When Luo Yuan dived to a depth of close to 1,500 meters, he could already feel that the induction was not far away diagonally below, maybe twenty or thirty meters, maybe just one step away. This kind of mental induction cannot be accurate. Luo Yuan could only make a rough judgment about positioning.
He quickly stopped and opened the space bubble, and a three to four meter diameter hole suddenly appeared in the ground.
Due to the deep isolation of the ground and the influence of geothermal heat, nuclear winter has not affected this place at all. The temperature here has reached more than 40 degrees, which is similar to before the disaster. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why this group of clones has stayed here for a long time.
Luo Yuan carefully sensed the direction and immediately started digging.
The geology here is composed of sedimentary rocks. The flaky rocks like book pages are quite brittle. Under Luo Yuan's huge force, it was almost effortless. From time to time, he could see some bits of rock among the gravel. Traces of shells and aquatic plants show that the reconstruction area and the Taklimakan Desert where it is located were still a vast ocean hundreds of millions of years ago.
After digging only a few meters, Luo Yuan keenly discovered that the nearby rocks had been completely shattered by some man-made force and became extremely dense. This phenomenon made him happy, which showed that these clones were not far away. .
He immediately quickened his movements and continued digging for less than ten meters when he heard a roar and smoke and dust flying.
In addition to the annoying dust, there was also a stench similar to that of corpses. He seemed to have thought of something, and his heart sank. He immediately ducked in with his short body. This was a small and cramped cave with only one foot high. Mi 2.
He had to squat down to barely enter.
This is not surprising to Luo Yuan. This is underground and is sealed all around. Rocks cannot be transported outside, making ordinary excavation impossible. If you want to open up a space, you can only compress the nearby rocks. Every inch of space you open up, It is a huge project, time-consuming and labor-intensive.
The cave here is long, narrow and slightly tortuous, and can only accommodate one person. The total area is only two or three square meters.
However, this was not what Luo Yuan was concerned about. What he saw in front of him shocked him and made his heart heavy.
He saw clones lying on the ground in various directions. There were thirteen children in total. The youngest of these children looked to be only one or two years old, while the older ones were four or five years old.
Eight of them have completely lost contact with him, and without exception they are all smaller clones.
Luo Yuan was a little ashamed of the darkness of human nature that he had thought of before. Their corpses were still roughly intact, but the skin was slightly rotten, and there was a faint stench on the surface.
Obviously, these dead individuals do not have fusion bodies. They cannot survive for long in a bad environment without air or food. They may not be able to persist here for half a day before they die.
What makes Luo Yuan slightly strange is how these relatively weak survivability people could escape here together, but this problem is not urgent right now.
He looked at the other clones that still had the breath of life. These surviving individuals were not in good condition. Each one was skinny and skinny, like a skeleton. They were lying next to each other, seeming to have entered a dormant state and stopped completely. He could no longer feel his breathing or even his heartbeat. If Luo Yuan hadn't been able to sense him mentally, he might have thought he was dead.
It had been three or four months since the disaster. Such a long period of time without water or food had obviously brought their bodies to the brink of collapse.
In fact, the lack of food is secondary. The most important thing is the lack of water. Once there is no water, cold fusion cannot be synthesized. And this cave obviously has no water at all. It even caused a circle to form nearby due to excessive squeezing of the surrounding rock walls. The high-density water-absorbing layer makes the air here extremely dry.
Luo Yuan used his will to check the physical condition of one of the clones. The condition was quite bad. His cells had shriveled up, a large amount of water had been lost in the cell fluid, and the fusion reaction in the mitochondria had also become vague.
The blood in the body has almost coagulated, countless red blood cells are crowded together, and most of them have died. The remaining water and nutrients are scarce by other cells. In other words, his body has entered the self-eating stage.
If it continues to be delayed, once even the internal organs begin to be extensively damaged, death will not be far away.
"Fortunately, it's not too late!"
Luo Yuan's heart was heavy but also a little lucky. Without hesitation, he immediately started warp flight and quickly sent the survivors off the ground together.
As for those corpses, he left them in this undisturbed cave. There is no better tomb than this one that is 1,500 meters deep underground.
At this time, hail was still falling outside. Luo Yuan considered that their bodies were extremely weak and might not even be able to withstand the cold outside, so he returned directly to Hope City without stopping.
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Luo Yuan's villa.
A group of people surrounded the five mummy-like children, feeling both curious and a little creepy.
"Mayor Luo, these children have been hungry for a long time, their consciousness has gone into shock, and various organs in the body have stopped working. They can only slowly recuperate their bodies by injecting nutrient solution, but I'm afraid... there is little hope." Ye Qiuyu He put down the stethoscope, checked it, and said to Luo Yuan with a pale face.
The condition of these children was beyond her understanding. There was no breathing or heartbeat at all. Their bodies were cold and extremely stiff. If Luo Yuan had not said that they were still alive, she would have called them crazy. , using the corpse to amuse her.
"You don't need to worry so much. Give him some water first." Luo Yuan frowned slightly and said.
Ye Qiuyu opened her mouth and deliberately wanted to stop it. As a professional doctor, she knew very well that people in shock could not be fed water if they had no swallowing reaction. Once water was given, it would only enter the trachea, but in the end, it was still taken. In Yu Luoyuan's majesty, he covered his head to pour water, forget it, it has already reached this point, and he can only treat the dead horse as a living horse doctor.
