After Waking up Beside the Villain

The countdown marked in red returned to zero, and the brain with the glass tube hole stopped silently.

Chu Yunsheng watched them return to dead silence.

Continuing with the operation of the console, Chu Yunsheng dealt with the remaining experiment of awakening the gods according to his own thinking. Except for the normal vitality support for the experimental body, he suspended all other experimental projects.

After finishing all this, he sat back in the lounge chair, browsed through various materials of the Ninth Research Institute and the confidential documents of the Security Bureau accessible to the dean level, and spent his days on duty in the No. [-] laboratory peacefully and peacefully. the second half of the night.

Early the next morning, Chu Yunsheng left the laboratory and went to the cafeteria to eat.

The canteen of the Ninth Research Institute is the only building in the entire research institute that has been completely renovated on the basis of an abandoned hospital. It is tall, clean, extremely modern, and the food is quite delicious, far exceeding the standard of a normal canteen.

When Chu Yunsheng arrived, the long table in the center of the cafeteria was already filled with a circle of people, about thirty or forty people, almost the entire number of people in the Ninth Research Institute.

Every researcher's time is extremely precious, and they cherish it extremely, so the short daily meeting of the research institute is combined with breakfast, which saves time and is efficient. As for discussing whether those bloody experiments or weird organs will Affecting appetite has never been in their consideration.

"Professor Chu, good morning."

"Dean, morning!"

"Today's millet porridge is pretty good, would the dean want a bowl?"

Amidst a series of indifferent or enthusiastic greetings, Chu Yunsheng cooked the meal from the window and sat down on a vacant seat around the dining table.

"Good morning."

Chu Yunsheng put down the dinner plate, looked around at the researchers at the table, and said calmly, "I have something to tell you all."

Everyone paused and raised their heads.

"Laboratory No. [-] will be completely closed from today. No one can enter or exit except me. The internal and external passwords and authentication authority have been changed. This experiment does not need everyone here to be responsible." Chu Yun said, "Delete you Back up the saved data, this experiment will have nothing to do with you."

When the voice fell to the ground, there were several crisp sounds of falling knives, forks, spoons and chopsticks on the table.

The researchers couldn't hide the surprise on their faces, as if they couldn't believe Chu Yunsheng's decision straight to the point.

You know, this is definitely a long and complicated experiment that cannot be completed by one person, and even faces endless terror and death at any time.

Therefore, this experiment needs someone to assist, and someone needs to stand in front to attract the attention of those hysterics in the dark abyss. When the old dean just started this experiment, he almost pulled them all in like crazy. .

At that time, anyone who resisted or tried to inform would disappear silently into the dark night.

Someone got news that the old dean was an important figure in a mysterious sect that worshiped ancient gods, and that sect was secretly helping him, using weirdness to eradicate those who might harm him.

This appeared to be confirmed following the death of the elder dean last month.

In the week after the Seventh Department concluded its investigation on the death of the old dean, almost everyone in the research institute heard murmured prayers in the middle of the night, and the combination lock of Laboratory No. There were obvious signs of being invaded, but a leather scroll in the laboratory that was often read by the old dean was missing.

These circumstances confirmed the speculation of the researchers, making them more determined to conceal the experiment, and at the same time making them more panicked.

But there is also one thing that makes them feel strange, that is, this sect does not seem to have any plans to take over the experiment of the old gods.

Is it because the force is too weak to do anything under the nose of the Security Bureau, or does it think that this experiment is not important or has failed, and has decided to give up?

The researchers don't have an answer.

Of course, if Chu Yunsheng knew what they were thinking, he might tell them the answer that was closest to the facts—this experiment was actually successful to a certain extent, but what was awakened and revived was not The god that sect envisioned.

There was a frozen silence at the table.

A few seconds later, a male researcher with thinning hair said, "Professor Chu, you mean that this experiment has nothing to do with us, no matter before or after, is that right?"

Chu Yunsheng looked at the researcher named Fu Chun.

He heard the meaning of Fu Chun's words, but he didn't care.

"Yes."

Chu Yunsheng nodded and said, "I brought this experiment secretly and conducted it secretly. You don't know about it."

