Do androids dream of the sun?

The lights in the laboratory were brightly lit, and the equipment in operation made a slight roar.Mike, in a white coat, was sitting with his legs crossed with his back to the door, staring intently at the game in his hand.He caught some strangeness in the fierce fighting sound, and when he looked up, he saw the robot in charge of patrol standing beside him at some point. Unlike usual, he looked at him indifferently, which was creepy.

Mike was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, he smiled dryly and said to his companion: "Hey, what's going on with this thing?"

The laboratory was so quiet, he couldn't wait for his companion's response, and when he turned his head, he found that the other party had already fallen unconscious on the table, with blood oozing from the white coat, which might have been fatal.

A red light flashed on the robot's head, and the mechanical female voice was emotionless: "The target has been locked and is ready to be cleared."

Mike's face turned pale, he swallowed his saliva, glanced down, and saw the sharp iron claw that was still dripping blood as expected. Chill.

He didn't dare to say anything, he moved back involuntarily, and carefully stretched his hand towards the red alarm button on the desktop.The moment he almost touched the edge of the button, the robot's iron claws also went straight to his chest.

Mike was forced to stop, fell back, rolled to the ground, staggered up before the robot could get around the chair, and rushed straight to the direction of the password door.Unexpectedly, I was too hasty in the middle of the journey, my left foot tripped over my right foot, and I fell to the ground. When I turned around, I found that the robot and its iron claws were close at hand.In desperation, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and stretch out his hands to scratch, and happened to grab the robot's arm.One side exerted all its strength, but the other side couldn't advance or retreat, and there was a stalemate for a while.

He breathed a sigh of relief, but suddenly realized a problem that he had ignored because he was too nervous, and his scalp felt numb—this robot only has one hand left, so where did the other go?

Mike didn't have time to think about it, a few soft noises pierced the silence of the laboratory, and three or four pieces of iron flew out from the side and came straight towards him. By the time he realized it, his legs were already bleeding profusely.A half-beat later, the pain surged, and he couldn't help but yelled out, and the strength of his hand was loosened, and the iron claws that were restrained in front of him suddenly fell down.Mike couldn't dodge in time, and closed his eyes resignedly.

After a long while, the pain in the chest did not come, but I heard a voice saying: "Mia, that's great."

Tremblingly, he opened his eyes a little, only to see that the weird robot had already retreated and stood aside. After restraining its hideousness, it became a little more cute.And there were actually two more figures beside him.One has a gentle smile and slightly curved brows and eyes, while the other has a stern face with low air pressure.The former patted the latter's arm, full of praise: "It was amazing just now!"

The corner of the mouth of the person who was praised hooked up, and then tightened again.

"Who are you? How did you get in?!" Mike stared wide-eyed, not knowing who the other party was, instinctively propped up his body and backed away, accidentally dragging his injured leg, and grinning again.

"It's not important." Zhong Ziyang avoided answering, "I thought you passed out just now, it would be great if you didn't, Lu thought, come here."

He stepped aside a little, revealing the figure of a third person.Lu Xiang—the bionic girl they rescued—was standing there, her eyes drooping slightly. He raised his head slightly when he heard Zhong Ziyang's words, and stared directly at Mike with resentful eyes. With a handful of sharp knives, Mike may have been stabbed into a hornet's nest.

Mike really wanted to faint now. After working here for many years, he naturally knows how powerful these experimental products are, otherwise he would not need to feed them medicine regularly, and add two locks. Strictly speaking, this is still his first time. It was the first time I saw the experimental product standing in front of my eyes.With a sad face, Mike yelled without image: "You guys, how did you release it?! It's a monster!!"

"So you also know what you have done." Zhong Ziyang was so angry that he couldn't help mocking, "Compared to her, I think you are more like monsters."

He turned around and waved to Lu Xiang, beckoning her to come forward.The effect of the medicine on Lu Xiang's body has not completely faded, and his legs and feet are weak, so he can only support the surrounding equipment and walk here slowly.

Seeing that Lu Xiang was walking hard, Zhong Ziyang reached out to help her.Lu Xiang wanted to catch up with him, but he happened to catch a glimpse of Xiao Le's expression from the corner of his eye, and was taken aback. He retracted his hand resentfully, and shook his head slightly at Zhong Ziyang.

Lu Xiang also couldn't explain the reason, since the first time they met, she was a little afraid of Xiao Le.The unintentional stare at each other just now set off an alarm in her heart, and her strong desire to survive made her obediently make concessions.

Zhong Ziyang didn't know anything, and assumed that she didn't want to show weakness in front of Mike, so she moved a step to Xiao Le's side to make way for her.

Mike never thought that these two people were with the experimental product. Although Lu Xiang moved slowly, it felt more terrifying than the battle to avoid the robot.Seeing the bionic man walking towards him step by step, he was almost scared out of his wits. He cried and tried to hide behind. He turned his head and saw the closed password door next to him. With a flash of inspiration, he pointed at it and shouted tremblingly: "I , I can help you get out of here!" He gritted his teeth and raised his voice, "This door...it, it can only be opened by us, if you kill...kill me, you can only be trapped here, waiting for other People... When they find out, none of you can escape!"

