Chapter 518: The City Lord is Here to See You
Daddy isn't here.
Su Xia took a look around and sent out the nanorobots to carefully observe the residents .
There is no sign of Diddy and his crew.
"The robot named 'Lao An' told me that someone would be waiting for me here. It should be someone left by my father. Unfortunately, my father himself is not here..."
Su Xia hasn't seen his father for a long time. Although he knows that his father is very capable, he can't help but worry about him sometimes.
After all, this world belongs to the mechanical race.
Be it himself or his father and others, they seem to be free and easy, but in fact they are just trying to survive in the cracks.
He followed the short man into the building in the central area.
The building is very empty. It used to be a shopping mall and some shabby store signs can still be seen.
Now, it is home to many forgotten creatures.
They converted the empty shops on both sides into homes, used discarded wooden boards and iron plates to make doors, and took down small decorative colored lights to hang on the doors, adding a sense of warmth to this desolate area.
"What do you think of this place?" the short man in front suddenly asked.
"What do you think?" Su Xia did not answer, but asked back.
"I feel good." The short man said truthfully.
“I think it’s great, too.”
Su Xia looked around with a calm expression, her eyes sweeping over every detail.
Soon, his eyes stopped on a humanoid monster.
The appearance of the monster is difficult to describe.
There was almost no intact skin on his body. His face was full of pits, his neck was covered with pustules, the skin on his blackened arms was as rough as tree bark, and his feet were even ulcerated. It was as if melanoma, psoriasis, herpes and even necrotizing fasciitis were all combined in one person.
This person is still alive and conscious, and his vitality is very strong.
The strength of his spiritual energy is around level three, making him the strongest among the group.
"He is a hybrid life form, a lucky man, a miracle." The short man noticed Su Xia's gaze and said.
"How long can he live?" Su Xia asked.
"I'm not sure. Master Dad has diagnosed him and said that there is a force in his body that is frantically destroying cells, but there is another force that is repairing cells... This process of destruction and repair has turned him into this half-human, half-ghost appearance. Maybe one day he will be able to stabilize." The short man replied.
"Dad, can't you find a complete solution to this problem?" Su Xia asked again. This was related to his senior brother Gu An.
"Master Dad has found a vague path, but he is still exploring. This path is difficult."
What this means is that Dad has no solution at the moment.
As he went deeper, Su Xia saw several hybrid monsters that were neither human nor ghost.
These monsters, without exception, all survived on their own, so the short man called them "lucky ones" and "miracles."
After all, that kind of genetic experiment is too cruel. It would be good if only one out of a thousand experimental subjects could survive, and the one who survives is often unconscious.
Even those who are awake will mostly be dominated by another personality, becoming violent, cunning, and bloodthirsty, just like the more than 20 experimental subjects underground in Coral City.
Su Xia saw that these monsters were all wearing self-destruct devices.
After communication, Su Xia learned that they wore them voluntarily.
If they get out of control one day, the managers of the settlement can use remote controls to detonate the self-destruct devices and destroy them to prevent other creatures in the settlement from being harmed.
While Su Xia was observing these people, residents in the gathering areas on both sides of the mall also cast curious and scrutinizing glances at her, looking at her carefully.
"Are you Master Dad's apprentice?" On the second floor of the mall, a hybrid monster suddenly spoke and asked Su Xia below.
"Yes." Su Xia looked up at the man.
"Master Dad is a good man. If you can meet him, please convey my gratitude to him. The potion he gave me last time was very effective." said the monster.
"no problem."
After communication, Su Xia learned that the last time his father came, he treated all the monsters in this gathering place.
He also left behind a large number of healing potions to help these monsters fight the destructive forces within them.
The monster who just spoke to Su Xia is very famous.
He is a monster that rose from the dead in a landfill.
He was once just an ordinary person, but was later captured for experiments. He was on the verge of death within a few days and was taken to a landfill by the laboratory staff and buried.
But what no one in the laboratory expected was that he actually survived under the landfill and endured the painful transformation. With unimaginable perseverance, he used his claws to dig out a way out on a stormy night.
Then, he transformed into a monster and rushed directly to the laboratory, killing everyone in the laboratory.
Su Xia had also seen information about him in the documents on the third basement floor of the pharmacy.
After that incident, many labs became cautious.
They no longer buried dying test subjects alive, but waited until they were completely dead before burying their bodies or burning them directly.
"I didn't expect to see him here."
The information he had seen at that time emerged in Su Xia's mind.
There were originally a lot of information left by my father on the third underground floor of the pharmacy, but now Yu Tuo had people move them to the mechanical clan base.
Soon, Su Xia and the short man came to the deepest part of the building, where there was an elevator.
The elevator is powered by a diesel generator and is still operational.
Take the elevator up to the top floor.
On the top floor lives the manager of this gathering place.
"Master Daddy has instructed that if you come, you will be allowed to see the eldest brother, who will tell you about Master Daddy and their current situation." The short man stopped beside the elevator and pressed the up button.
After the elevator door opened, he said to Su Xia, "You go in. I won't go up. The boss is waiting for you upstairs."
"good."
Su Xia entered the elevator without hesitation.
He was not worried that the people in this gathering place would attack him.
In this industrial wasteland, there are steel wastes everywhere. This is his home ground. With his ability, he can easily kill more than a thousand people in this gathering place, and those monsters can't stop him.
“Buzz——”
The elevator began to rise, very slowly.
It took Su Xia about two minutes to reach the top floor, which was even slower than if he had flown directly up.
With a "ding" sound, the elevator door opened and a house with old decoration appeared in front of Su Xia.
The furniture in the house is very old, as if it were from the 1970s or 1980s.
The grayish-yellow sunlight shines through the old glass windows, casting patches of light on the old wooden chair in front of the window.
