Chapter 38: Determination
  Number 01 refers to Lin Xi.
  “Dr. Mu, the second-generation mutants have never been able to evolve artificial xenoblasts, are we going to start that plan?”
  “Number 01 is absolutely loyal to the laboratory now, even if he has a special body structure, the success rate of the plan is only 10%. The rate of return is too low for the current laboratory and human beings, I don’t think it is time to start this plan.”
  “However, Dr. Mu, I remember that Number 01 has failed twice to capture the leader of the resistance army and now the military has started a rumor that the executioner is a human xenogeneic thing.”
  “Oh, he is a dog raised in the laboratory, I will never allow him to leave me and betray me.”
  The white light of the laboratory hit his eyelids and Mu Yechen suddenly felt his heart seems to be blocked by a stone.
  He heard about Lin Xi but he couldn’t do anything for Lin Xi. He didn’t even dare to open his eyes or let his father notice that he was conscious.
  After testing his heteroblastoid structure, the laboratory only came to the conclusion that the artificial blastoderm was strengthened.
  Perhaps it was Lin Xi’s report that played a role, he was never asked to enter the laboratory by his father again.
  After leaving room number 01, he was arranged to enter the military academy to repeat the human course.
  After half a year, he did not see Lin Xi again.
  After another six months, he is about to graduate from the military academy and assign positions. Before reaching adulthood, he and other students were dispatched to various places to join the military and participate in real battles against alien species.
  This is the military service of human beings. Students with administrators and military forces at home can rely on their background to obtain a stable military position in the middle and get rid of the terrible war. Mu Yechen’s father probably wanted him to hone his skills and did not made any arrangements for him.
  He started carrying a gun like other students and went to the front line of the battlefield. There are green archaea as far as the eye can see, the howl of the alien species as the ear hears and the death that follows him like a shadow.
  They were relocated by bison in the Xibo River. In order to prevent the river from being polluted by archaea, the other side sent an advance force to expel them, the student army also participated.
  After being hit by a wave of bison, the forty students in the original practice class quickly dropped sharply to only eight people.
  Mu Yechen was able to kill these monsters with ease, but after the battle, the blood-colored purgatory in his eyes made him hear the mournful song of the demise of mankind earlier.
  The wasteland is vast and the river of Xibo has also turned into a winding snake between heaven and earth. In front of this nature, the power of man appears more inferior.
  The surviving students looked tired. They knew that their whole lives would be fought to the death in this battle and they wept bitterly one after another.
  Only one student named Gu Cheng regained his strength, looked at the human corpse and suddenly grabbed the position of the heart with his hands.
  “My younger brother is still living in Dongcheng. Today I kill a Xenogeneic species, he will be safer. If I kill a group of Xenogeneic species, he will be more secure.”
  He slowly stood up on the dam of the Xibo River to meet the turbulent winds of this world.
  “I want to be a commander, I want to protect the people in my heart.”
  Gu Cheng’s eyes were firm.
  Mu Yechen’s heart moved, he slowly raised his hand to touch his heart.
  His mother had long since passed away, and his father was so powerful that he was in charge of the laboratory. Anyone who could access it could used it and he didn’t need to guard it himself, except for that person…
  That person standing in the corner outside the surveillance room, whose body was obviously soaked with blood, always looking at him.
  The one who caught the alien to scare him but quietly hid in the corner and watched him.
  The person who can definitely beat him but is afraid of hurting the person and would rather fall by himself.
  Lin Xi.
  During this time, Mu Yechen often wondered, if he hadn’t lost his memory, would the executioner boy still occupy his heart as he does now?
  However, he no longer remembers the past.
  Holding his heart, he felt that there was something invisibly breaking apart.
  He felt that he couldn’t bear the man.
  He looked at the mountains and rivers, the pain of division filled his brain.
  He never found himself thinking this way about someone for the first time.
  In the following two months, they went through two more actual combat exercises and the number of companions around them decreased again. When the internship ended, only him and Gu Cheng were left among the students in the same period.
  “Mu Yechen, where do you plan to go after graduation?”
  Gu Cheng and he became best friends after a life-and-death relationship, he suddenly asked while chatting.
  “I… haven’t thought about it yet.” Mu Yechen was stunned and replied in a low voice.
  His path is not his own, even if he goes to the military region to experience, it may be because of his father’s plan.
  The two slowly followed the troops through the block in the central district and saw the juveniles who had been sheltered by their families in advance, laughing and dancing in the middle and looked at them with disdain and pity as they returned.
  Gu Cheng glanced at it, then rode away with a faint smile but Mu Yechen stopped.
  In the feasting, a more familiar figure occupied his eyes.
  He found himself seeing Lin Xi.
  But this time Lin Xi was not alone.
  There were red lights flashing in the corner of the block, which was the favorite place for human sluts and Lin Xi was there at this time.
  He was wearing a collar, and there was a thin chain in front of the collar at some point, he was being held casually by a middle-aged man in his fifties.
  Mu Yechen had said thousands of times in his mind that he would meet Lin Xi again but he never imagined that it would be like this when he saw Lin Xi again.
  Lin Xi didn’t notice him as he walked very slowly, the middle-aged man pulled the thin chain and stretched out his thin neck.
  The man smiled happily, he took the stunner-like boy, hugged him horizontally, and walked deeper into the alley.
  Mu Yechen’s brain was buzzing.
  He should have returned to the military reorganization but now he can’t move.
