【Silence】Forbidden candy

He had a pure white dream.

In the dream, there are bright tubes, shining instruments, and a group of faceless people in white clothes.He was sometimes locked in a windowless white room with some children his age, and sometimes slept in a crowded room full of metal objects.When he fell asleep, he would have very different dreams.

What kind of dream was that? He couldn't describe it. After waking up, he always felt weird and couldn't remember what he had done.

It wasn't until a long time later, when he left the weird closed house and saw the objects in the hands of the children passing by on the crowded road, that he vaguely remembered the outline of the dream.

That is--

Colored spheres.

Yicun Luanshu was awakened by a strange cry.

He took a long breath and opened his eyes.It was still late at night, and everything was coated with a layer of blue fluorescent light.The strange cry came from the other side of the curtain, it was a newly transferred patient.The man didn't know if he had a nightmare or something, and he cried and howled endlessly.

"Go away! Go away! Get out of here!" The sound of kicking the quilt echoed in the ward, and the shadow on the bed curtain also turned into a strange figure with teeth and claws following the violent action.

Yicun Luanshu was about to sit up when he suddenly felt an object on his wrist, and looked down, it was a piece of candy.There were footsteps at the door, and he immediately lay back down again, with his head tilted to one side, pretending to be asleep.

There were probably two or three people who came, probably nurses.Yicun Luanshu played with the candy in his hand while paying attention to the movement on the other side.

This was brought to him by Jinguji Jilei during the day, because he said he wanted it before, but he only said it half-jokingly once, and he didn't expect the other party to remember it.

The mad patient let out a suppressed whine, and someone hissed, and the patient struggled violently, but the noise was quickly weakened, and it seemed that the sedative had taken effect.At the same time, whispers of dialogue began to sound in the ward. Yicun Luanshu's hearing was very good, and the characters fell into his ears intermittently:

"Overdose..."

"Must be transferred..."

"The material will not meet the standard if this continues..."

"Quiet."

A familiar and cold voice sounded, and all the discussions came to an abrupt end.Yicun Luanshu heard someone walking towards this side, the bed curtain was pulled open, followed by a long silence.

The cold gaze swept from the head of the bed to the bed.

Then the bed curtain rustled again, this time from a further distance.

"Hurry up and move him away."

The blue eyes opened silently in the darkness.

"Ji Lei! Look, the thousand paper cranes are ready!" The pink paper cranes with sharp beaks were held in the palm of their hands, showing their bright colors in the sunlight.

The atmosphere in the ward is quiet and leisurely. This time Jinguji Jirei brought colored paper as requested by the other party. The paper smelling like ink was spread out on the bed like a treasure by Aimura Luanshu, and he took out a piece of paper. , Then handed another one to Jinguji, and happily said that he would come to fold a thousand origami cranes.

Jinguji Jirei took the paper and flipped through it in his hand, showing a troubled expression for the first time.

don't you?Yimura was surprised by the random numbers, and then he rolled his eyes and smiled as if he had caught a saint's handle, and began to teach the other party origami hand in hand.His hands are very skillful, and the explanation is very concise and clear. Jinguji Jirei is not a dull person, and he got the knack after a while.

"In this case Ji Lei will call me teacher." Yicun Luanshu said seriously.

Jinguji Jilei put a beautiful paper crane that had just been completed by his bedside, and smiled slightly: "Thank you for your enlightenment, 'Mr. Yicun'."

There was a knock on the door. The two looked over and saw the head nurse standing there, followed by a nurse holding a tray. It was time for Yicun to change the gauze.It always felt a little unfinished, but Jinguji Jirei still stood up. At this moment, his sleeve was pulled suddenly, and Aimura stretched half of his body, and quickly pinned something on his hair.

He was taken aback, and subconsciously took it down. Lying in the palm of his hand was a flower made of paper.

"Next time, please fold an identical one for me, okay?" Yicun Luanshu waved at him.

"Is this a test of teaching results?"

"Hmm~"

next time...

Facing the hopeful eyes of the other party, Jinguji Jirei had no choice but to nod, holding the paper flower carefully with a look of helplessness.

The head nurse greeted Jinguji Jirei briefly at the door, and the other party nodded and walked out the door. She then came to the bedside of Luanshu Amemura, and the nurse behind her carefully placed the tray on the table beside her.

"Sister Zhizi will take care of me in person today?"

"Others have more serious injuries to attend to." Her face was tense, looking a little more serious than usual.Yicun Luanshu noticed the clue, stopped making noise, and obediently obeyed the arrangement.

