Chapter 225: Don’t leave

A trace of gray and white suddenly appeared on the horizon, and a faint morning light poured out, like a huge curtain, spreading flat on the rolling mountains.

The siege continued, and the rebels had no intention of retreating. The ground near the No. 24 City of Life was full of craters, and the soil on the surface of the pit had been coke. If it was very close, you could even smell a pungent smell of gunpowder.

Wearing a black and gray waterproof jacket, leaning against the cold and thick wall, I tore a piece of crude biscuit made of mixed soybeans and rice flour, and sent it to my mouth. I took a bite, soaked it slowly with saliva, soaked it softly, and chewed it slowly.

Liu Yuchen is completely numb.

More and more people are dying, and even if the body is used for protein recycling, a certain amount of damage will still occur. There are serious shortage of materials available, fewer and fewer replicates from the culture tank, and their body quality is also very bad. Just yesterday, a cultured person who had just stepped down from the production line for less than 72 hours, lacked enough protein foundation and was not injured in any harm, the cell tissue in the body completely collapsed and the whole person suddenly hydrolyzed.

The energy and logistics system of City of Life No. 24 is still operating as usual, and the food and ammunition produced are enough to maintain daily consumption. However, in Liu Yuchen's opinion, these things that are enough to excite refugees and become crazy have lost their due meaning. Without human use, they will always be a bunch of dead objects.

The cookies are rough and chewed in your mouth feels like dry sawdust.

In addition to bread and biscuits, the largest number of food in the warehouse is canned meat. Liu Yuchen really couldn't get any interest in these things that were also synthesized based on protein. He was a doctor, and in his opinion, the difference between the dead and the living was actually whether the cell tissues continued to move. He did not discriminate against the dead, and his psychological quality was also excellent. In the old days, in order to save time, he once stayed in the operating room for half-cooked grilled steak... But now, as long as he thinks of meat and those hydrolyzed cultured people, Liu Yuchen can't help feeling nauseous and nauseous, and has an uncontrollable desire to vomit.

The rebel army has reached a position two hundred meters away, and the number of guards at an absolute disadvantage cannot pose a threat to them. Occasionally, a sniper hits the target from the roof, which will immediately attract dozens of counterattacks on the rebel positions. The fierce firepower is enough to destroy any cover in an instant, and the guards can only fill the increasingly large defensive holes with one life after another.

How long can I last?

Two days?

one day?

Or...just a few hours?

Liu Yuchen was tired of this kind of life, and he even vaguely looked forward to the Central Building being captured by the rebels. Perhaps, only at that time can everything be truly liberated.

Sometimes, death is indeed better than living.

The disordered thinking in my mind did not last long. A trainee soldier who twisted his body and had slightly abnormal facial features and slightly slanted faces walked over slowly, raised his right hand, performed a non-standard courteous manner, and said in a rather strange voice: "Your Excellency, please come over."

Without sufficient high-quality protein foundation, the replicants from the culture tank also began to experience a series of adverse reactions. Their bodies are naturally irreparable defects, or they lack a certain part of the reaction nerves. According to the previous manufacturing standards of No. 24 Life City, they should be classified as waste. But now... Liu Yuchen could not make it according to the previous standards. He lacked materials. In addition to instilling combat awareness and maintaining several necessary main nerve reaction systems, the newly manufactured culture has banned a series of unnecessary parts.

Just yesterday, he even changed the computer program and created two hundred replica humans who had no lower limbs and only kept their upper body intact. These unmovable soldiers will be dispatched to firepower points with heavy weapons at the height of the building. Their mission is to stay there and pour bullets outward. They cannot retreat, cannot move, and will never give them the order to "leave".

It sounds cruel to do this, but Liu Yuchen has no choice. The saved materials can produce at least hundreds of more soldiers. Anyway, he just stays there and mechanically pulls the trigger. Whether he has legs or not has much impact on the replica soldiers. What's more, they are not humans in the true sense.

Looking at the soldier standing in front of him who had only a period of five to seven days of physiological survival, Liu Yuchen nodded indifferently. The newly-made trained people are the products of shoddy production. The fierce firepower of the rebels outside the city can cause death at all times. Instead of wasting materials to produce expensive and excellent human living targets, it is better to save as much as possible so that this situation of immortality can continue.

...

The arched rooms on the top of the central building are as neat as before, with the few furniture making the room look a little empty. The pale yellow curtains hang down from the top of the floor-to-ceiling windows more than three meters high, and they are stacked on the smooth marble slabs on the ground, as if they were abandoned, and they can only stay there forever, waiting for mold and rot in the darkness and humidity.

