Chapter 380 Part 4
As night fell, Li Wen came to Sanatorium Area 35 next to Nocturne Mountain. This time he brought two drug ration lists, which he had spent a lot of effort to obtain.
The staff of Sanatorium Area 35 said that the alien he picked up seemed to have woken up. Li Wen hurried into the room to take a look.
Sitting on the bed was a Homo sapiens, who should be one of the younger Homo sapiens. He had short, smooth hair and soft brown eyes. His skin looked very soft, so delicate that it seemed like it would break if touched. He looked even more fragile than a larva that had just been born. Li Wen had never understood how such a creature could evolve into an intelligent species surrounded by natural enemies. As a Xiyiqi, he had a hard chitinous shell, which was enough to withstand a certain degree of external impact. He couldn't imagine how he could survive .
Li Wen was very curious about what form this Homo sapiens saw him in. He was once a candidate for Bazalu, and an adapter was implanted in his body, which meant that he had leapt into the upper class of Xiyiqi, and at the same time, in the eyes of the aliens, he would also adapt to their aesthetics. In the eyes of this Homo sapiens, he must also be a weird, weak form with no hair and no hair.
This Homo sapiens was called Liu Xingquan, and his speech was a kind of harmoniously vibrating sound waves. He also brought a chicken with him. The chicken looked very embarrassed, and its feathers were quite messy. Not sure if it was his illusion, Li Wen felt that the chicken had been staring at him since he entered the door.
Liu Xingquan said that he encountered an accident during his travels and he was very grateful for the care here. They will not stay here for long.
"Okay." Li Wen smiled, "I work here. If you have any difficulties, you can come to me."
As Li Wen left the room, he heard the Homo sapiens whispering to the chicken.
Strange Homo sapiens , he thought.
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When Li Wen walked out of the dormitory, a shuttle was flying in the air not far away, leaving thin white lines in the air.
"There are new mutants coming." he thought.
The crimson mutation that swept through the Xiyiqi people has been going on for many years. According to the Queen's order, the area around Nocturne Mountain has been designated as a crimson mutation sanatorium. Every day, you can see white mist rising from the apron in the distance. It is the sterilization sprayer on the apron. Every patient who arrives here will be baptized by the cleaning agent.
Even though the authorities continue to promote that the Crimson Mutation is not an infectious disease, this cleansing baptism is undoubtedly a psychological healing ritual.
Each mutant sent to the sanatorium will undergo medical testing and be divided into different areas according to the severity of the mutation. Some mild mutants live like ordinary people, while others with moderate symptoms are isolated in a closed environment, and severe patients will be directly subjected to genetic correction.
Li Wen has been working here since he failed the selection at Bazalu a few years ago. After a period of near despair, he devoted himself to his new job, taking care of one mutant after another, and watching familiar and unfamiliar faces leave one by one. His emotions were almost exhausted. Any words were empty in front of the Crimson Mutant. There was nothing surprising or rare here, only helpless deaths.
Ah, there was something unusual today. An alien Homo sapiens Liu Xingquan came and brought a chicken with him. Xiao Wei might be very happy to have such a rare guest.
Red and yellow smoke rose in the distance, which was the volatile substances emitted by the crematorium. Through the special sensors of the Xiyiqi people, he could listen to the songs of the dead in the diffuse smoke. The words of the Xiyiqi people were the smell of countless tiny particles. When burning at high temperatures, accompanied by crackling sounds, billions of dust particles rose and floated, turning into smoke clouds like mist and gauze. In the Xiyiqi people's auditory system, this was the distant song of death.
The song of the dead, which is transformed from the bodies of the deceased, sounds like a vague humming sound, but it has a beautiful and gentle melody, like an ethereal worship hymn. Every time the bodies are cremated, the staff here will always be intoxicated by it and collect and forward this wonderful melody to the neighboring Xiyiqi people. This is the Xiyiqi people's special way of mourning for the dead.
