sin of lumen

"She's dead?" Lu Ting chose to act first, as if as long as he asked this question himself, the answer he got would not make people sad.

"No," Shu Rui replied in a low voice, "but it can be said that life is better than death."

"Xiao Rui!" Lu Zhi shouted.

"Wouldn't it be more pitiful if he was unprepared?" Shu Rui raised his eyebrows and looked back with a cold face.

"What's the matter?" Lu Ting looked at him strangely, and then looked at Lu Zhi, his eyes wandering between the two closest friends as if they were desperate.

"Tell me, sister." He gently tugged on Lu Zhi's hand again.

"... Aunt Xue, and her entire team returned safely last week," Lu Zhi finally took off her strength and stuffed the stack of documents into Lu Ting's hands, "but their bodies are different after returning to the atmosphere. There was a mutation to a certain extent, and I was treated secretly in this hospital for a period of time, and Xiao Rui and I only found out about it after an emergency meeting tonight."

Lu Ting suspected that there was something wrong with his ears, or his brain. In short, he could not feel any fluctuations in his emotions when he heard these things. He just quietly flipped through the data cards in his hand, and saw the photos and physical signs of each team member. , Treatment records.Those high-spirited smiles are a bit harsh.Shed several layers of skin, rotted a few kilograms of flesh, and died.These processes are all so detailed.Sometimes Lu Ting looked at a few lines but couldn't understand them. He just felt that those words were like ants, trying to crawl into his cuffs and eat his needle holes and then eat him.

What's the matter, are you okay, Lu Ting asked himself.When people are under stress, they may indeed experience short-term dyslexia. Isn't this a generally accepted conclusion?He told himself again not to worry.

"Where did they come from? Mars?" he asked.

Maybe his reaction was too strange, Lu Zhi was also a little stunned: "I don't know. The only information we can get in touch with is medical information."

"Is it related to the zeroth element?" Lu Ting asked again.

Lu Zhi was even more surprised, "It's possible," she pointed out to Lu Ting several data of the team leader, "He has the highest carry capacity, and the treatment failed the day before yesterday, so he died. The human body's resistance to the zeroth element Bearing capacity...at present, it is very unstable and weak."

"Hmm." Lu Ting nodded thoughtfully.

"Where did you know?" Shu Rui asked directly, "The zeroth element is all top secret."

You were the ones who drew six tubes of blood from others, and then gave me popular science. Although you have all forgotten it now, Lu Ting thought about it and asked, "How many are still alive?"

"Five."

"Take me to see my mother." Lu Ting closed the file and handed it back to Lu Zhi.

Lu Zhi was still hesitating, but Shu Rui was not procrastinating. He walked out of the office first, leading the way with his white coat in his pocket, "She is in a bad state and physical appearance. Have you ever seen a body left by a nuclear disaster?" ? I have a prediction in my heart first, and it will be easier to accept it later.”

"Okay." Lu Ting said.

"Shu Rui, can you explain the method?" Lu Zhi hurriedly chased after him, rarely shouting like this, "That's his mother!"

"Method? Oh, the art of language—may I ask what art can change the established facts?" Shu Rui was also quite excited, and walked faster, shouting without looking back, "Doctor Lu, your brother should wake up from his dream! You This kind of covering his eyes until the last minute is hypocrisy and self-moving!"

Lu Zhi was out of breath, unable to answer a word.

Lu Ting just followed silently, about five steps away.He knew that these two people still cared about him sincerely, but from different angles.But he has lost the desire to mediate the dispute and ease the atmosphere.

After seeing patients in Xingu for 18 years, Lu Ting only found out today that there is a string of secret wards on the fourth floor of the hospital, in the long and narrow area sandwiched between the cafeteria and the observation deck.His mother occupied one of them. It is indeed a nuclear-level isolation. When entering the ward, one needs to change the protective clothing. Through the thick glass of the observation window, Lu Ting looked into the ward, and was soon covered by the protective clothing. Feeling suffocated.

His mother was lying on the hospital bed, surrounded by several doctors, with a medicine cart and many instruments beside the bed, very similar to ordinary critically ill patients.The only obvious difference was that half of the mother's exposed calf was covered with pustules, black and yellow, and each of them was the size of a fist.

It's really similar to radiation damage.

There is nothing new about the actions people take when dealing with the unknown.

"She can't speak." Lu Ting said slowly.

"Yeah." After several floors, Lu Zhi held his wrist.

