Delusion Master

After getting out of the elevator, there was no one in the corridor.Bai Yuan and Wei Lin walked around and found a little brother who looked like a clerk in a certain office, tidying up drawers.Seeing two strangers intruding in to inquire, he was not very surprised or repulsed. He put the found materials into the file bag and explained: During the lunch break today, Professor Cheng announced through the broadcasting system that the peripheral employees would have a holiday, saying that the experiment There is something wrong in the room, let everyone go home first, and wait for the notice when you will come back.

According to him, the research center is divided into two parts: "periphery" and "core area". Peripheral employees like them are responsible for running errands, sorting out materials, receiving sponsors, contacting relevant departments, and doing essential chores.And the three floors below the ground of this building, the core area with a larger area is where the experts and technicians really work.

After receiving the holiday notice, he found that the gate between the two areas was blocked, people inside could not get out, and people outside could not get in.The peripheral employees chattered for a long time, and decided that since the professor had spoken, it was better to go home and take a vacation first.The logistics department was afraid that everyone would be gone, and the security of the core area would not be guaranteed, so it specifically explained that the security guards at the entrance and the lobby must stay on duty 24 hours a day.

And he turned back halfway to pick up the work materials, planning to take it home during the holiday and continue to complete it.

After hearing this, Wei Lin praised and said: "A good employee who loves his job and works hard! But I still advise you to go home quickly. It won't be long before this place will be surrounded, and you won't be able to leave if you want to."

The other party was obviously a little surprised, but looking out the window, he seemed to smell something strange, took the file bag and said goodbye to them, and left in a hurry.

The two went to the basement floor with the special elevator and tried to enter the core area, but they were blocked by a metal door that fit perfectly.

"It is estimated that when Professor Cheng Lixin discovered that there was a change in his colleagues, it was already a period of time after the trigger agent leaked. In order to prevent people from entering the source of pollution, he closed the door." Bai Yuan touched the door panel and handle, frowning slightly, "It looks very solid, and I'm afraid it can't be opened without cutting or blasting tools."

Wei Lin walked to the door and studied the equipment on the wall: "Fingerprint combination lock and DNA verification are combined, and they cannot be cracked in a short time."

Bai Yuan looked at the phone: "The official troops should be arriving soon. If it's not possible, you continue to find a way, and I'll go out to block it."

"Ren Er has thousands of troops, and I have to stand alone? That's not okay." Wei Lin smiled and stretched out his fingertips, and tapped his temples, "Bai Xiansen must have underestimated me. We can't break through violently from the outside , but you can ask Professor Cheng to invite us in. You forgot what the little brother said before. There is a broadcasting system in the building, covering the core area and the periphery. Just enter the broadcasting master control room, turn on the audio terminal in the laboratory, and flicker— —Oh no, it’s enough to persuade Professor Cheng inside to open the door and let us in. I think, in a place like the broadcasting room, where there is no level of confidentiality, the access control should not be so strict.”

Bai Yuan had to admit that although Wei Lin had a thick skin, he was indeed quite smart, but he would never say such disgusting praise.In Mr. Bai's praise dictionary, the highest level is "it's okay", "not satisfactory", "barely qualified", and he never intends to use any more praiseworthy words to anyone other than himself in his life. .So he nodded slightly, and said reservedly: "Let's try."

The two returned the same way, and quickly found the broadcasting room in the peripheral area. After prying open the door and entering, they turned on the microphone and connected it to the laboratory speaker of the audio terminal.

Wei Lin has always been able to do things like fooling people with ease.Bai Yuan is a clam shell, so Wei Lin blew into the microphone without hesitation, bringing out the sound of whistling air.

"Within 3 minutes," he lowered his voice and yelled at Bai Yuan, "I'll let Zhima open the door, believe it or not? Make a bet?"

Bai Yuan returned a contemptuous look: You will die if you don't show off? !

