[Yu Huang] Underground fire

In the right cab of the airship, about 2 minutes ago.

Huang Shaotian watched helplessly as the small square box in his pocket flew over the operating table and shattered on the glass.When his life was hanging by a thread, he still had time to yell in his heart, "The item that looked like a plot item I found with great difficulty is so broken! Why is the quality so substandard!"... Even Yu Wenzhou on the screen Didn't hear anything clearly.

In the next second, his eyes fell on the thing that fell out of the box, and he couldn't look away.

It was a transparent bead the size of two fingers clasped in a circle, and something seemed to be wrapped inside, like a round, artificial amber.Huang Shaotian has seen this kind of bead production method before. First soak the item to be preserved in some kind of potion, then pour the coagulant layer by layer, and finally put it in a low-temperature blast furnace and blow it violently. The finished product looks like this .

The ball rolled all the way down the console, getting closer and closer.He saw a small blue flower with many petals hidden inside the bead. In his hometown, where the first-generation laboratory was located, there were many wild flowers of this species blooming in the wilderness, most of which were red; When playing in the wild, I will look for the rare blue alien inside, and believe that everyone who sees it will have good luck, and all wishes will come true.

Huang Shaotian instinctively stretched out his hand, and caught the dropped beads in his palm.When touching its cold and smooth surface, Huang Shaotian couldn't help shivering; this flower from his hometown, frozen in time, fell rapidly in those memories he just retrieved not long ago, breaking through the artificial barriers all the way. Obstacles, sinking into those years that he should remember the most... sinking into the beginning of everything, the place where he met his destiny.

The picture came surging, and the deepest memory burst open to him.

……

It was a rainy early spring.The grass and trees are flourishing in the undeveloped field, and the red flowers that are a little lighter than the blood bag are all over the ground, but the children in the laboratory are not in the mood to appreciate the scene of spring, all they need is to find a way to keep themselves alive.

On this private land belonging to the laboratory's private property, the research team held a screening test for new experimental products.About sixty instruments surrounded the wasteland, creating an uneven mental magnetic field covering the entire area. The children who had received drug treatment beforehand were placed in the area where the negative magnetic field was most concentrated. Walk back to the edge of the field.This test is more about the intuition, or talent of these experimental subjects—they must distinguish the direction of the weakening of the magnetic field, and find a route that is less mentally and physically burdensome. Given that each person's physical condition is different, the magnetic field The influence of each person varies from person to person, and they cannot refer to each other, so they can only try their best to find the direction that suits them.Although the equipment will be turned off after 48 hours, and the staff will come to take away those who have not escaped, but under the pressure of negative magnetic fields for a long time, even children of these ages who have just started school know that they will never escape. What a good result.

There is no chance of fluke, this is a test of life and death.

Huang Shaotian was thrown in a low place, and when he struggled to wake up, the residual effects of the anesthesia hadn't even completely disappeared.His response in the preliminary body test was very good, and the person in charge of the project was almost sure that he could pass this test. Even if he did not choose the route with the weakest magnetic field, with his strengthened physical fitness, he would not be able to survive until he walked out of the wasteland. Not impossible.

But he didn't know much about it himself.It took him all day to cover two-thirds of the distance, and then, just before nightfall, he met a man by the creek.

It was also a boy, who looked a little older than he might be, sitting by the stream, barely holding water with his hands to wash his face.Huang Shaotian was very puzzled, wondering why he still had time to take care of his appearance, but after getting closer, he realized that he was washing off the blood stains on his face.

"Are you hurt?" he couldn't help asking.

The other party looked up at him and shook his head.Following this movement, a trace of blood slid down the corner of his eye.

Huang Shaotian was taken aback by this, but the man wiped it off with his hand indifferently, and then continued to dip his hand into the water to rinse.Huang Shaotian vaguely guessed that this person may have undergone other modifications than his body experiments... Maybe it was the brain, organs or something.He asked cautiously, "Are you all right?"

"It's okay." The other party finally spoke this time, and he said without raising his head, "You'd better get on the road early, and you can find a place to sleep before it gets dark."

"Uh, my name is Huang Shaotian." Huang Shaotian scratched his hair, "I don't think your condition is very good, you can't stop the bleeding, and your complexion is also very bad. Unfortunately, I didn't bring extra bandages, but I have a little anesthetic. But you probably don't want to use that either. Are you going to rest here tonight? This shouldn't be a good place either."

The person looked at him in surprise, as if "how did this person say such a long list of words" was written on his face.

"My name is Yu Wenzhou," he said.

