Living body

When Shen Li and Lu Mi passed by the rest area, they saw Qin Beichen sitting on the sofa watching TV. The side of his fair face was painted a faint blue by the fluorescent light, and his black inorganic eyes were like dancing stars, but he stared at him motionlessly. looking at the screen.

"Want to watch it together?"

Qin Beichen turned his head without warning, his dark eyes looked at Shen Li coldly.

In just forty or so hours, Qin Beichen has completely changed back to his original appearance at this moment, no, he is more restrained and gloomy than before.

"No..." Shen Li refused without hesitation, but Qin Beichen didn't turn his head back, fixed his eyes on Shen Li, picked up the remote control with one hand and pressed the fast forward button.

"...animals... mating... a thriving faction..."

The video ended up with a picture of a zebra and a lion cuddling each other: "...the lion and the zebra have become inseparable friends..."

Qin Beichen looked at Shen Li: "Are you really not going to watch together?"

"...Really not."

"27, something happened to Song Liao and Huang Xie, do you remember them?" Lu Mi leaned forward and asked.

Qin Beichen turned his head and pointed his face at the screen again, ignoring him.

Shen Li looked disappointedly at the unresponsive Qin Beichen, pulled Lu Mi back and hurried towards the medical room.

Qin Beichen sat alone on the sofa and watched the screen. When the program played until the lion bit the zebra's neck off——

"...The predator and the prey can never be friends, it just teases the zebra as a stored food..."

The screen suddenly went black.

The expressionless young officer dropped the remote control and got up from the sofa and left.

When Shen Li saw the two lying in the medical room, he could hardly believe what he saw.

"How could this be... a few hours ago they were fine..."

"It seems to be some kind of infection." Hong adjusted the speed of the infusion for the two lying down. "When I found out, their body temperatures were 43.5°C and 44°C respectively, and the immune system was almost completely destroyed."

"Isn't there that repair fluid, just soak them in it?"

"The repair liquid is to restore biological activity. If it is used for them now, the infection substance will double its activity due to the repair performance, killing them instantly."

Shen Li looked at the two people who were flushed with body heat and could hardly speak: "Damn it..."

"Shen Li, we're fine..." The consciousness of the two people was not completely confused, and they turned their faces sideways and tried to open their eyes, "It's just a little fever... Who hasn't had a fever... The laboratory... Has it been approved..."

Hong lowered his head and glanced at the two of them: "There is only an external signal here for one hour a day, and the approval has not yet come down."

"Oh..." They didn't hear the expected answer, and the two looked very disappointed, turning their heads to show a drowsy look.

"Be more energetic, maybe the reply will be approved while you are asleep."

"Hey...then wait...after the approval...wake me up..."

These two sentences seemed to have exhausted all their strength, and after finishing speaking, they fell into a drowsy sleep.

"How can it be so serious, can't the medicine in the research institute be used?"

"I've given them the best medicine." Hong checked the two's sign measuring instruments. "The rest can only rely on their own immune system."

"Why... suddenly there is such a serious infection, Lu Mi... Will Lu Mi be infected too?"

Hong expressionlessly took out a glass jar, in which lay a dead seabird—exactly the kind that had appeared in the ventilation duct before.

"I found this in the ventilation duct of the laboratory. They have a lot of active pathogens on them. They are likely to be the medium of this infection. That's why I came to ask you when I saw you at the door of the laboratory..." Said Then, he glanced at Shen Li, "You guys had better check it later."

"……it is good."

Two blood samples were taken, and after waiting for more than ten minutes, the test result was negative, and the two were really relieved.

"How could this be?" Lu Mi frowned when he saw Song Liao and Huang Xie's situation, "I was with them all the time before, and I didn't think there was anything wrong. Why did they get infected?"

"There is always a reason." Shen Li said, looking at the glass bottle containing the dead seabird on the test bench.

In a cold white airtight room, Hong sat in front of a monitor, staring intently at the screen.

Suddenly, his inorganic eyes moved, as if a gleam of light flashed——

"Communication connected..."

"Sample No. [-] has reached its limit and cannot be further integrated..."

"No. [-] and No. [-] were successfully infected, but there was a rejection reaction, and No. [-] sample failed to infect..."

