Chapter 20
Gu Qingchen's purification ability naturally cannot be used unlimitedly.
For low to medium pollution with a pollution value below 50, he can purify about 20 to 30 people at a time. Before receiving Su Ci, he had handled less than ten orders, among which Xia Jingming's pollution value was slightly higher.
So theoretically, after helping Su Ci purify himself, he could still fight at least another ten or twenty battles.
However, even when Gu Qingchen's face turned pale and his purification energy was about to run out, it seemed that the pollutants on Su Ci's body had not been completely cleared away...
Gu Qingchen casually turned on the testing equipment.
Looking at the display panel, Su Ci's pollution value dropped from 15 to 10. Feeling the emptiness in his body, he couldn't help but fall into deep confusion and doubt.
Was he seeing things, or was the test device broken?
Gu Qingchen struggled to output, his complexion became worse and worse, and cold sweat appeared on his forehead. However, the situation of No. 1 who was next to Su Ci was completely opposite to his.
The child couldn't help but squint his eyes slightly.
The purifying power continuously came from the breeder's hand holding him, integrated into his body, and removed the pollutants that had already invaded his internal organs bit by bit.
Although this level of purification cannot eradicate the disease, it will at least make him feel more comfortable.
He has lived surrounded by pollutants for many years, enduring the erosion of pollutants day and night. He has long been numb to the pain, so that even a little bit of relief makes him feel extremely happy.
And this kind of happiness was brought to him by the breeder...
After a while, Su Ci saw that Gu Qingchen had been almost drained of energy, so he calmly let go of the child's hand. After he let go of his hand, the pollution value on the display panel went from "10" to "0" in the blink of an eye.
Gu Qingchen was stunned when he saw the changes on the panel.
Did he really see it wrong just now?
He couldn't help but point at the display panel and asked Su Ci: "This number is 0, right?"
Su Ci nodded, his expression looking very innocent, as if he didn't know what was going on. Number One, who had been staying quietly beside him all the time, opened his eyes and looked at Gu Qingchen reluctantly.
The feeling just now was so comfortable...even more comfortable than taking a bath. I really want to do it again.
“…”
Gu Qingchen took a deep breath, withdrew his hand, resisted the urge to rub his eyes, and looked at Su Ci with slightly narrowed eyes.
The pollution value was so low, but it swallowed up so much of his energy. He had never encountered such a situation before... Was it that the testing equipment was faulty, or was the problem with this breeder Su?
However, his purification energy has reached its limit, and he cannot experiment for the time being.
Gu Qingchen could only press the rest button.
After he pressed the button, messages popped up on the communicators of the people waiting for purification in the waiting area. Their numbers did not change, but were automatically postponed to the afternoon.
There was only one purifier, Gu Qingchen, at Base 24. When he rested, there was no one left to purify. The people who received the message did not complain and began to leave in an orderly manner, preparing to come back in the afternoon.
"Come on, I'll take you to see the two cubs."
Gu Qingchen wiped the sweat from his forehead, stood up, and took Su Ci to the exit on the other side of the purification room.
This exit is a certain distance away from the waiting area - after all, people who come for purification carry pollutants and are generally emotionally unstable. This can effectively avoid conflicts between the purifiers and the people in the waiting area.
Those who have completed purification also leave through this door.
Su Ci and No. 1 followed Gu Qingchen to the corridor, but saw that Guan Zhishu, who had just finished the purification, had not left. When she saw them, she took the initiative to greet them.
"Zhishu, is there anything else?" Gu Qingchen took the initiative to greet her.
Guan Zhishu nodded, looked at Su Ci, and said, "I heard that you were injured too?"
"ah?"
Su Ci blinked, but quickly remembered something, hummed, and said, "It's just a little skin broken."
"Can I take a look?" Guan Zhishu asked.
Su Ci hesitated for a moment, but still raised his finger to show her the bloody hole on his fingertip that was punctured by the spider silk. It had now scabbed over and the broken skin had stuck together. It would probably heal automatically tomorrow.
Guan Zhishu stared at the bloody hole. "It looks like it was pierced by a sharp object. Can you tell me how you got hurt?"
Su Ci frowned slightly.
Guan Zhishu explained with a smile: "I'm just asking, don't be nervous."
Su Ci shook his head, indicating that he was not nervous, and then said half-truthfully, "I touched the spider silk and was hurt by it."
Hearing this, Guan Zhishu's smile faded slightly. She looked at Gu Qingchen, and there was a hint of realization in Gu Qingchen's expression.
"No wonder..." Gu Qingchen murmured, and then muttered, "Is it because the wound is too small for the instrument to detect it?"
"Doctor Gu, what's wrong? Have you found anything?" Guan Zhishu noticed that something was wrong with Gu Qingchen and asked hurriedly.
Gu Qingchen glanced at Su Ci and explained to her what had just happened.
"The area attacked by a monster will be more contaminated. Perhaps the wound is too small for the instrument to detect it."
Su Ci stood beside him with Number One, quietly not saying a word, looking extremely well-behaved.
Gu Qingchen continued, "But don't worry, I have already cleansed him and he is healthy now."
