Chapter 59 is different
Bai Chenzhu walked to the nearest pillar and gently knocked on it. The 'person' inside did not react at all, but the exposed heart was still beating weakly, with streaks of bright red blood floating with the water.
"Is this a laboratory?" Bai Chenzhu took a deep breath to calm his flustered emotions.
Anyone would find it hard to remain indifferent to seeing their own kind being used for research. Bai Chenzhu thought, Han Yuyan is nothing compared to the truly depraved ones here.
Jiang Ye examined the items on the experimental table expressionlessly, seemingly unsurprised by the situation. "This is just a small outpost."
The test bench was filled with blue light screens both in the air and on the surface.
The screen was filled with incomprehensible text scrolling by. Bai Chenzhu pondered for a long time but couldn't recognize a single word; it was all just a jumble of characters he couldn't understand.
"Can you understand it?" Bai Chenzhu leaned closer to look at the large screen in front of Jiang Ye.
“They have translations.” Jiang Ye pointed it out to him, and the text on the screen turned into broken Chinese.
It includes not only Chinese, but also other major languages and even scripts from other planets.
The translated text was also densely packed, making Bai Chenzhu dizzy and unable to make out more than a few words: 'human observation,' 'mutation,' 'infectiousness'...
Jiang Ye swiped quickly, and somehow stumbled upon a recording. It was the sound of a human wailing, accompanied by a cold, mechanical translation: "What is he saying?"
"He's calling for his mother."
Bai Chenzhu felt a chill run down his spine and quickly reached out to turn off the audio. For the first time, he was acutely aware of just how ferocious and ruthless the alien races were.
Jiang Ye knew he wouldn't understand, so he explained, "This is just a small research lab, studying the current trends in human mutation. So far, we've only observed mutations like zombies; what you've seen in the lab are all like that. Once they find out that humans have superpowered individuals, the human situation will only become more dangerous. We must find the fragments before that happens."
Bai Chenzhu listened quietly, "And then?"
Jiang Ye's expression changed slightly. "Then, we'll make further plans." He trusted himself, but not others.
Human beings are not so united, otherwise no one would have been willing to 'reconcile' or accept the 'antidote' in the first place.
Including those around him.
It's only the early stages of the apocalypse, but people's hearts are unpredictable. So he didn't dare to think about finding the fragments, assembling the communicator, sending signals, or even what would happen after being discovered by the alien race.
Jiang Ye gripped the workbench, which was made of some unknown material.
Bai Chenzhu listened intently and tugged at Jiang Ye's sleeve, "Someone's here."
Jiang Ye quickly hid him behind the pipe and instructed him, "Hide your superpowers; they are very sensitive to mental energy."
This was the first time Bai Chenzhu had heard such a statement. He quickly withdrew his mental energy from detecting surveillance around him, restoring his normal senses, and could only perceive a profound silence.
Heavy footsteps entered.
Bai Chenzhu held his breath.
The door slowly opened to both sides, and the first thing that came into view was a pair of tentacles swaying in mid-air. The person was indeed androgynous, with gray hair, strange eyes, and a pair of blade-like wings hanging down behind him. He was wearing a strangely styled robe.
Is someone really not cosplaying? Bai Chenzhu stared, somewhat lost in thought.
A sharp pain in his arm nearly made Bai Chenzhu lose his voice.
He glared at Jiang Ye, but Jiang Ye glared back at him. "Is it good-looking?" Jiang Ye asked in a breathy voice.
Humans are all about appearances. When they first meet a different race, they are easily deceived. No one can believe that such a race would do such a heinous thing.
Bai Chenzhu deliberately contradicted him and nodded.
Jiang Ye gritted his teeth, his gaze towards the alien race growing even fiercer.
The alien walked to the control panel that had been turned off, and looked at the data that had lit up on its own, feeling puzzled. His fingers flew across the system, and just as his eyes suddenly widened, realizing that there were other people in the laboratory, Jiang Ye appeared behind him and smashed the experimental tool with all his might.
With a thud, the gray-haired alien crashed heavily onto the screen.
"Is it dead?" Bai Chenzhu came out from behind him, keeping a wary distance of two meters from the alien.
"If only it were that easy to die." Jiang Ye frowned. He quickly examined the gray-haired alien's body but found no fragments. "Can you check where the fragments are?"