"What's that?" Lu Ting leaned closer to the glass, pressing his forehead against it, "The first floor of the medicine cart, in the middle, is it a euthanasia injection?"

"You are very accurate." Shu Rui passed by Lu Zhi and stood on the other side of Lu Ting.

"Introduction to Drug Control—I've retaken this course," Lu Ting paused, "You've already considered this level."

"It was the last batch of doctors, and they were at a loss."

"What about you? Is there a way?"

"It's not clear yet," Lu Zhi's voice was already choked up, "That kind of thing...it's like an alien from space, we all know too little about its state, nature, and utility model, really too little!"

"We don't even have the right to know what they have experienced, isn't it ridiculous? Let the doctor treat the disease without knowing anything," Shu Rui said coldly, "Let the living go up without knowing anything, and the whole army will be wiped out." They are definitely not the vanguard of the Mars project. They have definitely gone to a place that is even more terrifying, and the government dare not even announce it! Because the whole system is rotten, and they are afraid that they will not be able to find a scapegoat if they announce it!"

Lu Ting looked away from his mother's lap and glanced at him.

Going to see Lu Zhi again: "Sister, don't cry."

Lu Zhi choked twice, obviously holding her breath in order to suppress her crying.

Lu Ting hugged her, but the protective clothing was in the way, and the hug was also very bloated, "I'm fine, really, don't cry, sister. I just want to go in and see her. I'm alone, and you all don't come in."

"Okay." Lu Zhi sniffed and quickly returned to her normal state. She pressed a few times on the operation panel under the window and broadcast to the room: "Treatment in the 4-2D ward is suspended. The relevant medical staff will rest for an hour."

The doctors themselves looked helpless. What they did just now seemed to be to wipe the patient's body with some liquid medicine. After hearing the broadcast, they quickly evacuated from the exit. Lu Zhi opened the authority for Lu Ting at the entrance. Shu Rui leaned against the wall in silence, and the two watched Lu Ting walk out of the shadow outside the glass and into the bright white of the ward.

The first feeling is that it is hot. The temperature in this ward is very high. It shows 23 degrees Celsius but the body feels like 30. The second feeling is that it is noisy. The mother's breathing is connected to the mask, and the sound is exaggeratedly amplified. There are also the sounds of various instruments working, heart rate. , ECG, blood pressure, blood oxygen saturation monitoring... maybe there are some wavelengths that are difficult for the human ear to catch, they are all crowded together, surrounded by four walls that are sufficient to isolate gamma rays, and cannot get out.

Lu Ting walked up to his mother slowly, lowered his eyes, and looked down.There was only a white sheet on the mother's body, which was put on for her by the doctors just before they left, but at this time several pieces have been soaked with pus.Wouldn't it be more uncomfortable for her?Lu Ting couldn't understand.But he really couldn't lift it to see the festering body of his mother under it.

This is the collective collapse of the eight major systems of the whole body under an unknown attack.Her face could only vaguely distinguish the outline of the facial features, and her hair was all gone, but Lu Ting recalled very clearly at this time that a long time ago, her mother was wearing a police uniform and walking down the stairs from the unit's bus, with the light behind her back and her waist side. With a pistol pinned and her long hair tied high, she knelt down to hug him and asked him how long the baby had been waiting for her mother.

Lu Ting got the definition of "beauty" at that time.This definition has not changed now, but it has gradually become blurred. With some kind of resentment and grievance, he resists to describe the image of his mother in his heart, but the result is of course forgotten.But now facing that unrecognizable face, he suddenly picked up all the beautiful impressions.

"Mom." Lu Ting said.

The most obvious change was reflected in the heart rate, Lu Ting knew, she heard it.

"I'm here, I'm here to see you," Lu Ting knelt down beside the bed. He hadn't seen him for 14 years. Even though they reunited, he couldn't bear to stay an inch away, and blinked for a second. "Do you hurt?"

Heart rate went up even higher.

"I have a lot of things I want to tell you..." Lu Ting murmured, like what?he asked himself.For example, I got married with someone I like. Although he is gone now, I still like him very much.For example, my child is gone, he may be dying, because my stomach hurts, I am sorry for him, I am already a murderer, but there is no way... Another example, I don’t blame you, and I don’t hate you, I I remember every word in the letter you left. Seeing you like this hurts me so much.

In the end, I found myself speechless.

