Delusion Master

The search engine immediately popped up a lot of related items, all of which were related honor introductions, personal interviews, and research progress of Cheng Lixin. I found his own Weibo and poked in to see the latest developments.

Weibo has not been updated for a long time. The last blog post was published more than four months ago. Wei Lin was about to quit in disappointment. He pulled down and refreshed habitually. Suddenly, a video uploaded a few seconds ago popped up on the homepage.The allotted text is: "It is now 13:15 capital time, I am Cheng Lixin, and I have something to say to all of you."

The upper corner of the phone shows that the current time is 13:22.Wei Lin's right eyelid twitched, and immediately stopped his partner who was walking in front: "Bai Yuan! Come and watch Professor Cheng's latest video!"

The two retreated to a secluded corner and began to watch the video.

The video seems to be shot with a computer camera on the desktop. The background is mainly white, and various instruments, culture tanks, and a sealed door in the distance can be vaguely seen. It should be a laboratory.Professor Cheng Lixin appeared in the center of the video in a white coat and black-rimmed glasses.His facial features are very close to the camera, so they are exposed, even the gray hair on the sideburns, the wrinkled wrinkles on the high forehead, and the tired bruises under the eye sockets can be seen clearly.

He has a focused, persistent, and wise face that belongs to a scientist, but his eyes are full of melancholy and confusion like a poet. The focus of his eyes seems to pass through the lens and penetrate into the mysterious palace that ordinary people cannot understand and reach.

Wei Lin couldn't help holding his breath to listen to him——

"I am Cheng Lixin." The old professor said, "There are some things that I have to tell the whole country, and even the whole world. This is closely related to the survival of everyone and the future of our entire race. I will express it in the simplest language, Please listen to me carefully——

"You have already discovered the abnormal changes around you, right? Some people suddenly become ill, with bizarre and varied symptoms, and even if they are rescued in time, they often fail to recover. Maybe some people still don't know about it, because their surroundings are still calm, But this storm is centered in City S, radiating outwards indiscriminately. According to my estimation, it will take 10-15 days to spread across the country, and it will cover the entire earth in 4-6 months.

"I know that you must be full of suspicion, panic and speculation now, and want to know what happened. As a scientific researcher, even if I don't have this qualification, I still have the responsibility and necessity. At the source of this disaster-this genome experiment In the room, reveal the truth behind it to everyone.

"About 8% of our human genome is derived from ancient viruses. After they infected our ancestors, they embedded the genetic code into the DNA. It has undergone more than 4000 million years of evolution since the ancestors of the apes. With the human generation Generation after generation, the DNA from viruses is also increasing, combining and inheriting from generation to generation to form our genome today.

"—in a sense, we've never been 'pure' human beings.

"The gene fragments of these viruses are scattered in almost everyone's body, some are more, some are less; some are more complete, some are more scattered; Complete protovirus. During our years of exploration, we have found that some ancient virus gene sequences are of great help to human beings, for example, they can add a layer of cell barrier to the embryo in pregnancy to protect the embryo from the mother's blood. Toxin damage and so on.

"So we began to study these viral genes in our own body, hoping that they could be better used by humans. We challenged the 'God's Domain' and made significant progress - 'Ancient Virus Gene Inducers'. It will activate human Sleeping viral gene fragments in the body.

"We have always been cautious, like touching a Pandora's box with boundless power and unpredictable disasters and fortunes. In the clinical trial stage after the development of the inducer, we tried our best to deploy a defense system to trap it in our within the control. However, accidents still happened..."

Hearing this, Wei Lin couldn't help sighing, and interjected: "It's always like this! Every disaster movie is like this! Scientists always say 'I promise it will only be locked in the laboratory'"It can't escape Yes, even if you run out, you won’t be able to survive in the natural environment’, the result is like setting a flag, waiting for the plot to come back and slap your face every minute. Tell me, why is this necessary?”

Bai Yuan listened to his spitting out loudly, smiled lightly, and motioned to continue listening.

"I don't want to get into the details of who is responsible. In short, it is my responsibility as the leader, which caused the elicitor to leak out of the laboratory. It will spread through the air, be inhaled by anyone, and activate the DNA hidden in the body. The genetic code of the virus. Everyone and everyone cannot escape this baptism. The ancient virus will wake up in our blood after thousands of years of dormancy. The resulting symptoms vary from person to person. Even I can't explain them one by one.

"What's even more frightening is that the elicitor is expendable, but the reproduction of the virus is not. After dozens of hours or days, the leaked elicitor will gradually be consumed in the air, but our body has already awakened The viral genes will continue to divide, replicate, infect, and even multiply.

"I don't know what we humans and our world will look like in the end. Maybe civilization will die, maybe species will become extinct. I won't see what the future will be like. All of this is my fault. The instigator of the catastrophe is the sinner of all mankind, and he is bound to be nailed to the pillar of shame in history. I have no face and no meaning to live.

"I will wait in this laboratory, waiting for them—" The old professor pointed sideways to the metal door of the laboratory, and there was a strange shadow floating outside the tempered glass round window, "Colleagues who have been activated by the virus gene, come to meet them." I leave this world."

He took a few steps back until his whole body could be seen in the video, then put his knees together and knelt straight on the floor: "I use my imminent death to apologize to all mankind."

The screen returns to darkness and the video ends.

