Chapter 106 Spring Beast Tide - 8 There's something in the observation room...
There were many people in the observation room, including Guo Wen, the orc general from the Eastern Federation, and researchers in white coats. Tang Bufan also saw Dr. Jiang. They were all staring straight at him.
Tang Bufan sighed softly, knowing that some things could no longer be kept secret.
A hand reached out from the side, and Lu Yi gently grasped it. The two looked at each other. The young orc's gaze was gentle, and the warmth emanating from his palm was also comforting. Tang Bufan's heart fluttered as he looked at the handsome man.
Don't be afraid, I'm here.
Tang Bufan felt relieved.
A researcher adjusted his glasses and spoke first: "Mrs. Tang, can you explain why the mutated poisonous people call you 'mother'?"
Tang Bufan looked at him calmly: "I don't know."
Tang Bufan genuinely didn't know, so his answer was perfectly justified. The researcher frowned, his tone becoming much sterner: "Madam Tang! The Eastern Federation suffered over 6,700 deaths in this attack! Many of the mutated poisoners were shouting 'mother' while killing! They're looking for you! And you just casually say you don't know..."
“Xiao Li!” An elderly researcher interrupted him sternly, then nervously apologized to Tang Bufan: “I’m sorry, Madam Tang, Xiao Li got agitated. His father died in the attack. Please forgive him.”
Tang Bufan lowered his eyes and bit his lip, feeling distressed. In the past few days, he had helped clean up the garden and had seen many corpses. When their families came to take back the bodies, they cried so hard they almost fainted. Tang Bufan could understand the researcher's anger.
Across the glass, the bat-winged poisoner was still banging on the glass, calling Tang Bufan "mother," and the observation room fell into a brief silence.
“My fiancée has no memory of the past. She passed the lie detector test during the previous interrogation, so you know I’m not lying.” Lu Yi slowly began, drawing everyone’s attention to himself and relieving Tang Bufan of the pressure: “He really doesn’t know why the mutated poisoner called him that.”
“We suspect that Madam Tang comes from that ‘Holy Island,’ which is the Rebooter’s base.” Pei Zhishu spoke in a deep voice. He knew Tang Bufan’s background, but he pretended to be impeccable. His gaze towards Tang Bufan was indifferent. “We captured a mutated poisoner in the outer city who is suspected to be the commander. It is a poisoner that looks like a boy. It claims to be the Holy Son and has come to find the ‘mother’ that we captured.”
Tang Bufan regained his composure and quickly asked, "Where is he?"
“It’s dead.” A researcher sighed. “It was implanted with a gene that made it terrified of orcs, and it died of a seizure just two hours after being captured by our people.”
Tang Bufan frowned, but after listening to so much, he had some ideas in mind.
Holy Son, Holy Island, Father, Mother...
Tang Bufan suddenly understood and said, "Religion!"
“Yes, religion.” Pei Zhishu’s eyes revealed appreciation: “In many religions, ‘father’ can refer to a priest in addition to the father, and ‘mother’ can refer to the Virgin Mary or a nun in the same way.”
The observation room erupted in discussion, and then a researcher suddenly spoke up: "Although the mutated poison people have regained their senses, their intelligence is not high and their thinking is simple. Religion has a huge cohesive force and is a very good way to control them!"
Religion can provide spiritual sustenance and win people's hearts. It is indeed a very clever means to use it on mutated poison people, and Zero is indeed a "savior" to them.
After this point was clarified, everyone gradually got a clue, but their gazes toward Tang Bufan remained strange.
"Could Mrs. Tang be the godmother?" a researcher suddenly guessed. "Your wanted poster says you are a teacher."
His guess was interesting, but Tang Bufan knew he wasn't.
Looking at the thin, poisonous man clinging to him through the glass, his eyes brimming with tears, and then thinking of the corpses lying on the filthy ground, Tang Bufan tightened his grip on Lu Yi's hand, then sighed softly and spoke.
"Maybe...it has something to do with my genes."
The observation room fell silent instantly. Tang Bufan calmly looked at Dr. Jiang and raised his hand: "This time, I allow you to take my blood."
Aside from his own genes, Tang Bufan couldn't think of any other reason why Zero was so fixated on him. The savior serum was a common trope in science fiction films, although Tang Bufan didn't understand how Zero had chosen him, given the huge population of the 21st century.
It can't be a randomly dug time portal; if it were random, I'd be incredibly unlucky.
The observation room erupted in commotion again. Tang Bufan was then taken to a professional laboratory. Humans are naturally afraid of lying on the operating table and becoming someone else's experimental subject, and Tang Bufan was no exception. However, he knew that if he didn't confess this time, Pei Zhishu would expose him anyway.
Dr. Jiang is Pei Zhishu's man, but he is not a researcher. He couldn't possibly be in the observation room just to watch the show, could he?
"Don't worry." Sure enough, when Dr. Jiang was examining Tang Bufan, she whispered to him, "Although you can't hide your ancient human genes anymore, you can continue to hide your identity as a time traveler."
Tang Bufan lay down in a glass capsule, while a group of people stood outside the medical room, watching him through the glass. He had become the monkey being observed.
Fortunately, Lu Yi was also outside, which reassured Tang Bufan somewhat.
As blood was drawn and his body underwent various scans, Tang Bufan's identity as a human from 1200 years ago was revealed, causing an uproar among the higher education institutions of the Eastern Federation.
