Chapter 27: Brother
  “What does that man look like?”
  “He fled outside the wall after the sneak attack. I only saw him wearing a blindfold.”
  “He came from outside?”
  “Maybe.”
  Mu Yechen recalled the scene of the attack yesterday and added: “I found out that he is familiar with the terrain here.”
  Lin Xi did not say anything.
  Familiar with the terrain, it means that the person who came is likely to be a person in the military camp.
  Mu Yechen had concerns about this and must have been screened in the military camp. He is nobody now, and doesn’t need to interfere here.
  He let go of his obsession and slowly retracted his gaze from outside the wall.
  “It’s time for me to go back.”
  “I’ll take you off.”
  “No, the closer you get to me, the more likely I’ll be found by the lab.”
  The lab can’t easily believe that he’s still outside just because of a locator running wild.
  Since he stayed here to raise his baby, Lin Xi felt that she still needed to be cautious and didn’t plan to get too close to Mu Yechen.
  With that said, he re-camouflaged himself and left the barracks again.
  Outside the military camp, the archaeal infection has been subsided by the advance troops and the crowd in the square has been reduced by more than half, only scattered people are wandering around.
  Lin Xi crossed the main street and stared for a while in the direction where the girl disappeared.
  But it was at this moment that he saw two young people walking near Times Square.
  The two were of outstanding height, one had a collar on his body and looked a bit delicate and the other was wearing a black combat uniform on the other side, with a lazy face, looking like a rich boy brother who went to the military camp to cultivate.
  “Brother Lu, Number 37 disappeared here, what shall we do next?”
  The two walked side by side and the voice reached Lin Xi’s ears.
  The number, the “L” logo on the clothes… the breath of these two people is too familiar to Lin Xi.
  The two are mutants and surveillance officers from the lab’s Secret Service.
  Sure enough, the boy-like human started to laugh.
  “No. 37 is the most successful experimental body in recent years. She is very cunning, jow could it be so easy to find her.”
  “Then Brother Lu, we…”
  “No hurry, it’s hard for her to come out. Follow me outside first.”
  “Ah, Brother Lu, do you want it again?”
  “Baby, don’t you want it?”
  Then the two turned into the alley one after the other.
  Lin Xi followed.
  The Secret Service men, not finding themselves being followed, stopped by a small, secluded shabby house.
  “Just here.”
  “Uh…wait, it’s not good to be outside here?”
  “The matter of mutants and surveillance officers is always tacitly approved by the laboratory. Xiaoli, after the formalities are completed in a few days, I will send you Redeemed from the laboratory, you won’t have to do such a dangerous thing again in the future.”
  “Really?”
  “Of course it’s true, baby, I’ll take care of you in the future. Now be good, relax”.
  After a while, the mutant named Xiao Li was pressed against the wall by the surveillance officer.
  With a rustling voice, the two figures began to intertwine.
  Lin Xi, who was hiding in the dark was silent.
  At first, he was worried that the laboratory would send people to Dongcheng but he didn’t expect that the two of them would ignore the task and go out to have fun.
  The surveillance officer has a close relationship with the mutants and Lin Xi has also heard a little about this cowardly thing…
  He remembers that he was currently reassigned as an surveillance officer because he resisted Fu Yibo’s courtship and every mission was met with intensified revenge from the other party. .
  However, the two people in the alley were obviously not the way he and Fu Yibo got along and their voices gradually became louder and more filthy.
  Lin Xi looked away and canceled the plan to continue dormant.
  However, just as he got up, a soft and waxy voice suddenly sounded beside him.
  “Good brother, do you like watching this too?”
  Lin Xi stopped, not knowing when there was a girl on the tile not far from him.
  The girl wore a floral dress, red shoes, and opened a pair of green eyes.
  She commented: “Good brother, are you saying that they reproduce ineffectively?”
  Lin Xi did not speak.
