Chapter 35
For as long as Blue Walrus could remember, the sky had been a cold silvery white.
At first, it would raise its head curiously, using the shiny sky as a mirror, and wag its tail.
It can’t help laughing as it watches the little reflection in the mirror twisting and turning, opening its mouth, showing its teeth, patting its belly, and making corresponding silly gestures.
But later, as I spent more time looking at the mirror sky, the fun lost its novelty.
It even made it so suffocated that it could hardly breathe.
The blue walrus told this feeling to his friend, but his friend gave him a strange look.
The other party asked it: “Why do you think it’s fun to lock yourself in a cage?”
These words seemed to be a thorn, which pierced the blue walrus’ heart the moment they entered his ears.
It didn’t even understand what this sentence meant, but when it met its friend’s eyes, it felt uncomfortable.
However, at that time, the blue walrus was still a little walrus that had just come into the world not long ago.
Like all young animals that have just learned to speak, it has a thirst for knowledge that amazes the adult mutants.
As the little walrus didn’t quite understand the question, he immediately went to find a mutant octopus.
It is said that the other party is knowledgeable and will definitely be able to answer its doubts.
The mutant octopus just looked at it helplessly, with an unspeakable emotion in its eyes.
That emotion is called pity.
It is the compassion you feel when you have experienced many vicissitudes of life and seen through all the dangers in the world, and suddenly discover that a pure white soul is about to follow in your footsteps.
To a little walrus who knows nothing, this emotion is too obscure and difficult to understand, and it is not an answer.
Unable to find an answer to its question, it continued to ask the mutant octopus.
Chattering, lively and talkative.
In the end, the octopus was getting annoyed with the questioning, so he reluctantly pushed its little head away with his tentacles and said with a sigh, “You’ll know later.”
You will know later.
When will this come later?
The little walrus shook his head and grunted expectantly.
As a cub, it has so many questions it wants to know.
Wondering why the walls and sky are cold silver, and why they have red-glowing iron blocks at their necks and hearts.
I want to know why they can’t just run out and play, and why the humans who feed them are always so cold.
Its friend also has a lot of questions like it, but each question is much more profound.
The friend asked: “How long will it take before we can escape from here?”
This is a question that other mutants will ask as well.
At that time, a rumor was circulating in the base.
It is rumored that all living things originated from the sea. The sea encompasses everything and is mysterious and ancient. All unknown secrets from ancient times to the present can be answered in it.
Therefore, when the mutants born in the ocean become strong enough, they will have the ability to predict the future.
For example, the mutant octopus that the little walrus knew.
So this time, the mutant octopus has to face not only an energetic little walrus, but also a very stubborn little elk.
The octopus couldn’t stand it anymore and told them the answer.
If we just wait another year, we’ll have a chance to escape from the base.
A year is 365 days.
The cubs began to count, one counting the spines on their front flippers and the other counting their hooves.
“1, 2, 3…”
They only need to endure 365 days of blood drawing before they can go out into the outside world.
It sounds a bit tough, but luckily they can cheer each other up.
And so, the days passed one after another.
The growing cubs gradually discovered that during this year, what they had to endure was not only endless blood drawing, but also electric shocks when training could not be completed.
Electric shock is very painful, and if you don’t eat after that you will be very hungry.
Being locked in a dark room while feeling hungry and in pain was simply despairing for the cub.
After finally getting used to it, various tests came one after another.
Pain tolerance test, self-healing ability test, power burst test in a frightened state…
This year has become an increasingly long year.
The time was so long that one day, the little walrus began to count the spines on its front flippers again, hoping that the year would pass quickly, but he did not hear any response from his friends.
It turned around suddenly and saw that its little friend had fallen to the ground at some point, and its pupils suddenly contracted.
The other person’s body was covered with scars, his once shiny fur had become dull, his abdomen was rising and falling weakly, and his breathing was intermittent.
The little walrus was stunned.
It crawled over and nudged the fawn’s head with its head, causing the latter’s breathing to speed up.
The little walrus helplessly went around to the back and tried to push the fawn’s back with its front flippers to help it stand firm.
But when the deer’s hooves stepped on the ground, they collapsed softly.
The little walrus opened his mouth and saw his pair of dark and shiny eyes gradually turn gray. He stammered, “Only, only 51 days left!”
Only 51 days left to go until the year is over.
The fawn panted and asked it a question weakly.
“Number 18…what’s wrong with your voice?”
What does it sound like?
The little walrus opened his mouth in confusion, but found that he could not make a coherent sound.
Even if they could shout out, they would be short, breathy sounds that could not form a sentence.
The little walrus then remembered that it had had problems with its throat during a drug resistance experiment long ago.
The deer couldn’t hear its answer and its head sank again.
The other person’s cloudy eyes kept looking upwards, but he could not see through the silver-white metal wall.
