"However, you still need to be careful to prevent insects," Lu Wuyai said to himself.

Although the underground world was paved with cement, it wasn't foolproof. Many of the bodily fluids sprayed from the insects were highly corrosive. Gu Yuxin taught everyone this.

"Let's go back."

Walking through the narrow passage, everyone's steps seemed light.

Back in the cave, everyone ate some simple marching rations and canned meat, then went to sleep. Meanwhile, the insect infestation continued in the forest.

That day, everyone was killing insects on the rocky hill as usual. Lu Wuyai was holding a flamethrower, but instead of flames, it sprayed liquid. From a distance, it looked like he was watering flowers.

In fact, it is a special insecticide that is quite effective; at least it can kill most insects.

Of course, if too much pesticide is used, resistance will develop, and the effectiveness will be greatly reduced.

Large-scale insect infestations are now rare in the forests near the rocky mountains.

However, outside this forest, the number of insects and ants was frighteningly large, and even Lu Wuyai dared not stay any longer.

Many places have become gathering places for poisonous insects. Once, Lu Wuyai saw a group of scorpions, thousands of them, each as big as a fist, hiding in the grass, waving their venomous pincers.

Such scenes are commonplace.

“Everything is naturally fair,” Lu Wuyai said with emotion.

The increase in oxygen levels in the air not only provides a more suitable living environment for humans, but also paves a "broad road" for insect mutation.

"It's terrifying."

During the experiment, Song Xiaoyou was handling the carcass of a poisonous scorpion. Instruments were placed around him, some emitting electric arcs, others flashing red light. It seemed as if a mysterious atmosphere was brewing.

Lu Wuyai got dressed and stepped off the operating table. The wound on his lower abdomen had mostly healed.

"Come and help," Gu Yuxin called out.

Upon hearing this, Lu Wuyai shuddered and trembled all over.

In today's laboratories, the bottles and jars are no longer plants, but all kinds of insect eggs.

Seeing those things always gave Lu Wuyai goosebumps and made him feel uncomfortable all over.

"Lu Wuyai, hurry up!" Gu Yuxin urged again.

Yang bravely walked over and took out a transparent beaker. Inside was a strangely shaped beetle with a bulging abdomen. If you looked closely, you could see that it contained a large number of sesame-seed-like eggs, at least several hundred.

All he had to do was remove the eggs from the beetle's abdomen.

I remember that the first egg retrieval process drove Lu Wuyai to the brink of collapse, let alone other women.

“I’d rather go to the cowshed than look at these eggs,” Lu Wuyai thought to himself, but dared not ask Gu Yuxin, because these insect eggs were also being used to research the best way to kill insects.

Lu Wuyai spends almost half of his 24 hours a day in the laboratory with these eggs.

He not only had to retrieve the eggs, but sometimes he also had to observe the eggs hatching and even growing, and use pesticides at different stages to test their effectiveness.

The external insect infestation is becoming increasingly urgent, and with the increase in plant population and enhanced photosynthesis, the oxygen content in the air during the day is also slightly higher. This is not good news for them.

In the blink of an eye, a month has passed.

On this day, Lu Wuyai left the cave and took a walk in the nearby forest, breathing in the fresh air. He also caught some insect eggs to provide experimental materials.

Other women also wandered in the forest, including Yori, who sat on the rocky hill.

Logically, Su Xi should be about to give birth. These past few days, everyone's attention has been on her. After all, this child is Lu Wuyai and Su Xi's.

On the rocky hill, Su Xi patted her swollen belly, her eyes fixed on the man who had entered the forest. Her already captivating eyes held endless tenderness.

"Your dad is unreliable; he hasn't even given you a good name yet."

Su Xi sighed. During this time, the child had acquired a nickname: Baozi (Steamed Bun). She hoped that after giving birth, she wouldn't have to worry about food and drink anymore, and could live a happy life for the rest of her days.

Here, Lu Wuyai walked through the forest, occasionally looking back at Shi Qiu, thinking about Su Xi, wondering when she would have a child.

The air in the forest is excellent, with an oxygen content as high as 34%. Sometimes, some people even feel dizzy. The technical term is "sunshine intoxication."

