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Lu Ting ran through the long corridor and ran out of this grand suspended pavilion. His Aldebaran-b was hanging on the parking pole beside the street bridge, like a bat perched on a stalactite.Lu Ting didn't go through the formal passage that required queuing, but jumped out of the railing and landed on the left wing of the spaceship, and jumped in from the cabin roof.

The toothed swing window was quickly closed, and the siren of the security robot was blocked by him.

Before he pulled up the accelerator, he had already considered the whole way—whether it would be safer to call the emergency and drive there with himself.Of course they would obey him.But in the end Lu Ting still didn't do it.The nearest emergency center is more than 100 kilometers away from Deng Mochi's house, and the distance is not much more than his advantage. Not to mention the time to apply for a pass, if you are not familiar with the situation, it is difficult to get from the broken cardboard box. Quickly pick out a specific house from the chaotic and stacked houses, and fish out the people.

Besides, no center's emergency boat was faster than the warship he drove himself, and the possibility of the other party arriving before him was basically zero.

In addition, Lu Ting has another consideration.The two children on the opposite side of the signal howled for a long time without explaining why. He didn't know what was going on with Deng Mochi, what had happened to him in the past two days, and whether outsiders could intervene.Deng Mochi has always been very mysterious, whether it is his past experience or his current itinerary.Lu Ting couldn't let go of his curiosity about the secrets he didn't mention, but he didn't insist on confession, especially at this time, he had to protect them. Those public medical institutions that only work with "natural persons" seem to be untrustworthy.

So Lu Ting just dialed Lu Zhi's communication code after setting the route and adjusting the speed to the upper limit of traffic regulations.

"Sister, take a few people who know first aid and speak hard, and wait for me at Aldebaran, and Lucy will open the door for you. I have basically all the equipment and medicines there," he said, "I'm going to take one person back. "

Lu Zhi seemed to have just exited the conference room, "Wait, don't worry, what happened?"

Lu Ting stared at the huge golden building in front of him. Facing the upcoming sharp turn, he slowly pushed the accelerator lever deeper and said, "Someone may die, and then I will die too. Do you understand?"

After finishing speaking, he shut his mouth tightly. He didn't know how he would say such a thing. Subconsciously, he didn't think that Deng Mochi would die at all. This matter was automatically classified by his brain into the forbidden zone of "never happen". But now he was very scared, so scared that he felt throbbing pain from the back of his head to his back.

"Go right away, go now, please." Lu Ting said again.

Hearing the sound, Lu Zhi was already running in high heels: "I'll be there in 10 to [-] minutes at the most, Lulu, you have to be obedient, and act like a policeman in whatever you encounter, and drive safely."

Her voice is very gentle and calm, which makes people feel temporarily relaxed.Lu Ting was suddenly able to stand in the perspective of the twins and understand their feelings when they called him.

It was all because the child was crying too hard, not because something really happened to Deng Mochi.Lu Ting found the reason for his fear.

But after hanging up the phone and realizing that everything that can be arranged has been properly arranged, Lu Ting himself became the one crying.He drove manually, raising the speed of the spaceship to 80% of the engine's limit, which was far beyond the traffic regulations. Any further increase in this weather would be automatically stopped by the safety system.Then he continued to walk through the fallout with a splitting headache, unable to make a sound, only tears streaming down his face.

About another 15 minutes later, Aldebaran-b stopped at a garbage-filled alley, which was the only place nearby that would not crush other people's property.When Lu Ting jumped out of the hatch, he saw the bungalow with light yellow walls not far away, and also saw the R180 waiting at the door, and ran over with a stretcher and a first-aid kit. The little girl was also in a state of aphasia, and hugged his arm, Almost dragged him into the house.

Deng Mochi was lying on the floor of the living room.

The situation is more stable than expected.To be precise, it is too stable.He was just wearing his normal attire, with Martin boots on, the sleeves of his corduroy jacket rolled up as he did for work, and the leather half-finger gloves were still there.At first glance, there was no blood, no skin trauma, but breathing was very light, and his face looked bad.

It was as if he had been tired for a long time, and he returned home after a long journey, lying on his own bed.

"My brother couldn't find anyone for several days. He said something happened. He often does this. Then he came back at noon today. He was sitting on the ground repairing the chair, and then, he passed out suddenly." R179 was still able to straighten his tongue, and said , "We didn't dare to move around, and he ignored us..."

Lu Ting had already put his own bracelet on Deng Mochi's wrist, and measured various basic indicators for him. Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the chair with a broken leg and the open toolbox.He realized that he had actually calmed down at an astonishing speed. Although the tears that had flowed into his neckline just now were still hanging coldly on his collarbone, Deng Mochi was right in front of him, alive and palpable, and his palm was very hot.

