16 years

Liu Ruosong suddenly didn't know what to say.

He used to resent and didn't understand why the world should be so cruel and put the future of the whole world on one person's shoulders.

But now he understood that Fu Yan had been forced into this matter so long ago and became a link of cause and effect.

Irene is a semi-finished product that will turn into a zombie without silver fish, so if she wants to "save the world", only Fu Yan is left in the whole world.

Once again, he felt the entwined trajectories of fate, and in those silky lines, everything was already doomed.

Maybe they can change the journey, but they can never change the result.

But Liu Ruosong couldn't help thinking about one thing - if the tube virus hadn't been injected into Fu Yan's body, but had been left to Joe Eden in the end, how would everything have developed.

His plan will succeed, the conspiracy cannot be broken, and then he can really create an impregnable "Garden of Eden".

Liu Ruosong's heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously shuddered.

"It's really... a mistake." Liu Ruosong murmured.

Fu Yan felt the same way. It was funny to say that after discovering this incident, he became more sober than before. Perhaps there was finally a reason to explain why he was the only one who encountered such bizarre things in the vast crowd, so his Reason regained the upper hand, and the false sense of "everything is an illusion" subsided a lot.

Fu Yan closed his eyes tiredly, and leaned back into Liu Ruosong's arms.

He leaned against Liu Ruosong's shoulder and took a deep breath.

Fu Yan didn't understand the law of judgment of the development of this world, and he didn't know whether he became the savior because he accepted the potion, or whether the potion fell on him because he was the only one with this quality. .

This kind of philosophical question is a whirlpool for him now. Fu Yan didn't want his cognition that had finally stabilized to be impacted again, so he closed his eyes and didn't think about this question any more.

In order to divert his emotions, Fu Yan took the initiative to talk about meeting Joe Eden at the bottom of the institute that day.

He omitted some dangerous parts of it, as well as his own confused mental state at the time, and recounted the conversation between the two of them almost objectively.

"So, Eden One is underground there?" Liu Ruosong frowned and said, "Didn't you say there are only two copies?"

"Maybe there are only two copies of this batch of medicine. After all, the incident happened too early." Fu Yan said: "After all these years, Joe Eden should have a reprinted version in his hand. But I don't know why, he doesn't have it himself. injection."

"Maybe the reissue version can convert the virus, but it doesn't have the same effect as the previous potion. Or maybe the safety of Eden One has not been guaranteed... After all, you also experienced a long period of danger at that time." Liu Ruosong guessed Dao: "The effect of Eden One is very harsh, the factors of the medicine itself, and the experimental subjects will cause different research results - he has had successful experience, it is not difficult to reproduce the function of 'conversion virus', but it is difficult The most important thing is how to make it determine the class while achieving the conversion, and people can't die."

"I don't think he will be willing to live on another medicine like Irene." Liu Ruosong said, "So he won't use himself as a bargaining chip and bet on the balance."

"But no matter what, you'll know when you get it." Fu Yan said, "At that point, I don't think he will lie to me."

Because for Joe Eden, there is really no need for him to deceive Fu Yan.He had a lot of chips in his hand, and he handed over Irene to them in advance.

In his previous lives, Fu Yan had thought about why Joe Eden would take the risk of sending Irene to them, but now it seems that he has already made such preparations.

If Irene was still on the other side of the Honglan River, with their footsteps, they might be able to make a quick round trip.But in the Yancheng Military Region, Fu Yan and the others had absolutely no chance of returning with blood samples in a short time.

Joe Eden was sure that an important petri dish like Irene would be sent back to the hinterland for strict surveillance, so once they could really find out his lair, they would not be able to bring back the blood sample that opened the door in time due to the long distance.

And once they were unable to open the door in time, Joe Eden, who held the life and death power of the research institute, could sit on the ground and raise the price.

He holds all the research materials and Eden One, no matter which regime exists on this earth, he can get everything he wants.

He is worthy of being a lunatic, Fu Yan thought, and he is worthy of being a character who can make him struggle four times in the abyss.

"Then what should we do now?" Liu Ruosong embraced Fu Yan's shoulders, held his injured arm to prevent him from moving, and said softly, "Notify Uncle Zhao, let them send blood samples?"

"It's too late." Fu Yan said: "The temperature will drop later, and their car will not be able to drive to Wrangel Island."

This is indeed a problem. Having experienced the last time, Liu Ruosong and the others are already very sure of the time and circumstances of the cooling down.But their restart point was too late this time, and they really couldn't go back to take blood samples in person.

"Actually, it's not that complicated." Fu Yan said suddenly, "Irene has been making petri dishes for so many years, how can there be blood sample genes on her body?"