Normally, the nurse who came to change Yicun's random number of dressings would definitely laugh with him, but at this time, under the supervision of the head nurse, he could only keep silent, and the atmosphere was a little depressed for a while.When the last procedure was completed, the head nurse replaced the nurse and picked up a syringe from the iron tray.

"What's this?" Yicun Luanshu asked, blinking his eyes.

"Nutrition." The head nurse didn't look at him, and flicked the transparent needle with her index finger, "You recover quickly, and you will recover soon."

"What happens after this?"

"You can leave, or you can choose to help in the hospital. Many patients stay home after recovering." She pushed the plunger up, and a few drops of water came out from the tip of the needle, "But I don't think you are suitable for the hospital." work."

"Haha, I'm disgusted~" Yicun made random faces, looked up at the clean and blank hospital bed opposite, seemingly unintentionally, "Where's that person? Did he recover and leave?"

What responded to him was the flat tone of the head nurse: "No, his injury worsened last night and he has passed away. Stretch out your arm."

The slender arm protruded from under the large hospital gown, and the head nurse grabbed it with such force that it was like an iron tongs. Yicun glanced at the outside of the ward and saw a pair of black rubber boots—there were soldiers guarding the outside.

The head nurse sat on the edge of the bed, looked up at him, and a sharp temptation flashed in his eyes.

Yicun random number is very law-abiding.The needle tip slowly sank into his light blue vein.

"It's ok." The head nurse pressed it with a cotton swab, got up and put the empty needle tube in the iron tray, "Take a good rest."

The rubber boots outside the ward disappeared without a sound.The young nurse standing aside seemed relieved. After collecting the scattered colored paper on the ground for Yicun Luanshu, she walked out of the ward with the head nurse.

The breeze blows over the bed rails, and the smell of disinfectant diffuses in it.

Suddenly there was a chuckle at the head of the bed, and a paper crane fell to the ground, tilting its head, showing a funny look.

So that was the case, if he had heard the conversation of the nurses last night, he would never have obediently let someone inject an unknown liquid into his body just now.

Amemura Ranshu stretched that arm into the air, spread his five fingers, and let the light pass through.

His eyes were as transparent as some kind of gem.

"Interesting."

"Ji Lei."

The heel hits the ground, making a rhythmic sound with a hard texture.The long white corridor was endless at a glance, with transparent and dazzling glass windows on both sides, and the incandescent lamp overhead was making a vague noise.

Jinguji Jilei turned his head and saw An standing in front of him, still with his hands in his pockets, smiling.

"Where did you go again?" It sounded like an unintentional question, but she didn't seem to be expecting an answer, so she said to herself, "Did you meet any interesting children?"

"Everyone is very energetic." Jinguji Jilei talked about him from left to right. His hair was loose, which gave him an extra femininity, but the vigor around him smoothed out this femininity. , Forming a wonderful balance, anyone with a discerning eye can see the vitality blooming from him.

"Really?" An said lightly, with a more obvious smile, "That's really great, I'll go and have a look again when I have a chance."

So far, the simple greetings are over, and there is no more intimacy.An raised his hand to look at his watch and said, "It's time, let's go."

Hearing these words, the softness in Jinguji Jilei's eyes was immediately suppressed. He took out a hair tie from his pocket and tied up his hair, and said slowly: "Is that so, it's today."

Today is the day of the first clinical trial.

They walked along the corridor to the end, then An took out a card from his pocket, swiped it in the card slot, the indicator green light flashed twice, the elevator door opened in response, and Ann pressed a key among the densely packed buttons. the bottom one.

Bottom laboratory - "chrysalis".

Long before the outbreak of the war, the government proposed a plan to evolve human beings. According to scholars at the time, the current level of human evolution is far from reaching its peak, and it has more potentials that can be tapped.In the eyes of outsiders, this plan was a fantasy, but instead of being abolished after the outbreak of the war, the research process was accelerated. This is why the experimental base in Area A7 exists.

"Ji Lei, are you afraid of the unknown?" An raised her head and glanced at the ever-decreasing red numbers, and said casually.

"I'm not sure." Jinguji Ji Lei lowered his eyes.

"After all, that's the kind of person you are, 'It's not okay to just watch from a distance with interest, in order to know something deeper, it is necessary to take a step in practice', you seem to have said so." The elevator stopped steadily Coming down, Ann turned her head, "But what about the fear of the unknown part of yourself?"

When she said this, there was a bottomless depth in her eyes, which was fleeting.Jinguji Jilei was about to speak, but the other party had already stepped out of the elevator, so he had no choice but to follow.

As the name suggests, the "chrysalis" is a large oval-shaped white area surrounded by tempered glass. The circular corridor is only equipped with blue footlights, so that the scene in the laboratory can be seen at a glance.A man in a white lab coat was surrounded by a group of heavily armed experimenters, measuring various values ​​of his body.

