Chapter 189
In fact, not only the Bai family had looked into Mu Ling's background, but Ying Qianhe had also looked into it.
Of the many experimental subjects back then, only this baby girl could be No. 0, so the laboratory naturally had to trace her origin.
Do her parents have the same physique? Does she have other brothers and sisters? Would they be good experimental subjects?
Even after No. 0 was lost, Ying Qianhe was even more eager to find a replacement. Therefore, they dug deep into all of Mu Ling's recorded past.
She first appeared in a primeval forest on the ancient blue planet. It was a mountain clearing operation. An A-level Night Shadow Bear accidentally found a sleeping baby in a pile of thick leaves during the mission.
The military initially suspected that the baby had been abandoned, and investigated. However, due to the lush vegetation in the primeval forest, satellite surveillance could not detect the situation in the woods, so they did not find out who abandoned her.
She was then sent to a federal welfare center, where she stayed for two months without any special physical reactions and no one came to visit her.
Two months later, X Lab needed a large number of experimental subjects, so she was stolen from the welfare center along with thirteen other babies of similar age.
After that, she stayed in Lab X until she was stolen away by Professor Bai Huanting of Virology.
Her past was very simple. The only thing that was special about her was that after she was rescued, the doctor discovered that her physical condition seemed to be particularly good.
After coming out of the woods, she was immediately sent to the hospital. The doctor didn't know how long she had been abandoned, but found that her body functions were surprisingly normal.
She was not starving. Although the cloth wrapping her body was wet, she did not have a cold or fever. Although her skin was dirty, after wiping it clean, there was no trace of insect bites on her body.
You know, the insects in the forest are deadly. Even animals with thick skin and flesh will be bitten all over. It is incredible that such a fair and clean baby was not bitten at all.
Even after waking up, the child would grin with his toothless mouth and giggle at the doctors and nurses, obviously without any psychological trauma.
Everyone said that this was a lucky child. So, even after 20 years, when Bai Huanqiu's people found the hospital again and asked them about the situation back then, the older medical staff still used the same word to describe the child - "lucky".
But if I am really lucky, will I be abandoned?
Regardless of whether it was really lucky or not, twenty years later, the case of abandoning the baby girl was reinvestigated, and this time, something was actually found.
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One evening in April, at ten o'clock, in a bar on the planet God King.
The bartender had just handed a glass of wine to the guest opposite him when the guest suddenly raised his hand and held his hand.
The bartender was stunned and frowned: "What?"
The guest silently stuffed two banknotes into his hand.
The bartender looked at the two hundred dollars and smiled: "Sir, please tell me what you want." He thought the customer wanted him to be his wingman and help him pick up girls.
But the guest pointed outside and indicated that they should talk outside.
The bartender was a little hesitant. Is it so troublesome that he has to go outside? He is still at work.
Seeing that he was unwilling, the guest took out three more banknotes and pushed them to him.
The bartender was happy now. He told his colleagues that he was going to the bathroom and happily went to the back alley with the customers.
As soon as I entered, I saw three tall and strong men hiding in the shadows of the alley.
The bartender became a little wary and asked uneasily, "What are you doing?"
"Bang!" He was answered by a powerful punch from a strong man!
The bartender was beaten so hard that he fell backwards. He sat on the ground stupidly. He raised his hand and felt his face covered in blood from his nose. He was stunned: "Are you sick? Do you think I know you and you hit me?"
At this moment, another strong man stepped forward, grabbed the bartender by the collar, lifted him up into the air, and asked coldly, "What did you do ten years ago? Do you know?"
"I do it, what can I do, what I did!"
"Bang!" The burly man pinned the bartender's hand against the wall of the back alley and said viciously, "Didn't you abandon a baby?"
The bartender, who was about to shout for help, was suddenly stunned.
The strong man reminded him, "Huanling Nature Reserve, don't you remember?"
A look of horror appeared on the bartender's face: "You, you guys, were called here by that woman?"
Ten years ago, a bartender was still a street urchin. He met a female student and they fell in love. Not long after, she became pregnant. Naturally, he didn't want to take responsibility, so he tried to coax her into having an abortion. However, he discovered that she was in poor health and could easily die from an abortion. In the end, he had no choice but to give birth to the child. After the birth, the woman asked him what to do. What could he do but throw the child away...
The bartender pleaded, "It's none of my business. The woman wanted to abandon the child at the time. She was also afraid that her family would know that she had a child out of wedlock. We were young and ignorant at the time, that is... Ouch..."
As he was speaking, he was punched again.
The bartender was about to cry: "Brother, brother, please stop hitting me, what do you want?"
The strong man asked, "Why did you throw the baby into the Huanling Reserve?"
"Ah?" The bartender was stunned.
The strong man punched again: "Ask you why you threw Huanling Mountain!"
The bartender covered his face and said, "I just heard that people used to throw children into the mountains."
"Who told you that?"
"No, I don't remember..."
