Abnormal Museum Pokédex

The air was tense to explode.

Xiao Su stared at Yeager, seemingly calm and composed, but in fact he was already so nervous that he was about to vomit.

He was afraid that Yeager would kill him.

With his current physical strength, as long as the opponent makes a move, he will undoubtedly die.

But he had to pass this test, and he had to take this risk.

After weighing again and again, he decided not to use Fang Huize's power, but to face Yeager directly and compete with him one-on-one.

If he loses, he won't be able to get out of this laboratory tonight. If he wins, he may be able to break the balance between Fang Huize and Yeager and become a third party between them.

Although he firmly believes that Rongrui and Sun Zhisheng will eventually find ELYsion, but to prepare for the worst in everything, he must first try to save himself.

They looked at each other for only a few seconds, but it was so long that it made people feel chills in their hearts. Xiao Su watched Yeager's face turn from white to red, and the sweat rolled down from his temples, accumulating into a huge drop of water in the hollow of his chin.

Before the water drops fell, Yeager's fingers suddenly twitched. Before he collapsed, Xiao Su said softly and quickly: "Actually, I don't care where he is. Whether he is a man or a woman, whether he is dead or alive, it all matters." It has nothing to do with me, Yeager, I only care about myself."

Yeager's fingers suddenly relaxed, and beads of sweat on his chin fell to the ground.

"You can't see where your problem is, can you?" Xiao Su observed his expression for a moment, "More than three years, hundreds of experiments, I don't believe you haven't found the crux... Yeager, Don’t lie to yourself, it’s meaningless to continue this kind of experiment, it’s just repeating previous failures, the most sensible thing to do now is to overthrow it from scratch, discard the first-generation virus structure, and design a new virus structure from the original sample! "

Yeager's complexion changed, his light brown eyes kept turning, and he said nothing, but his tense body had already relaxed, and the murderous aura that had been lingering on him before unknowingly dissipated.

"Continuing with the current thinking, unless a miracle occurs, you may only come to the conclusion of 'this road is not feasible'." Xiao Su adjusted his tone, and calmly placed himself on the same line as him, Analyzing like a colleague and collaborator, "Instead of praying for one in ten thousand luck, it is better to overthrow and start again. With your research foundation of more than three years before, the new experiment can avoid many detours, maybe a few months, lucky In just a few weeks, considerable progress can be made.”

Yeager closed his eyes, put his hand on his forehead, and moved his lips a few times.

Xiao Su waited for him to be calmer, and said: "Yager, I have no intention of spying on your past, and I don't care who discovered this ancient creature, I just want to know if you don't have samples of primitive creatures ?”

"Tell me the truth." He said gently but firmly, "Fang Huize may not understand something, but with me, you can't get past it." Pointing to the direction of the ICU, "I don't want to be like that. Not safe."

A hoarse moan escaped Jaeger's throat.Xiao Su said solemnly: "You can't use one trick twice, Yeager, if you drag it on, I'll die one day, what method are you going to use to deceive Fang Huize?"

"Damn God..." Yeager murmured in German in a low voice, turned and walked outside, "Come with me."

At one o'clock in the middle of the night, the coffee pot was steaming with mellow steam. Yeager was sitting on the side of the workbench, holding the coffee cup in both hands, looking at a certain empty focus in the cup with light brown eyes, and said in a low voice, "You are really...very Awesome, I sorted out so many materials, I thought you would ignore the complicated and immature data at the earliest stage, and only pay attention to the latest conclusions...I didn’t expect you to be so patient and read everything.”

Xiao Su sat opposite him, his face was a little tired, but he was still as calm as usual: "I said, for a person who can only spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair, there is too much time to think, too much time to think. too much."

Yeager smiled reluctantly and said, "I thought it was just a joke for you to mock me."

"Part of it." Xiao Su said frankly.

