"The research institute and the prison are parallel in terms of status. Different administrative levels are set up for separate management, and they cooperate with each other, but do not interfere with each other."

"There is no director in the institute, and it is jointly managed by six department supervisors. Dr. Ruan is one of the supervisors, and the research direction is biological alienation."

"The prison is directly managed by the warden. There are 24 divisions from A to Z to classify different types of prisoners. Each division has its own person in charge."

"The Supreme Court is independent of the two, and it is a branch of the military court here, because the existence of Area 51 and everything in it are top secret, and anyone who is found to be suspected of leaking secrets will be brought to court for trial. "

Ruan Mobei really didn't expect his father to have such a high status. When he was young, he only knew that his father was a researcher engaged in biology. He was busy with work and could only go home twice a year.

Since the death of his mother and the 16-year-old Ruan Mobei went to join the army, he has hardly returned home. The father and son can only communicate through communication, and know even less.

Although they spend less time together, the relationship between father and son has always been very good. When Ruan Mobei was a child, school started the most, because every school season, Ruan Xianghui would go home and stay at home for a month and a half.

Lily pointed to the buildings not far away, and said: "This is the part of the prison, and the research institute is a little deeper. I will take you to the dormitory to unload your luggage first, and then come to have a good look."

Ruan Mobei looked at the nearly stretching buildings, and couldn't help but sigh: "It's so big, how many prisoners are there in the prison?"

Lily: "There should be more than you imagined, but there are not that many. Most of the prisoners are in special situations. The cells have been specially designed to occupy a larger area."

After driving for about half an hour, I finally arrived in front of the dormitory building.

"This is it." Lily got out of the car, followed by Ruan Mobei. He looked up at the 21-story building and asked, "Do all the staff live here?"

"This is the prison guard's dormitory. Our researchers live closer to the research institute. The room card should be in the guard room. You go to put your luggage first, and I will wait here."

Ruan Mobei said hello, went to the guard's room to get his room card, and took the elevator to his room on the sixteenth floor.

The dormitory conditions are much better than he imagined, one bedroom, one living room, private bathroom, Ruan Mobei put the luggage in the bedroom and opened the closet.

His uniforms had been neatly put into the cabinet. There were three sets of black prison guard uniforms and one set of regular uniforms.

Lily was still waiting downstairs, Ruan Mobei just took a general look at the situation in the dormitory, and then went downstairs.

After walking out of the gate, Ruan Mobei found that Lily was not the only one standing outside.

A man in a white lab coat stood beside her, staring at the door of the dormitory. The moment he met Ruan Mobei, a gentle smile appeared on his face, and unspeakable relief appeared in his eyes behind the glasses.

The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes and the gray hair all showed that he was no longer young.

Ruan Mobei jumped up in an instant, walked over quickly, opened his arms, and gave the man a big hug.

"dad."

Ruan Xianghui patted Ruan Mobei on the back: "How do you feel?"

"It's good. The doctors say they've never seen a patient recover as fast as me."

Ruan Xianghui nodded: "Let's do it here in the future. Although it is a closed environment, there is still a support between the two of us. I have already completed the procedures for you. Take a day off tomorrow, and someone will bring you here the day after tomorrow. Familiar with the work."

Ruan Mobei hummed, the job of prison guard is by far the most suitable for his situation.

He joined the army at the age of 16, and gradually grew into a top sniper, completed many top-secret missions, and won unimaginable feats.If it wasn't for his almost fatal injury, he wouldn't have chosen to retire at the age of 24 when his physical functions were at their peak.

Now, he's happy to continue doing what he's good at, especially working with his father.

"I still have something to deal with. Let Lily take you on a tour first, and I'll go find you in a while." Ruan Xianghui handed a card to Ruan Mobei, "I'll use this work card first, and the prison needs support. Multiple permissions, wait until tomorrow to register fingerprint iris and voiceprint information."

"Okay, go get busy."

Watching Ruan Xianghui get into the scooter, Ruan Mobei looked at Lily and said with a smile, "Then I will trouble you next time."

"It doesn't matter, otherwise I should be in the laboratory now. It's much more comfortable to walk outside than to look at those data." Lily took a step forward, "You are responsible for Area D, right? Then I will take you there first. visit."

"it is good."

There are flowering trees planted on both sides of the street, and the buds are hidden in the leaves. Maybe a few sporadic flowers have already bloomed, emitting a faint fragrance.

Ruan Mobei looked at the building next to him. If he didn't know that it existed as a top-secret interstellar prison and research institute, the entire Area 51 would be more like an isolated town.There are supermarkets, canteens, and gyms, and Ruan Mobei even saw a bar.

