Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

"That is to say, let him become a mutant?" Celeste hadn't followed up on the t-virus experiment much, and he didn't think of this possibility under the panic.

"Yes, with an injury like his, it is basically impossible to survive with the recovery ability of ordinary humans. Even if you save your life, you will inevitably be disabled or even paralyzed. And the genes of mutants are implanted partly from The gene fragments of other organisms, with their recovery ability, this level of injury is not a problem at all, you can see that after Beethoven's right hand was broken, it didn't take long for it to grow back."

Celeste doesn't care if Fu Yunlan becomes a mutant or some other creature, the most important thing is that he can survive now, but considering other issues, Celeste still doesn't immediately agree.

The human experiment volunteers that He Xiao mentioned undoubtedly refer to the soldiers of the base. These people have lived in the base since childhood. Even though He Xiao has never given them so-called brainwashing education, they still have unconditional loyalty to the base. , after seeing the comparison between the current situation of the world and the life in the base, they regard the base as the hope of mankind, and are willing to die for this noble and great cause at any time, even if they are asked to participate in this experiment with a mortality rate as high as 90.00%. Nor would they frown.

To He Xiao, they are just numbers, and they are "consumables" that were originally prepared for war, but Celeste didn't want them to end their lives in this way, and he didn't understand why he felt this way , I can only think that my way of thinking has been somewhat influenced by Fu Yunlan.

After Fu Yunlan regained consciousness, if he knew that in order to save his life, dozens or hundreds of soldiers who were not supposed to die were sacrificed for human experiments, even if he didn't say it, he would feel sad in his heart.

"What are you hesitating about, can you tell me?" He Xiao looked at his face with no change of expression with interest.

"With the leech-like recovery ability of mutants, it should be able to recover from any trauma, including the trauma caused by nuclear radiation, right?" Celeste said, "I thought of a more suitable test subject."

"Those people?" He Xiao immediately thought of who he was talking about, "If they are allowed to make the first batch of test products, it is true that some unnecessary waste of population can be avoided, but it will take extra time Get them to the base, are you sure you want to choose this plan?"

"I'm sure," Thurlist said.

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Since it was already a waste of time, Celeste didn't want to waste even a second. Although he was still wrapped in bandages, he insisted on taking a special plane to the nuclear radiation area near Hummingbird Town.

It has been more than a year since Celeste came to the radiation area last time, Dandy's body is completely broken, and he can only lie on the bed, waiting for the last moment to come.

"Would you like something to eat?" Hans put an open can of fruit beside his pillow.

Dandy wanted to speak, but there was only a gurgling noise from his throat. He shook his head weakly and rejected Hans' kindness, and fumbled out of his arms to take out the photo that had been kept for many years. The red-haired girl smiled as usual. He looked at it reluctantly for a while, sighed, and threw the photo into the brazier beside the bed.

Hans poured him a glass of wine, took out a few pills and threw them into the glass, and he put the glass on the bedside: "If you can't take it anymore, just drink it, I'll take care of the rest."

"Hmm..." Dandy grunted in response, Hans shook his head and stood up, dragging his legs and walking outside, only to hear the sound of propellers in the air.

He raised his head and saw a helicopter approaching quickly, and its dragonfly-like mechanical feet stopped on the uneven ruins.

The fighters wearing full-body protective suits got off the plane, and the residents in the ruins just watched dully, and didn't even hide for a moment. They had no will to survive, and they didn't even have decent weapons, so they didn't resist. The ground was gathered together like a herd of sheep by heavily armed soldiers.

There was only one man holding a pistol and trying to resist these unknown intruders, but he was quickly pushed down by the soldiers before he could fire a single shot. When Celeste got off the plane, the man raised his hand in disbelief. Face: "Thelister...is that you, Thelister?"

Although the man's face had grown many red patches and peeling marks, Celeste still recognized his appearance: "Modal?"

This man, who can be regarded as Celeste's adoptive father, once went to Hummingbird Town to ask Celeste to take him in. After being turned away, there was no news. He was not surprised that Celeste survived. It doesn't matter whether the officer's man becomes a bandit or finds other survivor forces, as long as he doesn't want to set himself up on another mountain, someone will take him in, but he didn't expect that he would end up in the radiation zone and wait to die .

