Little Mushroom

"Di-"

"Di-"

"Di-"

I don't know where, the instrument is beeping monotonously.But there was another voice present throughout the room.

"Dong dong."

"Dong dong."

"Dong dong."

The sound is very similar to the heartbeat of a human being, but it is not real, because it permeates the entire room, and there seem to be devices playing sound in the corners of the four walls.

At this moment, the sound of footsteps came from the end of the room. It was two human beings who were talking while walking, as if they were recording something.

After a while, a brief conversation sounded.

"Zone 4 is normal."

"Zone 6 is normal."

"No. 113 stopped growing."

"keep an eye on."

"No. 334 has abnormal proliferation and must be destroyed."

"Transplant number 334 is too early."

"No way, the report I made last time was not approved, and the superiors are determined to use the high birth rate to offset the high abnormality rate."

"In the past two years, the abnormal rate of embryos has been increasing. This is not a wise decision at all. The embryos must stay in the mother's body for at least one month to ensure smooth development."

"The flowering period of the mother's body is too short. If the time is prolonged, the birth rate will not be enough."

"Why is it so difficult?"

"Be optimistic, the overall number of children is improving."

The sound of footsteps gradually faded away, only the sound of the heartbeat that permeated the entire room was still ringing.The light in the room is dim and soft, it is a stable nest, or a huge hollow organ, and the powerful heartbeat is like a proof of the existence of life.

An Zhe slowly withdrew from the channel, and he felt a little uncomfortable in his body - it seemed that there were some strange fluctuations in this place that were affecting his body.But fortunately, after seeing the human room layout, he finally regained his cognition of up, down, left, and right.He had to go somewhere closer to the outside of the building.

Turning around in the pipe again, he found many vents, and these vents lead to one small room after another. It seems that it is still the time when people are sleeping, and one person is asleep in each room. I couldn't get out of the bed to see, but I could hear breathing, very faintly, the breathing of the cubs.The windows were sealed, and there was a camera with a red light above the room, so he couldn't escape through this kind of room.

So after a long time, An Zhe finally managed to find a vent on the ceiling of the corridor.

He came out cautiously, with his body stretched flat on the ceiling, climbing the ceiling and moving in the corridor—the camera was looking down, so it couldn't capture the picture on the ceiling.

The layout of each floor of the Garden of Eden is similar, and he recognized that this should be a corridor for handling chores. The warehouses for storing indoor cleaning tools, daily necessities, food and sundries are all here.

He became slightly agitated. According to the rules, there would be a door in three quarters of the corridor leading to a medium-sized terrace—occasionally used to dry things, and sometimes the staff would smoke there.

Soon, An Zhe successfully found the door. He tried his best to stretch out the mycelium and slipped in through the crack of the door.

It was bright outside—it was already daytime.

But before An Zhe had time to think carefully, his attention was completely diverted.

On the empty terrace, on the concrete fence, stood a small white figure, a girl in a white skirt.With her back to An Zhe, facing the outside, she was slowly opening her arms and leaning forward - she would fall right away.

An Zhe's human form appeared, he took a few steps forward, grabbed the girl's shoulders, carried her off the fence, and put her on the ground: "You..."

The girl turned around.

An Zhe was stunned.

He had seen her before. Just two days ago, she ran from the Garden of Eden to the road outside, was stopped by Lu Feng, and was finally taken away by the staff of the Garden of Eden. He would not admit her mistake.

At this time, she glanced at An Zhe, which was almost lifeless, not as bright as the children in An Zhe's class. For a moment, An Zhe felt that the girl was a lifeless puppet.He knew that his current image was not ordinary. Wearing a gown made of mycelium, he might look like a human being who went out in a bed sheet—but normal humans would not go out in a bed sheet.

But the girl didn't seem to see anything, she didn't seem to feel how special An Zhe's dress was, or how abrupt An Zhe's appearance was.She also doesn't seem to recognize him, or, she doesn't remember the man's existence at all.Three seconds later, she slowly turned back to look forward.

It was early morning outside at this time, the aurora had just faded away, thick white mist overflowed the dark gray city, undulating waves rushed towards the gray blue sky, at this angle, half of the field of vision was covered by the cylindrical magnetic field not far away It is larger and higher than all buildings, like a mountain, an island in the sea fog, or a spiral staircase connecting the sky and the ground.The lamps of the street shone with the morning stars of the sky, but they were eclipsed before such a gigantic figure.

And the girl looked up at the infinite sky above.

"I didn't want to jump." Her voice was immature, but her words were clear: "I wanted to fly."

An Zhe said: "It will fall."

She said, "I know."

Her tone is also flat, unlike a child of this age.When the morning wind blows, her white skirt and black hair are blown up, which is unusually slender and soft, and women and girls outside don’t have this kind of thing—Dussey also has such qualities, but This girl is more obvious again.

