After finishing all this, Xia He returned to her room and took out a bucket from her spatial storage. The bucket was filled with clean water because she had been covered in the mutated python's slimy liquid during the battle, and her body was sticky all over.
Xia He was about to take a bath when she remembered something. She had rushed out and put the two little ones into her space. Xia He first released the two little ones, and as expected, they jumped around the room in a huff. It was only after Xia He used a five-bone magic wand that the two little ones calmed down, and Xia He was able to take a bath in peace.
"When will this endless cycle of days ever end!" Xia He muttered, sitting in the tub.
When Xia He came out of the bath, she saw Xiao Lin already sitting in the living room. "Thank goodness, he was dressed before coming out," Xia He thought to herself.
"You're awake? Do you feel unwell anywhere?" Xia He asked.
"No, I used my mental detection and the situation at the base is not good. The defensive walls have all collapsed. What happened?"
Xia He took out the essence of a water-attribute animal from her spatial storage and showed it to Xiao Lin. Xiao Lin nodded, indicating that Xia He understood.
“No mutated animals invaded before, but now they can come in. The situation is probably worse than we imagined,” Xia He said, frowning.
"I'll check on it. You should rest well in the meantime. I'll take care of everything, don't worry." Xiao Lin gave Xia He a reassuring look before leaving.
Xia He realized she hadn't visited Li Chunhua since the accident, so she took the two little ones and knocked on the door across the street. After exchanging pleasantries, she learned that Li Chunhua was alright, but it was a pity that many of the vegetables Dr. Wang cultivated had been destroyed in the earthquake, resulting in a significant loss for the base.
Xia He returned to her room, not wanting to think about these upsetting things anymore. She just wanted to lie down in her room and relax.
Lost in thought, Xia He fell asleep.
Xiao Lin was busy at the base for several days when Xia He received some news: A Yin had woken up.
However, as soon as A-Yin woke up, Xiao Lin didn't let him leave the room. He just let A-Yin stay in the room next to Xiao Lin's. The reason was simple: neither Dr. Qian nor Professor Fu would accept him anywhere. Professor Fu's laboratory couldn't withstand another blow. Dr. Qian said that there were too many casualties at the base and the rescue mission was too heavy to take care of A-Yin.
Fortunately, A-Yin was awake and normal this time. Xia He had Xiao Lin set up a restriction on her so that she could enter A-Yin's room. On this day, Xia He went to A-Yin's room and entered without knocking. A-Yin's room was under Xiao Lin's mental monitoring the whole time, so there would be no major trouble.
Ayin sat blankly on the living room sofa until she saw Xiahe, at which point a glimmer of light returned to her unfocused eyes.
"Sister... Sister..." Perhaps due to the long-term dryness of her throat, or perhaps because she hadn't spoken for too long, the voice coming from A-Yin's mouth was hoarse. Xia He looked around and found that there were no supplies. Xia He took out a cup of sweet hot water with honey from her space, and then took out a bowl of seafood porridge, and handed it to A-Yin. "Eat."
Ayin glanced at Xiahe, but didn't say anything. She first picked up some hot water and drank some, then picked up the seafood porridge and drank it in big gulps. Only when the seafood porridge was finished did Ayin seem to come back to life.
"Ayin, can you remember what happened before?" Xia He asked tentatively.
Ayin kept her head down, and a hint of violence flashed in her eyes that Xia He couldn't see, but she quickly recovered and said, "Hmm... I remember now, I'm very clear-headed."
"Can you tell me about it?" Xia He asked.
"You found me in that research institute before, right? Wasn't I imprisoned on the experimental bed then?" A-Yin said, continuing to talk to herself before Xia He could respond.
“In that research institute, there was a nationally renowned PhD who focused on human medicine research. Such a prodigy, yet he and his lover had a child with intellectual disabilities, and the child was not expected to live long. Even more tragically, his lover passed away after giving birth to the child.” After saying this, A-Yin seemed to become dejected.
He continued, "After that, in order to continue his and his wife's bloodline, the doctor began to research gene-enhancing drugs, attempting to change the child's tragic fate. He recruited a large number of researchers, under the guise of researching human genes, but secretly studied how to modify human genes. At first, he only conducted experiments on animals, but later discovered that there was a combination in plants that could revive plants after they died, and even better than before."
"After that, the doctor began to imagine that if all the genes in the child's body were replaced, a transformation could be completed, which would not only improve the child's intellectual disability, but also change his short-lived fate."
"Since then, the child has been continuously injected with gene-enhancing drugs by the doctor. At first, it was only done on animals, and then it gradually evolved to recruiting people to test the drugs. However, the gene-enhancing drug that could change the poor child was still not developed, but the child was dying. In the end, the doctor directly experimented on the child."
"First, it was tested on humans, and then it was applied directly to that child. In this way, the doctor extended the child's lifespan for a long time. The good news is that it did change the mental disability. The bad news is that the other people who were modified turned into zombies." After saying this, Ayin fell into a long silence.
“You are that child, that doctor, and your father,” Xia He asked.
"After that, the doctor became even more insane, starting to study things more deeply about the zombies, and also researching the zombie plant he had first discovered. He also injected himself with gene serum and cloned himself many times. What he was afraid of was dying suddenly, because even he didn't know what would happen after using this gene serum." Ayin continued, without answering Xia He's question.
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