Chapter 33: Memories
  The siege of Dongcheng lasted for three days and three nights.
  This siege came fiercely, the advance troops and defenders that was originally stationed at the gate of the city suffered heavy casualties.
  However, Commander Mu Yechen still led the mutants under his command to organize a team to fight fiercely with the wolves in Mundal Mountain.
  Without the command of the leader, the herds became disorganized. The advance troop carried out in the city and finally drove out all the alien species in the east city, winning a preliminary victory.
  Three days later, the other side disinfected the city with archaea and re-construct the broken walls.
  Half a month later, the humans in the refuge finally saw the light of day.
  However, when the people in the shelter were bustling back into the city, Mu Yechen didn’t see the white-haired youth who endured loneliness in the crowd.
  After he fought with the wolf that day, Lin Xi lost contact with him.
  Not only Lin Xi disappeared but also Gu Yang who was with Lin Xi also disappeared.
  The wind and snow buried their traces and Mu Yechen only found a missing Phoenix fire.
  He stood blankly in the snow looking at the gun, only to feel his chest ripped open. The wind and snow kept pouring in, the temperature in his heart felt like it dropped to zero.
  Mu Yechen’s heart trembled, and a memory that he had never had before suddenly appeared in his mind.
  In his memory, it was also the ruins where the beast swarms had dispersed. He hurriedly pushed aside the dense crowd at the gate of the East City snd saw the convergence team carrying out stretchers from the corpse pile.
  On the stretcher lay a bloody man, with his eyes closed, only a bloody left hand fell silently.
  His only limbs were his left hand.
  Mu Yechen had a splitting headache, he felt his heart broken, he quickly rushed forward and called the man’s name.
  But he didn’t make any sound in the end.
  His memory stopped here.
  However, the title of “Savior” did not stop.
  “He is Commander Mu.”
  “It was the Savior who saved us.”
  Mu Yechen’s face was pale, he looked around the crowd and took a step back in fear.
  … He found that he couldn’t save Lin Xi.
  This year, before the winter solstice came along with the tide of the siege of Dongcheng, there was also the falling snow.
  The green wolf of Mundel Mountain temporarily withdraws from the human territory but Beiwo still lingers in the plateau nearby.
  The wind and snow did not dissipate, they got bigger, shrouding the other side in snow-white.
  Mu Yechen was called to the central part of the command room. He entered the experimental tower and participated in the regular meeting of the five districts presided over by the leader.
  “The beast tide is still nearby.”
  Dr. Ameka mobilized the atmospheric image and analyzed the flowing weather map for the district administrators and commanders.
  “The Kun whale is now taking the other side of us as the center point and slowly walking around us. The air vibration device should have an effect, allowing the base to avoid the head-on confrontation with the beast tide…”
  ‘”But the cold wave is coming and it will produce acid rain. The interaction will lead to a large area of ​​snowfall—the other base will enter winter in advance.”
  Affected by the altitude, the temperature in the other side is always below zero, which is tantamount to adding to the snow for Dongcheng that just encountered the surrounding tide.
  “That’s really bad luck. It seems that many people in the East District will freeze to death again this year.”
  “I have already applied for this year’s oil and refining ratio, so how much do I plan to give to the Eastern District this time? If the energy supply is not sufficient, the mutant sources that the Eastern District can provide next year will be less than one-third of this year’s.”
  “Don’t be so assertive, I remember when the aliens invaded, you hid in the experimental tower, right?”
  “If it was you, wouldn’t you also hid?”
  At the scene of the video interaction, the administrators began to express their own opinions.
  “Head, I don’t understand why my son was sent to the Eastern District at this time.”
  “Head, I also want to know the whereabouts of my son Fu Yibo.”
  Compared with the leaders of the districts, the commanders were much silent. Mu Yechen listened quietly by the side, without saying a word.
  Finally, the mechanical voice stabilized the scene.
  “Everyone, this is not only the winter of the base, but also the winter of mankind. If anyone has any comments on me or the laboratory, we will welcome him to point it out. The Human Evolution Laboratory will consider carefully and re-evaluate the situation of the administrators as the appropriate arrangement.”
  “Every officer here is the best human being selected by us, you should all remember this.”
  This made them almost forget that there is such a terrible existence behind the laboratory.
  The executioner rule out dissidents for the laboratory. Once he disobey the leader, he will be ‘separated’ by the head one day when he wake up.
  They shivered all over, did not dare to say anything and left the command center.
  Gradually, only Mu Yechen was left in the conference room.
  “Commander Mu, do you have anything else to do?” the head of the empty room asked.
  Mu Yechen nodded.
  “I want to meet Lin Xi.”
  He said bluntly.
  “Oh?” The leader’s voice was intriguing.
  Mu Yechen raised his head and looked at the direction the voice came from.
  “Two months ago, when I left for the mission, I saw him being cultivated in a vessel.”
  Mu Yechen paused, “I wanted to apply to bring him home but it was delayed because of the wolves. For a month, the blue wolf will not attack again for the time being, I want to apply to the laboratory for Lin Xi’s freedom.”
  There was a loud voice in the conference room, the head listened and suddenly let out a sigh.
  “Commander Mu, I remember that you have always kept our laboratory at a distance but why did you suddenly want to take Lin Xi away?”
