Little Mushroom

Fance's blood spread in An Zhe's peripheral vision, turning crimson.When the people in line heard the movement, they turned their heads to look here. After seeing this scene, they turned back as usual, as if nothing had happened.

But Vance died, and a human being was killed at the gate of the human base, and no one raised any objections.

So An Zhe suddenly realized that this person was the judge, the person Vance had mentioned to him a day ago.

He is the master of the Tribunal, who judges whether everyone who enters the city gate is human or alien. He can decide the life and death of anyone, no matter who they are, without reason.

And now it was his turn to stand trial.

An Zhe's heart beat violently at first, and the moment he was pointed at by the gun, he realized that he was really going to die.

But looking at the judge's cold green eyes, he gradually regained his composure.

Coming to the northern base was a decision he had to make, so accepting the trial was his end, no matter what the result was.

He was silent for a few seconds.

one two Three.

The gunshot didn't sound for a long time, and the judge pointed the gun at him and walked slowly towards this side.

The people in line seemed to speed up tacitly, and moved forward spontaneously. After a while, the place was empty, and An Zhe was the only one left.

Eleven, twelve, thirteen.

When counting to No. 14 seconds, the judge came to him, clasped the handle of the gun with his ring finger, lowered the muzzle, and then he put away the weapon.

Just listen to him say: "Come with me."

His tone was cold and flat, just like his eyes.

An Zhe stood there waiting for him to leave, but after three seconds, the man still hadn't moved.

He looked up suspiciously, and then heard the judge's voice a little colder than before, saying, "Stretch out your hand."

An Zhe stretched out his hand obediently.

click.

He shivered from the cold.

One end of a silver handcuff was clasped around his wrist, and the other end was held by the officer.

—— An Zhe was taken away like this.

The strange thing is that when Vance was shot to death just now, the people in line didn't react at all. Now that he was taken away by the judge, they whispered to each other instead.

An Zhe only had time to look back at Fance's body lying sideways before being pulled into the city gate.

As soon as he entered the city gate, he found that it was not a narrow passage, but a vast area, divided into several spaces, with snow-white lights lit up everywhere, and the lights reflected on the steel walls, as if in winter Snow light reflects off the gray and white rock pages.

There were no fewer soldiers with live ammunition and heavy weapons than outside. Surrounded by heavy weapons and soldiers, there was a long white table, and three officers in black uniforms like the judges were sitting behind the long table——An Zhechai Here are the Inquisitors, with a human sitting across from them.The judge was asking him: "How is your relationship with your wife? Didn't she go with you this time out of town?"

From Anze's memory, An Zhe learned that in addition to the changes in appearance, demeanor and behavior habits of infected humans, their sanity and memory will also be affected, so interrogation is also one of the methods to identify alien species.

And the person who brought him in took a look there and said, "Hurry up."

The judge in the center said "yes" and looked at the person on trial opposite: "You can go."

The man looked like he was alive after a catastrophe, with a smile on his face, he got up and quickly walked through the city gate passage.

So An Zhe knew that the man who brought him here was undoubtedly the judge, and he said "hurry up" not to urge the judge to speed up the interrogation, but to show that he had judged in a moment that the judge was completely a human being.

The next person to be interrogated walked towards the long table from the queue. The distance between the queue and the long table was very far, and there were several gate-shaped machines in the middle. The judges demonstrate the behavioral characteristics of the interrogated.

But he didn't have time to see more, because the next second he was led around a corner and walked into a long corridor.

The man took out a black communication device and said, "The trial court, Lu Feng, apply for a genetic test."

An Zhe guessed that the two characters in the middle were his name.

Immediately, a mechanical door slid open in front of them, and Lu Feng went straight in. An Zhe was dragged staggeringly, and followed.

This is a silver-white room. Unknown mechanical devices are armed from the ground to the ceiling. Six soldiers are scattered around the room to stand guard. Behind the workbench at one end of the room sits a young man with short blond hair, blue eyes, and a white coat. .

"Colonel Lu actually came here," the man pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose. "Didn't you always use bullets to solve all problems?"

Lu Feng said, "Please cooperate, Doctor."

The doctor glanced at Lu Feng, stood up, and said to An Zhe, "Come with me."

After following him, An Zhe was arranged to lie on a silver-white platform, his limbs were fixed by mechanical bracelets and anklets, and the doctor said, "Don't move."

Immediately afterwards, An Zhe's arm hurt, he turned his head over there, and saw the doctor slowly pulling out a tube of bright red blood from his body.

The doctor said: "The color of your blood is very healthy."

An Zhe: "Thank you for the compliment."

The Doctor was amused by his answer.

"The blood is sent for a genetic test, and the test takes one hour. The whole-body enhanced scan is expected to take four to 10 minutes, so don't move."

After his words fell, a blue light appeared on the silver platform, and there was a low humming sound all around, without direction, every grain of air was the source of the sound.The sounds from all directions reminded An Zhe of those distant nights in the abyss. The sea in the distance made the sound of dull waves beating. When the night was darkest, there would be howls of unknown creatures from that direction, fluctuations that could not be described in human language. Sweeping across the land during the rainy season.

