abyss rose

Chapter 47

A0027 Sample is out of control.

The existence that has never been infected by anything, and cannot be infected by anything, suddenly showed signs of mutation.

Before the sample got out of control, the experimenters just changed a brand new method, No. 17 tried to integrate the giant beast gene that can devour the energy of the black vine with it.

During the experiment, the sample was very painful.

But such pain is experienced in every experiment.

This is a strong sample, no matter how many failed experiments, it has not changed in the slightest.

Base scholars agree that this is a good thing, but a bad thing.

The A0027 sample has a kind of absolute stability that cannot be broken. This kind of stability is the desire of human beings that has never been changed. But because it is too stable, it is difficult for human beings to observe any meaningful data on her through experiments. It was impossible to obtain the truth of this stable existence from her.

In this case, as long as she can change, even if it is malignant, even if the sample really dies because of it, it will make those researchers who have studied her for more than 50 years with a glimmer of hope, but still have no results at all. excited.

After all, a ray of light that can be seen but not touched in the boundless darkness is not called hope, but despair.

They would rather this sample had never appeared, as long as she never appeared, they would not have to spend their entire lives on this sample, making efforts that they knew were useless but had to do day after day.

"For more than 50 years, the first batch of researchers have all aged and died. She is still the same as before, and has not changed at all." Yi Shuyun laughed at himself, "Dr. Ge and Guang from your dungeon base, at the beginning I thought we had achieved some incredible results, and we were hiding it and didn't want to tell him... In fact, everyone in the base who knew of her existence was about to be driven crazy by her."

"This sample has the appearance of a human being. A long time ago, it was indeed a human being, an ordinary girl. But now she is a sample, and everyone must forget who she used to be and regard her as a sample." Yi Shuyun Her eyes were red, and there were complicated tears flowing in her eyes, "We tortured her and hurt her in every experiment, and she never cried out for pain, at least since I started taking over this research, she has never cried out for pain. .Don’t shout yes, pretend she won’t hurt, and our conscience won’t hurt so much.”

These words of Yi Shuyun did not surprise Chai Yuening.

In fact, in every sleepless night in the past, she imagined Chu Ci's possible suffering thousands of times.

But what she didn't expect was that she had guessed everything early in the morning, and when she really heard these things from other people's mouths, her heart would still hurt like a needle.

Yi Shuyun looked at Chai Yuening, and asked with a smile: "Do you know how excited we were when the big screen in the laboratory showed that her anomaly index began to leave the human range?"

"Her body has mutated. This sample is no longer the indestructible appearance of the past. Her human will is gradually disappearing. We can extract the information we can from her finally changed body. After more than 50 years of secret research, it can finally usher in a different tomorrow." Her tone became more and more excited, "Even if the experiment fails, even if human beings have nothing on her for more than 50 years, even if Losing her is tantamount to losing our last hope, and we did our best..."

At this point, Yi Shuyun bit his lower lip hard, and at the end, he lowered his eyebrows and smiled bitterly: "No matter what the result is, at least we... don't have to swallow the secret that almost drove us crazy. People can't find reason to believe in hope, and live until the day when they see the extinction of mankind with their own eyes."

The seemingly eternally calm doctor sat at the table blankly, as if he had lost hope in the future of mankind.

But she is a person who cannot lose hope.

"Now such a change has appeared, but our excitement didn't last long, because after the abnormalities in the various indexes of A0027, all the black vines in the base experienced abnormalities that we cannot understand." Yi Shuyun continued. Going on, "We have never seen such a situation, they all 'live' as if they were summoned by something."

With a trembling voice, Chai Yuening suppressed the surging grief in her heart, and said in a deep voice: "The old man in the E3 area who mutated into Hei Teng, said something was calling her before losing her human will."

"She is the researcher who participated in the fusion surgery between A0027 and Hei Teng." Yi Shuyun's tone regained his composure, "More than 20 years ago, the older generation of researchers couldn't find any breakthrough in A0027, so they decided to Go to the ruins of the secret laboratory in the distance. They want to find some old world experimental materials that survived that year and could not be brought back to the base, and by the way, go to the depths of the fog area to get some new samples that the base does not have."