An stood in front of the glass, her expression had returned to the same as usual.Jinguji Jirei saw that she didn't want to continue the topic just now, so she came to the computer in the front row and whispered a few words with the researchers.

"It's ready." The other party nodded vigorously.

"Okay, I want to have a word with him." Jinguji Jirei leaned over and switched on the microphone on the stage.

"Hello."

The glass was adjusted so that the outside could be seen from the inside. The man in the center of the crowd saw Jinguji Jirei at first glance, and his body shook: "Hi, hello."

"How does it feel?"

"A little nervous..."

Jinguji Jirei smiled softly: "Don't worry, this is not a dangerous experiment, we will always pay attention to your data."

As the conversation progressed, the man's uneasy emotions were obviously calmed down, and the heart rate displayed on the computer also slowly decreased.Until the end, the other party even bowed down in gratitude.

After turning off the microphone, Ann came up.

"You really have the talent to bewitch people."

Jinguji Jirei did not speak.

"Don't worry, this man came in after signing a contract, it's legal."

He frowned: "I'm not worried about that."

"You should be very clear about participating in this plan." An seemed to think that the other party's reaction was amusing, but she didn't come any closer. "Don't worry, no one will die."

After all the necessary preparations were made, the man was fixed on a bed, and an experimenter carefully picked up a needle of light brown reagent from the side, and slowly pushed it into the man's vein.

The man's smile gradually disappeared, and painful groans came from the loudspeaker. The veins on his arms were bulging, as if the hot magma that had been injected into his body was burning every inch of his blood vessels.Then the moaning changed its tone when it lasted for 3 minutes, and the man's face began to show a sense of trance, and his breathing gradually calmed down.

The heartbeat, respiration, and brain activity were all displayed on the electronic screen at the side, and the fluorescent lines twisted and changed. An glanced at it and gestured to the experimenter inside.The experimenter nodded knowingly, then untied the man's body, and passed a writing board and a pen from the side.

The above are all obscure mathematical formulas, which is another language that ordinary people want to give up at a glance.But after the man took it, his eyes were blank for a while, and then he started to write at an astonishing speed.

There is a camera on his upper back, and the content written by the man is displayed in the field of vision of external researchers.

"It's all done right..." Someone exclaimed, "The man we're looking for hasn't even graduated from elementary school!"

They have given such a boost to a person's IQ just by relying on drugs.

However, among the joyful researchers, Jinguji Jirei frowned more and more, and the light in his eyes was unpredictable.

"What's wrong?" Ann noticed, and her reaction was not overjoyed, as if she had expected such a result a long time ago.

"Bring the sedative, and open the door." He turned around quickly, and the rest of the people looked at each other in blank dismay. They didn't realize what happened, but just followed his words blindly.

As if to confirm his words, the sound of breathing in the loudspeaker suddenly became heavy, and the breath was tainted with unstable emotions.The strength of the man's writing is getting stronger and stronger, the tip of the pen breaks through the paper, and harsh strokes are carved on the writing board.

The experimenter in the same room found out and hurriedly tried to snatch the writing board, but this action annoyed the man. He dropped the writing board, swung up the experimental equipment on the side, and made a gesture to smash the other party, but was suddenly intruded. Others stopped.Jinguji Jilei walked in, dressed in white. He took the sedative from the staff at the side, and pressed the man's neck with bulging veins.

"Cat...cat!" The man suddenly screamed.

Jinguji Jirei was stunned, but the movements of his hands were uninterrupted, slowly injecting the sedative.The man struggled fiercely for a few times, but soon succumbed to the effect of the medicine, and fell limply, being dragged aside by the experimenter.

"...Doctor?" After being called several times, Jinguji Jirei suddenly came back to his senses. When he realized, the sedative was already tightly held in his hand, and the inside of the laboratory was in chaos.

"No one was hurt, right?"

"Yes, thanks to the doctor."

Jinguji Jilei breathed a sigh of relief, and expelled the sense of chaos that the man had brought to him just now: "Place the other party in a good place, and check all the data again. I will go there in person later."

"I understand." Once the instruction was issued, everyone seemed to have a backbone, and began to clean up the mess caused by the man in an orderly manner.Jinguji Jilei came out of the laboratory and saw Anzheng standing where he was before, staring intently at the data on the screen.

"All the values ​​of body functions have been improved, um... it's a little more violent than imagined. Sure enough, I can't pray for success at once." She breathed a sigh of relief and looked at him with helpless eyes Watching the man being carried onto the cart by the experimenters to go to another passage.