Wei Lin laughed silently, his eyes narrowed into crescents, and his white teeth were on his pale red lips. The visual effect was so vivid and beautiful that the man next to him was stunned, and then he looked away stiffly.He cleared his throat and said into the microphone: "Professor Cheng? You are still alive and can hear me, right?"

After a pause of two seconds, he didn't expect the other party's answer (of course he couldn't hear it), and continued: "Time is limited, let me make a long story short. My name is Wei Lin, and there is another person named Bai Yuan in the same company. We met more than two hours ago. Just got off the return flight. The space in the cabin is closed, and more than 200 people have been activated by the virus gene. The cross-infection occurred at the same time, and they died in various ways. I guess the few who survived are also in the incubation period, and they will break out sooner or later. However, I and Bai Yuanan, Ran, Wu, Qi (emphasis added)! The ancient virus genes in our body are sleeping like dead pigs, and it is estimated that even if the whole body is soaked in the inducer, it will not wake up.

"This is really unbelievable, isn't it? There must be something strange about the two of us. As a scientist with a strong thirst for knowledge, don't you want to see and see? Let's open the door outside the core area and chat face to face. Don't worry, we'll take care of your wandering colleagues, and—we won't interfere with any of your decisions about yourself."

After finishing speaking, Wei Lin turned off the microphone confidently, stood up straight and said, "Go, the door is already open."

Bai Yuan went back to the gate without saying a word, saw that the metal door was still sealed, and raised his eyebrows mockingly at him: Is it open?

Wei Lin waved his phone: "It's less than 3 minutes, I haven't lost yet."

As soon as he finished speaking, the metal door suddenly made a slight unlocking sound and slid open to both sides.Wei Lin smiled triumphantly: "Look, I won!"

Bai Yuan stepped forward and said coldly: "—Who said I want to bet with you?"

Wei Lin uttered a long "Hey" sound like a toothache, expressing his dissatisfaction with Mr. Bai's refusal to enter the suite in a tortuous tone, before the metal door closed again, he jumped in with his canvas bag on his back.

In front of you is a long and curved corridor, and at the end there are two forks to the left and right.There may be a problem with the lighting system. The incandescent lamps on the ceiling of the corridor only come on after a long distance, and some of them flicker on and off, making the sound of electric current.

The surroundings were dead silent, only their own footsteps echoed, oppressive and chaotic, as if there was something else hidden in it, once they stopped to listen carefully, they found nothing.

"...It doesn't feel very good, it's like a thriller, usually I'll cut out the background sound when it's here, and it's not so scary when only the picture is left... Hey, did you hear any sound?" Wei Lin He spoke timidly, but his expression was filled with anticipation of "Come on, some monster jump out to scare me", the inconsistency was quite obvious.

Bai Yuan thought that he had no common language with this kind of guy who could play himself up anytime and anywhere, so he walked silently to the fork in the road and turned right.

"Why don't you go to the left?" Wei Lin deliberately contradicted him, "I think the left side is more—" He suddenly silenced, with a gloomy expression, and glanced to the left.

The aisle was empty, not a single ghost.Wei Lin narrowed his eyes: "Something was staring at me just now..."

Bai Yuan stopped and looked back, but found nothing.But he didn't think it was an illusion or paranoia, on the contrary, he believed in Wei Lin's keenness, even if it came from unfounded intuition.He turned to the fork on the left, passed Wei Lin, and walked in front of Wei Lin intentionally or unintentionally.

A very weak air flow passed over the back of Wei Lin's head, like a breeze blowing the tip of a leaf.Wei Lin shuddered, and rolled to the side to avoid it.

A few strands of severed hair fluttered down from mid-air.

Wei Lin escaped and got up quickly, leaning his back against the wall and paying attention: "There is something sneaking up!"

Bai Yuan looked into the corridor, half-dark ceiling, bare tiled floor, miserable white wall, and the emergency exit light at the base of the wall glowed with faint green light like the pupil of an animal—still saw no one or living thing . "Is it a physical attack, or a mental attack?" He asked in a deep voice.

