Chapter 71: Frozen Zone Insect Swarm (Part 7)
night.
Lin Heng brought Xie Mian to the rooftop of the small Western-style building.
The night wind brought the fishy smell of insects in the distance, which was covered by the rich scent of roses.
The hem of Xie Mian's clothes rustled in the wind. Lin Heng was wearing pajamas, the silk pajamas slipping off his shoulders, revealing his cold white collarbone.
The moonlight outlined his slender features, with his hair hanging down at the corners of his eyes, like a richly colored oil painting, rich and warm.
"Everyone has his own destiny. You were too impulsive today."
Lin Heng's voice was very deep, as if he was being pressed down by a stone.
He held a cigarette between his fingers, and the smoke was drifting high into the sky with the whistling wind.
Xie Mian also wanted to smoke a cigarette, but before he could reach Lin Heng's pajamas pocket, Lin Heng slapped his hand.
"Why should children smoke? Smoking is harmful to their health."
Xie Mian gently rubbed the back of his hand and muttered softly: "Then why are you still smoking..."
"I'm your brother," Lin Heng glanced at Xie Mian, "Don't change the subject."
Xie Mian turned around, leaned his back against the railing, looked up at the starless night sky, and said lightly:
"If you want to save it, save it."
"You exposed something that shouldn't have been exposed."
Lin Heng flicked the ash from his cigarette, and it landed on a rose in the garden. The rose trembled slightly from the burn.
"Your healing insect power is too strong. Such an ability will attract countless greedy eyes."
"So, bro?"
"So you'll become a target, and you'll put yourself in the most dangerous situation." Lin Heng's voice turned cold. "The privileged faction will want to control you, the egalitarian faction will want to use you, and the soldiers you healed... they'll treat you as a hero today, and tomorrow they'll want you to save more people, until you've exhausted yourself."
Xie Mian was silent for a while, then suddenly laughed.
"So you know, you know everything, then why did you help those soldiers?"
From the soldiers' attitude towards Lin Heng, he knew that Lin Heng's help to these soldiers was not overnight. He had a profound influence on these soldiers.
He originally thought his brother was kindhearted, but it turned out that his brother knew everything. He knew that as a bug-follower, siding with the soldiers would put him in danger.
"Brother, just do what you want to do."
Now it was Lin Heng's turn to be silent. It seemed like an eternity had passed. Only after a cigarette had burned out did Lin Heng sigh and say:
"Mianmian, I don't want to involve you."
"I'm not afraid."
Xie Mian looked directly into Lin Heng's eyes: "As long as I'm not separated from my brother, I'm not afraid of anything. Besides..." He paused and said: "Strength can overcome everything."
Lin Heng stared at Xie Mian, his eyes full of helplessness. Finally, he sighed and reached out to ruffle Xie Mian's hair.
The next morning.
Chen Yan knocked on the door of the small western-style building.
His body has fully recovered and there is no discomfort at all. It is as if the disaster that brought him to the brink of death had never happened.
The feeling of his feet touching the ground still made him a little dazed. If he hadn't awakened his insect power last night, he really wouldn't have believed what had happened.
Just last night, he suddenly felt a burning sensation in his legs, as if his legs had turned into two red-hot iron rods.
He originally thought that these were newly grown legs that had not yet been properly integrated with his body. Unexpectedly, the next second, his legs turned into a pair of insect limbs.
The insect's limb was covered in a hard, dark green layer that felt as cold as a gun barrel. The entire limb resembled a crescent-shaped sickle. With a single movement, the bed beneath him shattered. The soldiers guarding him were startled.
My thoughts suddenly came back.
The door opened, and Chen Yan saw Xie Mian coming out, followed by a waddling goose.
"Thank you, Doctor Xie."
Chen Yan handed over the box in his hand and expressed his sincere gratitude.
"I'm not a doctor."
Xie Mian put his hands in his pockets and did not take the box.
"I'm sorry, your healing insect power is so strong, I thought you were a doctor. Usually, only doctors can transform into insects and use healing insect power."
Chen Yan was a little embarrassed. "These are some insect stones I collected. I hope you can accept them."
"Need not."
Xie Mian glanced at the box and refused again.
The wormstone in the box was polished to a high shine, a testament to the caretakers' cherishment. These days, wormstone is hard currency at the base, equivalent to real money. Soldiers lack worm energy, so killing a worm monster is no easy task. They need it more than he does.
"You can go back. It's just a piece of cake."
…
Xie Mian's ability quickly spread throughout the base.
On the third day, Jiang Ming brought a group of insect followers and stopped Xie Mian who was about to pick up his brother from work.
"Thank you."
Jiang Ming sat in the armored vehicle, with bugs crawling in and out of his eye sockets, wagging their tails.
"The base's leadership has ordered that you must join the medical team and treat the injured insect-fellows."
Xie Mian folded his arms, looked at the armored vehicle blocking his way, and said coldly:
“Get out of the way!”
"Since you have entered the base, you have this obligation. Do you want to violate the base's system?" Jiang Ming looked at Xie Mian with disdain. He was just Lin Heng's younger brother. Did he really think that he was a royal relative and could compete with the base's system?
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