Chapter 100 Bionic Gland
"husband……"
The gradually regained consciousness was like floating up from the bottom of the sea with difficulty.
The feeling of coldness and suffocation switched back and forth second by second.
He took a brief breath, and immediately felt a dull pain deep in his chest.
It really hurts, it hurts so much.
He is a mermaid and has extremely strong self-healing abilities. If there is an injury that he cannot recover from, it will definitely be fatal.
Then, a feeling of being imprisoned and stiff came from his neck, and the severe pain and foreign body sensation that penetrated deep into his bones completely pulled him back from the chaos.
The pain was not simply sharp, but a mixture of burning, soreness, and tearing, as if countless cold needles were radiating from deep in the throat to the brain nerves.
Yu Li tried to open his eyes, but his eyelids felt extremely heavy, as if he had died once.
It took him a lot of effort to focus his vision.
What he saw was a dazzlingly pale ceiling. The cold light, which was not too glaring, hurt his eyes and tears flowed uncontrollably.
He felt that he was lying flat on a hard, cold operating table, with his limbs fixed by some force, forcing him to be unable to move.
A complex mechanical instrument fixed his head like an iron cage. He tried to move, and the slight struggle forced the device to make a chaotic "beeping" sound.
Even if it was very slight, it was particularly harsh in the silent room.
The memory is fragmented.
Scattered fragments flashed wildly in his mind like sharp shards of glass.
Someone's unreadable gaze...
Someone held his hand tightly, the warmth and trembling of his palm...
The glaring lights and hurried figures in the hospital corridor...
When the anesthetic was injected into the vein, that strange feeling that went from cold to burning...
Then, there was endless darkness...
"Uh..." He tried to make a sound, "Where is this..."
But he could only squeeze out vague breath sounds from his throat, which were replaced by "woohoo" sounds.
A thick tube was inserted in his esophagus, depriving him of the right to speak, and every breath he took carried a cold smell mixed with metal and disinfectant.
Just then, a burst of hurried footsteps approached, and a figure wearing a sterile suit and a mask entered the edge of his vision.
He couldn't turn his neck to see the man's full appearance, and could only see a pair of eyes filled with professional concern.
"Are you awake?"
"Don't be nervous, take a deep breath, and try to stay calm."
It was a gentle male voice, sounding like a doctor's. "We have just successfully implanted a bionic gland in you. This is to help you complete subsequent differentiation, which is vital to your health."
Bionic glands?
Yu Li's confused mind couldn't understand this word.
He remembered going to the hospital for a removal surgery, so why did he need to implant an artificial gland?
The pain in my neck was extremely real, as if every blood vessel had been replaced by a cold mechanical part, and the blood was forced to flow through unfamiliar pipes with difficulty.
The doctor seemed to see his fear and confusion, and continued to comfort him: "Relax, your family is guarding you outside."
"We are helping you, not hurting you. Trust us, okay?"
“The gland has only been implanted for a few hours and is not stable yet.
You need to stay in this position for at least 24 hours so we can see if your body rejects it."
"I know this is hard, but for your future, please hold on."
Yu Li listened quietly. His mind told him that he should trust the doctor, but his body's instinctive fear and great confusion could not be shaken off.
family……
Qi Sheng?
But who is Qi Sheng?
When the name "Qi Sheng" inexplicably flashed through his mind, he suddenly felt a sharp palpitation.
Qi Sheng...
Why does my heart feel sad when I think of this name?
At this moment, he was like a small boat thrown into the fog, having lost all direction. He could only passively endure the pain of his body and keep company with the cold machine.
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At the same time, Qi Sheng was searching the streets and alleys of Antia.
After he rushed out of Zhai Wenxi's house, he didn't even bother to treat his broken wounds, and immediately mobilized all the strength he could mobilize.
All the people in the training base were sent to search different areas of Antia. The mercenaries were divided into teams to check every possible stronghold where people might be hiding.
The technicians he hired began to retrieve surveillance footage from all the roads surrounding the hospital, and professionals began to analyze Yu Li's disappearance route...
They locked onto a black van without any license plate that drove out of the back door of the hospital during the time Yu Li disappeared.
Surveillance footage showed that the car drove towards the airport after leaving the hospital.
Qi Sheng personally led the team and tracked the route captured by the surveillance camera.
His heart was in his throat, anticipating seeing his little mermaid in the next second.
However, the truck disappeared completely like a ghost after driving into a fork in the road that was a blind spot for surveillance.
The roads there are complicated and connect countless small workshops and abandoned factories. However, due to the lack of strict jurisdiction, there are no cameras, so the clues are cut off here.
For the next three days, Qi Sheng did not sleep and searched with his men. After a simple bandage, the wound opened again, and the blood that seeped out mixed with the dust to form a dry brown color.
He searched almost every corner of the industrial area where people might be hiding and questioned workers who might have seen the car, but in the end he found nothing.
Yu Li seemed to have really disappeared from the world.
He was on the verge of collapse and regretted his decision. He should have stayed by Yu Li's side. His disappearance was all due to his lack of care.
While waiting for news, he tried to numb himself with alcohol.
If you drink enough, you might be able to get a good night's sleep.
