Hiss –

Bai Zhe in the dream gasped.

How still you.

He looked at the rusty sun in the sky and covered his ears.

Bai Zhe found that he was more awake in the dream of the unknown life form, and his mobility was much stronger.

Calculating the time, it has been almost a month since the completion of Sooke's commission, and it is indeed time for the new client to appear.

So, how can it still be you?

yeuuuu——hooaaaa——kueeee——

The roar became more abstract, but still as grand and distant.

In addition to the anger and loneliness, Bai Zhe seemed to have experienced something else. Communication failure.

He found a place to hide from the rust in the sky.

After a while, the large area of rust on the surface of the sun gradually faded and returned to its normal appearance.

The light is bright, and the air is not so cold.

Ah, that's the end of it?

Bai Zhe didn't keep up with Sooko's train of thought. I guess never want to keep up.

He wandered through his dreams, contemplating the world that existed between memories and fantasies.

There were a lot of people around, shouting so loudly that I couldn't hear what they were shouting or see their faces.

Bai Zhe walked to the iron cage in the center of the field and picked up the chainsaw stained with black blood. A familiar feeling.

The blood stains came from the hideous corpses of wild beasts on the ground.

It resembles a clouded leopard, but is larger. There is a sharp bone horn on the top of the head, two fangs protruding from the mouth, and a row of interlaced bone spurs on the back.

The dark red hairs on his abdomen clotted together in blood, and his green pupils had lost their brilliance.

These ferocious beasts are pitiful, created through cross-breeding, gene editing, and organ transplantation for the sake of ornamentation, for violent and bloody performances.

They are often flawed and sick, have a short lifespan, and are unable to reproduce. Quickly adulthood under hormonal stimulation, two injections of stimulants are given and then released into the Colosseum.

Humans who don't have any prosthetics are "fighting to the death" with custom synths in iron cages, and there are not a few people who are willing to pay for this kind of performance.

Far from being as dangerous as they seem, these beasts are just poor creatures designed to attack humans under the influence of drugs.

But when Bai Zhe stood in the iron cage, he had no other choice but to act according to the script and end with the beast being killed.

Is it finally here?

In the center of the Colosseum, directly above the iron cage, an unknown existence appeared.

Bai Zhe couldn't see him clearly. It is approximately a translucent elliptical sphere with a faint grayish-white color.

He writhed and struggled in the air, as if he were fighting some kind of strong resistance.

What is this? Is He the third commissioner?

Bai Zhe watched the other party writhe with some headaches. It's not very polite, but it's really a bit like a big bug, the kind that isn't scary.

There was a stabbing sound, and four filaments sprouted from the ellipsoid.

He flailed the filaments as if trying to vibrate his wings, but the rudimentary structure was not enough for him to fly.

Writhing, wriggling, tumbling......

He grew more and more filaments, and he really had the appearance of flapping his wings and taking off, but his movements were very difficult.

The filaments were elongating, splitting, and flying with His fluttering and spinning towards the people around the field.

Bai Zhe dodged the gray and white silk threads and watched as hundreds of filaments pierced all the life forms in the dream realm. Including spectators, fighters, judges, snack sellers, and caged beasts waiting to be released.

It didn't feel right, he couldn't figure it out.

He was shaped like an egg or a cocoon, writhing like a larva. Now the sky is full of white silk, and he flutters like a butterfly or a moth in the center.

Bai Zhe poked his head out and observed a spectator who had been stabbed in the chest by a filament.

Silk threads of similar shape grow from the surface of his body, but they are colored. The forehead, fingertips, soles of the feet, and back all sprout threads of various colors, converging towards the center of the unknown creature.

The heavens and the earth are full of silk threads. Colourful threads melted into his body, dyeing his shell and wings in a frighteningly disgusting complexity.

Silk threads on the surface of people's bodies weave into an opaque film that envelopes them. Like a humanoid cocoon.

Then, Bai Zhe saw the scene that he will never forget.

The large humanoid cocoons were dragged by the silk threads, and they all moved with the fluttering wings of the living form.

They either squirmed and rolled against the ground, or spun and jumped, striking all sorts of unorthodox poses, and some were pulled into the air and swung between the wire mesh.

I was wrong. Come back soon.

Kalehin, help!

The seemingly soft filaments smashed the iron cage and broke the ropes, and the cocoons formed by man and beast danced wildly together in the Colosseum.

He vibrated his immensparably heavy wings as he tried to carry the entire wire net into the sky.

There was another stabbing sound, and the humanoid cocoon next to Bai Zhe was torn open from the inside, and a pale green viscous liquid flowed out.

The cocoon-breaking audience completely changed, and their body posture changed from male to female.

Grass.

He was so frightened that he took a half step back.

The cocoons in the audience cracked one after another, revealing an indescribable appearance.

Some have taken on the form of children, some have wings and tails, and some have bodies covered with carapace or scales.

Bai Zhe saw with his own eyes a man with gills growing out of his neck and fins on his limbs, jumping on the floor like a fish on the shore.

There were even more strange and curious humanoid creatures that he wanted to snap his eyes on when he saw them.

Variation? His silk threads can mutate living beings?

This doesn't belong to the category of mutation anymore, alien horror movie!

He was still thrashing and struggling, but the threads that grew out of his body and the threads that other beings gathered on Him were too heavy to fly.

A synth's cocoon cracks. A hideous and ferocious beast that breaks out of its cocoon and turns into a cute big plush cat.

There are still successful cases. Bai Zhe comforted himself.

"Ashinma!"

"Ashinma!"

"Ashinma!"

The humanoids that emerged from their cocoons chanted the name of Ashima, their bodies writhing strangely, and worshipping their mother, who gave them rebirth.

I want to run away. Bai Zhe muttered in his heart.

He was torn.

A crack appeared in the multicolored body, and a translucent oval sphere struggled to crawl out of it.

He shed his massive, splendid body and returned to the inconspicuous form it had been, writhing a few times before disappearing.

Bai Zhe came out after a pause and inspected the remaining cocoons that had not cracked.

Anyway, it was a dream, and he was bold enough to tear open a cocoon, and only a large puddle of pale green liquid was left inside.

Tear it apart, and inside is a green liquid and corroded part of the prosthesis.

Another one, Bai Zhe's eyes were dark, his consciousness was blank, and he turned his head as fast as he could, resisting the urge to vomit.

Forget it. Forget it. Let me forget. Why can't you forget!

Ahhh

Ashinma!

"Ashinma!"

Bai Zhe, who woke up, roared loudly and checked whether there were any silk threads on his body.

What should I do if I don't want to accept a commission for the first time?