Chapter 179 Humans are like indestructible cockroaches
Zhong Yousheng's fever subsided around two in the afternoon, and he woke up around three.
Her whole body was soaked with sweat. She reflexively kicked off the quilt that was tightly wrapped around her, and then was curled into the quilt again by a pair of hands that appeared from nowhere.
Looking to the side, Xin Le's face appeared in her sight. She was so scared that she screamed and sat up wrapped in the quilt.
"Le Le, why are you here!" Xin Le's ears turned red because of Zhong Yousheng's reaction, but his expression was very serious.
Hearing Zhong Yousheng's question, he said helplessly: "You had a fever. Sister Hongling and the others almost sent you to the hospital. Fortunately, your temperature started to drop in the afternoon, otherwise..."
Xin Le wanted to say something but stopped himself. Zhong Yousheng also realized something and quickly took out his cell phone from under the pillow to check it.
Seeing nearly twenty missed calls and more than a dozen unread text messages, Zhong Yousheng swallowed and asked tentatively, "Did you see all of that?"
Xin Le had already put the cell phone back under his pillow. Facing Zhong Yousheng's temptation, Xin Le did not pretend to know nothing, but nodded instead.
After getting the exact answer, Zhong Yousheng took a deep breath, then pressed his Taiyangxue, which was still a little swollen and painful, with a headache.
After a while, she said, "I'll get up and wash up first. How about I come to your dormitory to see you later?"
Her whole body was sticky and her face was shiny and oily after sleeping so long, but Zhong Yousheng didn't mind her image collapsing. She was now thinking about how to explain her identity to Xin Le.
Hearing Zhong Yousheng's words, Xin Le nodded and said, "I'll be back in twenty minutes. Sister Lin and the others have made some porridge. You can have some to fill your stomach."
He stood up and walked towards the door. Before opening it, he said, "Don't worry, I'm the only one who knows about this. I haven't told anyone else."
After saying that, he left Zhong Yousheng's dormitory without looking back, leaving Zhong Yousheng sitting there blankly, staring at his mobile phone screen.
Twenty minutes later, Xin Le returned to Zhong Yousheng's dormitory with a bowl of century egg and lean meat porridge. Everyone wanted to go and see Zhong Yousheng, but Xin Le said that he was still a little unwell, so he rejected the visit request on behalf of Zhong Yousheng.
After knowing that Zhong Yousheng's fever had subsided, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. As long as there was no major problem, they could visit their colleague again in the evening.
Although Zhong Yousheng was awake at this moment, since Xin Le didn't want them to see him, he must want to spend some pleasant time together, so they would not disturb him too much.
Zhong Yousheng had no appetite the night before, and he hadn't eaten for almost a day. When he smelled the porridge in Xin Le's hand, his stomach started to growl.
Xin Le put the century egg and lean meat porridge on the small table, and sat aside to watch Zhong Yousheng eat.
During these twenty minutes, the other person took a shower, changed into new clothes, and blew his hair half dry. He indeed looked much fresher than his sickly appearance just now.
Seeing Zhong Yousheng drink a full bowl of porridge to restore his appetite, Xin Le breathed a sigh of relief and sent a message in the faculty and staff group that Zhong Yousheng had finished the porridge.
Lian Jiang Rangzhidu appeared and asked Xin Le to take good care of Zhong Yousheng.
Xin Le replied with an “OK” expression.
After eating and drinking, Zhong Yousheng finally chose to face reality. She turned to Xin Le with a nervous look on her face and said awkwardly, "Can you help keep this a secret for a while longer?"
Once the human identity is exposed, it will be disadvantageous to both orcs and humans. On the one hand, humans cannot protect themselves in the orc society, and on the other hand, the orcs will not welcome human invasion.
Now it is the best outcome for humans to conceal their identities and live in the orc society, with both sides not interfering with each other.
Xin Le could help keep it a secret, but he had a lot of questions he wanted to ask Zhong Yousheng, so he said, "I have a lot of questions for you."
Zhong Yousheng could certainly understand Xin Le. It was very shocking no matter how you thought about it that a colleague who she had been working with day and night suddenly changed from an ant-man to a human. As long as Xin Le's questions were not excessive, she would answer them.
But she knew what Xin Le would ask, so she took the initiative to speak, "It's true that humans haven't become extinct, but their numbers are now very small. After the Blue Planet became uninhabitable, only about ten thousand elites escaped by spaceship. There were very few habitable planets, and the spaceship finally landed on an asteroid about 600,000 kilometers from the Orc Planet. This asteroid has now been named the Excellent Continent."