  The girl giggled again: “Xiao Li is so stupid. His brother Lu also told me that he would help me redeem my life. It’s not different from what he just said.”
  “Humans are too hypocritical.”
  She commented.
  Lin Xi narrowed his eyes.
  He seemed to know who the girl in front of him was.
  “Number 37?”
  “37 is too ugly, my name is Xiao Mi.”
  She admitted her identity as an experimental subject and gave Lin Xi a deep look.
  “You smell like laboratory disinfectant and it’s soaked into your bones. As soon as I smell it, I know that you are my kind.”
  The two escaped experimental subjects were both in Dongcheng.
  But Lin Xi escaped from the laboratory, hundreds of kilometers away from the base. The leader will not suspect that he lives in Dongcheng for the time being but the girl in front of him is wandering in Dongcheng, which will inevitably make Dr. Ameka constantly dispatch the Secret Service people come.
  When the Secret Service came to Dongcheng, the fact that he lived in Cangjie’s house would be exposed at any time.
  Lin Xi was worried and began to weigh the pros and cons.
  But girls don’t care about that.
  She started tilting her head.
  “Good brother, why do you stay with humans?”
  “Good brother, you are an executioner, right? I recognized you at a glance when I was reading the flyer!”
  Lin Xi picked up today’s events: “Did you deliberately put those archaea on the square?”
  “Yes, but this is the world created by archaea so Isn’t it normal to have them?”
  Lin Xi frowned, she found that the girl’s self-knowledge does not lack ordinary human thinking.
  As expected, the girl laughed and said, “Only humans are abnormal in this world. They are greedy, selfish, and jealous. They cannot merge with the archaea. They have to expel the aliens and the archaea thus, hey are not normal.”
  She said while revealing two more Small canine teeth.
  The strange feeling in Lin Xi’s heart became more and more strange. For some reason, he thought of the person who hurt Mu Yechen.
  “Then why did you leave the lab?” he asked inducingly.
  “My brother is calling me and of course I came out to find my relatives.”
  “Who is your brother?”
  “My brother is my brother, he must know that I was imprisoned in the laboratory, so he came to save me.”
  “You haven’t seen his face?”
  “I want to meet my brother.”
  Lin Xi’s pupils shrank.
  “Good brother, you and I are not human anyway. You are wanted by all human beings! There is no room for you here, so why don’t you go with me to find my brother?”
  Xiaoji also sent an invitation to him, as if inviting himself companion.
  Lin Xi was unmoved.
  Xiao Mi looked very happy, her eyes suddenly turned green, her bright red lips suddenly widened, revealing two sharp fangs. The heteroblasts all over her body seemed to bloom at this moment, like a domineering animal, the whole person sparsely turned towards her.
  She was faster than anyone, more ruthless than anyone, the little red shoes stepped on the tiles.
  Lin Xi quickly stepped back and grabbed her head.
  “Nyaa–” Xiao Mi opened his mouth wide and gnawed at Lin Xi’s hand.
  The executioner’s eyes turned cold and chopped the gitly out of his hand.
  “Bang——” The girl suddenly fell on the roof with her feet upside down.
  This time, the people in the alley finally heard the movement.
  “Who? Who’s there?” The mutant, immersed in joy,came to her senses vigilantly.
  The sound in the alley suddenly stopped.
  Only then did Xiao Mi struggle to get up from the tiled roof and pouted at Lin Xi.
  “As expected of the executioner, good brother, you are really amazing.” She said while wiping her mouth full of saliva.
  Her mouth has a little cracked in the struggle just now and blood dripping dripping from the crack.
  But the girl didn’t feel scared at all.
  She looked at Lin Xi happily, as if she had found her best friend: “I seem to like you a little bit, good brother, is your name Lin Xi? I will definitely take you to my brother.”
  Lin Xi frowned and did not speak.
  He heard mutants and the overseer coming upstairs.
  Mutants and Overseers represent the lab.
