CH 313

In the cramped room, two people sat at the humble table eating a rough breakfast face-to-face.

Bai Lixin looked at Zhou Ping’s difficulty in swallowing and said, in embarrassment, “Professor Zhou, I can go to the 201st floor to bring your exclusive food over.”

Zhou Ping swallowed the last mouthful of dry bread and quickly drank a mouthful of water to wash it down. Then he slowly said, “No, save the meal for the divine son, Eve.”

“The God-Emperor gave that angel to you, but you do not use him and also keep him tied up…Won’t the God-Emperor blame you? ”

“Heh, the God-Emperor can still distinguish what is more important.” Zhou Ping wiped his mouth and stood up, “I’m going to the lab today. You can come with me.”

Bai Lixin: “Okay.”

Zhou Ping’s office was on the 201st floor; his apartment was on the 202nd floor; and the lab was on the 198th to 200th floors.

Bai Lixin accompanied Zhou Ping in the elevator and pointed to the rapidly rising elevator with a sigh, “This is all Professor Zhou’s work.”

Zhou Ping was wearing a silver-white robe without meaningful folds. The robe was pulled together by a concealed dark chain that couldn’t even be traced on the outside. He had combed his hair back meticulously, his back straight and his face expressionless.

Zhou Ping’s figure gave a slight pause at Bai Lixin’s words, and he said in a low voice: “It’s not a masterpiece, it’s a cage.”

The landscape beneath their feet was rapidly becoming smaller, but Bai Lixin did not feel any gravitational force. It felt as if he was walking on flat ground.

In less than a minute, Zhou Ping and Bai Lixin had moved from the 1st to the 198th floor.

The first floor was where the lower-ranked soldiers lived. The higher the status, the higher the floor and the better the treatment.

The laboratory was like a sea of white, surrounded by silver-white metal walls except for the transparent observation glass.

Zhou Ping took Bai Lixin through seven safety doors before entering the interior of the laboratory.

As soon as Bai Lixin entered the laboratory, he saw the vacuum cabinet holding his and Zhou An’s bodies.

The stab wounds in his body were completely gone, his face rosy, and his body was healthy as if he had just fallen asleep. Zhou An’s was similar. His forehead had been completely repaired, and even the wounds left over from the war had disappeared.

Bai Lixin froze and stood under the vacuum cabinet to carefully examine his body.

“Do you know why their bodies are repaired? In one of my previous experiments, I discovered a microorganism that can survive in a vacuum. The microorganism parasitizes the human brain and gives the body the illusion that it is still alive, thus performing character recreation. I call them “vacuum worms.”

“You mean like the zombie virus?”

“No, the zombie virus just transforms the mind into another independent individual. This microorganism is not that ambitious. It just coexists with its host for mutual benefit. It must be said that even tiny microorganisms focus on the transmission of genes. These microorganisms are similar to parasites. They were born in a non-vacuum environment, but I trapped them in a vacuum with these corpses. To complete the cycle of life, they must return to the non-vacuum environment, but the seamless glass doesn’t allow them to find a way out, so they began a new evolution. In other words, they can only leave when those bodies are taken out of the vacuum. ”

Bai Lixin froze, “Did they succeeded after evolution?”

“No. Although they were able to make the bodies repair themselves by making them think they were still alive, they can only control a small portion of the cells but cannot coordinate the entire body. They failed, so I can only use them to repair bodies in a vacuum environment. ” Zhou Ping paused, looked at Zhou An’s corpse, and let out a bitter smile. “Ten years ago, Zhou An and I also failed, so we are now imprisoned in this City of Iron to be used by others.”

“Professor Zhou, you…”

“Lu Feng, help me take these two corpses out. My brother yearns for freedom, and Bai Lixin never belonged here. Bury them in the forest outside the kingdom. I remember that Zhou Ping had always yearned for freedom, but I don’t know why he stopped talking about it and instead stayed in the high tower, content with the status quo. I always scoffed at this, but the past two days made me realize that he had not lost his nature but had given up his freedom for this bastard brother of his. ”

Bai Lixin smiled awkwardly, “Professor Zhou is talking as if it were his last words. It would be a big deal if I left with these corpses. Won’t those vacuum worms return to the air and complete their life cycle if I take them out?”

Zhou Ping smiled, “This is the most helpless place. The vacuum worms have mutated because they have been living in the vacuum for a long time. They can not withstand any impurities in the air, so they will die as soon as they leave the vacuum. I said these microorganisms are harmless to humans because they are too easy to kill.”

Bai Lixin: “…”

Zhou Ping opened the glass cabinet, and Bai Lixin only felt a cold wind blowing across the sides of his face before it disappeared.

“Tools that have no value will be killed and abandoned, whether they are microorganisms or artificial humans.” He had committed his sin and built himself such a cage. He was like these microorganisms, wanting to leave, but unable to do so.

Zhou Ping frowned quietly and looked at his brother in the vacuum cabinet, “Go quickly and come back before evening.”

Bai Lixin had to nod, loaded the two onto the cart and pushed it out.

Bai Lixin drove Zhou Ping’s surgical cart and soon came to the edge of the forest. To be honest, he felt incredulous about pushing his body out.

