Rib Flower [Ability]

Hero's heart trembled, she stood still, propped one hand on the wall, and looked at him with an unkind expression.

Ando thoughtfully put the petri dish filled with dead body fluid into the warming instrument, aimed the light at it, and adjusted the goggles: "No, do you believe I can see it?"

He resisted the urge to tell about Ai Ling and swallowed.

Of course, you can't say it, otherwise Sayero will jump out of the grave even if he is dead, and shoot him down.That guy is a complete control freak.

"roll."

As expected, the young man threw him a word angrily, sat down on the chair next to him, and stared at the inside of the heating instrument, which began to expand and gradually condensed into a solid liquid.An uncomfortable hiss sounded in the silent space, which was covered by a string of beautiful music that suddenly sounded.

As if he was really looking at some pleasing artwork, Herlo found that the pervert Ando actually turned on the miniature player he carried with him.

"Okay, let's wait patiently. It takes a little time for the bacteria in this thing to recover from thawing."

Ando turned the swivel chair leisurely, resting his arms behind his head, "You like listening to operas as much as Sayero, right?"

Helo shrugged noncommittally, and went to the water dispenser to pour a glass of water. He drank slowly, being attracted by the suffocating singing in the player.

That is his favorite singer, Farinelli, a peerless eunuch in the Baroque period. He was castrated by his elder brother when he was young, so he was able to maintain his youthful voice for a long time, even if he was heard in the record after several centuries. You can also hear the heartbreaking sadness hidden in that beautiful voice.

It's really fitting, isn't it?

Sayero's departure has also become the skeleton for him to stand up to a certain extent.

"Ando, ​​I can't see that you have good taste."

He raised his glass, with a slightly mocking tone in his tone.

"This was downloaded by Sayero. To be precise, this player was originally his, and it contained a lot of things he told me." Ando paused, "Most of them are to teach me how to take care of you, unfortunately You don't appreciate it at all, you would rather live in school than go home."

"Home? Can you imagine a home where there are only memories and no family members day and night? It's not like I haven't been back."

Helo drank all the water in the glass and curled the corners of his lips lightly.He lowered his eyelashes, and a faint shadow swept across his pale side face, reminding Ando of the time when he first met him.

The thin boy stood in the shadow of the huge cold iron gate, standing motionless, like a lone tree in the desert.

The child looked up at the cloudy sky, his eyes penetrated through the clouds, and traveled to another dimension, looking for the man who had left him. There was no tear in his eyes, only infinite confusion, as if his whole soul had been pulled from the inside. It's like hollowing out the outside.

How could he not experience that similar feeling in his childhood?The indifferent mother, the father who used him as an experimental sample like a lunatic, those years spent in the hospital all day long...

A drop of water leaked from the corner of the young man's reddish lips, hanging precariously on his chin, and Ando couldn't help stretching out his fingers to wipe it off for him.

"You are just as lovable as Farinelli." Under the glasses, the man's slender and upturned eyes gleamed with soft affection, "Since it is impossible for Sayero to accept you, why don't you consider me? These few days I have been by your side for years and know you better than him."

And cherish you more, instead of treating you as another person's shadow.

Swallowing the second half of the sentence, he took off his watch: "I'm serious, Helo."

"boom--"

At the same time Helo stood up from the chair, the monitor in the corner fell to the ground somehow, and a series of sparks exploded from the broken wire. The sound was not loud, but both of them were startled.

"What's going on? Why did this thing suddenly fall?"

Helo doused the electric spark with water, squatted down and looked at the finger-thick monitor, picked it up, and looked overhead.There poked a dark hole like a peeping eye.

"Maybe it's because this small place was left out during the warship inspection. I never let anyone else enter my laboratory, except you." Ando spread his hands, and deliberately moved his face towards the other party the moment he stood up, His lips brushed against his delicate earlobes.

"What are you doing?" Herlo covered the side of the ear that was attacked, and stared at him angrily.

