Chapter 52
"You know I'm the God of Pollution, yet you only want me to have children?"
"no?"
There are no words to describe Xiyue's speechless feeling at this moment.
She had already figured out that Gong Daimin had built this massive secret maternity ward in order to have children with high spiritual power. This goal could be achieved through polygamy, but Gong Daimin was a woman and had a natural disadvantage when it came to bearing large numbers of offspring.
Combining the information found on the Star Network, Xiyue guessed that she herself had no experience of giving birth, so much so that some people said that the position of the leader of the Gong family could not be passed on to the third generation. After all, Gong Daimin did not have any children at all.
She placed her hopes on adopting a child with high spiritual power from this illegal maternity ward. Xiyue could understand her motive for doing so. However, she could not understand why Gong Daimin wanted her to give birth to a child for her.
Xi Yue sneered, "You must have put a lot of effort into this place. Aren't you afraid that I'll create a few ash holes and destroy it?"
Gong Daimin was unconcerned: "They are just a bunch of trash. Do you think this commander needs to worry about them?"
Xi Yue was silent for a moment, then nodded: "Okay, I promise you. But there's one condition."
A trace of surprise flashed across Miyashiro Toshi's eyes.
Asking Xiyue to bear the baby was just a joke, a test. She didn't expect Xiyue to actually agree. Her interest was piqued: "Tell me about it."
"The cause of Xihai's death."
Gong Daimin paused for a moment, carefully examining Xiyue's expression: "Do you want to avenge him?"
Xiyue remained silent.
"I didn't expect the God of Pollution to develop feelings for humans," Gong Daimin said with a smile. "You're lucky you asked the right person. Besides me, few people know the true cause of Xihai's death."
She gave a straightforward answer: "Simple, the God of Pollution."
Xi Yue was startled: "What do you mean?"
She always thought that although the original owner had detonated the first-level pollution, it was only one of the reasons for Xihai's death. After all, Xihai was an S-class mecha warrior and could easily escape even if he went deep into the super-polluted area.
The "God of Pollution" that Gong Daimin refers to is her? The former Xi Yue?
"I was in the contaminated area the day Xihai died. A man, without a mecha and without any protection, walked cleanly in front of Xihai. In just a few seconds, Xihai's mecha failed, and he was besieged by the pollutants and died."
Gong Daimin looked at Xiyue meaningfully: "Tell me, if this person is not the God of Pollution, what is he?"
Xiyue secretly breathed a sigh of relief, as it turned out not to be the original owner.
Miyadai Toshi's description is more like Han Yi's ability: burying other people's mental power.
...It shouldn't be Han Yi, right?
"Who is he?" Xi Yue asked.
"I only know he's a man. As for his specific identity," Gong Daimin shook his head, "it's either the Sirius Legion or the Central Star Region. It's ultimately one of the two. After all, they are the ones who decided when and how Xi Hai would die."
Not Han Yi.
Xiyue breathed a sigh of relief again.
Ever since she discovered the remote control and the diary, she had guessed that the so-called "God of Pollution" was not just one person, but more like a mysterious group. The appearance of Shi Hanyi and Gong Daimin's words confirmed this guess.
"You disappoint me." Gong Daimin suddenly said, "You knew I had arrested Xiang Jia, and you felt sorry for these pregnant women and children, but you didn't take any action."
"Since we met, I've handed over my mecha box. The two guns I carry aren't half-mechas, so they don't have any protective functions. If you had the same abilities as him, I'd probably have become contaminated by now."
Gong Daimin took a step closer: "Xiyue, among you gods of pollution, there are also differences in strength, right?"
The disappointment in her eyes did not seem fake, and because she was so disappointed, she even gave rise to a faint murderous intent.
Just at this moment, her brain started to vibrate.
Xiyue couldn't see the computer screen clearly. She only saw Gong Daimin glance at it twice and then turn around and leave.
"Look at her."
A mecha soldier came out from the corner and walked silently behind Xiyue.
Xiyue's tense nerves suddenly relaxed.
Miyagi Daimin was indeed a commander-in-chief, her observation skills were truly sharp. From what she said, it seemed that she was interested in cooperating with him, but before doing so, she needed to test her partner's abilities.
Xiang Jia, a pregnant woman, including deliberately telling her to bear a child... the purpose was to provoke her and make her take action. But she didn't have a remote control, so she could only remain unchanged in the face of all changes.
That's why Miyadai Toshi said she was disappointed.
Xiyue had no competitive spirit; she knew the purpose of her trip clearly: to rescue Xiang Jia. As for Gong Daimin, what he wanted was nothing more than the same as Yuan Xu: the supreme position in the Central Star Region.
She wasn't interested at all.