"Yes, it's me!" Modal shouted excitedly, "I saw on the flyer I picked up that you were crowned king by the Blue Shield Base. I am very happy for you, and your mother will be proud of you too. ! Celeste, wait a minute!"

Celeste had no intention of stopping to chat with him, but let the soldiers control him and the others, and walked straight into the wreckage of the dilapidated building regardless of his shouts, and came to Dandy's bedside.

"Dandy." Celeste called him softly.

Dandy opened his cloudy eyes and recognized Celeste through the mask of the protective suit. He made a hoarse voice with difficulty: "Ah... sweetheart, you really came back to see me..."

"You're dying..." Celeste could see that his physical condition had reached the point of exhaustion.

"Yeah, if you come two days later, maybe I'll be nothing but ashes." Dandy exhaled with a sigh, his chest rumbling like a bellows as he did so, " It's great to be able to look at a beauty like you before dying..."

"I'm not here to say goodbye to you." Celeste said, "My laboratory has extracted a virus from mutants, which may restore your body to its best state after modification, and Possess the physical strength and fighting power of mutants, are you willing to try?"

"Ahem...so sweetheart is so powerful..." Dandy coughed with a smile, obviously every minute of his life was a torture for him, "I can still recover... I dare not even dream Good idea..."

"This is just a case of success, and there is a high possibility of failure. We still need to conduct some human experiments to improve the success rate of this virus." Celeste said truthfully, "If it fails, you may die, or what happens Uncontrollable variation."

"It doesn't matter... Anyway, I'm going to die anyway, just use me as an experiment." Dandy smiled and said, "If you're lucky, you might have a chance to be born again. It's a good deal no matter what. I There is only one request..."

"You say it."

"If something strange happens to me... you have to promise that you will kill me and not let me live as a monster..."

"Okay, I promise." Celeste looked at Dandy. Given his current state of health, he might not be able to wait for the results of the human experiment. He can only be made the first batch of test subjects with the lowest probability of survival. This made Celeste feel a little lost.

Celeste also gave other people a chance to choose. Most of them chose to fight for the small probability. Modar also chose to be a test subject. There were still a few people who chose to linger for a few years and then After dying of illness, Celeste did not force them, and took Dandy and others back to the base.

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After returning to the base, Celeste plunged into the laboratory, handed over everything else to He Xiao, and began to work overtime to conduct human experiments on the t-virus.

Although he had not participated in this project before, he got started faster than anyone else. The test products from the nuclear ruins were injected with the first batch of reagents. A few days later, volunteers in the army were injected with the improved second batch. The first batch of reagents, followed by the third batch, the fourth batch, and by the time the fifth batch of reagents were produced, the success rate of mutation had reached over 99%.

During this period, Fu Yunlan had been floating in the culture solution, and various instruments dutifully maintained his basic vital signs.Celeste didn't want him to see his crippled body, and he didn't want him to endure the pain, so he deliberately didn't let him wake up. Day by day, Fu Yunlan didn't know what was going on in the outside world Variety.

Until he felt an indescribably severe pain throughout his body, as if his whole body had been skinned and bones removed, and every cell had been crushed and reorganized once.

He heard Case's dispassionate voice: "The respiratory system is normal, the circulatory system is normal, the nervous system is activated normally, nerve reflexes are beginning to appear, the hearing system is normal, the visual system is normal..."

Fu Yunlan opened his eyes. He felt that something was wrong with him. After a moment of sluggishness, he slowly remembered the man who launched the suicide attack and the sudden explosion. He remembered that he used his body to protect Celeste, and then...

He had regained consciousness on the way back to the base, knowing that he was badly injured and that his entire right hand was gone, and now, he stretched out his right hand and slowly clenched and loosened it, looking at the new wound on the back of his hand in bewilderment. The skin that grew out still looked a little tender, and even the old scars that were used to it were gone.

"Blue." The isolation door of the laboratory opened, and Celeste, who was wearing a lab coat, walked in and looked at him with the same expressionless face as before, "What do you think, can you stand up?"

"Serli...Ste..." Fu Yunlan made an awkward voice, "What's wrong with me?"