Delusion Master

Wei Lin laughed as soon as he heard it, and glanced narrowly at her sportswear, short short hair, and tablet-like chest: "My little brother, I am straight, and I am not interested in the same sex."

The young girl was startled, and glared: "I am a woman!"

"I'm obviously a man," Wei Lin read a third time on purpose, "and he wrote the Tao Te Ching. You can only be considered a 'boy' at best, a tomboy."

The girl was so angry that she was about to punch him in the face.Wei Lin spread his five fingers around her fist, and said with a smile: "Just kidding, don't be angry. We are not short of money, and we can't do anything to your 'sex'. I just want to say sorry to you. The original intention is I wanted to find a safe place to hide, but my companion knocked you out without explaining the situation in a hurry, I'm sorry."

He felt a bit of intimacy with this tomboy-like girl, thinking of Lu Mi who was in the same office.However, Brother Lu is a rough and honest guy, and the one in front of him is just a feminine and neutral, and he can still tell the difference between male and female, but he is not up to Hua Mulan's level.

False Hua Mulan looked suspiciously at the uninvited guest, and felt that the two men were well-dressed and good-looking, exuding an air of civilized people, not like characters who would commit crimes.Although the neck that was chopped just now was still aching, but she was not a caring character, and it was fine to receive an apology, so she got up and patted her buttocks, and said simply: "My name is Tabloy pine, what do you call it?"

"... surnamed Huo? Named Jusong?" Wei Lin was a bit square, "Is there another surname?"

The voice of the other party was crackling, like hail hitting the window: "Of course there is. Although the surname 'Huo' is rare, it is very ancient. It originated from the Suiren family. Our ancestors were hereditary officials in charge of fire, and later divided into Huoshi, Dahuo, Quail The Huo family, the Xihuo family, etc., my family belongs to the Huo Shi family."

Wei Lin laughed: "You have been questioned a lot since you were a child, so I specially memorized the genealogy introduction to deal with it. Where can I go to research the ancestors thousands of years ago? If you just want to talk about someone, just talk about it." who?"

The tomboy was exposed for his behavior, and his embarrassment flashed, and he said forcefully: "Believe it or not, anyway, our family is the descendant of the Suiren family. In the place where I was born, there were taeda pine trees growing on the back mountain, so my parents and I What's so strange about giving me this name, I'm ignorant."

"Okay, I'm ignorant, and you're right." Wei Lin didn't want to argue with a girl, so he waved his hand and said, "Thank you for providing the room just now, we're leaving, goodbye."

Bai Yuan had already put his hand on the doorknob impatiently.Torch Pine hesitated, and asked, "Have you seen the video of Professor Cheng Lixin? Is it true?"

Wei Lin replied: "You'd better take it seriously. First hide at home and observe the changes in yourself. If you don't look like those monsters outside, you are lucky. Then wait for the official notice. Someone will always take care of you."

Seeing the two of them go out and press the elevator button, Tabloy Pine hurriedly stepped to the door: "Wait, it's so chaotic outside, you still want to go out?"

Bai Yuan said coldly: "What we do has nothing to do with you."

Watching the elevator door close, Tabloy Pine knit his brows unwillingly, thinking: two weirdos!

Cheng Lixin had been sleepless for the past two days, but now that he had had enough to eat, his sleepiness surged uncontrollably, and he dozed off amidst the slight shaking of the car.

The car braked suddenly, and he woke up from his drowsiness. He heard a burst of fighting and gunfire outside, and he couldn't help asking the officer in the same car: "This...comrade colonel, what happened?"

"My surname is Shi." The colonel spoke in a lukewarm manner, which was a routine norm, "Professor Cheng should be the most aware of what happened outside. The video you released to the public without approval not only plunged the whole country into chaos In the panic, it also made it very difficult for the superiors. My team received orders to rescue and escort you, but the number of people on the way has been decreasing, and the ancient virus genes in the soldiers' bodies are constantly being activated, dying without warning, or turning into monsters .”

Cheng Lixin propped his elbows on his knees, holding his head in despair: "It's all my fault, I'm the sinner of all mankind... The country shouldn't waste manpower and material resources to save me, just let me die in the laboratory, it's the worst Good ending..."

