Chapter 268 Cooperation
"What's wrong with you?" Zhuang Mingxu stepped forward and tried to steady himself.
Dean couldn't utter a word.
Zhuang Mingxu grabbed the bedside bell that looked like a button on the bedside and pressed a few numbers. Zhuang Mobai's voice came from the other end. He asked, "What's wrong with him?"
"It's nothing, the soothing injection is just painful." Zhuang Mobai's light tone made Zhuang Mingxu clench his teeth instantly.
Zhuang Mobai in the donor room looked at the rage bursting from Antonio's eyes and amplified his voice. Dean's faint moan came clearly into his ears. Antonio immediately struggled and let out a hissing roar from his throat.
Zhuang Mobai stared at the value of the machine next to him, smiling, and continued, "Mingxu, wasn't it you who chose the soothing injection for him to be injected?"
After seeing the data refresh successfully, Zhuang Mobai adjusted the value of the connecting pipe upwards.
Looking at the intercom that Zhuang Mingxu hung up, Zhuang Mobai said as if he had discovered something rare, "Love is such a good thing."
After a few minutes of pain, Dean felt as if a lifetime had passed. He no longer had the physical or mental energy to think about whether Zhuang Mingxu was the one who betrayed them. Not long after the pain subsided, Dean fell into a deep sleep.
Zhuang Mingxu sat on the bed, his palms full of nail marks from being pinched by him, blood dripping from his clenched fists, and a slight fishy smell filled the air.
After waiting until Dean's breathing became steady, Zhuang Mingxu carefully put him into bed and went out for a walk again.
**
At noon, Lu Weiyi was continuously absorbing crystal cores in the space, like a ruthless core-absorbing machine.
**The few people whose drug effects had worn off were having their various values recorded by the researchers around them, and their blood was drawn from time to time.
Zhuang Mingxu ate the meat and vegetable dishes in front of him with a tasteless taste.
And Xu Yi...
His hair was covered in dirt, and he was wearing a ragged and sagging piece of clothing. His clean backpack was replaced by a black, unknown rag bag. The Zhuang Aiyi in his hand had also changed from a little prince to a little beggar, still wearing a flowery dress with a circle of green plants wrapped around his wrist.
"Uncle Xu, where are we going?" Zhuang Aiyi asked in a low voice, looking at the dirty environment around him.
"Find a place to hide." Xu Yi spent a long time avoiding the villa patrol and leaving the area. When he came out, he met someone who said that the banker was looking for the escaped murderer.
Fortunately, in order to conceal their tracks, they did not post the photos, and only a few people who knew the inside story were looking for them.
Xu Yi made herself dirty, and changed the gender of Zhuang Aiyi who was wearing a floral dress, and walked along the dirty area towards the city gate.
"I'm hungry," Zhuang Aiyi said softly, "Can we go find my dads?"
Xu Yi looked around and took him to an inconspicuous corner. He took out a can of eight-treasure porridge from his bag, opened it and handed it to Zhuang Aiyi, using his body to block it for him. "Your fathers have been caught by the bad guys. We have to wait until your...uncle comes back, and then we will go find him to save your father."
"There are bad guys trying to catch us now, you have to behave yourself, okay?"
Besides Zhuang Mingxu and a few other people, Zhuang Aiyi has only been around a few researchers from the research institute since she was a child. She has never left with anyone. After the end of the world, she was protected by a group of men in her family. She was scared at this moment, and she gently pulled the corner of Xu Yi's clothes and whispered, "Aiyi will be good, Uncle Xu, don't leave me."
Xu Yi turned around and touched Zhuang Aiyi's deliberately dirty hair, wiped the dirty sweat from his forehead, and cursed himself for being nosy countless times in his heart. He pointed at the green bracelet on Zhuang Aiyi's wrist and asked, "Are you sure this is a mutant plant?"
No one knew when this thing came into Zhuang Aiyi's hands. When he took Zhuang Aiyi away, there was nothing in his hand. When he looked again in the morning, he found that there was this thing in his hand.
Xu Yi wanted to throw it away, but Zhuang Aiyi wouldn't let him, insisting that it was his little friend's.
"This is Teng Teng, uncle's." Zhuang Aiyi didn't know what a mutant plant was.
Who knows who this uncle is.
Xu Yi sighed, hoping there wouldn't be any twists and turns.
**
Not long after the meal, Zhuang Mobai came to find Zhuang Mingxu with an excited look on his face.
He has already obtained the test results of all the members of the only team, as well as the predicted physical endurance. "This is amazing. The physical endurance of the A-level psychics in your team is more than twice that of the rest of the people at the same level. How did they upgrade?"
Zhuang Mingxu shook his head, "What does this mean?".
"From a scientific point of view, the upgrade of a mutant is the capacity of the body to promote evolutionary energy. The higher the level, the more energy. However, most mutants use zombie crystal cores to improve their abilities. The zombie energy in the body will accumulate. The two energies exist relatively. The higher the zombie energy content, the less evolutionary energy it absorbs."
"This is also the reason why the higher the level, the lower the absorption rate of low-level crystal cores. It's just that they can absorb less. I have studied psychics of all levels and found that the higher their level, the higher the zombie energy content in their bodies. But your team is different. Their content is very low, almost equivalent to that of psychics in the late primary stage."
