don't pull my short legs

"OK... I see..."

Li Qi's deliberately lowered voice could be faintly heard outside the house, it sounded like he was on the phone.

Shi Yuan told him to stay here and watch Tu You in case of any accident.

Sitting alone in the room, Tu You leaned against the bed in a daze, holding the bundle that Grandma Silkworm gave him in his hand.

"Xiao You."

Li Qi poked his head in: "Are... are you okay?"

After Zang Shixi was taken away, except for the initial question, Tu You didn't say anything.He didn't cry or make trouble, just sat quietly in the room.As if nothing happened.

This made Li Qi a little apprehensive.

He would rather have Tu You cry and swear a few words, even if he is caught and beaten.

Now this suppressed quiet appearance really scares him, the quieter it is, the more intense it will be when it erupts in the end.

Looking up at the cautious Li Qi, Tu You was silent for a while, and tightened his hand on the bag: "Did the current situation call you?"

Li Qi scratched his head: "Um..."

But Tu You didn't ask any more questions, and continued to sit quietly with his head down.

"It's nothing serious, there may be a situation, don't worry." Li Qi took two steps forward and sat next to Tu You, "That Lin Shen can't make a big deal, just relying on his father's ability to bluff around every day. Don't worry, it won't take a few days for Eleven to come back completely."

Said so on the surface, but Li Qi's heart was beating a small drum.

"...Lin Shen said that Xiao Zang admitted that he took the medicine." This is what Shi Yuanfang talked to him about, "but he said that he only stayed at that time and wanted to keep it as evidence, and did not give it to other people. people."

But when Lin Shen sent people to search, the box containing the medicine was already empty.

And as a coincidence, the place where Zang Shishi hid the medicine was not elsewhere, but the locker unified by the Commissioner of the Administration Bureau.

This kind of locker with a password is configured by the Administration to facilitate the commissioners to store some personal items other than hands/guns/ammunition/medicine.The commissioners come from all corners of the country, and they all have a little bit of gadgets in their hands.For the sake of convenience and safety, they are required to put these useful but destructive things in the locker when they are not in use.

Unexpectedly, Zang Shixi would hide the medicine there.

He didn't bother to lament that Zang Shiyi, a master of arts, was so bold that he dared to put such a tricky thing directly under the eyes of the management bureau.Li Qi is more concerned about who took the medicine?

He didn't believe Lin Shen's conjecture, and single-handedly raised Zang Shiyi from an intern commissioner. Li Qi knew best what the character of the monster he was looking for looked like.

Besides...he was a little distracted.

Zang Shiyi himself is also a victim of the experiment, and there is no reason to inflict the pain on others.

After thinking about it, Li Qi still felt that someone might want to use this matter to stir up trouble, so as to drag the administration into trouble.

"Uncle." He was still thinking about who might have done it, but Tu You said, "How much do you know about Chai Chong?"

"...Huh?" Unexpectedly, Tu You asked Zang Shiyi when he opened his mouth. Before he could react, Li Qi asked blankly, "What did you say?"

"Chai Chong." Tu You turned his head and stared at him, "You should be very clear about the medical team."

Li Qi was stunned: "Xiaoyou, those are..."

He was about to refuse, but his eyes fell on the bag that Tu You was holding tightly.

The knot of the bundle has been loosened, exposing a corner of the clothes inside.

For so many years, the clothes of the monsters in the town are almost all made by Grandma Silkworm.Her craftsmanship is good, and she is also willing to use materials. Although the clothes she makes are not as novel as the ones on the outside, everyone likes them.

The same is true for the clothes in the burden. The color of the fabric is full red, and it is embroidered with various auspicious patterns and patterns with gold and silver threads.It looks like it took a lot of work.

A jade phoenix clasp was pressed on it, and the sunlight outside the house fell on the clasp through the window, giving off a delicate and warm luster.

It is a very typical Chinese wedding dress.

Li Qi's throat moved unnaturally twice.

"Okay..." He got up to close the door, and when he returned to the bed, his expression suddenly became serious, completely devoid of his usual idleness, "I'll tell you, but it's important, you must keep it a secret."

"Since the establishment of the Administration, there have been conflicts between humans and monsters." He observed Tu You's expression, avoiding saying anything that might irritate the other party, "Not everyone can accept that there are monsters in human society. …”

Of course, ordinary people naturally do not know these things.Contradictions and conflicts are mainly concentrated at the upper level.

The human government's attitude towards monsters is very subtle. In order to coexist harmoniously, it did give monsters the right to self-control, which is why the Administration was established.But when faced with group collisions, they always turn a blind eye and close one eye, and sometimes they are biased.

Such as the accident of the medical team.

"Actually, to be honest, they can only be ineffective in supervision at most... After all, there are monsters among the members of the medical team..." Although when Shi Yuan got angry in the office that time, he was very angry by the human government , but if you really want to pursue the responsibility, you have to go back to the administration after three detours and two detours. "Their upper echelons really didn't do anything."

But herein lies the problem.

Knowing that there may be a problem in a certain link, but pretending not to see it when the monster is involved, this caused a catastrophe.

The person in charge of that medical group was a professor from a certain university, and he led his students to research a specific medicine for a certain disease.However, it has not been approved and cannot be used in human clinical trials.

The professor's family has a strong background, and he has learned about monsters through various contacts since he was a child, and there are monsters he knows around him.I am very familiar with the policy on monsters.After going back and forth, I became distracted.

"So he used the new medicine on those monsters?" Tu You reached out and touched the gold thread on Xi's clothes.

