16 years

Irene desperately broke the glass wall of the prison, escaped from the basement, then rushed upstairs to the experimental area, broke the petri dish without hurting anyone, and took out the B-92 potion self from inside. injection.

This series of behaviors can hardly be regarded as a complete coincidence.

There are emergency weapons in the basement, and the high-strength automatic rifle was activated at the first moment. Irene would not dodge, so she climbed up the stairs with a few blood holes on her body, tearing the partition of the stairs layer by layer Door.

On the way she was walking, blood was dripping down, bright red but sticky. At first glance, it was difficult to tell whether it was human blood or zombie blood.

The laboratory building has been emptied, and Irene's body is still lying in the corridor of the pharmaceutical storage floor. Fu Yan went up to check the situation just now, but did not move her body rashly.

Ten minutes later, Fang Sining also arrived at the scene.

After Fu Yan and the others thoroughly confirmed the safety of the laboratory building, Liu Ruosong and Fang Sining were able to enter the blocked area to further deal with Irene.

Fang Sining and Fu Yan are both genetically modified by drugs, and there is no risk of infection, but Liu Ruosong is not. The new drug vaccine has just been developed, and its specific effect is still unclear. He is not in the scope of the first batch of immunization experiments .

So Fang Sining didn't let him participate in Irene's finishing work, and only asked him to deal with the mess inside the pharmacy room.

Liu Ruosong agreed to his arrangement, and then called Lu Li to help Fang Sining. After watching them bring Irene's body upstairs with a cart, he turned and walked into the pharmacy, cleaning up the mess.

The theoretical alarm of the laboratory building has not been lifted. At this moment, all the researchers are still undergoing quarantine inspection outside, and they will not be able to enter for a while.Liu Ruosong reached out to help the overturned locker, pressed a raised burr on it with his palm, and sighed softly.

He didn't expect Irene to do this kind of thing suddenly. Before that, Irene had been quiet all the time. She was indifferent to the world like a real person. She usually made a "sculpture" silently most of the time. It seems that he has lost his perception of the world.

After several lifetimes, Liu Ruosong has gotten used to seeing her as a "petri dish", but now he suddenly finds that she still has a "human" side, and feels inexplicably uncomfortable.

Why did she commit suicide suddenly, Liu Ruosong thought, and chose such a special node.

With the successful research of immune vaccines, people were able to open up a pure land from the threat of terrifying viruses. The sword of Damocles was removed from the head, and people's hearts were no longer hanging all the time. Even the horror of zombie viruses has also been greatly reduced.

In fact, after getting Eden No. [-], Liu Ruosong once thought about Irene's final destination - when people can be completely immune to this virus, zombies will no longer be the existence that people talk about. Maybe Irene still has a chance to escape the fate of the "petri dish" by relying on the silver fish, and become a person again.

At that time, Liu Ruosong has no objection whether she is willing to recuperate alone or to gain freedom in a small area.

Liu Ruosong tried his best to arrange the ending for her, but he didn't expect that Irene was unwilling to wait, but chose a straightforward and decisive ending.

With a clear goal, he died without hesitation on the last night before dawn.

Irene didn't want to communicate with others, so Liu Ruosong couldn't guess what she was thinking.But the timing of her actions was too coincidental, so it was difficult for Liu Ruosong to convince herself that her death had nothing to do with the vaccine.

Liu Ruosong even suspected that Irene might have been tired of such a life of inhumans and ghosts a long time ago, and the reason why she was still lingering was simply waiting for this opportunity—this opportunity when human beings no longer needed her at all.

Because the immune vaccine has been developed, the meaning of "mother" and "petri dish" ends here, so she can boldly pursue her liberation with confidence.

The more Liu Ruosong thought about it, the more he felt heavy in his heart. He shook his head, shook these chaotic thoughts out of his mind, and cleaned the pharmacy little by little.

In any case, all the guesses now are just unsolved cases, and Irene has completely slept, so these guesses will never be answered, and can only disappear with the wind.

The movement in the laboratory building was so loud that it quickly alarmed Zhao Jincheng.Liu Ruosong made a phone call with him while standing among the debris on the ground, trying to persuade the old man to believe that the criminal had "killed himself in fear of crime", and reluctantly held down his movement of dispatching troops.

"Hey, people have gone crazy recently, and they are afraid of everything." Zhao Jincheng sighed and said, "You talk about that petri dish, what happened to her, she suddenly went crazy."

Liu Ruosong understood this feeling. When he and Fu Yan escorted Eden No. [-] back to Yancheng, they couldn't sleep intermittently. They were afraid that something unexpected would happen when they woke up, and they would have to go back to the original point and start again.

He comforted Zhao Jincheng a few words, and then told Zhao Jincheng about Irene's suicide.

Zhao Jincheng pondered for a while, touched his head, and said, "Forget it, she is also a poor person. When your side is over, you can set up a monument for her in the back mountain—it can be considered as a contribution to human society."

Liu Ruosong hummed, and was about to tell Zhao Jincheng his guess, when he saw the communicator and thought about it, Fang Sining's communication pop-up window popped out.

The message bar is concise and clear, and there is only one text message set in advance, telling him to "go quickly".

Seeing this, Liu Ruosong frowned, took a break from gossiping with Zhao Jincheng, and after a few words in a hurry, he put away the line, turned around and walked upstairs.

Fang Sining, Fu Yan and the others were dissecting Irene's body upstairs. Logically speaking, they wouldn't call him for nothing serious.

The headlights were turned on in the temporary operating room, and Irene was lying on the dissection bed, her face covered with a white cloth.

Her abdominal cavity was wide open, and the surgical lamp shone sharply on her body. The light was like a sharp sword, nailing her firmly to that square inch.

Her viscous blood dripped down the dissecting bed, Liu Ruosong stood at the door and knocked on it. After Fang Sining nodded, he entered the operating room through the disinfection room.

"What's wrong?" Liu Ruosong asked.

"We have collected all the data that should be collected." Fang Sining said, "But there is a situation that I need to tell you."

"Come and see." Fang Sining's complexion is not very good, his hands are covered with blood and sticky tissue, he looks like a perverted murderer who came out of a horror movie.

Holding a scalpel in his hand, he carefully parted Irene's skin with the blade.

Fu Yan was standing on the other side of the operating table, his expression was also ugly, and he even rarely gave Liu Ruosong a look, just staring at Irene's opened abdominal cavity.

Liu Ruosong was at a loss, only felt that the atmosphere in the room was very strange, he walked forward slowly, and took a look at the situation with his head.

Some of Irene's organs were removed, and now her abdominal cavity is empty.Liu Ruosong followed Fang Sining's knife tip and looked in, only to see a blurred mass of flesh and blood.

The location of that piece of flesh and blood is very strange. It is not any abdominal organ, but is directly connected to Irene's spine, like a product of artificial "grafting".

The thing was about the size of an adult's two fists, and it looked a little shrunken, crumpled into a ball, and covered with a layer of reddish-brown film.

Liu Ruosong looked at it carefully for a while, only to feel that the outline of this thing was vaguely familiar, but he couldn't remember what it was for a while, so he asked puzzledly: "What is this?"

"It's a child." Fu Yan said suddenly.