"Their absorption rate for crystal cores is also very high." Zhuang Mobai walked around the small room with abnormal excitement. "When the zombie energy in the body of a mutant accumulates to a certain level, it will cause an explosion and death. If we can figure out the reason..."
Then he can control a lot of forces.
Zhuang Mobai looked at Zhuang Mingxu with burning eyes, "Mingxu, does the team have any special upgrade methods? How do you usually absorb crystal cores?"
It seems that this is the effect of Lu Weiyi's purification of the crystal core.
Zhuang Mingxu knew it clearly in his mind, pretended to be in deep thought, shook his head after a moment, and said, "Take it in your hand and absorb it. As you upgrade, you will naturally upgrade by continuously absorbing crystal cores."
Zhuang Mobai frowned, and then he heard Zhuang Mingxu continue, "They will have the assistance of plant crystal cores when they upgrade. Does this have anything to do with it?"
"Where did you get so many plant crystal cores?" Three were exchanged at the capital base alone.
"From Qingyuan to Kyoto, we had to take a detour all the way, and we traveled at least 5,000 kilometers. All the mutated plants we encountered along the way were cleared out." Zhuang Mingxu leaned back in his chair, holding his head and looking at the ceiling.
"It's possible," Zhuang Mobai thought about it seriously, "I'll go back and study it again, who is holding your supplies? Is it Lu Weiyi?" No traces of other storage spaces were found on the bodies of several people, so it could only be Lu Weiyi who was not caught.
Zhuang Mingxu did not answer.
Zhuang Mobai's excitement subsided and he regained his elegant demeanor, "Mingxu, haven't you thought it through? It's impossible for your family to let a few people go now. It's a fact that they have become donors. If it's not you, it could be someone else."
"Do you really want to watch Lu Weiyi go away? He is now unclear with Li Zhuang, and more people will appear in the future. If the two of them are together, you will stay where you are, and he will fly higher and higher. Can you really keep him?"
"Xiao Yi he..." Zhuang Mingxu bent down and hugged his head, struggling, "He is not that kind of person."
"Look, even you are not sure." Zhuang Mobai squatted in front of him, gentle as a spring breeze, "When he followed you, he had not seen the world. There was only this world you gave him. Now he has his own friends and partners and has seen the colorful world. How could he go back?"
"You can't control him now, you can't trap him, no matter what choice he makes, you have to bear it. If he really breaks up with you and leaves you...
“…No.”
"Yes, look." Zhuang Mobai took out his phone and replayed the video. In the video, Zhuang Aiyi was giggling, accompanied by Li Zhuang and Lu Weiyi, just like a close family. "There will always be someone who will take away your lover, your children, and everything you once had..."
"No!" Zhuang Mingxu threw Zhuang Mobai's phone and shouted angrily.
"Mingxu, face the reality!" Zhuang Mobai looked at Zhuang Mingxu who was like a trapped beast, "When you have superpowers, all this will not happen. You are not qualified now!"
"Think about it again, do you want to have the surgery?" Zhuang Mobai said and walked out.
When I reached the door, I heard Zhuang Mingxu's weak compromise, "I'll do it."
Zhuang Mobai curled his lips and said, "I'll arrange for someone to check you up."
In the afternoon, Zhuang Mingxu went for receptor testing.
Not long after, Zhuang Mobai came to his room personally with the test results and told him that the most suitable donor was Antonio.
Dean, who had just woken up, still had wet eyes from crying in his dream. His gaze moved back and forth between the two of them like a frightened rabbit.
"Metal-type mutant, with your physique, you will definitely become a very powerful mutant after awakening." Zhuang Mobai looked at the test sheet with paranoia in his eyes.
Zhuang Mingxu seemed to understand his purpose a little bit, he was trying to sow discord.
But he couldn't understand why. In the current situation, his teammates were captured by their dealer's laboratory. Whether he instigated it or not, their trust was problematic.
There is absolutely no need to do this.
Unable to figure out the matter, Zhuang Mingxu stopped thinking about it.
After explaining a series of test results, Zhuang Mobai quietly pressed the instrument in his pocket and said, "I have begun to adjust the body of Subject 356. When he reaches the most suitable state, you can perform the operation. By then, you will become a metal-type mutant."
After accepting it with an “OK”, Zhuang Mingxu had a desperate madness in him. He curled his lips and had a dangerous look in his eyes, “Metal-type supernatural power.”
"I can't wait to feel what it's like to have super powers."
Zhuang Mobai patted his shoulder and looked at Dean who had recovered a lot on the bed, "Let him treat you as soon as possible. We don't have a treatment department at home."
This means that Dean is not in danger of getting sick for the time being, but he may be injected with some random things to increase his superpower level.
As for when you are promoted, there may be another donor.
"I want to go see my donor." Zhuang Mingxu looked at Zhuang Mobai.
He had seen the first floor of the basement before, and he had also explored the second floor. His previous examinations were done on the fourth floor, which was filled with various instrument rooms and operating rooms.
Zhuang Mingxu wanted to get as much information as possible.
"Now? They are still doing the first phase of debugging? There's nothing to see," said Zhuang Mobai.
"Of course there is something to see, a high and mighty man falling into a deep valley." Zhuang Mingxu lowered his head slightly, cracked his lips and revealed a smile, but the evil in his eyes made people tremble with fear. He said lightly, "It's very good to see."
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