Little Mushroom

An Zhe watched helplessly as his spores protruded from the mycelium and touched Lu Feng through a glass. Even when Lu Feng's hand left, the mycelium drooped down, and there was even a hint of disappointment in that appearance.

Seeing the behavior of the spores, An Zhe also felt a little sad, as if he had just experienced it himself.When Lu Yan raised his hand, he didn't want him to get close to the spores, but when he let go, he wanted him to stay longer.

In this short second, the camera switched to a researcher in a white coat, who said that this sample showed unprecedented inertia in infection variation.

"After four months of analysis and research, the extract of the sample will not infect any organisms. Similarly, when we infect the sample with the extract of mutated organisms, we have not observed any changes in its structure." The researcher Dao: "Lighthouse thinks this may be a breakthrough for us to overcome mutation."

An Zhe clenched the handle of the thermos. Humans said that his spores were the breakthrough to overcome the mutation, which meant that the spores would be very tightly protected.

Finally, the announcer summarized the news in a positive tone, saying that the future of the base is bright, and he thanked the researchers for their efforts.

The news time is over, followed by the weather forecast. According to the lighthouse observation, the area where the base is located will experience a sharp rise in temperature in the last three days, reminding all areas—especially the lighthouse laboratory and the Eden crop breeding base to pay attention to it.

An Zhe didn't want to listen anymore, he left the house and got on the ferry.Along the way, he was thinking about how to get close to his spores. First, he needed to know the exact location of the laboratory, and then observe the working patterns of the researchers. Normally, the researchers would not stay in the laboratory 24 hours a day. .If he can enter the laboratory through the ventilation duct when no one is around, and find a way to get the spores back into his body——

Then he can find a way to leave the human base and return to the abyss.

The experimental samples were stolen, and humans will definitely track it down. He seems to have no choice but to escape.

Thinking of this, An Zhe turned his head in a daze, and looked at the brightly lit city through the glass of the ferry car.The aurora has risen, and the green light is rolling in the night sky, changing rapidly, just like the passage of time.

The announcement sounds, the Twin Towers have arrived.

An Zhe got out of the car with the thermos bottle in his arms, opened the door with Lu Feng's ID card, entered the hall, and went upstairs.In the silver corridor, each laboratory is brightly lit, and different instruments emit sounds of different frequencies, back and forth one after another.He found Dr.'s laboratory, but only Dr. Ji and his assistant were inside.

"You're here." The doctor looked up at him and said, "Lu Yan will be back later."

"Okay." An Zhe put the thermos on the workbench, unscrewed it, and filled a bowl for the doctor.The performance of the heat preservation device is very good, the soup is boiling hot, and the rich aroma is released with the transpiration of white mist, covering the entire laboratory.

"My God," the doctor picked up the cutlery he handed over, "you're so kind."

An Zhe smiled.

Doctor: "Aren't you going to eat?"

An Zhe: "I'll wait for him to come back."

Doctor: "Tsk."

"I won't wait for him." The doctor said, and then he looked at the assistant again: "Keep playing."

The assistant said: "Okay."

An Zhe looked at the computer interface in front of the doctor, and the central window was playing Sinan's video information.Under this window is another window, which is partially covered, and the mailing list can be seen. The doctor sent another email to the two recipients of "Dungeon" and "Research Institute".

His gaze turned back to Sinan on the video, the gray bee.Lily was chatting with him endlessly, one second she was still saying: "Do you have honey?", the next second it became: "Is it fun to be a human or a bee?"

"It got bigger," he said.

And it's easily noticeable.

The doctor ate a piece of chicken, squinted his eyes and looked at the screen: "Indeed."

The assistant said at the right time: "Gain 10 kilograms."

Doctor: "What did it eat?"

Assistant: "No food."

The doctor said: "It's like this again."

"Shouldn't be thinking about it at mealtime," he said. "It would have been nice."

An Zhe asked him, "What's wrong?"

"The change and growth of alien species not only violates the existing definition of biology, but also challenges the law of energy conservation." The doctor looked at Sinan and said, "Biological organisms absorb energy from the outside world and transform it into themselves. But human beings become alien species. There may be a ten-fold increase in body size, and the muscle mass is many times higher than that of humans. Where does the energy come from? Human flesh and blood can't provide that much as a petri dish, they are simply created out of nothing."

An Zhe didn't speak, he didn't have this knowledge, but the creatures in the abyss were indeed huge.

"Forget it," the doctor said with a sigh, "Our knowledge system has completely failed, and it's not just a day or two."

He continued to immerse himself in that delicious bowl of mushroom soup, but still kept his eyes on the screen.

When he was about to finish drinking, An Zhe said, "Do you want more?"

The doctor didn't answer, An Zhe looked into his eyes and found that he was staring at the screen.

"Replay." He said.

The assistant plays back the video to 1 minute ago.

Lily was already tired and leaned against the glass wall: "Don't hit the wall, it hurts."

He added: "Although it's tiring to talk all the time, the lighthouse is more fun than the Garden of Eden."