Wei Lin replied affirmatively: "Physical attack."

"The other party may have the ability to be invisible, be careful." Bai Yuan took two steps back, and without looking sideways, he punched the fire hydrant box mounted on the wall, causing glass shards to splash all over the floor.When he withdrew his hand, he was already holding a double-edged fire ax more than half a meter long, with one side flat and the other pointed.

Wei Lin said: "Use local materials, that's fine, you, give me the fire extinguisher."

Bai Yuan hooked the metal frame of the box door with the tip of the axe and yanked it open. With another pry, a small dry powder fire extinguisher flew towards Wei Lin.

Wei Lin caught it with his hands and held it in his arms like a candy pillow.

With their backs pressed against each other, they each shot vigilant and searching gazes at both ends of the corridor.

In the silence, breath can be heard.Wei Lin closed his eyes, carefully feeling the faint flow of the surrounding air... Here we come!

"—Above!" He suddenly opened his eyes.

Hearing the sound, Bai Yuan moved, the ax blade slashed into the void above his head, he felt that the front surface seemed to be brushing against some kind of smooth and hard object, making a friction sound of "hissing".

"Get out of the way!" Wei Lin yelled, and within a tenth of a second, his brain had calculated the direction of the thing to avoid the ax and continue to attack by combining a series of data such as air flow, angle of ax release, and sound source.He held the nozzle of the mouth extinguisher tightly with his left hand, pulled up the handle with his right hand, and fired at an invisible target.

White sodium bicarbonate powder sprayed out, instantly outlining the outline of the thing—about one and a half people in length, straddling the wall and the floor obliquely, with a round humanoid head held high, a slender body and tail, and curved forelimbs It looks like a sharp blade, and its hind legs swell like suction cups. It looks like a thousand-year-old gecko fucked a praying mantis, gave birth to a hybrid breed, and became a sperm.

Its body surface should be covered with a layer of very smooth and fine scales, which can change the refraction of light and blend into the surrounding objects, similar to the nanocrystals on the skin of chameleons, but they are more invisible.His face was covered with white powder, revealing two small, one large, and three black holes.The black hole below is obviously a sharp mouth, and the sawtooth can be seen between opening and closing.

"Fuck!" Wei Lin was a little surprised, "Is this thing a human or a beast before?"

"Is there a difference? Anyway, it has become a monster that can attack people now." Bai Yuan's fire ax flew out, nailed its long tail firmly to the wall, and then stretched out his fisted left hand with the palm facing upwards.The two narrow black holes in the monster's face seemed to be drawn by an invisible thread, staring straight at his fist.At the same time as the five fingers suddenly opened, an invisible and powerful shock wave swept in. The brain tissue protected by its hard skull was still intact on the material level, but the brain waves were completely disordered, and the consciousness was like a raw egg in a microwave oven. It exploded with a bang.

It didn't even make a sound or make a movement of dying struggle, it just tilted its head and remained silent.

Bai Yuan stepped forward, pulled out the fire ax from its tailbone, and swung the scarlet blood on the ax with disgust.

Wei Lin threw away the fire extinguisher, knelt down and poked the dead monster's head: "It should have been a human before, but the activated virus gene actually infected him into such a ghostly appearance... But it's nothing surprising, given the 30 billion human genes Among the base pairs, there are not many unique individuals. There are still 90% similarities with domestic cats, and 85% similarities in protein coding genes with mice. Oh, and the most interesting thing is that we share with bananas How many genes, guess?" He winked playfully at Bai Yuan.

"Bananas..." Bai Yuan didn't want to respond at first, but this topic really made people curious, "How much?"

Wei Lin smiled and said, "More than half, 60%."

Bai Yuan imagined it for a while, and thought it was better not to imagine it. He hooked the handle of Wei Lin's backpack and pulled him up: "I don't care what they will become. Anything that hinders us from completing the task, just kill them all."

Wei Lin patted the dust off his body: "Let's go, keep going."