Guan Zhishu nodded, then smiled apologetically at Su Ci: "Keeper Su, although the wound is small, you'd better spray it with spray to prevent infection."
As she spoke, she took out a can of medical spray from her waist bag and handed it to Su Ci, "This is for you, as a joining gift."
Watching this scene, Gu Qingchen jokingly said, "Although the action team has a free quota of medical spray every month, it's not for you to use like this."
Guan Zhishu gave him a shy smile, then said goodbye and left neatly.
Gu Qingchen watched Su Ci spray the spray on his fingers, his eyes moving slightly.
Someone must have said something to Guan Zhishu, causing her to harbor suspicions about Su Ci, which led to her interrogation. Now that the misunderstanding has been resolved, she's offering an apology gift...
Gu Qingchen looked at the young man's overly beautiful face and began to waver again. This should be the case, right?
Su Ci could feel the wound on his finger healing quickly. After confirming that the spray was a good thing, he put it into the space button and then looked at Gu Qingchen.
Gu Qingchen came back to his senses and continued to lead him towards the elevator.
On the way, Su Ci thought of something and asked, "Doctor Gu, I didn't see any seeds on the supply exchange list of the logistics department. Do you know where I can get them?"
From last night's conversation, Su Ci felt that Gu Qingchen should be more familiar with this aspect, otherwise he would not know that fertilizer could be exchanged at the Logistics Department.
Gu Qingchen was somewhat speechless, "You haven't given up yet."
"You have to try."
“Tsk.”
Although Gu Qingchen was not optimistic about Su Ci's stubbornness, he also understood that this kind of thing would not turn back until he hit the wall, just like him, who finally thought it through after wasting a lot of points.
He is also a purifier who can purify the soil and water. The points he can get every month are enough for him to squander. However, the flowers and plants he plants are still difficult to survive, not to mention the breeders of this nursery.
However, considering that they shared the same interest, Gu Qingchen was kind enough to give him the strategy guide.
"You can place an order with the logistics procurement team. Within the specified range, points will be charged based on the difficulty and quantity of the purchase." Gu Qingchen said, "But the waiting time is quite long, at least three months."
I was lucky that the transport ship was dispatched right after I placed the order, otherwise it would have taken even longer.
Su Ci took note of it silently and thanked Gu Qingchen.
Gu Qingchen shook his head and said jokingly, "If you can really succeed in planting on Prison Star, then you won't have to worry about not being able to pass the apprenticeship period. Even if you can't stay in the nursery, the research institute will still accept you. That's what we call reaching the sky in one step."
Su Ci did not argue, but just reached out and pressed his hand on the head of the child who finally couldn't help but lose his temper.
Number One glared at Gu Qingchen angrily.
He didn't understand why these people wanted the breeder to leave the nursery?
So, will the keeper really leave? If the keeper is no longer a keeper, will he still feed and clothe him and take care of him as he does now?
The child looked up at Su Ci, but didn't see anything, so he lowered his head again, his drooping eyelashes hiding the anxiety in his eyes.
"The brooding center is pretty good."
Just then, he heard Su Ci speak.
Hope ignited in the child's eyes again. He looked up again, but heard Gu Qingchen sneer: "That's because you just came here and don't have any profound experience yet."
Gu Qingchen stopped in front of a room door, turned around to look at Su Ci, and said, "If you still think the nursery is good after seeing what's going on, then I can only..."
He gave Su Ci a thumbs up.
Then, after the identity verification was passed, the metal door slowly opened, revealing the scene inside—
I saw two cubs, number two and number four, tied tightly to the hospital bed in the corner. In addition to their animal ears and tails, even their faces showed animal features.
Their eyes were red and they were howling in anger. The room was in a mess and the equipment originally placed in it was smashed to pieces - including two expensive medical cabins.
Gu Qingchen stood at the door, looking at the wreckage of the two medical cabins, his face still full of pain.
Yesterday, these two cubs were sent here in a frenzy. Although their injuries were not serious, the medical cabin also has the function of calming emotions and improving the sequelae of frenzy.
So after the medical staff cured the injuries of the two cubs, they continued to let them stay in the medical cabin.
According to the monitoring results, although it is unknown why they fell asleep in the middle of the frenzy, the conditions of the two cubs are very stable, which makes the people in the medical department feel so relieved for the first time.
As a result, something happened today.
When the bloody rain arrived, the two cubs who were originally sleeping in the medical cabin suddenly went crazy—
This was a situation that had never occurred before, so the medical response of the caregivers was not timely, resulting in the mad cubs directly destroying the medical cabin from the inside.
By the time the guards at the medical department arrived, it was already too late.
Although these two medical cabins are not the latest models, they are also very advanced instruments——
Almost 90% of external injuries can be treated, and most internal injuries and common diseases can be quickly cured with the help of these two medical cabins. They are an important support for the Medical Department to ensure the health and lives of the troops stationed at the base.
The entire 24th Base only has five machines, and now two of them have been scrapped at once.
