Paintings of Terror

On the rectangular dining table, there was a pot of hot and fragrant white rice flower bean porridge. Ke Xun was standing by the table, holding a pair of chopsticks and skillfully mixing a small pot of cold mixed beans in his hand. The aroma of beans melted together, like a warm wind after a midsummer rain, instantly blowing away everyone's taste buds.

"Let's eat first." Ke Xun raised his head, met Mu Yiran's peaceful and clear eyes, and gave him a warm smile.

Good food is good medicine to adjust the mood.Perhaps it is because of the color and aroma of food, which can make people feel the freshness and temperature of life. After a full meal, hope finally gains the upper hand in the contest with despair.

"Then, let's discuss the matter of taking the number now." Xu Zhen's originally frustrating tone softened a lot at this time, and she sat on a chair in the cafeteria and looked at everyone.

Everyone fell into silence. This is a sensitive topic. No one wants to die. Everyone wants to choose a laboratory with a relatively higher survival rate. It is a matter of life and death, and no one wants to be humble.

"I declare in advance," Xu Zhen said, "I don't want to give up the chance of survival to anyone. Of course, I hope that everyone can survive, but don't try to make me humble those who are young or weak. Everyone is equal, and my life is not inferior to that of others."

As he spoke, he glanced at the three young girls meaningfully.

The girls didn't say anything, Zhang Hanrui's tears rolled down silently, Li Yaqing seemed to be tired from crying, but just lowered her head in a daze, Cai Xiaoyan bit her lip and pulled her clothes with her hands, showing the great fear in her heart and uneasy.

"In this case, let's be fair." It was Zhu Haowen who spoke. This person is always rational and almost ruthless at any time. "Let's draw lots to decide."

"I agree." After hesitating and thinking, Xu Zhen nodded in agreement, "This is the most fair way. Whether the result is good or not, you can only blame your own luck."

Others had no objection, so Qin Ci got up and went to the office next to him to look for paper and pens, took them back and cut them into pieces of paper, and wrote numbers on the paper, because it is not sure how many people can enter each experimental area today, so they can only enter according to the number of people in each experimental area. Numbers are drawn in sequence.

Fold the piece of paper, put it into a chopstick holder, shake it, Qin Ci put the holder on the table: "Suck it."

Xu Zhen was the first to reach out and squeeze out a piece of paper. When she opened it, her expression lit up: "No. 1!"

If it is number 1, they will definitely get the number card of the experimental area A. For the few people who have experienced the pain of the experimental area B last night, the experiment in the A experimental area is more comfortable than the experiment in the B experimental area. many.

So these people, in fact, hope to go to the A experimental area.

The rest of the people also drew paper sticks one by one. Ke Xun drew after Mu Yiran, and stayed in the chopstick holder for a while, stirring the remaining paper sticks with his fingers, looking at the number on Mu Yiran's stick. 7. Blinked at him: "Believe it or not, my intuition is really accurate."

Mu Yiran looked at him, and said in a calm voice, "Come on."

Ke Xun felt that he was overwhelmed by the sound, and there was a tingling electric current in the back of his head, which was transmitted to the fingertips in the chopstick barrel.

With a movement of your fingertips, hold one of them, take it out, unfold it, the number 8.

Showing the number on the piece of paper to Mu Yiran, Ke Xun's lips curled up.

The numbers of two people are next to each other, and the probability that the number-taking card can be assigned to the same laboratory is high.

After everyone finished drawing lots, they realized that Qi Qiang and Huang Pi hadn't drawn lots. Qin Ci looked at them and said, "What's wrong?"

Qi Qiang impatiently took out a card from his pocket and slapped it on the table: "I've already taken the number card!"

A-195 is clearly printed on the access card leading to the basement.

Xu Zhen came to her senses, stared at Qi Qiang and Huang Pi, and dared not speak out.

Huang Pi didn't draw lots either. Obviously, like Qi Qiang, he took advantage of the time when everyone was walking out of the small iron gate. They knew that the card drawn first would be the card from Laboratory A, and they wouldn't wait at all. Discuss with others before deciding.

The matter has come to this point, and it is useless to say any more. Everyone got up and went to the small iron gate leading to the basement, and took numbers one by one according to the order determined by drawing lots.

This time, the people who got the number A card were Qi Qiang, Huang Pi, and Xu Zhen.

The people who got the No. B card were Wei Dong and Zhu Haowen.

The people who got the number C card were Li Yaqing, Cai Xiaoyan, Mu Yiran, and Ke Xun.

The people who got the number D card were Qin Ci and Zhang Hanrui.

Li Yaqing, who was drawn to the experimental area C again, collapsed on the spot, crying and collapsing on the ground.

In the eyes of everyone, only the experiments in the C experimental area are bound to kill people, and getting the number C card means that one foot has stepped into the underworld.

"There's still time," Ke Xun squatted down, and shook Li Yaqing's shoulder, "Crying won't solve the problem, we have to find the signature first, and we can leave after we find the signature."

Li Yaqing cried and nodded, struggled to get up, and followed the same heavy hearted people down to the underground experimental area.

This time, everyone searched every experimental area from the inside to the outside, inch by inch, not missing a single brick.