After a while, the little walrus heard it murmur softly: “A year is so long…”
That day, the fawn died.
Even the gentle little walrus went crazy over this.
It overturned the food bowl and bit off a researcher’s hand.
The electric shock device worn on its body lit up a red light, brutally shocking it unconscious.
After waking up, the little walrus roared and screamed, and in less than a second, it was stunned again.
After repeating this process over and over again, it finally became like the deer, almost out of breath.
“What the hell is wrong with this mutant?”
The little walrus was thrown into an extremely dark confinement room.
Its chest rose and fell dramatically as it listened to the curses gradually fading away.
The little walrus felt angry, angrier than ever before, so angry that he wanted to bite everything to pieces.
But then, it thought of the death of the fawn and that the fawn did not wait for a full year, and its anger turned into unbearable pain.
It raised its front flippers slowly in the darkness, trying to count how long it would take to leave this damn place.
“1…”
The sound stopped abruptly.
The little walrus couldn’t count anymore.
Soon after, the base staff opened the door of the confinement room.
They held the stun guns vigilantly to prevent the mutants from suddenly erupting.
But he found the little walrus lying on the floor with half-open eyes. He seemed very sleepy and tired, and even his breathing was so light that it was almost inaudible.
This scared a lot of people.
You know, there are only a handful of mutants born with A-level. If this one dies, the higher-ups will definitely hold them accountable!
But when they rushed the baby walrus to the medical room, they found that no matter how much nutrients and repair fluids were injected, they could not maintain the baby walrus’s precarious vital signs.
This cub, which had not yet had a chance to grow up, withered irreversibly like a sapling whose vitality had suddenly been drained away.
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The little walrus was groggy.
It seemed to hear an ethereal call coming from afar.
Soon, the scattered consciousness sank into the quiet blue seabed along with this call.
The little walrus looked up blankly and saw a whale.
The other party’s body was huge and beautiful, blending wonderfully with the water flow, and did not cause any ripples when it swam over.
So the little walrus reacted immediately.
The mysterious being before him was none other than the Blue Whale, the S-class, super-dangerous mutant that was rumored to be held in solitary confinement.
After more than half a year, the ignorant little walrus has learned the law of the jungle.
If it were its usual self, it would definitely bow to this adult with excitement and longing.
But now, it was in a daze and had no strength left.
The blue whale flapped its fins quickly and circled around the little walrus.
Theoretically, there is no affection or love between mutants that can upgrade by devouring each other.
But it recently gave some glimpses into the future.
In the future, this little walrus will become its successor, and will grow into the king who rules the sea clan.
After receiving this news, how could Blue Whale sit still?
It hurried over, but found that it was a step too late.
This fatal negligence put his successor into the most critical turning point in his life.
The blue whale was anxious to comfort the little walrus.
“Kid, you’re very talented.”
“If you can survive this time, you will definitely be able to evolve to S-level in the future.”
“You have survived the past three hundred days. Excluding today, there are only fifty days left. After fifty days, you will be able to escape from this base and go to the outside world.”
The little walrus moved and raised his head slightly.
Blue Whale thought that after hearing these words, the other party’s eyes would light up again.
Unexpectedly, those eyes were still as dim and lifeless as before, and the deathly aura lingering around him had not dissipated at all.
The blue whale was stunned.
As long as you become strong, you won’t have a partial understanding of everything.
As long as they can escape from the base, they will no longer have to endure inhuman pain and torture.
Isn’t this what the little walrus has been pursuing?
After that, the blue whale tried his best and said all the nice things to the little walrus, but it failed to cheer up the little walrus.
Instead, it was the frequent mention of the number “50” that made the little walrus even more introverted, and he curled himself into a ball.
Realizing that the opponent’s breath was dissipating bit by bit, the usually steady Blue Whale almost exploded.
It suspected that the little walrus didn’t believe what it said at all.
The two sides are in a stalemate and the latter is in imminent danger.
The blue whale was desperate and tried every possible means, so he made up his mind to leave a mental mark on the little walrus that had no strength to resist.
“Just take a look. I really didn’t lie to you.”
As the blue whale conveyed the memory scene, a hazy soft light appeared in front of the little walrus’ eyes.
The scenes of the future slowly unfold like a scroll.
It was immersed in the scene, sitting expressionlessly on a throne made of coral and pearls, with its head lowered indifferently.
Countless sea creatures stood on both sides, looking respectful, as if they were respecting it.
Seeing it looking downward, the followers also turned their heads.
Some looked hateful, some raised their lips to mock, none of them were friendly.
And where their eyes converged, there stood a young human being wearing a diving suit.
The young man completely ignored the hostility around him, bent slightly, and saluted it in a high position with neither arrogance nor servility.
“Wen Xin, Deputy Executive Officer of the Fifth Survivor Base, extends my warmest greetings to you.”
That was the first time the little walrus knew about Wen Xin’s existence.