Visible to the naked eye, the stiff expressions of most of the researchers have eased down, dubious and ecstatic are subtly mixed, turning into a flatness that suppresses emotions.

Only a few people are still a little bit unwilling to believe, or hesitate to worry.

"Dean, I believe you know what this experiment means."

The young female researcher Cao Manqing pushed her glasses and said in a deep voice, "Whether you plan to take it over or choose to give it up, I hope it will not spread any abnormal effects and die peacefully in a place where no one is around."

"I don't know what the world has, what's going on, but it shouldn't get any worse."

"Although judging from my previous actions, I don't have any qualifications to make this request. But this is indeed the reason why I promised Dean Weng to help him with the experiment in the first place."

There were many surprised eyes on her at the dinner table.

But after Cao Manqing finished speaking with a blank face, she lowered her head again and picked up the dishes with chopsticks, as if she didn't care about the outside world.

"Will do."

Chu Yun responded with a voice.

He was not surprised by Cao Manqing's remark.

In what he once could call reality, many monsters and geniuses who did some research were very strange.Extreme selfishness, extreme unselfishness, or a contradiction of both may appear in them.

In pursuit of their lifelong ideals, they can fall into boundless fanaticism, create devastating disasters, engage in evil research in order to save their own lives, and ignite inhuman disasters.

But at the same time, the survival and struggle of human beings, the safety and future of their home and country can also make them willing to dedicate their lives, not to be a star shining in the long river of history, but to be a grain of sand that builds a tall building of human civilization incognito.

"I will hack the surveillance video of the cafeteria this morning."

A researcher whispered.

"The video has been replaced with a virtual image, and it will return to normal after eight o'clock."

Chu Yunsheng had already made preparations to wipe out all traces in advance, and half a night was enough for him to completely control the research institute from another level.

After speaking, he took the porcelain spoon and scooped up a spoonful of steaming thin millet porridge, announcing the end of this short and thought-provoking morning meeting.

The others were also inexplicably relieved, picked up the tableware with the mood of finally getting rid of the gloom and inexplicable emptiness, and began to taste the still warm breakfast.

Because of the king bomb that fell at the beginning, the dining table at the Ninth Research Institute was extremely quiet today. There were no discussions among the ladies about how to take care of their skin after staying up late on duty, and there were no exchanges between the men trying to use a certain biological research to solve their hair loss problems.

Halfway through the meal, a voice suddenly asked softly, "It's almost 07:30, why aren't Pei Shu and An Xin coming to eat?"

Chu Yunsheng slightly raised his eyes.

Judging from the memory of the original body, there were indeed two familiar faces missing on the dining table. One was An Xin who came to wake him up last night, and the other was a male researcher in charge of brain research in the First Research Institute.

This is actually nothing unusual.

Not everyone among the researchers likes to have breakfast and is willing to get up early. Geniuses have eccentricities. It is not uncommon for them to get up in the afternoon and then work until the early morning. The Institute has no mandatory regulations on this, and the morning meeting is fine if nothing happens. Do not come to participate.

It is only because of the Old God experiment that the researchers of the Ninth Research Institute generally have extremely poor sleep quality and wake up very early, so the breakfast is so well staffed.

A male researcher picked up the food and replied casually: "Pei Shu was seconded by the Seventh Division to go on a business trip. He seems to have contracted insomnia over there. He has been dozing off at work for the past few days. He told me last night that it might be possible. Get up late, if you can't make it, let me ask for a leave of absence."

"Are you okay?" Fu Chun raised his head.

The male researcher shook his head: "It's okay, he took the vaccine developed by the First Research Institute before he set off. Even if he is infected, he will only sleep longer, and will not sleep to death. It will be fine in a few days."

"What about An Xin?"

"An Xin was on night shift in the No. [-] laboratory last night, so she might stop eating and go back to rest."

Seeing this, Chu Yunsheng explained: "Around one o'clock in the morning, An Xin said that there was a problem in the No. [-] laboratory, and I changed shifts with her."

"Maybe I went to bed too late and haven't woken up yet?" a researcher said.

Du Ying, the forty-something female researcher who asked the question at the beginning, changed her face slightly, got up and said, "I'll go see her."

