Desert Island Survival: A Hundredfold Improvement After Having a Baby?

"Don't think the worst." Yang Ningcong raised his sleeve to wipe the cold sweat from his chin.

"If you're really going to bring up aliens, that's utter nonsense. The report is all speculation; can you really take speculation as fact?"

He licked his dry, chapped lips and swallowed.

"I'm guessing this is some kind of top-secret biological project from the great United States."

"They have countless military bases at sea, so it makes perfect sense that he first found this unusual island, set up an electric fence, and released some experimental viruses."

As Yang Ningcong spoke, he straightened his back slightly, and that air of authority that was unique to men when commenting on the international situation returned a bit.

"After being discovered, in order to cover their tracks, they made up a story about aliens and magnetic field disturbances to deceive outsiders. This kind of trope has been overdone in Hollywood movies."

Zhou Kai slammed the wooden stick in his hand on the ground twice and pursed his lips.

"That's true. A few years ago, there were posts online every day saying that a certain country's moon landing was filmed in a studio. Those big-nosed foreigners love to spread these kinds of conspiracy theories."

He turned his head and spat on the ground.

"To hell with the beautiful or the Japanese. If it's a biohazard created by humans, it's better than some invisible and intangible alien monster. If it's created by humans, then there's a way to survive."

Aside from the two of them singing back and forth in the cave, no one else joined in.

Liu Feifei huddled in a dark corner where the firelight couldn't reach, even her breathing was very low.

Song Ya stood beside the pile of supplies, her gaze lingering on Lin Fan.

Lin Fan leaned against the stone wall, ignoring Yang Ningcong and Zhou Kai's idle chatter.

His gaze was on Su Qingxue.

Yang Ningcong and Zhou Kai were trying to comfort themselves, using international conspiracy theories to bolster their courage, but Lin Fan's mind was racing with another question.

virus.

If that mutant is essentially a virus that can infect organisms.

So what is my current state?

Lin Fan lowered his head, his gaze falling on his palm.

Triple enhancement.

This isn't a cheat code bestowed by the system, nor is it a gift from heaven.

This is an infection.

He was changed by that thing.

Following this line of reasoning, is Su Qingxue also an infected person?

If the virus is transmitted through bodily fluids.

Is Xu Zhixia now infected with the virus as well?

The most fatal point.

Su Qingxue is pregnant with his child.

The fertilized egg combines inside the mother's body.

Poisonous sperm, plus a poisonous mother.

What exactly is that embryo that is growing day by day in Su Qingxue's uterus?

Last night, the silhouette of that gray monster on the beach forced its way into my mind.

There is an extra bent joint.

A deformed, long arm that hangs down below the knee.

A shriveled, gray skin devoid of any flesh.

Lin Fan felt a strong surge of acid reflux in his stomach.

If he were a person, he would be confident that he could protect the mother and child and keep them alive on this island.

Even if they lack food and clothing, even if they live on the edge of a knife every day.

But what if a monster is born?

A deformed mutant that is neither human nor ghost, who crawls out of its mother's womb and only knows how to eat raw meat and drink blood?

Should we keep it?

Or rather, is it still possible to keep it?

If that speculation comes true, it will not only be a burden, but a ticking time bomb that could kill everyone at any moment.

Lin Fan's breathing rhythm became completely disordered.

A slightly cool hand suddenly reached out from the side, and Lin Fan instinctively grabbed it with his own hand.

The force was ridiculously strong.

"hiss……"

Xu Zhixia let out a short cry of pain, and was pulled forward half a step, her shoulder hitting the stone wall.

Lin Fan immediately let go.

Xu Zhixia rubbed her wrist, which had been pinched and left a red mark, and stood beside him with her back against the stone wall.

She didn't look at him, her gaze calmly fixed on the dark beach outside the cave.

"Come out with me for a moment."

Su Qingxue sat there, not looking at the two of them, trying hard to recall something.

Lin Fan stood up and followed Xu Zhixia outside. Xu Zhixia didn't beat around the bush and spoke directly.

"You're thinking about the baby in Qingxue's belly."

Lin Fan neither admitted nor denied it.

Xu Zhixia is too smart.

"You're afraid." Xu Zhixia continued to press closer.

"I'm afraid the mutation in your body will be passed on to that child."

"I'm afraid Qingxue will give birth to a monster that you can't control at all."

Lin Fan clenched his jaw tightly, and the veins on his neck bulged out one by one.

He turned around and pressed his entire body against Xu Zhixia.

The distance between the two was reduced to less than a foot.

"You can read minds?"

"Since you've read it all."

"Dr. Xu, could you give me some advice from your professional perspective? Is it safe to keep this baby?"

"Of course I can have it." The four words were spoken crisply and decisively, without the slightest hesitation.

Lin Fan was taken aback.

He thought Xu Zhixia would try to brush him off with a set of ambiguous medical terms, or try to dissuade him with moral arguments.

Unexpectedly, she gave an extremely affirmative conclusion.

"Are you sure?" Lin Fan moved an inch closer. "If it's born looking like that monstrous thing from last night, you'll be responsible for strangling it?"

Xu Zhixia raised her head and looked directly at Lin Fan.

"Lin Fan, you've got one thing wrong."

"You're using the standards of civilized society to measure the survival rules of this deserted island."

She held up a finger and tapped it on the hard muscle on Lin Fan's chest.

"In the outside world, the birth of a deformed child with an extra arm and gray skin is called a disaster."

"They would be sent to research institutes, treated as freaks, and erased from society."

She tapped her chest lightly twice with her fingers.

"But where am I?"

"This is a deserted island."

"It's a deserted island floating on the sea, inhabited by man-eating beasts."

"If that child were an ordinary baby, fair-skinned and chubby, with no strength to even kill a chicken."

"If you actually do it, you'll regret it for the rest of your life."

Xu Zhixia paused slightly, "There is another possibility: he inherited your enhanced physical abilities and the formidable power of that mutated factor."

"even……"

"Even stronger than you."

"Neither human nor ghost, so what?"

"Only monsters deserve to live among monsters."

Lin Fan was jolted by those words.

Only monsters deserve to live.

Xu Zhixia's logic is extremely cold-blooded, yet also extremely self-consistent.

He has always worried about future generations with the mindset of a human father.

But they forgot that this is not a human society at all.

Here, morality, ethics, appearance, and the inherent form of humanity are all worthless.

Survival is the only truth.

A mutated offspring with superhuman physical abilities is not a bomb, but the most powerful fighting force.

The burning anxiety in Lin Fan's chest was largely extinguished by Xu Zhixia's rational words.

He looked at the woman in front of him.

Xu Zhixia's face was unusually calm in the dim light.

"You're quite open-minded." Lin Fan withdrew his oppressive posture and leaned back against the stone wall.

"What if the virus also takes hold in you?"

He steered the conversation toward Xu Zhixia herself.

Those two times yesterday were not only a release of hormones, but also a direct exchange of bodily fluids.

Xu Zhixia understood the implication.

She pulled her hand out of her pocket and brushed a stray hair behind her ear.

The movements were very casual.

"Let it happen if it happens."

"My greatest value as an ordinary doctor on this island is that I know a few medicinal herbs."

"If I could really mutate, I could run faster than that monster, or be strong enough to crush rocks with my bare hands."

She looked at Lin Fan, a slight smile curving her lips, and said calmly, "I'd be laughing in my dreams."