Colonel Shi was holding back his anger at first, but he had to suppress his anger when he saw the grey-haired scientist next to him look like he was dying——Professor Cheng Lixin has a history of depression, so what if he is not careful? If he was stimulated, had a mental breakdown or even committed suicide, he couldn't bear it and walked away.Immediately softened his tone and said: "The matter has already been caused, and no matter how much you blame yourself, it will not help. As an expert who knows this field and project the most, and has the most thorough research on virus genes, now I have to rely on you, Professor Cheng, to turn the tide. Don't Give up on yourself. We have opened up a safe zone at a military airport 50 kilometers away from the urban area, and temporarily placed Professor Cheng there, waiting for the next order from the central government.”

Cheng Lixin murmured: "Safe zone? That's right, we need to gather the two of them and other people who have not developed lesions or degeneration after being infected. They are all human fuel!"

Colonel Shi's eyes lit up, and he pulled off his sunglasses: "Professor Cheng, what you said in the video that 'everyone cannot escape the baptism of the virus' is not without exception? There are still some people who will not be affected by the virus." Infection with viral genes?"

"It's not accurate to say that, everyone will be infected by the virus gene, but some people have a high degree of autoimmunity, and have a rejection; or simply swallow and fuse these viruses, resulting in benign genetic mutations, so as to maintain normal thinking and Emotions. If these people can survive smoothly, they may be the core of future human evolution." Cheng Lixin's extremely depressed mood seemed to pick up a bit, "I didn't have any hope at first, but I didn't expect to meet——"

Thinking of Wei Lin's advice, he immediately silenced, and said silently in his heart: I have to find a chance to check the DNA samples of those two boys carefully. Why do I feel that the ancient virus gene has not been activated at all?Is the inducer only ineffective for the two of them?Is this an extremely special case, or is there some other reason that even I don't know...

"I understand!" Colonel Shi couldn't hide his excitement, "I will report the news to my superiors immediately. Also, can I ask Professor Cheng to give us a more accurate time, how long is the incubation period of the virus outbreak?"

Cheng Lixin said: "According to the collected data, the fastest record is 2 hours, and the slowest is no more than 24 hours."

"Do you know when the trigger leaked?"

"Probably... about four or five o'clock in the morning today. When I arrived at the research center at seven o'clock in the morning, an experimental assistant in the core area had already fallen ill."

Colonel Shi nodded and said: "It's four o'clock in the afternoon. That is to say, the first batch of infected people will be able to determine whether there will be immune or evolutionary people among them at four or five o'clock tomorrow morning at the latest?"

"It can only be said according to my inference." Cheng Lixin replied cautiously, "It will not be confirmed until then."

"Okay, I will report this news first, and then wait for the decision of the superior."

Wei Lin and Bai Yuan left the house of Loblolly Pine and came to the street outside again.

The scene as far as I can see is more chaotic than half an hour ago. Everything is collapsing rapidly and violently, including the social order under the control of violent institutions, and the ethics and morality accumulated over thousands of years-in the face of the fear of death, these External constraints seem so vulnerable.

People still in public places began to spontaneously defend and fight back against the sick.Some just showed signs of abnormality, but they were betrayed by the screams of the people around them, and immediately fell into the vortex of siege. When the tide receded, only the bloody corpses remained on the ground.

There are also many people who pry open the shutter doors of supermarkets and grocery stores in groups, loot all kinds of people's livelihood materials inside, and carry them to their cars, and they do not hesitate to fight for it.

More people hid in their homes, crazily stockpiling water in large and small containers, taking antiviral pills, and fuming all the rooms with hot vinegar.

There were cries and wailing sounds everywhere. I don't know who sounded the air defense alarm on the roof of the armed department. The loud and sharp whistle echoed for a long time under the hazy sky. The whole city of S was filled with tension, panic, panic, and despair. The atmosphere seemed to be completely enveloped by a layer of black miasma.

Looking at the neighborhood full of mourners, Wei Lin sighed, "Don't look at Professor Cheng's age, he can really make trouble."

