Living body

Day three.

Shen Li walked on the quiet white corridor.

Lu Mi's words made him inexplicably uneasy, and he intuitively told him that Hong was hiding something, and the answer might lie in that locked laboratory.

Shen Li stopped and looked at the rotating camera above the laboratory not far away.

He had to figure out a way to know the truth that the institute tried so hard to hide.

Shen Li took a deep breath and stretched out his hand——

"Shen Li."

A voice with no ups and downs sounded from behind, and Hong stood in the bright light five steps away in a pure white research uniform, looking at this side calmly with eyes without emotion.

Shen Li withdrew his palm: "Mr. Hong, what's the matter?"

Hong slowly came out from under the glaring white light, and stood in front of Shen Li: "I saw in the surveillance that you went to the medical room in the early hours of last night."

Shen Li was stunned for a moment, then nodded with a smile: "Yes, I'm just worried about my partner, is there any problem?"

"No." Hong shook his head slowly, "I'm just worried about your problems. After all, we will become work partners for a while, and trust is very important."

"Trust?" Shen Li repeated these two words with a questioning smile on his face.

"Yes." Hong slowly lowered his head, "My work requires your cooperation, I hope you can, trust me, and I will try my best to show my sincerity."

Shen Li immediately supported the wall and let out a series of laughter: "Mr. Hong, I will try my best to cooperate with you, but when it comes to trust, it is also mutual. Up to now, you have not told us what the project is going to do."

Hong turned his head, looked at the laboratory supported by Shen Li, and nodded slowly: "Yes, you are right, I just..."

While talking, Hong slowly stretched out his hand to the combination lock plate of the laboratory door.

Shen Li watched his movements with a joking expression on his face, but his eyes followed Hong's index finger to the keyboard involuntarily—

There was a heavy muffled sound.

Shen Li followed Hong and turned his head to look at the side that made the movement.

There was the sound of some giant cracking, and the locked door from the outside made a loud noise, and the metal latch made a "palm" sound, which could hardly be hung.

There was another "bang", it hit Shen Li's heart directly, and the metal door protruded outwards in an arc.

"How is this going……"

Shen Li turned around, but saw Hong with his hands in his pockets, as if he had greeted them back then, looking at all this with no emotion.

"The surname Hong..."

Before Shen Li finished speaking, the crumbling metal door was knocked open, and countless shattered residues splashed out, almost hitting the faces of the two of them.

A naked man stood at the door, thin, pale and tall.

"Two... 27?"

Shen Li's words successfully caught the other party's mind.

He turned his head abruptly, his eyes were like beast pupils showing a fierce and inhuman cold light

However, this gaze changed after touching Shen Li, as if confused, it instantly turned into pure black like inorganic matter.

The appearance of 27 made Shen Li feel inexplicable, and felt that there seemed to be something wrong.

27, who woke up from the repair solution, was "miraculously repaired" as Hong described. Not only did he regain his health, but even the original scars on his body were all wiped off, but the new skin did not return to its original healthy color. , just like the overly delicate paleness that has not been exposed to the sun for a long time, it looks like a completely changed person.

Yes, a different person, as if something came to life.

Shen Li unconsciously took half a step back.

With a movement of his eyes, 27 rushed in front of Shen Li at an incredible speed, opened his arms, and trapped him between the wall and his body.

Without raising his head, Shen Li could only see the opponent's chin, which was white and transparent, with blue veins faintly showing.

"27 What do you do?"

Such a posture makes people very uncomfortable. Shen Li pushed the opponent hard but did not push. However, he suddenly stood on tiptoe, so that Shen Li's drooping eyes could see clearly a black metal plate hanging around 27's neck. The plate was spinning in the air. Then, the content on the two sides was revealed in Shen Li's line of sight without any obstruction——

One side is a relief-like fine and realistic bronze human head pattern, and the other side is an engraved inscription: 27, Qin Beichen.

Shen Li's eyes were shocked, and the moment the slippery touch touched the side of his face, he suddenly raised his head——

27. No, Qin Beichen's tongue just licked his astonished lips.

Huang Xie, Song Liao and Lu Mi stood in front of the isolation glass smashed by 27 and looked at the destroyed medical room in astonishment.

"You said it was all done by 27?"

Song Liao pointed to 27 who had his back to them—he was already wearing a white hospital gown, but he was squatting on the ground like a wild animal, leaning on Shen Li and looking at the others coldly.

