After Waking up Beside the Villain

Outside the door was a young woman with long hair and thick lips, a thin figure and sunken cheekbones.

This woman looked only in her 30s and [-]s, with deep nasolabial folds, dark bags under her eyes, and an exhausted look.

She was wearing the same white coat as Chu Yunsheng, but she had an extra pair of transparent earplugs hanging around her neck, which seemed to have a higher level of sleep requirements.

Holding a light blue folder in one hand, her knuckles turned white and pressed tightly, the other hand was in her pocket, which should have been clenched into a fist, constantly rubbing and squeezing—from the first sight, she gave Chu Yunsheng a A feeling of restlessness and fear.

The door of the dormitory was suddenly opened without warning, she was startled, took half a step back, moved her lips, and said in a low voice: "Professor Chu, the situation in the laboratory...is not very good, I need you to go over there have a look."

Chu Yunsheng glanced at the long aisle with a few pale lamps lit outside, and said calmly, "I'll change a piece of clothing for 2 minutes."

"Oh, yes. I'll wait for you here."

The other party had no objection, and was even visibly relieved by Chu Yunsheng's answer, showing a hint of joy.

After closing the door again, Chu Yunsheng opened the closet, casually took out a pair of brand new pants and put them on, then pushed open the glass door next to the closet, entered the bathroom, turned on the faucet, and washed his face and mouth.

It's not because he has a serious obsession with cleanliness, how much he cares about his appearance, and needs to take care of his appearance perfectly, but because he has an intuition that the world is not right, and he needs to find a short quiet time, even if it is only a few seconds or ten seconds, to quickly accept himself. Everything you need to know.

In the sink, the water was rushing.

The memories of the original body and the plot of the world flowed into Chu Yunsheng's mind like this flowing water.

Not surprisingly, this world still evolved from a novel.

According to the background of the novel, this world is indeed extremely dangerous.

It is not only full of weird diseases and grotesque disasters, but also countless unknown fears hidden in the darkness, like pairs of huge and terrifying eyes, watching the human beings in this world.

In an ordinary dream, someone would hear chaotic and hoarse ravings, and then their body would explode into fireworks, their intestines would become poisonous snakes, swimming out from a pile of scattered flesh and blood, choosing to devour them;

In the wide and bustling square, the walking crowd suddenly prostrated one after another, stabbing their heads into the stomachs of others desperately, forming countless evil tentacles one after another;

In the quiet and orderly campus, the teacher who was giving a lecture suddenly vomited and wrote twisted and frantic words on the blackboard. All the students in the classroom screamed and rushed to the podium to eat the teacher.

The high altitude of the plane and the sea of ​​the ship, the rugged and huge shadows slowly emerge, and the gorgeous and evil patterns convey chaos and madness.

In the vast continent where human beings live, the exploration of the ground merges into a silent black tide, and the adventure in the deep mountains is just the beginning of the rotten flesh.

Unknown, frightened, desperate.

The soil of this world is completely shrouded in a gray color, with no light and no hope.

The more humanity knows, the closer it seems to be to destruction.

Against such a suffocating world background, the story of the novel is naturally not so beautiful.

The protagonist of this novel is named Lu Zhixian, a big boy who dropped out of high school.

For the first 18 years, this big boy lived peacefully and peacefully in a small mountain village in northern Henan. Apart from going to school to deal with teachers and homework after class, he had nothing to worry about.

When he was a child, he would quarrel from time to time to find his parents who were working in the city. Later, when he grew up and knew what left-behind children were, he seldom quarreled.

Apart from being more handsome, Lu Zhixian is not significantly different from most of the mountain boys in the village in other respects.

He seldom leaves the town, and the farthest and most prosperous place he has been to is the county seat, and his impression of the outside world is like that on the TV, where the lights are feasting and the crowds are crowded, it is a distant place that only exists in imagination.His grades were only in the middle and lower reaches of the town's high schools. He didn't have any lofty ideals, and he couldn't get into any university or technical school. He just waited for his graduation certificate, and then followed in the footsteps of his parents and went to the city to work to survive.

However, all these orderly life arrangements were broken in the winter of Lu Zhixian's year.

It was the eve of the New Year's Eve, and the Spring Festival travel had already started for several days, but Lu's father and Lu's mother, who used to be able to rush back to the village before and after the Spring Festival, hadn't been seen until this day.

Lu Zhixian's grandma would go to the entrance of the village to wait before dawn every day, and when it was dark, she would come back with a bench.

Lu Zhixian secretly went to the canteen at the head of the village to dial that familiar yet unfamiliar number without his grandmother behind his back, but what he got was a reminder that the phone had been turned off.

On this day, Lu Zhixian finished messing with the math papers for his senior year, took some change, walked into the canteen, and started making phone calls.

He was also a little anxious, not because he wanted to see his parents so much, but because he was worried that his grandma would go to the village every day to stay, there would be too much wind, and he would catch a cold and get sick.

When he called out, it was still a reminder to turn off the phone.

