After the torrential rains, Crescent Island had ample freshwater, and planting began at the new base. Everyone except the researchers joined in.
The first step was sowing and seedling cultivation, which took four days. Although agricultural experts were present, the actual work was done by soldiers and security officers.
Seeds are very precious. These men are usually simple and rough. When sowing seeds, they carefully hold the seeds and bury them in the holes, afraid of spilling them.
Because of the favorable climate, the seeds germinated and grew quickly. Then came the process of transplanting, planting, fertilizing, and managing the seedlings. By the time everything was finished, it had been twenty days.
The beast tide at the northern base has finally ended completely. Although the base managed to defend against most of the aliens, the sonic device malfunctioned after being overloaded, allowing some winged aliens to fly into the base and cause infection, resulting in the elimination of more than 10,000 people.
When Luo Ning heard the news, although she was relieved that not tens of thousands of people had died like in the novel, she was still very saddened by the deaths of more than 10,000 people.
But people had gotten used to this. Two days later, the base began promoting people, with the living taking over the positions of the dead to keep the base running.
In this round of promotions, Lu Xinghe was promoted from major to major general, skipping several ranks. In addition to having the power to allocate all security officers, he also had certain authority to allocate troops within the base, which meant that he was following in his father's footsteps.
“I thought you would refuse,” Shen Ni said into the communicator.
In his eyes, Lu Xinghe was a highly skilled individual soldier who pursued the highest and strongest goals. He believed that Lu Xinghe would take the path of security officer to the extreme, and he was prepared to hand over the Red Gate to him.
However, Lu Xinghe ultimately strove for power.
Lu Xinghe replied, "Why should I refuse? As a general, I can better protect this world."
"Is it really just to protect this world?" Shen Ni saw a slender shadow on the floor of his room, indicating that there was a woman in his room.
Lu Xinghe also keenly caught his gaze: "And for what I believe is right."
Shen Ni understood. He nodded and then reminded him, "After this beast tide, the position at the top has changed. You need to be careful."
"Thank you, I will be careful," Lu Xinghe replied.
After he ended the call, Luo Ning placed a plate of cold seaweed salad in front of him: "Try it and see if it's good."
Lu Xinghe picked up his chopsticks: "Didn't I tell you not to go into the sea?"
"I didn't go into the sea. This seaweed was brought up by the waves a few days ago. Try it!" Luo Ning looked at him expectantly.
Lu Xinghe took a bite; it was refreshing and crisp. Having lived on land for twenty-four years, he rarely had the chance to eat anything from the sea. "It's delicious. You can teach this cooking skill to the logistics department; they'll definitely love it."
Luo Ning's eyes crinkled into crescent moons as she smiled: "If you think it's delicious, I'll definitely go and show it off."
After eating some more, Lu Xinghe asked, "Did you go for a physical check-up today?"
Luo Ning nodded and whispered, "I went, but the reagent still didn't react."
Lu Xinghe slowly chewed the food in his mouth. More than twenty days had passed, but he still hadn't succeeded.
Luo Ning was also a little confused. She had done everything she could. She would drink some of his blood before intimacy and take a shower the next day afterward. If there was nothing wrong with her body, it was impossible for her not to get pregnant.
Perhaps it is because of her strong heteromorphic nature that she cannot be as easy as Wenxi.
"It's probably still because of my health," she said, sounding somewhat dejected.
Lu Xinghe held her hand: "The equipment from the northern base will be delivered in a few days. If it really is a problem with our bodies, it should be detected by then."
Back at the villa, Wen Xi was cleaning the room. Her belly had grown quite a bit, but her body was still slender. She had to keep providing blood to An Xiaoruo and the experimental research. Even though she received a large amount of human blood every day, she still looked very weak.
"Why are you doing this? Take a rest." Luo Ning snatched the rag from her hand and said with heartache and self-reproach.
Wen Xi, supporting her lower back, said, "I just want to move around a bit. I have no energy left after lying in bed all day."
"You shouldn't do these things, they're bad for your back. Come on, I'll take you for a walk." Luo Ning said, picking up a sun hat and putting it on Wen Xi.
Although Winsy still possesses heteromorphic traits, her recovery from injuries is not as rapid as before, and she can even get sunburned.
