Chapter 42: Collapse
  “Boom—”
  Another explosion sounded from the laboratory, which shook the top of the tower to the ground.
  At the bottom of the tower, the aftermath of the explosion spread out into a piece, mixed with the chaotic screams of the crowd, making the command room above more quiet and isolated.
  Seeing that the leader didn’t respond, Lin Xi suddenly stretched out the vine and smashed the control switch violently.
  The command room finally opened slowly in the current chaos.
  Lin Xi saw a head hanging high above the seat.
  Behind, a wall of monitors flashed different images. It refracts iron-cooled light in the flash of displays.
  “Lin Xi, my child, do you and Mu Yechen have to choose to let me down?”
  It sighed, the mechanical voice indistinguishable between joy and sorrow.
  Lin Xi sneered.
  Because of his pregnancy, he looked very bloated at this time and he was shaky when he walked, but he still walked through the way here with a cane.
  “Doctor, why do you delay time by saying these high-sounding words? You just told me clearly that you will put your own son to death.”
  The leader fell into a brief silence.
  It saw the gun in Lin Xi’s hand.
  The light in its eye sockets is also flickering.
  “So Lin Xi, you want to kill me for Mu Yechen?”
  “Yes, Doctor.”
  “But you also know that I am Mu Yechen’s real father.”
  “Doctor, Mu Yechen has been cleaned by you. He doesn’t know that you are the leader now.”
  “Lin Xi, but if Mu Yechen knew that you killed me as before, how would you deal with it?”
  The leader’s voice sounded relentlessly, and Lin Xi suddenly covered his lips and coughed a few times. Clear blood flowed everywhere on his dry skin.
  He recalled that five years ago, he was sitting on the ruins of the experimental tower in despair, waiting in confusion and finally saw Mu Yechen appearing at the gate, running towards him.
  At that time, Gu Cheng told him that he must explain clearly to Mu Yechen that Dr. Mu’s death was an accident.
  He hurriedly stood up, wanting to step forward to speak.
  But the moment Mu Yechen came to him, the blood on his face turned white.
  His eyes fell on Dr. Mu’s body.
  The corpse was penetrated by a sharp stone pillar, a large hole was opened between the chest and abdomen. Previously, Lin Xi frantically pulled on the stone pillar for a long time before taking Dr. Mu’s body completely.
  “Mu Yechen, I-I…” Lin Xi tried to speak.
  But Mu Yechen didn’t look at Lin Xi.
  “Lin Xi, how did my father die?” he was asking.
  The faint hope in Lin Xi’s heart also collapsed with the bridge.
  “The bridge collapsed and Dr. Mu fell from above.”
  “How could the bridge in the laboratory collapse suddenly?”
  Lin Xi felt desperate.
  He covered his face, he knelt on the ground with a trembling voice and kept repeating in confusion: “It collapsed, It’s all my fault… Mu Yechen, I’m sorry… I’m so sorry, Mu Yechen, I really didn’t think about it. I killed your father…”
  In the empty experimental tower, there was only Lin Xi’s desperate repentance.
  But outside the laboratory, there are still a large number of frequent… chorus of swimming whales.
  “Ouu–“
  They echoed in the sky and the earth, resounding in the sky above.
  Outside the other side of the city, a large number of alien species are gathering, they climbed the city wall, as if they saw a diamond-shaped food box.
  Mu Yechen suddenly pulled Lin Xi up from the ground.
  “Lin Xi, let’s go, go where we can’t find us and never come back.” He suddenly said.
  Lin Xi’s body trembled slightly, he raised his head stiffly and looked at Mu Yechen.
  Tears were all over his face, he could vaguely see Mu Yechen unarmed and pushed the weapon to him.
  The blood in his heart was cooling little by little and quickly grabbed the hand that Mu Yechen just retracted.
  “So, what about you?” he asked eagerly.
  Mu Yechen acted swiftly and had already carried the only remaining submachine gun on his body.
  “The beast swarm has come, I’m going to Dongcheng to deal with the aliens there.”
  “No, no, there are so many aliens, Mu Yechen, you can’t deal with it alone!”
  He wanted to keep it.
  “Didn’t you say you were going to go to that island with me and spend the rest of your life with me there? If you died, what would I do?”
  He looked at him begging.
  Mu Yechen pushed his hand away.
