With Me

Creak, creak...

Behind them, the sound of "wooden slats" twisting together suddenly rang out. The mycelium that had been blasted through by the tank rapidly spread and closed, repairing the huge hole in the wall within seconds.

Li Wei and Alex only glanced back before no longer paying it much attention.

A white lamp above the Hive suddenly lit up, casting a sliver of light into the dark space and illuminating the steel framework above them.

"I'm going to find your sister." Seeing the slender figure in the shadows, Li Wei said this to Alex and prepared to slip away.

Thinking logically, Elizabeth Greene, who was also a Mother but had lived decades longer than him, had to be stronger than he was!

So he would leave this difficult task to Alex. He would go find Alex's sister first, then come back later to stab her in the back. Perfect!

Alex merely gave a soft grunt and warily looked toward a steel catwalk overhead.

Just as expected, Elizabeth Greene slowly emerged from the darkness into the white light, her slender pale fingers brushing over the iron railing.

Scarlet dust appeared on the rust-speckled railing. It was powder released as the virus she unconsciously emitted corroded the iron. Scrape off a layer of iron dust and let someone inhale it, and they would immediately mutate into an infected.

Alex and Li Wei, who had not yet managed to leave, both saw this "Mother," Elizabeth Greene. She still looked like a nineteen-year-old girl, her face still youthful, though her hair had become somewhat sparse.

The moment Alex saw Elizabeth Greene, he coldly demanded, "Where is she?!"

Because the restless sensation in his body had suddenly intensified, Li Wei stopped curiously and watched a little longer.

This feeling of agitation was strange, somewhat like...

Like an animal in heat!

Fuck, he couldn't keep thinking about it!

He shook his head, throwing the bizarre thought from his mind. He wanted to become invisible and head to the room ahead to look for Alex's sister first.

Elizabeth Greene, having stepped out from her hiding place, seemed drawn by a magnet as she looked toward Li Wei. She did not answer Alex's question.

Ignored, Alex pulled out the new reagent he had found in the GENTEC research facility. The angry expression on his face tightened as Elizabeth Greene's disregard ignited his fury.

Still paying no attention to Alex, Elizabeth Greene fixed a puzzled gaze on Li Wei, who was preparing to sneak away, and asked in an extremely hoarse voice, "Who are you?"

It was not only Li Wei. After seeing him, Elizabeth Greene also felt that strange sensation in her body, driving her to approach him.

This was interesting!

Holding the large syringe, Alex glanced at Li Wei after hearing that, then ignored him again as his body tensed, ready to leap.

The faint agitation in Li Wei's body grew stronger after being addressed. He rubbed his brow, stopped walking, and tentatively answered, "I'm your father?"

?

That bizarre answer made Alex, who was about to attack, freeze. He stared at Li Wei in shock as a thought suddenly surfaced in his mind!

Elizabeth Greene had been born in 1951, yet she could maintain the appearance of a nineteen-year-old girl.

Li Wei's origins were incredibly strange. Though Alex had learned after consuming certain researchers that Li Wei had appeared out of nowhere, some possibilities could not be ruled out.

The fury filling Alex's mind abruptly faded by half. He calmly turned his gaze toward Li Wei.

He recalled what Elizabeth Greene had said when he first met her: "I am your mother"...

And now he had heard Li Wei say to Elizabeth Greene, "I'm your father." He could not help making the wrong connection.

Besides, no one could explain Li Wei's origins. At first, Alex had thought Li Wei was a victim like himself, but now...

Elizabeth Greene could retain the appearance of a nineteen-year-old. Why couldn't Li Wei?

Alex slowly lowered his hand. His brain seemed unable to process this anymore. If all of this was a conspiracy...

Why had Elizabeth Greene said he was her son? Why had Li Wei suddenly appeared and drawn his attention? Why had this virus appeared?

Humanity's common arrogance, combined with multiple pieces of subconsciously processed information, gave Alex a new question. Elizabeth Greene's constitution was highly unusual, but why was she unusual?

Could the information be wrong? Was there another secret hidden here?

