Living body

"Qin Beichen, what are you doing..."

The young officer above opened his mouth to the limit, revealing his flesh-colored and bright red throat, and he could vaguely see the shadow wriggling deep in his throat.

However, Qin Beichen, who was on top of him, let out a strange low growl, and looked away from him with a very painful expression——

Hong stood in the corridor, looking coldly at the two people on the sofa with emotionless eyes:

"27, go back."

Qin Beichen uttered an animal-like threatening sound towards Hong Zhanya, but obediently climbed off Shen Li, stared at the two of them, walked slowly back to the other side, and then quickly disappeared into the corridor.

Shen Li rubbed his sore shoulder and looked at Hong with difficulty.

"He's afraid of you?"

Hong neither admitted nor denied: "The current No. 27 is like some kind of smart, studious but untamed animal."

"It's as if you didn't evolve from a monkey." Shen Li sneered.

"The ancestor of human evolution was the ancient ape, not the monkey." Hong corrected.

"That's also a kind of monkey."

Shen Li was not in the mood to talk to Hong at the moment, picked up his coat from the sofa and left the lounge.

"Shen Li—"

Lu Mi suddenly ran over from the corridor.

"...I, I was just decoding... I didn't hear you coming in..." Lu Mi gasped while supporting the wall, "Song Liao said...you are going to find Mr....I will accompany you...together! "

Shen Li looked at Lu Mi gasping for breath while supporting the wall, and suddenly nodded and smiled: "Okay."

Shen Li and Lu Mi wandered around the entire scientific research station for two days, but found nothing, as if the biologist disappeared out of thin air.

"Has he already left this institute?"

"Impossible." Shen Li said in a deep voice, "The wind and snow outside, and the low temperature, without any equipment, crossing that snow field alone is no different from committing suicide. Besides, why did he leave?"

"That's right." Lu Mi scratched the back of his head, "But he doesn't have to avoid us, does he? Where did this go..."

"It may not be hiding..." Shen Li stood in the middle of the hall and looked at the pale lighting around him. The quadruple mechanical door was locked silently, and through the observation port on the cross-shaped lock, only the grayish white space inside could be seen. shadow.

"There's one more place we haven't looked for."

Lu Mi followed his gaze to look at the laboratory, and was startled: "You mean...inside?"

Shen Li looked up and down without speaking.

"You're crazy..." Lu Mi said as if thinking of something, "Perhaps...but we can't get in, should Hong come over and open the door?"

Shen Li glanced down at his watch: 9:59, two hours before lunch time.

"It's not impossible." Shen Li pursed his lips and smiled, then rushed forward and stretched out his hand to tear off Lu Mi's coat and threw it out——

"you--"

Lu Mi was taken aback by Shen Li's actions, and didn't even have time to think of resisting.

A slight sound of mechanical operation sounded from behind——

The jacket hanging from the ceiling moved a little, it was the covered surveillance camera.

Lu Mi, who hadn't reacted yet, blinked.

"Let's go," Shen Li jumped up and removed the grille cover of the ventilation duct. "This road should be able to get inside. We should have a few minutes before we are discovered."

"What happens if you get discovered?"

"I don't know, all the remuneration for this trip will be reimbursed, and a few years of prison food will be added..."

"That's really terrible." Lu Mi followed Shen Li and jumped into the ventilation duct, and then put the fence back on again, "It's better not to be discovered."

The pipe is only slightly larger than the width of a person lying down, and it is necessary to crawl forward in it, and the old dirt accumulated in it also increases the resistance to progress.

"How long has it been since it was cleaned?" Lu Mi couldn't help muttering, "It smells...why is there still water?"

"Keep your voice down, we're almost there."

After the two walked forward for a while, the light in the ventilation duct changed obviously - Shen Li knew that they had already entered the laboratory.

Every other section of the ventilation duct has a fence-like opening, through which the indoor light comes in. Shen Li watched the shadows of the quadruple mechanical doors flash one by one, and the cold white light began to enter the duct.

Rubber shoes have limited sound in metal pipes, and they have to be more careful not to be noticed.

"What's the matter..." Lu Mi who was behind felt Shen Li stop.

"arrive."

The blinding white light shone in from the grid of the fence, and it took a while for the eyes to adapt to the scene below. It was a huge test bench, and it seemed that something should be placed there, but it was empty.

