star hunter

"About three years ago, a person died suddenly in the prison at the west entrance of the city. The prison management office reported it to the Comprehensive Management Bureau, and the Comprehensive Management Bureau sent this matter to the picket team. Finally, the person in charge of the specific investigation was Me." The underground space where the lines were damaged was still dark, the flashlight in Su Xian's hand shone through, and the outline of Jiang Qiyan who was sitting leaning against the wall was somewhat blurred in the dim light, and the blood stains on his forehead and near his nasal cavity were pale again. His face added a bit of gloom.

"At first, I didn't take this matter to heart... As we all know, the people who will be locked up in that prison are all scum who commit crimes but have not yet entered the disease stage. Would you care about their life or death?" Jiang Qiyan's voice was somewhat mocking, "At that time, I was going to follow the procedure and report a random death due to a fight, after all, fighting is commonplace in prison."

"Look, I took another look at the profile of the dead prisoner, and unexpectedly found that although the corpse in front of me was five points similar to the photo on the profile, there was one thing that didn't match—— The person in the photo had a scar at the corner of his eye, but I checked it, but it wasn’t on the body. Then I checked, and the body wasn’t from the prison at all, but the person in the original file and then I was thinking, Either the prison admitted the wrong person, or they were secretly transferred... But no matter what the possibility is, it shows that the guys who manage the prison are a bunch of idiots." Jiang Qiyan sneered, "I talked to the people over there Afterwards, the possibility of carelessly admitting to the wrong person was basically ruled out, and only some people were so bold that they blatantly resorted to the civet cat's trick of replacing the prince."

"Maybe I was too free at that time. After I found something was wrong, I followed the clues at hand. It's also because the people who did the work were not strict enough and left too many clues. I will check all the way. Guess what? Who was found in the end?"

When Jiang Qiyan asked back, he smiled and stared at Su Xian in front of him. His complexion was not very good-looking, which seemed to please Jiang Qiyan. He raised half of his brows, and continued: "One of the most important doubts is—that The inmates in the prison had a physical examination not long ago, does it sound familiar? Yes, it was Doctor Xu Ming from Jishi Hospital who conducted the physical examination for them."

When he heard the word "Xu Ming", his tone turned sharply, showing a cold taste, but at this moment he was firmly restrained, and he could not move anywhere except his mouth.

Su Xian's expression became more complicated, and he finally pursed his lips: "I heard that the son of Deputy Director Ren... used to be a heart patient."

"You're right. It's a very serious one. It is said that before the age of 20, they were spent on the sickbed." Jiang Qiyan nodded seriously, "The Ren couple sought medical advice for the illness of their only son. It never stopped, and finally they met a doctor and learned from him that there was only one way to cure their son's heart disease."

The smile on his face was mocking and desolate: "Just like me not long ago... and they, in the end, made the same choice as me."

There was a brief silence in the darkness, and finally Zhang Jibai shook his head: "Emotion, no matter what kind of emotion it is, will make people blind."

"They're just selfish." Su Xian's tone was cold, and then brought the topic back, "So, Deputy Chief Ren planned a murder to save his son's life?"

"Yes, the prisoner who mysteriously disappeared three years ago, and the girl who disappeared two years later, the essence of these three cases is the same. It's just that it is more convenient to operate in the prison, although the prison is not under the management of the Administration Bureau , but Ren Yan is the deputy director of the Administration Bureau anyway. It is just a piece of cake to manage the relationship in his hands and get rid of a prisoner. In fact, it is true. The prisoner who disappeared in the prison was replaced by a prisoner who looked similar to him The homeless person who replaced him, and the deity’s whereabouts are unknown, but this matter passed without a sound and did not cause any trouble.”

Jiang Qiyan's barbed words made Su Xian very uncomfortable to hear, and he retorted: "It's not that no one has found out the truth... It's just that that person pretended to be deaf and dumb for his own selfishness."

Jiang Qiyan smiled indifferently: "I am this kind of person, did you know it on the first day? At that time, I was just a little-known pawn in the picket team. Why did I go to the police station for an irrelevant person?" Offend the higher-ups of the Administration Bureau?"