Seeing her nervous expression, the others froze slightly.

Some thought of the colleagues who had disappeared under the threat of the old dean, while others remembered the strange events that began to occur frequently in this world and the horror scene of the old dean's tragic death in the public bathroom.

Chu Yunsheng also smelled something ominous.

He put down his chopsticks: "Du Ying, I'll go with you."

Leaving the cafeteria and walking around a small forest is the dormitory of the female researchers.

In the end, besides Chu Yunsheng, there were two other researchers who came with Du Ying.

The four of them entered the dormitory building, went all the way to the third floor, and came to the door of 310. Du Ying raised her hand and knocked on the door.

"An Xin? Professor An? Are you there?"

The banging of the iron door echoed in the empty and silent corridor.

No one answered.

Du Ying's face changed completely. She quickly reached out her hand, took out a key from her pocket, put it in the lock, and was about to open the door.

This is obviously 310's spare key, which An Xin gave to Du Ying in advance.

Chu Yunsheng's expression moved slightly, and he took a step back, avoiding the position facing the door, so as not to infringe on the lady's privacy.The other two were also slightly taken aback when they saw it, and then followed Chu Yunsheng to retreat a bit more politely.

Du Ying seemed to be completely immersed in some kind of panic, and didn't notice these things. She just managed to maintain her last trace of calmness, and quickly opened the door and rushed in.

After a second.

"what--!"

A scream of extreme fear suddenly came from inside 310.

Chu Yunsheng's eyes darkened, and he kicked open the half-open dormitory door abruptly.

Inside the door, Du Ying stood tremblingly on the open space near the door.

In front of her, countless strands of white mycelium were hanging down from the ceiling fan, and attached to a figure behind the table and chair.

Every pore of that figure was drilled with fine and dense hyphae. She held up her twisted hands, and with the swaying of the mycelium, she slightly shook the joints of her body, like an old marionette.

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"The deceased An Xin, female, 31 years old, researcher of the third department of the Ninth Research Institute, honorary professor of the Biology Department of Chuhe University, majoring in plant pathology. Five months ago, she was evaluated as a three-star scientific research talent by the Security Bureau and recommended Join the Ninth Academy."

"Preliminary autopsy found that the epidermis of the dead body was intact, and there were no obvious abnormal structures in the body."

"The cause of death was the invasion of foreign hyphae. The organs and blood vessels were filled with white mycelium. The mycelium was inactive, but the cell structure was special. It was tentatively named as puppet white fungus. It was classified in the archives room on the third floor, and there was no confidentiality rating."

In the small conference room of the Ninth Research Institute, a cold and serious male voice stopped with the sound of the folder closing.

"Dean Chu, what do you think?"

Another male voice asked.

Chu Yunsheng flipped through the paper in his hand, recalling all the details of seeing An Xin last night, as well as her past performance.

He didn't look up at the field workers of the Seventh Division present, but only looked at the words printed on the white paper, and replied lightly: "The Ninth Research Institute has no research on heterogeneous colonies, and there are no similar samples. In the past According to the confirmed data, the infection of heterogeneous hyphae is not a mental attack, but requires direct contact before it can affect the human body."

"I want to know where the puppet white fungus that An Xin came into contact with came from. Finding out the source may be of more obvious help to this death investigation."

The Security Bureau classifies all weird deaths into two categories, one is spiritual pollution, and the other is heterogeneous infection.

The former is the most, and also the most strange and unknown. There is no need to touch anything, and there is no need to do anything, and it will suddenly attack.Those dead, perhaps just recited a certain name unintentionally, just touched a certain part of consciousness in their sleep, and then encountered great terror.

This type of incident has no signs, no clues, and only exists on a mysterious and mysterious spiritual level. It is impossible to investigate at all, and even more investigations will bring more disasters and casualties.

The death of the old dean belongs to this.

Unlike spiritual pollution, heterogeneous infection means that the deceased is directly or indirectly exposed to something abnormal before being invaded and infected, resulting in a strange death.

An Xin's death was due to the appearance of hyphae, so it can be roughly classified into this category.

This is also a case that has a clear direction of investigation and is easier to handle and solve.

