Chapter 37: Heteroblast
The man found him all of a sudden.
“Number 01?” He looked at him from the inside of the glass window, his face was dazzling.
Lin Xi suddenly felt that he already belonged to the darkness and subconsciously wanted to avoid him.
But the other party turned out of the monitoring room, he looked at him with a hint of surprise in his eyes.
“Are you Lin Xi?” He was curious and unfamiliar but his tone was as familiar as it was two years ago.
At that time, he was still asking him if he had cried.
Memories are difficult to remove from the second wash.
And now, what is unforgettable in his mind is every time this young man has spent with him.
But this time, there was no more terrifying bullet hole on the boy’s forehead.
He looked down along Lin Xi’s face, saw Lin Xi’s dark training uniform and also saw the wet blood of the training uniform.
“Are you injured?” He was surprised, and reached out to check the wound again.
Lin Xi was startled and before the other party approached, he took a step back in a panic.
“Don’t come!” he cried.
The boy was stunned for a moment, his hand trying to check the injury was awkward in the air.
Lin Xi ignored it, he turned around and turned his back to him completely.
Time passed little by little, Lin Xi’s brain was vacant for a full minute.
A minute later, he stiffened up again and looked up at the monitors in the hallway facing them.
“I-I… I’m fine, I have heteroblast and can be reborn indefinitely.” He slowly organized and recovered his language.
The monitor’s probe illuminated them clearly, emitting a red running light.
Lin Xi turned pale and finally heard his calm voice.
“Who are you?” he asked.
“My surname is Mu, my name is Mu Yechen.”
Lin Xi twitched the corners of his mouth and smiled.
The boy then introduced: “I am a mutant. It has been two years since I became the second generation but I have not been able to use the ability of heteroblast. My father said that you can use the ability and let me learn from you.”
Lin Xi lowered his head: “Who is your father?”
“My father is Dr. Mu from the laboratory.”
Lin Xi didn’t speak any more, he just nodded and remained silent as usual, indicating that he understood.
Mu Yechen wanted to say more but Lin Xi acted as if no one was allowed to enter. He just stood motionless outside the room and kept a distance from him, refusing all his enthusiasm.
He felt a little uncomfortable in his heart and was afraid of delaying Lin Xi’s treatment, so he had to talk a few words embarrassingly and stumbled out of the monitoring room.
Lin Xi just returned to his room. He was wearing his clothes and lying on the only bed in the monitoring room, staring at the white light on the ceiling all night.
On the second day, Mu Yechen came again.
This time he also brought bandages, gauze and some dressings for the wound.
Lin Xi swept over the medical instruments indifferently and told him that the wound had healed.
Mu Yechen’s face was full of disbelief. He tried Lin Xi’s side and insisted on applying for a check on his injuries.
Finally, Lin Xi proved everything with his strength and knocked him to the ground.
What followed was a diabolical training session.
When it was over, Lin Xi tore off a piece of gauze he had brought, wiped his red and swollen hands.
“Try again next time.” The executioner was expressionless.
The Mu boy lay on the ground and vomited blood.
He began to believe that the rumored executioner’s beating was true… mercilessly.
He seemed to sense in advance the darkness of the days to come.
Sure enough, in order to allow Mu Yechen to learn the use of heteroblasts as soon as possible, in the next half year, Lin Xi began to guide Mu Yechen to do a lot of training.
For the first month, Lin Xi stayed on exercising Mu Yechen’s physique but when he found that physical training was not enough to stimulate the heteroblast of the second-generation mutants, he began to look for ways to use the outside world to stimulate Mu Yechen.
He started catching live aliens.
For the first time, Lin Xi went to the Xibo River to catch a giant crocodile and locked it in the same training ground as Mu Yechen, so that Mu Yechen could learn to train like he did when he was a child.
The teenager was terrified, lying on the tree on the training ground for three days and three nights, he did not dare to come down.
Lin Xi also kept it secret for three days and three nights.
In the end, probably knowing that no one would come to rescue him, Mu Yechen had no choice but to pull out his dagger and have a one-on-one duel with the giant crocodile. He successfully used the ability of a human to subdue the first alien he encountered in his life.
He felt that he had made a breakthrough and wanted to show off his credit to Lin Xi.
But when he was dragging the body of the stunned giant crocodile to get out of the training ground, Lin Xi threw in a leopard on the snowy field with a blank face.
Next came the snow ape on Maka Peak, the ant queen outside the east city, the giant bee on the west city wall…
Mu Yechen’s face turned pale.
After another month, his people couldn’t stand it anymore.
“Lin Xi! Are you and your surveillance officer so busy?!”
“I don’t have a surveillance officer.”
“Isn’t that from the Secret Service?”
“My surveillance power is still in your father’s hands.”
The laboratory has a secret service department and the secret service department has mutants and surveillance officers, they usually need to travel together. Mu Yechen did not expect Lin Xi to act alone.
“You are the only I-generation mutant of mankind yet my father is not afraid of you running away?”
“Run? Apart from the laboratory, where else do you think I can go?”
“Then have you thought about the future?”
“No, I don’t need to think about it.”
“Then, do you have to live like this all the time? The first time I see you, your stomach is obviously injured. This kind of life is too scary, I don’t want to see you hurt.”
Lin Xi’s eyes moved.
But his demeanor remained distant.
