Dominion's End

Dominion's End V2Prologue: Behind the Door

Dominion's End Volume 2: Aberrant City

Original novel in Chinese by: 御 我 (Yu Wo)

Prologue: Behind the Door—translated by Elkin (proofread by EvlNabiki & Arcedemius; C/E edited by lucathia)

Dog-shaped aberrants like those five that had transmuted from humans had actually been quite common. Of course, that was in reference to my previous life. The reason so many people turned into dog-type aberrants was probably because the animal many people were most familiar with was the domestic dog.

Later, those aberrants would evolve into a tribe known as the Dogman. They were widely feared, not for their strength, but for their tendency to move in packs. Whenever you encountered them, there was never just one or two, nor was it even a matter of one or two dozen. There would be at least one or two hundred!

But I only knew about the Dogman from hearsay. If I'd encountered them back then, I would probably have become Jiang Shuyu much earlier. Then again, if this world's Jiang Shuyu hadn't been hit on the head by a tile, would he still have woken up one day as Guan Weijun?

If there was a Jiang Shuyu in my original world, did he ever wake up from his head injury...?

"Shuyu!"

I snapped out of my reverie at Dàgē's furious shout. Before I had the chance to turn and apologize, five shadows had already leapt right at me.

I blanched and slammed the ice staff to the floor. With a twist and somersault through the air, I dodged past the five streaks pouncing at me. I even managed to kick one of the aberrants, eliciting a sharp yelp.

Just when I was about to counterattack, gunshots suddenly rang out. I only had time to kick down one aberrant before the others slumped to the ground by themselves. Upon closer inspection, the aberrants either had spattered brains or knives stuck deep in the back of their skulls.

"Ngh!"

I turned around. Lily was looking embarrassed, still in firing position. She quickly hid the gun behind her, as if that would help hide the fact that she'd been the shooter.

To one side was the silent Xiao Sha. In contrast to Lily, he was extremely calm and had no intention whatsoever to try and cover up. Besides, there weren't any excuses he could have made—the knives were already embedded in the aberrants' heads, conclusive evidence of the culprit, so there was no point in arguing otherwise.

Dàgē glared daggers at the two.

"All right, I'm guilty." Lily raised her hands helplessly in surrender. "I thought Shuyu was in danger. I never expected him to dodge so easily."

"I owe him one," Xiao Sha said simply.

After Dàgē finished glaring at those two, he narrowed his eyes even more dangerously as he turned them on me.

I stabbed the ice staff downward, busting open the head of the still-quivering aberrant, then mimicked Lily in raising my hands in surrender. "I was thinking about 'the dream,' so I spaced out accidentally."

Dàgē growled, "You dare to space out when confronting aberrants? You're never going out by yourself in the future! If you ever dare sneak out, then you can expect to be chained up for the rest of your life!"

I lowered my head in apology. Even without Dàgē's scolding, I felt I'd been too careless. If Guan Weijun had dared to space out like that back then, forget surviving ten years, she'd have died a thousand times in just one!

"Do you hear me?"

"Yes!" I replied quickly. I'd nearly forgotten that the Dàgē right now wouldn't be appeased by playing coy.