not heavy

"Mechanical Plague." Li Qin said, "I just wanted to remind you on stage, I hope you can prevent this speech and registration. But it seems that you don't have that ability for a while."

"What is a mechanical plague?"

Zhou Xi's conjecture was correct, Dr. Li passed on the words "plague" to them, but they still didn't understand, well, where did the plague come from?

Li Qin said despondently: "Their so-called omnic organ transplantation is based on the technology derived from my "Silicon-based and Carbon-based Fusion Theory". Due to the double restrictions involved in human society and omnic society, this technology has not been used before. There has never been a clinical experiment, and it is not yet mature. This time they took advantage of the war and recruited some humans and omnics who volunteered to be experimental samples, and carried out this research in violation of regulations. "

"From the perspective of the original intention of the research, it can actually be regarded as a contribution to medicine." Meng Buzhong said after careful consideration, "Technology is innocent, it just depends on how people use it."

"Yes, but they were too impatient. There was a deviation in the experimental data on the fusion potion. This deviation was so small that it was only recently revealed." Li Qin asked them, "You guys know about the accident that happened in the laboratory two days ago. ?"

Zhou Xi replied: "There are no reports to the outside world, but we have our own sources."

Meng Buzhong: "As far as we know, it was a bionic man's misoperation, which led to the contamination and leakage of the medicine."

"Oh, that's what they said?" Li Qin sneered, "It wasn't an operational error at all, it was the low-level bionic man who was infected with unknown bacteria! He suddenly went berserk, and the production line was shut down because of this, and the security guards couldn't subdue him. We could only kill him on the spot. Afterwards, we checked his body and found that he had applied for a carbon-based artificial hand and used fusion potions in order to have more flexible fingers. But when we found out, his artificial hand The inside of the hand has been corroded, and infected with a new type of bacteria floating between the carbon base and the silicon base, directly destroying his center."

Zhou Xi frowned: "The bacteria floating between the carbon base and the silicon base means that humans or omnics may be infected."

Meng Buzhong was shocked: "Is this the mechanical plague you mentioned?"

Li Qin sighed heavily: "In my opinion, the situation of that bionic man is by no means accidental. It is very likely that other experimental samples have similar symptoms, but they have not yet completely erupted. Once this kind of bacteria spreads out, it will be harmful to humans. Both bionics and bionics are a great threat, and I don't know what the consequences will be."

"Since that's the case, why are they still doing this public speaking? And inciting everyone to register?" Meng Buzhong was annoyed, "This is too irresponsible!"

"After the accident on Wednesday, I asked to stop the project immediately, but they insisted on going their own way, thinking that this is only a small probability event, and if the sample base is larger, it will be more beneficial to the calibration of the experimental data, so what I say now is useless. They have already excluded me from the project." Li Qin said helplessly, "In the early experimental samples, 50% were human-adapted silicon-based organs, and 50% were omnic-adapted carbon-based organs. It is the first infected person discovered so far. When I was kicked out of the project team, there was no outbreak of infection in human samples for the time being. In terms of probability, it is indeed a very small number.

"But this is a new form of bacteria, we don't know anything about it, we don't have its antigen information, we don't know how long its incubation period is, whether it will mutate, and even the detection method is not perfect, it's like It's too dangerous for a ticking time bomb to be dropped on a crowd."

"What the hell is this K thinking! Is it fun to play with human life?" Meng Buzhong made up his mind, "We must stop them from continuing this project!"

"Now is not the best time." Zhou Xi said, "If the speech hadn't started and everyone hadn't been incited, there might still be a chance. But now they have come up with evidence that omnic organs can help humans evolve, but we don't have any information about mechanical plagues." more evidence, and they have a large number of people, it is too passive for the few of us to stand out rashly."

Li Qin nodded: "System C is right, and I don't suggest you act now."

Meng Buzhong's eyes lit up: "Or we can catch that Cohen directly? Isn't he K? If we catch him, won't the whole project not proceed?"

Li Qin looked at him: "Who said Cohen is K?"

"Huh? Isn't he?"