"So, you got acquainted with Xu Ming because of this?" Zhang Jibai said before Su Xian's attack, "Is it because of Chu Chu's illness? You shouldn't have started planning this matter at that time, right?" ?”

"No." Jiang Qiyan lazily denied, "You should know better than me... At that time, her attending doctor was still you."

"That's right. At that time, her illness could still be controlled by medicine, and her physical condition was passable." Zhang Jibai glanced at Chu Chu's bloodless face, and sighed, "But medicine can only guarantee that it won't get worse temporarily. , After all, it is a temporary solution, not the root cause. Those symptoms that are forced to be suppressed are like a flood that has nowhere to vent. As a result of being fired."

Jiang Qiyan sneered: "At least, I didn't owe you the salary, did I?"

Su Xian was silent for a long time, and then said again: "I will report the matter of Ren Yan truthfully to the superiors, and I will not hide a single word. I hope that you can assist in the investigation when the time comes."

Jiang Qiyan tilted his head and looked at him for a while, finally shook his head and laughed: "Sometimes, I really admire you, from now on, it has not changed... always doing some stupid but courageous things. "

"Unfortunately, being praised by you is not something to be proud of." Su Xian smiled wryly, "...It turns out that it has been so long since we first met in the training camp."

"Yeah, it's been a long time since we parted ways." Jiang Qiyan seemed to be caught up in some kind of memory, with a hint of nostalgia in his tone, "I still remember how outstanding you were in the training camp, but you were nothing in the training camp." I am so in awe of everyone... I never thought that we could also be friends."

"I almost forgot that we used to be friends." Su Xian sighed, "It's a pity that everything changed after leaving the training camp."

"The aptitude is different, so the path you can take is naturally different." Jiang Qiyan's tone returned to normal, "You entered the Administration Bureau like a star, and you have been proud all the way since then; but I, who was unknown in the picket team, tried my best to barely Climb to this position... Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining, I just want to say that what we want is different from the beginning to the end, and the opposite is inevitable."

Su Xian was speechless, and after a while, he returned to a businesslike tone: "About Ren Yan's involvement in the case, do you have anything else to add?"

"Yes." Jiang Qiyan laughed loudly, "Speaking of which, you seem to know what that plan looks like... Then do you know? Ren Yan was also a participant in that plan. In fact, not only Ren Yan, but all of you There is nowhere to clean the Badminton.”

Su Xian took a breath, and he remembered the crazy and absurd plan mentioned more than once in his mother's diary - "'Tree of Life'?"

"Yes. It was only after that investigation that I accidentally discovered this shocking but long-sealed secret." Jiang Qiyan suddenly turned her head and glanced at the taciturn Xiaotao—she heard the words "Tree of Life" After writing the word, his expression suddenly changed, his eyes suddenly widened, his pupils changed suddenly, his slightly fluttering lips were chapped and peeled, like a dying carp.

He smiled and looked at the girl who was showing fear all over her body: "There should be someone who knows better than me, why not let her tell."

Suddenly, Su Xian felt his throat was astringent, and his Adam's apple rolled up and down before he could speak out: "I remember, you have always kept your background secret... Now, are you willing to tell me?"

Xiaotao opened her mouth, and finally lifted her hair, turned her back, revealing a white and slender nape of her neck, someone immediately slapped it all over, and the four numbers above were clearly displayed in everyone's eyes.

9702

Su Xian showed surprise: "This is..."

"I lied to you from the very beginning. In fact, Xiaotao is not my name... In fact, I don't have a name." The girl lowered her eyes, her slender eyelashes vibrated slightly, "In this underground laboratory, my The number is 9702, which means, I am the second child born in [-]. They have always distinguished us in this way."

As she spoke, she raised her eyes, met Su Xian's complicated and unspeakable eyes, and showed a weak smile.

"My brothers and sisters, and I, are the products of that plan... or, as they say, the fruit of the 'tree of life'."

