Chapter 754: Genetic Hope

"It's Du Peng who is back."

"Open the shelter gate and let Du Peng and the others in."

Several people walked into a spacious cave. Directly in front of the cave were four heavy, incomparable gates, with many scratches from monsters on them. Obviously, in many past nights, this place had also suffered attacks from monsters.

It was just that the monsters couldn't break through this sturdy steel gate; after all, this place was once a military fortress, and such a gate could even withstand missile attacks.

Accompanied by one of the gates slowly opening.

A passage appeared before their eyes.

In the passage, dim yellow lights were on, the air was turbid, and it was filled with a sour and foul smell, because there were too many survivors living here, exceeding the upper limit that this shelter could bear, so the living environment here was not very good.

But at the very least, it was relatively safe, and there was no need to worry about those biochemical monsters invading.

Du Peng, Huang Qiu, Xu Li, and Liu Gao, the four people, each holding a box, walked into the shelter. Although they brought back precious medicine, their expressions were not happy, but very solemn.

Because this time, they had more important things to do.

"Du Peng, where is your truck?" a guard asked: "How did you lose the truck after going out for a trip?"

"It broke down halfway, so I had to abandon it. However, this time I brought back medicine from a city a hundred kilometers away," Du Peng said.

Medicine?

Hearing this, the nearby guards' eyes lit up immediately, and then they swarmed over in unison.

A dozen people surrounded them all at once.

"Really? You actually searched for medicine?" These guards didn't believe it, but they hoped very much that this matter was true, because in the shelter, medicine represented life.

Du Peng put down a box of medicine directly: "This time I brought back two boxes of medicine. I checked them; they are all usable antibiotics, alcohol, painkillers, etc., which are very useful. According to the rules, half of the supplies are handed over, and we take the rest back."

He had more important things to do right now and didn't want to waste time on these supplies with these guards, because he wasn't sure how long Li Yi would stay here.

So he had to seize every second.

"Du Peng, you are really straightforward this time. Since that's the case, we won't check. Hurry in." A manager walked over. He glanced at the medicine in the box, revealing a look of surprise, and then greedily grabbed a dozen boxes and kept them for himself.

"Others take one box each, and hand over the rest."

This manager didn't forget his subordinates after taking the benefits.

After the benefits were distributed, this manager looked at the direction Du Peng left, his expression shifting slightly, because he saw a tall stranger mixed into the team.

He wanted to stop him and ask.

But he inexplicably felt a kind of danger, as if doing so would bring him a lot of trouble.

"Forget it."

This manager finally decided that it was better to avoid trouble, and it didn't matter if a stranger mixed into the shelter, as long as it wasn't a biochemical monster.

Li Yi looked at the situation here after walking into the shelter.

The living conditions were indeed very bad.

There were many survivors, supplies were scarce, and just living was not easy. A room was full of people. Even with ventilation pipes, a difficult-to-smell odor permeated the air.

And many people's physical conditions were not good, more or less having some diseases.

This was caused by long-term living in the shelter and malnutrition.

Most importantly, there were not many children here, and the birth rate was frighteningly low. According to this situation, even without the influence of monsters, walking toward extinction was only a matter of time.

Although Li Yi had been to many worlds, this No. 17 world was the worst in his view.

Du Peng led several people and soon arrived at a separate residence. This place was used to store weapons in the military base before, but now it had been transformed into a large room, and many people lived inside.

"It's Du Peng who is back. That's great."

The people here were happy to see Du Peng, because not everyone in the shelter was qualified to go out to search for supplies. Besides needing manpower, the most important thing was to have weapons.

Weapons were not used to deal with monsters, but to fight for the right to go out.

"Little Ma, take these few boxes of medicine and exchange them for some food." Du Peng took three boxes of medicine, handed them to a teenager in his teens, and said.

"I'll go right away." The teenager called Little Ma was very excited. After taking the medicine, he ran away quickly.

Du Peng then walked quickly toward a single bed with a bed curtain hanging, and said: "Sister, it's me, Du Peng. I'm back. Are you feeling any better?"

"Cough, cough." A weak cough sounded. As the bed curtain was pulled open, a dead-looking woman was currently lying on the bed, unable to move.

"Huang Qiu, take the antibiotics over and feed them to my sister immediately." Du Peng said immediately.

"Okay." The woman called Huang Qiu immediately found the antibiotics from the medicine, and then someone handed over water.

However, at this moment, Li Yi just took a look and said: "It's useless. It's too late. The condition has worsened very seriously, and it's not something a few antibiotics can save."

As soon as these words were spoken, Huang Qiu, who was holding the medicine, froze.

She looked at Li Yi, not doubting the truth of this sentence, because Li Yi was a god-like figure and couldn't lie to humble survivors like them in such matters.

"How could this be? It looked fine yesterday." Du Peng, a man who had survived in the apocalypse for many years, also panicked at this moment.

"It's because your sister's previous state was faked, just to worry about you risking your life to search for medicine for her outside. Yesterday, it was because she really couldn't hold on anymore and fainted..." A middle-aged woman on the side hesitated for a moment, but finally told the truth.

People were about to die, so there was no need to hide anything.

