Mountains and seas have a home

Xiao Zhuoming sat with Zhu Min and Linnai Dawn, in a daze thoughtfully, turning his thumbs from time to time.After a while, Qi Mingli and Yang Qihua came out of the laboratory behind the frosted glass partition, found two chairs and sat down at the walnut table, and then announced the start of the meeting.At this time, Kalber and Xinghe systems have been activated, Yue Junqi guards the outside world, and Lin Cheng enters Kalber's mainframe system to retrieve data, this is their usual style.

Zhandui Jiangqu did not attend the meeting because he returned to Linzhi earlier.He Qianbei is the person at the conference table who is most aware of the 2008 Tibetan archaeological incidents. He brought all the documents and images that survived at that time today. Those evidences were obviously well preserved without any damage.He Luan and Chen Wei provided their marching logs and video materials during their missions in Tibet, including photos of giant eagles, underground passages hidden deep in the snowy mountains, Nazi relics in caves, etc.

At the meeting, He Luan also took out another thing, which was a short candle.He Luan said that the candle had been burning in the cave for an unknown period of time, and no candle oil was seen flowing down.Yang Qihua is very interested in this, and he intends to keep this candle for research.

"Maybe it's the oil extracted from some kind of creature. As described in the legend, mermaid oil can be used to make an ever-burning lamp, which can't be burned out for thousands of years." Yang Qihua said.

Everyone turned their eyes to the laboratory and paid their respects to the remains of the mermaid. CUBL is a wonderful place, where there are many unique unknown biological specimens in the world, many of which have never even been shown to the public.

He Qianbei was wearing a light and soft reed-gray coat, standing silently behind a chair with his arms folded and looking down at the things on the table. At this moment, he suddenly said: "The candles are from the German army when we went to Tibet in 08. Found in the relic."

"Did you light it up then?"

"Ah, yes. After it was lit, it kept burning until He Luan and Chen Wei found it." He Qianbei pointed to the two people sitting together, and Chen Wei nodded in agreement.

Ji Yao spread his hands: "Did you turn it off halfway?"

He Qianbei touched his chin and said, "I don't think there is any. It has been burned for so many years, and its length has only decreased by less than one millimeter."

"Have you found out its origin? Where did the German troops end up?"

"No, it is still a mystery. There are many mysterious things in Tibet. There is a creature similar to the Dragon King hidden in the Yarlung Zangbo River, and we have not found out its true face. The German army disappeared after entering the hinterland of Mount Kailash gone, whereabouts unknown."

Ji Yao raised his eyebrows and was silent for a while, then he raised his finger, and then gently put it down on the table: "In other words, there are still many puzzles that bother us. Then you have stayed in Tibet for so many years incognito, What are you doing?"

This question made He Qianbei think for a long time, and Ji Yao calmly waited for his answer.After waiting for a while, He Qianbei pinched the base of his nose with his thumb and forefinger, and said, "We are guarding the tomb of the immortals there."

Everyone turned their attention to him, and Ji Yao folded his hands, quietly and quickly thinking about the meaning of He Qianbei's words.He Qianbei looked around at the people around him, changed his posture and stood, lowered his eyes and added, "It's just guarding the giant eagle. There is a giant eagle that lives on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is huge and has blood-red eyes. We call the place where the giant eagle lived the 'Tomb of the Immortals', and it is located near Zhan Niangshe, where the climate is harsh."

Fu Zhong browsed through the photos provided by He Qianbei, stretched out his fingers and pondered for a while, and asked, "What is that eagle doing there?"

"Suppress the unknown creatures in the Yarlung Zangbo River. The range of activities of the unknown creatures is not only in the river, but also in the deep mountains and old forests, deep in the ground, and in caves, everywhere." He Qianbei spread his hands, "Over the years, we It's been kept a secret."

Everyone was silent.Chen Wei lowered his head and pondered. He recalled all the strange things he experienced in Tibet, and they seemed to have been explained at this time.Fu Zhong glanced at Ji Yao, and they looked at each other for a moment before moving away, there are some things that I don't want to talk about.