There was a person sitting on the chair, he was the manager of this gathering place.
“You’re here.”
He said to Su Xia with a smile on his face.
"I am coming."
Su Xia nodded slightly and walked out of the elevator.
The person on the chair looked very strange. He had a big head but a small body, not much bigger than a baby. His limbs were atrophied, like a big-headed doll. He looked very ugly, so ugly that it was beyond description.
His neck seemed unable to support his huge head, so his head was tilted.
"This is the first time we meet." He maintained a smile on his face, which also looked ugly.
"From what you said, does that mean we will meet again in the future?" Su Xia asked him.
"I think so."
He smiled and said, "My name is Ross, nice to meet you, I know you are Su Xia, please come and sit down, don't be scared by my ugly appearance."
"Won't."
Su Xia walked over and sat opposite Ross.
The two sat opposite each other in front of the window and began to communicate.
Ross knew what Su Xia was going to ask, so he took the initiative to talk about his father's team.
"They have already left and gone to an island in the extremely cold north..."
Ross speaks clearly and in the dialect of the Central Continent. He slowly and leisurely tells Su Xia about what happened a month ago.
Dad's team came here, one to avoid the pursuit of the mechanical race, and two to observe the hybrid monsters living here.
They lived here for a week and took many notes about the hybrid.
The people in the gathering place like Dad very much because he is a pharmacist who can diagnose and treat their illnesses. They all hope that Dad and his friends can stay.
But Dad and the others eventually left.
Before leaving, Dad left behind a lot of potions.
The northern island they were going to could not be found on the map at all. It was very hidden. There was a doomsday base built by their father a long time ago where they could live for a long time.
"Master Dad said that if you trace it here, there is no need to investigate further, and you won't be able to find the next way." Ross said to Su Xia with a smile.
Then he took out a thin piece of information and handed it to Su Xia.
He said, "Master Dad asked me to pass this on to you. It is his experience in breaking through to the seventh-level pharmacist. It should be helpful to you. He already knows that you have become a fifth-level pharmacist... He asked me to tell you that he is very happy."
"Thank you very much."
Su Xia solemnly put away the information.
Although he had the help of two pharmacist experience books, he was still a newcomer in the pharmacist industry.
He didn't want to follow his father's path, but used this experience as a reference to avoid taking detours.
Maybe my dad thought the same way, so he left his experience to him.
If it were left to those two lazy guys, Hong Bafu and Lan Bafu, they would most likely plan their own paths according to this information, and in the end they would not be able to get out of their father's path and would always live in their father's shadow.
"Master Daddy and I are old acquaintances. Before the psychic age, he was a very famous doctor. He was very kind and was a very good friend of my parents."
Ross smiled as he spoke of his relationship with his dad.
He was born a disability and faced organ failure soon after he was born. Many people thought he would not survive.
His parents cried every day and took him to various hospitals for medical treatment.
In the end, it was the father who stepped in and mobilized a large amount of medical resources to save Ross, who was still a baby at the time.
It can be said that all over the world, there are people who owe their fathers one or even several lives.
This is also the reason why Su Xia has such a bad reputation now.
Many people really thought that he betrayed his father, and they hated him very much, attacking him on various online platforms every day.
"In this era, many people have their own pursuits." Ross said to Su Xia, "Your current journey ends here, and you go pursue your own future."
"Um……"
Su Xia understood that this was also what his father meant.
Ross added: "If I guess correctly, what you are looking for should be the truth, right?"
"Yes." Su Xia nodded, and then asked Ross: "What is yours? To treat your body?"
“Yes, but it’s more than that.”
Ross smiled and patted the side of his wooden chair.
With a "click" sound, the wooden chair under him began to deform. Only the surface was made of wood, and the interior was made of metal.
These metal structures slowly fitted his body, covering his shrunken arms and torso, closing layer by layer, and finally becoming a set of mechanical armor of normal human height.
He just stood up like that, at the height of a normal person, with a free smile on his face.
"This era is bad, but it also has good sides, such as the development of mechanical technology." He looked down at his mechanical arm and said slowly.
"That's true." Su Xia nodded slightly.
"This mecha was also tailor-made for me by members of Master Dad's team. My previous suit was rather bulky, so they replaced it with brand new materials for me."
With this mechanical device, it doesn't matter whether his body is treated or not, he can live a normal life.
In this state, only his head looked a little bigger than that of a normal person, but there was nothing abnormal about him in other aspects.
"Now that I have this body, there is only one thing left for me to pursue," Ross said.
"What is it?" Su Xia asked subconsciously.
"Resurrect one person."
"Your relatives?"
"no."
"That's love."
"Not really..."
A trace of bitterness appeared on Ross's face and he shook his head slightly.
Seeing him like this, Su Xia didn't ask any more questions. Everyone has their own story, and some stories are hidden deep in their hearts.
"Master Dad told me that your talent for making potions is even better than his." Ross asked Su Xia sincerely, "Su Xia, my friend, do you think you can develop a potion that can bring people back to life in the future?"
"Difficult, almost impossible..."
Su Xia shook her head. Things like resurrection from the dead were beyond the scope of technology and belonged to the realm of magic.
He paused for a moment, thinking for a while, and then said, "If he has only been dead for a few minutes, maybe he can be saved."
"What if it was a body that was frozen immediately after death?" Ross continued to ask with a glimmer of hope.
"That's difficult." Su Xia said.
"Difficult... but not impossible..."
Ross lowered his eyes and muttered softly.
Su Xia did not say anything else . He looked at the windy and sandy world outside the window and fell into deep thought about future technology.
At this moment, the body in Longcheng suddenly received a message.
The message came from the old dean: "Beifeng, get ready, the city lord wants to see you."