Yeager smiled again: "Xiao, you are a very special person, fragile and dangerous, you can kill with one hand, but people dare not touch it casually like a dagger... I understand why Fang I love you so persistently..."

"No, you don't understand." Xiao Su interrupted him, "No one can understand something that doesn't exist... We'd better never bring up this topic."

Yeager raised his eyebrows, perhaps seeing his extreme rejection of this matter, and said: "Well...Actually, I realized that there was a problem with the first-generation virus more than half a year ago, but I didn't want to give up. So I have been holding on to the hope that if my idea is more mature, maybe the condition design is more detailed, it will be successful? Until last week, I was still arguing about the new plan.”

He sighed and said: "Maybe this is what you Chinese call 'one leaf blinding'. I have paid too much for this project. I don't want to admit that I was wrong from the beginning. I always think that the road must be It works, it’s just that I’m going the wrong way.”

He took a sip of his coffee and shook his head: "You are really cruel, Xiao. On such a beautiful night, you exposed the biggest failure in my life."

Xiao Su said: "It's still too early to say you failed. I have studied your thinking, and I really admire it. I have [-]%... no, more than [-]% certainty. If you follow this idea, as long as you have Original samples, half a year at most, you can get what you want."

After a pause, he said with a sense of regret, "If I don't succeed after half a year, then maybe it's my fate... Destiny is like a bad child who always likes to play with the toys in his hand."

Yeager looked up at his expression, his brown eyes flickering.Xiao Su took a sip of his coffee and said in a low voice, "Damn God..."

He was speaking in German, the same as Yeager said before.

Yeager raised his eyebrows, raised his coffee cup and touched him lightly, and said in German, "Who says God never throws dice, I think he is a gambler at all."

A strange and peaceful atmosphere spread between the two, which even gave people the illusion of sympathy.After a moment of silence, Xiao Su put down his glass and said, "This is a matter between us professionals, and I will not tell the third person. Yeager, to be honest, do you not have the original sample?"

Yeager closed his eyes, nodded, and said, "Yes, you guessed right, I didn't."

"Fuc..." Xiao Su cursed almost inaudibly.Yeager suddenly changed the subject: "But I know where it is."

Xiao Su raised his eyes suddenly, and Yeager said: "The discoverer of it is indeed dead—don't overthink it, I didn't kill it——I saved a batch of materials from the murderer before that person died, and The first-generation virus samples. For some reasons, these things cannot be made public, so I kept them in secret until later, by chance, I got to know Fang Huize and his mother, and then I started the targeted research.”

Xiao Su understood: "So the first-generation virus was not designed for my disease?"

"I can't say that, but my guess is that the reason why that person designed the first-generation virus in this way is mainly for stability, easy transportation and portability." Yeager said, "You are a student of biology, and you don't have any field operations." This is a common practice in our circle."

Xiao Su expressed his understanding.Yeager continued: "I was also worried about the problem of the virus, so at the beginning of the cooperation with Fang Huize, when discussing the establishment of ELYsion, I focused on this point and decided to build the base in East Africa, that is, I got the man's relic. The place."

Xiao Su's heart skipped a beat: "That stone house?"

Yeager nodded and said, "Yes, the tragedy happened on the ground at that time, in the stone house on the east side of the base...have you been there?"

"I've been there." Xiao Su said, "During the walk, Hao Yunlai pushed me in to have a look. There are some rotten tables and chairs inside, and some waste discarded by explorers."

"At the beginning of the last century, it used to be the habitat of hunters. Later, when Westerners invaded and colonized, there were fewer hunters, and it was abandoned." Yeager said, "About a few years ago, the political situation in Kili was still there. It was stable, and some explorers explored deep into the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, and there became their camp. Later, bandits headed by Bushina and her brothers began to flood, and the rebels always made troubles, and gradually disappeared. People are coming."

Xiao Su counted the time silently in his mind. Busina's rise was probably around 2008. Two years later, she married Nguf in secret, and with her husband's support, she developed into the leading opposition army in Kili.