Several old members concentrated in the D experimental area. Yesterday, half of the inspection was due to the time being running out, so the inspection was not finished, and we will continue today.

"It's still the same problem," Qin Ci said while searching, "What is the central meaning that this painting wants to express? Finding out the meaning is not far from finding the signature."

"If all the experiments are based on the various questions raised by taking people as the main body," Zhu Haowen said, "the meaning of this painting should be closely related to people. Remember the words written on the screen wall in the entrance hall, 'Reveal the essence of consciousness, Discover the power of life, guide the alienation back to nature, and help the lost to restore their nature'."

"Consciousness, physiology, psychology, concepts." Mu Yiran summed it up, "includes all the products that individuals like 'people' can produce, subjective, objective, substantive, and non-substantial."

"Then tell me, will the signature be on a 'human' this time?" Wei Dong said, "Just like in the painting "Animal World", the signature is a dog, maybe this time it's a human."

"We are the only people in the painting in the whole research institute," Zhu Haowen said, "There are no other people, and I don't think there will be people in the painting coming in from the outside halfway."

"I suggest that we take a closer look at these research materials," Qin Ci said, "maybe we can find the real purpose of these experiments."

Ke Xun looked at the stack of photos in his hand, which he saw in Laboratory D last night, and then handed it to Qin Ci: "I don't know if this counts as research materials?"

Qin Ci took it over and took a look, his face froze, coughed, and handed the photo back to Ke Xun: "This may be...well, an office pastime."

"It's like the little yellow books in the past and bad websites on your mobile phone at work?" Ke Xun put the photos back in the drawer, "But the researchers in this institute are also very bold, even taking photos to work directly, Xiao Huang Are books not enough for them?"

"What are you talking about?" Wei Dong was confused, and walked over to look through the drawer, "What Xiao Huang——Damn it!"

Holding the photo, he looked at Ke Xun in surprise: "There is such a thing?! It's too bold! Damn... I'll check the photo to see if there is anything suspicious."

Ke Xun: "Hehe."

Wei Dong flipped through a few photos, and said in a weird tone: "Wait, why are there only naked men and men having sex in these photos? Could it be that the researchers in this laboratory are all women? Or are they all rotten women? "

"It may also be gay." Ke Xun said.

Wei Dong glanced at him: "You seem to have accidentally exposed your inhumane hobby of collecting."

"Stop talking nonsense, when is the time, put it back if you don't read it." Ke Xun said, turned around and walked to Mu Yiran's side, seeing that he was holding a stack of documents to read carefully, he held up his mobile phone to illuminate him.

"On April 213th, after discussion and decision by the whole group, it was unanimously approved to perform a frontal lobotomy operation for test product No. [-] seven days later." Ke Xun read the words on the document, raised his head and asked Qin Ci, "Doctor Qin, What is the frontal lobe?"

Qin Ci looked a little serious: "The human brain is divided into four lobes in each hemisphere, and the frontal lobe is the largest one. After removal, people will lose many bodily functions, including a large part of their personality. It is an extremely inhuman operation. .”

Wei Dong snapped: "What kind of devil surgery is this?! Why is this surgery done?"

Qin Cidao: "In the mid-nineteenth century, some Western medical scholars believed that this kind of operation could help schizophrenic patients get rid of emotional distress, so that they could become quiet and obey orders. It is said that those patients with violent or suicidal tendencies, in Indeed, he became quiet after the operation. The inventor of this operation, Moniz, also won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Since then, at a certain stage, frontal lobotomy has become an important means of treating human mental diseases, even It was all the rage."

"Does this... really work?" Wei Dong asked.

Qin Ci smiled mockingly: "Let me tell you about the operation process, and you will know whether it will work or not.

"The process is very simple. First, the doctor uses local anesthesia to keep the patient awake to a certain extent, because the doctor will inform the patient of the next operation steps-even, if the patient does not respond, the doctor will use an electric shock to wake the patient up.

"Next, the doctor will drive a sharp steel cone about 18 centimeters long into the bone under the eyelid and facing the eye socket, tap the bottom of the steel cone with a small hammer, and the steel cone will penetrate the bone and the bridge of the nose. bone, into the brain.

"Once the cone is about 5 centimeters into the frontal lobe of the brain, doctors rotate the cone to sever the white matter that connects the prefrontal cortex to the rest of the brain.

"In the words of one doctor, it's basically putting an awl in the head and messing it up. The whole process takes less than 10 minutes, and within 10 minutes, the patient is probably not the same person."

"Damn... Fuck... Nima..." Wei Dong stunned and cursed, "Is this fucking brains mixed into porridge? Is it a doctor or a devil who did this?!"

"The mortality rate of this kind of surgery is as high as 14%, but at that time there were still some doctors who were almost morbidly obsessed with using it." Qin Ci said.

"Infatuation... There are still people obsessed with this perverted surgery?" Wei Dong rubbed his forehead.

"The prefrontal cortex is a key tissue for people to make decisions, shape and maintain their personality," Qin Ci said, "so some medical experts at that time believed that this kind of surgery was performed on the soul, and they believed that through this kind of surgery , can reshape a person who is more acceptable to society and the public.”

"It seems that this is the key point," Ke Xun said, "If the ABC laboratory is studying people, then the purpose of the D laboratory is to transform people."