The Boyfriends I Picked Up in Horror Games Are Bizarre - Chapter 139

The tall man said in surprise, “There’s someone over there.”

The shorter man looked just as shocked.

Shi Jiu lifted his head to look at the people standing on higher ground and said nervously, “Our escape pod had an accident and made a forced landing here. May I ask if you can take us away?”

The two men exchanged a glance.

Not long ago, something had happened along the nearby space route, and the incident had already made the news. There were indeed quite a few missing persons. According to interstellar law, when humans encounter other humans in distress in space, regardless of nationality, they are required to offer assistance.

The tall man nodded and said, “You can board our ship. We can take you to the nearest transfer station.”

Shi Jiu said gratefully, “Thank you.”

They asked Shi Jiu to board the ship, but Shi Jiu said, “I still have a companion. I need to find her and bring her with me.”

The shorter man took out a drone about the size of a bee. “Leave finding people to this thing. You look pretty weak. Don’t end up fainting right after you find her.”

This kind of search drone was extremely fast, and its camera was top of the line. There was nothing better suited for finding someone than this device.

Shi Jiu knew he could not cause trouble for others. He hesitated for a moment, watched as the search drone was released, and only then did he board the ship first.

The tall man swept his gaze over Shi Jiu from head to toe, the same regret showing in his eyes as in the shorter man’s.

If only Dreamland had goods like this.

But they could only think about it. They still did not have the guts to do anything to an interstellar citizen.

However, as they passed through the hatch, a detection device emitted a prompt. “Model not recognized. Please have an administrator manually input the model.”

Both men looked at the person walking ahead.

Shi Jiu’s back stiffened slightly.

This was a garbage ship used to process synthetic humans, so it was naturally equipped with the relevant detection devices. Inside every synthetic human’s body was an electronic chip. Once scanned by a detector, the synthetic human’s information would be displayed.

The expressions of the two men changed immediately. One in front and one behind, they blocked Shi Jiu’s path forward and his retreat.

The tall man said decisively, “You’re a synthetic human.”

Shi Jiu pressed his lips together and did not answer.

Synthetic humans could not lie in response to questions from humans, but in order to protect their master’s privacy, they were permitted to remain silent.

The shorter man suddenly stepped forward and yanked Shi Jiu’s collar back. On the back of his neck was a black barcode, but it was already blurred and probably could no longer be scanned for information.

Shi Jiu could have struggled and pushed the shorter man away, but he could not.

Every synthetic human had code implanted that prevented them from harming humans. Even if they themselves were about to be harmed, they were unable to resist.

The shorter man said in astonishment, “He really is a synthetic human!”

In their line of work, they had seen far too many synthetic humans. But a synthetic human who did not disclose his identity and even tried to use a human identity to mislead others was something they were seeing for the first time.

Shi Jiu was shoved hard against the wall. Immediately after, his eyes were forcibly pulled open to their limit.

The tall man took a detection pen out of his pocket and projected blue light into Shi Jiu’s eyeball. When the light fell on his eye, it reflected faint green points that looked like jumping numbers.

The tall man frowned. Unwilling to believe it, he checked Shi Jiu’s other eye as well. “Strange. There are no signs of system malfunction, and no traces of virus intrusion either.”

The shorter man pressed down hard on Shi Jiu’s shoulders and picked up the conversation. “Could it be that some bored person bought this synthetic human and DIYed him a bit?”

Some students who studied artificial intelligence liked doing things like this. After buying a synthetic human, they would modify the system. Sometimes it was for experiments, sometimes just for fun.

Shi Jiu could not move at all. He was like a doll, completely at the mercy of human hands. Yet his gaze was flustered, afraid in a way that looked exactly like a real human being.

The tall man grew interested. “The emotional simulation is actually this good. He must be expensive.”

The shorter man looked eager. “Since he ended up on this garbage planet, that means he isn’t anyone’s private property, right?”

The tall man gave him a knowing smile. “You want to have some fun?”

The shorter man said, “He looks way better than the batch of goods in Dreamland. And look at how vivid his expressions are. He’s just like a real person.”

As he spoke, the shorter man greedily reached out and grabbed Shi Jiu by the chin, examining his entire face. “And this face of his. According to the settings, he shouldn’t be an adult yet, right?”

Interstellar law provided the strictest legal protection for minors. Even perverts did not dare lay hands on underage humans.

However, the existence of synthetic humans filled this gap.

People with special fetishes who could not find satisfaction with humans would choose to vent their desires on synthetic humans. This had practically become an unspoken consensus.

Even so, “underage” synthetic humans circulating on the black market were extremely rare because such synthetic humans were usually reserved in advance by the wealthy.

The two men already played wildly in Dreamland. Now that such a good opportunity had fallen into their laps, there was no way they were going to let it slip by.

Who knew, once they got back, this synthetic human might be reclaimed by the higher-ups. If that happened, they would never get another chance to play.

The shorter man said to his companion, “You went first last time. This time, I go first.”