An Zhe stood behind her. He had just protected a human cub, and he paid the price for it. At least, his existence was exposed in the eyes of this girl. Now he is in extreme danger and cannot reveal anything. flaw.

He said, "Why are you here?"

"Sometimes, the monitoring will be messed up for a while, and they haven't noticed it yet." The girl said: "I'll come out to watch the sky."

"You can also watch the sky during free time." An Zhe said, "What floor and shift are you on?"

He takes his duties as a teacher seriously and cannot let the cubs stay in such a dangerous place.

"I'm in the Garden of Eden," she said.

An Zhe: "Which floor and shift are you on in the Garden of Eden?"

"I'm not on the same floor or class." She said, "Boys are there."

An Zhe patiently explained to her: "There are also girls in the class."

There are many girls in his class, such as Jisha—although they are dressed similarly to other boys, they don't wear skirts like the girl in front of them, and have shoulder-length hair.

"Those girls are not girls." She turned to look at An Zhe: "The real girls are those above the [-]th floor."

An Zhe: "Why?"

"Don't you even know that?" she said.

An Zhe: "I don't know."

He really didn't know much about this human base.

For the first time, an expression other than ordinary appeared on the girl's face, and the corners of her lips curled up, with a vague complacency: "Then you don't know the "Rose Declaration" either."

An Zhe: "What is it?"

The girl turned around, lying on the railing, and the sun was faintly rising in the sky.

"Then you don't know about bacterial infection, do you?" she said.

An Zhe: "I know."

He still knows about the disaster that killed 90.00% of the human beings in the world.

"Only those with good genes can survive," she said.

An Zhe: "Yes."

Vigorously mutated bacteria, human treatment methods are ineffective, and can only escape infection by virtue of innate immunity. A person's genes are destined to resist this disease, and he can survive.

"Then, after those people survived, they found that very few live children were born in the world." She reached out to comb her hair, paused for a while, as if organizing her words, and then said: "After the infection , Those girls who survived have defects in their fertility. There are only a few of them, and their defects are relatively small."

An Zhe didn't speak, she wrinkled her nose, and continued: "Scientists will give them a genetic test. Those with a score below 60 will completely lose that function, and those with a score above 60 may give birth to normal children. Then, just With the Declaration of the Rose. You are a boy, and the Declaration has nothing to do with you."

An Zhe asked, "What is the declaration?"

"We just recited it." She said, "Do you want to listen?"

An Zhe: "Okay."

Her tone was calm, and she said back: "Human four-base fertility score of 60 and above 370 women passed the following declaration with zero votes: I voluntarily dedicate myself to the destiny of mankind, accept genetic experiments, and accept all forms of assisted reproductive methods, for The human race continues its career and strives for life."

"That's it." She said: "So I'm on the twentieth floor, and you are below, now you know."

"Thank you." An Zhe said, "But you still have to be careful not to come to such a dangerous place."

"I won't jump." She said, "I come every week, don't you come too?"

She looked at An Zhe again: "I want to see the sky, so I came here, why did you come?"

An Zhe: "I can't find my way back."

"I know the way." She said, "I have a secret passage."

An Zhe thought for a while: "I don't have any clothes to wear either."

"I also know where the laundry is," she said.

An Zhe asked her: "Then can you tell me?"

She didn't answer directly, but said, "Are you a student from the lower class?"

An Zhe: "I am a teacher."

"Promise me one thing." Her eyes seemed to brighten up, and she said to An Zhe, "Promise me one thing, and I'll go find you clothes, and then take you out through the secret passage."

An Zhe asked, "What's the matter?"

"Find a boy named Sinan on the 6th floor, and tell him that I have been injected with a tracer, and I will not be able to go out to play with him in the future." She said: "At this time next week, come here again, tell me he said what."

An Zhe was silent.

The girl looked at him and asked, "Can't you do it?"

"I..." An Zhe looked at her, she blinked, and now she looked like a normal child.

In the end, An Zhe said, "I may not be able to do it."

She said: "If you can find it, he is on the sixth floor."

An Zhe didn't speak.

But she seemed a little anxious, pushed open the balcony door, and said, "I'll get you clothes."

Before An Zhe had time to call her back, her white skirt disappeared through the door.

If the Sinan she was talking about was the one An Zhe knew, then he was no longer in the Garden of Eden, but in the lighthouse.But An Zhe didn't know what would happen to her if he really told her the news. He knew that human emotions would cause pain.

So until the girl went out and came back, dragged him through the dark and empty corridor, and finally stopped at a small half-open door among the debris, he didn't think about what to say.

"If you can go in, you can go down to the first floor." She pointed to the doorway.

The door was ajar, technically no longer tightly closed due to disrepair, but loose.But the chain-like rusted metal deadbolt was still hanging on the door and embedded in the wall, so that it could only be opened a small amount, only enough for a child to sneak in sideways.

An Zhe said, "I'll try."