"What's wrong with the chair? Your dad came back to smash things again?" He asked while laying the stretcher.

"No, it's too old, the screws have come out," R179 pinched his sister's fingers to stop her crying, "My brother, is my brother okay?"

"You don't need cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but your blood pressure is low and your body temperature is high." Lu Ting spoke quickly, and directly picked up Deng Mochi and put him gently on the stretcher. "Help me carry it."

R179 obediently held the two hind legs of the stretcher, while Lu Ting held the front, quickly lifted Dun Mochi onto the spaceship, and placed him on the bench in the back cabin.

"Want to come with me?" Lu Ting asked again after setting up the return route.

"We...?" R179 stood at the cabin door and looked back, he looked at R180 guarding the door.

"Hurry up, let's go." Lu Ting became impatient.

"Let's wait here, we will, go to school well, I will take care of my sister," R179 jumped back to the garbage dump on the ground, raised his head with sweat on his face, "Officer, you must send my brother back properly!"

Lu Ting said yes, and threw him an emergency pager and asked him to press it if he had something to do, and told him to stand far away carefully, and the spaceship went up before the hatch was closed.When the airtight door was completely closed, he had already vacated, then rose, and then rose again, and the small spaceship rushed into the hazy sky alone like a warhead.

After another ten minutes or so, Lu Ting returned to the special zone at a steady speed. Aldebaran's belly compartment had been opened, and he was in a welcome mooring state, while Lu Zhi was waiting at the edge against the howling wind.

Seeing that Lu Ting had stopped the spaceship, she immediately rushed into the cabin to help, her eyes obviously paused on Deng Mochi's neck, but she didn't say much, and worked together with Lu Ting to move the man onto the trolley bed, and took the elevator upstairs together .

"Judging from the data you sent back, the problem should not be serious, the signs are stable, and acute diseases can basically be ruled out." Lu Zhi looked at the numbers on the light screen.

It just jumped from -1 to 1.

Lu Ting took off Deng Mochi's coat and put it on his shoulders: "I hope. How many people did you bring?"

The elevator door dinged and opened smoothly. Lu Zhi walked out first and said, "One."

"One?" Lu Ting raised his voice. The medical room is on the middle floor of Bi Su Wu, just two steps away after pushing the bed. When the sealed door opened, Lu Ting saw a familiar face.

He stopped in his tracks, and let the man and his sister push Dun Mochi to the center of the room full of instruments, under the bright round light on the cabin roof—two people are indeed enough.The two big trump cards of the trump card hospital.

"You can't die, leave it to us with peace of mind." Shu Rui frowned and pulled off the mask, and had already started to cut off Deng Mochi's jumper. "You have enough things in this room, it's nothing serious."

Lu Ting didn't intend to leave the room, but approached a little closer: "Let me watch."

Shu Rui glanced at him, stopped talking, and continued with his work, while Lu Zhi finished the disinfection and drew blood with high efficiency.Lu Ting was more than two meters away, silently watching that body being skillfully connected to various instruments, and six tubes of blood being skillfully drawn out of his arm.

Unexpectedly, the first time I saw Deng Mochi taking off his shirt would be on such an occasion.The bones are hard and thin, the lines are full of edges and corners, and the white skin is blued by the cold light, as if frozen under the snow.These are as expected.

Lu Ting breathed very lightly, holding the coat in his arms tightly.He knew that diagnosis was the first step in treating a disease, but he didn't know what the two doctors in his family were looking for. Those two pairs of hands wrapped in rubber gloves always made people feel confused.He couldn't get close to get in the way, the only thing he did well was to wait, not to make any noise, and he didn't even need to explain who he brought back.

The smell of rust is not ostentatious, but it is so obvious that it quietly overwhelms Shu Rui's turpentine, Lu Zhi's cloves, and even overwhelms the volatile alcohol and Lu Ting's water—Lu Ting can smell it sometimes own tears.

He had mentioned the fascinating smell of rust more than once to these two closest people before, so of course it was self-evident who was lying on the hospital bed.

"At present, it seems that it's just a coma caused by hypoglycemia and severe lack of sleep," Shu Rui said suddenly, "It's just falling asleep."

Lu Zhi hung up the bottle, looked at Lu Ting, and said softly, "He should have not eaten food for three to four days, and he hadn't slept for even longer, and he must have engaged in high-consuming activities, so his body forced Turn it off. Glucose water is not enough, get him something delicious after waking up, not too hard or too oily, his stomach will get sick."

"No, there are no other problems?" Lu Ting walked to the bed a few steps, he really wanted to run out and shout thank God, but he felt that the good things came too smoothly, so it was not credible.