There were other people walking on the road, basically except for the researchers, they were prison guards like him.

"We will drink here when we get off work." Lily pointed to the bar and said, "The apple pie here is super delicious, and the sake is also good. If you want to find a partner, going to the bar is a good choice. Here There are still quite a few female researchers in China."

"There is a playroom, a swimming pool, and a small hospital over there. If you have serious problems, you can go to the other side of the planet. There is a larger hospital over there with more complete facilities."

Ruan Mobei was rather novel: "It's different from the prison I imagined."

"After all, it is isolated from the world. If it is too monotonous, everyone who has to work here for a long time will go crazy."

Area D is not far from the dormitory. It takes only a short drive to get there, and it takes only 10 minutes to walk. After going through multiple security checks, Ruan Mobei followed Lily and entered the building gate.

There are many closed doors and no windows in the corridor, which form a completely closed cell. After seeing the internal structure diagram, Ruan Mobei discovered that the D area is not the three floors it seems on the surface, and its underground part has enough space. 97 floors.

"Floor 97?"

"Ah, the third to 81st basement floors are filled floors, and only the rest are used as cells, and some floors are used for interrogation and daily interrogation. There are not many places that are actually used to detain prisoners."

so.Ruan Mobei nodded. The existence of the filling layer probably added more obstacles to the escape of the prisoners.

There are prison guards standing guard and patrolling on each floor, and the work doesn't seem too troublesome.

Lily took Ruan Mobei to visit the above-ground part, and then took the elevator to the underground part.

Sure enough, there were no buttons on floors three to minus 81, and the elevator was running on the isolation floor. Ruan Mobei looked at the two figures reflected on the elevator wall and asked, "Is the daily work of the prison guards just patrolling?"

"Well... I will also cooperate with some special tasks, such as monitoring surveillance, conducting daily interrogation, etc. I don't know the specifics. It seems that every prison guard has a specially assigned job."

Finally reached the 88th floor underground, the temperature here is significantly lower, the ventilation ducts transport fresh air from the ground, and the white lights illuminate the corridor brightly. If you don't know that it is buried deep underground, you won't feel oppressed at all.

"Who are the people imprisoned here?"

"They are relatively special existences, and they are very dangerous. Without permission, it is impossible to be allowed to approach them, so I can only take you around in the corridor."

The surveillance camera in the corridor was lit with red light, recording every move of the two, perhaps there were many pairs of eyes watching them in the surveillance room.

Ruan Mobei stared at the pitch-black camera, and suddenly heard a faint voice.

[███, ███...]

Ruan Mobei thought for a while that he was having auditory hallucinations. He was really in poor health. When he first woke up from the hospital, he had severe auditory hallucinations and visual hallucinations, so he didn't take it to heart.

Generally, this situation will be resolved automatically after a while.

He continued talking to Lily, waiting for the hallucination to pass.

[███, ███...]

The voice appeared again, more clearly than last time, echoing in his mind.

It seemed that someone was speaking in a low voice, but Ruan Mobei couldn't understand the meaning of the words at all, as if they were just some pure syllables.

Finally, when he heard the voice for the third time, he couldn't help but said, "Lily, did you hear any voice?"

"Sound?" Lily stopped, turned around and asked.

"Well, it seems that someone is talking."

Lily frowned, listened intently for a while, then shook her head: "No, did you hear it wrong?"

She really didn't hear it.Ruan Mobei frowned and said, "Maybe."

Lily: "Do you want to go to the hospital? Didn't the doctor say that you haven't fully recovered yet?"

Ruan Mobei: "I should be fine, let's go on, isn't it almost the end of the tour?"

Lily: "Well, if you have other discomforts, you must tell me as soon as possible."

The two continued to move forward, and when they passed a door, the whispering voice reached its peak, and Ruan Mobei finally couldn't help but stop.

It was as if something behind that door was calling him urgently.

"what happened?"

"Who is behind this door?"

Lily flipped through her smart bracelet: "The level of this door is top secret, sorry, I don't have permission to access its information."

Ruan Mobei raised his hand and lightly pressed on the door, the unique coldness of metal spread into his warm palm, yes, he felt... the call.

"Mr. Ruan?"

It wasn't until Lily reminded him that Ruan Mobei suddenly came back to his senses. He froze for a moment, never expecting that he would reach out to touch the door.

He suddenly withdrew his hand, shook his head, and showed a comforting smile to the worried Lily: "It's okay, let's go."

During the following visit, Ruan Mobei was always out of his mind. His mind was full of that voice, he couldn't hear the tone, couldn't tell which syllables it was, let alone what it meant.

Back on the ground again, Lily took Ruan Mobei to the bar and the swimming pool farther away, and visited the entire Area 51.