Then he didn't intend to communicate any more, he took out a small box from his coat pocket, opened it, stood up and prepared to leave.Huang Shaotian opened his mouth and was about to speak, but he watched helplessly as the other person's body swayed twice and fell to the ground.

Huang Shaotian: "..."

He hurried over and turned this man named Yu Wenzhou over.The other party seemed to be in a bad situation. Although he didn't continue to bleed or anything, his breathing and heartbeat were extremely weak, and he had already entered a relatively bad state under the negative magnetic field. If he didn't deal with it, he might not be able to wake up.Just as he was about to carry him on his shoulders and continue walking, he suddenly realized that the direction he had chosen might not be effective for him, and he didn't know what to do.

At this time, Huang Shaotian caught sight of the box he had dropped aside, picked it up and looked at it, and found a small pointer that kept vibrating inside.No matter how I rotate the box, the pointer points in one direction, and it's clearly not north.He guessed that this thing might have been made by Yu Wenzhou himself, and it could be used to detect his own suitable magnetic field route. Although he was not sure yet, it was better than nothing—he picked up the other person on his back, and walked into the more and more in the direction of the pointer. In the dim sunset.

After the sky completely darkened, Huang Shaotian put the man down and found a place with a leeward to rest.He thought that he would not be able to fall asleep in this environment, but the fact was just the opposite, he slept until dawn.When he woke up, he happened to see that Yu Wenzhou next to him had just opened his eyes.

"You're awake." He said happily, "Your face looks much better, the pointer is indeed right!"

Yu Wenzhou was dazed for a few seconds, and immediately looked for the pointer in his pocket. Huang Shaotian almost laughed out loud when he saw it, and quickly threw the pointer at him to him.Yu Wenzhou lowered his head, adjusted it a few times, and then looked at him with a complicated expression: "You... don't you feel uncomfortable now?"

"Oh, you can see that I'm following your route?" Huang Shaotian waved his hand, "It's nothing hahahaha, I'm still in good health, so this little problem is nothing! In fact, I think we're almost at the end now It’s on, I guess we’ll be able to walk out soon.”

"Thank you." Yu Wenzhou said.

Huang Shaotian was taken aback: "Huh?"

"Thank you for saving me." Yu Wenzhou repeated, "I know this is not a light burden on you."

"It's okay, I can't just watch you die there." Huang Shaotian stood up and stretched his legs, "Okay, let's go."

"Us?" Yu Wenzhou also stood up, "Let's go separately, you should go your own route."

"I'm going this way." Huang Shaotian pointed out, "What about you?"

Yu Wenzhou looked at the pointer: "...It's also here."

"Then let's go together!" Huang Shaotian said happily.

In fact, his most suitable route is not here, but he remembered the last direction of the pointer before falling asleep last night, so he simply pretended that he was also on the way.He was a little worried about this guy who seemed to have a thin blood bar, and really didn't want him to fall before the finish line after carrying the person who had walked for so long.

Yu Wenzhou nodded silently, and was about to take a step when Huang Shaotian suddenly shouted: "Stop!"

He subconsciously stopped at the same spot, watching Huang Shaotian bend down to pick up a small blue flower from the front of his shoe, and happily handed it to him.

"Look at this," Huang Shaotian said while holding the flower in his hands, "this is a symbol of good luck! We will definitely be able to go out smoothly, um, maybe we will be able to survive smoothly in the future... I guess we must have good luck. OK."

"Is it rare?" Yu Wenzhou asked puzzled.

"It's very rare! It is said that if you find it, you will have good luck, and the wishes you make will come true—" Huang Shaotian nodded vigorously, "Let me think about it, what kind of wish should I make? I just hope that I can leave here...leave this venue , leave those nasty experiments... hope to escape from the laboratory one day!"

He was happy there for a while, and then found that Yu Wenzhou hadn't said a word: "Hey, this is a rare opportunity, so maybe you can make a wish, don't waste this luck!"

"My wish?" Yu Wenzhou tilted his head and said, "I don't have any wish."

"Oh, you always have something you want." Huang Shaotian put Xiao Hua into Yu Wenzhou's hand without any hassle, "Even if you want one now?"

Yu Wenzhou hesitated for a moment, then smiled at him.This was the first smile Huang Shaotian saw on his face since they met.

"Then," he said, "I hope your wish will come true."

……

Huang Shaotian clutched his forehead, took a step back because of the emergence of these memories, countless pictures flashed before his eyes, and finally fixed on the little blue flower.After so many years, the two children have grown into the adults they are today, but it is still the same as it was then, as beautiful as when he handed it to each other in the morning light.

The countdown to the separation of the spaceships on both sides was still beating, and he realized that only a second or two had passed in reality, and then he saw Yu Wenzhou say to him on the screen: "Goodbye, Shaotian."