"It's just that only one person came back from that team, and the military pilot who sent her back with serious injuries also died because of failed rescue. After that, she went crazy. No matter how much she asked, she didn't say a word. Talk." Yi Shuyun said, "Later, the base sent people to the secret laboratories in the old world several times to find out the truth, but they didn't have any clue... No one knows what happened back then."

"There's no human words, there are always lies, right? I can't find out the reason?" Chai Yuening asked.

Yi Shuyun was silent for a moment, then lowered his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Yes, she said that she saw God and the sins of human beings, and said that destruction is the destination of sinners."

Chai Yuening: "..."

Yi Shuyun: "Can we believe this?"

The base cannot be trusted, and all the researchers working hard for the future of mankind cannot be trusted.

They say that person is talking nonsense, and that person can only be talking nonsense.

Later, the base stopped interrogating the researcher and also stopped searching for the truth of the year.

"Do you believe that there are gods in this world?" Yi Shuyun asked softly.

Chai Yuening didn't answer, she didn't know how to respond.

Yi Shuyun: "Have you heard of the Great Filter Theory?"

Chai Yuening: "What is that?"

Yi Shuyun: "Scholars in the old world believe that there are nine stages to go from a barren land without life to the development of an interstellar civilization. Among these nine stages, there is bound to be one that is extremely difficult, extremely difficult in the universe. Most civilizations fail to pass through stages before they are completely destroyed. In the continuous evolution of a civilization, anything that prevents the passage of stages is called a 'big filter'."

"Instead of believing that there are gods in this world, I prefer to believe that when a civilization reaches a certain level of technology, it will inevitably enter the big filter, be destroyed by the big filter, and then be reborn hundreds of millions of years later. "Yi Shuyun said, "How many of us have sworn that we will die in the research institute in this life, but even if we have exhausted all our life's knowledge, we still can't see the real reason for the mutation, and we can't stop the mutation from happening. happening, and it is even more impossible for human beings to retain even a shred of their own will in the mutation..."

"Sometimes I think that the scientific system of mankind is a complete joke in this inexplicable era. If we are destined to fail to cross the last hurdle, and are destined to be destroyed in the big filter, then we are now What are you dying for?"

Chai Yuening thought, this doctor might really be going crazy, otherwise he wouldn't have said these words to a foreign mercenary.

"Sorry, I shouldn't have told you this."

Yi Shuyun shook his head, sat at the desk and groaned for a while, then looked up at Chai Yuening again.

She said in a deep voice: "We don't want to lose her. She is still the only hope for mankind. Her self-will is constantly dissipating. We put her into sleep to slow down the dissipation of her will. You are the person she cares about the most. If anyone can keep her, it must be you. I will take you to see her, and before that, I need to explain the situation to the base."

There is no longer any confusion in the words.

It seemed that all the despair just now did not come from her mouth.

Human beings have not reached the moment when they are at the end of their ropes.

As the person closest to the truth, she has no right to despair.

In order to get Chai Yuening the qualification to enter the top-secret laboratory, Yi Shuyun had a dark face and loudly argued with the director of the base.

The base does not think that an ordinary person can bring any help to this secret research.

They feel that now that the base is facing an emergency, the most important thing is to find a way to stabilize the status quo and try to appease the base people as much as possible.

Under such circumstances, letting an outsider who doesn't know whether he can be trusted to peek into the top secrets of the base is undoubtedly taking a huge risk.

If the news leaks and people know that the base has hidden this sample for more than 50 years, and even caused the abnormal growth of black vines this time, the consequences will be unimaginable.

"Yi Shuyun, are you confused by these black vines?"

"Just because the sample had close contact with this person for a month, you dare to let her into the laboratory to help stabilize the sample's mood?"

"You have done so many experiments, don't you know that once the mutation starts, it can never be undone?"

"What are you doing? You are a scientist, are you praying for a miracle to happen now!"

Facing the continuous questioning from the communicator, Yi Shuyun only responded lightly: "Yes, I am praying for a miracle."

"Dr. Yi, the base hopes that you can calm down. If you can't maintain your sanity, you can take a short rest."

"I'm calm now." Yi Shuyun said, "I've told her everything, and I'm going to take her to see A0027 now. If the base thinks that such an approach is against the rules, I'm willing to accept any punishment."

After the words fell, Yi Shuyun threw the communicator behind him.

She stood up and took a deep look at Chai Yuening: "Come with me."

……

Human bases always hide many things from humans.

