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"Noodles are good." Yan Lang rolled up the cold beef noodles with chopsticks, "Strength."

"Of course, this is Shanxi." Yang Yi passed by with a plate, and she greeted Qi Kuo, "Qi Gong, is there anyone here?"

"Sit down." Qi Kuo said.

Yang Yi sat down with a smile on her face, and said to Yan Lang, "Oh, Police Officer Yan, I probably don't remember that this is Taiyuan City." She pointed to the top of her head, "The place where pasta is a must."

"Yang Gong, where do you put us in Shaanxi?" the researcher at the next table said dissatisfiedly, "Shaanxi is the best pasta."

"Shanxi and Shaanxi are all unique." Yang Yi said.

Yan Lang held his chin and watched them bickering. He had no memory, so naturally he didn't know where he was from. Qi Kuo said, "You grew up in Hohhot."

Yan Lang looked at Qi Kuo: "What about you?"

"I also grew up in Hohhot." Qi Kuo said, "Our universities are both in Beijing. You are Public Security University and I am Tsinghua University."

"Qi Gong is a top student, he can't compare." Yang Yi joked.

"Whoever is sitting here is not a top student." Qi Kuo said.

Yan Lang raised his hand silently, Qi Kuo glanced at him: "You don't count."

"I want to ask." Yan Lang said, "Where did ordinary people like me go?"

"You are not an ordinary person, Officer Yan." Yang Yi said, "This is the research institute in the inner city, and the others are in the outer city."

"The underground city is divided into two areas." Qi Kuo said, "Researchers and high-level politicians are in the inner city, and the army and others are in the outer city. The outer city is located 15 kilometers underground, and the inner city is located 57 kilometers underground."

"Our location is the core of the inner city, and you need to take an elevator to get to the outer city." Yang Yi said, "It's much safer here than the outer city."

"Safe?" Yan Lang asked, "Why isn't the outer city safe?"

"Mutated animals." Yang Yi said, "I don't understand it just by explaining it. You can go to the reading room to look up information after dinner."

Qi Kuo said to Yan Lang, "I'll take you there."

Yan Lang noticed that Yang Yi said that he was not an ordinary person. Qi Kuo introduced him to others [Anchor Point No. 1]. What does the anchor point mean?He lowered his head and ate his noodles. It's not that he doesn't have a past, but he doesn't remember it, but everyone knows that he has no memory. What's going on.

After lunch, Qi Kuo and Yan Lang said goodbye to Yang Yi, Yan Lang asked, "Why don't I remember the past?"

"Because you are the anchor." Qi Kuo said.

"What's the anchor point?" Yan Lang asked.

"The anchor point is..." Qi Kuo said as he walked, "This is very complicated, and I can't explain it clearly in one or two sentences."

Yan Lang was about to ask, but Qi Kuo pulled him into a negotiating room surrounded by frosted glass walls, closed the door, and said, "Anchor point is a noun in the timeline closure plan."

It sounded mysterious and high-end, Yan Lang patiently waited for Qi Kuo to explain.

"This is a physics project, led by me." Qi Kuo said, "On June 2087, 6, the genetic virus leaked, and within a year, the global population shrunk from 5 billion to 70 billion. The end of the plan The purpose is to reverse the original timeline and change the established outcome."

"Change?" Yan Lang felt that it was ridiculous, "How can the things that have already happened be changed?"

"We set several anchor points to restore the situation on June 2087, 6, and selected people related to the virus leak as anchor points to extract memories and import them into computer modeling." Qi Kuo said, "To find the cause of the virus leak, Send the most critical person to June 5, 2087 to prevent the virus from leaking."

"And I'm anchor point one..." Yan Lang tried to sort out the relationship.

"You are the No. [-] anchor point, and you are the most critical anchor point." Qi Kuo said.

"You mean, I caused all this?" Yan Lang was shocked.

"...You can't say that." Qi Kuo said, "Things are very complicated."

"Continuing the topic just now, how to teleport people to June 2087, 6?" Yan Lang asked, "Have you built a time machine?"

"It's under development." Qi Kuo said, "Before that, you need to enter the simulator for training."

The amount of information was too large, Yan Lang paused for a moment, he murmured: "I always feel like I'm dreaming..."

Qi Kuo stretched out his hand and squeezed Yan Lang, Yan Lang said, "Hiss—it hurts!"

"You're not dreaming." Qi Kuo put his hands back into his pockets, "Officer Yan, you must save the world."

