Delusion Master

Standing in the center of the laboratory filled with the smell of braised pork ribs and curry chicken, Professor Cheng Lixin was still thinking about the precarious future of mankind, and the sound of footsteps in the corridor outside the door could be faintly heard.

"Professor, Bai Yuan and I will take a step first, and we will contact you later." Wei Lin said to Cheng Lixin solemnly, "Let's go outside, find other similar people who will not be infected by the virus gene, or who can still maintain normal thinking, and organize them. Get up, how many can be saved. Look over here and see if you can find a way to eliminate the virus——I entrust you with the heavy responsibility of saving the world! Death is as heavy as Mount Tai, not as light as a feather!"

Cheng Lixin thought messily in his mind: Yes, it's easy for me to die now, who will clean up the mess I left behind?At least some people will survive, at least there is still a little hope to be found...

Wei Lin grabbed the jacket and backpack that were hanging on the edge of the countertop, and put them on his shoulders rashly.From the flapping coat pocket, a red hexagonal crystal flew out, and fell into the glass beaker on the counter by coincidence.

In the beaker was the half cup of purified water he drank. The crystals fell into the water and melted silently.The color of the clear water in the glass has not changed, but the refractive index seems to be a little higher - but only a little bit so subtle.

Wei Lin was about to slip away, but Bai Yuan shouted "Wait", and walked to the alloy door in three or two steps, and brought back the double-bladed fire ax that had just been placed in the corner.

"Yes, clean up the traces, and the beaker... the lunch box!" Wei Lin drank the remaining water in one gulp, and put the two glass beakers on the counter back to the shelf, "Professor Cheng, don't expose us!" Bai Yuan Lift the garbage bag that fits in the waste recycling bin.The two scanned the laboratory one last time, opened the fire escape door at the rear, and fled before the arrival of the large army.

Thirty seconds later, the alloy airtight door of the laboratory was pried open by an external force, and a bunch of special soldiers with live ammunition poured in. Many of them still had spattered blood on their combat uniforms and boots.Some of these soldiers surrounded Cheng Lixin, while others were trained to spread out and search to eliminate danger.

A middle-aged man with the appearance of an official walked up to Cheng Lixin and said with a serious expression: "Professor Cheng, this place is too dangerous. There are monsters outside, and they will break in at any time. Please follow us to a safe place, and we will protect you." personal safety."

Cheng Lixin nodded indifferently: "Where's my family?"

"Don't worry, we already have another team to pick it up, and we will meet up with Professor Cheng then."

"Outside... are there any normal people among my researchers?"

Another officer wearing the colonel's epaulets replied: "No. We have thoroughly searched the entire research center, eliminated all mutant monsters, and found no normal people."

"...Okay." Cheng Lixin said disappointedly, "I'm going to take away all the experimental data and existing research results. It will take some time."

"The sooner the better." The colonel looked around the laboratory, suddenly sniffed twice, and asked, "What's the smell? Someone started a business here just now?"

Cheng Lixin thought of Wei Lin's entrustment, and concealed it uncomfortably: "It's nothing, the smell of experimental reagents."

The colonel went around in a circle, but he didn't find anything unusual, so he gave up.

More than an hour later, Professor Cheng Lixin left the laboratory under heavy protection.When he walked to the lobby of the building, he saw several security guards lying on the floor in disorder, looking like normal human beings, and couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with them?"

The colonel who followed him replied: "When we came in, these security guards were already lying on the ground. There were still signs of life, but they were completely unconscious, and they couldn't be woken up."

Cheng Lixin squatted down, opened the eyelids and mouth of one of the security guards, looked at it, and said regretfully: "It seems to be in a deep coma. But they already have signs of virus infection. Even if they wake up, it will start within 8 hours. produce genetic degeneration or disease."

"That is to say, after they wake up, they will become like those monsters inside, attacking anyone they see?" The colonel looked serious and nodded slightly at his subordinates, "Professor, let's go."

Cheng Lixin walked down the steps and got into a black military bulletproof jeep.The moment the car door closed, he heard a gunshot and asked in surprise, "What's wrong?"