In this world where hope is less than the ray of light in the abyss, human fear is considered by the guardians to be the most negative emotion.

In order not to let this kind of emotion spread, and for the human race not to be overwhelmed by despair, the endless lies day after day were forced to become the most beautiful voice.

Not long ago, due to an experiment failure and an abnormality in an absolutely confidential sample, the self-supporting black vines used for experiments or extraction of floating energy in the inner and outer bases had grown uncontrollably.

Although these black vines will not hurt people, if they are really allowed to grow abnormally like this, the floating city will be like the city ruins on the ground, and all the space that should belong to humans will be completely crowded by vine branches and thick fog.

Even if the buoyancy cores can be held everywhere, the power system of the base will be semi-paralyzed under the influence of the black vine energy, and it can only selectively supply the most needed places.

Without enough power, the next thing that will collapse together is the communication inside and outside the base, ventilation, air pressure, temperature, etc. These various control systems that directly affect whether human beings can continue to float and survive.

Even if the floating city can descend to a height where there is no harm to the human body without these control systems, all the agricultural and animal husbandry ecological parks inside the base will still be shut down due to temperature out of control caused by insufficient power.

But even so, the base cannot choose to land.

The reason why the floating city is safe is because it is high above the sea of ​​clouds, away from the dangerous ground.

In fact, the defense system of this high-tech human base is far inferior to the dungeon whose core design was "a shelter for war" from the very beginning.

If the floating city landed on the ground, all the humans on the base would be completely torn apart by the herd of beasts in despair.

This is undoubtedly a major accident worthy of attention. The base research institute sounded the alarm for the whole city almost immediately, but the truth behind the alarm was completely intercepted by the main city.

However, the black vines that grew wildly in the research institute failed to be cleaned up successfully, and the black vines that were said to be mutated by humans in the E3 area of ​​the main city were also unsuccessfully cleaned up, not to mention the outer cities that were not as powerful as the main city.

"Emergency communication! This is the energy extraction office in the eighth district. The black vines are growing too fast, and we can't clean them up."

"Emergency communication! The black vines in the three-area research branch have broken through the window and can't hide!"

"Urgent communication! The city defense army is currently in the city defense station of the second district of the outer city. The black vine has caused some damage to the extraction equipment in the third district's energy extraction department. It has grown out of the controllable range and it is difficult to clean up."

"Emergency communication! The eleventh district of the outer city..."

Counting from the moment the siren sounded, it was less than two hours since the experiment accident happened, and the base was already in chaos.

If you can't control the growth of the black vine, how long can you hide it?

Seeing that the base couldn't hide it, in order to avoid the truth of the laboratory accident, it simply used the matter of the mutated old man in the E3 area to announce that the appearance of the mutated man had a strange effect on all the black vines in the base.

At the end, I would like to add another sentence: "Currently, the crazy growth of black vines is still within the controllable range. The military is doing its best to clean it up. Please stay calm and don't panic."

The elevator of the research institute has been covered by black vines. In the blinding fog, the military personnel are trying their best to clean up the crazy black vines, while the researchers are working hard to protect and try to transfer various important samples to a safe place.

People of different identities, with similar anxiety, run in the aisles covered with black vines.

Chai Yuening followed behind Yi Shuyun, heard those hopeless communications, rubbed shoulders with many hurrying people, crossed the vines that had just been cut off, and then grew again, towards the room on the third basement floor. Top secret lab on foot.

The moment the laboratory door was pushed open, she saw extremely complicated experimental equipment.

The data display screen, which is as big as a wall, is full of incomprehensible data.

There was no one else in the lab, the room was dimly lit, and the display screen was lit with a green light.

One data line after another of different thicknesses is connected to the glass water tank filled with dark blue suppressing potion.

In the water tank, a thin body curled up like a baby.

Black vines sprouted from the limbs of the human beings, some of which engulfed them messily, and some of them either floated on the water surface or sank to the bottom of the water.

The person inside had his eyes closed, as quiet as if he had fallen asleep.

Chai Yuening couldn't help holding her breath.

She walked forward and reached out to touch the cold glass.

"You...you don't talk to me well if you have something to say, you drive me away, why leave me a poem..."

"Did you know I'd be back?"

"Do you... hope that I can come back..."

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It's late, I also want to go faster, but the brain speed is a bit behind, starting tomorrow, try to work hard for six days.