"No." Li Qin was a little tired, leaning on the wheelchair and said, "Cohen is just a spokesperson left by K. The real K left City L last week."

"Run away again? Didn't you notice that we were chasing you and slipped away?" Meng was not discouraged, "Dr. Li, do you know his real identity?" They tracked them all the way, but they didn't find any information about K himself. Information, in fact, Meng Buzhong didn't hold out any hope this time, just asked routinely.

Unexpectedly, Li Qin gave them the answer very bluntly: "I know, his name is Kester, and he used to be my student. What's the matter? He's been making trouble for so long, haven't you found out yet?"

Zhou Xi: "..."

Meng Buzhong: "..." This is called walking through the iron shoes and finding nowhere to find it. Does it take no effort at all?How should I put it, I feel like I'm going bald too.

Li Qin shook his chicken coop-shaped gray hair: "Tsk, why are you so useless, I gave it to you in vain... Forget it, these people refuse to equip me with a communicator, and there is no signal in the factory area, otherwise I will still be there." I can show you the photos. In short, Kester is a bald blond man in his 30s, from country A, with a height of about 175, is it detailed enough?"

Meng Buzhong hurriedly said: "Enough is enough, thank you Dr. Li!"

At this time, Lu Wei knocked on the door twice to remind them that they would arrive in 10 minutes, but he did not come in to disturb them.

Dr. Li waved his hand: "Okay, you guys go now. I've told you everything I need to say. You can figure out the mechanical plague on your own."

"Dr. Li, won't you come with us? We came here this time to take you away."

"No, I will only become a burden to you if I leave with you now." Li Qin pointed to his leg, "Staying here, they will not do anything to me."

"Zhou Xi?" Meng Buzhong asked his opinion, this is Zhou Xi's creator, he knew that Zhou Xi wanted to take him out.

"He's right." Zhou Xi said, "We don't have the ability to rescue him yet."

"Okay." Meng Buzhong put his hands on the wheelchair and pushed Li Qin out, "Don't worry, Dr. Li, we will definitely find a way to rescue you in a few days."

"Hey, I'm still a good boy." When he was about to walk to the door, Dr. Li suddenly thought of something, stopped the wheelchair and asked, "Wait, where is the encrypted data that Kester left at Jingzhi Technology?"

"In our hands." Zhou Xi said, "You only cracked a small part. Kester wanted to delete and discard it before, and then came back to grab it, but failed."

"That's good, that's good." Dr. Li breathed out, "Save it carefully, and don't try to crack it unless it is absolutely necessary. Also, don't let Kester get him, he doesn't deserve it."

"understood."

This was Dr. Li's advice to Zhou Xi, but Meng Buzhong was a little concerned.

That information is part of Chongshen Sikong's memory, don't let Kester get it... What does Kester want to use this information for?Something to do with his ongoing experimental project?

It's a pity, seeing Dr. Li's secretive appearance, I'm afraid he won't give them an answer.

The door of the small room opened, Lu Wei was still waiting outside, but Tao Zhi and Huo Yusheng were not there.

Meng Buzhong asked: "Where are they?"

Lu Wei said: "They seem to have seen someone they know just now, and they went to look for him."

"Acquaintances?" Meng Buzhong thought for a while, the acquaintances who can appear here, "Probably Huo Yusheng's senior brother, it should be fine, let's wait for them for a while."

While talking, Tao Zhi and Huo Yusheng came back, their faces were not very good.

"What's wrong?" Meng Buzhong's heart trembled, "Have you been discovered?"

"No." Tao Zhi shook his head, glanced at everyone present and said, "We met Zhang Weixin, and his condition was not quite right. He told us that there was something else hidden about the accident on Wednesday, and his own body also appeared. question."

Huo Yusheng's eyes were still filled with tears: "He said he had a high fever for three days, and the parts of his body that had been modified were painful, as if ten thousand ants were biting him. Tao Zhi gave him a rough diagnosis and said it was... Say yes... what did you just say?"

"Unexplained infection." Tao Zhi said, "but it is different from ordinary bacterial infection. I suggested him to have a comprehensive examination, but he himself said no, let us leave him alone. In addition, I am not sure whether he is What do you mean, in short, his original words are, the plague is coming, leave L city quickly."

