Chapter 434 Reason
"Since the Sparks have failed to teach them a lesson, we should use their blood and lives to completely extinguish their thoughts and make them engrave fear and dread into their bones!"
"What about other bases? Someone offered to exchange a crystal core for a life," Li Qing asked.
"Heh, does our base seem to be short of crystal cores?" Zhuang Mingxu stood up and opened the window, letting in the cold wind and the sound of crying from Bei Dao.
He looked at the gray sky and said softly after a while, "Human life must be repaid with human life."
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On the day when the psychics in the city center rushed back, a base-wide meeting was held. All the psychics who participated in the rebellion and were still alive were escorted to the square, and their corresponding family members were also counted.
In the center of the renovated square were all the people who had died, including those who had become zombies, whose bodies were preserved and densely packed. The cries and curses of the surrounding family members resounded throughout the square.
The base troops escorted the rebellious mutants who were divided into teams, and someone walked past them reading the names of their family members.
Men, women, old people and children, they may have come with high expectations, but now they leave penniless. Some of them cursed and scolded their escorted family members, some were full of disappointment, and some just cried silently.
In sub-zero temperatures, everyone knows what leaving means.
Unfortunately, in front of thousands of corpses and a group of people crying while holding the corpses, no one pleaded for them.
In the solemn and sad atmosphere, a child who was a few years old asked innocently when passing by his father, "Dad, will I die?"
The man whose half face was burned by the artillery fire stammered but didn't utter a word. The child was held by his mother's hand and numbly followed the team away. When he looked back, there was confusion in his eyes.
"I was wrong--" the man suddenly knelt on the ground, crying, "I'm sorry, I was wrong, I shouldn't have been misled, please, please let them go, Jing'er is only four years old, he doesn't know anything."
Once one person took the lead, many people around him knelt down and begged for mercy.
"Please, Base Commander, let them go. They are just ordinary people and can't stand the weather outside."
"Without food or clothes, they will die if they go out. They can't survive outside."
"I will die, I will die by myself, I will atone for my sins, and give them a chance to live."
"I am responsible for my own actions, and it has nothing to do with anyone else. If you want to kill me, please kill me and let them go."
The sound of "dong dong dong" kowtows was endless. They were not asking for survival for themselves, but for their families.
The crowd who were leaving looked over with tears in their eyes, with expectation.
"Base commander, there are more than 15,000 people, otherwise..." The scene was too tragic, and some people couldn't help but plead for mercy.
"I have not lost any family members," Zhuang Mingxu's voice sounded through the loudspeaker, "You don't have to plead with me. The 7,294 people in front of you are the families of the victims. If you want to plead, go to them."
“As long as someone forgives you, your relatives can stay.”
If the pain is not felt by yourself, no one will feel it. If the person who dies is not your family member, you can still stand up and be a good person.
None of the more than 7,000 people uttered the words of forgiveness. This was a peaceful pure land. They had finally found a shelter after struggling in the last days. However, due to human greed and dissatisfaction, they were separated by life and death. How could they possibly forgive the executioner?
The team of more than 10,000 people traveled a long distance, and the base only collected half of the supplies. Even so, only a few could survive in this weather.
The last person stepping out of the base gate also means that Yueban Bay will forever keep them out.
As the heavy door closed, deafening gunshots rang out in the square.
A mass funeral and a population reduction of more than 20,000 people marked the beginning of the fourth year of the apocalypse at the Yuebanwan base.
Just two days after the funeral, Xu Yi and Dean both received their new tasks.
"Reshape the body?" Xu Yi had experienced the repair of skin, muscles, bones and body parts. Although he had comforted himself countless times that he would just get used to it, he still wanted to slap Lu Weiyi when he heard his request.
"Do you think too highly of me? I'm just an ordinary psychic, not a god..."
Lu Weiyi looked at him silently. Xu Yi's voice became smaller and smaller until it was muted. He quietly pushed Dean, hoping that he would say something.
Who knew that Dean looked between the two people and responded decisively, "Okay, I'll try my best."
Xu Yi felt as if he heard the sound of being slapped in the face.
Lu Weiyi nodded with satisfaction and led the two into the laboratory under the villa, where Li Wenliang was already waiting for them.
"This is your teacher. The third floor is your experimental subject. What you need to do is to reshape local parts of the human body, similar to the regeneration of severed limbs or the creation of eyeballs..."
Lu Weiyi calmly gave the order, not caring whether it could be done or not. Xu Yi couldn't help but whispered to Dean beside him, "Why didn't you refuse?"
"If I reject him, David will be tortured." Dean looked at him helplessly, covering his chest and said, "I am a man with weaknesses. Alas, this damn love."
