Chapter 24: Phoenix Fire
  “He can no longer use his supernatural powers, he can no longer exercise vigorously and can no longer let him run around like before.”
  “Mmmm.”
  “When Tou and I are away, I need someone to feed him with trace elements such as sodium and magnesium every day. Judging from his lethargic state in the past few days, he may still have physical pain. If he has an attack, you need to give him some painkillers in advance.”
  “Well, I know about, Brother Cang.”
  “His identity is secret, Dongcheng has a complicated staff structure and many of them are opposition parties, so you must not reveal that he is the executioner.”
  “Okay, I will take care of Xiaobai and sister-in-law very carefully.”
  There was a sound of pushing the door in the room.
  A long time passed and in the repeated drowsiness, Lin Xi finally struggled to lift his heavy eyelids.
  “Ah! Xiaobai, you’re awake!” Someone leaned over.
  The person who leaned over also had a familiar face.
  Lin Xi was slightly dazed.
  But the man didn’t pay attention to his state, the young soldier’s voice was young and chattering.
  “Xiao Bai, you finally woke up.”
  “Xiao Bai, you haven’t gotten better after sleeping for so many days, you scared us.”
  “Xiao Bai, are you still feeling uncomfortable now?”
  “…” It was the young soldier, Gu Yang.
  Lin Xi was silent.
  He silently looked away and saw his surroundings.
  He was in a small, uncluttered room with a drip in his hand.
  He didn’t feel any pain either and the embryo in his belly was safe.
  “Where am I?” he finally asked.
  Gu Yang’s answer was also quick: “You are now at Big Brother Cang’s house. You vomited a lot of blood after you fainted that day. Big Brother Cang said that your injury was too serious and you can only get effective treatment when you return to the human base. So the commander decided to place you in Dongcheng first.”
  Dongcheng is located on the plateau on the east side of Maca Peak, where more than 80% of the people live there and it is 30 miles away from the central experimental tower. It is the city with the largest population of humans.
  As if responding to Gu Yang’s words, the door to the room opened and a woman pushed a small car in.
  “Xiaoyang, the water is already hot, I also helped Xiaobai prepare clean clothes. After a while, you can help him change them after scrubbing. Remember to throw the old ones in the frame, I will wash them later.”
  The woman said and back out again, leaving only the full car.
  In addition to the boiling hot water on the car, there are towels, shampoo, clothes baskets, clean shirts… underwear.
  Gu Yang’s face instantly turned red.
  “Ah…Xiao Bai, you have been in a coma for more than ten days and commander asked me to stay here to take care of you. If your clothes were dirty, I’ll change them for you… Huh? No, I, I, I actually it’s just to help you clean your body…”
  The first two times when he helped Lin Xi clean up his body, Lin Xi was unconscious but Gu Yang still felt a fever in his ears when he was cleaning.
  Now that Xiaobai is awake, he looks at those eyes with clear waves and he doesn’t even know what to do.
  … He only knew Lin Xi was Xiaobai as before.
  But later, Cang Jie and Tou’s various behaviors indicated that this person was the original mutant in the laboratory.
  A mutant very close to Xenogeneic.
  A mutant who was recruited by the laboratory to have children like women.
  “Yeah.” Compared to Gu Yang’s nervousness, Lin Xi’s answer was very calm.
  Gu Yang looked at him quietly.
  Lin Xi had already sat up from the bed and started to undress.
  He pulled up his clothes at once.
  He immediately exposed his belly.
  The waist of the abdomen is very narrow, it looks soft and flexible.
  Above the abdomen is the chest…
  “Ah, wait, wait, Xiao Bai!” Gu Yang hurriedly called to stop.
  But it was too late, Lin Xi had already washed off his clothes, revealing a very neat figure.
  Gu Yang: “…”
  His face burned like a monkey’s ass.
  “What?” Lin Xi heard Gu Yang’s voice and turned to look.
  “Uh…” Gu Yang quickly got up and knocked over the stool he was sitting on.
  “Xiao Bai, wait, let me adjust the water temperature for you first.”
  “No need.”
  “Then I’ll add the water for you.”
  “I can do it myself.”
  Gu Yang saw that Lin Xi had unplugged his dropper, the man got up and began to take off his trousers.
  “Then.. I’ll wait for you outside!”
  Lin Xi was stunned, seeing Gu Yang running away like a smoke.
  Soon he was alone in the room.
  Lin Xi was silent.
  He’s used to soaking in labware and at the water’s edge, he’s dipping into it as usual.
  Gu Yang might still be young, so he couldn’t accept it.
  The water was scorching hot, exuding a scorching heat.
  Lin Xi thought to himself, thinking that Dongcheng was a human city, he seemed to have returned to the starting point.
  He also saw the corner of a handkerchief.
  The handkerchief was quietly sandwiched between the clothes. It was a plain white color, probably because the laundry person thought it was something he carried with him, so he brought it over again this time.
  But Lin Xi knew that this did not belong to him.
  Holding the handkerchief, he stared blankly for a long time.
  After an hour, the door of the room reopened and Lin Xi just finished taking a shower, pushed the cart and walked out.
  He put on a clean and tidy white shirt, looking very clean and neat.
