Hugh was stunned for a moment, stood up and opened the door, grabbed a researcher who was walking quickly in the corridor, and asked, "What's the matter?"

"It's not the same as last time. If you have nothing to do now, hurry up and come over with us and take defensive measures together, so as not to cause trouble like last time." The researcher answered hurriedly, and then shook off Hugh. hand, trotted away quickly.

Hugh stared at the back of the researcher leaving and was silent for a few seconds, then turned around and said to us: "I'm sorry, there is something wrong with the research institute, please wait here for a while, I'll check the situation, Be back soon."

"It's okay, you go and deal with things first, we'll wait here." Niyo said, rubbing his hands again, and couldn't help asking: "Well, what happened?"

Hughes hesitated for a few seconds before explaining: "The location of our research institute is very special. There is no urban area around, so it is considered to be in the center of the wasteland. This location often encounters people infected with vicious viruses. We didn't care much about it before. , because they will be burned as long as they touch the defense mask of the research institute, so they have not dared to approach our research institute. But recently, for some reason, they appear and attack our defense shield more and more frequently, As a result, there are more or less loopholes in our defense system, and the infected people almost broke in last time."

I listened to this passage in silence, turning my face away so that Hughes could not see my frown.

"I see." Niyo nodded clearly, then waved his hands, "Then you go, I won't waste your time."

Hughes turned his gaze to me again, and after seeing that I nodded in the same way, he walked out of the laboratory and walked quickly to the other side of the corridor.

When the sound of his footsteps gradually faded away, Niyo listened carefully again, stood at the door of the room and looked around for a few moments, before turning back and asking me, "What's going on?"

"Why do you think I know what's going on?" I asked back with a smile, stared at him suspiciously for a few seconds, then shook my head and said, "The habits of infected people have changed a lot recently, are you One of the people closest to them should also know something about it. Before these recent mutations occurred, under what circumstances would infected people flock to the same place in groups?"

"Encountering substances that also attract them or the blood of the same kind, or the blood of people infected with benign viruses can also attract them." Niyo replied with a little hesitation, "There are also some specific substances, such as poisonous powder and other Weird things... I can't remember too well."

"Except for the area managed by Jiali Miweier, the infected people in any area have normal habits. If the possibility that the infected people in this area have mutated like yours, it means There is something in this institute that is drawing them closer." I stood up as I spoke, stroked the top of Gerald's head slowly a few times, then grabbed his arm to make him stand up too, looked at him and smiled, " Anyway, we are sitting here now, how about just wandering around in the research institute?"

"...Why do you smile so pervasively?" Niyo shuddered, stood a little further away, and said while looking at me with squinted eyes.

"Regardless of whether we can really find the information we want in this institute this time, at least there is nothing wrong with coming here." I put away my smile, glanced at him, and said, "We just I was already surprised by Gerald's reaction when I followed Charles to this side, and now he told me that this institute is often attacked by people infected with vicious viruses." I took Gerald together Walking to the door, he raised his eyebrows at Niyo and said, "Isn't this inviting me to investigate that corridor quickly?"

After hearing what I said, Niyo curled his lips, "Hugh didn't know that the person next to you is actually a carrier of the HLM virus."

I didn't speak, and led them back to the corridor in silence.From the moment I read the live body experiment report, I had a lot of doubts about Lunathan Hughes, but it was only limited to my suspicions. Whether the background of the researchers who have worked with them is clean, and then decide whether to invite them to carry out the next research.After all, the discovery of C-V27 is of great significance to us, and there cannot be any mistakes.But during the investigation, I not only discovered the connection between him and Director Ge Geerli, but also suffered from his program intrusion, and not long after that, the research association's system was also attacked.

Although I don't know whether there is a direct connection between these incidents, it at least shows that there is indeed a problem with Lunathan Hughes. As for whether the problem is serious or not, is he related to the matter we are investigating? That's what we're going to explore now.

