"This child learns incredibly fast. She must be a normal person." Xiao Hui watched her from a distance for a while before speaking. "Where should we take her next?"
Darkness Under the Lamp had already learned the specific clearance mission from the dead Zeng Zhao, so he said, "Probably any Safe Zone that still has people. We can't exactly take her back to the CK12 Safe Zone."
He paused, then looked at Juan Er and the others with a hint of hope. "Do you think there's any chance she's the Lighthouse of District 010?"
Juan Er and the others had considered the same possibility. However, Xu Huo suddenly said, "I'm afraid Melissa will have a hard time having children."
"What do you mean?" Darkness Under the Lamp asked, puzzled.
"If Melissa were capable of having children, Dr. Joyce wouldn't have put her in a hibernation pod. Not only does she carry defective genes that make her unsuitable for reproduction, but she's also constrained by those genes herself. Without a suitable environment, she probably can't grow up healthy, and having a child would be a challenge in itself." Whether they had her experience childbirth or extracted her eggs for in vitro cultivation, Xu Huo knew as he watched the child playing in the sand that Dr. Joyce had likely kept her as an experimental subject. She carried a mutated gene that inhibited Black Thorn Disease. The better approach would be to use her to develop a suitable Gene Potion, not to make her responsible for increasing the population.
There was another point. Whatever Dr. Joyce's reasons for caring for Melissa—or anything else—he had unhesitatingly given up on telling the other players in the CK12 Safe Zone, and would rather leave her to wander the desert. The most likely explanation was that