Chapter 29: Small Midget
  Mu Yechen was at a loss.
  “What’s wrong?” he asked worriedly.
  Lin Xi didn’t respond. Tears fell on the mattress drop by drop like pearls with a broken thread, which also soaked Mu Yechen’s heart.
  But Mu Yechen felt that his heart was empty, and he knew nothing about Lin Xi’s past.
  The darkness suddenly became suffocating, he could only accompany Lin Xi quietly and endure the long dark night with him.
  The silent crying gradually stopped and Mu Yechen felt a cool hand gently clinging to his palm.
  Mu Yechen was stunned.
  He looked down and saw Lin Xi curled up beside him. His white hair fell down softly, his eyes were gently closed and he snored slightly.
  He fell asleep again.
  Mu Yechen got up and covered him with the quilt again.
  He was reluctant to leave, so he stayed by Lin Xi’s side for a while. When the first sun rose, he got up and returned to the direction of the military camp.
  Three days passed after this side.
  The alien species outside the east city wall suddenly launched an attack under the command of the wolves, the beasts rushed towards the city. Under the wall of the east city, rodents, shrews, and carnivores were everywhere like a tide. The advance troop dispatched high-energy laser cannons and began to bomb the beast tide in a large area.
  Outside the city, beams and gunfire are intertwined and deafening.
  Inside the walls, parades and shouts echoed.
  “Five years ago, Dongcheng was also attacked by alien species like this and our savior also rescued us from this terrifying siege!”
  “The red light shot up to the sky that day and a huge ancient phoenix totem appeared in Dongcheng, which means that we humans are absolutely will rise!”
  “We must support the savior, let him lead us to resist alien species, resist the laboratory and resist the world!”
  The sound of speeches in the square was overwhelmed for a while, even in the residential area hundreds of meters away, the voices of people could still be heard.
  Lin Xi didn’t go out again, he promised Mu Yechen to take care of the child in his womb. He took the medicine prescribed by Cangjie at home and leaned against the bed to rest his eyes.
  He was dimly conscious and did not notice an uninvited guest coming into the house.
  “Good brother, I’ve found a way out of the city.”
  A soft voice whispered softly in his ear, stirring his nerves.
  Lin Xi woke up in shock.
  He recognized that the speaking voice was the subject of the previous transmission of the archaea, Number 37.
  He immediately followed the sound and saw that Xiao Mi was lying beside him, wrapping his hair around her finger.
  Today, she was wearing a bright red umbrella skirt with a little red hood on her head looking like a gorgeous doll. Seeing Lin Xi wake up, she brought her face closer.
  “Good brother, I’ll see my brother now, you should go with me.”
  She also blinked her green eyes.
  Lin Xi was shocked yet immediately observed the movement around him.
  “Don’t worry, good brother, I came in secretly.” Seeing Lin Xi’s expression, Xiaoshu quickly guessed what the other party was thinking and she began to smile, “If brother follow me obediently, I will not play archaea with those two children.”
  “Are you threatening me?”
  “How could Xiao Mi threaten her own kind? “
  She said, in order to show her sincerity, she went to Test Lin Xi’s forehead: “Good brother, I just called you several times but you didn’t wake up, are you seriously ill?”
  Lin Xi immediately pulled her hand away from his head.
  Xiao Mi was not annoyed, she grabbed the medicine bottle beside Lin Xi’s bed with her other hand and counted them one by one: “Brother, what’s wrong with you? You still use this, an antibiotics for human beings? What about this bottle? It says medication for pregnancy… Brother Bai, you won’t be pregnant, right!?”
  She smiled innocently and when she was shocked, she didn’t hide it with her eyes immediately noticed Lin Xi’s stomach.
  Lin Xi had to force himself to deal with it.
  “What do you want to do?”
  “I like you, I want to run away with you.”
  “I won’t be with you.”
  “Why? Do you want to be with humans?”
  Lin Xi didn’t answer.
  His life has entered the countdown and in the past five years, he has not thought about this issue for a long time.
  But Xiao Mi was unrelenting, she grabbed Lin Xi again and asked.
  “Good brother, then why are you still staying here?”
  “Good brother, you don’t think of yourself as a human!”
  Lin Xi’s body was imperceptibly stiff.
  Xiao Mi wanted to ask but the voices of Gu Yang and Lu Wan could be heard from outside the room.
  “Xiao Yang, why did you come back after buying so many things… You went to the market again?”
  “Yeah, I want to see my brother again. If he can show up once, maybe he will show up a second time.” Gu Yang said, “I’ve been waiting there, I’m sure he will go to the market again one day.”
  Lin Xi was silent and he heard the children’s laughter again.
  “Brother Xiaoyang, Brother Xiaoyang! Did you buy some candy today?”
  “Of course! You two brothers are only allowed to grab one piece for each.” Gu Yang’s voice become young and active, “By the way sister-in-law, where’s Xiaobai?”
  ” He has been in a bad health recently, so he should still be asleep at this time.”
  “Then I won’t disturb Xiaobai.”
  The conversation between Gu Yang and Lu Wan could be heard almost clearly in the room, Xiaoshu was in high spirits and pulled Lin Xi to say.
  “Good brother, it’s okay for him to disturb you, I’ll bite off his neck.”