"No need." Xiao Le said lightly, turning his head slightly towards Zhong Ziyang, "Shall we go over there and have a look?"

Zhong Ziyang completely trusted Xiao Le unconditionally. He said that if he could drive it, he could drive it. At this moment, he didn't take Mike's words seriously at all.

Mike was almost desperate when he saw this, and Mia stepped behind him, blocking all the way. He could only watch helplessly as Lu Xiang got closer and closer, and finally squatted in front of him expressionlessly. .

She stared at Mike, squinted her eyes, and then raised her hand and slapped him hard on the leg.Not much, but enough to make Mike feel more pain.

Lu wanted to see his painful appearance, so she slowly grinned, adding some color to her pale face, and said hoarsely, "It's your turn to play with me, sir."

Zhong Ziyang only had time to take a good look at this laboratory at this time.

After looking carefully, I found that the decoration here is actually quite simple, but the equipment and instruments are so full that people ignore the yellowed walls and the ceiling covered with cobwebs.In addition, there are several huge boxes placed in the shadows of the corners, which make one feel extremely uncomfortable at first glance, so Zhong Ziyang and Xiao Le have no intention of being curious about them.

The most eye-catching thing is the huge operating table in the center of the laboratory, directly above is a shadowless lamp, and behind it are connected several wires and mechanical arms, which are like octopus legs in mid-air.There was a thin white sheet on the operating table, and the mottled marks were clearly visible, and it couldn't be washed off at all, and the familiar stench could be smelled just a little closer.Surgical instruments and a lot of materials are placed on the side shelf, which can be described as various.

Zhong Ziyang picked up a few of them and looked at them over and over again. He couldn't imagine what kind of experiments they would use these things for, so he had to put them aside, and dragged Xiao Le to the machine that Mike was guarding.It is huge, with so many screens, that it seems out of place in this room.

Zhong Ziyang thought it looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he saw it. He could only be sure that it was worth a lot, and it was definitely not something that an ordinary bar owner in District D could buy.He frowned slightly, and pondered for a moment: "I'm going to check the information here."

Xiao Le understood: "Is there something wrong?"

Zhong Ziyang nodded: "The owner of this laboratory probably has a lot of background, I want to find out if there are any clues."

Xiao Le looked up at the various screens. There were so many data that one person couldn't read them all. He suggested, "I'll help you."

"Thank you." Zhong Ziyang smiled and pointed to the three screens on the far side, "You are in charge of these, and I will take care of the rest."

Xiao Le had no objection, and stepped forward to stand beside Zhong Ziyang, sliding his fingertips over several buttons on the console.In fact, he had no impression of this device, and he operated it all by instinct, and there was no mistake.

Most of the materials are experimental reports and observation diaries, counted eloquently, there are about hundreds of names, and Lu Xiang is the first one.She's only been here for about a month, it's still early days, and there aren't many records.Zhong Ziyang opened the report and read a section, which was enough to make him feel terrified.

He backed out in a hurry, scanned the directory from beginning to end, and after confirming that Xiao Le's name was missing, he breathed a sigh of relief and clicked on another folder.

Zhong Ziyang checked all the parts he was in charge of, and found nothing unusual except those weird experiment reports, and Xiao Le was the same.The two looked at each other, Zhong Ziyang stroked his chin and murmured in a low voice: "Could it be that I guessed wrong?"

"Not necessarily." Xiao Le thought for a while, "There are hidden files."

"Oh yes!"

Zhong Ziyang almost forgot that there was still this problem, and jumped back onto the operating table excitedly, fingers flying, and finally found a bunch of hidden folders, one of which was encrypted, and the name was a string of meaningless symbol.

Zhong Ziyang turned around immediately, walked up to Mike quickly, grabbed his collar and asked, "What's the password for the folder?!"

Mike held his head and shouted: "I don't know, I don't know anything!"

Zhong Ziyang asked again, and Mike still gave the same answer, looking a little dazed.Zhong Ziyang had nothing to do with him, walked back to Xiao Le's side, and said helplessly, "I thought he could at least last until we finished reading the materials."

"It's okay." Xiao Le looked at the password box on the screen, "Or, try 1025."

Zhong Ziyang hesitated: "The password here is still common?"

"Try it."

Zhong Ziyang thought the same, there would be no harm in trying it out, since Xiao Le dared to say it, he naturally had his reasons.He entered "1025" neatly and pressed Enter.

As expected, the password is wrong.If they make three wrong entries, an automatic alert will sound and they will have two more chances.

Zhong Ziyang was not surprised by this, and quietly waited for Xiao Le's next password.

Xiao Le said: "Try Cyril."

"C, Y, R, I, L?"

"Correct."

Zhong Ziyang didn't understand what it meant, but he still typed it in.