This gave the genetics department great hope, and everyone was waiting for the child in her womb to be born into the world.
Luo Ning couldn't help but reach out and touch Wen Xi's belly. The little girl seemed to sense her presence and kicked Wen Xi's belly with her little foot.
"Oh, it's greeting me." Luo Ning said happily and enviously.
“She really likes you. Every time you come over, she dances with joy,” Wen Xi said softly.
Luo Ning looked up at Wen Xi. Wen Xi used to be afraid of this child and even thought about killing him, but since when did her eyes become gentle?
The two went to the port where the ship was docked. Luo Ning wanted to find some food. The people at the base ate compressed biscuits for all three meals a day, and Lu Xinghe and the others were somewhat malnourished. During this time, she discovered that in addition to plants such as kelp and sea grapes, some shellfish that parasitized on rocks were also not infected. She wanted to continue to improve their diet.
"Section Chief Qi and Lanlan are here too," Wen Xi said, pointing ahead.
Luo Ning looked up and saw Qi Xiaowei and Jiang Lanlan, as well as several other researchers.
She was stunned for a moment. With so many people here, why didn't she notice it immediately? Was it the salty smell of the seawater that affected her sense of smell?
She and Wen Xi walked over: "Section Chief Qi, what are you doing here? Don't get too close to the sea, be careful of the aliens."
"The experiment hit a bottleneck, so I came out for a walk. Why are you all out here too?" Qi Xiaowei asked.
Luo Ning waved the bucket and shovel in her hand: "I found some uninfected shellfish, and I want to dig some up to improve your meals."
"How do you tell if shellfish are infected?" Qi Xiaowei asked, looking at her with a puzzled expression.
Luo Ning smiled slyly: "We're a different species, you can tell just by smelling us."
Her witty remarks made everyone burst into laughter.
Qi Xiaowei suddenly remembered something: "Luo Ning, did you go to the lab to get a syringe?"
“I took it,” Luo Ning replied. She had used a syringe to collect Lu Xinghe’s blood.
"How much did you take?"
"Two sets, what's wrong?"
Qi Xiaowei said "Oh": "Several sets of syringes suddenly went missing from the lab. I thought you took them, but you only took two sets. Where did the others go?"
“The blood we’ve prepared for you is also reduced every two days,” another researcher said.
“It was definitely not us who took it. We know you would provide the blood, so wouldn’t it be redundant to do this?” Luo Ning explained.
Qi Xiaowei quickly shook her head: "We don't doubt you. We're worried that there are other alien species on the island. The monitoring system in the laboratory hasn't been set up yet. If alien species really come in, we won't know."
After she finished speaking, Wen Xi's eyes flickered, and she subconsciously looked up at the mountain.
Luo Ning also found it strange. In the end, everyone discussed it and concluded that they might have misremembered. If there really were other alien species, it would definitely cause casualties.
After Qi Xiaowei and the others left, Luo Ning and Wen Xi stayed on the rocky beach. As the sun was about to set, Luo Ning dug up a large bucket of shellfish. When she looked up, she found Wen Xi sitting alone on a rock, lost in thought, while the clouds were piling up in the sky.
"It's getting windy, looks like it's going to rain. Let's go back," Luo Ning said, rubbing her aching back.
"Hmm." Wen Xi stood up, and when she saw the sea behind Luo Ning, she was horrified: "Luo Ning, run!"
Before Luo Ning could react, she heard the sound of crashing seawater behind her. Turning around, she saw a large sea turtle with sharp overlying teeth charging towards her.
Sea turtles are amphibians and can come ashore. They usually live in deep-sea areas and may have been attracted by the presence of people on the island.
Logically, alien species should attack humans directly, but this turtle wanted to eat her.
She nimbly dodged the turtle's attack and ran forward with Winsie. The security officers who rushed to the scene fired at the turtle, but its shell was too hard to kill it.
In the end, Lu Xinghe drove his forklift and knocked the sea turtle over, preventing it from attacking anyone.
"Are you injured?" Lu Xinghe asked as he jumped out of the construction vehicle and walked to Luo Ning's side.
Luo Ning shook her head: "No."