Xiao Zhuoming's father's diary and the pen drawing signed "Four Families Closing the Pagoda" were displayed in front of people's eyes one by one. Reading the contents in the diary was often frightening and creepy.After sorting out the things in Tibet, the time came to the year when the "Ark Project" was carried out.Ji Yao spread out his father's diary, listed doubtful points according to the marks made in advance, and confronted Professor Qi Mingli to confirm the authenticity of the contents in the diary.

Lin Nai Dawn and Zhu Min showed Ji Songlin's abnormal DNA, and the triple helix structure amazed many people present.Finally, Dawn pointed the stick on the screen, and said: "According to the commander's medical report from birth to the present, and the comparison of the genetic samples of the two of you, Commander, you have half of the mental illness." It comes from genetics, and one-half comes from acquired stress and trauma."

Fu Zhong held the fountain pen and turned it around, propped his elbow and added: "Ji Songlin has an immortal body. I have seen him being disembowelled by the Dragon King, and those wounds were cut open with lightning speed. Healing. I'm not exaggerating at all, and I bet any of you who've seen it will think it's bigger than any sci-fi movie. That's why he was lucky enough to escape from the erupting crater. Lava can Burn the stone to ashes, but it won't kill him at all."

Ji Yao sat at the end of the long table with her hands on her hands, her eyebrows furrowed in thought.After a while, he pressed his hand on the mountain of papers in front of him, and said, "PHR-17 can give a person a powerful muscle healing ability. Could he also be affected by this drug, or be related to this drug?" Is it because of certain things that they become undead? Professor Qi, can you explain what the 'Reagent Zero' written in the third diary is?"

Qi Mingli sat under the lamp in silence for a long time, and finally confessed: "This is the predecessor of PHR-17, a mixture of adaptive and mutated phages, which achieves the purpose of creating a 'super individual' by changing the ectopic dominance ratio and transferring ribonucleic acid. .”

"So is Ji Songlin a successful 'super entity'?"

"From your description, it seems to be."

"What does it mean to listen to our description? Haven't you seen whether your experimental subject is successful or not?"

Qi Mingli nodded: "Yes, I haven't seen it. I want to tell you a fact, that is-the zero reagent has indeed been developed, but we have never conducted human experiments because we cannot afford the consequences of the experiments. .”

Ji Yao leaned forward: "But Ji Songlin claimed that he was one of the experimental subjects, and there were four other experimental subjects who were the same as him, but they all died later, and the doctor who performed the transformation operation also died."

"So that's the problem," said Qi Mingli, "Let's think about it this way: the zero reagent was not injected by the doctor while he was lying on the operating table, but he stole the reagent and injected it himself. .”

Ji Yao leaned back, staring at Qi Mingli, eyes full of surprise.There is a tin box in the center of the conference table, which is placed in a sea of ​​white paper, as if a sailboat is about to sink.Ji Yao looked at He Qianbei: "What's in the box?"

He Qianbei shook his head: "I don't know, it was already such a box when I got it."

"Open it." Ji Yao said, and gestured to Lin Cheng to signal him to turn off the surveillance video. "From now on, everyone present is a witness."

The top cover of the box was removed face to face, and the contents inside were finally exposed to the bright light.There was another marching journal in the box, and on the opened inside pages were thick black wings drawn with ink pens on the kraft paper.The moment Ji Yao took out the diary, the small hall was as silent as death, filled with an increasingly strong fragrance of freesia.A mysterious hazy light appeared in the night sky outside the window, and the drowsy Turkish-style manor under the white snow seemed to be abandoned by the night, and there were one or two night birds singing alone.

Ji Yao flipped through the diary, but the first half was blank, and there was no content until the middle.Ji Yao found the page number at the bottom, and at the same time opened the third diary to the same page, and checked the two together.Fu Zhong stood aside and quietly noticed the changes on Ji Yao's face, and saw his eyebrows furrowed more and more as he stepped back.After reading the last line, Ji Yao leaned his head on the edge of the table without saying a word, and there was no one around, except for the roar of a helicopter from far away.

It took a few minutes for Ji Yao to raise his head. His eyes were full of red tears, but his expression was clear and not sad: "Professor Qi Mingli was right. He stole the zero reagent himself. Then he injected himself. But he didn't lie, because there were indeed four failed subjects, and the doctors were indeed killed. He didn't lie, he just mixed things up, or his memory was confused, There's something wrong with the timeline."

