Almost all the freaks on the second level have been killed.
The teammates have all fought to the point of exhaustion. Pat and Slade sat on the ground to rest. A few dandelions were struggling to float on the edge. Kazama's face turned pale and he could barely control the dandelions with his eyes.
Jiang Xiao asked those children twice what they wanted to do, but got no answer.
He lost patience and turned back to his teammates. A branch vine grew out of the palm of my hand, blooming with bright pink poppy flowers. The petals curled up in the wind, and soon formed a round fruit. The top of the fruit sprayed out black poppy seeds in the wind.
"Don't." Slade immediately showed his wolf claws, waved away the enthusiastic poppy seeds with one palm, and said, "I don't need you, Kazama can still stand upright."
Jiang Xiao was silent for a moment, then the poppy fruit turned and faced Pat eagerly.
Pat raised his hands and said: "I would rather die with dignity than trade my spiritual power for my life."
"coward."
Jiang Xiao irritably collected the flowers in his palm.
Kazama took two of the few remaining dandelions to help him heal his wounds, and wondered: "Why don't you heal yourself?"
Jiang Xiao was silent for a while with a cold face, "I have poor mental stability, so this replacement is not cost-effective."
"puff."
Fengjian couldn't help but laugh out loud, and immediately suppressed it back under Jiang Xiao's glare.
Jiang Xiao waved away the dandelions and said, "Let's go to the next floor."
He turned to the children and said, "If you are just blocking the road, don't blame me for being rude."
The children remained silent, staring blankly at his back. He was about to show off his snake tail to scare these brats, when in his peripheral vision, a figure quickly passed by him.
"I'll come." An Yu said.
An Yu stood in front of the group of children.
He is wearing the District 53 subsistence uniform, which is very similar to the orphanage uniform. He had lived in the main city for a while, but his stature was still thin, so that even if he stood on the side of the lawful ones, he seemed to be able to step into the group of orphans at any time.
An Yu said softly: "The main city just discovered that time in the orphanage has stagnated not long ago. I'm sorry, we may be able to restore the flow of time, but we can't make up for the ten years you were sealed away."
There was silence in the crowd for a long time, and finally a timid voice asked: "Then can we still go out?"
An Yu said honestly: "It's hard to say who has had blood contact with the abnormal species in the past few days, but the rest can do it."
Some people were relieved after hearing this, while others cried. Today's world situation is changing very quickly. When he was first admitted to the hospital, everyone was afraid of distortion. Then something happened, and the smartest and bravest ones began to rack their brains to become monstrosities. Now the order is suddenly facing restoration, and those people will pay for their actions.
Human beings are so passive, and all disasters come without reason, just like huge waves that roll at will, never considering whether the small boats trying to survive in the waves will be shattered by its twisting.
Someone asked cringingly: "What will happen after we get out? Is the outside world okay?"
An Yu thought seriously for a while, "It's not very good, but everyone I know has expectations. You will be randomly assigned to the bait city. The gap between the rich and the poor in the bait city is relatively large, but even if you are divided into Even in the poorest areas, there are always people who can go to a brighter place on their own. Or they can stay and work hard to make a living for those who are motivated, and those who are not motivated—"
He seemed to have been distracted for a while. After he came back to his senses, he lowered his eyes and curled his lips, "I just work on a subsistence allowance. Maybe I can meet interesting neighbors. It would be a good life like that."
A little girl who was only two or three years old asked, "What is subsistence food allowance?"
An Yu tried his best to smile at her, just like the first smile Ling Qiu showed to him, "It's bread. Not long ago, the main city just issued new regulations, and the supply of subsistence bread in slums is no longer limited. .As long as humans work hard to live, they will always have bread to eat.”
"Unlimited?" Discussions immediately broke out among the children, "That seems pretty good."
"It seems that the outside world has changed a lot. Before I was admitted to the hospital, the subsistence allowance bread was limited."
"Have you ever eaten subsistence bread?"
"Well, it's much more delicious than compressed biscuits."
"Really?!"
…
An Yu turned around, looking through the dim wind and snow, and looked into the pair of black eyes behind him.
Qin Zhilu nodded slightly at him.
The new unlimited subsistence bread regulations are the work of the chief.
The funds were shared among three parties, Qin Zhilu himself, Heita, and the Jin family, the largest wealthy family in the main city - the current head of the Jin family, Jin Xuyan, is the 198th floor Chief Yan. At the night prayer meeting in District 53 that day, Qin Zhilu saw him among the crowd in the church and went to discuss the matter with him.
These were all told by Putao to An Yu later, but Qin Zhilu himself never mentioned it. Now in the newly built slums in District 53, the low-income households have already lived a new life.
*
The team arrived at the wall of air between the second and third floors.
Jiang Xiao took out the second broken lens, "Before meeting you, I tried touching the white mirror, and it seemed that I could get in. But before I could see anything, I heard the mental alarm from the terminal, and I almost Didn’t earn it.”
He sighed and handed the broken lens to Qin Zhilu, "This thing has a great mental impact. I'm sorry, Lu, I can't share the burden for An Yu..."
An Yu's eyes fell on the deep and rugged blood groove on his forearm.
He stared at the injury in silence, and in front of everyone's eyes, the blood groove was filled up bit by bit, and the split skin gradually aligned.
"Thank you..." Jiang Xiao's red eyes wavered, "It's just a minor injury, don't waste it..."
"I'm just trying out my abilities." An Yu withdrew his gaze, glanced at another wound on his body that was still bleeding, and frowned.
Qin Zhilu asked: "No progress?"
"Um."