Li Qi took a deep breath: "Yes."

At the beginning, this project was led by high-level human beings, and they promised them that it would be absolutely fine.The words also hinted that this is a drug specially developed for monsters.

Because the structures of monsters and humans are not exactly the same, taking human medicine for the same disease may not work.So the Administration was naturally very happy and agreed to the project without thinking too much.In order to show importance, Li Qi was also sent to take charge of the six commissioners.

"The medicine worked well at first, and those monsters... including Chai Chong's wife, all recovered very well." Not wanting to think about it, Li Qi spoke in a very soft voice, "It will be slow later on. There's something wrong with slowness."

The steel-like blood vessels that Tu You had seen last time appeared on some of the monsters participating in the project, and their physical condition also deteriorated rapidly.But at the beginning, the person in charge said that there might be adverse reactions during the treatment, and everyone signed an informed contract, so Li Qi and the others didn't take this matter too seriously.

Until a period of time, almost all monsters have this symptom.

"Eleventh was in charge of Chai Chong's ward at that time, so I got closer to their husband and wife." Li Qi said, "Chai Chong's wife was the first group of monsters to have problems, and when the other monsters showed symptoms, they were already dead. "

Her final death was very miserable, and the blood spat out drenched Chai Chong's clothes.Even Li Qi, who is used to life and death, can't bear it.

That is, on the night of Chai Chong's wife's death, Zang Shixi rushed to the office and dragged out the person in charge. Regardless of the unsuspecting humans in the corridor, he directly put a knife on the other person's neck for questioning.

"I think he may have suspected it a long time ago, but he never said it." Li Qi sighed.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have secretly hidden a bottle of medicine.

"Is this the reason why he was suspended?" Tu You asked, staring at the warm Phoenix Luan buckle.

"The commotion that day was so loud that many ordinary humans heard it." Li Qi sighed again, "There is no way to deal with the current situation."

In the information age, all kinds of apps that can shoot live broadcasts emerge in endlessly, not to mention shooting small videos and sending them to Moments.But Zang Shiyi yelled everything out in the corridor. The human government and the Administration took a lot of effort to completely erase the traces of that day among ordinary people.

It was because of Zang Shiyi's disturbance that they began to pay attention to the medical team.I didn't expect to check it up, and it would be this kind of result.

The human government originally wanted to forcibly question Zang Shiyi, but when the truth about the drug came out, they were so shocked that they had nothing to say.Only then did Shi Yuan allow Zang Shiyi to be brought back to the management bureau to deal with it himself.

"Actually, we are also responsible." Although the person in charge and the relevant persons involved in the case have been arrested, Li Qi feels uncomfortable when he thinks of the monster who died innocently. There will be such a thing."

They were too impatient, which left an opportunity for others to take advantage of.

Tu You was silent.

"Humans..." He hesitated for a while, hooking the clasp with his hand, "Is that why you don't like us?"

"Xiao You!" Li Qi stopped him.

"You are not a foolish child, you shouldn't think so." Li Qi seemed to feel that the tone just now was a little anxious, Li Qi slowed down his voice, "You have been in J City for so long, why do you still have such thoughts?"

Back then, he insisted on bringing Tu You out regardless of White Rabbit Spirit's dissuasion. Apart from seeing the world, he had the idea of ​​letting Tu You have more contact with human beings.

Although he wasn't sure if Tu You still had the possibility of remembering his past experiences, he still felt the need to do so.He wanted Tu You to know that most human beings are different from those in that laboratory.

Tu You didn't speak.

"I don't hate them..." After a while, he bowed his head, "I just... kind of feel bad."

When he was in the hospital that day, surrounded by his parents who kept thanking him, when he looked up, he always unconsciously brought his face in protective clothing.

The face under the mask changed, sometimes it was that of the parents, sometimes it was that of the experimenter, and in the end, even the ferocious face of the president in the villa appeared last time.

Although he knew that it had nothing to do with species, he still couldn't help thinking, why must it be a monster?

"Xiaoyou..." Seeing him huddled on the bed with a bundle in his arms, Li Qi put his arms around his shoulders, "Do you think these things only happen to monsters? For the sake of profit, there is nothing you can't do What happened. I saved a human child before..."

He seemed to feel something was wrong, but he didn't finish the sentence, but changed the subject: "Actually, it's much better now, the current situation has been negotiating with the human government, and many people have been cleaned up after the nutrient solution incident. Things will get better little by little.”

It's ridiculous to say that after these incidents broke out, perhaps because they were afraid of causing collective dissatisfaction among the monsters, the human government's attitude softened a lot, and assisted the management bureau to investigate and eliminate many people involved in the case in one fell swoop.

Probably really hit the bottom line.Especially with regard to the nutrient solution, if the medicine hadn't been changed at the last moment and it really triggered a mass incident, the consequences would have been disastrous.

"So don't worry, okay?" Li Qi rubbed Tu You's hair, "Things over there are sometimes dealt with, I'll stay here with you for the next two days, you should eat and sleep well, and you'll be fine after Eleven Let's go pick him up together, shall we?"

He unconsciously used the tone of coaxing the cub, causing Tu You to curl his lips.

Seeing Tu You's smile, Li Qi heaved a sigh of relief, and was about to say that I'll serve you a bowl of noodles, when his stomach suddenly felt cold.

"I'm sorry... Uncle." Pushing down the syringe containing the expired vine essence juice with one hand, Tu You supported Li Qi who was slowly falling down with the other hand, "Go to sleep for a while."

He hugged tightly the bundle of wedding clothes: "I have to go find him."