The signal is interrupted.

Huang Shaotian made a decision almost immediately.He pushed the joystick to the end, and the blue indicator light suddenly lit up in the cabin, and the mechanical sound reminded: "Attention, we are about to enter the remote control mode, please be careful to hold the controller, and don't stay outside the spaceship for too long... ..."

He pulled up the tissue-box-sized controller, and the wires to it snapped, making him feel like he'd just pulled a carrot out of the ground.Then he rushed out of the cockpit with the controller in his arms, ran through the short passage in the ship, swooped before the door connecting the spaceships on the left and right was closed, and jumped to the corridor on the left half, rolling and crawling.

The door closed with violent vibrations, and the spaceship on the right had probably separated.Huang Shaotian was then horrified to find that the back of the passage had become a sea of ​​flames, and those medicines and machines were burning fiercely, rolling towards him wrapped in thick smoke and electric light.

He had to run desperately down the corridor, using the controls to steer the right-hand ship to dodge an attack.When he realized from the strong sense of weightlessness that the spaceship on this side was falling, he used the fastest operation speed in his life to mobilize the right half of the spaceship to make a dive and fly side by side with this side, and then he used the momentum of rushing to the end , knocked open the unclosed cab door with his shoulder.

Yu Wenzhou turned his head when he heard the sound, and Huang Shaotian saw an extremely wonderful and unbelievable expression on his face.

That alone is worth the price of admission, he thought.

In the next second, he had rushed over and pulled up the joystick, temporarily stopping the spacecraft from falling.The emergency escape door popped open, he hugged Yu Wenzhou by the waist, and jumped off the burning spaceship.

This series of changes happened in the blink of an eye. The wheelchair girl had just delivered an order to attack the floating ship. They immediately saw on the monitoring screen that the spaceships on both sides separated and then fell together. jumped out.

Huang Shaotian desperately grabbed the handle of the controller in the air, and the moment the right half of the spaceship was barely parallel to the left after decelerating, he and Yu Wenzhou narrowly landed on the top of the right side of the ship.Because the angle was not well grasped, he almost landed on his face first, making his eyes stare, and he didn't know if his teeth had fallen out.

Yu Wenzhou had already recovered from the shock, and took the lead in getting into the driver's cab through the opened escape door, and pulled Huang Shaotian in as well.With the return of the pilot, the spaceship returned to the independent flight mode, followed the command to rotate and climb, and passed by the left half of the spaceship that had turned into a ball of flames.

Seeing that Yu Wenzhou had already taken control of the spaceship, the first thing Huang Shaotian did was to turn on the monitoring screen in the cabin, and he saw the scene of the spaceship crashing into the base.Just like a meteor blazing with fire hitting the ground, with an explosion, the protection on the top of the base was shattered by the impact, and a big hole was punched out by the spaceship.

Huang Shaotian: "Hahahahahahahahaha good job! I've been wanting to do this for a long time!"

A few seconds later, a flash of lightning erupted from the smashed No. [-] warehouse, and then instantly turned into a skyrocketing flame.Successive explosions sounded from it, and the base turned into a sea of ​​flames from here.

Huang Shaotian: "..."

He looked at Yu Wenzhou with horrified eyes: "What the hell did you do?"

"It's none of my business." Yu Wenzhou had completely calmed down from the incident just now, "It's just that the warehouse happened to be flammable and explosive."

Huang Shaotian: "..." Only ghosts believe it's none of your business!

The monitoring screen from the laboratory kept flashing wrong signals. Obviously, the laboratory was also affected by the fire at the base.During the period, they even saw the picture in the control center, and the scene of the wheelchair girl screaming and avoiding the explosion in the corridor, and then the signal completely disappeared, leaving only a camera recording the outside world still running normally.

Yu Wenzhou drove half of the spaceship up to the dome of the dungeon, and rushed into the exit leading to the surface world in time.At the last moment, Huang Shaotian turned the camera down, looking at the dungeon that he will never forget in this life—at such a height, the vast base does not seem so big, not to mention the laboratory below, only The rising flames were still crystal clear.

It was a fire in the ground, a man-made splendor.

...that was their farewell.

The fire at the base broke out within a few minutes, and the passageway that was closed due to emergency closed behind them, and after a few tens of seconds, they finally returned to the surface world.Now it was the middle of the night, and the exit was in the middle of a wasteland. The dark sky was covering their heads just like in the dungeon, but they had already seen the real stars.

They flew in one direction for a long time, and after confirming that they would not be followed by anything, they let the floating ship land in a forest glade.