During this period, the women's physical condition improved. Apart from Wu Jiujiu, no one else provided her with meditation techniques.

It's not that I don't trust her, but there are only a limited number of ancient paintings, and many people are unable to detach themselves from them and enter a meditative state, so I haven't told her yet.

However, Wu Jiujiu gradually discovered the differences between the two groups. At first, she simply thought these women were extremely powerful. Only recently did she vaguely guess what was going on.

As for Lu Wuyai, after undergoing two marrow cleansing and bone-severing procedures, his body expelled a large amount of impurities, and he still felt extremely relaxed.

Even after his abdominal wound healed, he continued to drink cold beverages. Although diluted, the effects were still very good if he took them long-term. He vaguely sensed that the third bone marrow cleansing and resection was not far off.

As dusk fell, everyone returned to the cave, but before entering, they thoroughly washed their coats on the rocky hillside and sprayed them with disinfectant before entering the tunnel.

Yu-Li clutched her belly. She felt like she had fallen a lot today.

Lu Wuyai carefully helped her into the laboratory, where Gu Yuxin checked her again.

"Don't worry, relax." Gu Yuxin said that during the previous check-up, he found that the child was a bit naughty and the umbilical cord was wrapped around his body.

"Thankfully, everything is normal now, there are no problems."

You Li said anxiously, "I always feel like I have to hold the baby for one more day and worry for one more day."

Gu Yuxin shook her head: "You should take good care of yourself. Unless you really can't have children, then you should consider a C-section."

After speaking, Gu Yuxin walked to the side and checked the tools used in the operation again. She didn't tell Su Xi that the delivery time was actually within a few days.

After the pregnancy test, Gu Yuxin asked Lu Wuyai to take Su Xi to rest, and even extended her finger to him in an ambiguous way.

Upon seeing this gesture, Lu Wuyai nodded, which meant that Su Xi was going to give birth in the next two days.

Over the next two days, apart from Yu Li's occasional worries, everyone else received the news and paid close attention to Yu Li's movements and condition.

It had been three days since the last pregnancy test. That night, Youli got up to go to the bathroom and didn't come back for a long time.

When Lu Wuyai woke up, he touched the cold blanket and felt full of energy.

As a result, Lu Wuyai found You Li groaning in the corridor, his entire forehead bruised and swollen.

"Lu Wuyai." Su Xi called out Lu Wuyai's name unhappily, clutching her stomach and looking very sad.

Lu Wuyai's heart tightened suddenly. He picked up Su Xi and headed straight for the laboratory, waking up the sleeping Gu Yuxin.

After a thorough examination, it was discovered that apart from Su Xi herself, the baby in her womb was perfectly fine.

"Stay here tonight, don't go back to the small room." Gu Yuxin made up a bed for Su Xi and let her rest here.

And so, Lu Wuyai and Su Xi spent the night together. The next morning, Su Xi suddenly had a stomachache.

"She's about to give birth." After checking her, Gu Yuxin asked Lu Wuyai to wake up the other women and prepare for the surgery.

Lu Wuyai nodded. Gu Yuxin had learned some basic knowledge before. Childbirth can take more than ten hours, and there are many things that cannot be prepared before giving birth.

Soon, a commotion broke out in the cave. Everyone turned on the air purifiers they had prepared. Su Xi and Song Xiaoyou went into the lab to help, closing the door behind them.

In the laboratory, Gu Yuxin built a space centered around the operating table, using aviation materials from the airplane to isolate bacteria and viruses to the greatest extent possible.

At this point, Su Xi was already experiencing obvious contractions, and there was even blood leaking from her cervix.

Outside the lab, everyone was restless. We had planned to clean the cowshed today, but now we couldn't concentrate on anything else.

Lu Wuyai was drenched in sweat. Looking at the meat beside him and thinking of Su Xi, his breathing became a little erratic.

In the cubicle, Gu Yuxin walked in, patted Lu Wuyai's shoulder, and told him to relax and not be too nervous.

"I know."

Lu Wuyai took a deep breath and arrived at the laboratory door. It was locked inside. He didn't know what was going on.

At noon, Su Xi came out and asked everyone to prepare lunch. Su Xi's body temperature was dropping too quickly, and she needed to replenish her energy.