The table was still silent, and everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.Finally Zhu Min stood up and said: "This is also one of the symptoms of mental illness. He subconsciously wanted to cover up the mistakes he made, coupled with the sequelae left by the reconstruction surgery and time-space fluctuations, let him reorganize the timeline of his memory and piece together The result of a fantasy. Everything he said was true, but out of order, and what he said was just a hallucination after he reorganized his memory. It can be said that he was sometimes sober, sometimes confused, and he didn't know it .”

"'We choose the truth'." Ji Yao repeated his own words, the truth was chosen, "What do you think about mass graves?"

Geng Shuming opened the structural model of the mass grave under the Vitgara volcano, tapped the screen, and said, "Massacre."

Ji Yao nodded while flipping through the documents in front of her: "I think the same as you."

"These body bags were chained and chained by the National People's Congress, probably trying to keep them in place. In addition to the obvious tear marks from the inside to the outside, the bodies inside disappeared and wandered around. There are so many walking corpse-like 'climbing dragons'." Shao Zhesheng raised his hand to express his opinion to the crowd, "Let's think about it, before they turned into monsters, who sent them into the body bag?"

Ji Yao didn't make a sound, Xiao Zhuoming shook his body with his arms folded, raised his eyes and said, "According to the list of personnel kept by General Fu, the truth should be that only a small number of people were withdrawn, and most of them were left behind." But in the end only four people came back, so where did the others go? They died in battle. Those who didn’t die in battle were all executed because they were involved in the experiment of transforming people.”

"After the Dragon King was killed, there must have been a bloody massacre against the 'Ark Project' task group. Those 'reformed warriors' who were considered threatening were all executed. The scientific researchers who mastered the transformation technology were also doomed. The doctors who performed the surgery couldn't protect themselves, and Ji Songlin, who had acquired the ability of immortality, was the target of everyone's punishment." Qi Mingli concluded, "After they came back, they announced that they had sacrificed countless times, so they all died. Be a hero. That's their 'hero'."

Ji Yao sat on the chair and stared at the handwriting in the diary. After a while, he closed his eyes and meditated with a pious attitude.After Qi Mingli finished his conclusion, the sound of the helicopter lingered overhead for a while, then flew away with the snow and fog.

Fu Zhong added a sentence at this time: "Don't forget the laborers who were captured from prisons. They were estimated to be executed after the construction of dams, military bases, and submarine cities."

The room fell into silence again, and talking about those undead was often frightening, as if they were in the woods outside the window.

"What about you, professor? Why weren't you left behind to execute?" Chen Wei asked, turning sideways.

"As soon as I stepped on the ground, I was controlled by Tang Lin's people. I have been working for the gangsters, and I am under their control. As you can see, Tang Lin really wants to use my human transformation technology to make a difference. Heaven and earth, he must keep me here."

"What happened to reagent zero?"

"After discovering that Ji Songlin injected the reagent without authorization, all the samples were destroyed. After withdrawing it, Tang Lin ordered me to develop this mixture again. He wanted to make people stronger, but not undead Human reagents, and PHR-17 was born."

"This is to better control these modified people, right?"

"Of course, dear, you can imagine that if they all became undead, who would be able to suppress these dangerous guys? Ji Songlin is a lesson from the past. If not, we wouldn't be sitting here today looking back and looking forward It's the future."

Now, the truth is revealed.The truth came too late. They raced against time, but time won.Due to the plan of Li Chongyan and others, the electronic log of the "Ark Project" has been cleared, and all records about that time have disappeared. Even if you go deep into the Galaxy and Molos, all you can retrieve is the empty "Top Secret Files: Dragon King".They were unable to obtain information from the Time Bureau to restore the real situation back then, and most of the people who knew the facts had passed away.

They lack truth, and even if they have truth, they are still ambiguous.Even if relying on Lin Cheng's "profile" ability to get a glimpse of the first-line real scene, it can only capture a fleeting feeling, which is often superficial.

But this is also very good, leave some room for association, don't let everything be exposed sharply in front of your eyes.