Xu Yi had a numb look on his face as he followed all the way to the third underground floor, only to discover that this floor was filled with living people, and they were all obviously people with special abilities, with familiar-looking collars around their necks.
He grabbed Lu Weiyi and asked in surprise, "You...you are doing human experiments?"
"...These are the previous rebels, specially left behind for you to practice with." Lu Weiyi's tone was flat, without any sign of anything unusual. "The sooner you learn, the less they will suffer."
Keep walking forward and you will reach a specimen room at the end. Bottles of different sizes contain various human tissues. Some have even been sliced, so you can clearly see every blood thread and texture.
The smell of formalin floated in the air. Dean looked around and said, "There wasn't this before, was there?"
"Specially made for you," Lu Weiyi said, and then he took out a plan from the space in a very formal manner, "This is the effect you want to achieve. You can only go back after completing one."
"I'm going to live here?" Dean was shocked.
"Come on!" Lu Weiyi patted his shoulder and prepared to leave.
"Can David come with us?" Dean pouted and acted coquettishly. Xu Yi wanted to agree but couldn't make such an expression. She pursed her lips, nodded and said "hmm" to express her opinion.
"Sure," Lu Weiyi was very easy to talk to. He turned around and added with a smile, "Exchange it with your completed project."
"Oh, you devil who stops love." Dean's roar could be heard throughout the corridor, but it did not affect Lu Weiyi's departure at all. He even waved to them with his back to them.
As soon as the man with brisk steps left the laboratory, his backbone seemed to be pressed down, his whole body collapsed, and his expression became dazed.
Zhuang Mingxu came back with the newly obtained interrogation results, and what he saw was Lu Weiyi sitting in the pavilion in the cold wind, "What's wrong?"
Lu Weiyi looked up at him without answering, pinching his fingers with his red, frozen fingers.
Zhuang Mingxu thought about today's arrangements and reached out to hold his cold hand. "Have you arranged for them to go down?"
Lu Weiyi nodded, and after a long while said, "Xu Yi asked me if I was doing human experiments."
Zhuang Mingxu knew what he was thinking after a moment's thought, "It was I who gave the order to leave the prisoners behind."
"I also agreed." Otherwise no one would refute Lu Weiyi's decision. Even if he was not the mastermind, he was an accomplice.
"When I first learned that Zhuang Mobai had captured people for human experiments, I was extremely angry. I felt that he... was too inhumane and would always get his comeuppance. I never expected..." Now I have become like this.
This inexplicably reminded him of a saying, "The boy who slays a dragon will eventually become a dragon."
He seemed to be getting further and further away from the person he hoped to be when he was reborn.
"They are all invaders, or oppressors, we are just making the best use of them..." Zhuang Mingxu's words of comforting him stopped when he saw Lu Weiyi's all-seeing eyes.
These are just high-sounding excuses. No one can decide the fate of others. The essence of what they are doing now is not much different from Zhuang Mobai.
Oh, yes, there is a difference.
Zhuang Mobai is a madman who arrests people at will, and they occupy the moral high ground.
"Are you going to let them go? Or kill them directly?" Zhuang Mingxu stared at Lu Weiyi.
Lu Weiyi shook his head and said, "I know this step is inevitable. If Xu Yi and Dean want to develop their abilities to a greater extent, they must practice on human bodies. Compared to our own people, they are the best choice."
Zhuang Mingxu breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately he was still rational.
"It's impossible for a person to be worthy of everyone in his lifetime. It's already very difficult to be able to have a clear conscience towards most people." Zhuang Mingxu lowered his head and kissed the depressed child, then changed the subject. "I was just about to tell you something. Let's stop sheltering residents in the spring."
"I have kept a few of the previous betrayers who I thought were suspicious and have been interrogating them. I just got some new information recently." Zhuang Mingxu showed Lu Weiyi the interrogation information submitted today.
The name written on the first page of the ordinary white paper was Li Feng.
"The one from the Ping An team?" Lu Weiyi still remembered that man, an ordinary person who had always been the vice-captain of a large team. Even when the captain was away, he had such great power that he could decide all matters of the team.
"Yes, I thought it was a bit strange that he betrayed me at that time," Zhuang Mingxu explained, "According to Du Ping, the two of them have been friends since childhood. The key is that Li Feng and Feng Chengjun did not have a good relationship before, and it was said that they had irreconcilable conflicts. This is why he never suspected that the two of them were in collusion."
"Du Ping said that at the beginning of the year, they were obviously at loggerheads, and Li Feng defended him unconditionally, but it seemed that things changed suddenly."
"I actually find it strange too. If our base has something that could attract the covetousness of people with special abilities, that would be fine, but as an ordinary person, there is really no need for him to do these things. I'll have him detained for further interrogation."
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