Xueba at the same table from the future

Chapter 186 The culprit
"That will be a long time later."

"It won't be long, as long as you are with the dog."

The two sat and chatted for a while, until the uncle and Lao Yu had been gone for a long time.

With nothing to do right now, Li Xinxi took Chen Mu's hand and started walking outside this small white building.

"At most, it's just a few times the time of the uncle's injection."

"Thousands of times are also included in the range of these times?"

The dog-headed boy raised his head slightly, and his gaze moved to the open window on the second floor.

"Silly dog, what are you looking at?" Li Xinxi followed suit.

"I'm thinking..." The dog-headed boy's smile deepened: "Are those children with chickenpox on the second floor better now?"

"It should be, it's just chickenpox, it won't take so long to cure." Li Xinxi shifted her gaze to the banyan tree branches beside the two of them.

"The paper airplane that was originally stuck on the tree is no longer visible. It must have been taken down by Bai Duanyun."

"Do you really think that kid will obediently climb up the tree just to get a paper airplane?" Chen Mu led Li Xinxi to sit under the shade of the tree.

"This kid is actually very clever in his heart. He won't do such a useless thing."

"I'm thinking, it should be some kid on the second floor who got out of the hospital and picked it up by himself."

After Chen Mu finished speaking, he pointed to the tip of his nose with his finger. Because of the chickenpox he had in the early years, there were still a few faint yellow spots there.

"Chickenpox is a disease that most people will get once in a lifetime, and only once."

"I got it when I was a child, because it was too itchy and I wanted to scratch it, and then...it became like this."

"It's okay, some spots on the face are actually pretty." Li Xinxi stretched out her hand and gently scratched Chen Mu's nose.

"I haven't had any illness since I was a child. After all, getting sick in Red Star is a very serious thing."

"The harsh natural environment over there makes it difficult for most bacteria and viruses to survive, and what remains are some fatal diseases."

Li Xinxi sighed softly after saying that, raised her head again and glanced at the white building in front of her, with a little fear in her shining eyes.

"On the contrary, after coming here, I have suffered from a lot of minor illnesses like colds, but... I haven't had any illnesses like chicken pox yet."

"How do you feel... Xixi, you still look like you have chickenpox, this is not a good idea." Chen Mu stretched out his hand to smooth his hair.

"No, I don't want to, I...I just want to know what it would be like to be infected with this disease." Li Xinxi's tone was lighter.

"In our world, everyone will experience many kinds of diseases in their life, large and small. Chickenpox is special and will leave a deep impression on people."

"If you suffer from this disease, you will feel weak and weak, with itching all over your body, accompanied by large and small red rashes on your body, which makes you want to scratch."

"Of course..." Chen Mu touched his nose and paused, "The result is what my face looks like."

"Hehehe, come on, I won't dislike these little spots." Li Xinxi ignored the sad expression on Chen Mu's face.

"Dog, I read in the book that there was a disease that was quite similar to chicken pox in the previous Blue Star, but much more dangerous."

"Xixi, you mean smallpox? It is indeed a terrible infectious disease. When it is at its worst..."

"A European pandemic in the eighteenth century that lasted for decades killed almost 6000 million people."

"Is it scary?"

"Nearly 6000 million?"

Hearing this answer, Chen Mu expected that the picture of Li Xinxi's big mouth never happened.

The girl in the yellow skirt paused for a moment, then tilted her head to look at the dog-headed boy beside her who was still talking.

"Dog, do you know how many people survived in Red Star in the year of Nirvana?"

"one tenth?"

Chen Mu couldn't help recalling the terrifying scene of the black beast horde in the game.

"No, the exact number is three percent." Li Xinxi pushed the spectacle lenses twice: "This is even just the number of attenuation in the first year."

"As for the subsequent figures, there is no way to count them." The girl in the yellow skirt put her head closer to Chen Mu's shoulder.

"In fact, my sister and I have never experienced all the above things. Only half a year after the Nirvana happened, we were forced to sleep."

"Until... the scene I saw was that doomsday picture." Li Xinxi pointed to the immaculate white room on the second floor.

"That disaster happened for many years, but it lasted only a short moment in our memory."

"Actually, that period of time will be very confusing and helpless. In that case, it is actually difficult for a person to find the meaning of living."

"But my sister is different..." As soon as the words changed, Li Xinxi's eyes gradually glowed.

"Sister, since she woke up, all she has accepted is one order. Although the person who issued the order is no longer there, she still carries out it without distraction."

"In this kind of matter, my sister's performance is indeed what those people call it."

"Those people call them the same? What are they called?" After hearing Li Xinxi's long words, Chen Mu couldn't help but tilt his head.

"war machine."

Li Xinxi's complexion changed suddenly, and he spelled out the word word by word in a cold tone.

"War Machine?" Chen Mu repeated the word, and looked up at the ward on the second floor.

"This, Xixi, is the reason why you looked at this building with fear from just now?" The dog-headed boy held the hand of the girl in yellow skirt beside him even tighter.

"I've heard that some people suffer from war symptoms after going through something like this, and it's a huge psychological and physical change."

"Don't worry, silly dog, this won't happen. After all, the war my sister and I experienced didn't involve many people."

"Because what I face every day are the extreme devouring beasts, and the overwhelming polar devouring beasts will naturally become quite numb after a long time."

"It is precisely because of this that when she met No. [-] again, my sister's heart was actually a little turbulent."

"But she did that anyway, and she did that without hesitation, just to fulfill an order that has long since expired."

"Kill No. [-]?"

Chen Mu took the red keypad out of his pocket and turned to the page of the game.

"Yes, kill No. [-]." Li Xinxi suddenly let out a long sigh.

"No. [-] is an extremely special creature."

"Gouzi, do you know how the creature called the Pole Devourer originated?"

Seeming to have thought of something suddenly, Li Xinxi no longer delved further into this topic, but instead asked a different question.

"How did it originate? It couldn't have come out of the ground, right? This overwhelmingly terrifying creature."

Chen Mu wiped the cold sweat off Li Xinxi's forehead, although he didn't ask any questions, but his doubts about the number four in his heart grew a little bit.

"Emerging from the ground, that also makes sense."

"That's why I said, Gouzi, you have a very rich imagination." Li Xinxi held up her glasses, and when she spoke again, her words were filled with extremely obvious hatred.

"The origin of a creature like the Pole Devourer, its chief culprit—"

"It's because of humans."

(End of this chapter)