So far, the ability of time acceleration can only be used to accelerate the deterioration or healing of wounds. The scope of influence is so small that it can only act on one wound. It is not even possible to speed up the healing of all wounds on Jiang Xiao's body at the same time.
But when he was a baby, An Yu allowed himself and another person to travel forward completely for eight years, which was completely different from his current performance.
Qin Zhilu weighed the second broken lens. When the lens fell back into his palm, An Yu snatched it from the air.
Qin Zhilu looked at him and reminded: "Once you get in, it's 10%."
"I remember." An Yu turned the black mirror over, faced the white mirror, and said softly, "But I don't seem to have any other choice."
The moment he looked at each other in the mirror, he heard Qin Zhilu sneer at the side, "Like a little wolf."
Many years ago, Ling Qiu also commented on him like this.
But what Ling Qiu commented on was his eating appearance, and the commander didn't seem to be.
An Yu was stunned when his wrist was caught again, and the officer's face appeared in the white mirror.
Those black eyes were as calm as before, "There is really no other choice, but I can go in with you and take a look."
He didn't have time to react. The hazy noise deep in his consciousness suddenly became real. Countless clocks were ticking. He lowered his head suddenly and saw Bai Jing's body again.
December 20, 2138.
The white thorns were running against the wind and snow as fast as they could fly. He started from Area D all the way out, passed through Areas C and B, and ran most of the diagonal line of the orphanage until he finally broke into the archives room.
"Is it true!" He stared at the conservator who was writing files in front of the computer with wide eyes, "Where is the person? Where is the person? The person -"
The words suddenly stopped.
He had already seen the little girl standing in front of the file shelf with her head lowered.
Bai Jing's parents separated not long after Bai Jing can remember.
In troubled times, there was no love or hatred between the poor and humble couple, but the father always refused to listen to advice and went to the wild to pick up jobs, and he narrowly escaped being attacked by freaks several times. My mother gradually became unable to bear the shock and chose to leave on a rare sunny day.
Facts have proved that my mother was right. My father suffered a small injury in the wild not long after. He hid the injury, and the result was that he brought the aberrant gene back to Bai City. When he was killed, he had already infected another neighbor, which also caused Bai Jing to be sent to a high-risk orphanage.
Bai Jing was not an orphan in the strict sense. He still had a mother, but he had not heard from her for many years. He thought her mother had died long ago.
So when his colleague told him - "There is a newly admitted little girl, whose genetic test shows that she is your half-father, named Aji", his scalp exploded and he ran all the way here.
"Aji?" He tentatively called the little girl's name.
After a long time, the little girl timidly raised her head, and Bai Jing almost cried on the spot.
Aji looks very much like his mother, and has almost the same outline as him. She was born seven years later than him.
According to the records of the intern, his mother died of an abnormality half a month ago, and Aji became his only blood relative in the world.
Even though she is only half blood, she is still the real sister.
Bai Jing tentatively stretched out his hand towards Aji, "I am your... future co-teacher. Don't be afraid. Come with me, okay?"
The archivist said while typing on the keyboard: "We have to take her for another physical examination."
Aji stared at Baijing for a long time, lowered his head and said nothing.
So Bai Jing personally took her to the physical examination room and helped her warm up the metal instruments that were to be attached to the skin one by one. When the tester ordered her to take off her clothes, she naturally turned her back.
When leaving the medical examination room, he slowed down and walked beside her, and a cold little hand suddenly slipped into his palm.
"Assistant teacher." She looked up at him timidly, "Actually, you look a lot like my mother."
Bai Jing was stunned for a moment, then smiled with wet eyes: "It's a coincidence, I think you and I look a lot alike."
"Yes." The little girl gently pinched his palm, "Because you look like my mother."
On the evening of December 25, 2138, Bai Jing checked Aji's situation before going to Area A to find Chen Nian.
At that time, Aji was fine and had fallen asleep obediently in his sleeping nest. But just after Bai Jing concealed it for Chen Nian, he returned to Area A in despair and wanted to take a look at his sister's sleeping face to relieve his anxiety. He pushed open the door of the sleeping nest and saw that A Jing was unconscious. She frowned, and there were rose-colored pustules on her limbs, as if something was about to burst out of her body. The instrument showed that her genetic entropy was rising sharply, and her mental strength had irreversibly fallen below the safe level.
Her fragile body fell into a deep sleep under the impact of genetic fusion. She didn't know how long she would sleep, but sooner or later she would wake up - as a freak who had lost her human will.
The way orphanages deal with this type of situation is to inject a dose of euthanasia and let the children die in their sleep.
At the very least, they don’t have to face the ugliness of their own aberrations until they die.
Bai Jing walked into the high-authority pharmacy room.
He stared at himself through the glass mirror behind the medicine cabinet. He didn't know if he had been looking at it for a long time, but he suddenly felt that there were two of himself in the mirror.
One of them was still panting violently with grief, while the other seemed to be embedded in a mirror and smiled at him.
He heard the inner voice of the smiling one.
"You've already made a big mistake, so why not go into the abyss again."
"That is the last true relative in this world."
After a long time, Bai Jing came back to his senses and calmly took the injection from the medicine cabinet.
What he took away was another injection that would cause the injector to fall into a deep sleep - it was usually prepared for people who fell into a coma after deformation, but whose mental strength was very stable and who had great hope of retaining their human will to complete their deformation.
After injecting this injection, and then sealing the person into a low-temperature environment, the person can enter an indefinite dormant state, retaining life, and can be awakened at any time.
Although Bai Jing will never wake her up, at least this way, he can keep her forever.