He wasn't discouraged, he was used to it, he didn't plan to call again, instead he looked up and browsed the items in the counter of the canteen, and wanted to use the remaining change to buy two boxes of cannonballs, so that the cold and empty courtyard would be bustling.

But at this moment, his neighbor, Grandma Zhang, ran over panting and shouted to him from a distance that something happened at home.

Lu Zhixian's parents became two corpses and were carried back.

Several men and women in black jackets stood in the yard, and half the village gathered together. Grandma Lu cried and cried, and almost lost her breath a few times, as if she had aged too much in the blink of an eye.

They told Lu Zhixian that his parents were tricked into working in a black coal mine and encountered a mining accident, and they had already left when they were rescued.

Lu Zhixian listened blankly, and when they finished speaking, they all went to gather around grandma to comfort him, then he turned around, walked to the side of the two stretcher beds, looked at the two unfamiliar and familiar faces, and silently covered his eyes. Face, shed tears.

After the Lu family claimed the body, those jackets immediately drove Lu Zhixian and Grandma Lu to cremate the Lu family's parents. The reason given was that the transport was delayed for too long and the dead could not be kept in peace.

Everything seems to reveal a strange, but very ordinary.

It wasn't until the second night after the cremation that Lu Zhixian picked up a rotten green nail in the yard.

The moment he saw this weird nail, he subconsciously thought of the hands of his parents clenched into fists on the stretcher bed. The blue blood vessels on the back of the hand protruded like thin snakes, and the palm of the hand seemed a little dark. It looked like something green, but he didn't notice it at the time.

Because of this nail, Lu Zhixian began to have some weird and terrifying dreams.

And after waking up from these dreams, he can always feel that his strength has become stronger, and his running speed has become faster. Catch a cold.

He realized the abnormality in himself.

At this time, a plague-like epidemic suddenly began to appear in northern Henan. The source of the disease seemed to be on another mountain not far from their town. It was said that it was caused by predation of wild animals.

Lu Zhixian began to dream about the scene on that mountain.

No wild animals, no vicious hunters, just a lake.

The water of that lake was black, and there was a thick layer of ash floating on the water, the texture of which was like ashes.

There is a small island in the middle of the lake. On the small island is a very old rusty altar, which cannot be seen to be made of metal. A plant, or an animal, grows in the altar.

It has bright red flesh and blood limbs one after another, like vines, scrambling to overflow from the altar and stretching into the lake, as if it can breathe, slowly bringing out a chaotic rhythm.

Lu Zhixian just glanced at it, and then he had a splitting headache and almost fell into madness.

But the thing seemed to be calling him.

After dreaming of it for three consecutive nights, Lu Zhixian put on his schoolbag and sneaked into the mountain.

On the way into the mountain, by coincidence, he ran into the jackets who brought his parents' bodies.

What happened after that completely opened a door to the truth of the world for Lu Zhixian, and completely changed his life.

The jackets belong to the seventh branch of the National Security Bureau, and they don't have any special abilities. They are just ordinary humans, and they are responsible for dealing with the weird incidents that have occurred frequently in recent years.

At first, some people said that these events were haunted by ghosts, phenomena that could not be explained by science, and strange magnetic field changes, but as more and more of these events occurred, the information they had became more and more abundant, and they also had a deeper understanding of the nature of these events. real awareness.

Perhaps, human beings have never been the protagonists of this world. In the unknown and unexplorable regions of the earth, it is very likely that there are countless huge deformed monsters dormant.

The sporadic power that they radiate is the terror of destroying the world to human beings.

There is boundless panic, but human beings will never choose to wait for death in despair.

The Seventh Office was established, and the elites with expertise who came here voluntarily used their lives in the fog and fear to explore the way of the future.

The altar in the mountain is one of their missions.

Lu Zhixian unexpectedly appeared and exposed his abnormality, which attracted their attention.After finishing the investigation on the altar, they conducted a series of assessments on Lu Zhixian and recruited him to join the Seventh Office.

From then on, the content of the original plot was that Lu Zhixian followed the seventh office to go on missions again and again, exploring the terrifying unknowns of this world time and time again.

They have encountered countless dangers, and the teammates around them have changed batch after batch, and they have also gained more and more information.

The bloated image of a giant snake with a human head dripping with mucus, the image of an octopus with dark and frightening ravings coming out of its wings soaring into the sky, the twisted and strange words, and the strange area where you will go crazy when you approach it...

During the continuous exploration, diseases and disasters broke out frequently.

One night, Lu Zhixian dreamed of a prophecy written on the huge black door: "The rotting worm gave birth to the giant egg of the god, and the old gift and death will come together!"

It's a prophecy, and it's a mantra.

Lu Zhixian recited it subconsciously in his sleep, his face twitched like a snake crawling, his limbs wriggled strangely, as if he was slashing something wildly and excitedly.

When his teammates at the seventh place found him the next day, he had already peeled off his skin completely and folded it neatly beside the pillow. Nail's right hand is held high, pointing at the wall.