Suddenly, Alex remembered the deep look Li Wei had given him atop the television tower, and a chill ran down his spine.

For a moment, countless conspiracy theories gathered in his mind. He came up with many strange associations, and by the end, he had convinced himself of them.

"Who are you?!" Alex looked at Li Wei with a grave, wary expression and asked the same question.

Li Wei currently had his back to Alex and thought he was asking Elizabeth Greene, so he neither answered nor turned around.

Instead, he continued staring at Elizabeth Greene on the steel catwalk, forming claws and preparing for battle.

He had already mocked her like that. A fight should be unavoidable now, right?

What a pain. He might as well join Alex and kill her cleanly...

Just as Li Wei stood on guard, Elizabeth Greene, who had fallen into thought, looked at Li Wei again and seriously said, "You are not my father."

Li Wei:?

Alex:...

After saying that, Elizabeth Greene fell into thought again. She seemed to have encountered a problem that had bugged her out, and an obvious conflicted expression appeared on her normally impassive face.

The two men below, each thinking something different, silently chose to wait and see.

After a long while, Elizabeth Greene's expression returned to normal. Her gaze remained fixed on Li Wei as she asked in a slightly cheerful tone, "What is your name?"

"...I'm your grandpa!"

Just as I thought!

Alex's expression turned grave again. So the name Li Wei had given him was fake after all!

He had been too careless. He had only brought one dose of the vaccine out of the laboratory!

Unlike Alex, Elizabeth Greene had also transformed from a human into a Mother. Some experiences from her human days remained in her mind, and those experiences told her that Li Wei had not given his name.

But none of that was...

"Important..." Elizabeth Greene shook her head, slowly walked down the iron staircase at the side, then came before Li Wei and said calmly but without room for doubt, "Mate with me!"

The moment those words came out, Alex, who had been preparing to leap over and deal with one of them first, was interrupted again. His thoughts were a mess as he looked at Li Wei in confusion.

After all these twists and turns... what exactly was the truth?

At that moment, Alex fell into unprecedented bewilderment.

Even Li Wei was dumbfounded. Looking at Elizabeth Greene standing before him, the first thing he thought was not why she wanted to mate with him, but to look her over from head to toe.

She had a slender face and delicate features. Aside from some hair loss, she was quite beautiful.

Her figure was excellent too, especially since she was currently wearing a high-tech restraint bodysuit that perfectly showed off her curves.

Oh~ Totally doable!

"But... I refuse!" Li Wei took two steps back and chose to refuse.

He was not the kind of person who slept around, and he had no idea why Elizabeth Greene wanted to mate with him.

Even though his body was stirring as well, he was someone who had risen above such base desires. He would not be swept away by such a vulgar invitation.

Besides, there was a third person here!

Li Wei's rejection did not surprise Elizabeth Greene. She made another proposal, seemingly with complete sincerity. "Then absorb me."

Alex completely stopped speaking. He admitted that he no longer understood what was happening at all.

"Give me a reason..." Seeing that Elizabeth Greene seemed serious, Li Wei looked at her and retracted his claws, unable to make sense of it.

Then Elizabeth Greene calmly gave her reason. "You and I can achieve the best result through fusion! I will not resist..."

The DX-1118 virus was a worm-like chimera. Elizabeth Greene had been injected with the virus and ultimately became a massive breeding ground for it.

Because of her sex and genetic influence, the awakened virus had continuously changed in a female-like direction, creating a biased sex distinction.

Likewise, under the alterations to Li Wei's body from another world, the virus within him had changed and developed male-like traits.

The greatest benefit of sexual reproduction was accelerated evolution and the elimination of bad genes.

More experienced than Li Wei and long since unwilling to live, Elizabeth Greene had originally chosen to let Alex absorb her and become the virus's new Mother.

But after seeing Li Wei, she overturned every previous thought. Every cell inside and outside her body was sending the same message to her consciousness: combine with him!

Blacklight itself was an abnormal self-generating virus capable of undergoing countless mutations every second. With the added buff of sexual reproduction, the newborn virus would evolve infinitely at a speed surpassing both of them.