Lu Ting stood up, walked to the medicine cart, picked up the tube of injection from the first floor, and injected it into the arm vein. It will take effect within 2 minutes. He still remembers the quizzes he did at school.Turning around, his gaze passed the stunned two people outside the glass window, and fell back on his mother.

I didn't dare to take it too seriously, for fear of hurting her, so I could only observe with calm eyes.Lu Ting saw that there were still a few intact pieces of skin on his arm, and the blue blood vessels were clearly discernible. "Don't worry, I will live a good life. I will find out who caused you to be like this one by one." He knelt back to the ground again , the pain from the lower abdomen has spread to the whole body, especially in the heart, but he restrained himself, held up his mother's arm, pierced the blood vessel with the needle, and pushed it in steadily.

The medicine was only five milliliters, and it was pushed out in an instant. The second Lu Ting pulled out the needle, he felt a pain in his spine, as if some unknown force from the ground was pulling him, trying to suck him in forever. "Mom, I love you, mom, I love you." He repeated, climbed to the head of the bed to face his mother, and saw a tear fall from the corner of his withered yellow eye.

How can this be.Lu Ting stared blankly, the empty syringe slipped from his hand and fell to the ground.

He is still not as strong and determined as he imagined.

But when everything was completed, the world also returned to silence at this moment. After the long "beep" sound of various instruments, a death sentence was pronounced.Lu Ting couldn't hear anything.

Lu Zhi broke in, looked at him with eyes swollen from crying, and pulled him out of the room with all her might. After that, Lu Ting left the confidential ward and sat on a bench in the corridor. He took off the protective headgear and mask before he noticed the tears. , he must have been crying for a long time, his neck is wet.He lowered his head and drank the glucose water that Shu Rui prepared for him. Anyone who spoke to him was cautious, it was nothing more than comfort, and it was nothing more than dealing with the funeral. Lu Ting would always hold his cold medicine box tightly, raise his head and be gentle Respond to them in a timely manner, and when the other party leaves, he will say thank you and say goodbye.

No one told him to leave.No one said cruel things like "you go home and rest".Lu Zhi stayed with him for a while, then left too.At about 03:30 in the morning, Lu Ting's tears were still streaming intermittently, which made him feel at a loss. The silence in the corridor was suddenly broken, and it was his father who came.

Lu Bingyi wore a pure black suit, followed by a group of people in the same black suits. They stopped about 15 meters away and stood in a group waiting. Only Lu Bingyi walked quickly and came to Lu Bingyi. In front of Ting.

Lu Ting stood up.

"I went to see your mother." Lu Bingyi pressed his shoulders and told him to sit back on the chair. "Xiao Ting, what you did is right, she is in too much pain."

"Have you visited before, Dad?" Lu Ting crossed his fingers and held each other tightly.

The pressure on the shoulder is not a projection.

"I've seen it." Lu Bingyi squatted down in front of him, his legs were not straight, and he seemed to be struggling.

"Yes." Lu Ting replied.He doesn't believe it.He looked coldly at this gray-haired man, the top of the federal power, his increasingly unfamiliar father, a real body of flesh and blood, it was really rare to see such a low profile towards him.

"I know she is in pain," Lu Ting said again, "so I am also in pain."

"What compensation do you want?" Lu Bingyi asked.

compensate?Lu Ting thought he had heard it wrong, and he stared round his eyes, "What do you want her to do in exchange for her death?"

Lu Bingyi pondered: "I am responsible for Xue Ling's accident."

"The project team, I will also strictly investigate and punish according to the rules." Lu Bingyi said again, raising his eyes to reveal the fine lines at the corners of his eyes, "Today we are two fathers and sons... let's talk about it today, son, I know that I have a lot of regrets for you and Xue Ling. I am not a good husband and father. It is too late to say anything now. So I want to give you the best in other aspects. Whatever you need, Dad will give you everything you need. I will definitely give it to you, I will definitely support you, and it is the same now.”

Lu Ting's tears suddenly dried up, and the tears couldn't flow out of his eyes, and he didn't even have this thought in his heart anymore.He couldn't cry anymore.

He felt so sick that he nearly vomited on the spot.

"No, you said that, didn't it make me feel more uncomfortable?" He smiled apologetically, helped his father up, with a considerate and sensible face, "I haven't thought about the compensation, can I talk about it later?" ?”

Afterwards, he sent his father away, and his behavior remained decent and stable, revealing a little fragility, exactly what an elegant and reasonable son of a leader should look like when he is enduring grief.Afterwards, Lu Ting bid farewell to his sister and left the hospital in Aldebaran-b.