Guo Wen was not surprised when he learned about it. He only ordered the higher-ups to keep it a secret. In order not to expose Pei Zhishu, Tang Bufan continued to pretend to have amnesia. He left the other explanations to Dr. Jiang and Pei Zhishu.
By the time he came out of the lab, it was already evening. If it weren't for Lu Yi, Tang Bufan knew he would never have been able to leave that building.
The two slowly returned to the RV. Lu Yi squatted down to take off Tang Bufan's shoes, and then tenderly reached out to stroke the hair on Tang Bufan's forehead.
Are you tired?
Watching Tang Bufan being made to take off his clothes and put on a white lab coat like a doll, undergoing various scans, and being groped by several researchers and doctors, Lu Yi clenched his fists outside.
Tang Bufan smiled bitterly: "It's alright, at least I wasn't dissected."
Lu Yi felt a pang of sadness in her heart: "I'm sorry, I didn't protect you well."
He had protested, arguing that a blood test was sufficient and refusing to allow Tang Bufan to undergo any further tests, but Tang Bufan chose to cooperate.
"Silly boy, you've protected me so much." Tang Bufan touched his face with a mix of emotions. "I also want to figure out if it's because of my genes."
Tang Bufan is a human from the 21st century. At that time, the Earth's environment had not yet been polluted, and genetically modified foods and drugs had not yet become widespread. However, by the end of the 21st century, due to Japan's continuous discharge of nuclear wastewater, nuclear pollution had already begun to take shape.
Later, the Third Great War broke out, the underground city was established, and humanity officially branched out. One branch of humanity entered the underground city, while the other branch remained on the surface and degenerated into poison people. The two branches split for 1100 years, so Tang Bufan's genes are closer to those of the poison people than those of present-day humans.
He is the ancestor of both evolutionary lines.
Later, a third branch emerged: the Orc line, which is also the most chaotic evolutionary line.
"Are there no ancient humans left in the underground city?" Tang Bufan couldn't help but ask Lu Yi curiously while eating. "The 21st century already has cryopreservation technology."
“There are such institutions that charge money to freeze your body.” Lu Yi sat with him by the window, practicing picking up meat with chopsticks. “But as soon as the war broke out, the owners of those institutions ran away with the money. Those who paid millions of dollars hoping to wake up in the future ended up rotting in the cryogenic tanks. Only a very small number of scientists and politicians who made great contributions to humanity and were preserved by the state were transferred to the underground city.”
After Lu Yi finished speaking, he told Tang Bufan, "Several people have been thawed and regained consciousness, but they have all passed away. There are very few ancient humans left in the various underground cities, but there are still gene banks."
When he first noticed that Tang Bufan was acting strangely, he suspected that he was a thawed person, never expecting that it would be an even more sci-fi time travel.
Tang Bufan frowned after hearing this, slowly stirring the broth with his spoon: "Then my genes shouldn't be special."
The Rebooters possess technology even more advanced than the dungeons, so it's impossible that they don't have other ancient humans at their disposal. Did Zero really bring him here for his genes?
“Maybe your genes are healthier,” Lu Yi guessed. “You’re an early 21st-century human; those still in cryogenic chambers are all from later stages.”
Tang Bufan couldn't figure it out and could only wait for Dr. Jiang's results.
After finishing their meal, the two embraced and fell asleep in bed. Perhaps it was because of their time in and out of the lab that day, but Tang Bufan felt a pang of longing as he felt Lu Yi's gentle embrace.
We had sex.
Lu Yi's hand reached inside Tang Bufan's clothes and rested on his chest as usual. Tang Bufan's hand reached down to Lu Yi's lower body and squeezed it. Lu Yi trembled violently.
Tang Bufan smiled faintly and withdrew his hand, leaving Lu Yi alone in the darkness, her face flushed and bewildered.
I have to go to the lab tomorrow.
The next day, Wan Bing approached the two early in the morning. Instead of knocking on the car door, he squatted down at the door of the RV and waited until the two woke up before getting into the RV.
His fractured hand was splinted and bandaged around his neck; he had come to say goodbye to the two of them.
“The beast tide is about to pass, and I want to go back to Beishan Town to take a look.” Wan Bing was particularly worried about his hometown this year: “I heard that many villages and towns in the surrounding area have also been attacked by poisonous people. I asked the steward and found out that a support force will pass through Beishan Town and will set off tomorrow. I plan to go back with that team.”
Telephones were not yet common in Taicheng, and communication with people outside was extremely difficult, causing both Wan Bing and Wan Yiming great anxiety.
Tang Bufan looked at the sky. The clouds were still thick, but there were very few birds. He no longer needed to carry an umbrella, so he nodded.
"Then be careful on your journey. We'll take good care of Yiming if he happens to be in danger."
Lu Yi thought for a moment and said to him, "I will ask Mr. Pei to give your Wan family a place to live in Taicheng."
Many people want to move into Taicheng, but the quota is limited. So many people died in the outer city this year, leaving many houses empty. It would only take a word for Pei Zhishu to keep one.
Wan Bing was extremely grateful. As long as they moved into Taicheng, they would have access to water and electricity, and they wouldn't have to hide in the dark cellars during the annual beast tides.
"Thank you, thank you!" Wan Bing immediately went back to Qingzhu Xiaoxuan to pack his things, and also told Wan Yiming to continue to follow the two of them well and strive to become a captain in Taicheng in the future.
Tang Bufan watched him leave. The middle-aged man had a broken arm, but his steps were light, which made Tang Bufan feel a little sad. Men who work hard for their families have it tough.
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