The tall man was a little dissatisfied, but he did not say anything. He only told him to hurry up, then turned his back.

The young man wrapped both arms around his stomach. The restrictions of his programming made it impossible for him to resist in any way. In his black eyes, light flickered again and again.

Green code formed a barrier that trapped him inside. Unable to break through it, he could not make any movement at all.

The shorter man pulled away Shi Jiu’s hands that were wrapped around his stomach and lifted his clothes. What he saw was the boy’s abdomen tightly bound with layer upon layer of cloth strips. Even so, a slightly protruding belly could still be seen.

He cried out in surprise, “This is actually a breeding dog!”

The tall man immediately turned back around.

Shi Jiu was forced to stand in the corner. His gaze was flustered, his dark, glossy eyes wide, his expression panicked.

His clothes were in disarray. His tall, slender body, and especially that slightly protruding belly wrapped in white cloth strips, stood out glaringly, making him look even more like some kind of aberrant monster.

Breeding dog was the term many people used for “pregnant” synthetic humans.

The greatest value of this kind of synthetic human was that they could be injected with a fertilized egg and then imitate the human process of pregnancy, “giving birth” to a child.

But once their owner’s interest in playing house was gone, they were not even worth as much as pets.

Looking at the boy in this state, the two men suddenly felt even more excited. They had never played with a synthetic human with this kind of setting before.

They did not bother with who went first anymore. Both of them rushed toward the boy at the same time.

Shi Jiu fell to the ground. The clothes on his body were torn open roughly. His face was pressed against the icy floor, the surface scraping against his artificial skin and leaving behind streaks of “wounds”.

He kept his eyes open, staring fixedly in one direction.

The green code in his pupils leaped wildly, yet it could never break through the preset program.

So even at the moment when he was about to “die”, other than asking humans for help, there was nothing he could do.

But now, there was no one he could ask for help.

A drone about the size of a bee flew in through the hatch. Because it was too small, no one inside noticed it.

Immediately after, a figure appeared without making a sound.

The two men had no defenses at all. In an instant, they were struck by an electric shock, their bodies convulsing as they collapsed to the ground.

The taller man still retained a bit of consciousness. He tried to crawl up, but the next second, a heavy blow struck the top of his head. He slumped to the ground, and both men completely lost all movement.

Bai Yao held a stun gun and looked toward the person crouched in the corner.

The clothes on Shi Jiu’s body could barely cover him. Unconsciously, he wrapped his arms around his stomach, as if doing so could change the ugly truth of his body.

In the vast data he had acquired, opinions about him could perhaps be divided into two categories. One found him interesting, something to use to kill time. The other found him disgusting. A machine wearing a human appearance, nurturing a fertilized egg whose origin was unknown.

Calling it the hope of human reproduction was nothing more than a lie. In truth, he was merely a container for cultivating fertilized eggs.

And yet it had been deliberately made to look like a human. There was nothing more revolting than that.

That was why he had always wrapped cloth strips tightly around his lower abdomen, doing everything he could to conceal it.

Interstellar law did not permit the existence of such synthetic humans, but under the umbrella of certain large corporations, illegal acts were always carried out in secret.

Once his identity was exposed, he would be sent to be destroyed.

Shi Jiu’s eyes blinked lightly. Even leaning against the wall, his body curled into a ball as it trembled. He barely had the strength to support himself. His voice was filled with helplessness and unease. “I’m sorry… I’m sorry…”

Other than those three words, he did not know what else he could say.

When he saw Bai Yao step closer, he closed his eyes in fear, hugging his body tightly, his entire body stiff.

He could not resist humans.

If Bai Yao were to take him and hand him over to the enforcement unit, he would not be able to refuse either.

Shi Jiu did not receive the rough interrogation he had expected. Instead, a jacket was wrapped around his tattered body.

He opened his eyes. It was the jacket that had been forcibly stripped from him earlier. When he lifted his gaze, he stared blankly at the girl standing right in front of him.

Bai Yao squatted down in front of him and smiled. “We found a ship that can take us away today. We’re really lucky, aren’t we?”

Shi Jiu tilted his head slightly, his eyes calm as they looked at her.

It was like observation, like analysis, and also like curiosity.

But could a synthetic human even have an emotion called “curiosity”?

Bai Yao said, “We crashed onto a planet where we can breathe. We found a spaceship. And now, I’m standing right in front of you.”

She did not question his existence.

Something that was clearly terrible, once spoken by her, suddenly did not seem so terrible anymore.

Even his existence felt as natural as the clouds in the sky or the yellow ground beneath their feet.

Shi Jiu’s gaze shifted faintly.

He reached out and gently grabbed the hem of her dress. On his dirty face, the expression simulation function suddenly shut down. His face went blank, devoid of any emotional fluctuation.

Yet his eyes were fixed firmly on her.

Hidden within those dark pupils, the barrier formed by the leaping green code suddenly cracked in an instant.