She turned around and came face to face with the mecha soldier: "Can I visit at will?"
The mecha soldier may have heard their conversation and knew her identity as the God of Pollution, so he couldn't help but take a step back.
The commander is an S-class mecha warrior, so there is no need to be afraid. He is an A-class, so he is a little scared after all.
But Xiyue took another step forward: "Can't visit?"
The mecha soldiers then retreated, unsure whether to proceed or not. After all, the commander's order was to "watch."
Xi Yue pressed on: "Are you mute? To keep it secret, your coach specially selected a mute to guard this place?"
The mecha soldier impulsively pressed the switch on his chest.
The strange gold spread out, and just as it was about to cover the head, bang——
An oxygen tank hit him on the head.
Xi Yue: “…”
Xiyue hadn't anticipated this sudden change. After the mecha soldier fell, a young girl emerged. She was wearing the same maternity clothes as hers, and the first thing she said was, "Miss Ji! Why is Miss Ji here?"
She saw Xiyue's clothes and opened her mouth wide: "Could it be that Miss Ji also... No wonder they all said Miss Ji disappeared!"
"Are you a resident of Star Sector No. 29?" Xi Yue guessed.
"Yes, my name is Lu Xiaoying, and everyone calls me Xiaoying."
After Xiaoying finished speaking, she suddenly hissed and waited for the footsteps to pass by somewhere before she grabbed the mecha soldier's arm, trying to hide him.
"Wait." Xi Yue said, "Don't drag it, the mecha box makes a noise when it rubs against you."
One person lifted his arm and the other lifted his foot, and together they hid the mecha soldier in an empty room nearby.
When leaving, Xiyue's vision suddenly froze, and the remote control appeared, right above the mecha soldier's head.
She picked it up, but Xiaoying said, "Miss Ji, why are you pulling his hair?"
hair?
Xiyue looked down and saw that there was indeed a gap in the mecha soldier's hairline. At first glance, it looked like alopecia areata. The exposed scalp was red and bleeding.
God knows she didn't even try hard.
"...Leave some evidence." Xiyue stuffed the remote control into the only pocket of her maternity clothes. "After we get out, we can give it to the police station for DNA testing. We'll find him soon."
"Oh, Miss Ji is so smart!"
"You..." Xiyue looked at Xiaoying's belly.
Xiaoying patted her belly and said, "I'm just pretending. What about you, Miss Ji?"
"……Same."
Apart from this, their purpose is the same, to save people.
Xiaoying said she was looking for a premature baby whose mother was a good friend of hers. As Xiyue listened, she finally understood where all these pregnant women came from.
They are all bartenders at Hele Bar, a business owned by Miyadai Toshi.
Drinking with guests, sleeping with guests, and getting pregnant with guests' children... Xiaoying spoke of all this very calmly, as if it was just an ordinary job.
That’s right, how can a garbage citizen find a good job?
Xiyue hid her surprise in her heart and thought for her, "Since the child is not yet full-term, whether he is alive or not is unknown. Where are you going to look for him?"
"Evie found out before she ran away. She said there's a room here specifically for in vitro fertilization. She said if you keep walking down the corridor, you'll find that room. But there are so many forked corridors here, I don't know if I'm going the right way..."
Xiyue recalled the way she came.
After changing clothes, we came out of a circular hall. Following Miya Daimin on a tour, we found that the corridors along the way were slightly curved, with only one side having a fork in the road from time to time.
The layout of this place is most likely circular. The place she walked in was the main passage in the corridor, and the branches that branched out most likely led to the circular hall.
"You're not wrong." Xi Yue said, taking the laptop from the mecha soldier's hand, "Follow me."
The two of them exited the room, passed the neonatal ward, ignored the fork on the right, and continued walking in. Xiyue also kept an eye on every corner, but did not find any surveillance cameras.
Perhaps Miyagi was also concerned about exposure, so she minimized the installation of internet-enabled devices. She noticed that none of the doctors within the glass wall were wearing optical computers on their wrists, so this must be the reason.
Xiyue turned on the mecha soldier's optical computer and took a look. The interstellar network was disconnected and only the local area network was connected.
In this state, even if she wears the optical computer, she cannot log into the optical computer system, and the messages she sends out will only be sent to other devices in the local area network.
After walking for a while, Xiaoying suddenly pulled Xiyue and said, "Here."
Through the glass wall, a row of niches were dug out on the other three walls of the room. Each niche contained a glass container filled with liquid. Several glass containers were illuminated by spotlights, and human embryos of different sizes were slowly floating in the liquid.
"The door is locked, what should I do?" Xiaoying held the door handle, unable to push it in or pull it open.
There was a palm-sized flat device embedded on the door. Xiyue used the mecha soldier's optical computer to get close to it, but there was no response.
