Living body

Shen Li suddenly felt a slight movement on the leg of his 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.

This is a strange sea bird. It was either its companion or the same one Shen Li saw in the living area before.

The feathers of this thing were as bright as water and oil, and there were many black water marks left where the claws stepped on, but there was a cold light in the small black eyes that looked at Shen Li.

For no reason, Shen Li felt that this thing should eat meat.

He suddenly remembered that this thing had been haunting the lower floor before, probably because of the convenience of the ventilation ducts, and was trying to get rid of it, when suddenly his scalp went numb——

Less than half a meter behind this seabird, there were crows crowded with its companions, who appeared silently at some point, and countless seabirds polluted by black water turned their heads at the same time, Look at the only two outsiders in the pipe with the gaze of a predator.

Shen Li stepped back cautiously, and when he touched the wall, he realized that there was no way he could retreat—he immediately changed his posture, his hands that were originally used to control his balance were pressed on both sides of the pipe, and his tendons appeared ready to go. In the contracted state, the eyes of the strange bird met above the hollowed-out ventilation style.

The seabirds polluted by the black water slowly opened their slender beaks towards the two of them, like black dead flowers that suddenly bloomed in clusters, and flew over with ear-piercing screams——

Everything in the laboratory seems to be operating according to a well-programmed mechanical law. Except for occasional conversations, the space illuminated by cold white light seems too quiet and weird, but violent noise suddenly bursts from the ventilation duct , broke the tranquility——

Thousands of black seabirds crashed through the fence and poured out of the ventilation duct, almost forming a huge black vortex in the white space, sweeping everything, and smashing the instruments in the laboratory into pieces .

Shen Li in the pipeline took advantage of the chaos and pulled Lu Mi out quickly, and transferred the mess to Hong in the laboratory to solve it.

Seabirds rumbled through the pipes as they fled, oblivious to what was happening in the lab.

Ten minutes later, the ventilation duct and the laboratory fell silent at the same time.

The originally pure white floor of the room was covered with black bird carcasses. Qin Beichen stood in the middle of the bird carcasses, his body covered with black stains and blood.

The remaining one or two seabirds crawled back to the pipeline through the damaged fence and flew away without a trace.

Hong stood on the test bench and put his head in.

"Is there something?"

Hong stood under the fence on the test bench, but his head came out from another vent two meters away——

"No, nothing."

Qin Beichen hugged his arm silently.

Hong jumped off the experimental platform, and his eyes suddenly fell on the deformed fence cover.

When Shen Li opened the door, he saw Hong standing outside with no expression on his face.

"What's up?"

"Are you taking a bath?" Hong stretched out his hand and pushed open Shen Li's half-closed door, "Sorry, I have to come in and tell you something."

Shen Li moved his eyes back, pretended to be indifferent and wiped his hair and sat on the sofa by the door: "Okay, you can tell."

Hong didn't follow him to sit down. Instead, he seemed to be inspecting, looking around, trying to find something.

Shen Li frowned immediately: "Mr. Hong, you said you came in because you wanted to talk to me?"

Hong turned his head, with an unpredictable expression on his fair face: "I just found this on the surveillance camera..."

The monitors in the laboratory are all-round high-definition cameras, and night vision or magnetic interference cannot affect the pictures they take. Standing at the door of the laboratory, he tore off Lu Mi's coat and threw it at the surveillance camera.

The contents behind are all blocked by the coat, but it seems to be more concealed.

Shen Li's face turned ugly on the spot.

"Have you nothing to explain?"

Shen Li gritted his teeth, and asked stiffly, "What should I explain?"

"You know this is one of RPCC's most cutting-edge research institutes, and all monitoring is necessary for its existence. May I ask why you blocked the laboratory monitoring at that time?"

"I……"

Shen Li's eyes wandered, as if he was looking for an excuse, but just as he was trying to explain, the door inside the house was opened——

Lu Mi, wearing only a bath towel, stood at the door, staring blankly at the two people on the sofa.

"Who let you out!"

"Oh..." Lu Mi responded blankly and closed the door, then suddenly opened it again, as if trying to explain something suddenly, "I... I just..."

Shen Li waved at him: "You sleep a little longer, I'll talk to Mr. Hong for a while."

Lu Mi glanced at Shen Li twice, and finally closed the door.

"As you can see." Shen Li spread his hands and took a deep breath, "Lv Mi and I... It's that kind of relationship, the ice field is a long and lonely journey, everything happens when it feels right... In RPCC, we It's not easy to be such a person, I don't want this matter to affect his and my future, I hope Mr. Hong can keep it a secret for us."

After listening to Shen Li's words with a blank face, Hong asked, "So do you have any brothers or sisters in your family?"

Shen Li paused for a while before speaking: "... There is a younger brother."

"Then your family should accept this. After all, this is a natural choice and not your fault. I will keep it a secret for you."

"Thank you." Shen Li held Hong's hand with a grateful expression on his face.

"To be honest, I'm very happy for you when I found out about this today." Hong's face was always serious and expressionless, but at this moment he suddenly smiled at Shen Li, which made people feel inexplicably cold, like a person who fell into a trap. prey.

"thanks……"

"It's just that I'm here to tell you some bad news." Hong immediately withdrew his smile and said expressionlessly, "Mr. Song and Mr. Huang had some accidents."