Chapter 21: Things Are Different
  “Wha…what did you say?” The woman was stunned.
  “Ordinary humans can’t have children with mutants.” Lin Xi said.
  “With the biological genes of an animal used to create mutant, you are most likely to be pregnant with a a child of that gene.”
  “How could that be? My man’s genes is a knife beetle then…”
  “Then your child is also a knife beetle after birth.”
  The knife beetle is an invertebrate worm.
  The woman’s eyes widened, as if she had heard bad news.
  “Why…why is this happening to me?” Her face became bloodless and her whole body began to shake.
  Lin Xi lowered his eyes.
  “If you want to give birth to your child, I will help you. I will take you to a place without people and archaea, where it is safe enough to live with your child.”
  “Then… What am I going to do? “
  Lin Xi already has a plan in mind.
  “Help me raise my child. I prepared shelter, food, and water in advance. In exchange, you need to provide breast milk to raise my child until he/she can survive independently.”
  The woman stopped talking.
  After a while, she suddenly covered her face and cried again.
  Tears leaked between her fingers. After a while, kept asking questions while sobbing.
  “Then, is your child a Xenogeneic?”
  “Can you accept that your child is a man-eating monster?”
  “Aah… This is my child and I have suffered so much for it. In the end, it was just a bug…”
  “Why did I even want to be pregnant with this child at that time…”
  She cried more loudly and finally broke down completely. Her howling cries and accusations are like a blunt weapon.
  Lin Xi listened for a while. Suddenly, he felt a throbbing pain in his lower abdomen.
  According to his life cycle, he should have rested in the house today, waiting for a deep sleep that might come at any time.
  Lin Xi decided to let the woman think calmly about the future.
  He got up again and first bought the deed of sale from the woman’s husband.
  The middle-aged man originally thought that no one would buy a slave with a child but when he saw that Lin Xi was so rich, he immediately smiled and gave Lin Xi a gold coin.
  He poked his hands warmly, completely unaware that the woman beside him stood up like a wandering spirit.
  “Bang——”
  After a while, there was a heavy crash from the market and the crying stopped abruptly.
  The sandstorm passed, mixed with a burning smell of fishy smell.
  The woman who was pregnant with the alien slammed her head against the wall, the wall was now full of blood and brains.
  She is dead.
  The blood rolled down from her head, winding slowly on the ground to Lin Xi’s boots.
  Lin Xi took a step back and looked up to see the holes and eyes from the woman’s head.
  He felt a stench in his throat.
  When the slave died, it was also like a stone throwing water but soon the waves subsided, the calm atmosphere was restored.
  The slave traders continued to shout while the slaves mourn in grief. The customers just glanced at them, then began to choose their goods again.
  Only the middle-aged man who sold the woman saw this and his face changed.
  While Lin Xi was not paying attention, he mixed into the crowd with his gold coins.
  For him, the goods of his commodity are sold out and the money will not be refunded whether the woman dies or not.
  The city drowned his figure, as the crowd continued to flow as usual.
  Except that the ground began to make a “plip, plop” sound.
  He do not know when it started to rain in the sky. The raindrops fell on the soil, mottled with traces of blood.
  Lin Xi stood silently, until the raindrops in the sky started to get bigger. After a moment, he picked up himself and walked towards the earthen house.
  Ah Ye also followed.
  She followed Lin Xi into the slave market then followed Lin Xi back in their house, her footsteps were much more cheerful along the way.
  “Brother Bai, are you looking for a pregnant woman?” When he returned to the room, the tomboy stood in front of Lin Xi and smiled at him.
  Lin Xi glanced at her.
  Ah Ye hurriedly combed her messy short hair with her left hand.
  “Brother Bai, you are going to leave the city and go to a very safe place in the future, right?” she asked again.
  Lin Xi didn’t answer.
  According to his plan, he already had the seeds of the crops for the food in the future. Now as long as he finds a suitable nurse, he will leave the city.
  The reproductive success rate is 10%. He has experienced two life-and-situation and has no extra life in the future. He cannot guarantee that he will be able to see the world after his child is born.
  But Ah Ye didn’t know, she sorted out her clothes, stood up straight in front of him, and deliberately straightened her chest.
  “Take me with you, I’m a woman and I can have children too.”
  “…” Lin Xi was silent.
  A Ye thought that Lin Xi did not agree and felt a little anxious.
  “I can really give birth. I don’t mind like that woman that my child will be born as a different species. I will give birth to whatever your genes are.” She added, “I can accept any bug or lizard.”
  Lin Xi He frowned.
  A Ye observed his expression, and immediately responded: “If brother Bai thinks it’s not enough, it’s fine.”
  She said and hurriedly opened the door.
  “What are you going to do?” Lin Xi hurriedly stopped her when her stomach hurt.
  Ah Ye replied: “I’ll find another mutant and get myself pregnant soon.”
  Lin Xi wanted to stop her.
  But Ah Ye ran faster and the woman disappeared at the door all at once.
  Outside the door, there was laughter from mutants.
  Lin Xi leaned on the wall and bent down, he stretched out his hand with difficulty and a thin vine suddenly appeared in the palm of his hand.