Hearing this, Du Peng trembled, and tears flowed down involuntarily. 【75

The young woman on the hospital bed was now delirious, unable to even stay conscious, only letting out a few weak coughs from time to time.

But then, Du Peng suddenly thought of something and abruptly knelt down before Li Yi, his head hitting the ground with a heavy thud. He understood that in this situation, only Li Yi could create a miracle and bring his sister back from the brink of death.

"Get up, no need to kneel. I promise you I will save her." Li Yi sighed at this moment; he was a person who simply couldn't stand to see such partings of life and death or the suffering of the world.

After all, he had only been cultivating for a few years, and before him, he had also been a bottom-tier worker struggling in Tianchang City, so he resonated deeply with these matters.

"Tell them all to move aside and clear a space for me," Li Yi said.

Immediately, Huang Qiu, Liu Gao, and Xu Li drove the people nearby away, leaving a large open space in the middle for Li Yi.

Li Yi then took a Life Repair Pod out from his Red Gold Five Elements Bracelet.

"Carry her into the pod," Li Yi said.

The woman named Huang Qiu walked over immediately and carefully picked up the woman on the hospital bed.

"Luckily she isn't dead yet; she still has a breath left, otherwise I wouldn't be able to do anything," Li Yi remarked. "Lan Ji."

His fifth-generation intelligent system, Lan Ji, still had a backup.

"Master, I am here." Lan Ji's voice rang out inside the Life Repair Pod.

"Help heal the person in front of me," Li Yi said.

"Understood, Master."

After receiving the order, Lan Ji immediately began a full-body scan of the terminally ill woman and started the healing process.

At this moment, many survivors nearby were watching this scene, feeling incredibly amazed.

Because no one knew how such a large pod had suddenly appeared before them, nor had they ever imagined that such high-tech items existed in this world; even before the catastrophe, technology had not reached this level.

As the Life Repair Pod began to operate.

Very quickly.

The woman, who originally would not have survived the day, began to recover at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This was the unreasonable part of the technology from World No. 6.

Even if you only had a head left, the Life Repair Pod could still save you.

Only a few minutes had passed.

"Healing complete. The patient has recovered."

Lan Ji's voice echoed, the Life Repair Pod opened, and the woman who had been in a coma slowly opened her eyes and regained consciousness.

Her skin was fair, her complexion rosy, her face radiant, and she looked impossibly healthy.

The whole person seemed to have been reborn.

You must know that the Life Repair Pod could not only cure illnesses and restore severed limbs, but it could also fix physical defects, such as erasing scars, treating nearsightedness, adjusting bone structure, and if you were willing, even changing the size of your 'brother'.

Of course, Li Yi certainly did not need that function.

"Sister, are you okay?" Du Peng was incredibly excited at this moment.

This was truly a god-like method; a person on the verge of death had been saved just like that.

"I think my illness is gone." The woman touched her face, feeling her own transformation, and found it unbelievable.

Being bedridden for half a month and recovering to health in a few minutes—this feeling was very strange.

"If you two siblings want to catch up, do it on the side. Since we've already used the Life Repair Pod, let's just go ahead and make you Gene Warriors. I wonder who will go first?" Li Yi then took out several vials of gene serum.

Although they were only primary gene serums, if combined with the Evolution Method, they could break through genetic barriers and allow one to grow into a Level 9 Gene Warrior in the future.

In other worlds, the strength of a Gene Warrior certainly wouldn't be much to look at, but in this world, a Level 9 Gene Warrior was enough to walk sideways.

"I'll do it."

Huang Qiu, standing to the side, immediately volunteered, walking over without the slightest hesitation.

Li Yi glanced at her and nodded slightly. "Good determination. You were willing to cooperate with me even without knowing what a Gene Warrior is. Very good, I appreciate people like you."

The Wasteland Biochemical World was not without its merits.

At the very least, the people of this world had high awareness and dared to struggle and sacrifice.

"Lie inside. This is gene serum from World No. 6, not some twisted biochemical modification. Gene serum can enhance your genes and turn you from an ordinary person into a superhuman—of course, becoming a superhuman takes time."

Li Yi handed over a vial of gene serum. Lan Ji controlled the nano-metal tentacles of the Life Repair Pod to catch the serum, and then began the genetic injection.

"It's just that the bodies of ordinary people are too weak to withstand the side effects of genetic injection. The worst-case scenario is that your body will collapse and you will die. Even so, are you willing to try?"

"I am not afraid of death, because I still want to follow you to change this world," Huang Qiu said very firmly while lying in the Life Repair Pod.

"Haha, interesting. I'm looking forward to the future of you people." Li Yi laughed.

As the gene serum was injected.

Huang Qiu, who had been calm just a moment ago, suddenly opened her eyes wide and let out a painful wail, her veins bulging and her skin turning bright red.

Li Yi did not let Lan Ji control the Life Repair Pod to eliminate her pain; he wanted the survivors here to see this scene.

Without the determination to face death, don't even think about changing this apocalyptic world.

Although, with the Life Repair Pod present, Huang Qiu would not die, these survivors did not know that.

Because in Li Yi's view, cowards were not worthy of obtaining this power.

(End of chapter)