Moreover, due to the lack of suitable anesthetics, Su Xi had no choice but to continue, which undoubtedly increased the risks.

The moment the laboratory door opened, Lu Wuyai could still hear Su Xi's heart-wrenching screams, and his heart clenched violently.

Lu Wuyai had known for a long time that getting a woman pregnant on a deserted island was undoubtedly a very dangerous thing.

Without reproductive technology, and relying solely on luck, one would probably only have one or two lives.

Now, although the cave possesses resources comparable to those in the outside world, without anesthesia, Su Xi has to endure terrible pain. That feeling must be no less than what Lu Wuyai felt when he drank cold water.

When he thought of Su Xi on the operating table, Lu Wuyai felt so uncomfortable that he could hardly breathe.

"Hopefully it will end soon."

At lunchtime, everyone cooked beef and had Su Xi serve it to You Li to replenish her energy.

“Let’s make some more wontons,” Su Xi said.

Because wontons are easy to swallow, Youli might not have the energy to chew them in the afternoon, so she had to save her energy for the children.

Lu Wuyai always stood at the laboratory door, while the others gradually dispersed to prepare snacks.

The atmosphere inside the cave seemed tense. No one dared to utter a sound until Su Xi came out.

At dusk, Song Xiaoyou came out this time, saying that the water was gone.

"I'll go right away." Lu Wuyai hurriedly went to the living room, handed the prepared bottled water to Song Xiaoyou, and asked him if he wanted to eat anything.

"Yu Li said she wanted to eat potato chips."

So Lu Wuyai hurriedly went to the container cave, only to realize that he hadn't yet asked what flavor he wanted.

Simply put, Lu Wuyai took a bag of potato chips from each of them.

Time passed second by second, and the sky outside remained pitch black, but Gu Yuxin and the others still did not come out.

The laboratory door had been renovated and was very sealed off. Ordinary people couldn't hear anything inside. But Lu Wuyai was different. His hearing was already very acute. After two rounds of bone marrow cleansing and bone removal, he had become even more sensitive to sound.

He stood at the laboratory door and heard Yu Li's heartbroken sobs.

"I don't want to have children."

"Su Xi, try a little harder. I've seen his head."

"yes."

"You Li, listen to my instructions. Don't overexert yourself and be careful to conserve your energy."

Did you hear that?

Lu Wuyai felt uncomfortable. Even without seeing it with his own eyes, he could still imagine what Su Xi was going through.

Amidst endless anxiety, it was already past midnight.

Suddenly, a clear shout rang out from the other side of the door. Lu Wuyai paused, then took a breath, listening intently to what was happening inside.

But for some reason, this time, Lu Wuyai found that he couldn't hear anything at all.

It wasn't until ten minutes later that Lu Wuyai realized his hearing had returned. At the same time, the door opened, and Su Xi and Song Xiaoyou came out.

At the same time, the other women who had been guarding the living room also came over, each looking tense. Su Xi even swallowed hard, as if she were looking at some delicious food.

Finally, under Lu Wuyai's expectant gaze, he saw a child wrapped in swaddling clothes, curled up in a ball, with eyes closed, skin all over red, and clean skin between his brows.

“It’s a girl,” Lu Wuyai asked, but he was already certain in his heart that it was a little girl.

"Okay," Su Xi said with a smile. The moment she held the child, she wondered if she should have one too.

However, thinking of Su Xi's pain, Su Xi suppressed her thoughts and dared not think too much.

Lu Wuyai hugged the child, then jumped over the crowd to visit Su Xi.

Gu Yuxin was cleaning up Su Xi's body when he saw Lu Wuyai walk over and tell him to wait aside.

It wasn't until half an hour later that Lu Wuyai saw Su Xi.

"Are you feeling alright?" Su Xi's face was very pale, but there was a slight smile on her lips.

"It's okay, I want to see the baby." Su Xi said expectantly.

Not long after, Baozi was brought back. She was a girl with fair and pretty skin, and she didn't resemble Lu Wuyai as much as Su Xi.

"Little one." Everyone gathered around Yu Li and started joking.