Meng Buzhong's eyes widened, and he looked at Li Qin in the wheelchair: "Mechanical plague?"

Li Qin was so angry that he patted the armrest: "Sure enough, other samples have already been infected. No wonder they have been hiding it from me and kicked me out of the project team. After all this, they still refuse to stop!"

Huo Yusheng asked blankly: "What do you mean? What happened to my brother? What should we do?"

Meng Buzhong read the telegram: "Don't get confused, let's go out first, and then find a way. Lu Wei, you take Dr. Li and go first, don't attract their attention, we will evacuate according to the original plan."

Lu Wei nodded: "Okay, pay attention to safety."

After separating from Meng Buzhong and others, Lu Wei pushed the wheelchair and accompanied Li Qin back to the research building.

Seeing Li Qin's solemn expression, he tentatively asked, "Is that mechanical plague serious? Is it possible for all transplanted people to be infected?"

"If I'm not in the project team, I won't be able to grasp the situation in time. I don't know where the situation is going." Li Qin sighed and said wearily, "In the history of mankind, there have been many epidemics. There are Black Death, Smallpox, SARS, and the Tamer virus after the new era, the original atrophy... Whenever human beings feel that medicine and technology are enough to overcome various diseases, new pathogens will appear, and sometimes even It will bring a devastating blow. This is like a punishment from the creator, who wants us to be forever limited and not live forever."

Lu Wei suppressed the emotion in his eyes: "You are such a powerful scientist, do you also believe in metaphysics?"

"Metaphysics? Ha, I don't think this is some kind of illusory metaphysics. It's just another logic that we can't understand." Li Qin said, "It has its own laws and its own cause and effect, but it is not controlled by our will. It depends."

They walked down the corridor and took the elevator.

The fifteenth floor of the research building is Li Qin's office and residence. The view here is very good, overlooking most of the factory area.

In front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, Li Qin signaled Lu Wei to stop. He looked at the dark crowd below, waiting for registration in the rain with the expectation of "recovery" and "evolution" in his heart.

He also saw the four of them, Meng Buzhong and Zhou Xi, sneaking past the corner of the factory area, that place was extremely hidden, if he didn't look for it on purpose, he wouldn't have noticed it at all.

Hope, where is it...

In this gloomy and rainy environment, the old man over half a century old, obviously depressed in his heart, suddenly became interested somehow, beating time with his hands on his legs, like a few lively drumbeats, accompanied by a song he hummed casually from his mouth.

It seemed to be a very old and melodious melody.

He hummed very casually, and Lu Wei only vaguely heard a few lines of the lyrics——

let me say goodbye

Gently pull out my hand

I know that longing takes root from now on

Hua Nian has since stopped

Hot tears merge into a river in my heart

Lu Wei searched the song library on the Internet, but he couldn't find this song. He couldn't help asking: "Dr. Li, what song is this? I don't think I've heard it before, and I can't find it. Otherwise, I can play it for you."

"Hey, don't look for it, you can't find it." Dr. Li said, "This is an old song from before the new era, and there is no such thing in the general song library. When I was young, I listened to the girl I admired. sing."

He seems to be trapped in some kind of memory, as if he found that warm moonlight in the long and boring scientific research.

"She is better than me. She developed the prototype of the C system together with me. She loves to laugh and sings very well. She can sing much better than me. I don't know if I'm out of tune."

"It sounds good." Lu Wei said.

"Yes." Dr. Li looked up, looked at the heavy rain falling deep in the dark clouds, and the sky left behind in the cracks, continued to beat the beat in his hand, and looked in the direction where the young people left.

He said: "Some lives seem to be short, but he has been here, and he has left eternity."

Note:

1. The epidemic after the New Era was fabricated by the author.

2. The song Dr. Li hummed: "The Ferry", sung by Cai Qin and written by Xi Murong.

The author has something to say:

1. Do not repeat exam questions:

Which of the following is not a characteristic of K? ()

A. blonde B. over 30 years old C. bald D. height 180