Chapter Seventy-Six: Infants
Zheng Rui took the clothes and pulled Fang Tong to the stools arranged in a row next to him and sat down.
Zheng Rui: Comrade Fang Tong, you can rest here for a while, and I'll go to the dressing room to try on clothes first.
Fang Tong: Go ahead, I'm fine.
Rui: If you feel dizzy, you can withdraw some of the abilities you put on me.
Fang Tong: You can't take such a riskβyou leave me alone, I can do it.
Zheng Rui glanced at the male high school student who was watching them next to him, he was much shorter than Zuo Youcheng, and he really looked a bit like a girl.
"Or ...... Shall I pour you some water? "He was looked at a little embarrassed.
"No need." Zheng Rui didn't think he was threatening for the time being, "I'm going to change my clothes, please help me take a look." β
Then she took a set of school uniforms and sneakers she had picked for herself into the locker room, and quickly changed out of her torn and bloodstained clothes.
It feels good to put on clean and complete clothes and put your feet in comfortable sneakers β that's what civilized people feel.
But because there was still standing water in the basement, she switched back to plastic slippers. Wait until you go outside and wear your sneakers, otherwise the sneakers won't dry well if they get into the water.
Zheng Rui walked out with her sneakers and looked at Fang Tong who was sitting on a stool.
Fang Tong: Are the shoes not suitable?
Zheng Rui: Yes, it's just that there's water on the ground - it's time for you to change your clothes.
Fang Tong: Hmm.
On the surface, Zheng Rui walked over in silence, Fang Tong got up from the stool in silence, and then walked to the locker room with a set of girls' school uniforms he had picked for him.
The door to the locker room was closed, and after a while, Fang Tong came out wearing a beige short-sleeved shirt and dark blue culottes, looking very calm.
Objectively speaking, it is probably because he is originally thin and long, but in fact, he is not very disobedient.
Zheng Rui: It's good-looking.
Fang Tong: You don't have to comfort me like that.
Rui: I mean really β you know I'm in a state of passive peace right now, and I'm not joking.
Fang Tong: Yes...... Really?
She saw that Fang Tong's face was a little red, although her mood fluctuations were limited under the maintenance of her ability, so it was only a little.
Zheng Rui turned her head and looked at the girl who was a little embarrassed on the side, she didn't ask the key question: "You put that ...... Aliens, locked up in a bomb shelter? β
"Yes......" replied the boy, "I saw it in the dugout, and it almost ate meβif I hadn't gone out and locked the door first." β
In this way, the blood on the doorknob should be his, and he is the so-called healing type, so he can survive when he is alone and sheds so much blood. There is nothing wrong with this logic.
"Why are you going back to school for the summer?" Zheng Rui asked.
The answer to the question "because ......" seemed a little difficult for him to say, but he told the truth anyway, "I came back to find my phone, which was confiscated in PE class and should be kept in the office on the playground podium." β
According to the layout of the school's playground, the rostrum is above the bomb shelter, so it is logical that he went to the bomb shelter after the rostrum disappeared.
"And you're going to stay here after all this happened?" Zheng Rui asked again, "Didn't you see anyone?" β
"People? I initially thought there was no one else around here for a few kilometers but me. The boy seemed to think of something, "Oh, yes, there are other people." In addition to you, there were indeed a few people on the road to the east two days ago. β
"How many?" Zheng Rui hurriedly asked.
"Like...... It's seven, yes, seven. The boy said.
"Do you see clearly?" Zheng Rui asked in more detail, "Did you see them coming from the north?" Seven of them when they came from the north? β
"...... from the north," the boy thought for a moment, "it seems to be more when you come from the north...... Ten people possible? β
"And then? When they returned from the south, there were only seven left? Zheng Rui then asked.
"No, they didn't come back from the south." The boy corrected, "They didn't follow the road, they just appeared on the north road...... It looks like they live in that picking garden on the east side of North Road. β
"And how many men did you see when they entered the garden and when they came out of it?" Zheng Rui asked more explicitly.
The boy in the women's school uniform scratched his head in embarrassment: "How can I remember this clearly?" All I can say is ...... The number of people who came out seemed to be smaller than those who entered. β
That's not good.
Zheng Rui: Those four people may have died in the picking garden.
Fang Tong: What do you mean?
Zheng Rui: They have been made into a breeding ground for the incubation of the third generation of aliens.
Fang Tong: So...... Just around here, there is a third-generation alien?
Zheng Rui: Yes.
Fang Tong: But aliens are actually "people", so the third generation of aliens...... It's just a baby, right?
Zheng Rui: Even if it's a baby, they will hunt us. And they're also getting stronger.
Although it seems that the "aliens" are also intelligent races, no matter what the reason is for them and humans to kill each other, as long as they don't stop, as human beings, they will also not be able to strive for peace.
- That's right, even if there is no united front within the human race, how can there be peace between the two races.
What's more, as humans have evolved through supernatural abilities to become more powerful, the first generation of aliens has been almost killed. The newly-born second- and third-generation aliens may be just "babies" as Fang Tong thinks, and "babies" are even less likely to understand what an intelligent race is, they will only treat humans as prey.
And fortunately, they are just "babies", which can reduce the guilt that Zheng Rui felt when he killed them.
Human beings are the sum of social relations, and it should be similar to extraterrestrials. Therefore, a "baby" who has only been born for a few hours has relatively fewer "human" attributes than the first generation of aliens who may have lived for a long time and have their own jobs and loved ones, and are closer to beasts.
Zheng Rui thought that maybe she should change her strategy.
As an alien intelligent race brought to this place, the aliens may know more about the truth about the "end times". She should try to ask the first generation of Xenomorphs, maybe somehow they can make them understand that humans are also intelligent races, and then they should have a certain chance that they will be willing to communicate with her.
After all, although the initial alien's individual combat ability was stronger than that of humans, it seems that there are still more humans now, and human abilities are also evolving. If this continues, at least for a while, the aliens and humans will still be able to maintain an even match, and the aliens will inevitably suffer heavy casualties. As individuals with certain social experience, the first generation of Xenomorphs should be able to understand that they are not the beneficiaries of this war, and since this is the case, there is no reason to refuse to communicate with Zheng Rui.
But the search for the first generation of Xenomorphs alive will have to be done as soon as possible - it is now clear that the longer it drags on, the fewer the first generation of Xenomorphs will be killed.