Escape the Library

【Gene mutation-04】

In broad daylight, no pedestrians could be seen on the sidewalk, many shops on the side of the road were locked, and the whole city was deserted, so quiet that no human voice could be heard.

The trash can next to the street has not been cleaned for a long time. A gust of wind blows, and paper scraps and plastics fly in the sky.

Yue Xingwen looked at his teammates and said solemnly, "I can't even see a pedestrian on the street. Could it be that mutants have already occupied this city?"

Everyone looked out the window.

The empty city made everyone feel a strong sense of unease. Although the city will not collapse directly like the School of Architecture, the desolate and modern city can't help but think of the word "doomsday".

Zhuo Feng and Lin Manluo, who were sitting in the back row, looked at each other, and Lin Manluo whispered, "Did the residents of this city flee collectively, or did they hide at home and dare not come out?"

Zhuo Feng lowered his voice: "Ask Professor Tang, what he might know."

Yue Xingwen looked back at Professor Tang.

The man wearing golden glasses sat upright in the second row in the second half, next to Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce, with a calm expression. Liu Zhaoqing sat with him, and let him sit on the inner side, lest he suddenly escape.

Yue Xingwen asked: "Professor Tang, all the shops on the street are closed, what happened in this city?"

Professor Tang shook his head with a wry smile: "I don't know, I've been in the research institute for the past few days. Last week, the city was normal, and the accident happened suddenly. I received news from my superiors that the data was leaked and someone was researching. After transforming people, I immediately processed the data in the computer, hid, and then met you."

In other words, the accident happened in just a few days. The other party should have done research in secret for a long time and made full preparations, and then suddenly launched an attack on the city. Being able to occupy a city in just a few days shows how huge and terrifying this organization is!

Thinking of those "mutated people" with tongues over 30 cm that he met in the scientific research institute, Yue Xingwen only felt hair on his back.

The city was empty, and there was a lot of blood on the streets. Obviously, there had been fierce fighting here. After the war, where did the residents go? no one knows.

Yue Xingwen took a deep breath to calm down, looked at Professor Tang and said, "The chip you just gave me is fake, right?"

Professor Tang adjusted his glasses and said, "Sorry, I saw you flying off the roof. I thought you were mutants who came to catch me, so I gave you a fake chip."

No wonder Professor Tang's expression was so calm when they flew down from the roof. It turned out that Professor Tang had always regarded them as mutants and had been prepared.

This professor is indeed shrewd. Yue Xingwen didn't mean to blame him, and continued to ask: "Have you received a notice from your superiors that someone will **** you to the gene center in F City?"

Professor Tang nodded: "I have received a notice, let me wait for rescue."

Liu Zhaoqing turned his head to look at him and said, "Professor Tang, we are indeed here to protect you. We were able to fly off the roof because we have special abilities, and we are not mutants." He opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue to the other person. After looking at it, he smiled and said, "Look, my tongue is still a normal human, not as slender as a mutant, and there is no venom, right?"

Professor Tang said calmly: "Not all mutants are fused with snake genes."

Liu Zhaoqing stretched out his hands and feet: "Then you see, our actions don't look like other animals?"

Brother Liu is trying to prove that he is a "normal human being".

Professor Tang ignored him, looked at Yue Xingwen, and asked, "What's your action code?"

"Action code?" Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other.

The course prompt doesn't say they still have action codes?

Yue Xingwen thought about it carefully, and said tentatively, "C-183 Action Team?"

Professor Tang nodded: "Well, it seems that you are not mutants."

Actually using the research group number as the action code, the library really has you!

Professor Tang said: "I can trust you for the time being, and I won't resist or run away. However, I won't give you the real data chip unless you take me to the genetic center to meet the recipient."

Liu Zhaoqing raised his eyebrows: "Aren't you afraid that we will tie you up and search you?"

Professor Tang was silent.

Yue Xingwen smiled and said, "I guess this data chip involves the top secrets of the Institute of Biological Sciences. Professor Tang must have set up a password protection and self-destruction program. Even if we get the chip, you won't tell us. The password, if we forcibly decipher it, will only lead to the destruction of the chip data, right?"

This sentence is exactly what Yue Xingwen made up to the mutants just now. Professor Tang glanced at him at the time, and Yue Xingwen guessed that he was probably right.

Sure enough, Professor Tang looked at Yue Xingwen with admiration and said, "You guessed it right, only I know the password of the data chip, and the data contains the weaknesses of mutants, so they are eager to kill them. I got this information."

"Why not, let me guess, where is the real chip?" Yue Xingwen said seriously: "The first possibility is that you didn't take the chip with you, but kept it secretly in a place that only you know. But this approach is not very safe. If the mutants turn the research institute upside down after you leave and find the chip you hid, it will be troublesome."

"The second possibility, as long as you are caught by mutants, the other party will definitely forcibly search your body and take away your data chip, unless." He looked into Professor Tang's eyes and said word by word, "The chip was hidden in your body by you. in."

"..." Professor Tang's calm expression changed slightly.

"For example, you seal the data chip with a material that cannot be digested by the gastrointestinal tract, and then eat it. That way, no matter where you go, you can be sure that the chip is with you. , won't be robbed." Yue Xingwen looked at him with a smile, "Did you guess right this time?"

Professor Tang was silent for a moment, then whispered, "What do you want?"