As a result, Gu Yuxin kicked everyone else out, leaving only Lu Wuyai and Song Xiaoyou in the lab.

"From now on, I'll be relying on you to take care of me. I need to rest for a day." Gu Yuxin breathed a sigh of relief. In the end, everything went smoothly, and nothing happened.

However, before taking a complete rest, Gu Yuxin carefully explained a few words before leaving.

In the lab, Su Xi quickly fell asleep while holding Baozi. Lu Wuyai was very happy and stayed motionless beside the mother and daughter. As for Song Xiaoyou, she was organizing some data about Baozi, such as height and weight.

After a while, Song Xiaoyou came over, thought for a moment and said, "I have experience taking care of flesh and blood before, so the next step will probably be very difficult."

Lu Wuyai flexed his hamstrings and said, "Barring any unforeseen circumstances, I still have the strength."

Song Xiaoyou said with a smile, "You not only need strength, you also need patience."

To avoid disturbing Su Xi's rest, Song Xiaoyou quickly left the area, found a cement spot nearby, spread out a blanket, and rested there. She was clearly still worried that Lu Wuyai wouldn't be able to take care of her.

The next day at noon, Baozi started having diarrhea. As a result, Lu Wuyai was extremely busy and it took him five minutes to clean the dirt off Baozi.

"You're so stupid," even Song Xiaoyou couldn't help but complain.

Baozi kept crying, which made Lu Wuyai so anxious that he almost cried himself.

In the past, the woman was responsible for taking care of Rou Rou, and Lu Wuyai only did the cleanup work. Now it's Baozi, and she's in trouble from head to toe.

Meconium was only the second most annoying thing. What they hated most was the crying fit that would occur every now and then, which almost drove Lu Wuyai and Song Xiaoyou to the brink of collapse.

"This child cries so much," Song Xiaoyou said with emotion. She hadn't realized it before, but now, compared to her two children, Rou Rou was simply an angel.

Su Xi gave a wry smile. She thought childbirth would be the most painful thing, but who would have thought that the enlargement of her breasts would also make her feel just as uncomfortable.

Glug glug.

That's the sound of Baozi drinking milk. Just like a cow always drinks milk. But even so, Youli's breasts still swelled up.

Before we knew it, the days had passed, and seven days had gone by in the blink of an eye.

During this time, others gradually joined in taking care of Yu-li and Bao-zi, and they gradually became proficient in some things as well.

"Baozi, you peed again." Lu Wuyai heard a squelching sound and suddenly felt a bit more weight on the diaper.

He chuckled.

Baozi grinned. The red skin had gradually faded, turning into an extremely white color, as if it could reflect light.

"So cute." Gu Yuxin sighed with admiration.

After changing the diaper, Lu Wuyai took Baozi outside to bask in the sun.

Newborns often have some jaundice, but Baozi's case was significantly better, and it subsided five days after his birth.

Place the buns on the wooden bed, leaving their two lotus root legs exposed, so that they can be exposed to as much sunlight as possible.

It's 7 a.m. The light isn't very strong and won't harm a newborn's skin.

Lu Wuyai gently rocked the wooden bed and hummed a tune. The leisurely time seemed fleeting.

On the tenth day after Baozi was born, at noon, Lu Wuyai once again saw someone using rockets to bomb airplanes in the sky from the rocky mountain.

But unlike in the past, this time the rocket was launched from the beach.

Song Xiaoyou put down the clothes she had just washed. She had also seen them and roughly calculated the distance.

A rumbling sound.

Lu Wuyai narrowed his eyes, the sound of exploding shells reaching his ears.

A plume of smoke rose in the distant sky, accompanied by intense artillery fire, clearly indicating that the target had been hit.

"These people are insane." Lu Wuyai felt a chill run down his spine. To seize supplies, he would choose such an extreme method.

Several women from the neighborhood came over, because at that moment, they also noticed the sight in the sky.

Wu Jiujiu emerged from the forest, her face pale. She assumed it was someone from the company who had done it, as they had done similar things more than once before.

Although these supplies may be destroyed when the plane explodes, they may still be preserved and obtained by survivors on land.

At this moment, Song Xiaoyou pointed to the distant sky: "There are many parachutes."