Chapter 151 Rebooter Base - 8 *** ……

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r5166 did very poorly on the test. He usually ranks fifth from the bottom, but this time he practically submitted a blank paper and came in last place.

Several of the children who were eliminated along with him cried. r5166 also wanted to cry, but not because he wanted to stay, but because he wanted to see his mother.

Surprisingly, after living in this research institute for more than two years, r5166 found that everything here combined was not as good as his mother, with whom he had only spent less than half a month.

r5166 thinks Mother is the most beautiful person in the world. Even though he is wearing the same simple lab coat as them, he stands out from everyone else. His skin is very white, like the moon, and his hair is very black, like ink-colored silk. His lips are very red, like they have been dyed. Almost everyone who walks past him can't help but turn around to look at him and then take the opportunity to talk to him.

"Good morning."

"Good morning."

"good afternoon."

"good afternoon."

"Good evening."

"Good evening."

They were deliberately talking to Mother, r5166 understood. If they had the chance, they would definitely try to get close to Mother again.

Just like herself. r5166 was glad that she was a child, so that she could stay by her mother's side and hold her hand without any problem... Her mother was a sub-beastman, and her body temperature was higher than that of humans. This was the hottest temperature that r5166 had ever felt.

But all of that... is gone. r5166 pursed his lips, trying hard not to cry. He wanted to ask Teacher He if he could see his mother one more time; he didn't want to go there with red eyes.

Their eyes are all red and ugly.

Father arrived suddenly, grabbing r5165's hair while the children were still crying.

The assessment room fell silent. Only then did r5166 realize that 5165 had also been eliminated. She was so smart, yet her father stood in front of her, pulling at her hair with his fingers.

“Don’t think you’re so smart, d0328.” r5166 heard Father say this to r5165, and saw his slightly long hair partially covering his face, and his cold eyes behind his glasses.

r5165 burst into tears: "I'm sorry, Father, I did badly on the test... Waaah... I'm so sorry..."

"Hmph, still pretending?" Father tapped the air with his right hand, and a virtual screen popped up. In the dimly lit research room, a female venomous creature who looked very much like R5165 was locked up: "Do I have to burn your mother's body?"

5165's face instantly contorted into a ferocious expression, her dark green face becoming unfamiliar. She struggled to break free from Father's grasp, a large clump of her hair being ripped out, but the next second Father's outstretched arm pierced through her chest.

r5166 froze, while father slowly withdrew his outstretched arm, grabbed 5165 back, and dragged her away... When he passed in front of r5166, r5166 dared not move, and did not even dare to look up at him.

Dark green blood dripped continuously from her ruptured chest cavity. She was not dead, and even reached out to grab r5166's hand... 5166 was terrified.

Fortunately, Father didn't linger and quickly dragged R5165 away from the assessment room. R5166 opened his hand and found it was a black seed. He remembered that R5165 always called him a crybaby, so he clenched the seed and held back his tears.

r5165 left the seeds with him, and he thought she wanted him to take her away.

A child asked Teacher He what happened to 5165. The teacher said that she had made a mistake, which was why her father punished her. But 5166 didn't think it was true; he could only think of his mother.

Thinking of his soft hands, his gentle eyes, and his soft words:

After you get out, if you're scared or miss me... you can go find Louis Smith, the head of the Western Federation and my partner.

Find Louis Smith… Find Louis Smith! This audacious thought popped into r5166's head, making him feel absurd. He was a Poison Man; after he left, he should be leading the other Poison Men to eliminate the Orcs as the Holy Son…

But why must the Poison People exterminate the Orcs? r5166 was confused. Who made these rules? Ah… it was Father… He should listen to Father, because he was the one who restored the Poison People's sanity. But inexplicably, that gentle voice echoed in r5166's mind again:

You don't necessarily have to fight orcs; your life is your own.

Live well.

r5166 clutched the seed in her palm, bowed her head, and cried.

mother……mother……

Teacher He led the selected children to the very bottom of the research institute, where it led to the sea. She said that other poisoners would greet them outside, and the education and knowledge they had received on this island would be enough to earn them the respect of those poisoners.

Many children had calmed down and were beginning to look forward to becoming the leader, but r5166 was daydreaming. He would think of his mother, then of 5165 with his chest pierced, then of his father wearing cold glasses... It wasn't until he followed the children in front of him and jumped into the sluice gate, and the cold seawater submerged his whole body, that he suddenly came back to his senses.