“Mr. Mu, if you don’t want to see me get hurt, you need to learn to use the heteroblast now.”
“From now on, your father won’t let you come to see people like me every day.”
It was the first time he called this person Mr. Mu.
This year, he killed a lot of people under the orders of Dr. Mu, the rebels no longer had the momentum they had two years ago to openly oppose the laboratory.
Dr. Mu is in charge of the Human Evolution Experiment Tower and he has a tendency to take the top spot on the other side of the military department, the laboratory, and the five district administrators.
And his son Mu Yechen, as the first mutant of the second generation to successfully evolve, his serum was developed in the laboratory, successfully solved the problem of human evolution, was copied and shipped to the major advance troops and defenders to participate in the transformation of old humans. Soldiers of the plan are no longer at risk of becoming Xenomorphs.
In the military, Mu Yechen also had a nickname.
The soldiers called him “Little Savior”.
Lin Xi looked at Mu Yechen and successfully saw the cracked look on the face of the little savior.
Mu Yechen felt very sad, he vaguely felt that Lin Xi was forcing him to leave and didn’t want to see this indifferent young man again.
He didn’t plan to leave, he still accepted all kinds of problems that Lin Xi prepared for him every day.
Soon, the Xenogeneic could no longer make him feel scared anymore.
Lin Xi gave up the plan to use Xenomorphs as sparring partners and began to fight in person.
His ruthless action made Mu Yechen exhausted every day. It wasn’t until another month passed that the Young Master Mu began to figure out Lin Xi’s fighting style. He slowly began to learn how to deal with Lin Xi’s cunning and sharp attacking moves.
Three months later, he imitated Lin Xi’s “disemboweled” style of ruthless play and caught Lin Xi, who was bullying him, off guard.
Seeing that the whole person was almost sent to Mu Yechen’s dagger, Lin Xi was shocked. He didn’t dare to break Mu Yechen’s arm, so he had to lean up to avoid it.
His body lost its center of gravity and fell backward uncontrollably.
Mu Yechen quickly reached out and grabbed it.
“Bang-“
This time, the two fell firmly on the white floor one after the other.
The floor of the laboratory behind him was bone-chillingly cold, penetrating the vest.
In front of his chest, the boy’s body was fiery with a heartbeat like a drum.
The male’s physique is gradually maturing and the teenager has the hormones after sweating, which is gently stirring Lin Xi’s breath.
He was close at hand, his heartbeat is also close at hand.
“Lin Xi…” The young man raised his eyes and rubbed his thighs against his thighs.
Lin Xi’s Adam’s apple twitched up and down.
He has long eyelashes, soft hair, and a moist red face.
Mu Yechen rubbed Lin Xi’s clothes, feeling that his mouth was extremely dumb.
But Lin Xi spoke quickly.
His breath was unstable but his voice was mixed with ice.
“Where did you put your hand?”
“Huh?”
“Remove it.”
“Oh! Lin Xi! I didn’t mean to!”
“Leg.”
“Uh, I… I moved it away, Lin Xi, I really didn’t mean to.”
“Then how long are you going to press on me?”
Mu Yechen hurriedly stood up.
He wanted to go to Lin Xi but saw that Lin Xi had already got up and tidied up his clothes.
There was still a faint blush on his face, like a landscape of Yuandai with rouge, the brightest color.
Mu Yechen’s eyes lit up, looking at him hopefully.
But Lin Xi had no plans to continue with him in the training room.
“It’s been half a year and you haven’t evolved a usable heteroblast.” He suddenly said.
“…” Mu Yechen was stunned, not understanding why Lin Xi mentioned this at this time.
But Lin Xi has already said to himself: “Perhaps there is a world of difference between the I and II mutants, you cannot use your abilities.”
“I will report the results of the past six months training to your father. From tomorrow, you don’t have to come to me to learn anymore.”
Mu Yechen’s enthusiasm has not faded but the person in front of him have chosen to leave early.
The young man stood there stupidly until Lin Xi’s back disappeared.
He didn’t understand why Lin Xi was so alienated from him but what happened next made him unable to take care of him.
Soon, his father’s order came down and the laboratory arranged him a whole-body germ layer examination.
Since waking up two years ago, his inspections room became commonplace. Mu Yechen had no choice but to obey his father’s instructions, take the anesthetic and lie down on the experimental table.
On the lab bench, the doctors began to stimulate his heteroblast and record various response data.
He was groggy at first, but he didn’t know if it was because his physical fitness improved with Lin Xi’s training. He gradually heard the conversation between the people in the laboratory and his father.
“Strange, we have clearly integrated the powerful genes of ancient creatures. If we follow past experiments, humans should be able to use the genes of these creatures and develop corresponding abilities.”
“Dr. Mu, why is Mu Yechen unable to evolve new abilities?”
“Could it be that Number 01 deliberately gave us a semi-finished product?”
“Impossible, I never disclosed his past plans to my son. He didn’t know until his death why the rebels were in his route, why did they just assemble there, and why did they just shoot him.”
Mu Yechen was shocked, almost at the same time, a blind tone appeared in his ear and his brain seemed to have been punched out by bullets, entering a chaotic, incapable state of thinking.
But sooner, he heard his father’s words again.
“My son doesn’t know about this and Number 01 is even less likely to notice it. Before his last memory was cleaned, he felt that he killed my son.”
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Edited: 7/22/22
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