Bai Chenzhu released his spiritual power, scanning the cold, impersonal laboratory.
After a while, he opened his eyes, his dark eyes shimmering with light. "The spiritual energy I sense is not here."
"They were taken away with him?" Jiang Ye's expression darkened. He took out a small knife and looked at the alien race with hatred in his eyes.
The laboratory, filled with human remains, was eerily quiet, save for the gurgling bubbles coming from the pipes. Jiang Ye raised his knife and said coldly, "Then let's kill it first."
The blood of the alien race was not red; a strange blue flowed on the lab table, while bright red blood still lingered in the tubes.
——
Bai Chenzhu put something into his pocket, his indifferent expression changing slightly. "Something happened to Bai Tao."
They exchanged a glance, no longer caring about the pipes or the alien race, and quickly returned the way they came. Before they even reached the ground, they heard gunshots.
Jiang Ye ran fast and disappeared in an instant.
Bai Chenzhu ran toward the source of the commotion as fast as he could, and at the same time, he sensed the presence of the fragments right in front of him.
What's going on? He focused more of his attention on sensing, and only saw four strands of spiritual energy intertwined before him. Among them, Bai Tao, whom he had marked, was particularly eye-catching. Jiang Ye's spiritual energy carried his aura; he recognized it.
The other two, one was very weak and the other was not as good as Bai Tao, but they exuded the aura of fragments.
Those two might be from another race!
Bai Chenzhu leaned against a tree, panting heavily. He finally arrived and saw a alien with its wings pierced being fighting Jiang Ye hand-to-hand. Their fight was so fast that Bai Chenzhu couldn't even see it clearly.
Bai Tao's scream suddenly pierced the eardrums. Bai Chenzhu turned his head sharply and saw Bai Tao desperately grabbing a foreigner's long hair and slamming him to the ground. Her own arms and face were covered in blood.
The alien was hit several times but didn't faint. He turned around and kicked Bai Tao away. Bai Tao crashed into a tree, rolled down, and got covered in fallen leaves.
Bai Chenzhu rushed over and, taking it by surprise, shot it from behind. The gun pierced through its hard wings and went straight into its waist.
The alien race cried out in pain, their eyes wide with horror. As they turned around, Bai Chenzhu swept them to the ground with his long legs, straddled them, and pressed a gun against their foreheads.
It panted heavily, its strange eyes fixed on Bai Chenzhu.
Bai Chenzhu sensed something was wrong. He held the gun in his right hand and took out the translator he had just taken from the lab with his left hand, then put it into his ear.
"Human...spiritual power..."
Bai Chenzhu pulled the trigger, and in the next instant, the bullet pierced the alien's head, blue light splattering everywhere. He had only one thought in his mind: he couldn't let the alien detect the presence of his mental energy.
Only then did he calm down.
He rushed over to check Bai Tao's breathing and pulse, confirming that she was still alive. Jiang Ye and the other alien were nowhere to be found.
Bai Chenzhu's gaze fell on the corpse in front of him. He walked over to examine it and found that this alien had a faint spiritual power, which was different from the one in the laboratory and the one that was fighting Jiang Ye.
This alien was thinner, and although its wings were more beautiful, they were shorter.
Bai Chenzhu searched its entire body but couldn't find any trace of the fragment. He made a wild guess: it wasn't that the fragment had its own aura, but rather that the fragment had its own aura.
Could it be that this person destroyed the communicator?
There was a loud commotion in the distance; several trees had fallen down one after another.
Bai Chenzhu quickly picked up the unconscious Bai Tao to avoid the aftershocks.
The violent commotion lasted only a short time before Jiang Ye's calls came. Bai Chenzhu put Bai Tao down, wiped the blood off Bai Tao's face, and hurriedly responded to him.
Jiang Ye, panting heavily, limped over to him, covered in dirt and many wounds. Bai Chenzhu glanced at his vital areas and, seeing that they were unharmed, breathed a sigh of relief.
Jiang Ye wiped his dirty face, turned the empty shell in his hand over, tossed it aside, and told Bai Chenzhu, "I'm out of bullets."
Bai Chenzhu unfastened the gun from Bai Tao's waist and tossed it to him, asking, "Where is that alien?"
Jiang Ye said, "It's resolved."
As he spoke, his gaze swept across the room and settled on the corpse not far away, his expression changing slightly.
