Luo Ning closed her eyes to sense the surroundings. The smells were mixed, but she still couldn't detect Meng Ru. Logically, this was impossible; anyone of a different species should be detectable.
Unless, she reverts to being human again, and as a nurse she can obtain the medicine, this possibility cannot be ruled out.
The group quickly returned to the command post. When Luo Ning saw the three children standing together hand in hand, she felt both happy and worried.
The good thing is that they can really control those alien species outside, but the worry is that they don't know how long they can hold out at this rate.
She wanted to join in, but An Yuan stopped her. Now was the most balanced time, and there could be no interruption.
Medical staff were bandaging Lu Xinghe and An Xiaoruo, and other injured people were also rescued and treated one after another. Only Du Lu was slow to heal due to the toxins, and human medical treatment was ineffective for him. He could only rely on his own healing.
He sat alone in the corner. Many people here did not know who he was, nor did they know that in the past year, thanks to his intelligence, humanity had avoided many dangers. Now, he was just an injured mutant.
Everyone whispered among themselves, wary and cautious, but even under such circumstances, Wenxi didn't glance at him once. She stood beside the children the whole time, seemingly unaware of his presence.
He lowered his head in silence, a suppressed emotion gradually welling up inside him, like thorny vines wrapping around him layer by layer. He didn't like this feeling, but he didn't know how to get out of it.
Luo Ning saw the medical staff cut open Lu Xinghe's clothes, revealing his numerous wounds. Without anesthesia, the doctor directly disinfected and stitched him up.
The doctor who was stitching him up also noticed the old scar on his chest with messy stitches. To divert Lu Xinghe's attention, he asked, "Who stitched this up? It looks like they're sewing clothes."
Lu Xinghe smiled, glanced at Luo Ning, and said nothing.
Luo Ning pointed to herself: "Me?"
An Xiaoruo nodded from the side: "It was you who stitched it up, Auntie. But I was the one who held down Uncle's leg. He was strong and struggled a lot."
Looking at the faint stitches, Luo Ning slowly recalled that it seemed to have happened in a campervan, in the pitch-black rainy night, under the dim light, as she carefully sewed while enduring the urge to sew.
Just as she was taking another step closer to that memory, she suddenly heard a child softly calling for his mother.
She turned around abruptly, confirming that it wasn't Yuan You, Yuan Yan, or Xiao Xiao's voices, but rather the voices of other children. However, apart from the three little ones, there were only the two three-year-old twins left.
At that moment, they were handing the candy from their little hands to a person in military uniform. The person's head was bandaged so that his face could not be seen, and he was covered in blood, just like the other seriously wounded soldiers.
However, this person was near Yuan You and Yuan Yan, and if the twins hadn't called out "Mom," it would have been difficult for anyone to notice that he was different.
Without thinking, Luo Ning rushed over and pinned the person to the ground. She ripped off the bandages, revealing Meng Ru's face underneath.
Meng Ru traveled back in time to become a human and came here. She figured out the reason for the abnormal behavior of the alien species outside. Just as she was about to take action to solve the problem, she was recognized by the child she had adopted.
But it doesn't matter, she still has the original virus fluid. She can immediately become a mutant. As long as she infects Lu Xinghe, she can have the strongest mutant warrior and infect humans into mutants again.
Humans don't deserve to live in this world. They created the world we have now, and they should bear the consequences.
And she is the one who guards the consequences of evil.
She tried to crush the bottle in her hand, but a foot stepped heavily on her wrist, rendering her powerless. The bottle rolled out of her hand, but Lu Xinghe noticed the abnormality and stopped her.
"No!" she cried out in grief and anger, struggling to crawl toward the vial of the original virus blood, but countless people rushed over and held her down.
She glared at Luo Ning with hatred. If she had known it would turn out this way, she should have killed her the first time she met her, instead of keeping her alive for the sake of the twins.
Luo Ning searched her body but found no other viruses. She gently called her name: "Meng Ru".
Luo Ning had mixed feelings about the woman who gave birth to the first child of a different species. In a sense, Meng Ru was also a tragic victim.
When Meng Ru heard someone call her real name, her body trembled slightly. It was clear that Luo Ning already knew about her past.
The twins walked up to Meng Ru and offered her the candy again, saying, "Mommy, have some candy, it's very sweet."
Looking at the two children, Meng Ru's eyes were filled with a mixture of joy, sorrow, anger, and grief, which eventually turned into a lifeless stillness.
Outside the defense post, the roar of airplanes filled the air. Footage transmitted by drones showed that most of the alien species had been brought back to the source. The remaining arthropods were lured away by living people in armed helicopters with blood, and then burned to death by bombers firing white/phosphorus bombs. The supporting troops were also about to arrive. The 100,000 people at the plantation base had finally survived a hellish day.