  “Lin Xi, let’s go.” He repeated again, “My father is dead and now there are no leaders on the other side. Someone must stand up to face the beast horde. Otherwise, when the aliens break through the city siege, we will really be too late.”
  “But you’re not a commander!”
  “But I’m Dr. Mu’s son.”
  Lin Xi’s hand froze, he remembered what Dr. Mu said before he died.
  ——Mu Yechen will eventually embark on the path I created.
  The words were like a spell hovering in my mind.
  “So, so… Mu Yechen, have you given up on me? Are you really going to be the savior?”
  Mu Yechen found the words “savior” inexplicably harsh.
  His hands paused but he still pulled Lin Xi up from the ground.
  “Lin Xi, let’s go.” He repeated for the third time, helping Lin Xi to wipe the tears from his eyes with his hand, as if saying his last goodbye.
  “The other side is too dangerous. I don’t want you to carry so much.”
  “But I have no choice. This time I have to defend the city on behalf of my father.”
  He said this and stopped again.
  He looked back at his father’s body again.
  Lin Xi’s tears couldn’t be stopped any longer and rolled down from her eyes.
  He didn’t know whether human beings would survive this beast tide but he knew that at this moment, if he left the man in front of him… He would have come with him to the end of the world.
  At that time he did not foresee the future.
  He didn’t even think that he could survive the siege of the wolves.
  When he woke up again, he was facing a huge metal head.
  It’s called the Head and it reorganized the post-war laboratory.
  Dr. Mu, who was supposed to be dead, is regaining his dominance over everyone on the other side in another way.
  He still controls everything.
  He still controls him and Mu Yechen.
  … Even Mu Yechen’s memory.
  Lin Xi covered his lips and coughed, his life was like a candle in the wind but his eyes were surprisingly bright.
  “Doctor, I’m about to die. I’m destined to be with Mu Ye…Chen in this life, so let’s talk about the future.”
  The mechanical head couldn’t resist the savage pull of a Xenomorph and began to shout loudly.
  Lin Xi broke his support without hesitation and held up the head with a vine.
  “Doctor, human beings are selfish. I’ve been with you for so long and I’ve become infected with these bad habits. I want to protect Mu Yechen but also the flesh and blood that I nurtured with him. I have died many times but now, the thought of being able to take you away before you die makes me even less afraid.”
  “What are you going to do!” The head’s voice became faster, “That year when the beast tide came, Mu Yechen betrayed you! Why are you still there? Why are you still protecting him!”
  As if Lin Xi had not heard of it, he found the switch and slowly open the head.
  “Lin Xi, I nurtured Mu Yechen so that he could leave a name in the history of mankind! I want to let future generations know that the reason for the continuation of mankind because of the kindness of this father and son! You can’t betray me!”
  The head shouted unwillingly, until the petri dish in its metal was completely exposed.
  In the dish, there is a fresh human brain.
  There are patches, test tubes and circuits on the brain, which are densely intertwined and entangled with the grooves and folds of the human brain.
  Lin Xi hit the petri dish with the gun.
  The human brain began to tremble, its folds were moving rapidly. The blood, current, and nutrient solution on the test tube were flowing at the fastest speed.
  “If you kill me, the other side will definitely be destroyed. Although you don’t care about it, Mu Yechen will be a sinner of mankind and he will never be able to get rid of this shackle!”
  His words finally made Lin Xi’s movements slightly slow down.
  The executioner was suddenly stunned. He raised his head to look at the monitor on the wall and finally caught a familiar figure.
  “You let me leave that day… Did you not want me to bear this shackle?” He asked softly.
  Mu Yechen couldn’t hear his voice, he was breaking through the tenth floor of the laboratory.
  The tenth floor is still twenty floors away from here.
  Lin Xi suddenly laughed in a low voice. The corners of his eyes were red and wet but they looked like flowers in the sunshine after the rain.
  However, in the command room, the defense system was slowly extending a gun barrel, aiming at the intruder in the room.
  The eyes of the head flickered with a strange light.
  It knows that it has reached the point of life and death.
  He must kill this human xenogeneic and dissect the new experimental body in the human xenogeneic.
  He thinks so and must do so.
  But not then…
  Lin Xi suddenly picked up the gun and pulled the trigger.
  “Bang” “Bang”.
  Two shots were fired simultaneously from the control room.
