under the tower

In the darkness, Ji Xi had a dream.

He could clearly realize that he was dreaming, and he could even remember that he sent Yan to him one second before he fell into a coma—they were arrested by Dr. Lin after they left.He wanted to wake up, but he couldn't open his eyes, as if his consciousness was forced to be imprisoned in this endless nightmare, and he kept fleeing, but there was no escape.

He seemed to be recalling the days when he was born full of darkness, and his memory should have been vague.

Ji Xi is a premature baby. After he left the mother's body, he was sent to the temperature-controlled nutrition cabin of the laboratory. His body was filled with electrodes and electrodes, and he lived on the nutrient solution imported from the outside world every day.

He saw himself crying like a human baby, but there were no shadows of his parents around him. There were only people coming and going outside the nutrition cabin. Experimenters in white coats took a tube of blood from him from time to time. Or add some gibberish to him.

Sometimes they gave him injections, if you could call that a drug at all.

Afterwards, his body would instinctively produce some rejection reactions, most of which were uncomfortable and tormenting.

Ji Xi started to have a high fever, but sometimes his whole body was icy cold, he felt hot and cold, his skin alternated strangely between gray and red, and his eyes were not fully developed, so he couldn't see what he looked like at this time , could only scream and cry more vigorously, and wiggled his young limbs vigorously, while the experimenters around were indifferently holding pens and busily recording something.

The little Ji Xi cried more and more desperately, waving her limbs like a little monster, trying to attract the attention of those outside.

"no no……!"

It can't be, it's not true...

In the dream, Ji Xi seemed to be on the scene, and seemed to be just a bystander floating in the air like a ghost. He almost witnessed all this in panic and covered his head in pain.

Not like this, not like this...

It's a nightmare, it's a dream, let me go, let me wake up!

The nerves of the brain were throbbing, Ji Xi desperately knocked on the door, trying to escape from the extremely oppressive atmosphere.

Laboratory... training cabin...

He dare not admit that the place he fears the most in his life is the laboratory.

Even though he had already lost all his memories of before the age of three, he had a deep-rooted fear of this place.

It was an abyss from which he could not break free in his life.

Help... Help... Ji Xi kept shouting in his heart, like a dying animal making its final cry for help.

Who can help me……

With a "boom" in his brain, Ji Xi suddenly opened his eyes, and a glaring cold light shone on his face, Ji Xi's whole body was covered in cold sweat as if soaked in water.

His hands and feet were firmly bound by elastic restraints of unknown material, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't break free, and his lower body was a cold metal plane.

Ji Xi immediately understood her situation.

He was strapped to a laboratory table.

Ji Xi even had such a doubt in his heart——

Is this reality, or another, more real nightmare?

Dr. Lin who didn't know what to do at the desk at the side noticed his movement, walked over, and asked with concern: "Young master, did you sleep well?"

He was holding a syringe in his rubber-gloved hand, and the half-finger-long pillow was glowing coldly.

Ji Xi's pupils shrank: "What did you do to me?"

Dr. Lin looked at Ji Xi's appearance, and said with a smile, "I haven't started anything yet, why am I so afraid of this?"

"I just...helped you activate the cells in your body and restore your physical strength." Dr. Lin smiled, "Why? How does this familiar feeling feel? I brought you up before you were three years old. Come to think of it Yet?"

Ji Xi froze in place, his mind went blank.

wait... what...?

"No way, you don't remember?" Dr. Lin asked strangely, "Then you really made me sad."

Ji Xi is like a drowning person, gasping for breath, he feels that he is having a fever, or not, the scar on his back scratched by that super deformed body is painful and itchy, even the whole skin seems to be burning .

This feeling is so familiar, as if two forces in my body are constantly fighting.

He has only experienced similar feelings a few times in his life, and he still remembers each time vividly.

The first time, he jumped from the Pearl Tower, smashed his whole body, and was forcibly injected with limit growth preparations for rescue.

The second time, he was seriously injured. In Yan's family, he thought he was the same as before, only gradually recovering.

The third time, he and Yanyi were attacked by mutants in the suburbs, infected, and temporarily lost consciousness.

The fourth time is now.

According to ordinary people's standards, he had died at least four times, and each time was hopeless.

... "Have you ever seen a normal living person, no matter how hard you beat him, you can't die, and you have to slap all the brains out to die?"

Ji Xi felt as if she was frozen, unable to move.

"Dr. Lin." He stared at the man wearing glasses, struggling to find his voice, "Can you tell me, when I was ten years old, what exactly was the SZ-127 injected into me by your research institute?" What?"

Dr. Lin raised his eyebrows, as if he didn't expect that he would ask this question when he came up, and he said naturally: "Abnormal gene extract."

"However..." He smiled, "Of course it's specially made and concentrated. Ordinary extracts don't have such a good effect."

"In order to stimulate the potential in you, it took a lot of effort from the whole experiment."

Ji Xi's face lost all color in an instant.

Really, really...

It turned out to be so.

Distorted gene extract.

——In other words, it is similar to the saliva and body fluids of the mutant. If humans are bitten by the mutant, they will naturally be infected by the mutant virus, and then become a mutant.

Of course, the same effect will also occur when injecting the mutant gene extract.