  Lin Xi, Xiao Shu and Gu Yang had fought each other and he knew how deep they were. He also understood that this girl could definitely do what she said.
  He looked at the stacked figures outside the window and withdrew his gaze.
  “How to get out of town?” he asked.
  “Brother, just come with me!” Xiao Mi’s eyes suddenly lit up.
  Lin Xi didn’t refuse any more, he put on his hat again, pulled on a windbreaker, and left Cangjie’s house with Xiao Mi.
  They began to walk towards the road that Lin Xi had traced first. On the side of the road, there were people holding portraits of family members, mournfully complaining about the casualties of war with aliens.
  The people on the road were still marching and they held banners that marked freedom, the red cross to overthrow the rule of the laboratory, and the image of the gallows on the executioner, fluttering in the wind to the sound of gunfire.
  Xiao Mi led Lin Xi through one by one and when he saw the orator giving a passionate speech in the square, he pulled his eyelids with his hands and made a face at the leader.
  Xiao Mi stuck out her tongue: “They are also really stupid.”
  Lin Xi said nothing.
  Xiao Mi laughed, she grabbed Lin Xi’s hand and started running, running like a happy rabbit.
  After a while, the two came to the vicinity of the military camp again.
  There was someone patrolling the barracks and Mu Yechen was commanding nearby, but this time they didn’t alert anyone. The girl in the red dress pulled Lin Xi to quietly escape the patrols of the soldiers and came to a secluded corner.
  This corner is the foot of the wall of Hephaestus. There is no one around here. The roar of the aliens separates the wall. Lin Xi can almost hear the rodents around the corner of the city wall, squeaking along the sound. The coveted sound and then was bombarded to pieces by the shells that followed.
  The surrounding tide seems to be endless, only this city wall forms a line of defense, firmly resisting the invasion of alien species.
  “It’s here.”
  However, at this time, the girl suddenly waved at Lin Xi and pointed to the road ahead.
  “…” Lin Xi was horrified.
  He found that the place the girl was pointing to was a small hole under the east wall. This hole is insignificant for the steel city wall with a height of 100 meters but it is more than a few meters deep and almost penetrates the entire wall of Hephaestus in the Eastern City.
  Above this small hole, there are countless cracks that are spreading upwards and spreading in this line of defense.
  The entrance of the cave is dark, like a despicable perforation in a towering civilization.
  “Why is there such a hole here?” Lin Xi hurriedly stepped forward. He quickly measured the hole in the wall with his eyes. It was almost certain that if the hole was drilled ten centimeters deeper, it would be enough to connect the two worlds inside and outside the wall.
  Once pierced, Xiao Mi can go out of the wall as she yearns, but the alien species outside the wall will inevitably burrow into the human world along this hole.
  Xiao Mi didn’t find it strange, she pulled her little skirt and turned it around.
  “Of course I dug this.” She smiled.
  “Impossible, how did you escape the military camp inspection?”
  “There are two uncles guarding here. When I first came here, they kept me in the camp and gave me nice clothes and delicious food every day, they listen to me in everything.”
  Lin Xi looked at the girl’s red dress and felt dazzled.
  But the girl didn’t think so, she continued to laugh: “Humans are like this, as long as I play with them well, even the commander of the advance troop sent someone to investigate and help me cover it up.”
  She said, recalling the time when she just escaped from the laboratory.
  At first, she knew that the east city wall was built to defend against alien species, and it was as strong as steel, almost indestructible.
  But the girl found that because of the alien attack, everyone’s eyes were focused on the outside of the wall and they didn’t see this small foundation.
  So, she dug here secretly, but it didn’t take long for her to be discovered by two soldiers.
  She wanted to kill the two soldiers but what the two soldiers did later made her shocked and unbelievable.
  She found that human beings are really stupid, hopelessly stupid.
  However, this just happened to provide her with cover. She listened to her brother’s call every night and kept digging the wall. After half a month, she was finally about to see the world outside the wall.
  Xiao Mi smiled happily, she jumped to the entrance of the hole and looked at Lin Xishen.
  “Good brother, let’s go together.” She invited.
  Lin Xi was still standing in the same place, his face was snow-white and was thinking about countermeasures quickly.
  It is impossible for him to follow Xiao Mi. The first thing he has to do now is to leave here as quickly as possible to inform Mu Yechen…
  However, the ground trembled at this time. Not only did he see the turtles gradually scattered on the wall creating cracks, he also heard the footsteps of huge monsters running outside the city wall.
  “Be careful!” Lin Xi’s pupils tightened immediately and hurriedly tried to hold the girl in the hole.
  However, the alien species outside the city rushed over before him.
  “Boom–”
  The city wall made a huge crashing sound.
  The cracks spreading at the entrance of the cave spread, split, and collapsed in an instant.
  “Hooo–” A prehistoric giant cracked tortoise emerged from the shattering of the city wall, as if hitting a wall of paper.
  With the collapse of the city wall, a huge claws protruded from the turtle’s back and looked at this unusual human city.
  He was instantly thrown into the air by the blast of the city wall and hit the ground.
  The back of his head hit a sharp stone.
  Lin Xi’s eyes darkened instantly, he lost consciousness.
  In a short while, his body was completely submerged by countless huge chunks of mud, steel bars, and stones that fell.
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Edited: 7/21/22
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