"Think about it then, think about it now!"
The bartender was cornered and racked his brains for a long time before finally coming up with an idea: "It's the landlord, the one I rented the house from at the time. She said, she said, many years ago, someone threw a child into the mountains, a very strange child, deformed, with hands like chicken claws, golden eyes, and a wrinkled body like a featherless chicken, with bloodshot eyes. It was really scary. The landlord also said that the child was a mutation and had to be thrown away."
Several strong men looked at each other and asked, "Whose child is that? Who are his parents?"
The bartender shook his head: "I don't know, I really don't know."
"Bang!" A punch.
"Do you understand now?"
The bartender burst into tears: "Brother, I really don't know. Even if you kill me, I still don't know..."
"Bang bang bang bang bang bang!"
The strong man really beat him to death!
After a while, the bartender spat out blood and was breathing more out than in. The burly man clenched his blood-red fists, as if he was going to hit him again. The bartender quickly said, "I remember, I remember..."
The strong man saw that he was about to die and threw him to the ground like garbage.
The bartender lay on the ground for a long time before saying, "No, it's not raw. Yes, it's hatched..."
Several strong men were stunned. They squatted down and grabbed the bartender by the collar: "Hatched? What do you mean?"
The bartender had already begun rolling his eyes, muttering to himself, "Child, hatch, hatch... egg, egg, hatched..."
As he spoke, he fainted.
"Hey, hey!" The strong man shook the bartender.
The bartender was already motionless.
I sniffed and found that he was not dead yet.
Another strong man confronted the strong man: "Why are you trying so hard? Haven't you finished asking questions yet?"
The strong man who beat him scratched his head: "How could I know he was so weak?"
The two strong men behind him snorted: "It's good that we didn't kill him, bastard."
"That's it, ugh!"
"Okay, okay, go find the landlord he mentioned."
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The next day, in an old residential complex.
Sixty-four-year-old Aunt Wang started to complain to two young social workers who came to her home to care for elderly people living alone and measure their blood pressure for free.
"You have no idea how terrifying that child is. He's getting bigger and bigger, almost as big as a cat."
The two young social workers thought she was joking and said with a smile, "Auntie Wang, you're kidding! How can you hatch a child from an ornamental egg? And it's a child that keeps growing bigger and bigger."
Aunt Wang said, "I'm not kidding. It's that thing on the second floor. What's it called? They bought it as a souvenir while traveling. They said it was a dead ostrich egg or some dinosaur egg, an ornamental egg anyway. It was fossilized. Suddenly, the shell broke, and out came a really ugly baby. They took one look at it and said it was no good. They threw it away right away and threw it up the mountain."
The two social workers looked at her and said helplessly, "You said it's a child, how could you abandon it? You have to report it. Abandonment is illegal."
Aunt Wang waved her hand: "I don't know either. They just threw it away, and then they moved away not long after. They didn't dare to live here anymore."
The two social workers said, "Auntie Wang, let's just treat this as a story. It's not okay to abandon a child. We can't let this story spread any further."
Aunt Wang seemed a little embarrassed and stopped talking.
After measuring the blood pressure, the two social workers left quickly. Only after they left the community did the expressions on their faces change.
The male social worker said, "Let them continue to track down the couple who brought back the eggs, but I feel like this matter is getting more and more bizarre the more we investigate."
The female social worker nodded. "Having a baby hatch from an egg is really new. I've never heard of it before..."
The two said no more and handed the follow-up to another group.
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Another day passed, Pegasus.
The couple with the egg was visited by the police, who said that someone had reported that they had abandoned a baby 20 years ago.
The two cried out in injustice: "Where did we get the baby? We only have one son, who is 25 years old this year. I was not pregnant 20 years ago. The hospital would know it with a check. When did we abandon the child? We just threw away a bird."
The police immediately asked, "What bird?"
The two sighed, "We went on a trip and bought a souvenir that they said was a fossil egg, but it turned out to be a real egg. After we brought it back, we originally put it on a shelf, but our dog, for some reason, particularly liked the egg and kept hugging it. Not long after, the egg was hatched by the dog, and a very ugly bird broke out of the shell. We didn't know what kind of bird it was, but it was really scary. It looked just like a human. You know the uncanny valley effect, when an animal looks especially like a human, it will make people creepy. We didn't dare to keep the bird, so we quickly wrapped it in my son's clothes, balled it up, took it to the mountains at night and threw it away. We thought it was an animal after all, so we thought of it as returning to the forest."
The police frowned: "That's all?"
The couple nodded repeatedly: "That's really the case."
"What does the bird's clothing look like?"
The two couldn't remember and shook their heads.
The police officer then asked, "When did you abandon the bird? What was the exact time?"
The two of them couldn't remember clearly, but after some calculations, they finally figured out a vague date.
But there was a whole week between this date and the date the baby girl was found.
So it seems that this may not be a thing.
After all, it was impossible for the baby girl to stay in the forest for a week and not starve to death.