It was already late at night, Ji Yao ended the meeting, and everyone cleaned up the things on the table while talking.Lin Cheng, who was sitting outside, raised his head, looked at Ji Yao and said, "I found the secret document leaked from Tibet. It is really stored in the Kalber host."

After another moment of silence, Ji Yao got up from his seat and took the computer from Lin Cheng.He walked behind the secluded green screen window, and stood in front of the glass curtain wall filled with blue moonlight to check the contents of the document.The people in the room consciously didn't bother him, because it was a secret document and they didn't have permission to read it.Ji Yao inserts her black card, enters the password and performs identity verification, and then the system prompts: permission is allowed.

"I want to eat honey grilled chicken." Lin Cheng said, "It's best grilled with pine wood."

"Well, there is a shop in Century Oriental Plaza that does good roasts, and I bought it on the way back. Your home is not far from Century Oriental, right?"

"It's not far, it's just around there, and it takes a few minutes to ride a bicycle."

Chen Wei took a sip of soda with a smile and asked, "When shall we get together?"

"I didn't have time years ago. There will be a press conference tomorrow afternoon and a commendation meeting in the evening. The day after tomorrow I will fly to New York and go to the United Nations Headquarters. I will stay there for two or three days." Fu Zhong sorted out the documents and put them in the box, and looked back Ji Yao by the window, "Let's see when you are free, I think you are also busy during Chinese New Year."

"I don't know when I'll be free, and I don't feel the time now." Chen Wei shrugged, He Luan came over and patted him, and Chen Wei handed him the soda bottle skillfully, "That's it, when the time comes You, you are a busy person, you are more busy than the chief."

As Chen Wei said, he stood up and patted the ash on his pants, and zipped up the dark green coat to the top, covering his mouth.Hearing this, Fu Zhong just smiled and didn't speak.He packed the box, and the table was clean, its enamelled walnut giving off a soft sheen.The scent of freesia that had been wafting in the hall faded a bit, and the warm steam made people blush on their cheeks.Yang Qihua went to open the window, and the chilly north wind blew in the cold night, bringing with it the unique fresh breath of dense cypress.

It took a while for Ji Yao to come back silently. Everyone secretly looked at his face, but fortunately he was still calm.Ji Yao didn't say anything, just returned the computer to Lin Cheng: "Thank you."

No one asked what was written in the secret document. This is an unfavorable and unflattering behavior, and no one wants to go to jail for it.Ji Yao simply nodded to everyone, and it was considered as the end of the conversation.They left the garden-style CUBL headquarters one after another. Before they came here, few people would have thought that this laboratory specializing in the study of mysterious creatures would have such a lovable face, just like a lovely scholar.

They said goodbye to each other by the fountain in front of the court, and everyone had a warm fragrance on their bodies, as if they had just finished a banquet.When the figures dispersed, the sound of rustling snow could be heard from time to time in the silent garden. Ji Yao looked up and saw that the garden was full of moonlight tonight.

Lin Cheng was still sitting in the back seat of the car, Xiao Qi and the fox were with him, the beautiful and cunning fox still didn't dare to approach him, but just stared at him silently with cunning and intelligent eyes.They returned along the same road, this time Fu Zhong was driving, Ji Yao leaned silently on the back of the co-pilot's seat, thinking about the important things with a calm expression.Fu Zhong turned his head to look at him occasionally, knowing that he had something hidden in his heart and had something to say.

It was so silent along the way, Fu Zhong drove to Century Oriental Plaza, Lin Cheng went to buy a ready-made hot roast chicken, and then Fu Zhong sent him to the gate of the community.Lin Cheng got out of the car with a paper bag and his computer case, and stood outside to salute Ji Yao.Ji Yao looked at him and smiled slightly, then nodded, Lin Cheng quickly ran into the gate with the roast chicken in his arms, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

After Lin Cheng returned home, he quickly took off his coat and sweater, and untied the protective cloth wrapped around his chest. Only then did he feel sore and swollen, and the protective cloth was already soaked by the oozing liquid.He smelled an indescribable smell, faint, not as strong as the smell of milk.

He decided to never use milk-flavored hand cream again.

"Going home?" Fu Zhong asked while sitting in the car, he stretched out his hand to straighten Ji Yao's hair, and saw that his eyes shone slightly in the dark.