The password box trembled, and a big red cross jumped out, and there was one last time left.

Zhong Ziyang tilted his head slightly, seeing Xiao Le staring at the password frame, he frowned in confusion.He suddenly laughed, stretched out his index finger and waved it in front of Xiao Le's eyes, and pointed his fingertips on the center of his eyebrows: "I don't have to read this folder, it doesn't matter if I don't lose for the third time."

Xiao Le pursed his lips. He knew that Zhong Ziyang really wanted to open this folder, and his intuition told him that the information inside was very important.He looked up at Zhong Ziyang: "Trust me again?"

"Of course." Zhong Ziyang was taken aback, nodded again and again, and comforted him, "Don't be too nervous, we have arrived here anyway, and there is only one door left to reach the exit, even if you make a wrong input for the third time, the alarm will really go out, it's a big deal Just run faster later."

Xiao Le felt a little more relaxed, nodded slightly, walked to the console, and recalled a certain interface that he had just checked.He lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment: "1124."

His tone was more determined than before, and Zhong Ziyang entered the number into the password box without hesitation.

To be honest, his hands were still trembling the moment he pressed Enter.Unexpectedly, this time there was no red cross or alarm, the folder was opened, and there was a neat row of documents inside.

Zhong Ziyang's eyes widened, and he happily hugged Xiao Le: "You are amazing! How did you guess that?!"

"There is an email function that can be called up here." Xiao Le put his arms around him halfway, and pointed to one of the screens. Zhong Ziyang leaned over to look at it. An email was sent from one mailbox, and the content and address were encrypted for four or five years, but there was an exception date in the last two years, November 1025."

"I guess, this may be a very special day, at least for both parties." Xiao Le asked, "Among the people in Area A, have you ever heard of who is more important to this date?"

Zhong Ziyang's social circle is too narrow, if Du Ningqi was present, he might be able to answer in seconds.He wrinkled his face, thought hard for a long time, and popped out a sentence: "Birthday...does it count?"

"Of course."

"There really is one." Zhong Ziyang's expression suddenly became very strange, "Lance's birthday...is November 11."

Xiao Le was also very surprised, and the two looked at each other, silent for a while.Finally Zhong Ziyang pointed to the documents in the encrypted folder: "Let's take a look at this first."

The most recent document was ten years ago, and it contained very ordinary experimental reports. The format was not much different from the ones Zhong Ziyang just read, but the content was not as brutal as it is now. It was just a study on the physique and memory enhancement of bionics. There are no records of those bloody operations.At first glance, it looks exactly the same as the report that Zhong Ziyang saw at work.

The final modification time of the document is about three months apart, which coincides with the email time.They can't see why from the routine reports, they can only skip them and click on "exceptions" in them.

Inside the document is a letter without the recipient's name:

"Happy birthday, baby. I still can't go back to celebrate with you this year. I'm sorry. However, the doctor told me that my condition has improved, and I will be able to come back after a while."

Zhong Ziyang and Xiao Le continued to look down, and wrote a lot of their current situation at the back of the letter. They can roughly guess that this person is staying here temporarily, and his identity should be the acting manager of this laboratory.

At the end of this letter is a photo of a pure white, flawless, elegant and beautiful white rose quietly blooming in the glass case.Nowadays, people prefer to chase the beauty and enthusiasm of red roses. The real white roses are already rare among the rare ones, and they may not be available for money in District A.But the white rose in the photo is lifelike, unlike those plastic products on the market, it happened to be frozen at the moment of blooming, and it must have been made into a specimen.

Below the photo was written: "You deserve its most beautiful moment, wait for me to come back."

Signed is "Cyril".

The entire letter is not long, but the number of revisions is beyond imagination, which shows that Cyril attaches great importance to the other party.After this letter, another half a year later, Cyril never sent an email to the other party again, and I don't know if he has returned to the recipient.

Zhong Ziyang sighed inexplicably, and subconsciously asked, "Is there anyone named Cyril by Lance's side?"

Xiao Le looked blank: "I don't know."

Zhong Ziyang slapped his forehead, only to realize that Xiao Le hadn't remembered anything yet, and it seemed that he could only reveal the answer after the surgery.He waved his hand: "It's okay, it's me..."

Before he finished speaking, a voice suddenly came from beside him: "Yes."

Both of them were taken aback for a moment, and both turned their heads.

Lu Xiang looked at them, and said indifferently: "Cyril Bots, he is Lance Botts' younger brother."

Zhong Ziyang's jaw almost dropped in shock. He had never heard that Lance had a younger brother.He suddenly remembered the photo he accidentally saw in Lance's bedroom that day. So, the young man who looked like Lance was Cyril? !

"But, but why have we never met..." Zhong Ziyang suddenly remembered that he could not reveal his identity, so he turned around, "Have you never heard of his name?"

"Naturally, Lance Botts is never mentioned."

"why?"

Lu Xiang suddenly evoked a very faint smile, rather gloating: "Because Cyril died ten years ago."