Meng Ru was put in solitary confinement. An Yuan felt that she still had research value, but Lu Xinghe felt that she could not be kept.
"Are you going to kill Meng Ru?" Luo Ning asked as she walked up to him.
Lu Xinghe nodded: "She can't live. A total of 457 people died today. Moreover, given An Yuan and Han Ling's obsession with experiments, I'm worried that if this research continues, new viruses will emerge."
Luo Ning thought for a moment and said, "I have some questions I want to ask her. Could you give me a little time?"
“We’ll interrogate them too, you can ask them all together then.” After Lu Xinghe finished speaking, he loaded his gun with gene bullets and then walked towards the solitary confinement cell with Luo Ning.
Besides them, Wen Xi'an, Xiao Ruo, Song Pei Anyuan, Han Ling, and others were also in the confinement room. The cameras recorded everything that happened that day, but Meng Ru did not answer any questions.
Finally, Luo Ning asked, "Was it on land that you captured Wen Rong and me?"
The best way to deal with someone who doesn't answer questions is to give them multiple-choice options. Even if they don't say anything, their expression will betray them.
As expected, Meng Ru didn't say anything, but her proud expression betrayed her true feelings.
“You once told me that the time-reversal potion had been developed for three years, and that wasn’t a slip of the tongue, was it? You wanted to find a mother for those two children outside, since they are exactly three years old,” Luo Ning said again.
Meng Ru paused for a moment, but still did not answer.
But Luo Ning already knew the answer: "Why me? Is it because I had just given birth and was kind to the child even when I was unconscious? Or did you know that I gave birth to a child who could rewind time?"
Meng Ru's eyes flickered.
"It seems you have both." Luo Ning sighed. "You care about those two children, which shows you're not heartless. So why did you do something like this today? Is it because your husband and children had a chance to live but were killed by humans?"
When her husband and children were mentioned, Meng Ru finally reacted. She looked at Luo Ning and said, "Yes, things shouldn't have turned out this way. If they had waited a little longer and had a little more patience, they would have known that Shi Cheng's medicine was effective. But they didn't wait and instead opened fire. The end of the world was controllable. It shouldn't have come to this. You all ruined yourselves."
The people in the room fell silent after hearing this. The drug that Feng Shicheng injected into the child back then should be the same drug that reverts back to the present day. However, this period of time spans eighty years, and no one wanted to recall the many horrific events that occurred during that time.
But there's nothing wrong with being cautious; it's just that fate plays tricks on us.
"So your goal is to punish humanity and prevent them from returning to a normal world?" An Yuan asked.
Meng Ru sneered, "This is what you deserve."
Everyone's face was filled with hatred, as if they wanted to kill her immediately.
"I will take good care of those two children and will not let you down," Luo Ning said finally.
"It doesn't matter," Meng Ru replied expressionlessly.
After getting the answer they wanted, the people in the room left one by one, leaving only Luo Ning and Lu Xinghe. Lu Xinghe did not hand over the execution task to anyone else; he would personally ensure that no accidents would happen.
But after Luo Ning left, Meng Ru said to Lu Xinghe, "She is a complete mutant, she will never grow old and she will never die, but you will have a day when your life ends, Commander, what will you do then?"
Lu Xinghe pressed the gun against Meng Ru's temple: "We'll deal with that at that time. Thank you."
"Thank me for what?"
"Thank you for not saying these things in front of her."
Meng Ru looked at Lu Xinghe and smiled: "You are really handsome, but you still can't compare to my Shicheng."
Then she unwrapped the candy in her hand, put it in her mouth, and chewed it a few times: "Jiajia didn't lie to me, this candy is indeed very sweet."
After Lu Xinghe waited for her to finish eating the candy, he pulled the trigger with his index finger.
Upon hearing a gunshot, everyone in the corridor involuntarily stopped in their tracks. Each person's expression was different: some were relieved, some were disgusted, some were calm, and some sighed.
Lu Xinghe opened the door and walked out. The dim light of the corridor shone on his resolute face, and his eyes shone like stars, making everyone who saw him feel his conviction and protection.
The old era came to an end at this moment, and a new era is beginning.
After the support team arrived, they replenished ammunition and reversal potions. After a period of recuperation, the humans who had been reversing the migration began to cultivate and produce crops. Although some of the humans who had migrated from the north died along the way, the main force eventually arrived safely, and all the machinery and supplies were transported there as well.
It is said that an hour after everyone left the base, a violent eruption of lava caused an earthquake that destroyed the entire northern base.
Perhaps in the end, Heaven took pity on humanity.
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