Ji Yao sat up slightly, shook her head, and said in a muffled voice, "I want to go to Binjiang Park for a walk."

"Okay, let's go to Binjiang Park." Fu Zhong turned the car onto the empty street, rolled the snow and drove away.

It was late at night, and there was silence in the park.The railings on the riverside are hidden behind the cannas, and the sandy slope leading to the embankment reflects the pale moonlight at this time, and a little further away there is a barrier-like bush with whirling branches and leaves.Ji Yao led the fox along the wooden plank road on the bank of the river, blowing the cool wind on the ice, which made the tip of his nose hurt from the cold.There is a street lamp every few steps, illuminating the plank road brightly and brightly.But it was still cold and dark in the bushes, where nocturnal animals lurked and chattered maliciously.

This is the park that Fu Zhong personally designed when he was in college. Many years later, he and Ji Yao stood together on this land—on this cold moonlit night, everything has a chance to meet again.

The pale moon stared at the reflection on the ice for a long time, even if she stared at it for 1000 years, she still looked the same forever.Ji Yao's leather shoes stepped on the snow quilt, Fu Zhong walked with him, Xiao Qi flicked his tail, lowered his head to smell various smells in the snow.They stopped on a prominent viewing platform, wide and loose, with shrubs and cannas planted beyond the railing.The river was gurgling from below, but at this time the surface of the river was blocked by ice.

"Actually, I didn't read that secret document at all just now." Ji Yao said.

Fu Zhong looked at him suspiciously, frowned and smiled, and said, "I was planning to ask you what was written in it, but now it seems that the plan has failed. Why don't you open it and have a look?"

Ji Yao took a few long breaths, the air was exceptionally fresh, full of the aroma of cypress.He looked up at the moon for a while, and the black long coat wrapped around his body made him seem to be sleeping forever, until the end of the world.There was an imperceptible trace of melancholy in Ji Yao's eyes, and the tails of his eyebrows were pressed cleanly and neatly, and then he said in a calm but calm tone: "That's it, it's already good. Leave it alone." Give yourself some leeway and don't let everything come out."

Fu Zhong understood what he meant, and he had to leave a wide margin in life.He didn't ask any further, he knew that Ji Yao needed to calm down now, the quiet moonlit night was suitable for a long silence.Things around are so sad, but they are full of happiness.

"Do you have anything to say?" Fu Zhong asked, his voice made the night even more deserted.

Ji Yao put one hand in Fu Zhong's pocket to keep warm, and the other hand held the leash.He raised his eyes and gazed at the trees in the distance for a while, exhaled a puff of white mist, and said, "Ji Songlin himself asked others to push him down the crater."

Fu Zhong held his hand in his pocket, kept silent, waiting for him to speak, Ji Yao paused for a while, stepped on his heels twice, and then said: "At that time, he already knew what he had become. , the original words in the diary are: 'To live is meaningless to me.'."

Fu Zhong suddenly understood everything. He was different from others. He knew that immortality was not a good thing since he was a child, and many of these words were told by Fu Yangxia.Ji Yao didn't say any more, he looked at the river and the world in front of him from a distance, some inexplicable pictures repeatedly appeared in his mind, even he couldn't describe it himself.In a moment, in this good season when the moon is clear and the rivers and mountains are leaning against each other, Ji Yao suddenly burst into tears, and his expression is clearly so serene, peaceful, and as usual.

"In fact, no one is wrong in the end. The truth is more difficult to accept than lies. If you want to find hatred, you don't know where to start." Ji Yao said, "He, they, and us are all victims of time."

"Things lost will come back in another way. Let the past pass by. We don't regret it." Fu Zhong hugged him, patted his back, and whispered softly, "Time can't defeat everything, For example, I have never been defeated in the matter of loving you from the beginning to the end."

With his chin in his mouth, Ji Yao clings to Fu Zhong's shoulder, smelling the fragrance of sea salt on his body, so light, simple and rare in the world.The moon clearly illuminated the white snow, and it was cold in an instant.They stayed on the river bank for a long time, as if this night had burned the past and made the dream transparent.Fu Zhong said that he will never forget the beams of clear moonlight pouring down from the high sky, and the tranquility under the moonlight, far away from the world, and time has nothing to do with them.