Liu Ruosong suddenly froze.

Fu Yan didn't think about this question at first, but after having such a long dream, it was as if someone had stuffed a "game strategy" into his mind out of thin air.Just like the results of his previous intuitive judgments came true, this time, his subconscious mind was almost extremely certain about this question.

Liu Ruosong hesitated, "You mean—"

Liu Ruosong knew Irene well. During the restart that made Fu Yan feel heartbroken, Liu Ruosong also stayed in the laboratory building for many years.

That time, Shao Xuefan dissected Irene, he almost divided Irene into different slice samples, and finally preserved them.

Liu Ruosong checked those experiment records more than once, and also analyzed Irene's physical condition.At that time, her bodily functions had been transformed by Eden One, and her blood sample data were even more terrifying than Fu Yan's. Rather than saying that "human body functions" kept her alive, it was better to say that it was the medicine virus that supported her whole body.

"For Joe Eden, Irene really started to be special and became an indispensable part of his life. It should be the reflection of her as Joe Eden, after she became 'Eve'." Fu Yan said.

"So he used Eden No. [-] to lock Eden No. [-]." Liu Ruosong said: "That is to say... using the 'lock' to lock the 'lock'?"

It was a smart move, Joe Eden wasn't lying, but he wasn't telling the whole truth either.

Fu Yan recalled the scene of his confrontation with Joe Eden, and vaguely felt that he should have discovered that he was another "successful product".

So he was ambiguous and vague, misleading Fu Yan into thinking that Irene was the key to opening the door, and it happened that Fu Yan's nerves at that time were just short of the last straw, so he didn't look at the door at all.

At this moment, Fu Yan suddenly understood what Irene said.

"I'll go back, or you go to his side." Fu Yan said softly: "—so that's what it means."

Irene "recognized" him as early as the first meeting. She was keenly aware of the specialness of Fu Yan and expressed it.

Then why does she want to kill me so much, Fu Yan thought, is it because she is afraid that he will also be captured by Joe Eden, and then go her old way?

Liu Ruosong also remembered this sentence, and he was stabbed by this sentence at the time, wishing he could lift the glass cover and fight with Irene.

Thinking about it now, the timing of that sentence was very ingenious—it happened when Fu Yan asked her how to "end it all".

The more Liu Ruosong thinks about it, the more he thinks it is possible. After all, he has vaguely figured out the rules of the restart. The restart point is determined by how many correct paths they have taken. If Irene's blood sample is the only way to open the door, then they should not The restart is on Wrangel Island, but it should be restarted in Yancheng, before everything starts.

"But your blood sample is different from Irene's." Liu Ruosong held his cold hand and said softly: "Irene's tolerance is not as good as yours, her genes have been completely modified by Eden One - for example, her body Only the 'virus' system is easy to use, but both the 'organs' and 'viruses' in your body are easy to use, and the latter is just your spare item, and the proportion of virus content may not be as large as hers."

Fu Yan hummed lightly and said, "Then what should I do? Think of a way?"

"I'll figure it out." Liu Ruosong said, "We're going to leave a few days later—since Joe Eden wants to sit on the sidelines and wait for the rabbit, he must not be in a hurry when the rabbit hits the tree stump. I'll go discuss it with Fang Sining in a few days , See if there is a way to stimulate the activity of Eden One in your gene in a short period of time."

In fact, Liu Ruosong knew a way in his heart—that is, like Shao Xuefan, constantly stimulating Fu Yan with zombie viruses, allowing him to stimulate his potential while constantly metabolizing advanced viruses.

But for Liu Ruosong, he never thought about this method from the beginning to the end.

Fu Yan hummed.

On this issue, he has no right to speak and can only leave everything to Liu Ruosong.

Liu Ruosong helped him to lie down, then straightened up, and tucked his quilt.

Last time, Fang Sining took Shao Qiu away from Wrangel Island quickly, but this time, Liu Ruosong wanted to keep him for a few more days.

Apart from Fu Yan's situation, there was still an unresolved tough battle ahead of them.

"I'll go ask Fang Sining." Liu Ruosong pursed his lips and said, "Besides, if you want to capture that research institute, you have to deal with the group of zombies and monsters in Joe Eden's place. I'll go ask Fang Sining, Is there anything he can do. It would be great if his blocking medicine can be injected in advance, then maybe he can get the immune effect within a certain period of time."

"Like the time-limited shield in the game?" Fu Yan curled his lips, making a rare joke with him.

"Yes." Liu Ruosong also smiled, and said softly, "It's like that."