Delusion Master

The employees of the underground base had almost escaped, and the Delusion Breakers retreated one after another after receiving the notice.The armed security guards lost the order of their superiors, and after chasing for a while, they heard the voice of a strange man from the broadcasting system.

Lu Zeyi died, the police surrounded the Brain Research Institute, you are finished.The man said succinctly, with a strong aura that cannot be doubted.

The security guards looked at each other in blank dismay, hula and scattered.

The underground base was poured with a large basin of cold water like a red-hot carbon pile, and when white smoke was emitted, only a mess of ashes remained.Most of the power system has been paralyzed, many metal floors and walls have been blasted with big holes, and the smell of burning is wafting in the air.In the tunnel full of bullet holes, there are a few lamps that are on and off, and the aftermath of the explosion is still echoing in the space not far away.

Wei Lin and Bai Yuan took the special elevator down to the negative 25th floor and went to the main control room.

Along the way, the figure of the little boy kept flashing around, staring straight at them, pale and blurred, more and more like a ghost about to disappear in the cemetery that is ending the night.The computer room team had turned off the "Galaxy" before leaving, and now someone has turned it on again, but the current power supply is obviously not enough to maintain its huge power consumption.

"It's An Yixin." Bai Yuan said.

Wei Lin nodded.

Sure enough, An Yixin was in the computer room, sitting on the chair in front of the mainframe, facing the flickering holographic projection of "Xinghe".After Wei Lin and Bai Yuan came in, she didn't speak, but still focused on the little boy in front of her.

"I thought you would run away and take your technical power and copied experimental data to another country to make a comeback—maybe there will be countries that dare to fight against China and welcome you." Wei Lin said, "Why don't you Walk?"

An Yixin was silent for a long time, but when she opened her mouth, she did not answer the question: "Xiaoyuan was only four years and eight months old at that time. He was infected with encephalitis virus and had a persistent high fever. The Bai family used the most powerful treatment team and medicine, Still unable to control his illness, he was in a coma for three days and three nights, and he might never wake up again.

"At that time, the chip implantation was at a critical moment, and I couldn't leave the laboratory. I had to keep an eye on every data change, lest all previous efforts be wasted. Bai Jingxuan called me countless times to ask me to go back to see my son, but I thought, if even the Bai family can't Save Xiaoyuan, what's the use of my going? My major is biomedical engineering, not clinical medicine, and I can't do anything if I go. So I finally turned off the phone.

"The implantation experiment was finally successful. The experimental subject was strong, full of energy, and determined, with perfect physical data, which was incomparable to the previous defective products. He was the most satisfactory among the batch of experimental subjects. One, I named him 'Enhanced Type I No. 1'.

"By the time I remembered Xiaoyuan, five days had passed. I called Bai Jingxuan a few times, but he didn't answer, so I had to rush back to Bai's house. Fortunately, Xiaoyuan woke up, very weak, and his mind was not clear yet. Lost part of his speech ability. I didn't know at the time whether the virus had caused irreversible damage to his brain, and he might recover gradually, or not.

"Bai Jingxuan had a big fight with me and smashed up the study."

An Yixin sneered, as if suddenly pulling out a stone statue with a slight expression, "This is really stupid. Even if I stay by Xiaoyuan's hospital bed, like his anxious father, holding his hand, accompanying, Praying, shedding tears, what difference does it make to the result?

"Life is inherently small, fragile, and unpredictable. Even researching and strengthening the body, brain, and even the most profound spiritual realm is still full of uncontrollable risks. But at least I opened this door and took a step forward. I took the first step, the second step... If I hadn’t been forcibly interrupted by you, I would have gone further and deeper.”

"——The road you walk is paved with the blood and lives of countless innocent people. Every step you take is stepping on the pain and sacrifice of others." Wei Lin said.

An Yixin said coldly: "Their sacrifices are worthwhile."

"Whether it is valuable or not is something that you can judge and choose by yourself, rather than being deceived and persecuted." Wei Lin said, "Do you think your 'career' is of great significance? No, you are just an executioner."

An Yixin said decisively: "I am a scientist. And you are the ignorant and self-righteous executioners. It is you who have deprived mankind of the possibility of further evolution and dragged the future of all mankind into the abyss."

Bai Yuan said to Wei Lin: "This woman has lost her mind and there is no cure."

Wei Lin smiled: "I didn't intend to save her either. I thought that she designed the 'Xinghe' holographic image to look like Bai Yuan when she was a child, at least she still had a mother's love in her heart. Now it seems that she is just a little unconscious It's just a projection of guilt."

An Yixin reached out to touch the little boy's head, the projection flickered and disappeared completely.The backup power supply has been exhausted, and the "Galaxy" has automatically shut down.