  “Master, you arranged me to have a relationship with him. Since he has become my subordinate, of course I have to provide his safe haven.”
  “I didn’t expect Commander Mu to be so affectionate but you are the Commander now, your first priority must not the love of a test subject.”
  The hand behind Mu Yechen clenched slowly, staring at the direction of the head’s voice.
  “Commander, don’t look at me like this. Even if your father is alive, he definitely doesn’t want you to be immersed in such little love.”
  “…” Mu Yechen’s face changed slightly.
  The leader said slowly: “Lin Xi is not in the laboratory. He was sent by me to a place outside the base for a mission two months ago and no news has been sent back yet. Commander Mu, please go back.”
  The dialogue is watertight, there are no flaws at all.
  Mu Yechen’s expression changed several times and finally, he slowly retracted his gaze and turned to leave the room.
  The sound of his footsteps slowly disappeared within the range of hearing.
  And behind the command center –
  “Zztt-“
  Across a wall, a machine was mechanically rotating on the operating table. The head of the leader moved slowly toward the experimental table behind him along with the movement of the bracket.
  A man lay quietly on the experimental table.
  This man’s whole body is full of long test tubes of nutrient solution, his nose, chest, ribs, and reproductive cavity. His head, torso, hands, and feet are also bound by metal iron chains on the experimental bench. The only thing that can be moved freely is probably the half-length withered white hair.
  He was covered with patches of various instruments and the other end of the patch was connected to various test instruments.
  The head looked at this human Xenogeneic with the artificial retina in the red light. After a while, he stuck out his head and overlooked the body of the white-haired youth.
  “Lin Xi, did you hear? Mu Yechen is thinking about you again.”
  Lin Xi didn’t move, he closed his eyes tightly. His eye sockets were sunken, half of his body was covered with cracked bark like a withered tree trunks, a sign of his dying life.
  The instruments next to them did not move either. They rhythmically displayed the state of the person being measured, there was no abnormality.
  The head got closer again, he lowered his head and leaned into Lin Xi’s ear.
  “Lin Xi, don’t you wake up? This may be the last time you see him.”
  Lin Xi’s head was still hanging to one side.
  The leader laughed again and looked at Lin Xi, his voice was indistinguishable.
  “Lin Xi, I have to say, your ability to disguise is getting better and better. For so many years, even I was almost fooled by you.”
  He said sullenly, “When did you become immune to cleaning? The third time or the fourth time? No… a person like you wouldn’t give Mu Yechen a gift for no reason, you remember him from the first cleaning, right?”
  Lin Xi didn’t answer.
  The head snorted coldly and let the bracket support his head a little higher, wanting to slap the human alien who betrayed the laboratory ruthlessly.
  At this moment, the command room behind him was pushed away again and a figure drew closer from the sunlight projected outside.
  The shadow is strong and slender.
  “Head.” The voice from inside turned out to be the voice of Mu Yechen that had left earlier.
  The head was stunned for a moment, he turned his head mechanically and looked at the portrait projected from the command room.
  “What’s the matter, my dear Commander Mu?”
  “Head, there is something that has been bothering me for a long time. After thinking about it, I want to ask you to clarify.”
  “There are still things in this world that make Commander puzzled?”
  Mu Yechen silenced and after a while, the voice came from the command and control room again.
  “Head, have you cleaned my memory?”
  “Di–“
  “Di–“
  The sound of the instrument reporting frantic errors came from the control room.
  The leader turned his head slowly and saw Lin Xi who was shaking on the experimental bench.
  The metal head slowly cracked the corners of its mouth. It turned its head and a happy red light flashed in its eyes.
  “Commander Mu, we are cleaning your memory so that you can avoid unnecessary troubles.”
  “You are the savior of mankind, the responsible for the rise and fall of mankind.”
  “The past is not important. We are the other side, looking forward to the other side of the future of mankind.”
  “This is also what your father wants to see.”
  Lin Xi trembled even more, he opened his mouth to call a person’s name but was soon caught by a group of people wearing isolation suit and covers his mouth.
  He opened his eyes and wanted to look at Mu Yechen but his eyes were quickly covered with black cloth.
  These people held his head and body tightly.
  He angrily activated his weak power.
  However, there was a sudden pain in his neck.
  A needle suddenly plunged into his carotid artery, the cold liquid was quickly injected into his body.
  Lin Xi forbeared that the accumulated strength collapsed again and was completely paralyzed on the experimental bench.
  After a while, the head moved closer to his ear.
  “He’s gone, we won’t give you a third chance, Lin Xi, you can give up completely.”
  “You don’t need to kill people now, you don’t need to be an executioner, you just need to be responsible for giving birth.”
  “Your only role left is to reproduce.”
  The last sentence fell and his ears were blocked, he could no longer hear the sound.
  “Gululu—”
  He was thrown into a huge culture vessel filled with the nutrient solution, he was chained on a custom-made steel frame.
  There is no light here, no future.
  Before his consciousness completely dissipated, he raised his head snd through the black screen in front of him, he seemed to see a boy walking slowly in the monitoring room outside the glassware in the annihilation light.
  The boy seemed to see him too and turned back again, leaning in front of the glass while looking at him.
  “Are you crying?” the boy asked with his eyes open.
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Edited: 7/21/22
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