  Vines grew from his body and popped out of the door.
  But after a while, the ability was withdrawn with a person that was rolled back in the vine.
  “Brother Bai?” Ah Ye was a little startled, looking up at Lin Xi.
  She didn’t expect that just after going out, she teleported back again.
  Lin Xi finally stood firm against the wall.
  “Don’t call me Brother Bai in the future.” He replied.
  There was no expression on his face, Ah Ye thought he was joking as before.
  “Then let me call you another name? Big Brother Bai, Uncle Bai, Master Bai?” She hurriedly laughed.
  “No need.” Lin Xi refused again.
  “Why?” A Ye widened his eyes and suddenly had an ominous premonition in her heart.
  Sure enough, Lin Xi has already refused: “I won’t have sex with you and I don’t need you to have sex with other mutants.”
  “You need to go… don’t stay next to me anymore.” He paused then continued weakly.
  Ah Ye was stunned, as if a thunderbolt exploded in her heart. What she was most afraid of these two days was hearing this sentence.
  She hurriedly said: “Brother Bai, don’t do this. Don’t you understand, I’m willing to do anything for you.”
  “No, you just think it’s more beneficial for you to be by my side.”
  It’s not that he doesn’t know her little actions, he already have guessed her intention that was clearer than anyone else.
  Ah Ye’s hands froze. After a while, she smiled embarrassingly: “Brother Bai, I just don’t want to die.”
  She then explained: “Brother Bai, do you know how terrible death is? Do you remember the fiance I told you before? One day I found him dead in the rodent’s mouth. I was looking at the city wall when I saw him, he was still alive but his lower body was gone, his intestines were still flowing. Even with that condition, he still shouted at us, asking us to save him.”
  Recalling the scene of that day, Ah Ye panicked again,she knelt down and begged: “Brother Bai, I really don’t want to die.”
  Lin Xi was silent and after a while, he broke her fantasy again.
  “But people are always going to die in the end.” Lin Xi said. “Any creature will die, human beings also have biological cycles. So do you and so do I…”
  “If you’re not greedy, death will not be so scary.”
  “Then… Why did you saved me?” Ah Ye couldn’t accept it and cried.
  “At that time, you can directly let me be eaten by the rodents and killed by archaea, wouldn’t it be happier than now?”
  Lin Xi couldn’t answer.
  He took a deep breath and reiterated to the human in front of him: “You go now, I’ll be leaving tomorrow.”
  Ah Ye opened her eyes wide and tears drew two watermarks on her dark face.
  What else did she want to ask for but at this point, she understood that Lin Xi refused her with determination.
  She followed Lin Xi to save gold coins for nearly half a year. When she was taking care of Lin Xi, she secretly lied about the amount of nutrient solution and defrauded the sleeping Lin Xi’s purse for half a year’s savings.
  After Lin Xi left, she could only continue to live in the city with this money.
  She wiped the tears and snot from her face indiscriminately, she finally glanced at Lin Xi.
  The white-haired youth was leaning against the wall, presumably because the cycle was coming again. At this time, his cheeks were pale, but his surrounding was as cold as when she first saw him in the city.
  Hopefully in the next year, she will meet mutants like Lin Xi.
  Ah Ye gritted his teeth and closed the door to leave.
  There was no room for Lin Xi to stay in, so she decided to open a room for herself first. She walked down the hallway outside the room, staggered by a wave of burly mutants.
  There were more than thirty people in this group of mutants and they were talking, their voices reached her ears.
  “He’s back.”
  “He said, whoever catches him first will be can have him.”
  “Hahaha”
  “I heard that he’s not bad looking and he has white hair. He can kill any aliens, so he’ll definitely be energetic when he does it.”
  Ah Ye clenched her chest, lowered his head and walked a few steps and suddenly someone passed by her side. She turned her head and looked into that person.
  The mighty mutant has a prominent Valhalla tattoo.
  She opened her eyes in surprise.
  At this time, three more people passed by her.
  The three of them also had mutant numbers on them. They were tall and slender. Behind their backs, they were carrying guns for killing aliens.
  They were the last normal looking mutant, as the other failed mutant were walking behind them.
  The direction they go is exactly the room of brother Bai’s who she just left.
  In Lin Xi’s room.
  The white-haired youth leaned against the wall and retched.
  A fishy smell lingered in his throat. He opened his mouth and suddenly, a red dark blood splashed on the ground instantly.
  This time, it is not a physiological response to pregnancy.
  Rather, it is a symptom of further decay of his broken body.
  Lin Xi’s face was very pale, he wiped the blood remaining from his mouth and walked slowly to the bed.
  There was no one else here, so he lay down quietly on his back.
  But things were different now, no one was left by his side.
  He doesn’t need anyone to stay anyway.
  Lin Xi looked at the earthen house. He slowly closed his eyelids and entered a new round of drowsiness.
  He began to lose consciousness.
  However, he didn’t see a smoke slowly flowing through the hole in the room.
  The smoke was diffused in the room.
  After a short while, there was the sound of many people walking outside the room.
  “He smelled my cigarette, he can’t escape anywhere today.”
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Edited: 7/20/22
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