[Science Fiction] Escape from Paint City

"How dare you use unknown creatures so confidently and boldly."

Shuichen remained respectful and insensitive, and was still extremely vigilant towards the cocoons.

"But it turns out that everything is working fine, isn't it? If it wasn't for this guy next to you breaking in."

Shuichen frowned and argued, "Qianxing's arrival just happened to reveal the shortcomings of Qicheng."

"Whatever you think, if outsiders appear, people will naturally leave, and everything will return to calm after that."

While talking, Dad Shui gently tapped the glass with his index finger, and drew a small circle, and then the glass within the circle gradually became thinner, and finally formed a paste-like film.

He got up, crossed Shuichen and Sha Qianxing, and took out a transparent square box and slender tweezers from the second floor of the tool area.

"Okay, I have found a chip that matches that girl, I hope I have good luck today."

He went back to the selected cell, the tweezers pierced through the membrane, accurately clamped the cocoon inside, followed the original path, took out the cocoon, and carefully put it into the transparent box.

After the cocoon was taken out, the glass returned to its original appearance without any damage.

"We can go out now. If you want to know the truth about the chrysalis, you can go to the already existing area to have a look."

Shui Dad seemed to know what Shui Chen was thinking, and said such a sentence.He just has the ability to make other people's active topics lead to a dead end in three sentences. He can only follow his train of thought, but in the end he will give the answer inadvertently.

"Then how to get to the already area? There is no passage leading to the second floor."

Shui Chen asked.He watched Dad Shui continue his previous observation behavior, and took care of the cocoons that he hadn't seen before.

"When the time is right, I will send you up."

Shui Dad turned his back to the two of them, and said without looking back.

"Why are you helping us?"

Even if the water dad doesn't reject outsiders, it doesn't make sense to help them all the time.Ever since he knew how all the people in Qicheng came into being, the relationship between Shui Chen and Dad Shui became even more like father and son, and he would not ask Dad Shui to pay anything for him.

"After all, you are still my son in name, and I will always support you in whatever you want to do."

Dad Shui had already finished the inspection at this time, he turned around and looked at Shui Chen with a rare softness in his eyes.After speaking, he pushed his glasses in a concealed manner, and walked to the door again.

"Dad Do you want to leave with us?"

Shuichen's words were choked up, he was not close to Shui's father and Shui's mother before, and he didn't have the sense of kinship and belonging that blood is thicker than water, but more of a sense of ritual of returning home and reuniting regularly.But at this time, he hopes to take them away from the time bomb of Qicheng.

Dad Shui shook his head, turned sideways, his face was buried in the shadow, and he couldn't see his expression clearly.

"Qicheng is where I belong. For me, there is no other suitable place. But you are different..."

As he said that, the whole room was gradually shrouded in darkness, and Dad Shui turned to mention another matter.

"Before you make up your mind to leave, you must go home and see your mother."

After Dad Shui said this, the door of the room opened slowly, and the light reappeared, but it was tightly guarded against the door, unable to penetrate into the room at all.

He didn't say any more, straightened his collar, put his hands back into the pockets of his white coat, and strode out.

Shui Chen was stunned, still wondering what Shui Dad meant when he suddenly said this sentence, seeing that the door began to close as Shui Dad left, he hurried out with Sha Qianxing.

The three of them returned to the cubicle where the girl's body was originally placed.Shui Dad took out the transparent square box, and selected a suitable scalpel in the tool area.

All the blood circulation and visceral functions in the created body are not functioning. The father of water cuts the palm of the girl's palm, just like cutting it on a soft cake. Only the internal tissues below the muscles can be seen, but there will be no large amount of blood gushing out. .

After a while, the chip was placed in the shallower part of the palm, and Dad Shui sewed up the wound again.Then, the girl's palm trembled slightly, and with it as the center, light pink roots were imprinted on the surface of the skin, slowly spreading to every part of the body, and finally a red light began to flash behind the ears, indicating the end of the fusion process.

Dad Shui breathed out, wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, and said, "It seems that the fusion effect is not bad so far, and it will depend on how the soul collection goes."

At this time, the light pink roots that were printed before had disappeared, and except for the flashing red light from time to time, there was no trace of the chip inside the girl's body at all.But Shuichen knew that the chip worm had spread to every corner of the girl's body, took root deeply, and would control the girl's life for a long time to come.

"what's next?"

As Shui Chen said, he raised his hand out of thin air and traced along the root of the chip on the girl's body.

"Next, people from the working group will take the body out to absorb the soul. When the growth is almost complete, they can take it back for basic guidance. After passing it, they will basically become qualified residents of Paint City."

"Then what if it fails during the absorption process?"

Shuichen still remembers what the man in black said last night about "the body that moved back".

"That's irreversible. The chip will die, and the body will be put into the raw material area, reassembled into a new body, and recycled."

Shui Chen was silent.The entire process of the Science Affairs Office seems to be for more real people to appear, but they have no right to choose, they can only be forced to enter the screening process, and even they themselves have a life and die again Do not know at all.

