Chapter 25: Sources of Infection
  Lin Xi stayed in Dongcheng.
  Cang Jie’s wife, Lu Wan, was a normal human who had not been infected by archaea.
  Five years ago, after Cang Jie was recruited by the laboratory to become a mutant of the second generation, she used surgery to remove her uterus and escaped the Dongcheng New Human Creation Project.
  They have two boys, the older boy is seven years old and the younger boy is five years old. These two children are still in the stage of human young children but they have already been entered into the candidate list of the third generation mutants, waiting for the recruitment and dispatch of the laboratory at any time.
  However, this cruel environment did not cause too much trouble for the children.
  Da Cang and Xiao Cang are still immature, they still play around every day, laughing and playing. They think that Lin Xi is too good-looking.
  After this uncle Bai woke up, they actually played with Lin Xi a few times without being afraid of the aliens. As the time passes, they actually got close to the legendary executioner.
  Lin Xi didn’t refuse, and seemed to be much kinder than usual in dealing with children.
  After he woke up, he had nothing to do except to help Lu Wan with housework and most of them were helping Cang Jie with the baby.
  With three meals a day, food, clothing, housing and transportation, the executioner simply spent a week in the city where humans live.
  But there are also surprises.
  By chance, Lin Xi discovered that two children were playing with green flocculent objects.
  “Ah! What is this, it’s fun!”
  “It’s fun, isn’t it? This thing is interesting, you see, put it on this dead grass…”
  “Wow, this grass grows so fast. Brother, you see it’s blooming!”
  The children squatted outside the fence, fiddling with the liquid with the stones and had a lot of fun.
  In addition to Da Cang and Xiao Cang, there is also a little girl in a floral dress.
  Lin Xi was stunned for a moment. He stepped forward almost instantly, kicked away the stones that the three children had played with and pulled Da Cang and Xiao Cang away.
  “You’re playing with archaea?” he asked.
  “Ah… it’s an archaea?” Da Cang and Xiao Cang also asked.
  The children did not know what was in front of them, there were surprises and panic in their eyes.
  Everyone living in the city knows that archaea is the nemesis of human beings. Dongcheng, as a city where normal human beings live, is strictly prohibited from entering the habitat of human beings.
  As if to confirm Uncle Bai’s words, the subtilis infected with the archaea on the ground grew and blossomed, soon bearing fruit, then the fruit cracked. A large amount of green liquid flowed out like pus, soaking the entire branch.
  The branches trembled desperately but after a while, it failed to evolve and withered back into a pool of sticky green water.
  All this happened in just a few minutes.
  The children were terrified.
  Lin Xi sank his eyes and took the opportunity to ask.
  “Where did you find it?”
  “We didn’t find it, it was Xiaoshu who gave it to us to play… Uncle Bai, we didn’t know it was such a dangerous thing.”
  Xiao Cang was referring to another girl next to him.
  Lin Xi narrowed his eyes, he looked at the girl and saw that the other party was also raising her eyes, revealing a white face and dark green pupils.
  With just one glance, Lin Xi suddenly had a strange feeling in his heart that he had never felt before.
  He felt that the color of the girl’s pupil membrane was very similar to the color of the archaea that was rampant in the last century.
  “Who are you?” He immediately stopped the two children behind him.
  The girl didn’t speak. She had two ponytails and a fluffy princess dress, she suddenly grinned at Lin Xi.
  In her smile, she revealed two small, spiky canine teeth.
  The strange feeling in Lin Xi’s heart became stronger.
  He felt like he had seen this girl somewhere but there seemed to be no such a human child in his memory.
  But before he could ask, the little girl suddenly got up and ran into the alley.
  She was wearing small red leather shoes, the little shoes made the sound of tapping and tapping in the dark alley.
  “Xiao Mi said she was separated from her family and has been looking for her brother here recently.”
  “Did she say anything else?”
  “No, Uncle Bai, we only saw her recently.” Da Cang replied.
  He was worried that the archaea would cause secondary pollution, so he first took a fire from the room and burned the nearby archaea one by one.
  Lu Wan also came here after hearing the news. After she heard that there was an archaea nearby, she quickly hugged the children and only felt scared for a while.
  But she soon saw Lin Xi take out the brim hat from the closet.
  The executioner tucked his white hair into his hat.
  “It’s too dangerous for you to chase alone, why don’t you wait for Xiaoyang to come back from the market.” Lu Wan said quickly.
  “Gu Yang hasn’t seen that child, so he might not be able to find her.”
  Lin Xi thought for a while and then added: “And there is no one who knows me in Dongcheng right now, I can handle it alone.”
  “Then your body…”
  “I just took medicine and injections this morning.”
  He opened the fence and started chasing in the direction the girl had left.
  By this time, the child had already run away.
  Lin Xi walked to the entrance of the alley, followed the shoe prints on the ground and followed all the way to the main road of Dongcheng.
  The number of people on the main road increased and the mark left by the girl gradually became illegible. Lin Xi looked around on the road and suddenly saw a short figure in a tutu skirt appearing in the Dongcheng Square.
  Lin Xi immediately got up and followed.