The polysomnia infected by Pei Shu in the first department is also of this kind. It was transmitted by the corpse of a crow in a public cemetery. As long as the source of the infection is found, it is very possible to develop specific drugs and vaccines to control or eliminate it. Such disorders or heterogeneity.

Hou Wanguo, the deputy director of the seventh office, took a look at the handsome, lonely, and a little too young new dean, and was a little surprised that he had a completely different attitude from the old dean Weng when facing the investigation.

A stubborn resistance, a cooperative suggestion, they undoubtedly prefer the latter.

"We have just completed a comprehensive search of the Ninth Research Institute, and we have also retrieved surveillance videos, recording An Xin's movements in the past week, and found nothing, which is very normal." Hou Wanguo said.

Hearing this, Chu Yunsheng's heart sank slightly, and he confirmed his guess.

Since other places are completely normal, the only remaining place that may be abnormal is Laboratory No. [-], which is well-hidden by the Ninth Research Institute.

Sure enough, Rong Chen has more than just the secret of the old god's experiment.

This made Chu Yunsheng want to keep a low profile for a period of time and concentrate on solving various abnormal diseases. After learning the secrets of experiments and strange events, he would investigate the truth of the world and plan for the future, basically declaring bankruptcy.

He had to find out what was wrong with Rong Chen.

Seeing that Chu Yunsheng didn't say anything, Hou Wanguo said again: "Dean Chu, the investigation results are clear, so we will leave first. We will take away An Xin's body and puppet bacteria, and the third floor of the dormitory building will also be sealed off. "

"In addition, in order to avoid subsequent infection incidents, we will leave two field personnel to monitor here for a week. If there is anything wrong, I hope you will cooperate."

Chu Yunsheng had no objection to this, it was a routine procedure.

At the end of the meeting, everyone got up to collect the materials, opened the door and left.

Hou Wanguo was half a step late, deliberately waiting for Chu Yunsheng to come to the door, and then seemed to suddenly think of something, and asked, seemingly unintentionally: "President Chu has been in the Ninth Research Institute for almost a month, is he still here?" Are you used to it?"

"It's very good here." Chu Yun said.

He paid attention to the expression of the deputy director of the seventh department who smelled heavily of cigarettes, and he detected a hint of temptation from it.

Hou Wanguo said: "Old Dean Weng was not easy to deal with people when he was still alive, and the Ninth Research Institute was relatively closed. He is a respectable old scientist, and the Bureau did not dare to interfere too much with his experiments, but in the past six months The Ninth Research Institute has been fruitless, and the bureau intends to merge the Ninth Research Institute into the Eighth Research Institute, which happens to be researching biology."

Chu Yunsheng properly showed a little surprise, frowned, and said, "Why did Director Hou tell me this news?"

Hou Wanguo smiled, took out a cigarette, lit it, and said something that surprised Chu Yunsheng: "Dean Chu knew that an outdoor anchor named Rong Chen fell to his death more than three months ago. Right? His body was selected as an experiment and sent to your Ninth Academy for human experiments."

"Old Dean Weng kept saying that the experiment hadn't made any progress, and the bureau didn't pay much attention to it. But our Seventh Division always felt that there was something wrong with Rong Chen, and there was a secret."

"Dean Chu went to see the experimental subject, how do you feel?"

Chu Yunsheng didn't expect the Seventh Office to pay so much attention to Rong Chen.

Obviously, there was a reason behind this that neither the original body nor the old dean knew.

If they found something on Rong Chen, it would be impossible to send the body to the Ninth Research Institute so easily.Therefore, there is a high probability that when the Seventh Office found Rong Chen's body, or encountered something in the process of investigating the cause of his death, the Seventh Office could not forget it so much.

"Looks good."

Chu Yunsheng honestly answered his true feelings.

Hou Wanguo was taken aback, shook his head and smiled, and sighed: "I know this is a confidential experiment within your research institute, and we have no right to intervene. But I still want to remind Dean Chu that the Security Bureau may not be reliable. But our seventh office will absolutely protect everyone who can."

"If you find anything unusual on Rong Chen's body that hasn't appeared before, please be sure to contact us."