"Recently, I have devoted almost all my thoughts to the study of people infected with malignant viruses," I said to Niyo as I walked towards the previous corridor, "so I have also discovered many things that I have never seen before." problems, but finding these problems does not seem to be of great significance, because during this period of time, the changes of the people infected with the malignant virus are too great, and our research progress is far behind their transformation speed."

"That's true. For example, the formation of groups in groups is something we never expected." Niyo nodded and said, "Do you think it is possible that the infected people in this area are also like our area? Same, is it because of a mutation?"

"There is a certain possibility." I paused for a few seconds, and then said: "But no matter what the purpose of these infected people attacking this institute is, I have to seize this opportunity to go to the corridor just now to see what is it. Something caught the attention of the guy next to you."

Niyo glanced at Gerald, who was walking half a step behind me, and frowned, "Although he seems to have recovered a lot, he is indeed still infected with a vicious virus, and your speculation is reasonable...but this The kid was attracted at such a close distance, how did the infected people outside the institute notice that something was attracting them here?"

"I don't know." I replied truthfully, "All my ideas so far are based on these limited known conditions. I can't be sure whether these ideas are right or wrong, so I have to thoroughly confirm these possibilities .”

"You guys are really nonsensical," Niyo patted his head and sighed helplessly, "No wonder Mr. Felischer told me to concentrate on following you. I really can't follow you." To match the rhythm of your mind."

Out of the corner of my eye, I glanced at Gerald who was following me. The doubts in my heart continued to deepen. Such erratic emotions also made my steps faster and faster, and my chest seemed to be surging like never before. Anxiety, constantly burning my heart.

"This research institute should be surrounded by monitoring. Is it really okay for us to walk around like this?" Niyo raised his head and observed every corner of the corridor.

"There is a problem," I answered him without thinking, "but now they can't take care of themselves, and they certainly can't take care of us, so this is our only chance to move freely. We are looking for a reason to come here. It’s not easy, and in a sense, we have to thank those vicious virus-infected people who are trying to break through the defense shield of the research institute.”

"You really are..." Niyo shook his head, as if he couldn't find any adjectives, finally sighed again, and quickly followed me.

We soon returned to the fork in the road just now. I stood at the intersection and stared into the depths of this corridor for a few moments, then turned to look at Gerald's situation.As before, he was staring at this corridor without squinting, and his eyes became cold again, which made me more sure that there must be something in front of this corridor.

"I didn't notice much just now," Niyo said in a low voice behind me. "He looks really scary. No wonder you say there is a problem here."

"He has been with me for the past few months. Except for the first few weeks, he has almost never been in such a state. His thinking ability is suppressed by the HLM virus, so he is quite limited, so he will not hide himself. If he thinks that If there is a problem on one side, then I can be almost [-]% sure that there must be a problem on the other side." I walked a few steps in the direction of the corridor, and said to Niyo, who looked slightly nervous, "Let's go, go and have a look. .”

Niyo nodded hesitantly and followed.

This corridor is not much different from the one we walked through just now. There will be a door to a room at a certain distance on both sides of the corridor, and the layout is quite normal.Probably because the institute was under attack, we didn't meet anyone along the way, but Gerald's increasingly tense state made me restless, and my spirit was always highly concentrated, ready to deal with it at any time emergencies.

When I was about to reach the end of the corridor, Geraldella stopped me and stared sideways at a door on our right. There were abnormalities around the eye sockets again, and the veins on the wrists and backs of the hands also appeared. Slowly revealed under the skin.

I glanced at the lock on the doorknob and asked Niyo, "Can you unlock this?"

"Isn't it just a door?" He laughed a few times, his expression was quite eager to try, walked to the door and took out the terminal and shook it, "I even sneaked in the room of the president's secretary, let alone this remote research institute. A small lock?"

"Then I'll leave it to you." I nodded slightly, and put my hand on the back of Gerald's neck to comfort him slowly, "Move faster."

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