"Mr. Li Wen!" A larva ran over in a panic. It was Xiao Wei, who had not yet experienced his first molting. It was the child closest to him here.
"Mr. Li Wen!" Xiao Wei shouted, "Ovitz was beaten!!"
"What's wrong?"
"They took the medicine away!!" Xiao Wei cried.
Upon hearing this, Li Wen quickly turned around and ran towards the square.
He saw Ovitz half-sitting on the ground from a distance. He turned around slowly when he heard Li Wen running. Li Wen couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. Ovitz's originally smooth and hard carapace now had many dents on it , and one of his limbs was directly broken and hung crookedly in the air.
"Li Wen, I'm sorry." Ovitz's voice was filled with distress.
"What's going on??"
"The medicine was taken away." Ovitz lowered his head. "It was people from District 26. I'm sorry, but there are too many of them."
“…Were they all taken away?”
"That's all we have ." Ovitz held out another intact limb, two small medicine bottles resting on his claws.
"The ration slip I applied for should allow me to take two boxes."
"They were all taken away," Ovitz said. "There were so many of them, even the security guards followed. They had weapons in their hands. I'm sorry, I really wanted to keep some more."
Li Wen looked at Ovitz's broken limb. It was completely broken, which meant that he had to undergo a grafting surgery. Not only that limb, Li Wen saw more shocking wounds on him. His intact compound eye could not see any brilliance. He even smelled the fishy smell of Ovitz's damaged internal organs. These bastards did not stop at all. An uncontrollable anger surged in his heart. As soon as he turned around, he was pulled by Ovitz.
"Where do you want to go?"
"There has to be an explanation for this." Li Wen said, "This is the drug ration list I applied for."
"It's useless." Ovitz whispered, "The people in District 26 have backers. They have bribed the security guards of Jishan House. It's useless. It's not just our district, other districts are fighting with each other. District 26 has never been punished. I don't know how many times the petition for this park has been sent out, but no one has paid attention to us." Ovitz raised his head and smiled bitterly, "After all, we are all dying."
Li Wen fell silent, he knew he was right.
The last two bottles of medicine that Ovitz managed to save were the Rejuvenator. It was a medicine developed by the Sadis that could effectively alleviate the deep red mutation of the Xiyiqi people. It was a ridiculous joke that a race's incurable disease remedy was in the hands of a hostile race. The Xiyiqi people had many speculations and doubts about this, but faced with the increasing number of mutant patients, they had no choice but to cooperate with these fathead fish.
But the problem is that the import quantity of rejuvenation agent is too small. Because the synthesis of rejuvenation agent requires an extremely rare element, domobo selenium, which is difficult to mine, and the mining process is closely related to the underwater environment of the Saidi people's home planet. Even if there is a high profit, the Saidi people cannot suddenly increase production.
Under the Queen's order, each area's shelters and sanatoriums implemented strict drug rationing, but in reality, facing the surge in mutants, the rationing of rejuvenation agents was a drop in the bucket. There were countless mutants waiting for life-saving drugs in each area, so cross-area snatching became a common occurrence.
What Ovitz said was the truth, and once it was taken away, it could never be taken back.
I applied for the ration list with great difficulty, Li Wen thought, and now there are only two bottles left.
This meant that he had to abandon some, no, most of the mutants. He had always longed to alleviate their pain, relieve their illness, and even save them. But now he could only abandon them, just like the healthy Xiyiqi people who lived normally in the city, and regard these compatriots who were suffering in hell as dust on the ground.
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"Yes."
Xiao Wei opened his paws and carefully caught the capsules that Li Wen poured out of the bottle. "One, two..." Xiao Wei said innocently, "There are only three this time."
Yes. Li Wen thought bitterly, if the two boxes had not been stolen, Xiao Wei would have received half a bottle now. Xiao Wei was a patient with the deep red mutation, and it was currently a mild case. There was not enough medicine at the moment, so he had to give it three pills.