"Is he playing with his brain?" Lu Mi couldn't help but wanted to poke the young officer's head with the metal rod in his hand, but was slapped on the back of his hand by the other party, leaving several bloodstains.

"pain--"

"Mr. Hong, what's going on with 27?"

Hong put his hands in his pockets: "There is no problem with the operation and the repair fluid. Maybe the previous explosion caused damage to the brain. After all, I only had surgery, and the repair fluid cannot restore people's memory."

"I think it's not just a memory problem." Lu Mi clutched the back of her hand.

"27, do you know who he is?" Huang Ji asked, pointing at Shen Li.

The young officer has been hiding behind Shen Li, obviously treating him differently from others, but even so, he just looked at Shen Li silently, without making any answer.

Hong continued: "Maybe it's not just a memory problem, his language ability is also affected."

"It's a blessing to be able to be rescued. It's not that I have become stupid, and I will always recover."

"But 27... what should Qin Beichen do now, sir?"

Shen Li, who had been silent all this time, stood up: "He just woke up now, and he still needs to rest and recover, maybe he will recover after a while."

Hong nodded: "I will arrange a recovery plan for him." Then he turned to look at everyone.

Song Liao stood up: "I'll go first."

Huang Ji stood up: "I suddenly thought of something else."

Lu Mi stood up: "I'm looking for chicken-flavored rice."

Shen Li stood up:

He didn't move, and 27 held his trousers in his hands.

Qin Beichen looked at Shen Li expressionlessly, the cold white light reflected an inorganic coldness on his pale face.

"...I will come again." Shen Li pulled out his clothes bit by bit from 27's hands, and finally got away.

At the moment when the door was locked, the young officer turned his head to look at Hong, who was the only one left in the medical room, with pure black eyes——

Cold, with a certain hatred.

The light illuminated the entire research institute into a corpse-like pale color. Hong sat alone in a closed room, facing a monitor. The screen of the monitor was fixed on a huge vessel filled with repair fluid. In the repair fluid, there was nothing around, and this container alone filled the entire room—this was not the second floor where Shen Li and the others were located or any room on the first floor.

"The second phase of the test is fully activated..."

"Sample No. [-] went smoothly..."

Facing the monitor, Hong muttered to himself as if he was talking to someone.

"Yes, accept the latest instructions..."

As Hong said, he stood up and took out an airtight glass vessel from the freezer next to the test bench.

Open the glass dish, inside is a small piece of fleshy tissue covered with hoarfrost.

Hong used a dropper to drop two drops of transparent liquid on it, and the frosting on it disappeared instantly, and the fleshy tissue also dissolved like icing sugar, revealing the tiny living bodies that were constantly twisting inside. Living organisms are completely mixed in the translucent liquid.

Hong carefully put the liquid in the glass vessel into a glass bottle; corked it tightly, and turned the bottle upside down against the white light—there was nothing but transparent water in it.

For the first time since arriving at this scientific research station, Shen Li fell asleep so deeply that he couldn't wake up.

He saw a little boy standing in front of him.

"who are you?"

The man smiled sweetly, but just looked at him without speaking.

"Who are you?" Shen Li felt inexplicably anxious, as if something was pressing on his chest and he couldn't breathe.

However, the boy still didn't speak. Looking at him, he suddenly stood up and waved at him as if he was going to leave.

Shen Li became even more anxious, feeling that he had to stay behind: "Where are you going? No, don't go..."

The pressure on his chest was getting bigger and bigger, as if his breath was being held down by a heavy boulder, Shen Li watched the boy who was walking farther and farther suddenly suffocated, and woke up from his sleep——

A pair of inorganic black eyes looked at him coldly.

Shen Li violently pushed the man lying on his body away——

"what are you doing!"

Qin Beichen tilted his head and looked at Shen Li, as if studying something.

Frightened by him, Shen Li completely woke up from his sleep, and poured a cup of hot water for himself and the other party respectively.

"What are you doing?"

Shen Li knew that Qin Beichen hadn't recovered yet, so he just asked this question out of habit, but the other party's response was far beyond his expectations——

"pain."

Upon hearing the answer, Shen Li almost threw the cup in his hand.

Qin Beichen tilted his head to look at Shen Li, with a childlike and innocent expression on his face.

"pain."