"Then shall we go down?"

"Yes." Shen Li said, and was about to open the fence, but suddenly heard a sound.

The hydraulic lever was activated, the cross lock was separated, and the heavy mechanical door retreated to both sides——

Hong, who was wearing a snow-colored white robe, walked in holding hands.

He stopped in front of the test bench, turned around and said, "Please lie down."

Shen Li was startled for a moment, leaning over the fence to try to see who he was talking to.

Hong pressed a black switch in his hand, and there was a patient humming.

"You have to cooperate with me," he said.

A black figure walked in from the gate, Shen Li widened his eyes, and saw his face clearly——

Qin Beichen.

"Now please lie down on the experimental table."

The young officer lay down on the table as Hong said, and then his limbs were bound by belts, and he was firmly fixed on the platform.

An instrument is pushed to the front of the test bench, connected by a steel pipe the thickness of a pencil.

Hong, wearing rubber gloves, pierced the needle into the young officer's body from the back of his neck——

"how do you feel?"

Qin Beichen closed his eyes and did not speak.

Hong fiddled with the part where the needle was connected, and seeing the flash of pain on the young officer's face, he let go and gave him a dose of injection, and began to operate the instrument.

"now what?"

Qin Beichen didn't speak, but his face changed obviously.

Hong didn't ask any further questions, but just continued to operate the instrument in his hand, as if he was constantly increasing the level of experimentation.

"Hmm..." After 10 minutes, Qin Beichen's face began to show a look of pain, and his whole body began to tremble.

"The fusion rate is 95%...increased again."

Shen Li looked at Qin Beichen lying patiently on the test bench, as if he felt the great pain himself.

Because of biting too hard, the muscles on both sides of the cheeks bulged, and transparent sweat kept slipping from his forehead, almost soaking his clothes, and his pale skin began to change color, as if something had come from the transparent epidermis start to show.

"what--"

Qin Beichen finally couldn't help it, and shouted the pain out of his throat——

The voice was deep and hoarse, as if it came from the depths of space instead of a human throat, strange and full of pain.

His eyes widened to the limit, pure black spread throughout the sphere, and the white cold light in the laboratory could not be seen, like a dark abyss, nothing could escape.

The thread-like blue substance began to appear on the transparent skin, and then became clearer and clearer, until it became a dense network—it seemed to be a beating pulse, and it seemed to be distributed blood vessels, but that strange blue But there seemed to be something swimming in the color—a living body, alive, as if trying to break free from this person's body and spread out.

At this time, Qin Beichen's pain seemed to have reached its limit, only to hear a tearing wail suddenly, and his body fell heavily——

That kind of voice is heart-wrenching.

Qin Beichen was lying on the experimental table panting heavily, the blue stripes on his face had faded, but his pupils had not yet recovered, looking upwards like two bottomless black holes, as if they were going straight through the ventilation pipe. Fence lattice, looking into Shen Li's eyes.

"Your fusion is too low."

It seemed that the experiment had come to an end, and Hong went up to untie Qin Beichen.

"If you come, the value may be higher."

This clear sentence was said by Qin Beichen.

Shen Li looked at the young officer in the laboratory in surprise.

It's only been 48 hours, and earth-shaking changes have taken place in this person.

Qin Beichen took the water glass handed over by Hong, and swallowed slowly one mouthful at a time.

"Unfortunately not." Hong said, taking out a piece of scarlet flesh from something similar to a freezer, putting it on a tray and handing it to him.

Qin Beichen turned his face sideways: "No."

"You need to add protein now." Hong said blankly, no different from when he said [chicken flavor] while holding reheated rice.

Shen Li lay on the fence and watched Qin Beichen grab the unknown piece of flesh and bite it into his mouth bit by bit.

"I really want to see what you look like when you are in pain." Qin Beichen said with bloody gravy dripping from the corner of his mouth.

"Pain can make people sober." Hong said, helping Qin Beichen wipe his hands after eating raw meat.

Shen Li looked at all this below, and suddenly felt a slight movement on the trousers. He turned his head and saw Lu Mi pointing forward, and immediately looked up——

At some point, a seabird dripping with water stood in the pipe ahead, looking at them coldly.