"I didn't mean it." The perpetrator looked innocent, wiped his mouth obediently after taking advantage of it, and suddenly felt a cold wave hit his head for no reason.Could it be an air leak inside the warship?As he thought to himself, his attention was immediately attracted by the changes in the heating device, and he patted the shoulder of the person beside him.

"Look. That thing is alive and kicking again."

Herlo looked intently and was immediately taken aback.

In the bell-shaped glass heating instrument, the things grown in the small petri dish can be seen at a glance, like a large group of translucent tentacles, twisting desperately in the small airtight space, sticking to the glass wall and speeding Growth, one by one from the thickness of a finger to the size of a small squid, as if swollen due to congestion, showing a coquettish and beautiful purple red, with tiny blood threads emerging from the surface.

"It grows very fast, with the speed of dividing thousands of cells per second, I don't know what kind of big guy it will become... Think about it, if it is sold to the exhibition of alien specimens, it should be marked A no-go sign for minors."

A thought flashed through her mind, and Helo asked, "Have you tested it for any other environmental stimuli?"

"Of course, this thing is like all bacteria, and a humid and warm environment is its breeding ground. How about it, are you interested in seeing the magic?" Ando walked to the side of the ecological simulation system box and took out a small white mouse.

Premonitioning that his life was not long, the little white mouse screamed sharply and struggled desperately in his hand.Ando rubbed the mouse's head with a gloved finger, gently treating it like a pet.

"Good boy, don't be afraid, you will be able to go to another world soon."

He laughed, the reflection of the white isolation suit shining on his teeth, shining silver.

Helo frowned, and subconsciously stood a little further away, watching intently as he stuffed the mouse into the petri dish and turned up the temperature.

The little white mouse landed on the group of "tentacles", bounced to the glass wall, and was immediately bound tightly as if it had fallen into a group of snakes.In just the blink of an eye, the piece of meat that was the size of a football just shrunk to the size of an earthworm under their eyelids, quickly got into the body of the little white mouse, and disappeared without a trace.

Soon, the little white mouse convulsed and fell to the ground. The surface of the skin was instantly covered with purple blood, and the body was shrinking rapidly like a leaking ball. It seemed that it was being sucked by a ferocious spider. He stopped breathing.Khloe held her breath, knowing the show wasn't going to end like this.

In an instant, he found that the body of the little white mouse was plump again and returned to its normal posture, as if nothing had happened just now, except that its eyes had mutated into a bright fluorescent purple.

Holo felt suffocated.

"Is Sayero's current state caused by being parasitized by this kind of thing?"

Drenched in cold sweat, he stared at the little white mouse, trying to see what it was thinking.

He was afraid that Ando would say yes, but unexpectedly, the other party walked to the petri dish and shook his head.

"I tried to conduct cross-infection experiments and DNA sequence comparisons between Sayero's blood samples and the extracted body fluids. The conclusion was that there was no match, and antigens were produced. In other words, not only because Sayero has a prosthetic organ, he The blood also contains an antibody that defends against the alien parasite's cellular invasion."

As he spoke, he saw Ando take out another snake and throw it into the petri dish.

The little white mouse, who was supposed to be afraid of its natural enemies, came closer and let the opponent strangle it tightly. At the moment when it was about to die, translucent tentacles broke through its abdomen, tearing the entire abdominal cavity apart. , All his brain got into the snake's scales and disappeared without a trace.

The same development process as before was repeated again.

"You see, this parasite will look for the next one after completely eroding the body of the subject. It looks ferocious, but it has no basic intelligence, just like those low-level single-celled organisms or a controlled machine parts, repeating the process over and over again. I did this a few days ago with beef soaked in battery acid, and it did the trick, so I lost some samples."

"And those tentacles...I have to say that these tentacles are very interesting. I think they are the carrier of the instinctive desire of this mysterious life form, because they cannot control the parasite to attack and eat in their original way. These tentacles are Similar to limbs and mouthparts, it moves through them."

"If Sayero is parasitized by this kind of thing, he will not have the ability to communicate with you. He will become an empty monster's skin looking for a host everywhere."

"But I've seen his irises turn this purple, Ando," said Hero, deeply disturbed.

"What?" Ando was taken aback.