The seawater wouldn't suffocate them because they were mutated poison humans with a part of plant in their genes, allowing them to breathe through their skin. However, r5166 still felt fear under the water pressure. He looked down and found himself at the bottom of the sea, which seemed like an abyss.

He looked up again and saw a huge island, pressing down on them like a mountain. Around the island, many huge blue whales swam, seemingly attracted by something, circling the island as they moved forward.

Some children swam towards the blue whales, and r5166 hesitated for a moment before paddling and following them. Suddenly, however, it heard an extremely piercing sound.

The sound came from the island above them, piercing their brains like a sharp awl. r5166 felt his heart pounding so hard it felt like it was going to explode, and his fingers and feet felt like they were about to burst. Almost instinctively, he turned his back to the island and fled frantically.

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"Have they all left?" the researcher asked, playing infrasound.

Another researcher carefully examined all the surveillance footage and found no trace of the poisoned children. He nodded and said, "Yes, they're all gone. Turn it off."

Although it is infrasound with a very low frequency, it can still be harmful to the human body.

The researcher then turned off the instrument in his hand.

***

Lu Yi stood irritably in front of the glass in the lobby, looking out at the boundless sea.

Another week passed, but they still hadn't found the Rebooter base. The drone's scanning range had long since exceeded the area covered by that beacon. Lu Yi had to accept Sirius's guess: either the Rebooter base had moved, or there were other beacons used for jumping outside that beacon, causing them to misjudge the location.

With 71% of the Earth covered by oceans, when would they ever find Tang Bufan? Lu Yi clenched his fists, wishing he could smash the glass in front of him.

If the Rebooter is still not found in three more days, Lu Yi decides to return to the Eastern Federation and join forces with Guo Shen to put pressure on the humans in the Eastern District Underground City, even if it reignites the war between humans and beasts, to force the Rebooter to come out.

At that moment, he seemed to suddenly understand the atrocities Hans committed when he massacred the West End protesters.

"Your Majesty," Sirius suddenly reported from behind, "we have discovered a poisonous little boy on the sea."

"Is it the Holy Son?" Lu Yi asked without turning around, his hand still gripping the railing.

“It seems so,” Sirius replied.

During this time, they discovered many holy sons and daughters who came from that island. Some of them had grown up and become very sharp leaders of the poison people, while others were still children.

Initially, Lu Yi tried to obtain the island's location by capturing these holy sons and daughters. Later, he discovered that they were extremely irritable to the orcs, far more resistant to them than other poison people. Moreover, the older they were, the more they hated them. It seemed that the worship of other poison people deepened their beliefs. In order to protect the island and the poison people, they all chose to commit suicide.

Only one or two younger children, who had not yet fully integrated into that extreme atmosphere, did not choose to commit suicide, but could not say the location of the island. They only said that when they were released, they heard terrifying sounds, which caused severe brain pain and they could only keep swimming away. By the time the pain subsided, they had long forgotten their own location and that of the island.

Moreover, these children will gradually weaken after being captured, which is due to the effect of Zero embedding its genes into them.

Therefore, Lu Yi had no intention of arresting the child at this moment.

"Ignore them," Lu Yi said. Their aircraft were in the sky, and the poisonous creatures in the sea couldn't harm them. There was no need to waste time eliminating them; they could simply be handed over to the warships of the Eastern and Northern Federations.

“But this child seems a little different.” Sirius pointed to the air and a virtual screen popped up: “It’s all alone. The drone spotted it the day before yesterday. There was a group of poisoners near it, but it chose to avoid them and swam over with our drone.”

Lu Yi then turned around and looked at the screen in the air. Sure enough, the child floating on the black water was nervously staring at their drone, with only half of its face showing above the water. It didn't run away if you said it was scared, but its blood-red eyes were filled with terror if you said it wasn't scared.

Lu Yi sensed something was amiss, so he took control of the drone and made it descend closer to the small, green, poisonous man.

The sound of the waves was deafening. Due to the rapid proliferation of the marine venomous beings during this period, the number of seabirds was also far greater than before. These mutated venomous beings were born quickly but died just as quickly.

Once they were close enough, Lu Yi was about to use the drone to probe the little poison man when he suddenly heard the little poison man shout loudly, mustering his courage: "Louis! Smith! I, I'm looking for...Louis! Smith!"

Lu Yi's eyes widened suddenly.