He walked to the door and leaned slightly.

It is impossible for an adult to pass through here. However, he is still a mushroom after all. Under the cover of clothes, his body briefly changes into a mycelium state. After losing the restriction of human bones, he can easily enter through the door.

"Your body is so soft." The girl said.

"I have one thing too," An Zhe said, "Can you not tell others that I have been here?"

The girl said, "If you come here again next week—"

Her voice stopped abruptly.

"Lily?" A female voice rang out.

"You're here again." The voice was slightly reproachful.

An Zhe dodged to the side, and he heard Lily say, "I'm sorry, ma'am."

"I found you this time," the woman called "Madame" said softly, "If it was them, you will be locked up again."

Lily said: "I won't do it in the future."

Then there was the sound of footsteps, they seemed to be walking out, An Zhe looked over there through the gap, and saw Lily being held by a lady in a long white dress, and her figure gradually walked away in the dark corridor.

Lily didn't finish her sentence, but he knew what she wanted to say. He seemed to have reached an agreement with Lily. He would come here again next week and tell her about Sinan's reply.

He was very preoccupied, and looked around—the surroundings were dark, and the damp smell spread over his face. He vaguely saw the wall skin was mottled and peeled off, covered with gray-green mold spots, and the ground was covered with gray-white powder debris—this is a small place. Steep stairwell.And, obviously, it hasn't been used for an unknown number of years.

An Zhe found the position of the handrail of the stairs, and walked down it bit by bit. There were no windows, and it was darker than night. This place was not much better than the pipes.

There are 20 steps on each floor. An Zhe counted the number of floors while walking. When he went down to the 6th floor, there was a gap in the small door in the stairwell about the size of the 20th floor. He went out through it. And reached the utility room on the 6th floor.

The bright lights shone on him, and the clothes Lily gave him were the uniforms of Eden staff, a snow-white shirt—no different from his previous attire, he went out, and glanced at the time on the wall clock in the corridor, it was seven o'clock , if he went to work at the training base from the Garden of Eden—he was already late.

So An Zhe went downstairs and quickened his pace towards the door.In the hall, the bright red slogan "Human interests are above all else" is particularly eye-catching on the white wall. The staff in white uniforms are walking on the bright ground, and the voice of a child can be heard in the distance. Everything is different from the inside of the deep and winding pipeline. , he felt himself alive again.

The glass door of the hall opened and bumped into a person head-on.

An Zhe: "..."

Lu Feng.

Behind Lu Feng is Seran.

He saw Lu Feng's eyes narrowed, and he felt some danger from this movement.

Sure enough, Lu Feng said in a deep voice, "Why are you here?"

Facing this person, An Zhe's hyphae were about to explode.

He shouldn't be in Eden now, he should be at the training ground with Colin.

"I..." He looked up at Lu Feng.

And those cold green eyes stared at him, which seemed to mean: You can start making up.

An Zhe said: "...I went wrong."

Really went wrong and completely lost in the underground of the whole city.If he hadn't happened to be in Eden, or found the terrace in time, he could have remained trapped in that place, lost his identity as a human, and never been able to come out.

and……

And Lu Feng, this bad guy, has nothing to do with him from now on.

He lowered his eyes slightly, and for some reason, he actually felt that the Colonel was not as hateful as before.

I heard Seran gently say: "It's time to go to work at the training base today, didn't you realize that you have changed places?"

An Zhe didn't speak, the sun rose from behind the artificial magnetic pole in the distance, and the golden light shone on the silver buckle of Lu Feng's uniform.

His voice was a little hoarse: "And he's going to be late."

Lu Feng didn't speak, but he didn't make things difficult for him either.An Zhe felt that based on Lu Feng's knowledge of his IQ, Seran's reason was convincing enough.An Zhe moved to the side, trying to bypass Lu Feng and leave here.

Lu Feng's voice suddenly came from beside him: "I'll see you off."

Lu Feng's car drove very steadily and fast, at least twice as fast as the ferry car. When it stopped at the gate of the training base, the time on the car's display screen was just 25:5 in the morning, and it was still before the required time for work. There are [-] minutes, no lateness.

It's just that when getting off Lu Yan's car, An Zhe felt that those who also came to work at the training base all took a look at him.

Anyway, it wasn't the first time he was seen. An Zhe came to the card-swiping gate at the door, and people came over one after another, swiped the gate with their ID card, and entered inside.

An Zhe paused - he discovered something.

There were footsteps behind him, he turned his head and saw Lu Feng standing very close behind him, raising his eyebrows, looking at himself.

An Zhe: "...I forgot to bring the card too."

Lu Feng just heard a soft "tsk".

Two slender fingers clasped the blue ID card and placed it on the sensor. With a "beep", the gate opened.

It was Lu Yan who opened the gate for him with his ID card.

At the same time, the Colonel's voice sounded in his ears with a faint dislike.

"so stupid."