When Gu Qingchen heard the news, he felt his heart bleeding. Now seeing the "remains" he still felt heartbroken. He could only hope that after the impact of this bloody rain was over, the maintenance team would be able to come and rescue.
In addition to the two medical cabins, the equipment in this treatment room was basically destroyed. Even the walls and floors were pitted and had traces of burns.
According to the guards, the two cubs almost broke through the wall, but fortunately they were controlled in time and no disaster occurred.
"At that time, a monster happened to appear near the medical department." Gu Qingchen walked into the treatment room and said as he walked.
"It was probably attracted by the movement of the two cubs. It was originally heading somewhere else, but suddenly turned around and headed towards the medical building. Fortunately, the action team arrived and led the monster away."
There was something wrong with the monster this time. It seemed like it would attack buildings... Gu Qingchen also heard about it after the blood rain stopped. Now he feels scared when he thinks about it.
If the two cubs had broken through the wall and led the monster into the medical building, the consequences would have been disastrous.
Su Ci remembered the explosion they heard on the suspended bus, which seemed to come from the direction of the Medical Purification Department.
It seems that the action team must have put in a lot of effort to lure the monster away.
While Gu Qingchen was speaking, Number Two and Number Four, who were tied to the hospital beds, were still roaring angrily. They stared at Gu Qingchen and Su Ci with hatred in their eyes.
The characteristics of the two children, those of ferocious beasts, became increasingly obvious, especially No. 2. In addition to two furry round ears, his cheeks were covered with brown fur with black and red markings.
His fangs grew longer and sharper, his facial features becoming more like those of a tiger, and his reddish-brown eyes turned into slender vertical pupils under the light.
There was no human emotion in the child's eyes except animality, and his roar was similar to that of a tiger.
It really looks like a little monster, Su Ci thought.
Gu Qingchen looked at the situation of No. 2 and No. 4. The heartache on his face for the medical cabin had disappeared, replaced by solemnity and worry about the two cubs.
"Beast transformation stems from one's own powerful bloodline inheritance."
He said, "But if one cannot maintain rationality during the process of animalization, they will eventually become true beasts, losing all human emotions and remaining only with animal instincts."
By then, we can no longer be called human beings.
The stronger the bloodline, the higher the probability of going berserk during the cub stage.
The cubs that grow up with their parents can easily calm down even if they go berserk because they have the company and guidance of their closest relatives and the assimilation and inheritance of the same bloodline.
However, the cubs in the nursery do not have this condition.
If they are unable to overcome the animal nature in their blood, they will eventually face an even more tragic fate.
"Frenzied cubs are irrational. Regardless of their nature, they will eventually show strong aggressiveness." Gu Qingchen continued, "They are very likely to do something that harms themselves or others."
He looked at Su Ci and said bluntly, "In the past, many breeders were sent here with serious injuries. Even if they were cured, they were left with a considerable psychological trauma."
"So, you understand what I mean?"
To be honest, Su Ci didn't quite understand.
He looked at the two angry and roaring cubs and thought they were just noisy. In comparison, the number one next to him was more likable.
"The environment on Prison Star is not suitable for raising cubs." Su Ci said.
Gu Qingchen didn't expect Su Ci to say that. He nodded, a gloomy look on his face. "Then what else can we do?"
The interstellar world is so vast, but only Prison Star can accommodate them. Moreover, even if they grow up successfully in the future, they can only stay on Prison Star for the rest of their lives and are never allowed to leave.
At least for now, the status quo cannot be changed.
Gu Qingchen sighed and said to Su Ci, "These two cubs have to stay here for the time being. Once their condition is completely stable, I will notify you to pick them up."
"You should go back to the nursery first. These two cubs went crazy after the blood rain. I guess the other cubs have the same problem."
Although no alarm has been received, this possibility cannot be ruled out.
"oh."
Su Ci nodded. There was only one nanny robot, 4586, in the nursery. If the remaining five cubs went crazy at the same time...
I always feel like something bad is going to happen.
But before leaving, Su Ci glanced at Doctor Gu, then at the two frenzied cubs on the bed, and asked, "Are you okay?"
Although he possesses the ability to purify, his aura is not strong. Su Ci still has to ask Gu Qingchen for information about planting, so he doesn't want anything to happen to him.
Gu Qingchen blinked. He didn't expect to be cared about by this trainee breeder.
Although he is a doctor, he is better than him no matter how you look at it, right?
"Don't worry. I have much more experience dealing with frantic cubs than you do. You should think about the situation at the nursery and see if you need to ask the action team to accompany you back."
Seeing him so confident, Su Ci nodded: "Okay."
Gu Qingchen watched him leave, then looked at the hospital bed. Number Two was still meowing, but Number Four was gradually stabilizing. He walked over to check on his condition.
However, at this moment, the child's slightly closed eyes opened and looked towards him.
Number Four's eyes had turned turquoise at some point.
A cold green light flashed in his eyes, and he saw that the parts of tables and chairs scattered on the ground in the treatment room suddenly floated up and all rushed towards Gu Qingchen!
Su Ci, who had already walked into the corridor, stopped at this moment and looked back at the treatment room.
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