Quanzai Cone

[The search for 'Wandering Blade' lasted for two weeks, but no clues were found. The police preliminarily judged that it had escaped from the encirclement and decided to expand the scope of the search.While the police continued to hunt for the 'Wandering Blade', Umbrella's head office offered a sky-high reward of tens of billions of yen...]

The fingertips followed the text across the yellowed paper and landed on the last full stop.I stared at the end of the report in a daze for a long time. I have read this old newspaper many times these days, but I still can’t understand the content, and I want to start reading again.

"Swipe", the newspaper was taken away, I grabbed it in panic, and looked up blankly.

"Let me tell you, Xunguang, what's wrong with you?" The senior bent slightly and stared at me with a serious tone, and tapped my forehead with a finger, "I've been holding on to this old newspaper, and I'm obsessed with everything I do. Muddy..."

I lowered my head, smoothed the wrinkled sheets, and replied with some hesitation: "It always feels...a bit familiar."

The senior sat next to me: "Isn't that natural? This news was a national headline back then. I heard that the bounty has not been withdrawn yet."

"Really." I endured the emptiness caused by the lack of a memory, took the newspaper, folded it, and stuffed it into the bedside table.

Seeing that I was back to normal, the senior felt relieved, stretched halfway, suddenly remembered something, and turned to ask me.

"A few days ago, the pharmaceutical company that invested in the shelter sent people to the island. Do you know about this?"

"Is it Xihaipu Pharmaceutical Company?" I don't know much about this company, I only saw the name when I signed the contract.

The senior nodded, with a subtle hostility on his expression, he stood up and walked to the window.

The isolated island in winter hardly sees the sun, and today is also cloudy. Looking at the desolate scenery outside, Senior fell into some kind of thoughts.

"Xihaipu sent people to receive visitors from another company..." She explained absent-mindedly, "The company that visited——is Umbrella."

In order for Xihaipu to cooperate with the multinational leader Umbrella, and Umbrella in order to re-enter the Japanese market, under the premise of the same interests of both parties, they made this visit to the isolated island shelter.

The news I got from my senior gave me a sense of danger.

Even if I don't know much about the company's operations, I still find this arrangement inexplicable: Isn't it good to go to the headquarters or big cities for interviews?The shelter on the isolated island is so outdated that it is out of date, even the news spreads slowly on the island for a few days, and there is nothing worth seeing...

But my doubts about the two companies were quickly forgotten - Zhijun fell ill.

I saw him coughing in the monitoring before, so I immediately went to the medical point to prescribe medicine, but I didn't expect his condition to suddenly worsen.I couldn't help blaming myself. After that meeting, I significantly reduced the frequency of checking the monitoring, as if I was worried that Zhijun could catch me through the screen, and that's why I didn't even realize that he was admitted to the medical point. .

Because I couldn't find anyone in the surveillance cameras, I was in a panic until I bumped into the guards. I didn't know that Zhijun had entered the medical point for treatment.

I was so worried that I walked to the coffee shop without knowing it. I barely remembered that it was dinner time, so I opened the door.

I ordered a simple meal that I often eat.There are not many people in the store, and there are shelter employees whispering in the booth behind.

"The message is true..."

"...Why did Umbrella choose the inmate? Strange..."

I accidentally heard the key words, and I clenched the wooden chopsticks tightly. In my chest, my heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and an unprecedented sense of anger surged.

I put down my chopsticks and rushed out the door in two or three steps, rushing to the medical point.

"You, hello! May I ask which ward the inmate 'Zhi' lives in? I want to visit him!" After almost sprinting [-] meters to reach the consultation desk, I asked the nurse immediately without taking a breath.

The nurse on duty looked at me in surprise, looked down and flipped through the booklet, and replied softly: "I'm sorry, the patient does not accept visits now, can you come back in a few days?"

I caught my breath and explained, "I'm his counselor."

"I'm sorry," the nurse said with a gentle professional smile, "Patients are not allowed to visit now, and neither are counselors."

My heart sank.

I finally tried my best: "But, there were no restrictions before? Why are visits not allowed all of a sudden?"

"The medical point has revised the rules. You can check the details on the bulletin board at the entrance." The nurse replied.

I, who had to be silent, heard a vague voice in my stalled heartbeat.

[The new batch of testing list is...'cure'...]

I turned around suddenly, and my eyes caught the back of the doctor who turned into the depths of the medical point as he turned the corridor.The voice was instantly clear.

[There are enough people, just leave it to Umbrella. 】

Dizzy, a piece of puzzle emerges from the depths of my mind, filling in the corner of the vacant memory.

"Mom! Dad! I passed the exam!" I was cheering when I was young. "It's Umbrella Medical College! When the professors from the school visited the school before, they praised me for my talent——I really passed the exam!"

My vision overlapped with the past, a blood-stained admission notice was torn to pieces and thrown on the ground, I tried my best to stabilize my body, watching the young me swallowing fishy smell and tears, being pushed to the ground like an animal, Struggling to the death and screaming——

"Is this what you call 'talent'?!"