The protagonist chased the villain, and Tiandao screamed in anger

There are hardly many people staying on the exclusive floor. In order to facilitate observation, Du Yansheng specially installed observation glass in the corridor so that he can check the status of 049 at any time.

"049 looks a little weak. The top scanning device detected that 049 has not moved for a long time and issued an alarm."

The reason for 049's weakness is unclear. The experimental subject has retracted himself into a tree hole and has not moved from last night to noon today. This is completely different from 049's usual movements.

Problems with the important experimental subject made Du Yansheng's already bad mood even worse.

"Perhaps it's just hungry. We might as well give it some blood. After all, a mutant developed from substances extracted from the zombie virus should not be able to escape the temptation of blood."

You Mu knocked on the glass with his knuckles. The slight vibration woke up the dormant 049. After sensing the increasingly strong fragrance, it followed the scent and crawled along the branches without even having time to open its eyes.

"It's out! 049, are you okay? 049..." Seeing 049, who had been motionless for a long time, appear, the breath that was blocked in his chest finally flowed out. Du Yansheng leaned close to the glass, trying to get the other party's reaction through words.

Thinking of You Mu's suggestion, he quickly turned around and asked Xiao Lin to prepare the most easily available chicken blood.

049 on the branch was extremely annoyed by the calling. He subconsciously bent his waist and made an attacking posture, but was interrupted by the knocking sound.

"Be honest, I'm going to prepare food for you. Are you happy?"

You Mu knocked on the glass to interrupt 049's impulse to attack, and he leaned against the glass and joked. He laughed softly as he saw the caterpillar raising its upper body but being interrupted from gathering strength, and falling down unexpectedly due to gravity.

"By the way, Dr. You is here, what's the matter?"

Not noticing 049's increasingly obvious tendency to attack, Du Yansheng turned his head, and through the glass and the lenses in front of him, he once again felt that 049's misty compound eyes were staring at You Mu without stopping.

Seeing You Mu looking at the experimental subject, Du Yansheng felt a strange feeling for no reason.

This is the feeling when they look at each other, but it is obvious that they cannot see the focus of their vision from their more than 049 compound eyes.

Although Dr. You from Crested Ibis knew more about 049's mother and 049 than he did, Du Yansheng knew that the word "know" that popped up inexplicably in his mind was obviously inconsistent with the previous meaning.

Out of some complex perception, coupled with the rejection of unfamiliar people in his own territory, he interrupted the scene.

"I need to ask Dr. Du to open the monitoring authorization. In addition, the base commander said that my treatment is comparable to that of Dr. Du. I would like to verify whether it is true." You Mu stopped and straightened the white coat on his shoulders.

After robbing someone else's quota and resources, he still had to come to compare. It had been a long time since he had said such shameless words, and You Mu was still a little uncomfortable.

Du Yansheng was silent for a few seconds, obviously shocked by You Mu's shamelessness. He organized his words and finally uttered only the word "please".

Researchers like them all have some sense of territory. Their own territory, especially the area inside the laboratory, is generally not open to anyone except those around them.

Especially competitors from different camps!

If you just want to enable permissions, just ask the other party to wait in the lounge. It only takes less than half a minute to operate the computer.

But after the other party said that, it was really difficult for him to refuse.

If he didn't show it to the other party, he would seem stingy, and it would also seem like he was colluding with the base commander to deceive and mistreat the new talents.

The other party also brought people arranged by General Qi, so they had to show him the laboratory and office.

After fingerprint recognition, Du Yansheng opened the door and invited You Mu to come in and sit down.

By chance, the clerk who was delivering the documents came over, holding a stack of old files saved from the database.

"Doctor, are these things still in their old places?"

"Yes, thank you for your hard work. Just put it on the left."

Pushing the door open and walking in, Du Yansheng pointed to the seat beside the table, and then motioned You Mu to look at it casually. Then he sat at the desk, turned on the dormant computer, and gave the other party permission.

The space of the third- and fifth-floor laboratories is identical, and aside from some differences in personal preferences, the configurations are almost identical.

You Mu sat in front of the sofa for rest, turned his head and looked around, and saw the clerk skillfully arranging and organizing the documents on Du Yansheng's desk and in the cabinet on the side, and was so detailed as to sort them according to the time on the waistband of the folder.

The work is indeed very delicate.

"Your movements are very skillful. How long have you been here?" It was a casual conversation, as if it was just a spontaneous impulse on You Mu's part.

"Dr. You, I've been working in the institute for five years, and have been responsible for the delivery of documents." The clerk spoke naturally without stopping the work at hand.

"I really appreciate your neat organization skills. Come work on the fifth floor. I just came to the institute not long ago, and the laboratory really needs an assistant like you."