  However, their movements were slower than Lin Xi and Xiao Mi. When the two rushed to the place where Lin Xi had been, the white-haired youth had already lowered his felt hat and mixed into the crowd a hundred meters away.
  The little midget was also gone.
  The flow of people in Dongcheng was wave after wave, the white walls and black tiles of Dongcheng once again covered her whereabouts.
  But the words Number 37 lingered in Lin Xi’s mind.
  He didn’t know what experiments the lab had conducted and what monsters had been created but from the fact that the girl was able to use heteroblasts to strengthen her body just now, it showed that this new life form was different from the mutants of the II and III generations.
  He stopped and walked in the city, deliberately paying attention to the whereabouts of the people around him, until he was sure that he was no longer being targeted and then returned to Cangjie’s house.
  This time, it took more than half a day. He had taken action against Xiao Mi before, Lin Xi felt that his lower abdomen was beginning to feel uncomfortable again.
  He dragged his body in pain back to the small courtyard of Cang Jie’s house.
  It was already dusk, Gu Yang had long since returned from the market and was sitting in the courtyard in a daze.
  A few leaves had fallen from the young soldier, who seemed to have been sitting at the door for a long time.
  When he saw Xiao Bai, his dull eyes suddenly moved, as if he saw a savior.
  “Xiao Bai, you’re finally back!” He blocked Lin Xi’s way.
  “What’s the matter?” Lin Xi was taken aback.
  Gu Yang also knew that Xiao Bai’s actual temper was not that easy to talk but he just tilted his head and scratched his forehead a few times.
  “Xiao Bai, the question I want to ask, you must not laugh at me for being stupid.”
  Gu Yang was indeed stupid.
  Lin Xi’s words softened.
  “Go ahead,” he said to the young soldier.
  Gu Yang’s eyes suddenly lit up, he gathered up his courage and asked, “Xiao Bai, do you think my brother is dead?”
  Lin Xi suddenly fell silent.
  He knew that Gu Yang’s brother’s name was Gu Cheng.
  Gu Cheng was the commander of the Dongcheng defending army. During the catastrophe five years ago, someone collected his body for him. On the scattered battlefield, only Commander Gu’s commonly used pills were found.
  Lin Xi’s expression changed several times.
  “Why do you suddenly ask this question?” he asked casually.
  Gu Yang suddenly became excited: “Xiao Bai, you may not believe it but I met my brother at the market today!”
  Lin Xi: “…”
  “I’ve been with him since I was a child, his height, his looks… I can recognize it at first sight even from the farthest place.”
  “They all said that my brother died in battle at the gate of Dongcheng five years ago, but I haven’t seen his body, is it possible that he still alive?”
  As soon as Gu Yang talked about his brother, he couldn’t help but look forward to it but he didn’t see Lin Xi’s face getting whiter and paler.
  “If my brother was still alive, I want to tell him that I joined the army, too. I’m not as playful as I used to be and I won’t always bother him to wipe my ass.”
  “He left so suddenly and I have a lot to say. I have time to tell him…I, I want to tell him that when I am an adult, I will definitely be like him.”
  Gu Yang said, stars lit up in his eyes.
  Lin Xi did not speak.
  He felt his body slowly getting colder.
  He knew that Gu Cheng could not be alive.
  Only he knows in this world.
  Gu Yang’s hopeful words were still in his ears but Lin Xi’s memories returned to five years ago.
  On that day, he came to the city gate of Dongcheng and saw a group of green wolves eating a person’s body.
  He was so angry that he wanted to rush up to rescue Gu Cheng’s body.
  However, Qinglang raised his head and threw the corpse into the air surrounded by wolves, the body in free fall and Gu Cheng’s eyes before he died.
  “Ouu–“
  “Ouu–” the swimming whale chanted the lamentation of life.
  Lin Xi saw with his own eyes that the wolf’s mouth was aimed at the commander’s head.
  “Gulp-”
  A wolf swallowed Gu Cheng in one bite.
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Edited:7/21/22
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