Investigators ultimately let the couple go, but continued to secretly investigate them, but found no useful information. The couple had indeed not had children for 20 years, and even their relatives and friends had not had children during that period. Unable to find more information on this line of inquiry, investigators then recovered the military's duty camera video of the rescue, hoping to see if there were any other clues regarding the baby girl.
They first used technology to convert the old videos into ultra-high definition, and then observed them frame by frame.
And at the end of observation, I actually made a discovery!
The subjective perspective of this video is that of Admiral Benchi, who is the master of the Night Shadow Bear's harvest. At that time, the Night Shadow Bear arrived at this plain first, and he came later. When he came, the young Night Shadow Bear was already digging leaves.
From the distance where Admiral Benchi walked towards the pile of leaves, one could clearly see many footprints near the pile of leaves.
They are not human footprints, but animal footprints.
After zooming in and analyzing each footprint one by one, the investigators found that there were deer footprints, bear footprints, pig footprints, wolf footprints, and fox footprints. There were also two rows of birds standing on the branches above. The two rows of birds were like guards standing guard, protecting the baby girl.
The investigators watched it over and over again, feeling unsure, and then came up with a bold guess.
Could it be that ever since this baby girl was thrown into the mountains, wild animals have been feeding her milk?
Otherwise, there is really no way to explain why the baby girl was still intact and not broken despite so many animal footprints around her. Moreover, when she was taken to the hospital, the doctor who examined her said that she was a little too strong.
In short, the investigators had no more information at this point in the investigation, so they sent the report to their boss, and after Bai Huanqiu read it, he gave it to Qi Fenghao.
In Qiufeng Laboratory, Qi Fenghao looked at the pile of information for a long time and then remained silent for a long time.
Qi Fenghao was a very smart man. Based on these fragmentary investigation results, he pieced together a somewhat magical story.
Mu Ling was originally a fossil egg at a tourist attraction. By chance, she was taken home as a souvenir by a couple who came to travel. After returning home, the dog of that family liked her very much and began to hatch her. After she was hatched, because she was too ugly, the neighbors said she was a deformed monster, and the owner said she was a mutant bird. In short, she was abandoned in the mountains. Then, perhaps she knew that she was abandoned because she was too ugly. After drinking the milk of various animals for a week, she looked more and more like a human being. When she was found by the military, she was already a white, tender and cute dough ball.
"Ha." Qi Fenghao laughed: "Fairy tale?"
After the funny thing, Qi Fenghao's face turned stern again.
When I think about how Mu Ling can make hundreds of fighting beasts on the planet Nibra get close to her, and how she can make retired war beasts trust her unconditionally, it seems that no matter how outrageous the thing is, it is not impossible for this girl to do it.
After pondering for a long time, Qi Fenghao finally took out the picture of the strange baby that the investigators had hand-drawn based on Aunt Wang's description.
Looking at the baby in the picture, he took a photo and sent it to his student Xiao Wu, leaving a message: [Show it to your junior sister and ask her if she likes it.]
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In the Beak Zoo, Dr. Wu had just completed a minor operation and was helping the nurse clean the animal hair on the floor of the operating room when he suddenly heard the light brain ringing.
When he opened it, the corners of his mouth twitched.
What's wrong with the teacher? What kind of weird thing did he send to him?
But no matter what, you still have to listen to your teacher.
Doctor Wu was about to forward the picture to Mu Ling when he saw Mu Ling coming in holding a long-tailed raccoon.
"Director." Doctor Wu simply walked over.
Mu Ling handed the long-tailed raccoon to the nurse and looked at Doctor Wu with a smile: "Brother, what's wrong?"
Everyone around looked over instantly. Doctor Wu blushed slightly and said after walking closer, "Don't call me that..."
Mu Ling smiled and said, "Didn't you say I won't call you Senior Brother? Then I will call you that from now on."
Doctor Wu felt even more embarrassed, and his ears turned red.
He thought of the important matter again and pulled Mu Ling aside.
Mu Ling thought it was some secret, so she followed him stealthily to the corner.
Then, Dr. Wu turned on the light brain and enlarged a picture.
"What the hell! What is that?! Don't come over here!" Mu Ling was so frightened that she quickly took a big step back, her eyes wide open in horror: "Brother, why are you showing me such a horrifying picture!"
Doctor Wu quickly explained: "It wasn't me, it was the teacher who asked me to show it to you, please read the information."
He hurriedly pointed out the information to prove his innocence.
Mu Ling read the message and was a little speechless. She said, "Then reply to him, thank you for the invitation, it's not cordial. Don't send such dirty things again, it's unlucky!"
Having said that, as if she was still frightened, Mu Ling hurried away.
Doctor Wu immediately replied to the teacher, then added a complaint: "Teacher, pranks like this will make my junior sister hate me! Don't play them again!"
Qi Fenghao: “…”
Who played it?
How could he know that Mu Ling couldn't accept her past self?
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