Yue Xingwen shrugged: "Don't worry, we won't dissect you and take the chip from your body. Our mission is to **** you and the chip to the gene center in F City."

Yue Xingwen emphasized: "We have no malice towards you, and I hope you don't deliberately cause trouble for us."

Liu Zhaoqing's sharp eyes swept across Professor Tang's body, as if he wanted to scan where the chip was hidden. Professor Tang was horrified by him, and said bitingly, "Okay, I believe you."

Liu Zhaoqing smiled and said, "Eat the chips, you can figure it out. Don't you feel bad in your stomach?"

Professor Tang exhaled softly and said, "The situation is urgent, and I have no choice."

Seeing that his attitude was slightly relaxed, Yue Xingwen asked, "What happened in the research institute?"

Professor Tang frowned and said: "Our research institute has obtained the entire sequence of the human genome, and we originally wanted to overcome some problems in genetic diseases. This plan is absolutely confidential. However, no one expected that there would be a traitor in the institute. Secretly took out the gene sequence, conducted secret experiments, and created a lot of mutants."

He paused, and a trace of anger appeared in his eyes: "mutants, also known as genetically modified people."

Hearing this, Xu Yishen, who was driving, couldn't help but interject: "Like many improved varieties of fruits and vegetables? They modified the gene sequence and modified humans?"

Professor Tang nodded and said, "The direction of the transformation includes the flexibility of the limbs, the strength of the muscles, the metabolic rate, etc. The genetically modified person is as powerful as a cow, as flexible as a snake, and can be like some animals when they hibernate. In the same way, if you consume very low calories every day, you will not feel hungry without eating for a month."

Yue Xingwen was shocked and couldn't help but said, "Aren't the special forces formed by such transformed people invincible?"

Professor Tang looked sad: "So, these modified people will become the most terrifying biochemical weapons! They began to mass-produce modified people like an assembly line, and even madly integrated the excellent genes of various animals. What you see today, They are all mutants mixed with snake genes."

Ke Shaobin asked curiously, "Are there any other animals mixed? Like lions, tigers, cheetahs, etc.?"

Professor Tang said: "I don't know the specific situation. Those lunatics can do anything! I only knew all this when I received an urgent notice from my superiors. These days, they have sent batches of mutants here. The research institute came to me, and other colleagues in the research institute were taken away by them, I hid on the rooftop and survived by luck."

Yue Xingwen clenched his fist lightly. It is conceivable that the emergence of "transformed people" will have a very serious impact on normal human society. Those "transformed people" are much stronger than normal humans in terms of speed, strength, and physical fitness. They also conserve resources by not eating anything for up to a month...  

In their eyes, humans are trash.

So, they want to clean up human beings and be the masters of the world themselves?

Yue Xingwen took a deep breath and asked, "Professor Tang, how far is it to get to F city from here?"

Professor Tang said: "The flight takes two and a half hours."

Yue Xingwen helped his forehead helplessly: "No one of us can fly a plane. Moreover, the whole city is empty now, and the airport and train station must also stop operating. We can only travel by land. How long will it take to drive there?"

Professor Tang said: "If you are driving, you need to take the high-speed all the way, and it will take at least three days without stopping around the clock. If the highway is interrupted, it may take more than a week to detour."

Yue Xingwen turned around and asked his friends, "Apart from Senior Brother Xu, who else can drive?"

Jiang Pingce said: "I have a driver's license, but I have never driven a bus."

Zhuo Feng said: "I also got my driver's license. I'll drive if you dare to sit just after the internship period."

Xu Yishen said: "I have never driven a bus before. The principle is similar to that of a manual transmission car. You can see the gear clearly, and it does not involve test items such as reversing into the garage and S bend. It is not difficult to drive forward."

Jiang Pingce nodded: "Then I'll switch with Senior Brother Xu and Senior Brother Zhuo."

Zhuo Feng said: "Yishen, you drive first, and after you get on the expressway, you can drive for a while. I will sit next to you and study."

If the driver does not stop around the clock, one driver will definitely not be able to hold on to it. It will be much better to have three people change the car.

Yue Xingwen thought for a moment and said, "In this way, let's find a supermarket first and put some supplies in the car. We are not mutants, we have not been transformed, and it is impossible not to eat or drink for a few days."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

According to the exam rules of the library, it is impossible for them to go all the way smoothly. There will definitely be many things that prevent them from reaching the F city. They must store enough food and drinking water to have the strength to run to the finish line.

Ke Shaobin said: "Save more milk, biscuits and other things that are convenient to carry." Although he is a foodie, but now he is running for his life, and he can't carry a pile of heavy and nutritious food.

Qin Miao said calmly: "Let's make a list first. It's best to carry a book package and eat it. Don't blame me crow's mouth. If we have to abandon the car on the way, it will be very troublesome if we can't take the supplies."

Lan Yarong smiled and said: "The mutants will definitely not let us drive to F city smoothly. All kinds of emergencies must be prepared in advance. I suggest each person have a backpack, full of food, and buy a few boxes. Put the mineral water in the car."

Xu Yishen reminded: "There is still gasoline. It's definitely not enough for a long journey. You have to go to the gas station to store a few more barrels of gasoline."

Yue Xingwen nodded and glanced out the window quickly: "Everyone, find a supermarket or a convenience store, we have to hurry up and make all preparations before being caught up by mutants."