"I think Dr. Du would be happy to help me improve the experimental team."

The clerk was a little confused when he was suddenly asked to change his job. He was stunned for a long time without saying a word. He turned his head inconspicuously to look at Du Yansheng behind the computer desk.

"...I have no objection. Of course, Dr. You should always strive for Xiao Liu's own wishes." Du Yansheng had also seen what You Mu was doing.

Thinking about the topics he discussed with his boyfriend last night, he suppressed his unhappiness and tried his best to please him.

His eyes fell on Xiao Liu's slightly nervous expression. You Mu leaned sideways with his chin propped up, cutting off the other party's only reason to struggle:

"How about it? On the fifth floor, I can offer you better treatment than you have now. We are all members of the institute. No matter where we work, we are all for the people of the base. Am I right?"

"Besides, Dr. Du has perfect equipment and manpower here, and the experiments are proceeding in an orderly manner. There is no reason...for you to stay, right?"

Du Yansheng found this a bit strange, but as he was distracted by looking at the computer, he thought that perhaps You Mu was deliberately using harsh words to express his stance and was constantly trying to pull people into his camp. He paused for a moment, exhaled, and continued working.

Xiao Liu's eyes dodged for a moment, and he felt that the words seemed to be directed at him, so he quickly kept a good expression.

Without any more excuses to refuse, Xiao Liu turned to look at Du Yansheng. Seeing that the other party had no intention of keeping him, he finally had to pull up the corner of his mouth and agreed: "...Of course, it is my honor to follow the doctor."

"Dr. You, the permissions have been opened. If there is nothing else..." Du Yansheng urged after closing the computer.

"Thank you, Yu Yue, please help Xiao Liu organize the personal belongings at his workstation and move them over in the afternoon." Standing up from the sofa, You Mu's eyes met with Yu Yue beside him.

When their eyes met, Yu Yue was startled at first, but then he reacted immediately, raised his hand and pressed Xiao Liu's shoulder, and said politely: "Don't worry, the doctor is very easy-going. You will adapt. I will help you."

"...Okay." The palm on the shoulder patted lightly, Xiao Liu smiled, lowered his head and said nothing more.

Outside the laboratory, assistant Kobayashi, who brought the chicken blood, squatted outside the glass, muttering to himself.

"Why don't you drink some? Don't you like it? I also think it smells like chicken, but the blood of other animals is not easy to prepare... and what about human... This won't do. It can't be done." Kobayashi shook his head. He was very troubled by 049's eating problem.

"Still not eating?" Du Yansheng asked as he walked out of the room.

After nodding to the other party, You Mu took Yu Yue and Xiao Liu away. When passing the observation room, he casually raised his fingertips and brushed across the top of 049's head through the glass that was more than ten centimeters thick, and jokingly warned:

"If you don't eat, you will become uglier and uglier."

"Dr. You, it probably doesn't understand this." Kobayashi found it funny and subconsciously started a conversation.

Furthermore, they are already mutated monsters, and they probably won’t care about human’s sense of beauty and aesthetics.

After saying this, Xiao Lin suddenly remembered that they were from different factions, and it seemed... they shouldn't be able to get along so harmoniously.

When I looked up, I happened to see Dr. You turned his head and smiled in my direction. The faint curve at the corner of his lips made his pale face look like the cold winter colliding with the blooming flowers of summer.

Something seemed to short-circuit in his brain, causing a patch of grayish white spots. Xiaolin was finally awakened from his trance after being hit on the back of his head.

"The person has left, Xiaolin. Although the institute does not prohibit office romances, I think..." Du Yansheng held the folder and looked down at his assistant.

He admitted that You Mu was indeed very good-looking, but they belonged to different camps.

Although he couldn't bear to disappoint Xiaolin, Du Yansheng felt that even if Xiaolin was in love with him, it could only be unrequited love.

"Doctor, what are you talking about! I still have work to do, so I'll go to the first floor first!" Kobayashi stood up suddenly, rubbed his head, looked around incoherently, and ran away in a hurry.

After watching the guilty assistant walk away, Du Yansheng turned his head, his gaze fell on the place where You Mu had just looked, and narrowed his eyes.

On the branches, white insects were lying quietly. The container that was just full of chicken blood was empty in the blink of an eye. Almost... He didn't even notice when it was sucked clean.

049 turned his head and slowly moved to the left side of the corridor.

That was the direction You Mu had just left.

...Is it a coincidence?

Without clear evidence, Du Yansheng had no idea, but he felt that You Mu might be a little different from ordinary people to 049.

Of course, this difference does not rule out the involvement of the Crested Ibis organization.