luoxue stood like a Collector herself: "On the day of success, these Collectors will emerge from the earth to capture organisms and collect their genes..."

The collector grabbed a human, entered their genes, and then slammed them onto the flaming ground. From a distance, Yingju City appeared as a city ablaze, a result of Dongfang Luoxue's accidental input of incorrect commands, including human genes. He quickly stopped the collectors, trying to put them into hibernation, but to no avail. They only went into hibernation after everyone there had been killed, awaiting the next walking gene pool. Dongfang Luoxue watched the scene on the screen, his face gradually contorting into a grimace: "Actually, this is the effect I wanted..."

The surviving inhabitants of Yingju City ran towards Mengdi, attempting to forget their past suffering through endless dreams. The people of the capital, fearing this destructive power, never dared to investigate further… and the two original corpses hung before the four of them.

Snowfall in the East

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