"That's good. Don't go near the beach too easily in the future."
"Mmm." Luo Ning was still carrying the bucket of shellfish in her hand, and she was so nervous that she forgot to put it down.
What puzzled her even more was why she hadn't sensed such a large alien creature approaching at all.
"Look! Something's coming from the sea!" someone shouted.
Everyone immediately looked over and saw dozens of sea turtles rushing towards them at high speed. Dark clouds covered the sky, and the weather at sea could change in an instant; a downpour was imminent.
"Bring out all the construction vehicles," Lu Xinghe ordered. Based on his previous experience, these exotic sea turtles wouldn't be able to hurt anyone as long as they were upside down.
Luo Ning also moved her hands to help. Although she might not be as strong as the construction vehicle, she could still flip over smaller sea turtles.
When the torrential rain came, the battle between humans and turtles began. One by one, the alien turtles were overturned by the construction vehicles, but some construction vehicles were also damaged by the turtles.
Someone was injured, and the smell of blood made the exotic sea turtles even more ferocious, causing chaos at the scene.
Wenxi also went forward to help. There were only two hundred security officers and soldiers on Crescent Island in total. If they all died here or were infected, the entire Crescent Island would become hell.
She cut her wrists and used her blood to attract the alien turtles, which she believed could weaken them.
Immediately, a sea turtle charged at her, its mouth full of overgrown teeth aimed at her hand. She held the knife in her other hand, waiting for it to be weakened before plunging the knife into its head.
However, a dark shadow flashed by, and the turtle that was about to bite her was knocked away. The turtle twisted its neck and bit the man's arm. The man groaned and plunged his hand into the turtle's head like a knife, tearing its skull apart.
Wenxi stared at the man in front of her in disbelief. She thought he was still on land and that she would never see him again in her life.
"I've never seen anyone as stupid as you. Its overbite could bite off your entire arm," Du Lu said coldly. He was wearing a soldier's uniform, was thin, and had long hair that covered his eyes. Blood was dripping from his bitten arm, but it was quickly washed away by the torrential rain.
Two more sea turtles charged at him. Du Lu grabbed one of them by the head and killed it using the same method as before, but the other one seized the opportunity to bite his head. Under its bared teeth, Du Lu bled profusely.
Wen Xi's heart skipped a beat, and he rushed forward with his knife, but Du Lu had already used his hand as a knife to pierce through the head of the alien sea turtle.
"Go, don't cause trouble here." Du Lu's face was covered in blood, making him look like a demon from hell.
Wen Xi was startled by his cold tone and took a step back. Du Lu quickly disappeared from her sight.
Lu Xinghe seemed to hear Du Lu's voice, but when he turned around, he saw no one. Only Wen Xi was standing next to the carcass of a sea turtle.
"Wenxi, you'd better go hide in the Gene Department!" he shouted.
Wen Xi paused for a moment before coming to his senses, then turned and ran towards the Gene Department.
Lu Xinghe watched her leave, then looked at the dead sea turtle. He didn't believe Wen Xi was capable of killing it now.
He scanned his surroundings with sharp eyes, but still found nothing, so he continued to engage in the battle with the alien species.
An hour later, the alien species was finally cleared out.
Luo Ning also dealt with a few small exotic sea turtles. Lu Xinghe walked over and called her to where Wen Xi had been standing, pointing to the sea turtle whose head had been torn off: "What do you think?"
Wenxi looked closely and found that several other exotic sea turtles nearby had also been killed in the same way.
“Wenxi can’t do that,” she said.
“It wasn’t my people who did it.” Lu Xinghe looked at her. “It was an alien species. There are other alien species here. I think I heard Du Lu’s voice just now.”
Luo Ning thought of what Qi Xiaowei had said earlier, and her expression gradually became serious: "Could it be that Du Lu is really here? But how is that possible? No matter how strong he is, he can't possibly swim over here."
Lu Xinghe replied, "He didn't swim here. He probably came by plane and has been hiding on the island."
Luo Ning nodded: "Yes, that should be it. So, Section Chief Qi and the others lost their syringes and blood. Han Ling should know that, and Du Lu will definitely come looking for him."
After she finished speaking, she suddenly felt a pain in her stomach and cried out in pain.