Two eyelashes were stored under Dun Mochi's thin eyelids, like two tiny butterfly wings that have not yet unfolded.They don't move.

"The medicine has already been taken, just wait for people to wake up. But your friend is very special," Shu Rui took off his mask, sat on a round stool with his legs crossed, and projected the scanned image in front of Lu Ting, the color blocks on it suddenly became thicker Flickering, flashing continuously, "See those light spots, which reflect the changes in the electrical charge of the synapses. In his current state, the brain activity is still three to four times higher than that of ordinary people."

Lu Ting was still a little dazed, narrowed his eyes and said, "He's really smart."

"Hey, this is not just a question of intelligence," Shu Rui looked at Faxiao with disgust, "May I ask Sir Lu, do you know the potential of the human brain? Distorting space, compressing time, traveling through the galaxy—"

Lu Zhi glared at him lightly: "Xiao Rui!"

"Of course these are groundless nonsense," Shu Rui laughed, and then stared intently at the dynamic scan image, "but it's really hard to imagine a brain whose efficiency is several times or even ten times that of ordinary people. It's too evil. Right, is this real? Let me make a conservative estimate, when this guy looks at other people when he is awake, it must be the same as we look at mice in the laboratory."

Lu Ting thought for a while and said, "I can probably understand. He told me that he can think about many things at the same time without interfering with each other."

Shu Rui applauded: "Parallel host."

"What are you going to do now?" He asked again, "Lend me a genius boyfriend to study it? Maybe the key to the breakthrough of the solar system civilization is in our hands—"

"I'm just going to take him back to sleep." Lu Ting blushed, fixed the bottle bar on the head of the bed, pushed him onto the hospital bed, and went back to the room without hesitation.

Put on Deng Mochi's newly laundered pajamas. I don't know when this man will wake up. Lu Ting couldn't sit still, so he ran to the kitchen to cook a pot of rice porridge, put beef jerky, scallop slices and shredded lettuce, and told Lucy Help him keep an eye on the time and turn off the fire in time to keep warm. He also cut some spinach and put it in to scald it before it comes out of the pot. He feels that it can improve the nutritional value and deliciousness.

Then he hurried back to the bedroom, looking at the person lying on his big bed, silently in a daze.Lu Zhi and the others haven't left yet, saying that they have already taken a whole day off, staying here for a while, and can deal with any emergencies in time, but Lu Ting doesn't want to go out to find them, he is afraid of Deng Mochi After waking up, I found no one around at first sight, so I decided to stay on guard until the person opened his eyes.

You slept so deeply, you scared me to death just now, he thought quietly, didn’t eat, drink or sleep a few days ago, did you do something very difficult and important?If you trust me, you can take me with you. Although I am useless, I will bring a lot of delicious food, enough to feed both of us.

I also have a lot of delicious food now, much better than glucose water, when will you wake up?he thought again.

Looking at Deng Mochi's eyebrows and eyes was like reading an incomprehensible painting.Lu Ting sighed.Fu ** lay on the edge of the bed, held Deng Mochi's hand, and then embraced it with both arms.The sponge mattress is very high and soft, and he is very contented to hold it. This position is actually quite suitable for sleeping, but Lu Ting can't close his eyes, and just counts the time to pass every second.The pulse in her arms is slightly faster than the second hand on the watch.In a daze, he suddenly wanted to grow a pair of gills to better breathe the air around them.

Starting from noon, the night passed like this, Lu Ting insisted on not dozing off for half a minute, and changed all four bags of glucose.At around seven o'clock the next morning, there was a knock on the door, but the two still hadn't left.

Shu Rui had already put on his windbreaker, pointed to Lu Ting's eyes, and couldn't help laughing at the pair of dark circles under his own style.

Lu Zhi was carrying a medicine box on one shoulder, her long hair was hanging down, and her face was solemn, "There is something I have to tell you," she said hoarsely, "Do you know the zeroth element?"

"What's wrong?" Lu Ting didn't seem to be able to retrieve any impressions from his memory.

"This thing is top secret. In fact, we don't know much about it. To be precise, all human beings don't know much about it," Shu Rui explained, leaning against the wall with his pockets in his pocket. People moved there not to build nutrient soil, but to build chemical plants on it, release inert gases, and adjust the atmospheric pressure of Mars to be close to that of Earth. This happened 40 years ago, and it took 30 years to exhaust the gas."

"I know that." Lu Ting subconsciously blocked the bedroom door with his body.He didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in this gourd.

"It is said that there is another reason why the landing time has been delayed again and again." Shu Rui looked at Lu Zhi, and said, "When the factory was being built, someone found something that seemed to be a ruin of civilization on the surface of Mars."

Lu Ting widened his eyes.