At this moment, Si Nan regained his brief sobriety, and tapped the glass lightly with his chelicerae covered with fluff and thorns.

Lily: "You're awake."

The chelicera trembled slightly, and knocked several times in a row.

The doctor frowned.

"0.5x speed, then replay."

The frame zooms in, slows down, and focuses on its knocking on the glass.

"The interval between the first tap and the second tap is the same. After a long pause, tap again, and then pause again." The doctor took out a notebook and quickly punctuated it with a ballpoint pen. "After this pause, tap three times in a row. , with the same interval."

As he spoke, he recorded the three numbers 2, 1, and 3 on the paper.

After this video was played, the doctor said: "The next sober record."

The assistant began to adjust the pace. He looked like a doctor's student and asked, "Do you suspect that it uses tapping frequency to transmit messages?"

Doctor: "It's definitely not normal...but he's just a six-year-old kid."

He looked at An Zhe: "What courses do you have in your math and logic classes?"

An Zhe said: "Arithmetic, geometry and reasoning."

"Will you tell them extracurricular stories?" The doctor asked, "Such as radio codes."

"No." He said again: "He didn't enter Class A, so he wouldn't have such a high IQ."

An Zhe: "His test paper is full marks, and his failure to enter Class A is due to psychological factors."

The doctor nodded to show that he knew, and started to watch the next video.In this video, Sinan was awake for a short time. He knocked twice quickly, and the interval was different from before.

The doctor drew two extremely close points on the paper: "The next paragraph."

In the next paragraph, Si Nan knocked on the wall seven times at the same time interval.

The next segment—in this video, it was awake for a full five seconds. In the first half of the video, its performance was surprisingly consistent with the first video, two clicks, one click, three clicks.When the third strike was completed, he paused for a long time, and then fell down twice quickly.This footage is like a splicing of the first and second segments.

The doctor made notes in his notebook, and the video continued to play. In the fifth video, he tapped seven times in a row.In all the waking clips since then, his tapping has maintained such a cycle, until five o'clock arrived, and Lily was picked up by the staff of Eden.

The doctor wrote down such a string of numbers in his notebook.

2、1、3、1、1、7、2、1、3、1、1、7、2……

The assistant said: "Do you want someone with a mathematics and physics direction to decrypt it?"

"No," said the doctor. "The message he wants to convey is very short, and it won't be difficult...Let me think about it."

An Zhe looked at the string of numbers with a frown. Human beings communicate through language. He didn't know how numbers should carry the function of conveying information, unless there were some words hidden in these numbers.

"2, 1, 3..." The doctor seemed to relax his frown.

An Zhe hesitated for a while, and said, "b, a, c?"

"Alphabet," the doctor quickly wrote down the three letters bac on the page.An Zhe looked at his previous records. After 2, 1, and 3, Sinan tapped twice in a row, so it should be bacaa. The sixth tap was seven, and 7 corresponds to the letter g in the alphabet.

Consistent with his thinking, the doctor wrote down the six letters of bacaag, but drew a horizontal line under the two consecutive a's.

The assistant said: "The interval between these two taps is very short, it is another language expression."

"11." The doctor said suddenly: "Two short taps do not represent two separate 1s, but the tens digit 11."

The letter corresponding to 11 is k, so that string of characters becomes backg again.

The doctor said, "How is his English?"

An Zhe: "It's also a perfect score."

Foreign languages ​​account for almost 50.00% of the content in language and literature classes. If these children grow up and enter the lighthouse, they will have high requirements for language ability when consulting documents and materials of human civilization.

"back," the doctor said a word, then moved the letter g forward and put it at the front, squinting his eyes, "goback, a very concise expression, in other languages, it won't be so short. And..."

The assistant said: "And within Lily's understanding, if she can notice, she will understand."

The doctor nodded: "He wants her back, what does that mean?"

The video was still going on, and Lili said listlessly to Sinan who was flying around: "The doctor said that the base is very dangerous now, you have to help us, otherwise everyone will turn into monsters, it's scary."

Assistant: "If they are good friends, it means that Eden is a safe place, and he knows or foresees that the outside world is dangerous, so he will let her go back."

"But this boy was infected and became a heterogeneous species in the Garden of Eden." The doctor pondered for a while: "Could it be that the first heterogeneous species appeared in the Garden of Eden, and then the investigation center of the Tribunal was transferred there, but it was a strategy of making a fuss?"

Assistant: "Do you want to have a meeting to discuss?"

The doctor glanced at the door of the laboratory: "Why hasn't Lu Feng come back yet?"

He took out the communicator and dialed, but there was a busy signal over there, and the assistant said, "Maybe I entered a laboratory with signal shielding."

An Zhe was keenly aware of the opportunity, and asked, "What did he do?"

"It's still the project in the afternoon," said the doctor. "They decided that the colonel could promote the growth of a sample, and insisted that he take care of the child."

An Zhe said without thinking, "I can go to him."

The doctor smiled and looked at him: "You two have such a good relationship."