Bai Yuan: "We need to discuss the follow-up plan."

Wei Lin: "The plan can't keep up with the changes. Didn't you realize that we always deviate from the script and act on the spot in the end."

"But there is still a general direction. Tell me what you think."

"It's rare that Bai Xiansen actually consulted my opinion first—it was a real consultation, not digging a hole to make me jump." Wei Lin said half-jokingly, "I think our career prospects are a little brighter as regular partners. "

"...Don't talk nonsense, time is limited." Bai Yuan's face was unmoved, but there was a bit of joy and dissatisfaction in his heart: Although Wei Lin personally admitted the relationship with a regular partner, he still knew good and bad, but "a little, What does "some" mean?Shouldn't it be "the future is bright and bright"!

He has always judged others harshly, but asked Wei Lin to be very satisfied with him. For such a mentality, Mr. Bai didn't think it was a kind of double standard.

——Because Wei Lin is not someone else.As for what other people think of him, that's none of his business!

Wei Lin couldn't see the fluctuations in Bai Yuan's cold face. Although the other party's words were not very polite, his tone was not unpleasant, so he didn't feel offended.Leaning his back against the iron fence wall of the community, he found a comfortable posture and began to express his opinions.

"That's okay, I'll just talk casually first. First, recognize the goal: McLeo also said that if you don't seek to cure Professor Cheng's paranoia, as long as you can wake up his mind, you will complete the task. Think about it, the doctor has rescued him. He succeeded, why didn’t he wake up? Did the so-called psychogenic coma originate from his self-criticism? Then why did he feel guilty and ashamed of human beings? Look at this ‘absolute domain’,” Wei Lin pointed The barren block in front of him, "This is the projection of his spiritual world, and it is not difficult to find the crux of it——

"I guess, in the real world, [-]% of Professor Cheng is also conducting research on activating ancient virus genes in the human body. Regardless of whether this project is carried out by him spontaneously or by official requests and entrustments, in fact, deep down in his heart, For opening this unpredictable Pandora's box, there are hidden hesitation, fear and resistance. Internal and external pressures have led to his depression, but as a pure scientific researcher, he also explores the unknown I was very fascinated, so I chose to continue walking.

"So the deeper the research goes, the deeper the sense of contradiction, fear, and even guilt, so that delusions arise-if the research results go wrong, will human beings try to set foot in the realm of the gods? ', trying to control the huge technological power that cannot be mastered, and destroying it on its own greed?

"However, this kind of greed is unavoidable. Because it is this kind of greed that has driven our human science and technology to continuously improve for thousands of years and achieve the current achievements of civilization. Giving up means stopping, and we will be eliminated sooner or later; too Too radical and afraid of losing control, flourishing and declining, ruined at once. How to grasp the scale of this, top scientists like Professor Cheng, I am afraid that every time I think about it, I have a terrible headache.

"Fortunately, we ordinary people don't need to worry about this. We just go to and from work every day and take care of ourselves and our family's food and drink." Wei Lin talked a lot, and finally shrugged quite freely, "So I think that as long as Professor Cheng can find a way to suppress the genes of these viruses, and calm down the chaos and mutations before the world is completely over, so that human beings will not become extinct, the guilt and self-blame in his heart will be relieved a lot, and he will probably wake up Bar."

After listening to it quietly, Bai Yuan concluded: "There is no way out in the mountains and rivers, and there is another village where the willows are dark and the flowers are bright."

"Yes, as for what happens after waking up, it's not up to us." Wei Lin let out a long breath, "Maybe what we see before our eyes is the reality a few years or ten years later."

"Anyway, let's finish the mission first. Now we need to collect some resources: food, weapons, transportation, and at the same time pay attention to the official response and Professor Cheng's movements, and look for an opportunity to meet him again." Bai Yuan said, turning around He kicked a suspicious woman with disheveled hair who rushed towards his back.

Flying back in the opposite direction and falling on the road, Wei Lin saw clearly that under the long hair that covered her face, her neck was surprisingly long, and her face had long since disappeared into a round bloody mouth, densely packed with sharp teeth arranged in a spiral shape , protruding out of the scarlet flesh.