As the sky gradually darkened, they had dinner together in the cafeteria, and it was at this time that Ruan Xianghui found them.

"How do you feel?" Ruan Xianghui sat down next to Ruan Mobei, and smiled, "I don't know if the food will suit your taste, but after staying in the army for so long, I should have stopped being picky eaters."

Ruan Mobei: "The meal was good, Lily said she would take me to the bar tonight."

Ruan Xianghui: "Where did you all look?"

Lily: "I took him to Area D, after all, the most important thing is to get familiar with the work first."

Ruan Xianghui nodded, and said: "Drink less in the bar at night, and have to go to review tomorrow. Although everything is done, the necessary procedures still need to go through."

Ruan Mobei raised his eyebrows: "So you agreed to go to the bar like this? On the first day you just came here, don't you want to talk to your son for a while?"

"I thought you would be more willing to be with your peers, but it would be even better if you want to stay with me. I can go drinking with you."

"Then I'm going to quit." Lily raised her hands in surrender, "I don't want to be asked about the experimental data when I'm halfway through my drink."

Ruan Xianghui smiled: "You have worked hard today, Lily, why don't you take a vacation tomorrow?"

"Really?"

"real."

"That's great! Thank you professor, so I won't go to the lab tomorrow?"

"Well, take a good rest. It just so happens that the data for this period is not urgent."

After the meal, Lily bid farewell to the father and son, and went to enjoy her unexpected vacation.

Ruan Mobei followed Ruan Xianghui to his dormitory. Compared to Ruan Mobei's prison guard's dormitory, Ruan Xianghui, as one of the directors of the research institute, lived in a three-bedroom apartment. If he wanted, Ruan Mobei could even move in with him. live with him.

More of Ruan Mobei's luggage is in Ruan Xianghui's house. The last time the two met was in the hospital. Ruan Mobei was critically ill, so Ruan Xianghui left his work and rushed there, and waited until Ruan Mobei's condition stabilized before leaving. .

At that time, Ruan Mobei was lying in the ICU with pipes all over his body, his consciousness was struggling in drowsiness, and he had vaguely heard Ruan Xianghui's uncontrollable crying many times.

Fortunately he survived.

In Ruan Xianghui's study cabinet, there is a special layer for the various medals Ruan Mobei has won. Ruan Mobei clearly remembers the time and place of getting each medal-in Minglan Star, he killed the people who tried to manipulate the country. The lifeline business oligarch; on planet 6382, he successfully assassinated the leader of the rebel army; on star G272, he participated in the largest peacekeeping operation in the past ten years.

Countless meritorious service created his eight-year military career.

Noticing his gaze on the medal, Ruan Xianghui said softly: "Suddenly changed from a lieutenant colonel with outstanding military achievements to an ordinary prison guard, do you feel unbalanced?"

Ruan Mobei shook his head: "I will retire sooner or later. I am already very happy to find a job that suits my current physical and mental condition, especially to be able to be with my family."

Ruan Xianghui's smile showed relief: "It's best if you can think like this. Here, I can do my best to protect you."

Ruan Xianghui's last sentence seemed to have other meanings, but Ruan Mobei didn't notice it immediately. He sat on the bed in the study and couldn't help but lie down.

"Take a shower in a while, and sleep here tonight."

"Will it disturb your work?" Ruan Mobei looked at a bookshelf full of bibliographies and documents. On the top shelf, there were photos of his mother when she was young, "If I accidentally see something again, I can't see it." The content is bad."

"It's okay, I won't put secret documents in the room."

Ruan Xianghui took out the clean clothes he had prepared for Ruan Mobei, "You haven't fully recovered yet, and you've been on the spaceship for two days, so you should rest early. I'll put the clothes in the second bedroom for you, and I've packed the bedding as well." .I will take you for a review tomorrow morning."

"Okay." Ruan Mobei hadn't enjoyed such a warm time between father and son for a long time. In the past eight years, he had experienced too many thrills and life and death, and the final near-death exhausted all the passion in his life.

Now such warmth and stability are what he really wants.

Ruan Mobei took a hot bath, changed into clean and soft pajamas, and lay comfortably on the bed.

It was only after his whole body relaxed that he realized how tired he was. Ruan Mobei closed his eyes and gradually became dazed.

Only at home could he fall asleep peacefully without any precautions. There would be no sudden call to assembly, nor would there be a violent attack that might take his life away at any time.

Half asleep and half awake, Ruan Mobei felt that someone sat down gently by the bed, and his face was gently touched by callused hands, just like many nights when he was a child.

A long sigh was heard.

