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When they returned to the ground, Chen Xin and Xiao Bai had been waiting for them in Jacques' living room.

Seeing three people coming up, Chen Xin heaved a sigh of relief and stepped forward: "Is there anything unusual down there?"

Lu Ze shook his head: "Except for a few rose patterns, what did you find on them?"

Chen Xin took out a notebook from his pocket and handed it over: "I roughly drew a sketch of this area, and marked the places where the rose pattern was found. There are quite a lot of things, but there seems to be no pattern."

Lu Ze picked it up and opened it. Chen Xin's drawing was a bit rough. From the sketch, it was indeed as he said. There were about 20 stars representing roses scattered scattered on both sides of the road and on the outer walls of houses. At first glance, it looks like someone's arbitrary work, and there is nothing special about it.

Lu Ze frowned slightly: "Let's do this first, I won't see why for a while."

He looked at the sky outside, and it was still some time before Ling Qian's experiment required 24 hours.He turned to Ling Qian: "Professor Ling, are you going to the Institute of Biology now?"

Ling Qian looked a little absent-minded: "Let's go."

As he spoke, he walked towards the door first.

Lu Ze was at the end this time. He stared at Ling Qian's back for a few seconds, and there was a bit of cloudiness in his eyes that was fleeting.

When he walked to the door, his gaze inadvertently swept across the two bronze gargoyles beside the door, and a strange feeling suddenly surged in his heart.

Out of some intuition, he stopped, bent down and carefully looked at the two monsters in front of him.

At first glance, these two things look a little hideous.The whole body is crouched, leaning forward slightly, the joints on the back are clearly visible, and a pair of wings protrude from the shoulder blades, hanging down docilely on both sides of the body.The neck is long and thin, covered with a layer of fine scales, the ears are similar to human ears, and a single horn grows on the forehead.The snout is somewhat dragon-like, with the mouth slightly open.

If you want to talk about the practical use, it is a bit weird to put these two things inside the house. Lu Ze has seen this kind of things before. They are all in the corners of the outer walls of buildings. They are mostly used to divert rainwater and placed in the house. The interior is really a bit nondescript.But if you consider the symbolism behind them, it may be another way of saying it.

Lu Ze remembered that when he was performing a protection mission, the object of the mission mentioned some of these architectural decorations.In addition to their practical use, they also have an additional layer of protective meaning.

After the door was opened, the outside sun shone in, and there seemed to be something shining inside the slightly opened lips of the monster.

He bent down and looked over, and saw that the thing's tongue was covered with a layer of fine white sand.

Out of caution, he didn't raise his hand to touch it, but took out a sealed test tube collection device from his backpack, and gently swept some into the test tube with a brush.

"Captain?" Chen Xin noticed that he hadn't followed, and walked back a few steps: "What's wrong?"

Lu Ze put the test tube away calmly, and shook his head: "It's nothing, let's go."

The Institute of Biology during the day looked a little less mysterious, and the exterior walls of those buildings looked lifeless under the harsh sunlight.

When passing the waste disposal center, Ling Qian stopped. He turned to the gate and carefully checked the padlock on it. He was relieved only after making sure that there was no sign of it being opened.

"I've been wondering why that mutated orangutan appeared here." Lu Ze said as he watched Ling Qian approaching.

Ling Qian didn't seem to expect that he would ask this question, so he paused before opening his mouth: "Probably the researcher made a mistake in his work and didn't properly handle the samples that should be destroyed, which caused the secondary infection."

He didn't look at Lu Ze.

Lu Ze's eyes behind the mask narrowed slightly, without saying anything, he glanced at the brick-red building, turned around and walked towards the white building on the other side.

The abandoned hall here is still exactly the same as when they came that night, but it looks more dilapidated during the day: broken glass all over the floor, every laboratory is in a mess, the computer is overturned, the microscope is thrown aside, and the test tubes The ground was shattered, and the ground and the table were covered in a dirty mess. Blood mixed with an unknown liquid, congealed into a deep black.

Ling Qian walked in the front. He didn't let Xiaobai go in with them, but let him guard the door.

"This is the peripheral area of ​​the entire experimental area. It is reasonable to say that there will be no things with a relatively high level of biological hazards, but it is best to be careful, and do not enter the laboratories on both sides if it is not necessary." He said and turned to Lu Ze: " Team Lu, if what my senior sister is looking for is related to the experiment she was conducting at that time, then all the relevant data should be stored on the computer in her office, but the extent of the damage there is now...you have to look at it to find out. "

"if……?"

"If it is corrupted and the data on the computer cannot be repaired, we have only one option left."

Lu Ze had some bad premonitions in his heart: "What choice?"

