novellaaa Chapter 1 Awakening from a Dream: Two Bodies
Chapter 1 Awakening from a Dream: Two Bodies
"Chen Zheng, wake up."
"Who?"
"It's me, System."
"...A system? I remember now, I think I was hit by a truck, so this is the standard progression of transmigrating and awakening a system?"
"No, I am your immune system."
"What the hell is the immune system?"
Inside the dimly lit and oppressive cave, a red lake, hundreds of meters in diameter and only ten centimeters deep, churned with water.
Gray stone eggshell fragments were scattered all around, and a monster that was 1.5 meters long, lizard-like, with sharp claws and covered in black scales, suddenly opened its eyes.
"It was just a dream. I thought I had really traveled through time." As he spoke, Chen Zheng subconsciously reached out to wipe the 'sweat' from his forehead.
Huh? Looking at the sharp claws in front of him, the dim cave, and the blood-red lake, Chen Zheng was a little confused.
"What's going on?"
boom!
In an instant, a flood of memories poured into Chen Zheng's consciousness: his mother, his younger brother, reading, studying, practicing martial arts, researching runes and formations...
In another world, in a room, a black-haired youth is looking at a mirror on a table.
The young man in the mirror had a fair complexion and a straight nose. He was handsome but not aggressive. Instead, his facial features were perfectly proportioned and soft.
Her ear-length, wispy hair wasn't styled, with a few strands falling casually across her forehead, giving her a slightly lazy look.
Standing at 1.82 meters tall, he has a tall and well-proportioned figure. Because of his long-term martial arts training, his posture is extremely upright, and he looks like a "clothes hanger" no matter what he wears.
"Interesting. I didn't expect that not only did I not die, but I also split in two." Chen Zheng smiled.
Before transmigrating, Chen Zheng was an office worker at a game company.
I wrote project proposals during the day and worked overtime to adjust data at night. Then one day after get off work, I encountered an out-of-control truck and kicked it to another world.
Furthermore, his soul split in two, one half reincarnating as a human and the other half as an abyssal monster.
He had no memories of his previous life until the egg of the abyss hatched.
It wasn't until today, when the body of the abyss demon hatched and the soul resonated, that his consciousness from his previous life was awakened and revived, as if waking from a dream.
At this moment, he has completely merged with the memories of his human body from the past ten years, becoming one with it.
Before Chen Zheng could continue his research, a jumble of chaotic code appeared before his eyes, coalesced, and finally formed a transparent page with a blue border.
Name: Chen Zheng
Race: human
Realm: Level 4 Martial Artist
Rank: First Rank
Punching power: 630 kg
Exercises: Iron Mountain Stance [Minor Success], Wild Bull Body Refining Fist [Minor Success], Thirteen Forms of Viper Tendons [Beginner]
Unique Talent: Plunder of All Spirits [SSS Rank, allows the user to plunder the spiritual essence of all things, such as the pure medicinal power of spiritual herbs and the active elements of extraordinary minerals, to strengthen themselves.]
Soul Space: 1 cubic meter
Abyss Body
Race: Abyssal Earth Dragon [A primordial monster born from the abyss]
Rank: Common Monster, Low Rank
Rank: First Rank
Abyssal Power: 10/12
Innate Talent: Infinite Evolution [SSS Rank, possessing the potential for infinite growth and infinite evolution]
Life Essence: 0 points [Accumulate 20 points to perform the first evolution]
Active Talent: Talent Plunder [SSS Rank, when you kill a monster and consume 1/3 of its flesh, you can plunder its talent. Limited by bloodline level, current number of plunder attempts: 1]
"This thing..." Chen Zheng looked at the personal page that appeared in front of him and felt that it looked very familiar.
Isn't this the game's personal page that he worked overtime to perfect the night he had the accident? How come it's also "present" here?
Crack! Crack! Suddenly, Chen Zheng heard some breaking sounds. Before he could think about it, his gaze sharpened, and his consciousness turned to the Abyss Body.
In the abyss, a series of fine cracking sounds echoed from a dimly lit cave.
In the blood-red lake, gray, petrified insect eggs shattered, and from them crawled various monsters, ranging from half a meter to over two meters in length and with different shapes.
Some of these monsters resemble rhinoceroses with short horns on their foreheads, some are like pythons covered in fine scales, and some are like a hybrid of a spider and a scorpion with six legs, two pincers, and a tail hook that glows with an eerie light.
As soon as they hatched, these monsters turned to look at their fellow creatures around them, their eyes turning red.
Roar! The two closest monsters roared and pounced on each other without warning, blood splattering everywhere in the blink of an eye.