Bai Chenzhu put the white peach aside and followed, "What's wrong?"
Jiang Ye squatted down and examined the alien creature with a solemn expression. "Look at its wings, they're very short. It's a male."
What's wrong with the male insect?
“Male insects possess spiritual power.” Jiang Ye looked at Bai Chenzhu, then at Bai Tao, “Are you alright?”
“Bai Tao was knocked unconscious, but her injuries aren’t fatal.” Bai Chenzhu shook his head and told Jiang Ye his deduction, “The fragment’s aura that I sensed is very likely it.”
Jiang Ye thought quietly for a while, then slapped his thigh, "So that's how it is, we got it backwards."
These words inexplicably gave Bai Chenzhu a bad feeling.
"We'll talk about it later," Jiang Ye quickly instructed. "You and Bai Tao bandage your wounds, I'll deal with these bodies and the evidence. We'll spend the night nearby."
He got up, grabbed the corpse by the feet and dragged it away, quickly disappearing from sight.
"Your leg injury needs to be treated!" Bai Chenzhu shouted.
As he watched his figure disappear, Bai Chenzhu turned around, picked up Bai Tao, and walked back the way he came, clutching his backpack with both hands.
At this moment, he dared not bring Bai Tao near the laboratory, as it was too frightening and detrimental to the patients' physical and mental health. He didn't know when alien accomplices might come outside. After walking for about half an hour, he sat down in a clean place nearby.
He didn't realize until he checked that Bai Tao had a laceration on her neck. If it had been any deeper, it could have been fatal. He patiently applied medicine and wrapped bandages around her neck, then her arms, then her waist... After all that, she looked just like a mummy.
Bai Chenzhu patted Bai Tao's head, pinched a broken leaf from her hair, and sighed, "It's good that you're alright."
He got up, looked around, gathered some dry branches and firewood, lit them, opened the tent, and carried Bai Tao inside. He then sat outside tending the fire.
——
The sun had set, and it was pitch black in the woods.
I wonder how Sister Zhuohua is doing. Bai Chenzhu repeatedly poked the ground with a twig.
Light footsteps sounded, and he looked at Jiang Ye, who was soaking wet. His eyes first fell on Jiang Ye's legs, and when he saw bloodstains on his trousers, he frowned immediately. "Where have you been?"
“There’s a big river over there, and it’s very fast. I went to wash up, so you don’t need to go.” Jiang Ye ran his fingers through his wet short hair, limped over to the fire, and brought a cool mist with him.
"Are you looking for death? You have a wound and you still want to soak in water." Bai Chenzhu gripped the branch tightly and threw it at him.
Jiang Ye thought Bai Chenzhu would ask something else, but the first thing he asked was this. Jiang Ye was stunned for a moment, then looked at him with a smile, "You know I recover very quickly."
Bai Chenzhu was a little angry, but his anger lasted only two minutes. He took the bandage and went over, coldly saying three words, "Stretch out your leg."
Jiang Ye blinked, cleared his throat to suppress a laugh, and obediently stretched out his leg.
Bai Chenzhu squatted down to apply the medicine to him.
Jiang Ye watched him quietly, his tense nerves relaxing, and he unconsciously drifted into a daze. A beauty is indeed more beautiful under the moonlight, especially since the man himself was handsome and refined.
From this angle, Jiang Ye could see the perfectly curved collarbone at his neckline, his tightly closed lips, his long, drooping eyelashes, and his messy hair. He didn't seem to be in a good mood, so Jiang Ye didn't dare to tease him.
Normally, Jiang Ye would probably go up and act like a jerk a few times.
Bai Chenzhu suddenly raised his face, "Take off your shirt."
Jiang Ye's mind had already wandered off. Without saying a word, he took off his shirt. Bai Chenzhu walked around behind him, and only then did he realize that she was going to apply medicine to the wound on his back.
The time was stretched out for a long time.
Jiang Ye was in a daze, but even though he couldn't see anyone, Bai Chenzhu's deliberately increased pressure, the temperature of his fingertips, the tingling sensation of his breath... Jiang Ye's sensitive five senses could all detect it, so much so that he couldn't help but shrink back, and was gently scolded not to move.
It was like a long period of psychological torture.
As Bai Chenzhu applied the medicine to his wound, she asked, "Is everything resolved?"
