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The procedures at the hospital have been completed, and a simple funeral will be held the next day.Even if he didn't want to leave again, Yan Ai had to go back and continue to overcome difficulties and move forward.

Yan Ai wanted to say sorry to Lou Yue and Ran Yu who were waiting there, but found that they were both standing in the office.The doctor at the door was about to leave when he saw Yan Ai coming, so he whispered to her why he came, and said that since the patient was Xiao Zhuang, a wandering poet whose parents had died early, his body was still on the way to Yihuan Hospital. Follow the process without a guardian.Captain Lou asked to visit later and arrange follow-up funeral matters for him.

Yan Ai nodded at the doctor, sent him away, then walked into the office and closed the door.

Lou Yue stood with his back to Ran Yu, looking down at a piece of letter paper.When Yan Ai walked in, he seemed to have just recovered, looked up at her, and quickly turned his head away.

With just one glance, Yan Ai saw the bloodshot eyes in Lou Yue's eyes.

She walked back to her desk calmly and said, "We're all having a hard time, but there's no time to drink and cry right now. So, five minutes to adjust the time, okay? We'll start talking in five minutes."

Lou Yue said yes, then he walked out of the office and stood in the corridor looking out the window.

During these 5 minutes, Yan Ai looked at the report that Shi Xun had submitted before, and Ran Yu sat on the small sofa at the door, looking at Lou Yue's back through the glass on the door from time to time.No one spoke.

Five minutes later, Lou Yue came back, and the three of them sat at the desk. Their respective emotions had already adjusted, and they began to summarize and sort out the currently known information.

Before Shi Xun died, he talked about the purpose and progress of the city lord and others' experiments. Lou Yue could only hear the general idea, and had no idea how to proceed next, nor did he know the reason why Shi Xun urgently asked him to take Ran Yu into the city. But from Yan Ai's expression at that time, he could tell that the communication between the two of them was straightforward.

For a scientific researcher of Yan Ai's level, an overly detailed explanation would be a burden.If others want to push her in a fixed research direction, they only need to provide her with an inspiring and simple idea or clue, and Yan Ai can quickly produce amazing results.

Therefore, Lou Yue, an outsider, never interfered with Yan Ai's research progress, but just sent the useful information he knew to Yan Ai in short words in time, so that she could sort it out and file it.

Sure enough, Yan Ai's first sentence was: "I have some conjectures about sea ghosts, sea magnetic fields, and the city lord's experiment, but I need to confirm some things first. Ran Yu, I heard that you successfully controlled Ran Yu when you escaped last night. Qiu and the group of mutated monsters? And now they can suppress the other party's eavesdropping and peeking?"

Ran Yu nodded: "The situation last night was too urgent, maybe it was the survival instinct, and I didn't expect it to be really useful. But the time to control it was very short, and we were still chased all the way later. It's impossible to talk about suppressing it." In fact, I can only say that I finally have the feeling of being able to coordinate, just like the feeling when I control myself not to think about it."

Yan Ai: "Could you tell me about your experience outside the city during this period? It doesn't matter whether it's big or small, just pick the one that impressed you the most."

Ran Yu started talking.He talked about the headache when watching the sunrise and the discomfort of Ranqiu, the slender leaves of sea calamus wrapped around his ankles when he went down the mountain, the giant python that greeted him proactively and the obedient and docile mutant wolf, as well as the high humidity in the yard and climbing the wall The vines and Ranqiu's overly accurate weather forecasting ability.

Yan Ai suddenly leaned back after hearing this, and glanced up and down at Ran Yu: "Sometimes I think you are scarier than sea ghosts."

Ran Yu let out an "ah" in bewilderment.

"Sea ghosts have continued to evolve since they came ashore, from fish tails to feet, from one form to multiple forms, from irreversible conversion of the original parasitic form to reversible, even the sea ghost virus is also evolving beyond The speed we imagined is evolving and iterating. As a member of human beings, you have been accidentally connected and controlled by sea ghosts, to being able to imitate the other party to control the other party, and now you can even subdue the other party. The whole process, from passive acceptance to adaptation , and then to seize the initiative, you only spent a few months."

