NFBE Chapter 215 Space Migrants
Chapter 215 Space Migrants
By the time Yang Xiao and Zhong Qiang came to their senses, they had already emerged from the warship. Before them lay a vast expanse of sparkling white ice. Lu Yuan stood in front of them, engrossed in tinkering with his mecha.
"We're out?" Zhong Qiang was stunned for a moment before he reacted. Unlike Yang Xiao, he wasn't calm at all. He rushed to Lu Yuan's side, hugged him tightly, and shouted, "Holy crap, Brother Yuan! Let me call you Dad now! How can you be so handsome!"
"Let go!" With just a little effort, Lu Yuan easily pushed Zhong Qiang away with the help of the mecha. However, considering that they were friends, Lu Yuan did not use much force, and Zhong Qiang only took two steps back.
"What? What's going on?" Zhong Qiang hadn't realized that the Lu Yuan in front of him might not be the same person he knew, and he was still a bit confused.
"Are you... another Lu Yuan?" Yang Xiao asked tentatively.
“You could say that.” Lu Yuan lowered his right hand, turned off his mecha face shield, and then took a deep breath.
"Don't..." Yang Xiao wanted to remind him, but he saw Lu Yuan immediately cover his mouth, quickly turn off his face shield, and then cough incessantly.
"Your body can't leave your mecha," Yang Xiao finished saying.
"Cough cough! Cough cough..." Lu Yuan wanted to say something, but his mouth, throat and lungs felt completely frozen. If he hadn't reacted quickly, he probably would have died right then and there.
"Yang Xiao!" Ji Lang's voice came from behind them. Yang Xiao turned around and saw that the dense flock of seabirds had disappeared. It seemed that they had dealt with the seabirds first before coming over.
"Lu Yuan?" Gu Nanfeng asked tentatively as he approached Lu Yuan.
"Hello, Professor Gu." Compared to the previous Lu Yuan, this Lu Yuan spoke to them with a natural sense of distance.
"What's going on?" Pei Sihao whispered in Gu Nanfeng's ear.
"Hello, Mr. Pei, nice to meet you." Although Pei Sihao's voice was very soft, Lu Yuan still heard it. After all, he was now the true owner of this mecha, so he knew very well how to use it.
"You...you, hello..." Pei Sihao was a little surprised that Lu Yuan actually extended his hand to him, so he had no choice but to extend his hand and shake it gently with him.
"General Ji, hello." Lu Yuan turned around and greeted Ji Lang again, but this time he did not intend to shake hands. He just looked at Ji Lang and then turned his head to look at Yang Xiao behind him.
"Nice to meet you." Facing Lin Yun, Lu Yuan didn't even call him by his name.
"Hello, I am Lin Yun." Lin Yun himself quickly realized the situation; the Lu Yuan in front of him was not the one they knew.
"This place isn't safe, let's find another place to talk." As they spoke, the seven people teleported to the helicopter. This helicopter was completely different from the one Lu Yuan used before. It looked very ordinary, and the interior of the helicopter didn't seem special either.
Gu Nanfeng silently observed everything around him. The helicopter was still on autopilot. Apart from Lu Yuan, no one knew the helicopter's flight path, but everyone tacitly refrained from asking.
"Aren't you going to ask me where I'm taking you?" Lu Yuan sat in the first row of the helicopter. He pressed some button and his seat turned around, so he was now facing Gu Nanfeng and Pei Sihao in the back row.
“We won’t ask, but weren’t you planning to tell us anyway?” Pei Sihao was startled by Lu Yuan’s sudden turn, but he quickly calmed down.
“Mr. Pei is just as I imagined.” Lu Yuan caught all of Pei Sihao’s micro-expressions. He smiled and said, “He is a very sunny and energetic gentleman.”
"Thank you for the compliment, but now is not the time to talk about this." For some reason, Pei Sihao felt that the person in front of him was looking at him strangely, and he had a feeling of "Oh, it's this person, what a pity."
"I'm sorry," Lu Yuan apologized, and continued, "I don't have much time left, so I'll keep it short..."
No one expected that Lu Yuan was actually a time traveler.
Hmm, it seems he's not a time traveler in the traditional sense either.
"I am indeed Lu Yuan from the same era as you, but I am not the Lu Yuan you know. In my experience, there is no Yang Xiao, Zhong Qiang, Mr. Pei, or Mr. Lin..." Lu Yuan in front of him said that the Gu Nanfeng and Ji Lang he knew were people who came after humanity had entered interstellar life.
In his 2074, a zombie virus broke out on Earth, and everything went through a similar process to now. Zombies evolved, and humans evolved in the same way. In his world, there were two evolutionary states for humans: one was superhumans, and the other was simply physical evolution. In the end, only these two types of humans and zombie groups existed on Earth.
Humans can no longer coexist with zombies because the zombie virus has evolved again, and can quickly infect the two types of people who have barely managed to evolve and survive. What's even more terrifying is that human evolution has stopped. Level 9 superhumans are the highest level of superhumans in human society, while the highest level zombie king in the zombie horde is hundreds of times more powerful than a level 9 zombie.
“We held on until 2108, when humanity finally couldn’t hold on any longer. The global population was only about 100,000 people. That’s the global population.” Lu Yuan sighed and continued, “Fortunately, I am one of those 100,000 people. Even more fortunately, I am Chinese.”
Similar to what Gu Nanfeng and the others learned from Jiang Xing, the source of the zombie virus was the "Star Project," a plan where humans would die if they didn't act recklessly. Later, in order to protect the Earth, the zombie virus broke out among humans. Although the "Star Project," including the "Star Sea Project" supplemented by China, contained contingency plans for what would happen if humanity ultimately failed to protect the Earth.
However, in the process of constantly fighting off zombies, humanity no longer has the capacity to build many more spaceships. Many European and American countries, and even several countries, have only retained one spaceship, while China is the country that is best prepared.
"Back then, we really had to thank the zombie apocalypse. Those European and American guys couldn't come to our country to hitch a ride on our spaceships, so all of our country's more than 50,000 survivors were able to become space refugees." Lu Yuan laughed self-deprecatingly. "Yes, you heard right. Humanity brought this upon itself and became space refugees."
"Holy crap, it really is just like what Old Man Jiang said." Pei Sihao couldn't help but interrupt.
"What?" Yang Xiao heard Jiang Xing suddenly stand up from the back row. "That old guy really does have a problem!"
"You've misunderstood. President Jiang is really not a bad person." Lu Yuan looked thirsty and was drinking water, so Lin Yun took the opportunity to explain Jiang Xing's behavior to him.
"You mean, the Beijing Research Institute is hiding the source of the virus?" Yang Xiao was still not quite convinced, but he didn't want to argue with Lin Yun and the others about this anymore.
"You have to believe in our country." After finishing his water, Lu Yuan looked at Yang Xiao, whose brows were furrowed, and smiled. "Because of the country, in the end, no one of us was abandoned."