Helo narrowed his eyes, not knowing what he found. He walked to the medicine preparation table on the side, picked up two test tubes containing a red liquid and a blue liquid, and poured them into a beaker for mixing. After shaking, the red liquid The liquid floated to the surface of the blue liquid, and quickly bubbled out, and was completely dissolved, dyeing the liquid purple.

"What is this thing? You tell me?"

He picked up the composition detector on one side and aimed the light at the beaker, and strangely shaped crystals immediately appeared in the liquid.They look like a bunch of viruses.

While he was doing this, he noticed that Ando's face completely changed.

He raised his hand and brought the beaker to his lips. His thin lips curled up slightly threateningly, and he raised the brow that was not covered by bangs, as if he was getting drunk at the bar. He smiled charmingly: "Cheers?"

"Don't mess around!" Ando rushed over to snatch the beaker from his hand, and was frightened out of his wits by the way he raised it up and tried to splash it.

"That's the flower of evil! Hero!"

"The thing that can suppress this alien life form is not the serum of the Evil Flower."

Ando sighed as if defeated by him, and murmured.

"It's the Flower of Evil itself."

"As I guessed, Sayero did inject himself with a concentration of 90.00% 'Flower of Evil' liquid. God knows how there is such a thing in Thorn Paradise's base..."

Helo froze there as if struck by lightning.Sayero really did this?So Sayero's attack on his abnormal behavior that night was because the evil flower was wreaking havoc in his body?

"Hiss..." At this moment, a strange movement attracted the attention of the two people.

"Wait." Ando raised his hand and adjusted his glasses in surprise.

The rattlesnake that had been parasitized in the petri dish straightened its neck, hissed, and its tail vibrated continuously to send out the threat signal of "buzzing" when the rattlesnake was threatened.

"Didn't you say that the parasitized host has only the most basic instincts left?" Herlo asked.

"Basic instincts also include self-defense." Ando shook his head and looked around, "It's strange, there are no natural enemies of snakes here."

Helo felt a little uneasy for no reason, and vaguely felt that something was wrong around him, but there was no basis for it.Suppressing this illusion, he asked, "Then what happens when it parasitizes humans?"

"I can't be sure... After all, human beings are a complex creature. There are many kinds of instincts, especially for a guy like Sayero who has undergone rigorous military training. Many behaviors have been ingrained and become a kind of conditioned reflex. His instincts have It's hard to say which behaviors."

"But I can guess why Sayero injected himself with the 'Flower of Evil'."

"That kind of neurotoxin can greatly stimulate the nerve center of a person, and a high concentration can make the human brain evolve in a short period of time... You know that those infected by the 'Flower of Evil' are very difficult to kill Die, excited like a ton of heroin, in fact, the 'Flower of Evil' used as a biochemical weapon at that time was spread through fog bombs, and the concentration was only 20.00%..."

"The injection is [-]%... I'm afraid it will become a superhuman? By the way, have you seen an old movie called "Super Body" from decades ago? The role of 'Flowers of Evil' is the same as that in that The small blue particles have the same effect, but its main function is to greatly stimulate people's evil desires..."

"It's so long-winded." Herlo interrupted the other party's eloquent explanation impatiently, "In order to resist the alien germs from invading the body, inject neurotoxins to activate the brain's potential... He is really cruel to himself."

"Theoretically speaking, no human being can withstand the stimulation of a [-]% pure 'flower of evil'. Even if he becomes superhuman in a short period of time, his brain will soon fail due to overuse. Sayero can survive Only down because he forced himself into hibernation. That's the sensible thing to do."

"Now he's woken up, it won't take a few days—"

"Maybe he will die in half a month at most."

Hero squeezed the beaker tightly, and the shadows under the lowered eyelashes changed.Ando heard the frightening rattle of the glass in his hand.

"You...you put it down first! That thing is dangerous!"

He raised his eyelids, and his eyes were the kind of confusion that Ando had seen before.

For a moment, he thought that the boy's depression was about to flare up again, so he couldn't help touching the tranquilizers that he kept in his pocket all year round.