  When he got to the square, there were more people here. Lin Xi saw that the direction of the girl’s disappearance was quickly covered with several layers of dense crowds.
  The crowd was tight and at this time, there were still bursts of shouting from the inside.
  “Against the laboratory dictatorship!”
  “Oppose the new human creation plan, the old human eradication plan, the human experimentation and the executioner!”
  “We are not livestock, we are human beings. We are against power, we need civilization and freedom!”
  There was a mighty crowd and Lin Xi was immediately pushed aside, completely losing the girl’s goal.
  In the square, there are still people giving speeches.
  “My fellow human beings, do you remember those men who failed to be infected after being tested on humans in the laboratory? Do you remember the women who were treated as female animals in the laboratory? Do you remember those relatives who were forced to go to the battlefield and used by Xenogeneic species as food rations?”
  “The laboratory mutilates our fellow citizens and treats us like slaves and livestock. They has set our human rights society back three hundred years. They are the root of all evil, and the shame of human history.”
  “We want to overthrow the experiment!”
  “We don’t need to evolve, we need to live like humans!”
  The scorching sun in Dongcheng, the square was crowded with people. Human voices undulating wave after wave, intertwined with the roar of artillery fire outside the Dongcheng Together.
  At this time, the leaders of the square parade were again advocating.
  “Compatriots, we can no longer be enslaved by the laboratory, we must take practical action!”
  “Our first step is to rescue our compatriots from the executioner of the laboratory!”
  “The executioner is the lab’s lackey. He helps the lab to kill fellow human beings. He is unforgivable. We will send him to the gallows, let him be judged fairly, and let the people in the lab understand that we want revolution! These people in Dongcheng are not easy to mess with!”
  Infected by the leader, unanimous voices broke out again at the scene.
  “Send the executioner to the gallows!”
  “Send the executioner to the gallows!”
  “Send the executioner to the gallows!”
  Lin Xi listened, raised his head silently and looked at the angry humans around him.
  People from the front, back, left and right were shouting and someone even stuffed a notice in his hand.
  There is a silhouette of a person on the notice. The person is wearing a breathing suppressor, with a clear body and a big red cross drawn on his head.
  There are small print next to the photo.
  [Lin Xi, unknown birth and age, Deformed mutants developed by the Human Evolution Laboratory will be rewarded for those who provide clues about their appearance, those who capture this person alive, and those who kill this person. ]
  At the sign, there is also a red seal with the inscription –
  [Wanted by All Humans]
  The paper was crumpled by Lin Xi.
  In a short while, this leaflet was handed out to everyone. Those who marched began to discuss the executioner’s appearance, the whereabouts and deeds of the executioner.
  “How can anyone be willing to be a lackey in the laboratory.”
  “I heard that he is no different from a xenogeneic species, they are all murderers.”
  “This kind of person is too cheap for him to hang him.”
  Lin Xi didn’t speak, he lowered his hat.
  He remembered that the direction the girl left just now was the east side of Dongcheng, further east of this square. It should be where the defending army was stationed.
  He didn’t plan to stay any longer, and was about to leave.
  However, at this moment, the person beside him who cursed him to die suddenly heard a scream.
  “Ahhh! It hurts so much, save me!”
  There was the sound of cell division.
  “Ah, ah, ah, my hands, my feet…”
  The screams were close at hand, there were also a lot of panic screams from humans in the crowd.
  “Ah ah ah… archaea, archaea, there are archaea here!!”
  The impassioned parade sound suddenly stopped, Lin Xi opened his eyes and looked at the person behind him, only to see the middle-aged man beside him covered with green bacteria Crawling Cloth.
  After a while, the green fungus covered his face, melting and decomposing his mouth and nose.
  The man’s body stumbled to the ground, and the flyer also landed in front of Lin Xi’s toes.
  Lin Xi quickly took a step back.
  But even more terrifying things are still happening. The human body with fungi seems like a source of infection.
  The people here are dense and the archaea are multiplying on the human body in an extremely rapid way. The human beings are constantly being transmitted, struggling, and infecting the archaea to the next human.
  After a while, more than a dozen infected humans appeared in the square. Some of them were rapidly decomposed by the archaea and some had a certain degree of bacterial fitness and were rapidly evolving with the archaea.
  “This must be a laboratory conspiracy! They must be afraid of us uniting and must have sent executioners to do it!” The speaker shouted when he saw this scene.
  The scene immediately panicked and those who were not infected quickly withdrew in a large circle, watching the mutation in horror.
  Lin Xi’s complexion also changed. He coexisted with archaea but his body would not react to this group of microorganisms. At this time, he was still the closest person to the infected person.
  He may have been infected with these microbes.
  He quickly evacuated to the side but someone next to him grabbed him.
  “It’s him! He just got the closest but he’s not infected, there must be something wrong with him!” a woman shouted.
  Lin Xi’s eyes widened and subconsciously went to grab the Phoenix Fire behind him.
  Lin Xi’s face was pale, he looked back at the group of humans and saw that the eyes of this group of people were afraid, tempted, disgusted, and hated.
  They were looking at him in a dark and unanimous manner.
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Edited: 7/21/22
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