Josephine, wearing a long white cloth, stood in front of the window, quietly looking at the devastated earth in the distance. She could not see her expression or know what she was thinking deep in her heart.

Liu Yuchen leaned his sniper rifle in the corner and walked straight to more than three meters behind Josephine. He bent down, bent his legs, knelt on one knee, without saying a word, and silently looked at the petite, old back in front of him.

"They have not launched a large-scale attack, they are just waiting to force me to submit in this way... Hahaha! Is this possible?"

Josephine seemed to be talking to herself, and seemed to be discussing with others.

Liu Yuchen did not answer. He was used to this strange way of speaking. Whenever this happened, Josephine had already had his own plans in his heart.

"Why don't you... leave here?"

At the last glance at the thin light like the horizon's mountain curtain, Josephine slowly turned around, and a faint sunlight projected on her wrinkled face, illuminating a sunken and bulge mixed with light and darkness.

After being silent for a long time, Liu Yuchen's voice also seemed a little hoarse: "I won't go anywhere, I will stay here and stay with you... until death."

"Why?"

Josephine fluttered back and forth in his face with an inquiring gaze, trying to find possible answers from it.

"You saved my life."

Liu Yuchen said calmly: "If I hadn't received your kidney transplant, I would have disappeared with that era of destruction, and it would have been even more impossible for me to live until now."

"You lie-"

Suddenly, Josephine's tone became cold and his eyes were as sharp and cruel as a knife: "It was just a kidney transplant. Although I gave you a kidney at that time, I had more than that kind of thing, and I could cut it from the trained person at any time. In other words, you just got a mass-produced body organ. Humph! Just for this insignificant thing, you would actually stay here to bury me? Who would believe this lie?"

Looking at Josephine who was so angry that she was like a legendary witch, Liu Yuchen could clearly feel the anger and despair released from her. She was very guilty and scared. She was just bluffing and completely covering up the fear deep in her heart.

She was not afraid of the rebels surrounding the city. The so-called persecution of Lesl, Lola and Chris actually had no effect on Josephine. Liu Yuchen knew this very well. This woman who had no evolutionary ability and had never used potions to transform her body was far more stubborn and stronger than she seemed on the surface. She was not afraid of death, nor did she care about threats. She was just afraid of other things that were more terrifying than death.

For example... loneliness.

Josephine is a very self-excellent and excellent woman. In the old days, she had won countless world-class highest medical awards and was awarded the title of Earl by the British royal family. She was a very beautiful woman. Although she had a large number of suitors around her, she had never been married, had no children or lovers.

She has everything that women may not be able to get for life, and she also loses everything that ordinary women should get.

Reputation, status...

Family, children...

This is an unsolvable dead end, and it is also a contradictory dilemma that can never be taken into account at the same time and must make choices.

The year when his father left, Liu Yuchen was detected to have kidney failure. If it weren't for Josephine, he would have turned into a rotten corpse in the soil.

She was right—although the kidney transplanted into her body was taken from Josephine’s body, the actual source was still the replicant in the culture tank.

Sometimes it is impossible to explain death and survival by simple material relationships. It is like a billionaire who donated hundreds of thousands by chance to save the life of a poor patient. In his opinion, this money is actually about the same as ten dollars in the eyes of ordinary people. It is not important, it is not precious, and the rich urn does not need any so-called reward. But in the eyes of the rescued person, this is an astronomical figure that can never be obtained. He will always be grateful, and even offer the tablet of immortality at home and worship every day.

Liu Yuchen still remembers the morning when he first met Josephine.

She was wearing a white coat with a smile on her face and her blonde hair concealed her face in a very beautiful angle. When the warm sunlight shone on her through the window, Liu Yuchen suddenly remembered her mother who had never met before, and only existed in old photos and vague thinking concepts.

Without a constant vow, nor the constraints of legal documents, he joined the Joint Doctors Association without any consideration and became a close servant beside Josephine.

There are many things that need not be explained very clearly, and the touch and retribution do not need to be revealed on the surface at any time. Doing it yourself, knowing it, and knowing it, this is enough...

"Say! You have been in the city and have not left. What exactly do you want to do? What do you want from me? Liar - thief - robber -"

Josephine's face was covered with ferociousness. She raised her hands high and opened her thin and slender fingers to grab it into the air. The floating blonde hair had lost its beautiful luster as it used to be, like dry and strange vines, shaking desperately with her body rising and falling violently amid the crazy roar of sound and color.