Deformed people are immortal monsters. Even if their bodies are injured again, as long as their brains are still there, they can continue to move forever...

This is very similar to the principle of action of SZ-127.

Ji Xi's expression froze, his face was as pale as paper, and he asked incomparably difficultly: "But why..."

"...I wasn't infected? Didn't I become a deformed person?"

In fact, an answer was already in his mind.

An answer that terrified him.

The truth that he dared not face at all.

...Because he himself is a deformed person.

Dr. Lin looked at Ji Xi's ashen expression with interest, clapped his hands with great interest, and exclaimed: "It's so ridiculous, it's so ridiculous!"

As he spoke, he laughed maniacally.

"As Ji Xuan, you have spent your whole life cultivating the biggest trump card." There was a bizarre and ridiculous expression on his face, "You don't even know the biggest secret of the last days, it's really..."

He looked at Ji Xi with pity, and said in a ridiculous and indescribable tone: "I don't even know what to say about you. Naive? Poor? Ignorant? Ji Xuan really raised you into a greenhouse It's too miserable to be kept in the dark after growing so big, I'm going to feel sorry for you, hahahahaha!"

Ji Xi stared at him steadfastly, her whole body was trembling and her teeth were chattering.

He even wanted to cover his ears and refuse this person to continue talking.

Shut up, shut up, I don't want to hear...!

Dr. Lin was unwilling to take care of his mood at all, or rather, Ji Xi's expression of despair and fear made him feel more relaxed and refreshed.

He laughed happily, and told the cruel truth unreservedly: "At the end of the development of civilization, human beings have long gone crazy in their obsession with pursuing immortality. It was the first batch of humans whose genetic modification failed, they kept their corpses in a freezer before they died, and returned to the world with the hope that they could be resurrected one day."

"After several generations of unremitting efforts, the regeneration experiment finally succeeded. They seek benevolence and gain benevolence, and indeed they live forever, but they continue to live with another face. Otherwise, how do you think the end of the world began?"

Ji Xi seemed to have lost his ability to speak, and his expression was blank: "Are you trying to tell me... that all the people in this entire base who have undergone genetic modification are actually mutants?"

Dr. Lin smiled: "Of course."

"Do you think everyone can undergo genetic modification?"

"That's the superior we guard this secret together—" He paused, with an expression of great enjoyment and satisfaction, "—a privilege!"

"You, everyone in our tower, are accomplices."

"The end of the day is never that God wants to punish human beings, but that human beings want to eliminate their companions by themselves, so as to create a new world with distinct levels, captive and captive. They deliberately extracted the infectious mutant virus from the early 'resurrection', Allowing the virus laboratory to flow out and causing the end of the world single-handedly is not just to be able to continue to seize power endlessly, manipulate most other ignorant people in this world, and be willing to be enslaved by them."

Ji Xi's overloaded brain seemed to be on fire, and he didn't know how to react at all.

Dr. Lin said word by word: "It's us, it's you, your family, who are in control of everything, planning this protracted disaster with great deliberation."

"The word base, some people think it's a safe haven, and some people think it's the Garden of Eden, but actually..." He opened his hands, and laughed wildly and unscrupulously as if standing on the throne of the world.

"Actually, all of this is just a cage carefully built for those foolish people. If you reward them with a bone, give them a whip, and send some deformed people to scare them, they will immediately shrink back and hold it like worshiping a god." If you don’t let me go, you don’t even want your dignity just to beg for a little food, you lie on the ground like a dog and beg for mercy, you are so grateful for a job that we donate to them, you are exhausted from working, hahahaha!”

"Interesting, it was so much fun!"

Ji Xi's face was blank, and he stared at Dr. Lin's confused face with eyes like he was looking mentally ill.

At that moment, he didn't even know whether it was his own nerve disorder or Dr. Lin's brain.

Or... the world has gone crazy.

"The Ji family protects you like a blank sheet of paper." Seeing Ji Xi's shocked expression, Dr. Lin successfully raised the corners of his lips, and said leisurely, "It's an honor, I will be the first person to draw on this piece of paper." The person who wrote the handwriting."

"This is the truth that they have been hiding from you. This is the biggest secret of the last days."

"I told you everything." He said in a very bad tone, "How is it? Are you happy to hear it? Doesn't it feel good to be deceived for so long? Does it feel bad?"

Ji Xi stared at him with wide eyes, like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered without any resistance, under a series of huge blows, he seemed to be on the verge of collapse, but his hands and feet were still struggling in vain.

He struggled with the restraint belt and the entire laboratory table, and even mobilized the supernatural cells on the surface of the skin, trying to split the restraint belt and escape, but the restraint belt made of unknown material did not move at all, no matter what Ji Xi did. Struggling was useless, and even the hard metal couldn't cut the slightest bit.

Dr. Lin admired his pitiful appearance with great interest, and said unhurriedly: "Master Xiao Ji, I advise you not to waste your efforts in vain."

"After so many years of experimental reports, I know your body better than yourself." He smiled slightly, leaned down, and whispered like a devil, "You can't escape."

Ji Xi's head was covered with cold sweat, his pupils vibrated, he really panicked.

... what is he going to do?