Ran Yu thought for a while, gestured with his hands and said: "Actually, it's not that easy. I don't know how to describe those feelings, but these past few months have been really complicated. Besides, I can't completely control the other party, I can smoothly I can feel all the 'limbs' and 'tentacles' over there through the connection. I don't know if this is the right way to describe it, but I can only use a small part at a time. Moreover, the farther the distance is, the weaker the things I can feel, so I There is no way to let a large group of sea ghosts outside the checkpoint leave at the same time."

"That's enough. It's not difficult to go from one to ten thousand, but it's difficult to go from zero to one." Yan Ai said, "I said before that I don't know if the sky is biased towards another species, but now I can take it back. It seems Sea ghosts are not the only species being favored, we are also being favored."

"Then it's too late for this blessing. The main cities on the other plateaus were established before us and then died one after another, and we are the only ones left." Lou Yue said, "So according to what Shi Xun said, let Ran Yu go to the third basement of the museum. Can you help us go from one to ten thousand?"

"More than that, to be precise, from one to the whole. According to the information we have learned, sea ghosts are a whole life, that is to say, the individual ways of defeating in traditional human war experience are not feasible, and can only be solved from the perspective of overall control. Defeat it. Perhaps based on the existing conditions, we can simplify the problem. According to the similar characteristics of sea ghosts' connections and electrical signals, we can regard Ranqiu as a base station, and those sea ghosts are terminals. Ran Yu You can also use Ranqiu to control and connect to all other terminals. Of course, this example is different from the actual communication project, just to help understand."

Lou Yue roughly understood Yan Ai's meaning: "You mean, Ran Yu needs to use some kind of base station-like facility to amplify the signal he can send out, so as to achieve the goal of controlling all sea ghosts. However, the museum underground Can the laboratory play the role you said?"

"Yes, because this is exactly the principle of this experiment carried out by the city lord. Shi Xun said that Li Jing had already made a complete set of equipment, and asked Ran Yu to go over to show that she knew that set of equipment could be used directly. I just re- After reading the previous report on the study of the sea magnetic field, combined with the various anomalies mentioned by Ran Yu before, one can draw a preliminary conclusion that the connection range of sea ghosts is not only between a single species, even not only mutant animals, but also plants , and even the weather. Now the climate is getting wetter and wetter, but it rarely rains. During the day, the sun is often high, because sea ghosts like to bask in the sun and feel warm. This situation was not discovered early, probably because it was The sea ghosts are not gathered together like they are now."

Ran Yu: "When gathered together, it will have a strong sense of power. I also feel this."

Yan Ai: "Yes, this may be the reason why the city owner insisted on completing this anti-human experiment at such a high price. By simulating this characteristic of sea ghosts, gathering the power of life of the same species, and making himself a huge Life forms have the ability to connect with nature, or in other words, they may have the ability to control all things in nature. Numerous disasters in history let us know that people are always small in front of nature and need to be full of awe. The temptation is too strong, it's almost like..."

Yan Ai thought about the appropriate words to describe.

"It's like becoming a god." Lou Yue looked serious.

The office was quiet, and the sound of the breeze blowing through the leaves outside the window was very clear.

Yan Ai leaned on the back of the chair: "In fact, the human body has undergone many changes in recent decades, but we are accustomed to such changes. Now that there is such a thing as the sea magnetic field, I understand why a lot of existing knowledge and human prosperity The common sense of biology at that time was inconsistent. As early as when I learned how Shi Xun and Yuan Qiong obtained the memories of Gong Xiao and Li Jing, I should have realized the problem behind their experimental principles. Obviously, the brain neurons and blood that store memories The genetic information expressed by the cells is different, why the experiment can be successful, is there any change in the cells under the action of a certain magnetic field... Maybe this change is only a small part, I am a little afraid to think about the unknown."

"It's very hard for people to break out of the confinement of seeing things only from their own and existing perspective. If all human bodies do change, you can't find a baseline for comparison, and of course you can't realize the change. There is no need to regret such things, said Tell me how to get the city lord to terminate his plan, what do I need to do?"

Yan Ai straightened his back again: "Let's talk about the conclusion first, we need to use the magnetic field strengthening equipment of a defense point of the Leitu system, and a small piece of sea magnet. And we must find it as soon as possible, after all, the improved virus from the city lord is here. They don't greet us until they infect us."