The next day, the biological clock woke Ruan Mobei up on time, and Ruan Xianghui made a simple breakfast. After the father and son had eaten, they went to Ruan Mobei's entry review.

Ruan Xianghui stood at the door: "Go in, the censorship here may be stricter, don't be nervous then, do whatever they tell you to do."

Ruan Mobei smiled: "There shouldn't be anything stricter than the military review, don't worry, I have experienced everything with your son."

Over the years, he has experienced all kinds of censorship for a long time. The information of one mission was leaked, and everyone involved was interrogated in order to catch the ghost. He was locked in a quiet room with a size of only two square meters. After three full days in the prison, he underwent 72 hours of intensive interrogation after he was released.

And this is just one of his countless interrogation experiences.

Ruan Mobei pushed the door open and entered. This is a thirty-square-meter room, separated by a special glass panel in the middle, and cameras and speakers are placed in every corner.

A chair was placed on the opposite side of the glass panel. Ruan Mobei closed the door and heard the voice from the overhead speaker:

"Lieutenant Colonel Ruan Mobei, please sit on the chair opposite. During this review, we will not appear in the interrogation room, but every reaction of yours will be captured by the camera."

It is customary for interrogators to use voice changers in order not to reveal their identities and not appear at the scene.

Ruan Mobei responded, walked into the closed room behind the special glass panel, sat down, and put his hands loosely on the armrest.

"Don't be nervous, just answer our questions."

Ruan Mobei: "Okay, I'm ready, please start."

At the beginning of the review, Ruan Mobei answered several questions about his past and why he chose to come here after retiring.His résumé was pretty clean, and soon the interrogators were asking him about his new job.

"I think I have enough professionalism to complete the work of prison guards. No matter what tasks my superiors arrange, I will try my best to do it."

The sound from the loudspeaker disappeared for a while, and the two interrogators were probably discussing off the microphone. Ruan Mobei waited patiently for a while, and finally heard the sound again.

"Now please look back at the screen and tell us what you saw and how you felt."

Ruan Mobei turned his head, and the two cameras in the room that could see the wall behind him turned off, leaving only three cameras that could not see the wall.

The wall gradually lit up, and Ruan Mobei realized that it was a simulated screen.

The image on the screen seems to be a picture taken by a surveillance camera, a corner of a room, white metal walls and floor, and there seems to be some light yellow liquid on the floor.

"What did you see?"

"There is a light yellow liquid on the walls and on the floor."

The camera continued to move, and the area that could be seen was wider. There were more pus on the floor, and some scattered tissue debris, showing an abnormal charred black.

"now what?"

Ruan Mobei described what he saw.

The distorted voice in the speaker seemed tense: "How are you feeling now?"

"I don't feel anything."

The camera continued to move, and Ruan Mobei saw more tissue fragments, and those pieces of flesh became bigger, as if something had just undergone an extremely painful transformation.

"What did you see?"

"More tissue blocks."

"Do you feel uncontrollable fear and panic?"

"No, I'm calm now."

"Okay, this is the end of the review, we will arrange work for you tomorrow—"

The interrogation was declared over, but the scene on the screen was still moving, revealing a dark mass.

Ruan Mobei frowned, and the entire screen began to turn an inexplicable golden color, followed by screams that exploded from the speakers.

"My God! How did that thing get here! I obviously turned off the camera!"

"Don't look! Go!"

The scene disappeared in an instant, the virtual screen turned into a wall, and the sound of the chair being knocked over was so obvious in the speaker, the two were screaming uncontrollably, yelling to get out of here.

Soon the wheat was cut off, and silence returned to the interrogation room.

what happened?

Ruan Mobei was at a loss. He waited for a while, but did not hear any other instructions, so he stood up and left the interrogation room.

Ruan Xianghui was still waiting outside, seeing him coming out, asked: "How is it?"

"They said it was approved, and they will arrange work for me tomorrow, but it sounds like there may be something wrong with the monitoring room."

There was confusion and noise, Ruan Mobei said, looking at the end of the corridor, two people in uniform were being supported by medical staff and walking towards the infirmary.

One of them was vomiting continuously, and the other was waving his hands, uttering nonsense nonsense.

scream.

Like... being terrified.

Ruan Mobei could easily deduce that those two were the people who had just interrogated him. The last confusion in the loudspeaker and their abnormal behavior made him frown.

"What happened to them?"

"Maybe I was frightened by something." Ruan Xianghui also looked at the other side, his eyes behind the lens were heavy, the doctor raised his hand, and patted the shoulder of the young lieutenant colonel:

"Don't worry, there will be professional medical staff to treat them, as long as you are fine."

Full of doubts, Ruan Mobei nodded, anyway...it has nothing to do with him, does it?

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