Huang Shaotian tiredly climbed out of the hatch, and sat down in the soil covered with needles.Behind him, Yu Wenzhou also came out, the roar of the spaceship's machinery slowly fell silent, the lights gradually went out, and finally there was only an indicator light on the side of the hatch.It casts a faint warm orange-red light on the two exhausted figures.

"So," Huang Shaotian said, "we still escaped."

"Thanks to you." Yu Wenzhou smiled.

"Yeah, thanks to my wit." Huang Shaotian nodded.

Then he couldn't control his anger anymore, and roared: "Yeah, you still know! If I slowed down a little bit, wouldn't you have been burnt crispy on the outside and tender on the inside! Is it interesting to lie to me? It's interesting to be the savior Do you still think it's so smart, so witty, so perfect, huh?"

Yu Wenzhou: "..."

A flock of birds, frightened by him, crackled away from the nocturnal woods.

"You remember?" he asked.

"Yeah." Huang Shaotian said angrily, "I remembered everything about you, including the first time we met, I mean, when we actually met for the first time. Only when I remembered everything did I realize that you are simply Pinch my memory like plasticine."

"It may be that the number of cleanings is a bit too much..." Yu Wenzhou apologized.

"I probably know now, you are here to save me, right?" Huang Shaotian rolled his eyes, "It's just that I still don't understand, how could I forget the first time we met?"

"You probably don't know." Yu Wenzhou explained, "When we walked out of the venue, I was stimulated by the ability generated by the transformation for the first time, and it uncontrollably washed away your memory of me. Because of this incident, I From the organ experiment group, he was transferred to the brain domain research group, and got the code name of Soksar... This is the beginning of everything."

Huang Shaotian didn't say anything for a long time, feeling that fate really played a big joke on them.

"What about the wheelchair aunt?" He asked again, "Did you ask her to wake up my memory?"

"I only intended to let her recall a small amount of memory, which is why I gave you that medicine." Yu Wenzhou said, "Then I originally planned to explain it as a false memory, and I will explain it to you after I get out of the dungeon. I didn't expect you to think of more parts yourself."

"Not only more, almost all of them come to mind." Huang Shaotian exhaled, "You are really quite scary in those memories, and you are completely responsible for being a bad person."

"So I don't know how much you think of, and I can't justify anything, so I just make mistakes."

Huang Shaotian felt like punching someone again: "Then you misled me and made me think that you are the real villain?"

"This is also a last resort." Yu Wenzhou said helplessly, "According to my plan, whether it is this batch of medicines or the base and laboratory, they must be destroyed. If necessary, I may personally ensure this... If the situation requires You escaped alone, I don’t think it’s a bad thing to maintain this perception.”

"Huh?" Huang Shaotian was not distracted by him, "You mean, if you need to sacrifice yourself, do you think it will be easier for me to see you as a big bastard in my heart?"

Yu Wenzhou: "..."

"Let me tell you, absolutely not!" Huang Shaotian patted the hatch cover and said angrily, "I will remember it sooner or later, and with those memories now, I will understand what your purpose is after thinking about it carefully. Now, do you want me to carry this deadly debt for the rest of the time? Besides, I saved your life after all my hard work, and it wasn't for you to blow yourself up at this time!"

Yu Wenzhou paused, and asked, "How did you remember that?"

"This is it." Huang Shaotian fumbled in his pocket and found that the bead was still there, so he handed it to him.Yu Wenzhou's expression looked very nostalgic for a moment: "So you found this."

"Don't change the subject!" Huang Shaotian continued to press, "So, you recognized me from the very beginning—when I first entered the dungeon? And then you kept pretending not to know me, isn't your acting skill good? .”

"That's right." Yu Wenzhou spread his hands, "You must be feeling very depressed now, I suggest you give me a try."

Huang Shaotian: "..."

He jumped up from the ground and punched him.Yu Wenzhou leaned there, not intending to hide at all, Huang Shaotian's fist turned a corner at the end, and slammed on the ship's wall.

"What are you looking at?" He said to Yu Wenzhou angrily, "This is the boat."

Yu Wenzhou: "........."

The next second, Huang Shaotian grabbed his shoulders and pulled him down. The two of them rolled twice in the dirt, until their faces and hair were covered with dead leaves and pine needles, and Huang Shaotian stopped.Yu Wenzhou was lying there, apparently still not recovering from the sudden attack.

"It's not good to lie until now." Huang Shaotian straightened his body and looked at him condescendingly, "I thought about it carefully, in the past two days, you have prepared to sacrifice yourself to kill the laboratory at least three times...you started Just want to do this, right? Even if it’s not just for those blue rains, you’ll go back to the lab.”