Chu Yunsheng did not answer.

Hou Wanguo didn't expect him to answer anything, he just waved his hands, then hunched his back slightly, and walked out of the conference room quickly with a stack of documents between him.

The people in the seventh place came and went in a hurry and acted swiftly and resolutely.

Before dark, everyone, including Hou Wanguo, had evacuated except for the two field staff who stayed behind to monitor.

They have a lot of tasks, and they are used to these things. When there are no special circumstances, they will not waste a minute or a second.

The people in the Ninth Hospital have also been able to deal with these investigations proficiently. After the evacuation of the Seventh Division, those who had been isolated, questioned and tested before quickly calmed down, returned to their departments, and continued their research work.

At dinner time, Chu Yunsheng walked into a laboratory in the third department and found Du Ying who was staring straight at a petri dish.

"What did An Xin take from Laboratory No. [-]?"

He turned off the monitor in the laboratory and walked up to Du Ying.

Du Ying came to her senses when she heard the sound, and almost jumped up from the stool like a frightened bird.

But the panic and panic only lasted for a moment, and she returned to normal in the next second. Suppressing the tumbling emotions, she forced a smile and said, "Dean, you scared me... What did you take? It is illegal to take things from the room..."

Chu Yunsheng looked into Du Ying's eyes quietly, and said in a cold voice: "I found out that An Xin didn't show up this morning. The others were guessing and wondering, and then they were aroused fear. And you are asking about An Xin and Pei Shu. Why didn't the time come, the horror has already been exposed."

"You know something may have happened to her."

"What made you think this way?"

"What did An Xin tell you when he gave you the spare key, or, what did you see at that time?"

Sentence after sentence of condensed words pierced into my ears, like a heavy hammer falling down.

Du Ying's already tense nerves were almost reaching their limit.

Her face paled visibly to the naked eye, as if she was once again in the room full of mycelium, facing the terrifying figure whose body was filled with mycelium from the inside out.

As if hearing something rambling suddenly, she turned her ears to the side suddenly, and murmured in a low voice with some ecstasy: "...it's a key, the key of the No. 001 subject's house... An Xin said that she likes the shape of the key very much , secretly took it out of the No. [-] laboratory, but...but I saw that there were white worms on the key...white maggots...maggots..."

Chu Yunsheng: "You didn't tell her what you saw?"

"No, no... I don't know... I'm afraid she won't believe it, she's not normal... Her experiment progresses faster than mine, much faster... Many, many..."

Du Ying repeated the words in her mouth, her pupils suddenly contracted to the size of a pinprick, and they turned chaotically and wildly.

Chu Yunsheng took a quick step forward, knocked Du Ying unconscious with a hand knife, helped him to the rest chair, then turned around and took out a shot of special tranquilizer from the storage cabinet in the laboratory, and injected it into Du Ying.

Du Ying was shocked by An Xin's death, and suppressed her emotions to get through the interrogation of the seventh office. Her mental state was obviously not right, and if she continued, she could easily be mentally polluted by some unknown existence.

The special tranquilizer developed by the First Research Institute can provide a certain degree of stabilizing effect for one's own spirit when it is not really infected.

But this thing is actually quite tasteless, because no one knows when someone will be contaminated, and they can be injected in advance, and when the signs of pollution and hysteria have appeared, they have already been truly contaminated, and it will be too late to inject.

So most of the time, this thing is supplied to the Security Bureau. When some staff members are mentally unstable, they will be given an injection to calm down their emotions and prevent mental pollution from taking advantage of them.

But even so, the number of deaths due to mental pollution within the Security Bureau is still rising day by day without showing any signs of decrease.

After the injection, Chu Yunsheng called Cao Manqing to take care of Du Ying. Cao Manqing guessed that Du Ying might have been hit by An Xin's death, but she didn't say much about it.

Afterwards, Chu Yunsheng took a bronze key from Anxin's dormitory, which obviously did not belong to the Ninth Research Institute, by taking advantage of his shift in the field. Then he took off his white coat, put on casual clothes, and reported to the Room, calmly left the research institute for the reason of going out to relax, and drove to Rong Chen's former residence in the long night.