I had been thinking about how to bring my body out, but unexpectedly, “I” fell into my hands.

He first took his body with the zombies underground for safekeeping, and since Zhou Ping had returned his body to him, he was kind enough to dig a hole for Zhou An.

Bai Lixin took down a shovel from the car and chose a geomantic place to dig a pit.

When the pit was almost dug, Bai Lixin pushed Zhou An’s body out. His hand unintentionally crossed Zhou An’s neck, and he suddenly found a hint of something strange.

“Huh?”

……

It was already evening when Bai Lixin returned to the base. The environment outside was heavily polluted, and as an artificial, he could not stay outside for a long time. Although he could detoxify himself, “Lu Feng” could not.

He found Zhou Ping sitting quietly at the table eating a delicious meal after parking his car and returning to his room.

It was indeed good food, compared to this morning’s mouldy, blackened, dry bread. The meal consisted of pasta, milk, and steak.

“You’re back?”

Zhou Ping ate quietly without a ripple in his voice.

“En, I’m back.”

“Have they been taken care of?”

Bai Lixin’s hands taking off his jacket slightly paused before returning to normal and he smiled, “All taken care of.”

Zhou Ping then nodded, “Come and eat something. I brought it down from the 201st floor. Help me feed Eve after eating. He has not eaten since you’re not there. ”

Bai Lixin: “…..” Do you mean Eve will starve to death if I happen to be absent for more than three days?

Bai Lixin took off his jacket and shoes and went to the washroom to wash his face and hands. He then hurriedly made it to the opposite side of Zhou Ping to eat it up, “Tsk, I’ve never eaten such delicious food.”

Zhou Ping smiled at Bai Lixin’s innocent childlike smile and said, “You’re easy to satisfy.”

The two slept in separate beds, and Bai Lixin woke up the next day to find himself, who was in his roommate’s bed, back in his own at some point.

There was no one beside him, as Zhou Ping had already gotten up. The air was filled with the fragrant and soft smell of wheat, stimulating Bai Lixin’s sense of smell, taste buds, and gut little by little.

He sat up from the bed and looked at the only table in the room that was now set with freshly baked bread, milk, and poached eggs.

In addition to that, there was a note on the table: Get up and eat. I’m going to the office first.

Bai Lixin finished his meal and went to get another breakfast from the 201st floor before going straight to Zhou Ping’s apartment on the 202nd floor. The angel has been locked up here for nearly ten days, and the original clean and tidy body has become dirty. Maintaining the same posture for a long time also made him uncomfortable.

The angel hurriedly pleaded, on seeing Bai Lixin, “Please, untie me! I won’t leave here even if you do. ”

Bai Lixin showed a loving expression and brought the milk to the black fog, trying to focus his sight on it. “I am sorry, Lord Eve, I cannot release you without Professor Zhou’s order.”

“Then let Zhou Ping come to see me!” The raspy voice in the black fog began to get a little hysterical.

“You have always been here. Professor Zhou would have come long ago if he had to meet you. Otherwise, why would he ask me, a small soldier, to come and deliver food every day? Lord Eve, although Zhou An’s death was not your fault, Zhou Ping resents you. Don’t you see? ”

The angel’s body stiffened. “That’s what he deserved. He coveted his brother’s man. ”

Bai Lixin put the milk on the table and slapped the angel’s face in the black fog.

Huh, this touch …..It doesn’t feel like human skin.

He had long wanted to see what was hidden beneath this black fog, but never found the opportunity.

“Don’t think you can be so shameless just because you are an angel! You’re just a production tool, while Zhou An is Zhou Ping’s brother. They shared their joys and sorrows for a lifetime as blood brothers. For you, a treacherous divine son, Professor Zhou killed his brother. He betrayed his brother because of you, so do you think he should not resent you? You are still being shamelessly smug, wearing the faces of other people’s lovers and making such disgusting expressions. Do you really think you are someone else’s lover?!” Bai Lixin pinched Eve’s shoulders as he roared, his expression ferocious.

Eve was now very angry. Bai Lixin only saw a dark shadow suddenly fly out of the black fog towards his face. The dark shadow stopped only a centimetre away from his eyes before it abruptly stopped. It was a snake-like creature with loach-like slippery skin. It had no eyes and only a mouth with jagged teeth.

Bai Lixin didn’t blink as he stared at the black fog behind him.

The snake-like thing wavered in front of Bai Lixin’s eyes for a long time before slowly shrinking back into the black fog, its slimy body swimming in the black fog, emitting a hint of silvery light.

This thing coiled in a position in the black fog, and Bai Lixin only heard the angel say, “You wait for me when I return to the God-Emperor, I will not let you go! ”

Bai Lixin coldly snorted, “That is only if you ‘can’ return to the God-Emperor. It was only a day without food and you are already weak like this. If you do not eat and drink for three days, won’t you die? ”

A pair of eyes were staring closely at this scene from a distance away.

He saw Lu Feng lose his temper for him, and Zhou Ping was in a sudden trance as his eyes burned.

He looked at the Eve that could reveal the person in one’s heart, and the angel’s face blurred on the screen for a moment. When it was clear again, it had turned into Lu Feng’s face.

Zhou Ping opened his eyes wide and covered his face with a silent wail. Gods, no!