Suddenly a big pot was thrown on Yan Lang's head, he hadn't figured out the past, and he was going to save the world, which was too embarrassing.

"You said to retrieve the memory of that day, why is my memory gone?" Yan Lang asked.

"The human brain is not a hard disk. It's not like I can recall any day's memory." Qi Kuo said, "It is normal to intercept a piece of memory and convert it into an image for storage. The loss of other memories is normal."

"Why don't you save all the memories, intercept a certain part and return the rest to me?" Yan Lang asked.

Qi Kuo chose to answer Yan Lang with an old joke: "How many steps does it take to put an elephant into a refrigerator?"

"..." Yan Lang sensed Qi Kuo's disdain, shut up and stopped hitting Qi Kuo's gun.

"How many people are there in this base?" Yan Lang asked.

"This is the underground city of Taiyuan, with a permanent population of 70, 10 in the inner city, and 60 in the outer city." Qi Kuo said, "In addition to Taiyuan, Shijiazhuang, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Xi'an, Wuhan, Zhengzhou, Guiyang, Chengdu, etc. Each of the ten cities has a dungeon."

"Where do the supplies come from?" Yan Lang asked.

"There are some left on the ground, and there are various industries in the underground city, and they are now self-sufficient." Qi Kuo said.

"I want to visit the outer city." Yan Lang said.

"No." Qi Kuo realized that his tone was too unkind, so he took a step back and proposed a new way to understand the outer city, "I'll take you to the library to read the materials."

"...Okay." Yan Lang opened the door of the negotiation room, "Please."

Qi Kuo walked out with his hands in his pockets: "Thank you."

Yan Lang noticed Qi Kuo's hand, and said a few words: "What happened to your hand, do you want some medicine?"

"It will be fine after a while." Qi Kuo said.

There is a long corridor with office doors on both sides, white walls and white floors, overhead lights that stay on all night, and a strong smell of disinfectant. This place is like a hospital before the end.Yan Lang asked: "Did we know each other before?"

"I don't know." Qi Kuo said.

"How do you know that I grew up in Hohhot and went to school in Beijing?" Yan Lang asked.

"Your information is very detailed." Qi Kuo said, "You are the key anchor, and I know your background information very well."

This made sense, but Yan Lang felt that something was wrong.

"This is the library, you can swipe your bracelet to borrow materials, and you can only read the materials you have permission to read." Qi Kuo said, "Your permission is one level lower than mine, but these are enough for you to read."

"Okay." Yan Lang raised his wrist and stuck it on the card reader. With a sound of "beep," the green light turned on, and the screen displayed rows of image materials that could be borrowed.

"Look for yourself, I have a meeting." Qi Kuo said, "I'll come to you at dinner time."

Yan Lang nodded: "See you later."

Qi Kuo walked out of the library and stared at Yan Lang's back when he closed the door. The light in his light brown pupils fluctuated, as if he was affectionate and devoured someone.

"Click." The door of the library closed, Yan Lang swiped the screen a few times, clicked on a documentary "Chengdu Outer City Records", put on the headphones and started watching.

【2087年6月5日，太原延宁机场泄露人造病毒56号、69号，本纪录片针对人造病毒56号开展成都地下城外城的观测实录，供内城研究员研究使用。】

【Man-made virus No. 56 can cause mutations in animals other than humans. The direction of mutation is to increase in size, irritable and sensitive, abnormal behavior and other unknown mutations. 】

The clip begins with a giant cockroach with a narration 【This is the animal that most frequently attacks the outer city of Chengdu, and the frequency of attacks on the northern dungeons is 20% lower than that in the south. 】The giant cockroach is about half the height of a person, waving its two front legs, and its enlarged mouthparts are close to the camera.

Yan Lang straightened up abruptly, almost kicking the computer screen out. He dragged the progress bar, and the image fast-forwarded to the second most frequently attacked dungeon creature - the mouse.

[The mutation effect of mammals is not as good as that of arthropods, so this mouse is about the same size as a cockroach. The mouse does not have the exoskeleton armor of the cockroach, so the mutated mouse cannot beat the cockroach, and is reduced to the ground to compete with larger animals. . 】

[The outer city of the dungeon is close to the surface, and about 300500 humans are sacrificed to mutated creatures every month in each dungeon.How to prevent mutant creatures from invading human beings has become the most troublesome problem for the leaders of every dungeon. 】