Chapter 31
Ji Tao seemed to be trying to climb out of the car, but because most of the flesh and blood on his upper body had been removed and he had lost a lot of blood, he was unable to do so.
He could only gasp for air, looking at the approaching Liu Xia and pleading weakly: "Save me... I can give you everything you want... As long as you can save me... Anything is fine."
"I'm not a doctor either." Liu Xia looked at his upper body, which had been shaved off to the point of being a skeleton, and shook her head. "But considering your current state of dignity, I'm afraid even a doctor would be of no use."
Ji Tao's chest roared like a broken bellows, and the half of his ribs exposed glowed with a warm, half-orange, half-white light under the scorching sun.
Those scavengers seemed to be afraid of wasting his blood, so they were very restrained and did not let Ji Tao bleed profusely. Instead, they slowly tortured him, so that Ji Tao became so miserable but did not die immediately.
If he were an ordinary human, he would have been unable to endure this kind of torture, and the pain and infection would have taken his life. However, in the wasteland, a world where human physical strength is generally enhanced, he did not die from the pain.
Liu Xia lifted his jaw with a short blade, and the tip of the blade moved along his pale cheek: "Let's talk business. What are those experiments you conducted in the restaurant in District 6?"
"You actually found my lab." A look of surprise flashed across Ji Tao's face with only one eye left. His pupils suddenly contracted because of these words, and then he seemed to have figured something out. "No wonder... No wonder you followed me here..."
He Tianlin suddenly stabbed the barrel of his gun into the wound on Ji Tao's leg and said impatiently, "I'm asking you a question, don't say this nonsense!"
"Our experiments are for the evolution of humanity." Ji Tao vomited a mouthful of black blood in pain and looked up at the scorching sun. The day seemed to be passing by exceptionally long. "You ignorant scavengers will never understand."
"Hundreds of children have been transformed into half-human, half-beast monsters because of your experiments!" Liu Xia's eyes were filled with anger, but then he laughed at himself. "Why would I talk to a piece of trash who runs a human meat restaurant? Human life is nothing in your eyes."
Liu Xia accurately caught the word "we" from Ji Tao's mouth. As expected, getting so many human embryos for experiments was not something that Ji Tao could do alone. There was an even bigger piece of trash behind him.
"You have three sentences left. Either tell me who provided you with the human embryos to help you complete this experiment, or I'll call those scavengers back and make you watch helplessly as your flesh is cut off piece by piece and your blood is collected bit by bit."
The blade slid from Ji Tao's cheek down to his inner thigh. Liu Xia suddenly cut off a piece of fresh flesh and looked at Ji Tao coldly, as if he were looking at a corpse. "I heard that this way of dying can make you suffer for a whole day. I will use adrenaline to help you stay alive and will not let you die prematurely."
Ji Tao suddenly became excited, staring at his only remaining left eye and said, "I... ahem... am an evolutionary pioneer... You guys just... don't understand anything."
"The first sentence." Liu Xia's blade cut into the femoral artery in his thigh, accurately avoiding the main nerve bundle and neatly cutting off the second piece of muscle.
"Why haven't your bodies mutated?!" Ji Tao continued to roar while struggling, each word mixed with blood foam pouring out of his throat. He didn't even care whether the commotion would lead to his quick death. "Kill me now if you have the guts!"
"The second sentence." Liu Xia held down Ji Tao's body with one hand. The huge force prevented him from moving any further. He captured new information from the conversation and without thinking, he opened the protective suit on Ji Tao's leg. He saw that the entire calf was covered with scales, the same as those on the lizard man.
He Tianlin injected the adrenaline syringe into Ji Tao's carotid artery, and the drug boiled in his veins. "So you fucking captured pregnant women and children for your crappy experiments? This is karma, old man!"
Because of his twisted mentality caused by his physical mutation, Ji Tao fell into a vortex of jealousy towards humans whose bodies had not undergone any mutations. He resented all this more than once, but had to accept it all. This was why he took the risk to come to the Ninth District to find the "RH-7 Neutralizer" that "Leviathan" might have left here.
"It was the City Lord who restarted this experiment. My laboratory is just one of them. You can't defeat Shen Wanren." Ji Tao took a deep breath when he heard the word 'retribution', then slowly closed his eyes, as if he didn't intend to continue struggling. "Perhaps 'Leviathan' was right to terminate the experiment."
Liu Xia's knife didn't continue to cut because of Ji Tao's cooperation: "What is your purpose in coming to District 9?"
"Here's Leviathan's former lab, in the basement of the office building across the bridge. RH-7 Neutralizer can fuse the body's mutations. Let me try my luck." Ji Tao chuckled self-deprecatingly, his thin cheeks a sickly pale from excessive blood loss. "It seems my luck really isn't very good today."
"Not necessarily." Liu Xia stood up and snapped Ji Tao's neck neatly, then patted the blood stains on his hands. "Isn't it your luck to meet me?"
[Successfully recycle medium-sized garbage and receive rewards, genetic resonance!]
[Gene Resonance: Gain 48 hours of mimicry. After depriving a creature of its abilities, you can mimic the external characteristics of the deprived creature. After the timer expires, the mimicry will automatically cease.]
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As expected, Liu Xia, who had regained consciousness, appeared in the hospital again. Because Liu Feng's death was too bizarre, Bai Fei would come to accompany her whenever she had time.
This time she was in a coma for nearly half a day. The good news is that her right leg can move freely, but the bad news is that she still needs to rely on a wheelchair or crutches to move around.
Bai Fei also believed her previous statement about traveling between two worlds a little more.
The old house is an old self-built house located in the suburbs of Sichuan City. Liu Xia has not been back for two years.
It takes about an hour to drive one way from the location.
Liu Xia didn't know when he would lose consciousness again, but he couldn't care less. He couldn't just sit there and wait to die without doing anything.
Outside the old house,
Liu Xia tried to use his fingerprint to open the electronic code lock at the door. After a beep, the two successfully pushed open the rusty iron door and entered the old house.
I didn’t expect that the electronic lock, whose battery had not been replaced for two years, still had power. It saved me some effort.
This is the electronic lock that Liu Xia replaced after the old man passed away because he was afraid that he would not be able to find the key.
Although they don’t visit the old house as often as when their grandparents were still alive, Liu Xia and his parents come back every two years to check on the condition of the old house. After all, it is also a memory.
What you see first is a small courtyard of about ten square meters, followed by the two-story main building.
When the wheelchair rolled over the moss at the threshold of the old house, Liu Xia seemed to smell the unique damp smell of the underground city in a trance.
"Someone's been here." Rubber tires left clear tracks on the dusty floor. Liu Xia's sharp eyes lingered on the dusty floor, where several sets of messy footprints were imprinted. "These people didn't even try to hide."
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