Big sour tears slowly emerged from Liu Yuchen's wooden eyes.

How could this be the most elegant countess in the past?

How can I see the appearance of a goddess holding a scalpel and being calm and above the top of the medical world?

She has lost her youth, her beauty, her self-confidence... She must hold on to the only things left in her hand. Although there are not many, even to outsiders, it is ridiculously small, but it is her only psychological support that she can rely on.

Standing up from the cold floor, a nearly numb sore surge came from her knees. She slowly approached Josephine, who was obviously panicked in her eyes, opened her arms, hugged her old body in her arms, and slowly rubbed her cheeks on the other person's yellow hair. With the rolling tears, the whispers in Liu Yuchen's mouth sounded very light and plain, but she could keep entering the heart that was tortured by panic and despair.

"...I won't leave, I will stay with you... until...ever."

...

A shell exploded more than ten meters away from the building, and a thick smoke mixed with red and black flames rose rapidly in the rolling heat waves and spread.

Josephine, sitting behind her desk, has returned to peace.

She did not lose her mind. Although the pain caused her brain to be on the verge of chaos at any time, she could always return to normal when she was awake.

She saw everything Liu Yuchen did. This child can be said to have watched her grow up with her own eyes. Unlike the three greedy villains Lesl, Lola and Chris, he is his true confidant. In a sense, it can even be said... he should exist in this world and the only relative.

Looking at the young man sitting opposite him calmly, Josephine's face, like a dead tree bark, slowly revealing a look of fear, but in fact it represents a kind and gentle smile.

She slowly pulled open the strap on the cloth robe, took off a small metal box of about ten centimeters from the belt around her waist, and placed it gently on the table. She pressed the lock on the side of the box with force. The moment the lid bounced up, a vacuum syringe with nearly fifteen milliliters of yellow liquid stored in the transparent tube wall also appeared in front of Liu Yuchen's eyes.

"That's what Chricks and the others are trying to get-"

Josephine's voice was light, ethereal, soft, but had a strong sense of power: "I have kept it for more than a century, and now... it is yours."

Sitting on the high-backed chair in front of the desk, Liu Yuchen did not reach out. He looked at Josephine in confusion and asked, "What is this?"

"It is the source of destruction in the old era-"

Due to the illness, Josephine's face looked pale and her voice was a little tired: "You should understand the relationship between the United Doctors Association and the Skeleton Knights?"

Liu Yuchen nodded.

"From before the outbreak of the nuclear war, the Rockefeller family had fully controlled Monsanto. At that time, their biggest goal was to use economic and technical means to control global trade, thereby manipulating the US government to gain dominance among other countries, and then assimilate the opposing camps, and ultimately, dominate or should be said to occupy the whole world... Haha! Does this conspiracy sound a bit old-fashioned? But it is undeniable that this is indeed the highest achievement that all ambitious people dream of. When money expands to a certain level, the desire for power will also expand. The Rockefeller family does have this strength."

Liu Yuchen didn't say anything, quietly listening to every word he said from Josephine. He had a very strange premonition - everyone has a secret in his heart, and the president seemed to want to tell himself something.

"When I first saw this virus sample, I couldn't believe my eyes - there are such terrible creatures in this world. They are born parasites, they can't synthesize nutrients themselves, nor can they survive in a normal way like other lives. They can only rely on their hosts to exist. In order to continue the population, they evolved a series of parasitic means such as plunder, control, infection to the extreme. What the Rockefeller family did was to strengthen these terrifying traits unprecedentedly, so that they could use every normal human."

"It's rich, but not able to master all the science and technology in the world. This is the biggest regret of the Rockefeller family in the old era."

Josephine sighed softly and continued: "From this virus, Rockefeller saw the possibility of dominating the world. They provided the original samples and asked us to conduct comprehensive analysis and use countless human genes to conduct moderate proportioning experiments. I concentrated more than 27 million serum samples, extracted various possible paired genes and viruses to combine them. Finally, I got the basic injection that could directly evolve into parasites. Hahaha! At that time, I always thought that I was standing at the peak of technology that could manipulate the entire human race, but I never thought that while getting the sweetest fruit, it also opened the door to the world for the demons of hell."

Liu Yuchen sat there silently, like a cold and lifeless sculpture.

He knew a little about the relationship between the Joint Doctors Association and the Knights of Skeleton, the secrets of the destruction and parasites of the old era, and even the Rockefeller family's transformation plan. However, he never linked all this to destruction and death.
Chapter completed!