On the wall, that prophecy was frantically written.

——This is the ending of the story in the original plot, the protagonist dies, and there is no follow-up.

If such a sudden ending is placed on a literature website, I am afraid that I will be scolded for three days and three nights and die as an eunuch.No one knows how the following world will be and whether it can be saved, but if you really follow the rhythm of the original plot step by step, then you should know that Lu Zhixian has come to this step and ushered in such a desperate and tragic ending. It was foreshadowed.

His dreams, and the source of his special powers, are inherently ominous and insane.

In this story, there is no clear villain.

If one had to choose one, the No. 001 experimental subject of the Ninth Research Institute who had seriously injured Lu Zhixian during a mission and escaped without a trace might be considered the villain.

Subject No. 001 of the Ninth Research Institute, formerly known as Rong Chen, an outdoor adventure anchor, died of falling off a cliff, but the body was intact, and all organs except the brain were melted into black water, which flowed continuously in the body, as if it had life. It will revive and beat for a fixed time, and it seems that it is still alive.

Because of these abnormalities, Rong Chen's body was replaced by the Seventh Office and sent to the Ninth Research Institute for experimental research.

But the dean of the Ninth Research Institute is a devout believer of a certain sect. On the surface, he has been engaged in the experimental projects stipulated by the Security Bureau, but secretly he is trying to use experiments to create a body that can accommodate the descending of the old gods, and awaken the gods from the old world. .

Therefore, he chose an abandoned hospital where weird incidents had happened as the location of the research institute. The Security Bureau was sympathetic to the eccentricities of scientific madmen, and did not pay too much attention to or interfere with it.

The Ninth Research Institute gradually came under the control of the director, and the experiment of the old gods was carried out in secret, and the first subject was Rong Chen.

However, this strange experiment was only carried out for three months, and the dean was discovered by the researchers. He cut out his own heart and chopped it into pieces in the sink of the public restroom.

The researchers panicked, but chose to keep the incident a secret.

Because once the evil experiment is discovered, they will directly face the death penalty or life imprisonment.

Under this tacit and strict concealment, the investigation of the seventh office did not yield much results.

Moreover, there are too many researchers who are engaged in these weird researches infected by evil madness, which is not a special case.

The turmoil caused by the death of the dean was dismissed lightly. It was not until the No. 001 subject escaped a few years later that this case was taken out of the dusty file by Lu Zhixian—of course, it was a few years later thing.

Right now, the position of the dean of the Ninth Research Institute is vacant, and the person transferred to take over is Chu Yunsheng's original body, a calm, gentle and personable man on the outside, but on the inside he is exactly the same as the old dean, a crazy and extreme genius biologist.

He is not a believer in a certain sect, but he is full of curiosity about all unknown things and is keen on fanatical creation.

After discovering the experiment of the old dean, he did not choose to inform or stop, but continued excitedly.

And on the night he made this decision, countless nightmares overwhelmed his head. At dawn the next day, he opened the window, jumped down from the seventh floor, and fell into a puddle of mud.

In other words, if Chu Yunsheng came a few hours late, he would not only have to face a series of nightmares, but also a chaotic and crazy brain and a falling body.

In the original plot, the female researcher named An Xin also came to look for the original body, but the original body was indulging in nightmares, did not dare to open the door, and yelled at An Xin to get out.An Xin was taken aback and left in a hurry.

"Professor Chu... are you okay?"

An Xin's voice brought back Chu Yunsheng's fluttering thoughts.

She stared at Chu Yunsheng's black eyes and bloodshot eyeballs with some doubts, and said cautiously.

Nearly 10 to [-] minutes had passed since Chu Yunsheng changed clothes and came out. They left the dormitory building and were walking in this passageway paved with gray cement. In front of them was the entrance to a basement, which was also the location of the secret experiment in the memory of the original body.

"very good."

Chu Yunsheng stopped and said, "It's fine to get here, you go back and rest, I will be on duty in the No. [-] laboratory in the middle of the night."

An Xin was startled, and couldn't help showing a look of joy, but said on his mouth: "This is not good, Professor Chu, this is my duty, and you just came to the Ninth Research Institute not long ago, and you just took over the old one today. God's experiment..."

Chu Yunsheng glanced at the door plate in the basement, and there was an old photo pasted on it. As expected, it was that familiar face, with the serial number and the word Rong Chen listed beside it.

It's not that he has no fear of the world, but he has full trust in Yin Zheng.

"I need to learn more about subject 001 and the current progress of the experiment. Lost samples and erroneous data must be recovered tonight."

He said, "See you tomorrow morning, Professor An."

An Xin froze for a moment, and finally showed a sincere and grateful smile on his face: "Then, see you tomorrow morning, Dean Chu!"

Chu Yunsheng took the folder from An Xin's hand, watched her leave, and didn't care about the change in her address.

While flipping open the documents to check, verifying the irises and fingerprints, with the harsh sound of metal sliding away, Chu Yunsheng raised his foot and stepped into the underground laboratory soaked in the smell of formalin.