"You don't look surprised at all."

Ann shrugged and looked away: "Failure is normal, it's better to say that there is no success without failure."

Jinguji Jilei pondered for a moment, and said his thoughts: "I don't think the current results are suitable for human beings."

Ann raised an eyebrow.

"I said at the beginning that this is just a hypothesis. The current research is far from reaching a stable stage, and there are too many uncertainties."

"You are timid."

Jinguji Jirei was unmoved: "I just don't want to use the safety of others to measure this uncertainty, and continuing to use other animals can also allow the experiment to continue."

"It's not okay." Shaking her head, Ann sighed, "For you, this experiment may just be a product of satisfying interest, but some people don't think so, they didn't spend so much money just to watch mice Maze walker."

Silence fell, and the sound of overturned appliances came from the loudspeaker.The experimenter sitting in front of the computer looked back and forth between the two uneasily.

"I won't push any further, that's what I want to say." The emotionally suppressed words flowed out with a low voice.

"Are you going to compromise with that meaningless sense of morality again?" An accentuated her tone, she walked up to Jinguji Jirei, and looked straight into the other's eyes, "What's even more sad is that it's not your real Thoughts, I know Ji Lei, you have this weakness in your character. But you have to be clear, we did nothing wrong, it would be a cowardly act to give up research just because of such a little setback. It is for the future of mankind, do you know what this experiment will bring to this war, and even to all mankind?"

"Isn't it for...selfish desire..." Jinguji Jilei said softly, "Perhaps you are right."

There was a cool touch on his face, Jinguji Jilei looked over and saw An put his hand on his face, with a soothing expression in his eyes: "Don't forget the people in the hospital, it is because of you Here, they have a good environment and resources to survive, and you haven't done anything wrong."

The two stalemate for a while, and An is defeated: "I see, let's wait for a while in the next stage."

"What can this kind of experiment bring to mankind?"

"Did you bring anything..." An slowly withdrew her hand and looked inside the laboratory again. For a moment, her looseness and laziness disappeared, and she exuded a familiar indifference, "Listen Said the 'Newborn' project?"

Newborn plan.It was an illegal human experiment carried out by a few crazy researchers with the funding of a foreign gangster more than [-] years ago. Babies who had just reached the first month were collected from various sources, and they were given various physical training and brain modification from an early age. The surgical operation shields the areas of perception of right and wrong and empathy in the brain. The purpose is to create first-class humanoid weapons and export them to the world. The experimental subjects are all named with Greek letters, and they don't even have their own names.It was later discovered by the national government and condemned from all sides. Since then, this notorious experiment has been abolished.At that time, there were not many surviving experimental subjects left, and they disappeared even after the experiment was revealed. The government was afraid that these experimental subjects would endanger the society, and offered a huge reward for their capture, but so far, nothing has been found.

"Actually, the government has captured several fleeing experimental subjects a few years ago." An seemed to be talking about a common thing, "On the one hand, those experimental subjects are also victims, and they should be treated well. True, but that’s not the case.”

"By the way, let me show you something."

When Ann said this, she was looking at the ceiling.

They took the elevator and moved up one floor. Jinguji Jirei had never arrived here, because according to the rest of the staff, this is just a floor dedicated to piling up sundries, and generally no one would come here when they have nothing to do.As soon as the elevator door opened, darkness spread into the depths of the corridor.

The light in this building is even dimmer than that of the "chrysalis". The rooms on both sides of the road are pitch black, and the outlines of sundries can be vaguely seen through the glass, and the surroundings are quiet.An You leisurely walked to the end of the corridor with her pockets in her pocket, and then swiped it with the machine stuck on the side.

A white ward appeared in front of Jinguji Jirei.The change of light made it difficult for his eyes to adapt for a while, and he couldn't help squinting.

A hospital bed stands alone in the center of the room, surrounded by screens.The only sound in the air was the ticking of the instruments and the slight noise of the respirators.It is completely isolated from the outside world, like another time and space.

An came to the hospital bed, lowered her head slightly, and showed a doting smile.She stretched out a hand from her pocket to the edge of the bed, and Jinguji stood behind the screen, watching a bandaged hand, weak and tentative, hooking Ann's index finger.

"This is Myu. His body was injured in an explosion during a pursuit." An said while playing a finger game with the other party. "He is one of the few survivors of 'Newborn'."

survivor.

These three words were like a spell that drew Jinguji Jirei's footsteps closer, but what he saw there was not a beautiful product that could represent another dimension of human beings.

The bandage-wrapped teenager lay immobile on the hospital bed, his face covered with a breathing mask, and only a pair of black eyes rolled up and down.

Then it slowly settled on him.