"After the first batch of qualified humans appeared, why not adopt the method of natural reproduction to develop?"

"It's useless. We have also tried that method. The child born after the natural union of a man and a woman is just an empty shell, without a soul, and the body will suffer from serious diseases. This comparison can only continue with the safest way at present. .”

"The situation is not optimistic if it continues like this. Don't you really consider going outside to find new countermeasures?"

Shuichen brought up this matter again, hoping to change Shui's father's attitude.

Dad Shui shook his head with a wry smile, he stepped forward suddenly, hugged Shui Chen, touched the back of Shui Chen's head with his right hand, and stroked it.

The hugging action only stayed for a moment, when Shuichen was still struggling to push Dad Shui away or embrace him back, Dad Shui had already let go and took two steps back to stand on the spot.

"You will understand later, it's not that I don't want to, it's that I can't. Only you are special, we can only stay in Qicheng."

This ambiguous way of speaking was very similar to that of Sha Qianxing. Shui Chen noticed that Sha Qianxing's expression on the side was also a little strange, a little stunned, and then sympathy and intolerance.

Dad Shui returned to his indifferent attitude, as if he didn't do the action just now.

"what is the problem?"

Shuichen looked at Papa Shui, then turned to look at Sha Qianxing, the two seemed to have reached a consensus without him knowing.

"You don't have to ask any more. He probably can't tell you now. When the time comes, you will naturally know."

Dad Shui waved his hand, interrupting his questioning.

This kind of situation where only you are being concealed is really uncomfortable, but seeing that the two of them are silent, Shui Chen can only suppress his doubts again.

"Okay, let me take you to see the newborn humans, those who are receiving basic guidance. After that... I will probably send you to the pre-existing area."

When Dad Shui spoke the second half of the sentence, his voice became slower and slower, with a bit of reluctance.

Shui Chen bit her lower lip, crossed her hands in front of her body, clasped her fingers tightly, the strength was so strong that the red and white difference between the top and bottom of the cross was very obvious.

He stomped his feet restlessly on the spot, and simply walked out of the cubicle first.

Sha Qianxing was about to follow, but Papa Shui stopped him by patting him on the shoulder.

"You still have three days?"

Because he had guessed that Dad Shui might know some truths, Sha Qianxing was not surprised by his question.

"Ah."

"You... stay with him well. If there is any possible solution, don't hide it, and don't give up even if it's a small hope."

Because they were worried about something, neither of them made it obvious.

Sha Qianxing nodded after hearing this, but did not mention Dr. Qi's backup plan. He hesitated and asked, "Do you... really want to leave Qicheng?"

Dad Shui looked up into the distance, as if he could see the outside world through the closed buildings, the lacquered city, and the black fog.

"I don't want to be like you, at least I can have more companions, truly live like a person, and live in a world closer to the real world."

After finishing speaking, Dad Shui looked away, took off his glasses, adjusted the stipples, and put them back on.

"However, your situation is also very difficult. Compared with this, we are in the midst of blessings and don't know the blessings."

Sha Qianxing's fingers rubbed unconsciously, and finally hesitatingly revealed part of the truth.

"Maybe in the end we become like you, which is the only way to survive."

Dad Shui raised his head and stared at Sha Qianxing in amazement, as if he wanted to confirm every word he said.After that, although his expression didn't change much, a smile appeared on his face.

"That said, there might be a time when we meet again and things really get better."

Sha Qianxing nodded and said nothing more.

The two stayed in the cubicle for a while, Shuichen saw the two talking and guessed that what they said was not suitable for him to hear, so he didn't go in.But seeing that the conversation has not ended, he became a little impatient.

Since entering the Science Affairs Office, his mood has been fluctuating, and it is difficult to calm down, as if there is an unknown fire burning in his heart.

He endured and endured, and finally couldn't help it anymore, knocked on the door a little harder, and said loudly: "Aren't we going to the Newborn Human Zone?"

Hearing Shuichen's voice, Sha Qianxing didn't linger any longer, quickly walked out of the cubicle, and smoothed Shuichen's messy hair that was rumpled due to irritability.

"Let's go."

Shuichen raised his hand to hold Sha Qianxing's wrist, and pulled him towards the door.

Dad Shui came out, looked at the figures of the two, and shook his head in half helplessness and half relief.

The author has something to say: In fact, there is no absolute villain in the whole story. Everyone is standing on their own ground, struggling to pursue their original desire.

Dad Shui has a certain understanding of the truth, but he suffers because he is closer to the truth but cannot touch it. Sha Qianxing understands and feels sympathy.But they can't tell Brother Chen, they can only let him think of it.

So Brother Chen will be a little anxious, this kind of repulsion that only he doesn't know, and the closer he is to the truth, he will also become restless because of it, and his behavior pattern will also be affected, making him seem a little childish.But even so, she won't say anything excessive, so she's really gentle~

--small theater--

Water Dad: I have a secret.

Chiyuki: I have a secret.

Then the two looked at each other and smiled.

Brother Chen watched the Want to Hit Someone series. 【hhhh】