"I'll keep it well."
"No, not to save it. Even though it's little, you still have to eat it."
"Okay." Xiao Wei smiled. He carefully placed the capsule in the blue bag., and skipped away.
Li Wen hoped to witness Xiao Wei's second molting. Xiao Wei was now a small larva without a gender. Only after the second molting would Xiao Wei reveal its true gender and become a sterile male or sterile female. This was the fate of ordinary Xiyiqi people except the royal family.
When Xiao Wei was sent here, the keeper brought him a cleaner, which was a tool used to clean the debris from the larvae after they molted. Xiao Wei hid the cleaner in a drawer in his room, just in case he could use it one day in the future.
But will that day really come?
Li Wen had to distribute the next dose of medicine one by one, and he had to skip those mutants who were about to enter the critical stage. He had done this countless times before. At first, he felt heartbroken, but later he became numb. He walked quickly past the wards of those compatriots whose eyes were full of hope, ruthlessly depriving them of the chance to continue to live.
The medicine was distributed quickly.
Li Wen came to the lounge, took off his clothes and began to scan his body.
No, no.
There is nothing unusual.
Li Wen breathed a sigh of relief, which meant that he had not yet suffered the crimson mutation.
Anyway, it's good news.
"Excuse me..." The harmonious sound waves came again from behind him.
The wise man Liu Xingquan came and saw him naked. His face turned red. "Excuse me, what are you doing?"
I was really curious about what I looked like in his eyes. "I'm checking if I've mutated." Li Wen replied.
He saw the puzzled look in the boy's eyes and gave him a brief introduction.
This is a genetic mutation disease with no known cause, which only affects the Xiyiqi people. Currently, only the rejuvenation agent can prolong the lives of these patients.
"I see." Liu Xingquan nodded, with sympathy in his eyes. "So, this place is a hospital? Are you a medical worker here?"
"almost."
"Oh." Liu Xingquan looked past Li Wen and looked out the window, "Who's that over there?"
Li Wen turned his head and saw red and yellow smoke rising from the distant mountains. In the fog that blocked out the sun, he could see some volatile particles floating and flickering, like stars blinking in the night sky. "That's Nocturne Mountain, where the first queen of Xiyiqi descended."
"Is that smoke burning something?"
"That's the burning of the mutants' bodies," he replied. "Nocturne Mountain has a special meaning for us Xiyiqi people. Singing the Song of the Dead beside the mountain is like returning to the arms of the Holy Mother."
"Song of the Dead?"
Li Wen thought that the Homo sapiens boy in front of him used sound waves to communicate, so he couldn't feel the tiny particles floating in the air. How pitiful, he thought, Homo sapiens were just like blind people, they couldn't fully feel this vivid and colorful world, nor could they listen to this mysterious and soft song.
"It's a smell that only we Xiyiqi people can sense." He explained to the boy with a hint of sympathy.
"Oh." Liu Xingquan nodded, "Those are probably the patients here. Please accept my condolences."
My condolences?
This happened every day. He had long forgotten what grief was.
Soon it will be the turn of those patients I gave up on today, he thought.
Liu Xingquan's words interrupted his sadness, "Brother Li Wen, can I call you that?"
"Can."
"Excuse me, do you know a Homo sapiens named Yan Zhen?"
"I don't know him." Li Wen shook her head to deny it.
The young Homo sapiens boy looked a little disappointed and lowered his head. He thought for a moment and asked again, "Excuse me, are you short of manpower here? Can Captain Madara and I help here?"
"Of course, we are always short of volunteers here." Li Wen was stunned for a moment, "Who is Captain Ban?"
Liu Xingquan raised the chicken, and the chicken glared at him angrily again.
Well, it's normal for pets to have names.
Li Wen smiled and said, "Okay. But your chicken seems to be going bald."
