Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 1179 - 623: If It Were You, What Would You Choose? (3)

The other party used some method and entered Wei Bai’s private room, directly revealing to him: the mutant creature incident was orchestrated by them.

They said this was the price Wei Bai paid for rejecting them.

This was also a message to the humans in the underground world that you have no ability to resist.

If they don’t cooperate, everyone in the underground world will die painfully like Wei Bai’s son and daughter-in-law.

At that time, Wei Bai, the calm Patriarch of the Wei Family, for the first time, felt a strong urge to kill and acted on it.

However, he did not succeed.

The other side was well-prepared and protected their face so thoroughly that the gun in Wei Bai’s hand couldn’t even make them retreat.

The gun he held for self-defense wasn’t top-tier, but its power was among the best for a portable handgun; even so, it didn’t harm them at all.

This time, the opposite party had a completely arrogant demeanor, in stark contrast to their previously amicable and humble attitude.

After subduing Wei Bai, they did not hurt him but instead offered him an extremely tempting proposition.

Even if they cooperate, most humans in the underground world will die because their ”God” does not need so many humans. But if they don’t cooperate, everyone will die.

As long as Wei Bai agrees to let the Wei Family be the infiltration point for surface forces to penetrate the underground, they can ensure that no one, including the Wei Family, will die in this central city.

Moreover... they would resurrect Wei Shishi’s parents.

”Resurrect?” Xu Xin’s pupils shrank suddenly, ”Is it true? Or fake?”

”Fake.” Xu Ying shook her head beside him, ”But Wei Bai always thought it was true because...”

”Because those two lackeys made my father come back to life in front of grandfather.” Wei Shishi said.

The other party seemed to have deliberately left Wei Shishi’s parents’ corpses intact when they died.

At the time, the two had been dead for less than a day and hadn’t been buried yet.

Under the actions of the two, the corpse of Wei Bai’s son, already cold, sat up under Wei Bai’s shocked and ecstatic gaze, and even struggled to say, ”Dad...”

Then lay back down.

”Those lackeys told him my parents’ brains weren’t seriously damaged and could be resurrected with stimulation and repair.” Wei Shishi whispered, ”However, the choice must be made within half a day.”

Xu Xin looked at Xu Ying.

Xu Ying shook her head: ”All other bodily functions have ceased, the brain couldn’t possibly be repaired, let alone after a day; they’re thoroughly dead.”

It was indeed the case.

The brain is the most precious and fragile part of the human body; even a few minutes of oxygen deprivation, while the rest of the body remains healthy, the brain would directly succumb to death.

This is why there are many cases of people with healthy bodily functions but brain-dead, with no consciousness, vegetative states.

In most cases, the brain is the first organ to die.

They have been dead for a day already, the brain probably...

But the grandfather indeed saw my father sitting up and speaking at the time. He believed then that alien technology had the capability to medically repair and resurrect dead brains. After all...

Wei Shishi looked at Xu Ying: ”After all, grandfather once saw people who lived for hundreds of years and could make people immortal, why couldn’t they resurrect the dead?”

”...That’s impossible.” Xu Xin frowned.

”Of course it’s impossible.” Xu Ying shook her head.

”Don’t be fooled by how long we can live, extending life is based on the premise of still being alive. Even in nature, there are similar examples of immortality, like the Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish. But resurrection is pure nonsense. If dead life could be recovered, those alien invaders might truly be called gods.”

But grandfather didn’t think that way at the time. He believed then that in the face of the invaders’ power, the Wei Family couldn’t possibly protect everyone, not even...

Wei Shishi’s eyes reddened as she looked at the two of them: ”If it were you, what would you choose?”

”On one side, everyone dies, life devastated, the underground world becomes a complete purgatory.”

”On the other side, some people can survive, and my parents, his son can be resurrected.”

”Only half a day’s time to choose, after half a day, my parents will be thoroughly dead, with no chance of coming back.”

”If it were you, what would you choose?”