She was slightly stunned, looking at the nothingness in front of her, and said in a low voice: "Xiao Yuan has already left. He is very clever, knowing that Bai's enterprise is doomed to fail, he took everything he could take away.

"As for me, I should go too."

She took out an injection needle and a small bottle of transparent medicine from the pocket of her white coat, calmly drew the medicine liquid, and flicked the air bubbles in the needle tube.The needles gleamed a little faintly in the dim light.

Wei Lin and Bai Yuan watched quietly without stopping.

An Yixin rolled up the neat cuffs of women's toilets and injected the injection into the vein.

Before she died, she said the last words:

How could it be possible for a person like me to stand on the secular judgment seat and be condemned by a group of ignorant people.

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This is the negative 30th floor, the deepest part of the underground base.

Wei Lin and Bai Yuan stopped in front of an iron gate and looked at the sign on the gate.

"...the herbarium." Wei Lin murmured, "Yuanyuan, do you think he's in there?"

Bai Yuan knew who this "he" was referring to.He touched the messy hair on top of Wei Lin's head distressedly, "It should be there. According to the data, he is the best among the Enhanced Type I."

Wei Lin took a deep breath and opened the door.

A cold air pervades the air, as if being frozen is not only a living organism, but also anger, despair, and grief that cannot be degraded by time.

In the depths of the room, huge transparent glass cylinders stood in clusters, like dead tombstones.Wei Lin looked carefully one by one, trying to find the figure that had never been seen before and could only be sketched in his mind from the white mist surrounded by liquefied nitrogen.

The power supply of the specimen room had been cut off before, and the white mist was getting thinner and thinner. Wei Lin stopped in front of a glass cylinder.

Inside is a naked man with a strong body and an indescribably familiar appearance, like looking at himself in the mirror, but completely different, his facial features appear more mature, three-dimensional, and more masculine.His arms were folded across his chest, as if in deep sleep.

Wei Lin leaned close to the glass, staring at him intently.

"... [-]%?" Wei Lin called out in a low voice, with a tremor at the end.This call came from between his lips and teeth, and it seemed to come from Xu Mu's rotten and silent chest cavity.

Seeing that the temperature in the cryogenic cabin had almost risen above zero, Bai Yuan forcibly smashed open the glass door.

Gan Yi's stiff body was laid flat on the floor, and Wei Lin tore off the buckle on his ankle—it said "Enhanced Type I No. 1"—and lightly put on his underwear, shaking his hair Remnant Frost, and carried him on his back.

Gan Yi was taller than Wei Lin, Bai Yuan wanted to take over, but his partner smiled and firmly refused.

"I want to fulfill Xu Mu's unfulfilled last wish, and carry him out with my own hands," Wei Lin said.

Bai Yuan looked at him tenderly and nodded.

+ + + + + +

Wei Lin walked out of the underground base with Gan Yicheng on his back, and squinted at the dusk sky——after 20 years, his father finally saw the sky again.

The police had already controlled the situation and detained Deputy Director Li and other management of the Institute of Brain Research who had returned to the car.Mr. Wu ordered his subordinates to evacuate the crowd, and then sealed off the scene, and the heavily armed anti-riot troops entered the underground base to eliminate hidden dangers.

He seemed to see the figures of Wei Lin and Bai Yuan, the two wanted criminals, but he seemed to be too old to notice, allowing them to sneak out of the back door of the Brain Research Institute with the bodies of a man and a woman on their backs.

Wei Lin drove straight to the private hospital, spent a lot of money (by using Bai Xiansen's card), and had people push Gan Yicheng and Yan Yujiu into the morgue, and at the same time put Bai Yuan into the operating room.

The operation took a full six hours.Wei Lin stayed outside the operating room until the early hours of the morning, but he was so tired that he couldn't get any more tired. Every bone in his body wanted to tear itself apart, and every cell was clamoring to go on strike.

He lay on the waiting chair, feeling like he was going to melt into the air.

The red light "in operation" finally went out, and the chief surgeon came out and took off his mask.Wei Lin jumped up, went up to meet him and asked, "Doctor, how is he?"

The doctor with gray temples replied: "The left eye is completely blown up, and there is no possibility of repairing it. We can only suture the blood vessels and try not to cause further damage to the nerves. In the future, a prosthetic eye can be implanted, at least on the surface, no damage can be seen." Disabled."

Wei Lin said depressedly: "Is it impossible to restore eyesight?"

The doctor shook his head: "Currently the prosthetic eye on the market can't provide this function. However, I heard that a cutting-edge ophthalmology institution abroad is researching a mechanical eye, which can be connected to the optic nerve, using an electronic optical sensing device to act as a 'retina', and transmit light-sensing information directly to the eye. It is passed to the brain. But it is still in the research stage, and a prototype has not been produced, and it is impossible to say how effective it will be."

Wei Lin nodded, "There is still hope in the future, right?"