  Lin Xi’s bullet hit the control center of the head, which successfully cut off the connection between the head and the defense system and stopped the firepower in the barrel.
  But another shot was not made by him.
  Lin Xi heard the sound and saw that a figure suddenly appeared at the door of the command room.
  The man was also wearing a laboratory isolation suit, with a gun in his hand, facing the petri dish.
  The petri dish burst with a sound, and debris splashed all over the floor. In the dish, the human brain that was still active already has a large depression and the brain is continuously palpitate out of it.
  When the person in the isolation suit saw it, he fired a few more shots.
  The human brain is riddled with holes and the light in the eyes of the head is completely extinguished.
  Only then did the man stop shooting and looked at Lin Xi slowly.
  Against the light, Lin Xi saw the scales on his face.
  It was a face that had been alienated just like him.
  He is a mutant.
  He’s also a second-generation mutant who failed to evolve.
  The mutant raised his head and the amphibian’s eyes twitched, looking at Lin Xi as if he were looking at his prey.
  His eyes also looked at Lin Xi’s bulging abdomen.
  Then his expression suddenly turned teasing.
  “Executioner?” He could speak human language.
  “Commander Wen.”
  Lin Xi also recognized his identity.
  There used to be an excellent commander on the other side. He led human beings to fight against alien species and had countless brilliant victories.
  His surname was Wen and his name was Song, he was once the leader of the rebel camp.
  A few months ago, the rebel camp that had been entrenched outside the other side for several years was cleared by the laboratory secret service and advance troops, none of the young, old, men, and women were left.
  Their corpses were piled up into hills. In order to prevent the spread of archaea, they were incinerated on the spot and the smoke of the corpses rushed into the sky.
  The last time Lin Xi saw Wen Song was on the way back from Gaia Village.
  At that time, he stared at the other side’s advance troops, disguised as a sand bandit wearing a red long scarf and doing all kinds of evil.
  Unbeknownst to anyone, the sand bandit also invaded the test tower.
  At this time, the laboratory was in turmoil. On the satellite monitoring weather map of Dr. Ameka, there were still large dark clouds approaching. The instruments detected threats and were giving out frequent red lights as usual.
  But the humans who have lost their leader have panicked to make up for it and no one cares about the dangerous approach.
  In the control room, no one gave orders anymore.
  Commander Wen had already set his sights on Lin Xi.
  The two were almost silent at the same time and almost simultaneously started to fight. Lin Xi’s vines rushed towards Wen Song but the latter did not panic at all.
  He staggered towards the vines to avoid the gun. Suddenly, countless scales rose up behind him and swept across the ground.
  It was a thick snake’s tail.
  Lin Xi’s cane was immediately swept to pieces, his body lost its support in an instant and fell heavily on the floor.
  He covered his stomach and curled up in pain on the ground, suddenly being rolled up by the tail of the snake and tied high in the air.
  “Executioner, I’ve wanted to see you for a long time.”
  Nine years ago, when the executioner was at his peak, he slaughtered an entire battalion of rebel soldiers overnight. But Wen Dang was not in a hurry to deal with the enemy.
  “Let’s talk a little further,” he suggested.
  Lin Xi couldn’t refute, he struggled desperately. What he didn’t know is there was already a blood trailing under his legs, dripping the ground.
  Wen Xun calmly took out a row of blasting ammunition from the isolation suit.
  He glanced at the battered human brain again and suddenly burst out laughing.
  “Boom—”
  He pressed the blaster, grabbed Lin Xi, and flew towards the ice and snow outside the tower with a roar.
  Inside the tower, a large number of ruins are collapsing.
  And there is one person desperately rushed from the tower to the source of the explosion.
  “Lin Xi!” But in the midst of the gunpowder smoke, he only saw a familiar figure who was already gone.
  Lin Xi was confused, he followed the sound and finally found Mu Yechen.
  It was several dozen feet away.
  It was clearly out of reach, but Lin Xi no longer had any regrets.
  He knew that the man had not abandoned him.
  On that day, Lin Xi was afraid that he would become a sinner of the other side’s destruction.
  For him, he personally brought himself as a “Savior”.
  He suddenly thought of the words that Mu Yechen was annihilated by the beasts in that farewell five years ago.
  “If the beast tide here goes away, I will find you, we will definitely meet again.”
  Yes, Mu Yechen.
  You have always been by my side.
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Edited: 7/23/22
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