In the second half of 2017, a large-scale rebellion planned by her broke out. After that, the northwest mountainous area was controlled by her and her troops, and outsiders rarely entered the woodland.

Yeager graduated with a Ph.D. in the spring of 2017. A few months later, he joined an American medical institution and came to work in East Africa with the team.

Then, it is basically certain that the "person" Yeager mentioned came to East Africa in the spring and summer of 2017 and discovered that ancient biological sample.

"It's a pity that after so many years, I still haven't found out where the original creature is." Yeager said regretfully, "For four years, whenever I have time, I have explored nearby, wandering in the woodland following the possible footprints of that person, as far as Been to Whale Lake but have no clue..."

"Didn't he leave any hints for you before he died?" Xiao Su asked, "Can't you find any clues about what he left?"

Jaeger's eyes flickered a little, but he avoided answering and just shook his head in general.Xiao Su knew from his expression that he was hiding something, so he decided to stab him again: "How did he die?"

Yeager supported his forehead and answered with lowered eyes: "The situation was very special at that time. I was still very young at that time, alone and unarmed. I was really powerless and could only watch that person die... This matter has always been in my heart. My regret is not only because of the sample, but also because of my own incompetence, which indirectly caused the death of a senior."

His tone was bleak and sincere, and Xiao Su almost believed it for a moment, but then realized that he avoided his own question and answered irrelevant questions—Yeger never directly answered the cause of that person's death.

There is a problem... Xiao Su had doubts, but did not pursue the question. He tentatively said: "Can you show me what that person left behind? If you change your mind, you may find new clues."

Yeager frowned, pondered the balance, looked up at him for a while, and said, "You are also Chinese..."

Xiao Su was puzzled, but he seemed to have made up his mind, and said, "Okay, I can show you something... just wait here for a while."

Yeager got up and left. Xiao Su guessed that he was going to the upper-level residence. It turned out that he had hidden some key things in his dormitory.

Who is he guarding against?

it goes without saying.

Xiao Su was exhausted, but his heart was cheered up like never before these days - he won the bet.

Maybe he could really be a third of these two.

A few minutes later, the door rang, and Yeager came in with a folder and handed it to him: "This is what that person left behind."

Xiao Su picked it up, but he didn't let go, and said in a low voice: "Xiao, you said that this is a matter between us two professionals, OK?"

Xiao Su nodded: "I won't tell him, I promise you."

Yeager let go.

Xiao Su opened the folder, his pupils shrank suddenly, and his heart beat uncontrollably.

Impossible... He looked at the thick yellow cardboard in the folder in disbelief, as if something was stuck in his throat, and he was so choked that he couldn't speak.

Lines of cipher text were drawn with purple colored pencils on the paper, mixed with variant letters and Chinese seal script radicals, and a small amount of oracle bone inscriptions.

Every few lines, a cat's paw is drawn at the beginning of the sentence.

Small and cute.

Xiao Su remembered it as clearly as yesterday, on a cold spring night, he held the picture book left by Zheng Fei, leaned against Rong Rui's warm arms, and asked him: "What is this?"

"Simple Caesar cipher." Rong Rui said to him, in a deep, lazy voice, with long-term nostalgia for his mother, "The cat's paw at the beginning of each plaintext indicates a number with a wrong frequency. For example, this cat's paw is Three fingers, then all the characters in this passage will jump back three letters when corresponding to the mother script."

This is... Zheng Fei's handwriting.

Xiao Su's eyes were hot, and he closed the folder, not daring to take another look.

Taking a deep breath, he looked at Yeager as calmly as possible: "I need some time to study it. It contains a kind of ancient Chinese writing. I have to think carefully to understand it."

Yeager didn't expect him to be able to see some tricks at a glance, and readily agreed: "Take it away, it's too late, you need to rest, and there will be time to see it tomorrow."

"Okay, good night." Xiao Su drove the wheelchair to the elevator.