Chapter 471: Underground Water (1/2)
Chapter 471: Underground Water
Translator: EndlessFantasy TranslationEditor: EndlessFantasy Translation
”Li... Little girl, then how did you come out?” Wu Qianru tried to ask further.
”Ah, I have no idea. I slept for a moment and when I woke up I was already underground. I then started digging a tunnel, and kept digging and digging and after a long time I was able to emerge onto the surface.” The little girl spoke as she tilted her head while she was recalling the incident.
The two ladies were frightened after listening to what she had said and even though what the little girl said did not seem to be in proper English, it was still comprehensible. What exactly had she experienced during the disaster?
She could have possibly been hurt by the nuclear missile shockwave while she was asleep and by the time she woke up, without a doubt, her body would have been buried by volcanic ashes as the lava cooled down.
If everything she said was true, despite having such a frail and weak body, she certainly possessed an immense amount of some power. However, regardless of whether it was her innocent expression or the fact that she had been buried in the layers of ice, you could obviously tell she was not lying. It was simply a cruel deed to have just deserted such a little girl in the frozen wasteland.
Even though it could cause some complications if they brought her back to Hope City, her capabilities were still within their scope of comprehension as compared to Luo Yuan’s who could single handedly destroy the aliens. His powers were certainly beyond their reach. They looked into each other’s eyes, and had come to an understanding. Such a little monster should be handed over to a big monster like Luo Yuan to worry about.
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In just a short time, the little girl had decided to follow them back to Hope City with no ulterior motives. As the three of them started talking while they were on their journey home, more and more information had been revealed by the little girl.
She had no name and no parents. Other than a number that did not have any special meaning, nothing else seemed to have been able to identify her. Similarly, according to the little girl, her brothers and sisters were the same. They were a bunch of children who had special powers and lived in a laboratory with the same level of education and upbringing.
After pondering for a short while, Lin Feiyan believed that the little girl was a human clone. She was not surprised as the apocalypse was a crazy era. When good and evil people were forced into survival mode, there was no longer a difference between them and she had heard rumors of many crazier experiments than human cloning itself. In fact, in some human experiments, the mortality rate was one person each month. However, all those were merely rumors and this was the first time she had met a real clone.
According to the little girl, there were no dark places, no medication, injections, or any operations involved, just a stricter military management.
”Oh right… How old are you?” Lin Feiyan asked as she was curious.
The little girl touched her head and started to think, ”Aunty, I think I’m nine months and twenty days! I was asleep for some time underground so possibly a few days older…”
”You are not even a year old?” Lin Feiyan was so surprised that she missed a step and almost fell. She looked at the little girl and was definitely sure that she looked like a five or six year old girl. Besides that, when she was talking earlier, her speech was so fluent and clear that even if she were a five or six-year-old child, she sounded like an adult.
A normal human child would have only started to learn how to speak at the age of one!
Was she even human?
Wu Jingru was also shocked and her face showed disbelief.
”I'm considered one of the faster-growing ones. Most of my younger brother and sisters grew at a slower rate.” She said. She seemed to notice the expression on both of their faces and the little girl lowered her head and blushed.
”Then how about the others? Are they as clever as you are?” Lin Feiyan asked.
”No, some are stupid. For example, brother A51621 only knows how to play and would not even complete the homework prepared by the teacher. He didn't even complete primary education while I have completed my secondary education and am currently pursuing my tertiary education.” The little girl said proudly.
”Then... You are really clever!” Lin Feiyan said as she was rendered speechless knowing that she herself was a slow learner during her younger days. Instinctively, she changed the subject and asked, ”Since you've been alone for such a long time, what have you been eating every day?”
”I haven’t eaten for months but sometimes when I am thirsty I would eat the ice. The ice was very dirty but I could not hold my thirst so I ended up swallowing a chunk of it. How pitiful!” The little girl said. She started recalling her misfortunes and twitched her mouth, then tears started to drop from her cheeks.
Both girls started to feel sorry for her after hearing her tale and started to console her. They immediately stopped their journey, put down their backpacks and started preparing some food for her as the little girl had not eaten in months.
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”Mayor, please have a look at the results of the underground geology analysis.” An engineer carefully passed over a stack of documents to Luo Yuan. Luo Yuan’s face turned emotionless as he flipped through the layouts. He tried to suppress his anger and asked with a deep voice, ”Is this your report!? How did it become so serious!?”