There was a small hole on the device, and judging by its size, it was probably where a finger would be placed to collect biometric information. Xiyue thought for a moment, then pulled out the remote and inserted it.
The device quickly lit up a circle of green light, which flashed and then went out.
The tuft of hair with scalp on the mecha soldier can indeed detect biological information.
Fortunately, Miss Ji was well prepared... Xiaoying didn't have time to think about it. When she heard a slight click from inside the door, she immediately pushed the door open, but soon hesitated again.
There are more than a dozen petri dishes containing human embryos. Which one is Ivy's child?
Xiyue observed one of the containers. The embryo inside was barely the size of a palm, but it already had a rudimentary form. A dozen thin IV tubes were inserted into its tiny body, a scene far more eerie than the barely visible cloned human.
Without an electrocardiogram, the slowly flowing liquid in the petri dish also interfered with vision, and for a moment it was impossible to tell whether the child was dead or alive.
Even if he were alive, he wouldn't live long. Xiyue discovered a screen.
There was a large table in the middle of the room, with the screen in the middle, surrounded by bottles and jars on three sides.
The screen was on. Xiyue clicked twice and a table appeared. The first column was the number, the second and third columns were the dates, and the fourth column clearly stated the "number of days of survival."
No child survived more than 30 days.
This made Xiyue feel strange. With the level of technology in the interstellar world, even if cloning was not possible, could it be that they could not even raise a pure test-tube baby?
She clicked on a line at random, and a color document opened, where she found the answer.
——Something called "purification fluid" was added to the culture medium that imitated amniotic fluid.
Xiyue naturally thought of the Purification Gun, a weapon that was the most direct way to eliminate pollution and represented the purest form of spiritual power. Purification fluid must also be related to spiritual power.
Why is it necessary to add purification fluid to the culture medium? A similar question is why Miyagi Daimin went to the trouble of raising so many pregnant women?
The answer is obvious.
Xiyue had seen the term "spiritual infiltration" on the Starnet. When someone awakened to a higher level of spiritual power, fellow Starnet users would often say they were lucky, having been fully infused by their mother's spirit.
Of course, there will be rebuttals under similar posts, saying that the theory of spiritual infiltration is nonsense and whether or not spiritual power is awakened depends purely on luck.
Judging from the experimental data, the mental infiltration was indeed a failure. No matter what the concentration of the added purification liquid was, no child was able to open their eyes smoothly, let alone awaken their mental power.
Xiyue was frowning when Xiaoying came over and asked for help: "Miss Ji, do you know...about how big a six-month-old baby is?"
Xiyue didn't know either, but she guessed the difficulty Xiaoying was facing: "Did you see the number under the culture dish? That's the date, probably... when the embryo was found. Did your friend tell you when she found out she was pregnant?"
Knowing that they were bound to die, Xiyue really couldn't call these embryos babies.
That's really horrible.
Xiaoying didn't seem to be impressed. However, her eyes lit up when she heard the words. She quickly locked onto a petri dish and began to wonder, "The petri dish is so big, how do I take it out..."
It is obvious that the children inside cannot live without culture medium.
"I can't take it away, and forcing it away... is pointless." Xi Yue shook her head. "Xiaoying, there are thousands of experimental reports in this equipment, and not a single embryo survived for more than a month."
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The Central Legion's starships were hovering over the castle. Without the commander's order, no one in the 42nd Legion dared to let them land.
Until Miyagi Daimin walked out of the castle and nodded to his men.
The starship landed quickly, and Qiao Mingjin brought the star team down. The ten people in the team all had solemn expressions, and they were quite imposing.
This made Gong Daimin narrow his eyes slightly.
"I just met Captain Joe tonight, and he's already here chasing me." She added, "It seems Captain Joe isn't asking me to cooperate with the investigation, but is here to investigate me, right?"
Qiao Mingjin remained calm. "I've received a report that Commander Gong is involved in illegally causing pregnancy, illegally detaining pregnant women, and illegally conducting experiments prohibited by the law."
Gong Daimin smiled coldly: "What a big hat!"
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Xiaoying watched the door close with a depressed look on her face.
Xiyue didn't know how to comfort her, so she slowly walked forward a short distance and suddenly backed away.
Behind the glass wall was an open medical cabin, a bed, and the clothes she was wearing when she arrived.
Unconsciously, he had already walked a big circle and returned to the place where he had just come in. However, when Xiyue first came, his attention was on Gong Daimin and he did not observe his surroundings carefully.
When I looked at it, I found that there was also a medical cabin in the room on the other side of the corridor. The door was closed and the breathing light was flashing slowly.
Her intuition told her that Xiang Jia was inside!
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