"Accept the order..."

"Warning, doing so will increase the aggressiveness of sample No. [-], do you confirm the execution..."

"Confirmation order...communication interrupted."

Hong Binghan's black eyes flickered, and the room returned to a mysterious silence, only the blue light of the monitor was beating regularly.

After taking a hot bath and drinking a glass of milk, Shen Li got into the bed comfortably and quickly fell into a deep sleep.

Sure enough, it is difficult for all overtired and tense people to get a satisfactory sleep.Although Shen Li couldn't fully remember his dream, he felt that he was struggling in vain in a hopeless predicament until he was exhausted, and then he woke up suddenly——

The numbers on the monitor showed that it was 4:00 in the morning, and he had slept for nearly 7 hours, but the muscle reaction of his whole body was still very bad.

People who wake up from a dream are less likely to fall asleep right away.

Shen Li opened his eyes wide and looked at the void in the darkness, suddenly feeling an inexplicable unease.

He rarely has this kind of mysterious feeling, except for being rounded up by wolves in the snowy mountains of Canada two years ago, this is the first time it is so clear, like listening to his own heart beating in his ears.

Shen Li took a deep breath, planning to get up and pour another glass of milk.

"Well……"

In the darkness, a person suddenly pressed him on the quilt——

Hearing the sound of his heart beating violently, Shen Li almost thought that he was going to suffocate to death with his mouth and nose covered in the bedding.

"Don't...call..." The man leaned close to Shen Li's ear and said, his icy breath made a series of pimples on his sensitive skin.

Shen Li's body lying on the bed slowly relaxed, and he signaled his obedience to the people behind him.

Seeing this, the man slowly released his hand from Shen Li's mouth and nose, and turned him over.When the eyes of the two met and the tips of their noses touched, Shen Li suddenly widened his eyes, but the other party blocked the next words with a gesture of silence.

"Don't turn on the lights...go to the bathroom..."

In the dim night light, the two carried each other into the small bathroom. The warm white bathroom light was on, casting a vague shadow on the glass.

"you……"

The person who came reached out and turned on the faucet, adjusted the water flow to the maximum, and then completely let go of Shen Li, and took out a delicate scalpel from his pocket: "Help me."

"...Qin Beichen, what are you going to do?"

The young officer looked at him through the continuously spraying water, his deep pupils were like two black holes that could eat people:

"help me."

As Qin Beichen said, he took off his clothes, revealing his pale and transparent back.The warm water washes down like falling on jade, and it is as delicate and perfect as an artificial prosthesis.

He gestured to his back and said, "There is something in this position that I can't reach, please help me take it out."

"Are you crazy? I'm not a surgeon!"

"Only you can help me."

Shen Li looked at Qin Beichen's pure black eyes like the extreme night, holding the scalpel in both hands but couldn't do anything.

The young officer looked at Shen Li for a while, then suddenly stretched out his hand, grabbed his wrist and pressed it——

The scalpel plunged into that flawless back, and the splash of blood startled Shen Li: "You..."

"There's too much blood, hurry up." The young officer said lightly, as if the person under the knife was not himself.

Shen Li was so frightened by his clean and tidy manner that he could hardly move, but he had to resist the trembling of his muscles to finish the work of cutting flesh and blood.

"A little further down..." The young officer looked at the image in the mirror and instructed Shen Li. Except for the two drops of blood splashed on his pale face, there was almost no pain at all, as if the cut flesh belonged to Shen Li. other's.

Shen Li thought that he had used anesthetics for himself, and although his hands were still trembling, he was much bolder, and followed the other party's instructions step by step to open his skin and flesh to find the "thing" in his mouth.

"I found it..." Shen Li was pleasantly surprised, he couldn't control the blade in his hand and pried out the thing hidden in the flesh——

The body in his hand shook slightly, Qin Beichen frowned, but did not show any more reaction.

"You..." Shen Li was a little stupid holding the scalpel, obviously it would be even more stupid to ask the other party "Did you take anesthesia" at this time.

Qin Beichen didn't say anything, turned his head to the mirror and pressed the rolled-up flesh back to its original position with his hands.

"You..." Shen Li wiped the water from his face, and was about to ask him, but was pressed against the wall of the shower room by the other party——