The colonel put on his wide dark glasses and said, "Prevent it before it happens."

Cheng Lixin wanted to refute something, but finally swallowed his words and sighed deeply.

Wei Lin and Bai Yuan quickly left the building through the fire escape.Outside the walls of the research center, there are many soldiers standing guard with guns, deterring and dispersing the people who came to inquire about the situation after watching the video.It took them a while to find an inconspicuous corner and slip away over the wall.

Another three hours had passed since they entered the city, and the streets became even more chaotic.Most shops are closed, and public places such as schools and shopping malls have been evacuated. However, frequent outbreaks of strange diseases and violent attacks have not only overwhelmed the severely lacking police force, but also terrified the people who witnessed the scene——

The aunt, who was carrying a recycle bag, was walking, and the skin, muscles, and organs on her body suddenly peeled off layer by layer, and finally a skeleton with bloody muscles was left, and she still walked to the station unconsciously to wait for the bus.

The little girl carrying a schoolbag was chased into the alley by a group of big centipedes with teeth and claws.Looking carefully, those "centipedes" are more than one meter long, with flat and wide arthropod bodies, like brown chainsaw blades, wriggling long tentacles and countless short legs, crawling at an astonishingly fast speed.The little girl ran and scrambled, crying bitterly, and was overtaken within two strokes, and was drowned in the pile of saw blades.

A couple in a hurry, the man put his arms around the woman's shoulders, bowed his head and whispered something in her ear.The woman was enjoying her boyfriend's considerate comfort, when suddenly a sharp mouthpart, like a black iron awl, pierced her ear hole together with the gentle voice, and blood dripped out from the other ear canal.Before the woman could even groan, she was corroded into a bulging skin sac filled with bodily fluids.

……

——Who the hell can see these 3D horror movie-like scenes and not scream and run in all directions? !

Wei Lin struggled to move the car on the bustling street, looking out the window at the horrific scene.A bloodied burly man staggered after his car, beating on the windows for help, but he didn't stop.

Although what you see, hear, and feel is completely real, senior delusion masters have already learned to distinguish between the real world and the "absolute realm", so as not to let consciousness "fall" in the virtual world and cannot extricate themselves .

Sometimes Wei Lin also thinks, what is reality?When humans are dreaming, fantasizing or even hallucinating, the nerve impulses generated by the brain are no different from when they experience these scenes in person.So, what you think you hear, see, smell, and touch is actually what your brain lets you hear, see, smell, and touch, so how do you judge which information your brain gives you is Fantasies, which ones are real?

Perhaps the scene outside the window, and everything recorded by the brain waves of these delusional patients, is real.The so-called "real world" is actually a wrong signal from our brains——Wei Lin suddenly had a ridiculous thought.

"Wei Lin!" Bai Yuan shouted suddenly.

"...What?" Wei Lin recovered and turned to look at him.

Bai Yuan stared at his eyes sharply and slightly anxiously: "You were blurred just now."

"blurry?"

"Yes, it's like switching the video source of the program from ultra-high-definition to normal-for a moment, your whole body is blurred."

Wei Lin blinked his black eyes, pretending to be innocent.

Bai Yuan said in a deep voice unmoved: "This is a sign of 'falling'! What were you thinking at that moment?"

"...It's nothing." Wei Lin laughed slowly, "Falled? How is it possible? Do you think I'm a new rookie? I'm the backbone of the unit and an elite in the industry."

Bai Yuan stared at him probingly for a while, but found nothing unusual. He secretly heaved a sigh of relief in his heart, and said with a stinky face, "You'd better be as professional as you boast, lest I have to find ways to get you out of the way besides completing the task." Get out the slack consciousness. Let the ugly words come first, if you can’t get it out, I’ll take it as if it’s broken, and you’ll be in a vegetable state later, I’ll at most buy a bunch of flowers and put them in your ward.”

Although his tone was harsh, it was rare for him to say so many teasing words in one breath.Wei Lin smiled slyly: "Hey, Bai Xiansen will still buy me flowers? Then you can buy a bunch of blue irises, the flower language of that is more suitable for the occasion."