At the beginning of four o'clock, the sky was about to light up, but the rain started to fall again. The suspended seven-story building was like a giant alien beast. Lu Ting left its giant mouth without any hesitation. Falling on it, black is also green, and green is also black, and Xingu Lake cannot reflect his shadow.

However, Lu Ting could clearly see that his present self was empty, and his rich flesh and blood withered away at a certain moment, leaving only one thought like a bone: I have had too many injections.

I killed my child with one shot and my mother with one shot.I won't fight again in the future, it is the same as shed tears, it is cowardly, it is a remedy after a dead sheep.I will not fight again.

He thought again: Even if I am the only one left, even if I am a hopeless fool, I will find my lover and kill my enemy.

The state of staying behind closed doors lasted for a few days. Lu Ting stayed in the traces that Dun Mochi couldn't take away in Elnath, stayed in Aldebaran's laboratory, stayed in the shooting range, and stayed in the vegetable garden.Thanks to Lucy's sticking to his post, the Bodhi cuttings have become much stronger, and his roses are already in full bloom, redder and deeper than expected, like blood.Time passed in peace, and many conjectures and a plan gradually took shape in his mind.

On the morning when the rain stopped, Lu Ting picked a rose and stuck it in the groove in front of the Aldebaran-b operating table with tape, and came to the lower general police station by the Saxon River.Once again, his identity provided great convenience, all the way to the green light, it didn't take long from dismissing it to being comfortable and easy to use, Lu Ting laughed at himself in his heart.

He found Sergeant Kaysen, who was in charge of the police station.This Kaisen's jurisdiction can be said to be the largest in the capital, from the waste mountain in the fourth district to the artificial human settlements full of dilapidated bungalows, to the "empty mountain" prison on the west side of the Red Gate military base. Insignificant places are basically within the scope of his power radiation.

"Have you received my transfer application form?" Lu Ting cut to the chase.

"It should be at the police station." Kaisen said politely.

"I sent it to your mailbox a long time ago, in August," Lu Ting said with a smile, "Now it is November, and I have the right to receive an official reply."

"You know, Officer Lu," Kaisen put down his teacup and put it next to his large plate of whipped cream desserts, "You should go to work in the special zone with your status. Being a patrolman in the central district is a grievance—"

"Oh, I see," Lu Ting interrupted him, and said again, "Can you do me a favor? The suspect who was arrested at my elder brother's wedding last time, I need to meet before execution, and the latest one Please send me a copy of all the surveillance videos, all the public transportation records and customs clearance records of all the areas you can retrieve."

"this--"

"What about this? Don't worry, I just want to investigate the case and won't let it out, and my father won't trouble you either."

"I can't find this either..." Kaisen rubbed his fat palms, his face was full of distress, as if he had been in trouble for eight lifetimes when he was approached by such an unreasonable son, "You have to go to the grassroots police station Check it out, and basically destroy it every Monday..."

"Isn't it in your computer? Don't you have permission to view it online?" Lu Ting patted the monitor.

Kaisen's face changed: "No, not here!"

"Then I want to ask, what is the use of you in this position?" Lu Ting was still polite, walked around the desk, and came to Kaisen. He suddenly grabbed his neck and pulled him hard. His chin said, "I can't do this little thing well. It's really nothing to eat in the office and eat cream cakes."

Kaisen's face turned pale with shock, the strength with which Lu Ting pinched his neck, and the way he suppressed it...it's unbelievable, what's going on?Everything that followed indicated that he was going to kill him.He was going to kill him.Lu Ting did indeed succeed. He took Kaisen's gun, but he didn't fire his own. The fat and tall man was like a bag of flour in front of his force, and he didn't need to be pierced by bullets. Dislocation and paralysis were easy. None of his men could disturb the luxurious furnishings in this room.Lu Ting pinched him between his elbows expressionlessly and strangled him. He took out a tissue and carefully wiped off the foam he had vomited on his sleeve. He threw him away and sat on the still warm office chair. .

When dialing a number on the wristband, Lu Ting smiled impeccably at the surveillance camera, put his legs comfortably on the desk, overlapped each other, and pressed the snow-white documents that had never been turned over by the heels of his boots.

"Xiao Ting?" Lu Bingyi's voice came into the headset.

"Father, I've thought about it," Lu Ting said happily, "How will you compensate me?"