Resurrection of all mankind

Chapter 61 Li Xiu's Background

"You live here?" Zhuge Fu asked in surprise, "Have you been staying in the bunker since you were a child?"

"Ah."

Li Xiu was holding a searchlight.

Under the light, you can see a flash of reminiscence in his eyes.

While walking, he deliberately slowed down his pace and looked around as he walked.

Occasionally, he would touch those facilities that had been weathered and damaged due to their age, and he would show a rare expression of emotion.

"Ugh"

In the end, all the infinite emotion in his heart turned into a deep sigh.

Seeing this, Zhuge Fu couldn't help but tease, "I didn't realize you were such a person with a lot of stories."

Li Xiu didn't reply, but just walked deeper into the bunker.

Following behind him, Xie Shen and others unknowingly arrived at a room of about ten square meters in size.

It is not difficult to tell from the weathered and rotten bed placed inside that this is most likely a bedroom.

At least it used to be.

house.

Xie Shen looked around.

He could no longer suppress his curiosity and asked Li Xiu, "If I remember correctly, you were born in 1980, right? There was no war back then, and everything was fine. Why did you want to live underground?"

Li Xiu still did not respond, but used his hands as a ruler and measured carefully from the corner of the wall forward.

After estimating the distance to about two meters, he suddenly took out a tool and knocked a tile off the ground.

——But buried under the tiles was a black iron sheet nearly the size of a palm.

Li Xiu attached the iron sheet to his personal terminal.

The next second, the personal terminal that read the data from the iron sheet began to project the image onto the wall.

The scene in the picture looks like a laboratory.

The laboratory is very simply furnished.

It's easy to tell from the way the staff members dress that it's the style of the 20s.

Camera switch.

A glass petri dish appeared on the projection, with a growing baby inside.

Zhuge Fu saw it and asked with interest, "Can babies still grow in a petri dish? If I'm not mistaken, the picture should be around 1980, right? Didn't test-tube babies of that era have to be transferred to the mother's uterus after they developed into a complete form?"

Li Xiu stared at the test-tube baby in the petri dish and said expressionlessly, "The civilian technology announced to the public is indeed as you said."

“But this is a military lab.”

"That makes sense." Zhuge Fu's face showed understanding.

He continued to watch the projection.

in the screen.

Two researchers, one old and one young, in white coats, walked straight to the petri dish.

Among the two.

A slightly younger researcher found a chair nearby and sat down, with a complicated expression, "Dr. Min, is it appropriate for us to treat this child like this?"

"Huh." Dr. Min took a deep breath and said with a complicated expression, "It's indeed inappropriate, but if not this, do you have a better way?"

this.
The young man was speechless, and the present remained silent since ancient times.

Xie Shen and the others felt confused after watching this short scene, so they all subconsciously looked towards Li Xiu.

The latter understood what he meant, so he explained aloud: "The baby in the petri dish is me."

"I have no father or mother, and I grew up in a military laboratory."

"I know it." Xie Shen followed up with another question, "So why did the military train you?"

Li Xiu didn't respond, but just stared at the projection screen and said, "Keep watching, you'll know in a moment."

On the projection screen.

The scene suddenly changed and came directly to the day when Li Xiu was born. Next to the petri dish.

There were still the two researchers, one old and one young. They witnessed the nurse in charge of the delivery taking Li Xiu out of the petri dish.

Li Xiu, who was born not long ago, had a blank expression on his face from beginning to end, and did not cry or make a fuss.

The young researcher said with joy, "This couldn't possibly be successful? This kid really doesn't seem to have any emotions!!"

"Ugh."

Around young researchers.

The doctor surnamed Min suddenly sighed and repeated his previous question: "It should be done, but the question is, is it really appropriate for us to do this to a child?"

Good guy.
After reading this, Xie Shen finally understood why Li Xiu always had such an expressionless face.

——After all this time, it turns out that he really doesn’t have any emotions, and it’s not just a simple character creation.

Not only Xie Shen.

Mag and Zhuge Fu, as well as the other two modified humans present, also realized this.

For a moment, everyone looked at Li Xiu.

Facing everyone's gaze, Li Xiu explained expressionlessly: "In fact, China predicted a long time ago that a tower prison would appear in the future."

“As for how exactly it was predicted, I don’t know.”

"In short, the military has made many countermeasures for this."

"I'm one of them."

"I see." Xie Shen said thoughtfully, "The Tower Prison tortures humans in order to collect black mist in the process."

"Then as a countermeasure: As long as we humans cannot feel pain, the Tower Prison will be helpless against us."

"After all, without pain, there would be no black mist."

Xie Shen looked at Li Xiu and said, "According to this line of thought, the military finally cultivated you. Am I right?"

"Yes." Li Xiu nodded and said calmly: "The full name of this research is 'Pain Shielding Experiment', and I am the product of this experiment."

"But unfortunately, it's not that I can't feel the pain."

"I just don't have emotions."

"When I get hurt, I still feel pain, but I just can't express it."

"My body functions are no different from those of a normal human."

"So from this perspective, the 'pain shielding experiment' was a failure."

in the room.

Just as Xie Shen was talking to Li Xiu, the image on the projection switched again.

This time the screen was no longer of a laboratory, but the small room where Xie Shen and others were currently located.

Li Xiu had grown up at this time.

Looks about 7-8 years old.

He was watching TV in his room. The show on TV was the anime "Dragon Ball" which was very popular in the late 80s.

at the same time.

Dr. Min suddenly walked in from outside the room.

He touched little Li Xiu's head, as if he were treating his own grandson, and said lovingly, "Is this a dragon ball?"

"Every time I come here, you watch this anime."

"Actually, Saint Seiya and the rest are pretty good, too. Why don't you watch something else?"

Little Li Xiu raised his head when he heard this.

He looked at Dr. Min and said expressionlessly, "People in Dragon Ball are always fighting, and there are few emotional scenes. I can understand that."

"Then Saint Seiya talks about friendship and bonds, etc. I don't understand."

this.
Dr. Min was stunned when he heard this.

He stared at little Li Xiu, not knowing what to say for a moment.

(End of this chapter)