"Alright, you can bring him back and have dinner." The doctor said, "The laboratory is of a very high level. It is a joint venture between the military and the lighthouse. Take the elevator to the 13th floor, cross the corridor bridge, and find room D1344."

An Zhe: "Okay."

He turned and left the laboratory - apparently Lu Feng was staying with his spores again, maybe this person was very close to the glass water tank, or stretched out his hand and played a touching game with the spores.He doesn't know why this happened, but he absolutely doesn't believe the nonsense that "Lu Feng promotes the growth of spores". grow up.

The elevator arrived, and there were two people inside, two researchers, who were talking about the latest weather.

"It's warming up after high winds and the weather has been pretty extreme lately."

"Summer is here, and it's normal. The base is more afraid of cooling than rising."

"Indeed."

"But I've heard it's because of fluctuations in the strength of the magnetic field."

"Is there a problem with artificial magnetic poles?"

"The laboratory next door has observed several abnormal fluctuations. There is no problem with our eastern magnetic pole. Everyone agrees that the western magnetic pole is manually adjusting the frequency."

"Wow," the researcher smiled, "Has there been any new progress in the technology of the dungeon base?"

"I guess so, otherwise no one would dare to move the magnetic pole. They have already contacted the system warfare center and applied to open the strong frequency short-wave communication to communicate with the base in the dungeon."

"Everything is getting better."

Everything is indeed getting better, and he is about to see his spores—the elevator door opens, An Zhe walks out,

The corridor bridge connecting the lighthouse and the two buildings of the United Front Center is very wide, and the sides are transparent, made of glass or other materials.

The D1344 laboratory was easy to find, so he knocked on the door.

A female voice said: "Please come in."

As soon as An Zhe entered the door, he saw the glass water tank in the center—exactly the same as the one on the news, and the small white ball—

Next to the small white ball is Lu Feng in black uniform. He put his finger on the water tank, and the spores were wandering towards him again—then the man moved his finger away and put his fingertip on another place far away. a location.

Then, the spores slowly shifted direction and went to a new location.

When it was about to catch up, Lu Feng changed his position again, deliberately not to let it touch him.

Looking at this scene, An Zhe was so angry that he almost forgot to breathe—and Lu Feng's expression looked calm, but in fact he was completely happy. He seemed to find pleasure in bullying and playing with spores.

At this moment, Lu Feng raised his head to see him and raised his eyebrows.

An Zhe looked around, complex instruments and monitoring equipment, more than a dozen researchers, it was destined that he could only look at the spores from a distance.

No, there was another thing he could do, take this spore bully away.

He walked to the water tank, but unfortunately, the spores did not approach him, but were still lingering near Lu Feng.

Lu Yan's tone was very light: "What's wrong?"

An Zhe said in a very bad tone, "You should go back to eat."

There seemed to be a little smile in Lu Feng's eyes looking at him. Playing with the spores actually brought this person so much happiness.

Lu Yan walked up to him, and said to a researcher, "I'm leaving."

Researcher: "Please be sure to come tomorrow."

An Zhe gritted his teeth. He took one last look at the small spores floating helplessly in the nutrient solution, and the door of the laboratory was mercilessly closed in front of him.

He and Lu Feng walked in the corridor.

He said, "Are you coming here tomorrow?"

Lu Feng: "Yes."

An Zhe: "Are you playing with samples?"

Lu Yan: "Cooperate with the research."

An Zhe wouldn't believe his nonsense, he didn't say anything, they turned a corner and came to the covered bridge leading to the lighthouse, with the night of the city and the aurora in the sky on both sides.

Lu Feng seemed to feel his emotions: "Are you unhappy?"

An Zhe didn't speak.

Lu Feng stopped and looked at him.

An Zhe turned his head to look at the aurora outside, and the whole world seemed to be quiet for a second.

at this time--

An Zhe's pupils shrank suddenly!

At that moment, he felt a stabbing pain all over his body, the light was too strong, he closed his eyes subconsciously, and the aurora all over the sky erupted as bright as daylight at a moment just now, like a green lightning piercing the sky.

The next moment, Lu Yan hugged his shoulders and pulled him down with great force. His whole body was pressed to the ground, and then the two of them rolled around on the ground. All this happened within a few tenths of a second.

An Zhe didn't hurt, and Lu Feng's arms protected him. He opened his eyes and found that he was brought back into the corridor.

Lu Feng pulled him up.

An Zhe's head was buzzing, and he looked out of the covered bridge, stunned.

The auroras are fading—all auroras.

After the brief eruption just now, they dissipated in the night sky like sea water at low tide, the color faded in just ten seconds, and then completely disappeared.

A brilliant Milky Way stretches across the blue-purple night sky.

He had never seen such a scene before, and then he moved his eyes down, and the lights of the entire human city flashed randomly, reflecting each other with the Milky Way.

The corridor lights flickered on and off, and there were chaotic sounds in the laboratory, and several researchers ran out.

Lu Yan dragged An Zhe back to a place where he couldn't see the outside, and facing the researcher who hurried out, he said in a deep voice, "——Where's the magnetic field?"