"Hmm? Hmm, I've buried them and wiped away any traces of the lab," Jiang Ye said.
Bai Chenzhu changed the medicine on the wound, looking worried. "I only attacked because I heard it mention 'spiritual power,' so it shouldn't have killed anyone important, right?"
“If he were someone extraordinary, that would be fine, but unfortunately he isn’t. He’s most likely just a small fry.” Jiang Ye shook his head with regret. “Let me just say it directly: your guess is correct.”
"From the very beginning, the spiritual energy on the fragments was profound and mottled, because it was not destroyed by a single male insect, but by many."
"So many?" Bai Chenzhu asked in surprise. "It's just one thing, why would you need them?"
That alien race is utterly useless.
As if he had heard the implication in his words, Jiang Ye laughed heartily and said, "First of all, what you are talking about is the core of the 'space communication station'. The space communication station originally revolved around the Earth in the atmosphere. Although it was destroyed, the core is indestructible and still in operation. Finding it is like finding a needle in a haystack."
"Perhaps for location tracking, or perhaps to leave no trace, they didn't choose weapons, but instead chose to use mental energy, which would naturally dissipate, to locate and attack the core of the communication station."
"Secondly, their mental energy is used to treat and control the females of the group, and their offensive power is relatively weak. Only a very few males are very aggressive. So it is not impossible for them to attack together."
Recalling the past, Jiang Ye said in a deep voice: "According to the original development, after a few years, there would indeed be no spiritual power above, and it would be difficult for anyone to find any trace of it."
If one's mental strength reaches a certain level, can one actually attack physical objects? Does that mean his superpower still has room for improvement? Bai Chenzhu's eyes darkened slightly, and she deliberately patted his shoulder, "Sit tighter, you're tied crookedly!"
His emotions vanished without a trace, as if blown away by the wind. Jiang Ye sat down as Bai Chenzhu instructed and remained silent.
In the stillness, Bai Chenzhu lowered his eyes and successfully finished bandaging the man, then mischievously tied a bow around his waist.
“Jiang Ye?” He looked up and saw that Jiang Ye had already fallen asleep with his back against the tree trunk, his chest rising and falling, showing his vigorous vitality.
He has a good figure. Bai Chenzhu quietly packed his things, glanced at Jiang Ye, draped clothes over him, went into the tent to check on the sleeping Bai Tao, and finally sat by the campfire, deciding to keep watch tonight.
The moon in the sky was very round, which reminded him of the male insect's eyes.
A strange tone sounded in my ear, and at the same time, the simultaneous translation device beside me mechanically said: "Human...psychic power..."
Bai Chenzhu's pupils contracted sharply, snapping him out of his daze. He looked down at his fingers, which were twitching, and a chill ran through him. "Is mental power someone's exclusive privilege?"
There is nothing wrong with mental strength, but the current situation is like: a child carrying gold walking in a bustling city, where everyone is a devil.
If Weituo stands to the side, even demons will turn into saints.
"Wei Tuo," Bai Chenzhu sighed. "Aren't we searching for the fragments also a way of contacting Wei Tuo?"
With a muffled groan, Jiang Ye woke up from his nightmare, drenched in sweat.
Bai Chenzhu walked over and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"Thank you." Jiang Ye looked at him blankly, clearly not understanding the situation yet.
Bai Chenzhu raised an eyebrow, slowly wiped the sweat off his body, and then draped the 'sweat towel' over his shoulder with a smile. "You're welcome, here's your shirt."
It took Jiang Ye a while to realize Bai Chenzhu's little mischievousness. He didn't say anything, put his clothes back on, and leaned to one side, falling onto Bai Chenzhu's lap.
Bai Chenzhu thought this was 'retaliation', so she pinched his ear and asked, "Hey?"
Jiang Ye immediately started whining and complaining, "I'm injured, you can't kick me out."
He still remembered that not long ago, Bai Chenzhu wouldn't let him lean against her in the car.
Why should he be treated the same way as Tang Zhao?
He's different! He's the closest to A-Zhu!
Bai Chenzhu glanced at the bandages on his body, which were far more numerous than those on Bai Tao's body. The thought of kicking him out kept coming back to her, but in the end, looking at his face as he fell asleep with his arms crossed, she sighed with a soft heart, "Jiang Ye, you're being a scoundrel."
It's hard to say who benefited from whom right now.
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