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"24 years ago, Mengchuan City encountered an unprecedented disaster. At that time, the city had nearly 600 million permanent residents. After the spread of 'Paradise Lost', at least one-third of the population died in just half a month. The remaining Two-thirds of the people below were also suffering from serious diseases, and more than half of them also died in despair soon after. They died in various ways, some died directly because of the deterioration of their illnesses; some were exterminated because of alienation. ;Of course, more of them were reduced to alien food and died of cannibalism. And when the disaster was barely stabilized, among the original 600 million people, excluding the alien species, there were only less than 70 normal people who hadn’t completely gone crazy. Ten thousand."

Even though he was talking about the nightmarish past, Lu Yuan's voice was quite flat, even a little indifferent, but this is understandable, he is not yet 24 years old this year, and he has not experienced the darkest period.

Just like Zhong Yuncong, no matter how thrilling it falls into the ears, it is hard to empathize with it after all.

"Originally, the sudden drop in population was not a bad thing for the 'isolated island' at that time, especially for a city that was isolated and abandoned, and was extremely short of supplies. But, there was a special situation in the 'isolated island'." Lu Yuan said Here, I laughed, "You should have guessed it—with the emergence of the 'Lost Paradise' virus, a small number of people mutated, possessing various abilities beyond ordinary people's imagination, and this part People, that is, the later supernatural beings."

"When people discovered that the lethality of this part of the mutated crowd was comparable to guns and even out of blue, they immediately changed from monsters to superheroes who saved mankind. It is because of their existence that people can solve the problem in the shortest possible time. They became the best weapon against alien species. In this way, the supernatural beings immediately became the existence of the crumbling pyramid in the 'island' society. Even Mengchuan was not directly destroyed, And just being isolated is all thanks to the supernatural beings—they convinced the outsiders that they have the ability to control the city, and guaranteed that no virus carrier would be allowed to step out of the 'isolated island', thus keeping the city alive. city."

"Soon, the Public Security Bureau, an organization with supernatural beings as its mainstay, was established, but at that time the population dropped sharply, and supernatural beings only accounted for a small part, but the number of heterogeneous species was increasing every day. Besides , even the supernatural beings will be threatened by "Paradise Lost" and will also be injured and die. The situation is extremely unfavorable.”

"In the face of such a situation, almost everyone fell into extreme panic and anxiety, especially those who worship supernatural powers. They are worried, for fear that after all the supernatural beings are killed, the 'isolated island' will disappear. .In addition, at that time, the situation was indeed precarious, the separation wall had not yet been built, and hordes of alien species were roaming the streets and alleys, and it was at that time that the 'Tree of Life' plan was proposed."

"The core of the 'Tree of Life' is to create supernatural beings. At first, it encouraged carefully selected supernatural beings to combine with supernatural beings to produce perfect offspring of supernatural beings. However, the number of female supernatural beings is much higher than that of males. There are far fewer supernatural beings, plus, not everyone is willing to obey, so they expanded the scope of the experiment, no longer limited to both being supernatural beings, and thus, ordinary women have also become the experimental targets."

"This..." Zhong Yuncong still couldn't believe it while chills crept up his back, "Such a ridiculous plan...why can it be implemented? Is there no objection?"

"You think it's ridiculous, don't you? But at that time, almost everyone thought it was the only way to save the 'isolated island'." Lu Yuan sneered, "You probably couldn't imagine that at the beginning, Basically everyone who participates in the program is voluntary."

Feng Xiaoshan was so surprised that he almost lost his voice: "Are they...all crazy?"

"You guys can't understand the frenzied atmosphere at all. The essence is another wildly spreading virus, sweeping everything, and everyone is infected by the inexplicable blood and hopeless anger, just like A carnival of a group of people in despair. In such an environment, people with high blood were easily incited, responded to the call one after another, and devoted themselves to the 'Tree of Life' project with great enthusiasm."

"You say they are crazy? Yes, and it is not one or two, nor a certain part, but the whole group. Human nature? Conscience? It is not worth mentioning in the face of life and death. Legitimacy? Necessity? That is not necessary at all Things to be considered." Lu Yuan stared blankly in a certain direction, "But the most terrifying thing is that you think they are crazy, but they don't realize it, on the contrary, they really think that what they are doing His cause is just and great, but as for himself, he is a selfless... hero."