"Enter the biological level [-] laboratory. Because of the security level and the closed environment, it is unlikely that any infected body can enter there, and we usually store the first backup of the experimental data on hand on the computer in the laboratory."

Lu Ze looked at the sky outside. It was getting late. If they wanted to leave here before dark, they would most likely have to split up.

He pondered for a few seconds, then turned to Chen Xin: "Let's act separately, Chen Xin and Guan Xing are in a group, you search the surrounding laboratories, find Colonel Tang's office and see if you can bring out her computer hard drive, Ling and I The professor goes directly to the fourth-level laboratory. No matter what the result is, see you in the entrance hall in an hour, and try to get out of here before dark. In addition, keep the radio communication unblocked. Xiaobai is on guard in the hall. Once you find a living corpse or other In case of an emergency, don’t fall into war, the first thing you need to do is to ensure your own safety.”

"receive."

The group parted at the fork at the end of the corridor. Chen Xin and Zheng Guanxing went to the left to the senior researcher's office area, while Lu Ze and Ling Qian turned to the right, passed through a dark and airtight corridor, and entered the biology level [-] experimental area.

"How much do you know about the experimental project Tang Qing was working on?" Lu Ze looked at Ling Qian.

Ling Qian shook his head: "It can be said that I don't know anything about it. I only know that the project started three years ago. With my qualifications at that time, even if she is a senior sister who wants to be promoted, if she can't reach the confidentiality level It didn't help. Later, after I was promoted to senior researcher two years later, she came to me specifically, saying that it was to celebrate my promotion, but after thinking about it, what she said that night was actually a little strange."

"How?" Lu Ze looked at him.

There was some thought in Ling Qian's voice: "She said that in the future, I can bring the researchers of my subordinates to do the research that interests me, and she is proud of me; sometimes thinking that everything is doomed, she is very happy that I I didn’t join that research project, otherwise my future might be delayed. I thought it was a bottleneck they had encountered, and I asked her, but she kept her mouth shut. Since that night, she has kept her mouth shut in front of me. work."

Turning around a corner in front, Ling Qian raised his hand and opened two closed doors: "Welcome to the fourth-level area, Team Lu."

In front of him was a spacious white corridor, different from the mess outside, it looked neat and empty, with no blood stains on the walls and plastic floor on both sides.

Ling Qian led him into the first room on the right, which was also very empty. There was a plastic curtain in the middle that divided the whole room into two. There was a metal cabinet standing on the wall beside the door, and there was no other furniture. .

Ling Qian took out a roll of blue medical tape like a trick: "Although we will not enter the innermost laboratory, it is better to add a layer of protection. Since the outbreak of the virus, the ventilation and exhaust facilities here have been closed. It stopped working, and no one can tell what's in the air here."

Lu Ze took it, and his eyes fell on Ling Qian unconsciously.

His movements were clean and neat, and when he lowered his head slightly, he could see some slender eyelashes from Lu Ze's angle.

Lu Ze's eyes flickered, he looked away and began to wrap tape around his body.

After passing through several sterile areas, the two entered the interior of the laboratory.

This is an office of about 50 square meters. Facing the door is a transparent glass that occupies half of the wall. You can see the situation of the laboratory inside. There is a two-way internal telephone on the wall.There is a computer on the left wall.

"The data on this computer is stored synchronously with the laboratory inside. In order to prevent data loss caused by power outages, I remember that the equipment here has a backup power source that generates independently..." Ling Qian said, squatting in the corner After groping around for a while, "I found it."

As he finished speaking, there was a slight "creak" sound from the main computer chassis, and then the screen slowly lit up, and then a password box popped up.

Ling Qian frowned: "Password protection is set, Captain Lu, my senior sister gave you a USB flash drive?"

Lu Ze understood what he meant, stepped forward and connected the USB flash drive Tang Qing gave him to the computer.

The password box flashed, and then the entire screen went black, a few lines of white code appeared in the upper left corner, and a progress bar popped up at the same time.

Ling Qian breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems that there is no major problem, just wait until the automatic copying of this thing is completed."

Lu Ze didn't say anything, leaning against the wall on one side.

The whole space fell into silence for a while.

half an hour-

"Professor Ling, I wonder how you thought about my suggestion earlier?" Lu Ze said abruptly.

Ling Qian turned to look at him, but didn't answer right away.

"I believe you have some inferences, or guesses, about what happened here, but all of these can only be verified when you return to the base. Rather than being alone, it's better to be with us, what do you think?" Lu Ze's eyes He looked at Ling Qian steadily.

After an unknown amount of time, a faint smile appeared in Ling Qian's eyes behind the mask: "Okay, I'll go back with you."

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The old city chapter ends here~

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