"There are photos and videos, and a lot of samples were brought back. They said they were collected on the spot, and then gossip spread everywhere. People who want to make money from all walks of life have invested a lot of research. Some people claim to have found substances beyond our cognition. , maybe it can’t be defined by matter, it has no weight, and it doesn’t even have a form we can perceive, but it’s more like a phenomenon.” Shu Rui paused, “Well, it was actually my dad’s laboratory that first proposed it. Yes, like fire, the ancients thought it was an element, but it's actually just a violent oxidation process. So my dad called that phenomenon the zeroth element."

"So what's the phenomenon?"

"I don't know. The top-secret incident decades ago, I didn't exist yet, and it was also hearsay later."

"The universe is so big, there are endless things we can't figure out, isn't it?" He laughed again.

Lu Ting understood at a glance that this person was not telling the truth.

He looked at Lu Zhi: "Sister, is this what you have to tell me?"

"The research on the zeroth element has never been interrupted. The most cutting-edge development is that humans can measure its existence, estimate its content, and further infer its impact." Lu Zhi spoke very slowly, and it seemed that she said this, and it was also true for her. Difficult, "There are also organizations trying to put living bodies and newly collected samples together to see if it is compatible with those species. So far, there have been no completely successful cases."

"Yeah." Lu Ting put his hand on the door frame and pressed his fingers tightly.He can probably guess how cruel the experimental process is behind this understatement.If there is no success story, it is all dead.

"Your...boyfriend, we took a blood sample. There is no special equipment here. I just made a rough estimate last night," Lu Zhi said slowly, lowering her eyes, and suddenly raised her eyes as if mustering up her courage, looking at Landing Ting, "Xiao Rui and I suspect that his carrying amount is extremely high, even higher than the samples from the ruins."

Lu Ting looked at her without blinking: "So he is an alien? Sister, stop joking."

"It's not the alien's problem. If he really carries so much, it will be a miracle on the human body. His body functions and efficient brain are most likely related to the zeroth element, and that is the breakthrough," Lu Zhi said. Pressing Lu Ting's shoulder, "Dad has been paying attention to this issue, you know Lulu, Dad will never allow you to be with the descendants of artificial humans, but if M83 is special, everything may be—"

"You want to take him back for experiments." Lu Ting interrupted.

"Is he the guinea pig?" He almost laughed out of anger.

"We will try our best to ensure his safety." Shu Rui picked up the cigarette rod again at some point, and now, he put it down.

Lu Ting just glanced at him briefly, and suddenly pulled the medicine box from Lu Zhi's shoulder. When he opened it, the six tubes of blood were indeed inside, sandwiched between the cold foam cotton, and three of them were tied with "used blood tubes". "symbols of.He yanked the waste pipe straight out of the wall, threw six test tubes in, and put the seal back on.

The sound of the glass being smashed into crumbs was heard immediately, and perhaps some liquid was splashed on the pipe wall, which was a bit ear-piercing.Nothing.

"I don't need my father's permission." Lu Ting said.

He hung the medicine box back on his sister's shoulders and looked directly at the stunned two people, "It's only natural for me to be with the person I like. He was brought back by me, and I am very grateful that you treated him. Before I knew about it, I studied his blood all night, and the next day he came to tell me a bunch of unfathomable truths, but he didn’t even want me to understand, so I wanted to take him to study? Sister , Shu Rui, you know better than me, 90.00% of the research done by Dad is murder, he doesn’t think there is anyone else besides himself. When his dream of a higher civilization is realized, the whole world will die. I won’t let you take away people, not even blood.”

"Lu..."

"I hope you don't tell anyone about last night's speculation or discovery," Lu Ting said again, "If you still treat me as a younger brother and a friend. The person behind me, he knows everything. It can’t come out, and I won’t come out, I will guarantee this with my life.”

Shu Rui shook his head, looked at the wall and smoked, and said nothing, while Lu Zhi pinched the bridge of his nose and stared at the ground, his lips trembling, with a painful expression on his face.

This made Lu Ting very painful to watch. After a few minutes of silence, he tried to say something, but failed.He tried to pat his sister's shoulder again, but just a second before he touched it, he watched his sister fall to the ground in a prone position, her black hair spread all over the floor to cover her face.

Shu Rui also fell down almost at the same time, lying on his back sliding down against the wall, rolling on a slight slope in the electronic cigarette corridor, rolling until he reached the groove at the connection between the two cabins, and then stopped.

But Deng Mochi had already woken up, and quietly walked from behind Lu Ting to his side.

"What's wrong with them?" Lu Ting couldn't stand still, and turned away with his whole body stiff.

"Fall asleep." Deng Mochi replied, looking at him intently with a pair of eyes that were brighter than usual.