"Don't be stupid!"

"Stupid? Do you think I'm a kid from a few years ago?"

The young man smiled and put down the glass dish in his hand, and grabbed his wrist.

The strange force from the metal skeleton contained in the slender fingers made Ando almost jump up.He couldn't help but regret agreeing to help this kid transform his body. Now Herlo is simply a soft-looking little devil!Someone has to fix him...

"I have to figure out what happened to him in the base, go back to the source, and find a solution. No matter how bad it is... there is another way."

"What?" Ando felt that his brain was hurting, and he didn't know what this kid was going to do again.He had a bad feeling.Usually this kid can do something that seems whimsical, and realize it when no one believes it, and the price paid is very affordable.

"Do you know four-dimensional creatures?"

Hero paused, looked out the window at the boundless space, and his eyes fell into the distant galaxy.

"That kind of existence that is not limited by space and time. It is rumored that they come from another dimension in the depths of the galaxy, and they can travel freely in each time and space. If Sayero cannot be rescued, I will chase them and let them Take me back to when I can save Sayero."

Ando opened his mouth wide open, and couldn't help but sneer: "You actually believe in this legend? Four-dimensional creatures? Mysterious meteorite rain, the birth of the Holy Spirit? Have you joined a cult, my little baby? Go back in time and space, you live In science fiction?"

"you are wrong!"

The silver-haired young man stared at him, his eyelids were flushed, and his eyes were as sharp as a knife.

He unzipped the zipper with a snap, turned his back, and exposed the tattoo on his back to the other party.The flying fish with silver scales undulated on the smooth curve of his back following his breathing, shining with a dazzling color like the Milky Way, and its posture seemed to spread its wings to take off, so enchanting and presumptuous that it was thrilling.

Ando heard the sound of all the cells in his body bursting open, and held his breath.

"I've seen the 'Silver Wing Rover' with my own eyes. After the meteorite rain, Sayero caught it for me, and made a specimen of it before it disintegrated into particles and disappeared in this time and space..."

"Hello, come and see!"

He calmed down his violent breathing, and was dragged into the vortex of memories by the man's voice from far away.The scene many years ago was the same as last night, he seemed to see the sea in the night after the meteorite rain again.

A layer of meteorite dust floated on the entire surface of the sea, emitting a galaxy-like light in the darkness.The beach was also covered with large and small glowing meteorite fragments. He rolled up his trousers, and ran towards the man squatting not far away. He saw the man standing up, clutching a gleaming object.

He remembered that Saya Luo put the dying silver flying fish into the glass jar with great care, and put a meteorite in it before it disintegrated into a spot of light. It was like an everlasting lamp that was frozen there forever.

Why not just let it go?Brother, shouldn't it be thrown into the embrace of the universe?

He asked like that, but he caught a glimpse of the flickering shadow in Sayero's deep eyes.

"Because he is too fragile. I am reluctant to let him go, for fear that he will be injured or die in the dangerous outer space... I just want him to shine in my palm like this for the rest of his life."

"Have you ever heard a poem, Hilo... See the world in a grain of sand, see heaven in a flower."

"Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, experience eternity in an hour..."

Helo murmured softly.

He couldn't forget Sayero's eyes looking down at the flying fish, as if he was afraid that it would slip away, his eyes were like a heavy and rusty lock.

Holo took a deep breath and forced himself to jump out.

"Then it still disappeared. But not long after, it miraculously appeared in one of my photos before the meteorite rain. You don't know that I participated in a research at school in the years after Sayero left The project is to study the connection between four-dimensional creatures and meteorite rain. More than one person has experienced the miracle I encountered. Four-dimensional creatures can transmit people's thoughts and reach the time and space where they used to be. "

He pulled up his clothes, but he didn't notice that the person behind him was getting very close.One of his exposed shoulders was grabbed, and the moment he turned his head, he met Ando's scorching gaze unexpectedly.

Before he could react, the shadow in front of his eyes flickered, and he felt heat on his shoulders—the man lowered his head and kissed the tattoos of flying fish on his shoulders, his lips were so hot that they would burn through his skin.