The next day, the Saar Federation on the front line sent an urgent military intelligence report.
The person in charge of the report said in panic: "Major General, something has happened. Many of our injured soldiers have developed a large-scale skin ulcer infectious disease...
Furthermore, this disease is spreading extremely quickly. From yesterday until now, all those infected have died. We need you to come back and take charge of the situation!"
The documents sent included detailed photos and a preliminary description: the wounded's previously ordinary wounds began to abnormally blacken and fester, oozing foul-smelling pus, and the skin around the wounds quickly necrotized...
This type of ulcer is highly contagious. Medical staff or other injured people who come into contact with ulcerated wounds will soon develop the same symptoms, ranging from extensive tissue necrosis to life-threatening conditions.
Problems arose on the front line, the morale of the army collapsed, and the foundation of the rear was shaken.
As a leader, Qi Sheng can no longer dwell on personal grief.
He stood under the gloomy sky of Antia, and finally, he made a painful decision.
At this time, the only person he could choose to trust was Zhai Wenxi.
"Wenxi, keep searching. If you find any clues, let me know immediately."
He paused, and almost squeezed out the second half of the sentence from his chest, "I must return to the Saar Federation."
Zhai Wenxi looked at the man in front of him who seemed to have lost all his vitality overnight. His throat seemed to be blocked by something, and he could only nod in agreement.
He saw the pain in Qi Sheng's eyes. It was not only fatigue, not only self-blame, but more like a kind of despair of being pushed into the abyss by his closest relatives.
From beginning to end, Qi Sheng did not ask a single question about Qi Feng.
How could Qi Sheng not care about his brother's life or death? He was his only remaining blood relative in the world, the one he looked up to throughout his youth.
But it is this heavy family affection that has become the sharpest blade at this moment.
The hope of survival for his most respected brother was actually exchanged for the life of his most beloved person.
On the cruel scale of love and family affection, Qi Sheng was not even given the opportunity to choose.
Bai Chuan, Zhai Mo, and those who hid behind the scenes had already made the decision for him, and didn't even reveal anything to him throughout the process.
They used his love for Yu Li as a cover, and hijacked his responsibility to his brother as a bargaining chip for acquiescence.
Qi Sheng answered with his actions.
He chose to go back first to stabilize the Saar Federation, whose military morale was low due to the sudden outbreak. That was his responsibility as a leader.
His choice to desperately search for Yu Li was the only thing he could do as a lover to make amends.
As for the "living" brother...
Qi Sheng couldn't face it at this moment, nor did he dare to touch it.
Every bit of concern for Qi Feng would turn into deeper guilt towards Yu Li.
What had the little mermaid done wrong? If she hadn't known him, why would she be so obsessed with him?
If he had known the outcome would be like this, he would never have provoked the little mermaid in the first place.
There is no distinction between high and low in life; every existence carries the unique mark of the universe.
When someone deprives another person of their life in the name of the "overall situation", what he takes away is not only the heartbeat and breath, but also the most basic fairness and justice in the world.
Qi Feng's survival is beneficial to the Saar Federation.
Yu Li’s survival has nothing to do with the Saar Federation.
But so what!
Does the value of a life have to be measured by its "usefulness" to the country?
None of us is God, and we have no right to decide whose sunrise should end early under the banner of "necessary sacrifice."
On the scale of life, a general and a mermaid have the same weight!
…
Qi Sheng returned to the Saar Federation front-line camp as quickly as possible.
But when he got there, what he saw was even more miserable than he had imagined.
The camp was filled with a pungent smell of rotting flesh and disinfectant, and the makeshift isolation area was filled with soldiers groaning in pain.
Horrible festering was spreading on their exposed wounds. On some people's arms or legs, one could even see the white bones, and the muscle tissue was corroded to the point where it was almost unrecognizable.
The military doctors were helpless. Ordinary antibiotics and debridement methods were completely ineffective and the ulceration continued.
"What on earth is the reason?!"
Qi Sheng suppressed his anger and grief and asked the military doctor.
"Major General," the military doctor said solemnly, "We extracted a sample of the ulcerated tissue for analysis and discovered that it contains a highly corrosive and biologically active element. It doesn't resemble any known biological toxin..."
The doctor spoke hesitantly.
Qi Sheng: "Just tell me what you found."
After a moment's hesitation, the doctor said, "We suspect... the problem may be with the weapon."
"……arms?"
"Yes, this element seems to be able to enter the human body through wounds and trigger a terrible chain reaction. We recommend an immediate investigation into the source of the raw materials and production channels of these weapons!"
Afterwards, Qi Sheng immediately ordered a thorough inspection of the armory.
A few hours later, the weapon's test report came out.
The core metal raw materials of this batch of weapons, which were used in large quantities in battle, were all imported from the Xisana Empire.
The cold words on the report were like a sharp knife, piercing Qi Sheng's heart.
Sisana...
Yu Li, the king.
Is this a coincidence, or...
Is there a deeper, darker connection behind all this?
Yu Li’s disappearance…
The strange epidemic on the front line...
And Qi Feng's matter...
These seemingly unrelated lines seem to be pointing in the same direction.
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