Wei Lin swiped slightly with his fingertips and refreshed the page. Eighty thousand reposts and tens of thousands of comments have appeared below the video.He refreshed it again, and the number of retweets exceeded 15 in two seconds, and the data was growing crazily every second after that—you can imagine what kind of global explosive news this is, it is like a nuclear bomb. Landslides and ground cracks, seas boil and rivers turn!

In the Internet age of information explosion, the coverage of this news, which concerns the life and death of all human beings, has grown exponentially. Even if the government immediately deletes the video and controls public opinion, it will be difficult to catch up and curb this terrifying momentum.

So the Weibo server simply crashed.

"I found the address of Professor Cheng's laboratory." Bai Yuan just searched again with a browser, and said, "It's in the northwest direction, not far from the Horizon Line Creative Park. It's about 25 minutes' drive from here."

"The driveway is blocked." Wei Lin ran for a short distance, saw a bicycle rental point by the side of the road, immediately swiped his ID card and took two, stepped into the car with Bai Yuan, and stepped on the pedals quickly.

They exchanged succinctly as they raced down the sidewalk side by side.

Wei Lin: "Hurry up! Don't be attacked by his monster colleagues first! Turn right ahead and change cars when you exit this intersection!"

Bai Yuan: "The authorities will immediately send troops to rescue the lab. No matter what the purpose is, Cheng Lixin must not die now."

Wei Lin: "The people who heard the news and rushed away will be driven away by the army, and there may be conflicts. We have to arrive before the area is quarantined!"

Bai Yuan turned around the congested intersection, jumped off the seat cushion suddenly, and the bicycle slid obliquely for seven or eight meters with inertia, and slammed into the door of an urban off-road vehicle.

The driver immediately braked the car and walked out of the cab to check what happened.At this moment, Bai Yuan rushed to him, grabbed and shoved him by the collar, and threw him out: "Sorry, I borrow your car!" The driver was still sitting on the road in daze, and the two of them got into the car, stepped on the gas pedal and left. .The confused driver, who was left behind, finally came to his senses, hopping on the curb and yelling.

Bai Yuan steered the steering wheel, ignoring the traffic regulations, and drove all the way. After the owner's three-year driving points were deducted and his driver's license was permanently revoked, he finally arrived at the building where the laboratory was located.

The off-road vehicle slammed into the guardrail outside the small square in front of the building, drove straight in, made a sharp turn and braked when it was about to crash into the steps, making a sharp sound.Wei Lin and Bai Yuan jumped out of the car and rushed up the steps in two or three steps.

"We lack weapons." Wei Lin reminded.

"It's too late to prepare, let's go directly." Bai Yuan said.

The security guard at the outer gate, who came back to his senses, rushed over with a baton, shouting loudly.The security guards in the lobby of the building also gathered around: "What are you doing! You two—"

Before he finished speaking, Bai Yuan grabbed Wei Lin's wrist and pulled it behind him, with the other hand bent into a fist with the palm facing upwards.Waiting for everyone's eyes to be involuntarily attracted by his outstretched fist, watching the five fingers suddenly open like fireworks.

There was no light, no sound, just such a vain movement, but Wei Lin felt as if there was an invisible strong wave, spreading out rapidly with Bai Yuan as the core.Even though he was protected by the other party, he felt that his eyes suddenly went dark, his brain stopped completely, and he lost consciousness for a moment.

The warm and dry touch on his wrist woke him up from a few milliseconds of absence.

Wei Lin looked down at Bai Yuan holding his palm, and the first thought that popped into his mind was: Is this Bai Yuan's special ability "spiritual shock"?What the hell is this "shock", it's clearly an explosion!If it wasn't for him being a brain evolver himself, with strong enough mental power, and if Bai Yuan didn't avoid him deliberately, he might be blown to pieces and lose all sanity!

"Your sister!" Wei Lin muttered to himself in the muffled sound of a circle of security guards falling to the ground like straight dead wood, "The amplitude is too strong... Oh, I'm stupid too, I can resist it, Concentrate on the frontal lobe—”

Bai Yuan let go of his wrist, turned his head and said indifferently: "First, I don't have a younger sister. Second, in theory, a trained delusion-breaking master can resist it, it's just a matter of degree, you can try it next time .”

"This kind of mental shock is effective for all creatures?"

"Limited to creatures with brain activity."

"That includes most animals including humans." Wei Lin couldn't help muttering, "Perverted."

"Let's go." Bai Yuan didn't have time to chat with him, and strode towards the elevator. "The security guards at the door seem to be normal now. The people in the building were the first to be exposed to the trigger. I don't know what happened. You be careful."

Wei Lin laughed: "I am really flattered to have Bai Xiansen's concern. I am safe with such a powerful expert protecting me along the way."

The lower his posture was, the more Bai Yuan felt that he was duplicity, hiding his head and tail, and snorted coldly: "I won't protect you."

"Why?" Wei Lin raised his eyebrows: This guy still hates me?

"Because you are my partner." Bai Yuan said.

Because you are qualified to be my partner, to fight alongside me, instead of accepting my protection.Wei Lin seemed to have heard the subtext in his words, his heart went numb for some reason, and his voice disappeared immediately, and he stopped jumping out free of money with witty words.

Following behind Bai Yuan, Wei Lin stared at his back, thinking in frustration: It rains a lot, and occasionally when it clears up, the sky feels blue; if there is too much farting, occasionally telling the truth feels very pleasant—— The one surnamed Bai is well versed in the way, damn it, he actually fell in love with him just now!