"More than that." Yu Wenzhou looked up at him, "Is the data disk that I broke still there?"

Huang Shaotian was stunned, and touched his pocket: "Wait, did you guess that I was going to dig through the trash can? What's in that, could it be the formula of the reverse preparation?"

"Guess right." Yu Wenzhou smiled, "I want to get this information in addition to destroying the laboratory. Both things are very important. I don't want to sacrifice myself, but if this is a necessary condition to achieve the goal , I will also... make a choice after careful consideration."

"You want to destroy the evil lair, and you want to save people." Huang Shaotian curled his lips, "I see that you originally wanted to do good deeds without leaving your name. So when you hired an assassin to do this task, it was for the same purpose?"

"I have been lurking in the base for a long time, mainly for the laboratory." Yu Wenzhou nodded, "Besides, I need someone to send out the formula of Blue Rain."

"Okay, okay..." Huang Shaotian slammed down next to him, "Although the process was terrible, the goal was finally achieved, right?"

"It's better than I expected." Yu Wenzhou said.

They lay there quietly for a while.

"I mean, this feels a bit strange." Huang Shaotian muttered, "Two days ago, I thought you were a stranger who hated seeing each other, but now you suddenly become an acquaintance, an old acquaintance who is particularly entangled , making it difficult for people to get used to it.”

"You can forget about these again, let's get to know each other again..."

"Don't even think about it!" Huang Shaotian almost jumped up, "There is no door! How dare you try to brainwash me again!"

"Just kidding." Yu Wenzhou coughed lightly, "Not now, nor in the future."

Huang Shaotian thought for a while: "Speaking of later... Do you have any plans for the future?"

"I don't know, I haven't thought about it carefully." Yu Wenzhou said indifferently, "Maybe go to a college to get a degree in biochemistry, or stay in school to teach, or go to a regular laboratory, and later conduct drug development and brain research. Let's treat those who have been transformed by Blue Rain."

"...You haven't thought about it carefully?"

Yu Wenzhou laughed. "This was a rough idea before," he said, "now, I'd rather be with you."

Huang Shaotian's heartbeat slowed down by a beat, and he reflexively said, "What are you talking about in your heart!"

Yu Wenzhou: "..."

"But I also have to revise my career plan." Huang Shaotian rubbed his cheek with the back of his hand, "With the reverse formula, I also want to try my best to help those former experimental subjects get out of the life they don't want. Without the laboratory, Never lose sight of your purpose in life.”

"It seems that we have reached an agreement." Yu Wenzhou concluded.

"The more important thing is that I have to follow you, a dangerous person, so that you don't go around cheating others." Huang Shaotian said righteously, "First of all, after I quit my current job, you have to make money to pay me. .”

"So confident in me?" Yu Wenzhou smiled, "Then I think I have to work hard."

"I have one last question." Huang Shaotian paused, and finally couldn't help asking, "When you released the mission, you chose me among those candidates, isn't it a coincidence? You weren't afraid of me back then." This instability sabotages your plans?"

"You've been sabotaging my plans." Yu Wenzhou sighed, "Do you still remember that if everything went well, you should have left the laboratory through the fire exit with Blue Rain's formula after reading my message note? . Then there will be nothing after that.”

Huang Shaotian felt a cold air rising from his back: "Then you are going to die?"

"Don't underestimate me, it's not that I haven't planned escape methods." Yu Wenzhou raised his eyebrows, "Of course, those plans may not be successful, so the possibility of me being trapped in it is not small. If the worst happens , I will dispose of my own brain and not let them study it."

"So," Huang Shaotian slowly felt that he understood something, "when you risked your life to do this, you still led me to the dungeon, even though I don't remember anything, at the end One chance..."

"Yes," Yu Wenzhou interrupted him, "I want to see you again."

They were silent for a while.The woodland is quiet, only the sound of the wind blowing through the treetops.

Not good, Huang Shaotian thought, even in the experiment, his heartbeat didn't seem to be so fast.

At this moment, he had an urge to drag the guy lying next to him up, and use the way of feeding medicine in the ward to pay back intact.However, after thinking about it for a long time, he felt that this might not be a good idea. Besides, they will be together for a long time in the future, so they can always observe and take their time...

"What are you thinking?" Yu Wenzhou asked.

Huang Shaotian came back to his senses, and found that the person next to him was propping up his body, leaning over to look into his eyes.The long night had come to an end, and in the gradually brightening sky, he could almost see his own reflection in the other's eyes.

"It's okay," Yu Wenzhou smiled, "I've already seen it."

He leaned down and kissed him.

(End of the article)