  He quietly left the team and chased Lin Xi’s direction. It took a lot of time from house to house, only then did he find the traces of Lin Xi and the man in a liquor store.
  He was standing outside the room of the liquor store, he could still hear voices inside.
  “Little brat, there’s no one left now, we can start playing.”
  “Uh…sir, you haven’t told me about Brother Wen.”
  “Hey, brat, I’ll tell you when it’s over.”
  In the room, there was suddenly a thumping sound.
  Mu Yechen shuddered and pushed open the door of the room.
  The sound in the room stopped.
  A fifty-year-old middle-aged man turned his head in shock.
  Mu Yechen’s heartbeat also stopped.
  He saw Lin Xi being held beside the bed with whip marks all over his body and strips of cloth hanging loosely on his body, which could no longer hide his genitals inside.
  All this happened suddenly and Lin Xi also stiffened in an instant, his face became terrifyingly pale.
  In the end, it was the middle-aged man who reacted first and went to take out the gun in his clothes.
  Mu Yechen’s eyes changed and rushed up to kick the middle-aged man’s gun away.
  The middle-aged man was suddenly kicked by Mu Yechen, his hand bones were broken and couldn’t help screaming loudly.
  But sooner, he found that the boy who had been slaughtered on the bed almost broke free from the shackles of his hands in an instant and covered his mouth.
  The boy had a knife in his hand and was wiping away his neck quickly.
  The middle-aged man struggled in horror but was pinned down by Lin Xi and twisted on the ground like a loach. After a minute, he stopped twitching and stared at the ceiling stiffly.
  The blood from the carotid artery splattered like open water, splashing all over the room.
  When the blood was almost pouring out, Lin Xi released the middle-aged man’s mouth and stood up covered in blood.
  “Why are you here?” He said calmly.
  “I just finished going to the battlefield and saw you in the crowd.” Mu Yechen watched in shock at the scene of Lin Xi’s murder, he suddenly recovered, quickly covered his face, and replied in a low voice.
  Lin Xi picked up his clothes in silence but his clothes were torn apart by the man long ago, he couldn’t even cover his body.
  He frowned and stood stiffly in the room.
  Time is quiet, which is extremely unbearable.
  “Who is he?” Mu Yechen asked suddenly.
  “The administrator of the Central District.”
  “Did my father send you to assassinate?”
  “Yes.”
  “Lin Xi, you obviously don’t have to do this.”
  “There is a guard next to the administrator of the Central District . It’s not easy to get away and I also have to inquire…”
  Lin Xi said, suddenly paused and did not intend to explain any further.
  He stepped over the bloody water coldly, directly found a sheet to cover his body and walked out the window.
  “Lin Xi!” Mu Yechen quickly stopped him and took off his jacket.
  Lin Xi stopped his movement.
  “Mu Yechen, I’m the executioner. I’ve completed the task of teaching you. This meeting was an accident, so we just need to pretend that we haven’t met.”
  Mu Yechen’s hand holding the coat was embarrassed again.
  “But I’ve always wanted to see you…” he murmured in a low voice.
  Lin Xi was shocked, he turned his head subconsciously but stopped this consciousness in time.
  “Mr. Mu, you are the second-generation mutant that Dr. Mu has high hopes for, so we should keep our distance.”
  He continued, “I am neither a human nor a Xenogeneic. Look at this person, in the end, only disaster have been brought to him.”
  “No, no, I don’t care what you are, I just hope you don’t get hurt again.”
  “Hope? Mr. Mu, what kind of identity do you hope for? The training between us is early. Stop it, you are not even my apprentice now.”
  Lin Xi didn’t look at him again, he tightened the cloth on his body and jumped out of the window lightly, disappearing into the darkening sky.
  Mu Yechen stood there in a daze, he felt very uncomfortable yet he didn’t leave the room until someone was walking around.
  He felt that he couldn’t watch Lin Xi sink like this any longer.
  Gu Cheng can go to the battlefield regardless of his life for the person in his heart.
  Then what can he do for Lin Xi?
  That night when the bright moon was desolate, Mu Yechen finally made a decision in his heart.
  He knocked on the door of his father’s laboratory.
  “What we do in the Human Evolution Laboratory is based on the best interests of the other side and the whole of mankind.”
  “I regret the death of the Central District administrator. But in contrast, his death has opened up the monopoly of the official clique. In the future, whether it is the son of an administrator or the son of ordinary people, all must participate in the battle against aliens, no one can be an exception.”
  “From now on, the laboratory will take over the responsibilities of the administrator of the Central District, all deployments must be centralized and dispatched by us.”
  Dr. Mu was talking to someone, the monitor behind him displayed the samples of each experimental subject with a diamond pattern.
  “Father.” Mu Yechen stood in front of him.
  Dr. Mu put down the communication device in his hand and nodded to look at him.
  “Chen’er.” He ended the call, his voice was soft and gentle, making it difficult to hear his true feelings.
  Mu Yechen looked at him firmly.
  “Father, I’ve already decided where to go.”
  “Okay, which military region do you plan to go to first?”
  “The north region has Maca Peak, the west region has the Xibo River, the south region has many hills and the east region is the first human being shelter. They are all important but I think the implementation of the decision in the Central District is more important.”
  Dr. Mu narrowed his eyes.
  Mu Yechen also cheered up to greet him.
  “Father, I have decided to be a surveillance officer.”
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Edited: 7/22/22
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