"Luo Yuan, where did you find these people?" Huang Jiahui couldn't help but ask.
"It's not far from Xinjing!" Luo Yuan said.
"Is there anyone alive outside now?" Zhao Yali was curious and asked in the topic.
"I don't know about that. Maybe there are still people alive!" Luo Yuan shook his head and said. Most of the people alive today are powerful evolvers who used to live in the wild, but these people either live in the underground ice. They seldom move on the ground, or they are far away from the reconstruction area, so it is almost difficult to find them. Moreover, even if they can be found, Luo Yuan does not want to look for them. In the cruel existence, these people have already lost their basic humanity and are no different from wild beasts. Bringing them back to Hope City will only be harmful but useless.
"These children are quite special. They are all my clones and have some kind of connection with me. Otherwise, we would not be able to find them."
Luo Yuan continued, saying that there is no need to hide this kind of thing, and it cannot be concealed. If he doesn't explain it now, if he wakes up and calls his dad again, he will have to explain it for a long time.
Everyone looked at each other and saw shock and curiosity in each other's eyes. Luo Yuanke had never mentioned this matter.
Even Ye Qiuyu, who had just returned from carrying water, almost dropped his cup when he heard the shocking news.
Human cloning is too far away from ordinary people. Unless you are in a certain location, you have never even heard of it.
"There is nothing surprising about this. Human cloning technology has long been mature. With the current fertility rate of human beings, if there is no cloning, humankind will perish in a short time. I have been staying in the laboratory for this period of time, just for this matter." Seeing everyone With a look of disbelief, Luo Yuan explained.
After a while, Ye Qiuyu took out a tool and started to pry the mouth of one of the clones.
She is not a delicate girl, she used to be a field doctor. In that kind of bad environment, there is no room for pretentiousness. Once it comes to war, sometimes she has to fight hundreds of wounded people a day, plus she took energy crystal core yesterday After that, now her power is even greater, enough that ordinary adult men cannot compare with her.
However, this time, no matter how much force she used, no matter how hard she turned, her face turned red and she exerted all her strength to suck milk, the child's teeth seemed to be fixed and did not move at all.
Ye Qiuyu's face turned red and hesitantly said: "Luo... Mayor Luo, I can't pry their mouths open!"
Seeing her timid expression, Luo Yuan smiled and walked over: "I'll do it!"
He took the tool, walked to one of the clones, and without using any force, gently opened the teeth of one of the clones, and then said to Ye Qiuyu: "Give me the water?"
Ye Qiuyu quickly handed over the water. Before Luo Yuan fed him with water, she mustered up the courage to remind him: "Luo... Mayor Luo, as a doctor, I must remind you that patients cannot eat when they are in a coma. This It will pour into the trachea.”
Luo Yuan was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but glance at her and said, "Thank you for the reminder, but for them, it's not a big deal."
It's really nothing serious. These fusion body clones don't need to breathe. They are severely dehydrated. As long as water enters the body, it will be absorbed by the cells immediately. Even the skin is slowly absorbing the moisture in the air.
Luo Yuan had noticed this phenomenon that had never been discovered before.
Compared with when they first left the underground, after entering Hope City, the skin color of these clones has improved a lot, unlike before, which was gray and wrinkled, and gradually developed towards gray.
Immediately afterwards, Luo Yuan took the cup and poured it into the mouth of one of the clones. His movements were simple and rough, which shocked the onlookers.
"Get a few more glasses of water!" Luo Yuan turned around and said.
Huang Jiahui and others were stunned for a moment, then hurried over to pour water.
Next, Luo Yuan poured nearly 500 ml of water into each clone one by one. Seeing that their bellies were bloated and could no longer accommodate them, Luo Yuan stopped. This amount of water should be enough.
As soon as Luo Yuan put down the cup, the body of the first clone to drink water underwent an astonishing change.
First, his gray-white skin, which looked like lime soaked skin, quickly faded and began to turn white in the blink of an eye. Immediately, the temperature of his body began to rise continuously.
From a body temperature that was originally close to zero degrees Celsius, it quickly reached the body temperature of ordinary people, but this was just the beginning.
Their skin began to turn red and hot, and there was an overwhelming heat all over their bodies. The mutant couldn't help but curiously went over and touched it, then quickly retracted and hid behind Luo Yuan.
"Is he okay like this?" Zhao Yali asked worriedly.
Luo Yuan felt their body temperature above. It was estimated to be around 70 or 80 degrees, a temperature that would have been fatal to ordinary people, but for a fusion body, it was too normal. Once he exercised violently, his body temperature could even Wood ignition:
"Don't worry, it's okay. They have been lacking for too long, and the mitochondrial function is temporarily imbalanced. It will return to normal after a while."
Immediately after the second one, the third one...the fifth one also experienced drastic changes.
Time passed slowly, and in only five minutes, the skin color of the clone that changed first had become glossy and rosy, and its heartbeat began to recover. It didn't take long for his breathing to become normal. Although these things were difficult for him. Not much use, just a leftover instinct.
After a few more minutes, the clone's eyelids suddenly trembled a few times. The next moment, a pair of bright eyes suddenly opened without warning. He sat up and looked at Luo Yuan at the first glance.
"You are... our father!"