Bai Yuan wanted to slap him hard on the back of the head.As for the "flower language that is more suitable for the occasion", the die-hard Mr. Bai said that he didn't want to know at all.

"By the way, if I read correctly just now, those arthropods chasing into the alley feel like ancient centipedes?" Wei Lin changed the subject and said, "What does this mean? Professor Cheng thinks that the inducer he developed not only Works on humans, but also on animals or plants?"

Bai Yuan thought for a while, and said: "Is there such a possibility? Professor Cheng believes that the awakened virus gene in human beings will not only cause mutations in the body, but also affect the surrounding environment, triggering an uncontrollable chain reaction, such as movement. degeneration or atavism of plants."

"I thought the difficulty of this absolute field was only 'Resident Evil', but I didn't expect to add 'Ancient Invasion'... Who said that scientists have rigorous thinking, their delusional world is just like ordinary people, and it is also bizarre!" Wei Lin smiled wryly.

There was a long queue ahead, and even the sidewalks and green belts were crowded with vehicles, many of which were honking their horns desperately, wishing to fly over the chaotic streets and return to their homes that they thought were warm and safe, but in fact had no protective effect.

Wei Lin had to stop the car, rubbed his chin for a while, and said, "However, this delusion is not so groundless. Some DNA sequences with strong replication ability, called 'jumping genes', can indeed be transferred from one species to another." To another species, even across boundaries, from an animal to a plant. From an insect, for example, to the pine tree it inhabits."

"Jumping gene?" Bai Yuan raised his eyebrows suspiciously, "Sounds like pseudoscience."

Wei Lin shrugged: "I'm just saying what I saw in various research papers and announcements of results. You know that my memory is extremely good. Everything I glance at is in my mind, but I'm not responsible for keeping the truth from the false. In short, there are Geneticists believe that jumping genes are a kind of 'parasitic' genotype. They can actually be classified as retroviruses, which can insert their own genes into the host genes, just like viruses infecting humans, to ' Infect 'other genomes. And once these jumping genes successfully enter a certain genome, they cannot be easily eliminated and can be passed on to offspring for millions of years."

"To put it simply, some ancient virus genes have a parasitic function, and can 'jump' to animals and plants that have close contact with the human body?" Bai Yuan refined it in a simple way.

Wei Lin nodded: "That's about it. In fact, the whole process of virus gene embedding, bonding, and affecting the host is not so fast. It takes many years, or even many generations. However, in Professor Cheng's delusional world of anxiety, depression, and self-blame , This process has been accelerated, so the crisis broke out so quickly. This also means that the speed at which we complete the task must also be accelerated-we have to race against the "end of the world" that has been fast-forwarded by an unknown number of times."

"What kind of shit is this, it's obviously not our job, and it's ridiculously difficult," he complained unbearably, "Mike Liu is a fat man!"

Bai Yuan agreed with his words from the bottom of his heart, but when this approval was weakened layer by layer to his expression, only the corners of his mouth were twitched coldly and respectfully.

Wei Lin sighed helplessly: "The scolding is all right, the consciousness has come in, and we still have to do our best to finish the work. We are going to abandon the car and change to a more flexible means of transportation."

He turned off the engine and pulled the handbrake, opened the car door and was about to step out when suddenly he was in a trance and fell backward——

It was a feeling of falling, as if being thrown into the vast void of the universe, endlessly falling, falling into the darkness...

He suddenly fell back to the driver's seat, still maintaining the posture facing out of the car, and smashed his head and shoulders into the arms of Bai Yuan who was on the passenger seat.

"I seem...something...isn't right..." Wei Lin tried to raise his hand before losing his mind, and subconsciously grasped Bai Yuan's skirt, looking for his partner with his unfocused eyes, "Bai Yuan... help me one time……"

Bai Yuan looked down at Wei Lin whose upper body was lying on his lap, and there was a momentary fault in his thinking.

Then quickly dragged him out of the car, picked him up horizontally without any effort, and ran to a clean and high-end apartment building on the side of the road.