Zhong Yousheng was very calm when he spoke, as if he was not talking about human history.
Xin Le also noticed something from Zhong Yousheng's attitude, so he continued to ask, "Since you already have a new place to live, why do you still want to live on the Orc Planet?"
Faced with this question, Zhong Yousheng actually didn't want to answer, but he felt that not answering would seem suspicious, so he sighed.
"Perhaps you don't know, but humans are like indestructible cockroaches. Whether it's their ability to survive or reproduce, they're incredibly strong."
"Those ten thousand elite individuals who escaped were the high-quality genes selected by various nations, born for the purpose of subsequent reproduction and birth of new humans."
Regarding the issue of reproduction, Xin Le could also understand humans. He had heard from Meng Xiangwan, a human gene researcher at the Institute of Genetics, that before the destruction of Blue Planet, there were about 9 billion people living on it, which was a terrifying number.
In the end, only 10,000 people were left out of the 9 billion population, and humanity was indeed on the verge of extinction.
"The people in my village came to live on the Orc planet out of necessity. You just need to know that we have no ill intentions." Zhong Yousheng said nothing more.
Xin Le didn't ask. He certainly knew that Zhong Yousheng and her family and friends had no ill intentions, otherwise the orc society would have been in chaos long ago.
But there are still many doubts, and he is an orc and doesn't know what humans are like, so it's not easy to speculate too much.
"Okay, I can keep the secret for you, but there is one thing I want to ask. Will the humans in your village marry orcs? That's the so-called marriage fraud." This is what Xin Le wants to know most.
He watched Zhong Yousheng's reaction carefully, and saw Zhong Yousheng's eyes suddenly widen, and then he said in horror: "How is it possible!"
"The humans in our village are all married to each other. No one has ever had sex with orcs, let alone married and had children. This is too horrible, okay? What if there is reproductive isolation?"
"Although there are humans like me who escape to work, everyone keeps it a secret and eventually returns to the village to get married and have children. Although it's inconvenient to get a marriage certificate as a human, a wedding banquet still counts as marriage."
As he spoke, Zhong Yousheng shuddered and the look he gave Xin Le became strange.
After a while, she finally seemed to realize that she was a woman and Xin Le was a man, so she immediately hugged her chest and looked at Xin Le in horror, saying, "You are not interested in me, are you? This is not allowed, you understand?"
Xin Le: “…”
He didn't have time to explain that his care for Zhong Yousheng was the same as a younger brother's care for his older sister, nor did he have time to explain that he appeared in this room alone just to keep Zhong Yousheng's human identity a secret.
After hearing Zhong Yousheng's words, he realized that humans seemed to be not as united as orcs.
If Zhong Yousheng and the others had never had any relationship with orcs, then how did orcs like Chi Nian, who possess human genes, appear?
Thinking of this, he suddenly asked, "What do you think of orcs who fail to transform like this every year?"
Although Zhong Yousheng felt baffled, he still covered his chest and answered honestly, "They're very cute. Although orcs look down on orcs who fail to transform, most of the young people in our village really like half-orcs. They're so cute."
"But after knowing the reason for the failed transformation, I still feel sorry for Nian Nian. It turns out that there are irresponsible parents in both human and orc society."
Well, now it is certain that there are indeed quite a few humans appearing in the orc society, and they are unaware of each other's existence.
Xin Le almost fainted. This news had to be told to the people in the institute, even to Zhong Yousheng.
He didn't care about the confidentiality agreement and said directly: "Sister, listen to me."
"Niannian is not a disabled orc. He failed to transform because he has human genes."
"Besides your village, do you know of any other human groups in orc society?"
Zhong Yousheng originally wanted to keep some distance from Xin Le. Not to mention that one of them was a human and the other an orc, she was two years older than Xin Le, and she didn't want to have a relationship with a younger man.
But after hearing Xin Le's words, she was completely confused. What disabled orcs, what human genes, she felt as if she was in a science fiction movie.
After a long while, she murmured and shook her head, "I only know our village, I don't know anything else..."
This news made her dizzy, and she suddenly remembered what she had just said to Xin Le - humans are like cockroaches that can't be killed.
Yes, isn’t it cockroaches? When you find one in the open, there are actually a group of them hiding in the dark.
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