  The wet white hair was still clinging to his face, neutralizing the executioner’s sternness, Gu Yang’s eyes almost straightened.
  “Xiao Bai, you look really good.” He couldn’t help saying for the third time.
  Lin Xi looked at the young soldier.
  “Xiao Bai, how can you be an executioner?” He asked again, “Xiao Bai, how did you become an executioner?”
  Lin Xi paused and did not answer.
  “I used to think that the executioners were very vicious. They were all desperadoes, the kind who would kill without blinking an eye. But Xiaobai, you don’t feel that way…”
  He said innocently, not seeing Lin Xi’s smile gradually appeared on his face.
  “How do I make you feel?” he asked.
  “Decisive, kind, and brave.” Gu Yang said, looking at Lin Xi.
  This time he saw Lin Xi’s smile that was different from the last time he got along.
  “No.”
  Lin Xi denied his assessment, “I was born in a laboratory, grew up in a laboratory, and the laboratory is my parents. They taught me to eat, learn, kill, and evolve. I started when I was ten years old. I’ve learned how to kill Xenomorphs, except for these, I can’t do anything.”
  His smile looked even colder, without any warmth.
  “In addition to killing alien species, I have also killed many mutants. I have also killed a lot of ordinary human beings who failed to evolve, who succeeded in man-made and even those who are powerless.”
  Probably tore a good face that Lin Xi showed now was more real, Gu Yang actually saw a ruthlessness and ruthlessness on Xiao Bai’s face that was different from human beings.
  He didn’t dare to speak.
  The executioner, who kills everyone, is also very good at disguising in the legend.
  Gu Yang didn’t ask similar questions again. He wanted to get close, but Xiao Bai didn’t seem to want to and seemed to be staying away from him.
  The day after Lin Xi woke up, Cang Jie returned home and reviewed Lin Xi’s condition.
  “We put the locator you left in Gaia Village into the body of Pangxiang of the beast tide. As long as it is still moving, the people in the laboratory can detect that you are still moving outside.”
  “Yes.”
  ” Your child cannot be aborted. Now this embryo absorbs your nutrition, but it also feeds back to the mother when you are in danger. This is a very high-end self-protection method.”
  “Yes.”
  “Although the other side is dangerous, your body can no longer withstand you running around outside, so during this time, you have to focus on raising your baby.”
  “Yes.”
  Cang Jie explained so much in one breath and suddenly mentioned another person.
  “Commander he…”
  This time, Lin Xi looked at him nonchalantly.
  “He will also stay in Dongcheng for a while. There was a problem with the device we installed in Gaia Village, the movement of the beast tide shifted.
  Now there is a branch of the beast tide that is eyeing the other side and is constantly heading towards Dongcheng.
  “He is in charge of dispatching on the front line. When I came back, there was a small wave of siege, so he might not have time to come and see you for a while.” Cang Jie had to continue explaining.
  As soon as he finished speaking, the roar of artillery shells suddenly came from outside the city, causing the ground to tremble slightly.
  In the roaring sound, there is also the deep and distant whimper of the alien species.
  Lin Xi slowly gathered some energy.
  “Wolf pack?” he asked.
  “Yes, not all of them.” Cang Jie said.
  “This time, the wolves are besieging the city but have not taken the initiative to attack. Instead, they have kept a part of the beast tide in captivity and drove the low-level aliens in the slavery to attack the other side.”
  Among the aliens, Wolves have always been at the forefront of the most dangerous predators, not only because of their aggressiveness but also because they have transcended the primitive desire to eat and evolved into a higher collective action, with the same clear division of labor as human society.
  Lin Xi didn’t speak any more. He seemed to be only interested in the wolves and didn’t mention anything about Mu Yechen.
  Cang Jie felt that he was not at all like the person who was desperately trying to save the Commander in the beast swarm.
  However, the man in front of him was the executioner. If his actions were easy to guess, then there would not be so many powerful mutants who died at his hands.
  He paused, then took out a wooden box from behind him.
  “This is the commander asked me to take at his and give it to you.”
  This time, the executioner’s eyes changed and he was finally stunned.
  Cang Jie has already opened it for him.
  The wooden box has been around for years, there are traces of time precipitation on it, red lacquer and yellow silk on it and a weapon lying quietly inside.
  The weapon is a hunting pistol with a Holocene ancient totem tattooed on the handle.
  “He said it was given to him by his father and the best gun he used to use.”
  Lin Xi didn’t speak, there were obvious fluctuations in his eyes.
  “He also said that this gun has low recoil, great power and a lot of bullets. He let me hand this gun to you for self-defense…”
  Cang Jie said and finally saw Lin Xi move.
  Lin Xi picked up the handle of the gun hesitantly, rubbed the barrel of the gun lightly with his fingertips and watched silently.
  He remembered that the gun had a nice name.
  “Phoenix Fire”
  There seemed to be a temperature on the handle of the gun, which made Lin Xi feel slightly hot.
  But he straightened his arms without saying a word and took a look at the direction of the muzzle.
  The artillery fire outside the city roared and there was a wind of gunpowder smoke in the city. The wind blew his white shirt and white hair, which made his whole body chill.
  He held the gun for a long time, then slowly put it down.
  “Go back and tell Lord Commander, I will take care of the child in my womb,”
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Edited: 7/21/22
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