"Are you injured?" Lu Xinghe immediately stepped forward to check her injuries.
"No, it's just that my stomach suddenly hurts a little," she said, clutching her stomach.
But why would a different species have a stomachache for no reason?
She paused for a moment, recalling Wenxi's experience in the early stages of her pregnancy, when she also had abdominal pain and felt weak.
Lu Xinghe also realized this: "Could it be...could it be that you're pregnant?"
She reached out to comb her hair, a method she had used for the past few days, but no hair had fallen out.
But now, as her fingers left her wet hair, two long strands of hair remained at her fingertips.
"Is this hair?" she asked, somewhat incredulous.
Lu Xinghe gently touched it: "Yes, it's your hair, two strands."
The two looked at each other and smiled softly, for some beautiful possibility in this world, and also for having their own child.
That night, the entire genetics department was in an uproar. The arrival of this child gave them great encouragement. Not only could An Xiaoruo's condition continue to stabilize, but they could also have more original genes to edit and study.
Qi Xiaowei said to Lu Xinghe apologetically, "Colonel Lu, there might really be a problem with the reagents. I'm very sorry."
Lu Xinghe snorted coldly: "Fortunately, nothing serious happened. You should learn from this."
He didn't criticize much; everyone here was under a lot of pressure.
Qi Xiaowei nodded: "Don't worry, we will definitely pay attention in the future. After the equipment is transported here in a couple of days, we will be able to know the specific situation of the child."
Lu Xinghe returned to the room, where Luo Ning was still sitting blankly on the bed. He went over and hugged her. These were the two people he would protect for the rest of his life.
"How amazing, the child just appeared so suddenly," Luo Ning murmured.
Lu Xinghe felt her gentle warmth: "We've been waiting for him, and he probably senses how we feel."
"If that's the case, then he's so well-behaved, I like him." Luo Ning couldn't help but sketch the image of the child.
Just then, the window of Wenxi's room rattled in the wind. Lu Xinghe remembered what had happened before, and then he and Luo Ning went to knock on Wenxi's door to ask about what had happened that day.
But Wenxi didn't respond after knocking several times. When they pushed the door open, Wenxi wasn't in the room.
The back mountain.
Wenxi, carrying the blood bag, walked to a cave. It was dark inside, with faint breathing and a faint smell of blood.
She paused for a moment in front of the cave, then mustered her courage and went inside. Du Lu was sitting against the stone wall, soaking wet, with some empty blood bags and small animal bones beside him.
His head and arms were still bleeding, which indicated that his body was very weak and that his wounds were healing slowly.
Du Lu already knew she was outside the cave. He thought she was sleeping in her warm villa, but he didn't expect her to come looking for him.
Wen Xi silently placed the blood bag she had saved in his hand, then turned to leave. She had only come to check on his injuries.
He injured his head and is likely to die.
But he is still alive.
But when she turned around, he grabbed her hand.
His hands were very cold, as cold as ice.
The baby in her belly also moved slightly at that moment, as if sensing the presence of its father.
“I’ve saved you five times,” he said weakly.
The first time was in the desert, the second time was in the mine, the third time was in the base villa, the fourth time was in Han Ling's hospital, and the fifth time was just now.
Wenxi turned to look at him, wondering what he was going to do.
He looked up at her, his voice devoid of emotion: "So you should repay these favors to me."
Wen Xi moved her lips: "How do you want me to repay you?"
Du Lu held her hand tightly: "I'm very cold right now, I need your warmth."
He knew her body was warm when she was still outside, and now, just holding her hand, he felt less cold.
Wenxi did not answer, but she did not leave either.
With a forceful pull, he drew her into his arms and held her tightly.
villa.
Looking at the empty room, Lu Xinghe took out his communicator to prepare to send someone to search for him. Du Lu was very unstable at the moment, and he was worried that something might happen to him.
But Luo Ning pressed his hand down: "Give them some time."
Lu Xinghe thought about it and realized that if Du Lu really wanted to harm other people or Wen Xi, he wouldn't have stayed away for so many days, nor would he have killed the alien turtles around Wen Xi.
He slowly put down the communicator: "Okay, I'll stay with you today."
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