The doctor smiled: "Of course, technology is always improving. For the beneficiaries, what is often lacking is the time to wait for that day to come."

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Bai Yuan woke up from the postoperative anesthesia, still a little dizzy.

He took a deep breath, and after feeling a little more comfortable, he turned around and found Wei Lin sitting on the low stool beside the hospital bed, resting his cheeks in his hand in a daze.

As soon as he moved, Wei Lin immediately came back to his senses, and looked over with bright eyes: "Yuanyuan, you're awake, how do you feel?"

"Very good." Bai Yuan said with a hoarse voice covering half of his head and his left eye with gauze, "What's going on outside now?"

The doctor told him not to drink water for 12 days after the operation, so Wei Lin had to touch it carefully with a cotton swab dipped in pure water to moisten his chapped and flaky lips.

"The colleagues evacuated smoothly. But the temporary base was exposed. They could not go back to the warehouse. They could only find places to settle down. Wu Jinghan also left there. Before leaving, he put those insider materials, experimental data, and underground The videos taken by the base and the testimonials of the laboratory researchers were all made public online, and the Internet exploded. The media scrambled to report, and the anger of the people ignited from the Internet to reality, and ran to the municipal buildings, police stations, and brain research institutes. There was a rally outside the cordon of the police station to protest, Mr. Wu was like a firefighter, putting out fires everywhere. City F is in chaos now."

"The superiors will not sit idly by." Bai Yuan said.

Wei Lin replied: "Indeed, this incident has already alarmed the senior officials of the Chinese government. The Department of Homeland Security has issued an announcement and immediately sent an investigation team to City F to find out the situation. The evidence we presented is harder than titanium alloy, and the situation has become completely clear. , There is no room for change, whether it is to maintain the law, fight crime, or maintain stability and calm public opinion, it must be dealt with fairly and openly.

"I just don't know if the arrest warrant for us will be lifted. After all, we bombed more than one building and killed many people."

Bai Yuan twitched the corner of his mouth: "It doesn't matter if it's solved or not, anyway, our goal has been achieved."

Wei Lin laughed: "That's right, you can still run if you can't. When you can get out of bed, let's go back and pack up, pack the gold and silver, and go to Liangshanpo."

"Okay, let's become bandits together." Bai Yuan raised his hand, Wei Lin took the initiative to move a soft hair over to him, more obedient than a propeller.

The two chatted privately for several hours, until the effect of the anesthesia completely faded, Bai Yuan sat up and pulled out the infusion tube.

"The doctor said you have to lie down more." Wei Lin persuaded.

Bai Yuan changed out of his hospital gown, got out of bed and put on his shoes, "They miscalculated my recovery ability. In addition, we have to hurry up, there are still many follow-ups to take care of."

The two sent the bodies of Gan Yicheng and Yan Yujiu to be cremated, took the warm urn to Huishan Cemetery, bought a cemetery, and paid a lot of money for a mason to carve the tombstone on the spot.

Wei Lin buried Yan Yujiu next to Xu Mu, and said to Xu Mu: "Teacher, this Miss Yan is a good friend of Bai Yuan and me, and she is also a very good girl. Please take care of her." And to Yan Yujiu Whispered: "Xiaoyan, don't look at Mr. Xu Mu as tough and old-fashioned, in fact, he is only 37, which is 9 years older than you, he is definitely a good man, why don't you get along with him?"

Hearing this, Bai Yuan could not laugh, and pinched the tip of his nose as punishment, "The dead are the worst, what nonsense are you talking about?"

Wei Lin rubbed his nose and muttered, "Maybe there is a real destiny. At least we can chat, and you won't be lonely under the Nine Springs."

As for Gan Yicheng's ashes urn, he placed it next to his mother's urn to make a joint tomb, then knelt down and kowtowed three heads. "Mom, I got my dad back. My son is useless. It took 13 years for you to get together. The family will never have to be separated again."

Bai Yuan looked at Wei Lin silently, and after he got up, he patted the blank tombstone next to him: "I'll buy this cemetery later."

"Huh? To whom?"

"Give it to us. I have no family. Your parents are my parents. As you said, the family will never be separated again."

Wei Lin stared at him blankly, then smiled dryly after a while: "It's too early to plan for a rainy day."

"Don't laugh, it's uglier than crying." Bai Yuan said, turned and left.

Wei Lin looked at his back with a heavy heart, and seemed to have eternal companionship and mutual support, feeling extremely relieved.

After walking a few steps, Bai Yuan stopped and said without looking back, "Follow me quickly."

Wei Lin caught up.Bai Yuan grabbed the hands of his partner and lover, clasped his fingers tightly, and pressed his palms together, with a warm and firm strength, he walked forward without saying a word.

Wei Lin understood what he was thinking at the moment - even if they went to the end of the road, the two of them would walk hand in hand side by side.