Speaking of this, Yan Ai spread his hands: "It is said that the subordinates of the city lord, especially the secret guards at various points are fanatical and staunch worshipers of the city lord. I'm afraid they only want to merge with the city lord."

Lou Yue: "I have instigated one, is that enough?"

Yan Ai looked at Lou Yue in surprise: "Where is it? How did you do it?"

"Point C, the owner of an underground supermarket in a commercial building on Wisteria Road. Since the last time I found out that the Leitu system was a guard point for some strange magnetic field device deliberately concealed by the city lord, I asked the team members to be careful. They hid it really well. Very strict, after so long, only two or three guards have been found. One of them has suffered too many blows recently, and the idol he believes in only cares about the plan that is about to be completed, and forgets to take care of the little people, so he just endures and sticks to his position. I I took advantage of this opportunity to help him make a living, and chatted about life by the way. The situation is similar to that of Li Shuxiu. But he is really firm. I chatted with him for three hours. At that time, Li Shuxiu was willing to go for blood collection after only chatting with me for 10 to [-] minutes .”

Yan Ai leaned back: "I'm going to take back another sentence. It's not Ran Yu, it's you that's scary."

Lou Yue: "The sea magnet is indeed a problem. The guard Lao Guo said that it is also very precious to the city owner. Only one piece of each ring is used to analyze the magnetic field. The probability of this piece of the first ring is in the museum, that is, the base The main control room of the tea system, other points can only strengthen and stabilize the signal."

"So, we are now in an endless loop. If you want to secretly stop the city lord's experiment underground in the museum, you need sea magnets, but if you want to get sea magnets, you need to go underground in the museum."

Yan Ai: "About why sea magnets are needed..."

Just as he was talking, there was a knock on the office door.It turned out that Xiaozhuang's body had been transported, and the doctor came to inform Lou Yue.Xiang Anxiang was also standing at the door, it seemed that Lao Wang and others who had just settled the post office came back to report.

Yan Ai: "It just so happens that we're done chatting today, so go get busy first. Whether you can find it or not, I'll do what I can first, and the rest will depend on God's will."

Lou Yue nodded, and ordered Xiang Anxiang to send Ran Yu back to the dormitory to rest, while he prepared to go through the funeral-related procedures.

Ran Yu expressed that he wanted to be with him, but Yan Ai cut him off halfway: "I'm afraid you can't rest or accompany him now, so come with me first, I still have a lot of things I want to ask you, and I have some experiments. You need to cooperate, you can't go with him all day today."

Ran Yu expressed his understanding, and Lou Yue couldn't raise any objections at this time, but proposed to Xiang An Ning to be a bodyguard.

Ran Yu was quietly brought into the scientific research institute by Yan Ai and Xiang An An, and cooperated with him to do many electromagnetic experiments, and spent the night in the lounge at night.He didn't sleep well at night, he could hear the phone calls of Yan Ai and Xiang An Ning in the office next door, they were working overtime trying to find the sea magnet, laying out clues and directions one after another, and then denying them one by one.They even suggested that if necessary, they should go to the sea ghost pile on the second ring road to find it, because the sea ghosts will protect the sea magnet and strengthen the magnetic field barrier.

Yan Ai and Xiang Anxiang didn't sleep all night, and Lou Yue seemed to be the same.As far as Ran Yu knew, they hadn't slept for two consecutive nights.

Ran Yu couldn't help, because although they didn't sleep themselves, the only task assigned to him at night was to sleep, and he was required to maintain his mental strength.So he had to sleep.

The next morning, Ran Yu followed Yan Ai to the nearby cemetery, and Lou Yue also went.On this day Xiaozhuang and Shanqun were buried at the same time, in the same cemetery.

Ran Yu presented flowers to the two deceased, and stood quietly under a tree not far away, waiting motionlessly for the others to bid farewell to the deceased.

When the simple funeral was over, Lou Yue and Yan Ai came to look for him under the tree, and stopped not far from him.

Just as Ran Yu was about to walk over, Yan Ai hurriedly said, "Don't move!"

She pointed at Ran Yu's feet.

Ran Yu looked down, only to find that there was a piece of seaweed growing quietly under his feet, some of which had already climbed onto his shoe.

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The author has something to say:

Well, the progress estimate is wrong. There are still two chapters in the main text of Liao orz, and we will continue tomorrow and the day after tomorrow~