Without any skill, only the most primal killing instinct, a few breaths later, the smaller monster had its throat bitten off and collapsed, convulsing.
The monster that had killed its opponent opened its huge mouth, tore off a piece of flesh from the corpse, and swallowed it in two bites.
Under Chen Zheng's watchful gaze, the demonic creature devoured flesh and blood, its aura growing stronger at a visible rate, and its size expanding.
They are evolving.
Devouring their own kind, plundering life essence, and growing rapidly are clearly the fundamental laws among the primordial monsters of the abyss.
Despite the bloody and gruesome scene, Chen Zheng felt no fear or dread. Instead, a strong instinct to kill and devour surged within him.
Kill them, eat them, eat them all.
"Should we start a level 1 raid directly?" Chen Zheng looked at a monster not far away.
It was a monster about a meter long, resembling a rhinoceros. This monster had just hatched and had no scales. It was confronting another, even smaller monster.
Feeling the almost uncontrollable urge to devour within him, Chen Zheng took a deep breath.
boom!
The lake water exploded, and a deep-sea dragon resembling a black lizard scrambled its four claws into the ground, its speed reaching its limit in a short distance, appearing behind the rhinoceros monster in the blink of an eye.
Whoosh! The abyss dragon leaped into the air, its front claws shooting out towards the rhinoceros monster's nape.
But at that moment, the rhinoceros monster suddenly turned around, a cunning glint in its eyes, while the monster confronting it quickly retreated and pounced on another, smaller monster.
Bang! The rhinoceros monster turned around and charged forward, its head snapping back as its short horn slammed solidly into the chest of the abyss dragon.
Suddenly, an irresistible force struck, causing the abyss dragon to spin and fly backward, crashing heavily into the blood-red lake, splashing up a large spray of water.
"How sneaky!" Chen Zheng, who was thrown into the air, was startled and quickly rolled over to steady himself.
Moo!
The rhinoceros monster roared and charged forward, each step making a heavy thud. Its size, twice that of the abyss dragon, exuded a ferocious aura.
Despite being only one meter long, it exudes an astonishing aura of a tank charge.
"I was careless just now." Chen Zheng forcibly suppressed the abyssal earth dragon's violent instincts, lowered his center of gravity, and calmly looked at the charging rhinoceros monster.
Five meters, three meters... Just as it was about to get close, the rhinoceros monster lowered its head, its short horn aimed at the abyss dragon's head—this was its killing move.
Most newly hatched monsters only instinctively bite and have no experience in dealing with such a straight charge.
But Chen Zheng has it.
His merged memories include three years of martial arts training, during which he practiced Iron Mountain Stance for several years and practiced the Wild Bull Body Refining Fist thousands of times.
Although the human body and the structure of the abyssal dragon are different, and many of the fist techniques cannot be used, the memories and combat experience accumulated over a long period of training remain.
Just as the rhinoceros monster's short horn was about to collide with it.
*Snap!* The abyss dragon swung its tail, causing the lake water to explode, and with a powerful thrust of its left claw, it twisted its body and narrowly escaped the rhinoceros monster.
In the instant it turned to the side, the Abyss Dragon shifted its weight from its front to its hind legs, raised its upper body, opened its left claw, and brought its sharp claws down on the charging Rhinoceros Demon King.
*Thud!* Using the rhinoceros monster's momentum, the sharp claws tore four huge gashes in its side, and hot blood gushed out in an instant.
Moo! The rhinoceros monster, which had charged several meters ahead, let out a miserable cry.
With a splash, water erupted and blood splattered everywhere. The abyss dragon, which had severely injured the rhinoceros demon with its attack, swung its tail again, its four claws landing on the ground as it shot out explosively.
Thud! The rhinoceros monster, which hadn't even regained its footing, was bitten on the side of its neck by the abyss earth dragon, and the powerful impact knocked the rhinoceros monster over.
Moo! Sharp fangs tore through the skin and muscles, and the rhinoceros monster, feeling excruciating pain, tried to struggle.
But at this moment, not only was its neck torn apart, but its head and body were also firmly held down by the claws of the Abyss Dragon.
At this moment, the abyss dragon unleashed astonishing power, its muscles bulging, and the power rising from its limbs, passing through its waist, shoulders, and elbows, penetrating segment by segment.
Every joint tightened at the moment of exertion, like a steel cable twisted to its limit. With the might of a bull, its tendons intertwined, it suppressed the rhinoceros monster.
puff!
After only a brief stalemate, the Abyss Dragon's sharp fangs tore through the rhinoceros monster's throat, and its struggling limbs went limp.