The current was like countless ants crawling and biting on him. Four to ten minutes was not long for a mushroom.But An Zhe felt that this might be the last four or ten minutes of his life. He cherished it very much and looked at the mechanical lines on the ceiling carefully.

After an unknown amount of time, he heard Lu Feng outside, "Andre told me that your inspection methods have been upgraded."

"You are very well-informed," said the doctor, "We found that when the human body mutates, some special segments in the DNA are activated, and we named them targets. The targets of animal mutations and plant mutations are two Large category. The improved genetic detection is carried out by two processes at the same time, one is animal target detection, the other is plant-based, and it takes a total of one hour."

Lu Feng: "Congratulations."

The doctor laughed, and said, "Colonel, if the time-consuming and cost of genetic testing is greatly shortened, will your court be closed?"

"I am looking forward."

"You are boring."

They stopped talking.

And An Zhe looked at the silver ceiling and began to think about what his species was.

It's a mushroom.

The doctor said that variation is divided into animal variation and plant variation.

He felt, first of all, that a mushroom is not an animal.

Secondly, mushrooms don't seem to belong to plants either, since they don't have leaves.

An Zhe fell into confusion. He tried hard to classify himself as a plant, but he couldn't find enough arguments.

It took him too long to think about this problem, and before he could come up with a result, the blue light disappeared from him like a low tide.

"Okay." The doctor's voice sounded, and the mechanical ring was automatically released.

Just listen to the doctor continue: "Colonel, can I ask why you brought him for genetic examination?"

"No."

The doctor visibly choked.

He helped An Zhe fold it up, let him sit down on the swivel chair beside him, and touched An Zhe's head: "Good boy, rest here for a while, I'll go see the blood test results."

An Zhe sat down.

The judge, the colonel, was sitting opposite, still staring at him coldly with his cold green eyes.It was a young face with sharp outlines. On the edge of the brim of the hat and on the forehead, a few locks of black hair hung down, pressing the tails of the slanted eyebrows. he.

An Zhe was very cold stared at by such a pair of eyes, and mushrooms were afraid of the cold.So he turned the swivel chair at an angle, with his back to the colonel.

He felt even colder.

After a long time, the doctor's footsteps finally sounded again, thawing the room: "The genetic report shows no abnormalities, you can go."

After a few seconds of silence, Lu Feng said, "Are you [-]% sure that he is human?"

Doctor: "Although it may disappoint you, we did not find any targets. There are at least ten other infected people and alien species."

After finishing speaking, he said again: "Look, other children don't want to talk to you."

I heard the colonel say: "Turn back."

An Zhe turned back silently.

He dodged Lu Feng's eyes a little, because he was really not human.

In the end, he didn't even know where to dodge the colonel, and a voice like icy water said, "What are you afraid of?"

An Zhe didn't say a word, he had an intuition that if he said too much wrong in front of this person, he might be caught.

Finally, Lu Yan raised his eyebrows and said, "Aren't you leaving?"

An Zhe obediently jumped off the chair, and left with him again - this time he was free, without being handcuffed.

Halfway through, Lu Yan suddenly said, "The first time I saw you, I felt that you were not human."

An Zhe almost went into cardiac arrest.

After a full three seconds of reaction, he said, "Then... what about the second look?"

"This is the first time I've applied for a genetic test." The colonel reached out and handed the genetic test report to him: "You'd better be."

An Zhe could only silently take all his normal orders. For a while, there was only the sound of their monotonous footsteps in the silver corridor.

There was a turn near the exit, and they bumped into a team head-on, led by a judge in black uniform. Behind the judge, two heavy-armored soldiers escorted a man, and beside him was a tall man with a disconcerted face. short haired woman.

The judge saw Lu Feng and said, "Colonel."

Lu Feng glanced at the man who was being detained, and when he saw it, the man's throat convulsed a few times, and he said loudly, "I'm not infected!"

The judge stood still and said to Lu Feng: "The infection is highly suspected, but there is no conclusive evidence. The family members strongly request a genetic test."

Lu Feng gave a faint "hmm", and the soldiers continued to push the man forward, passing by Lu Feng, at this moment——

"boom!"

Lu Feng put away his gun and walked out without looking back: "It's not necessary."

The man's body fell forward in an instant and was dragged by the soldiers.The woman who followed screamed and fell limp to the ground.

An Zhe turned his head to look at Lu Feng's expression, his eyes were so indifferent - An Zhe had never seen such a look in his eyes, he knew that An Ze was always gentle, Fan Siping was kind and generous, Huo Sen was full of greed, and Anthony was all guarded. But Lu Feng was different, he saw nothing in his eyes.

An Zhe thought, for the judge, killing may be more normal than breathing, and he would not have any emotional fluctuations because he was used to it.

An Zhe and Lu Feng soon came to the exit of the corridor.

At the exit, two plainclothes soldiers were waiting for him with a corpse covered in white cloth.

An Zhe knew it was Fan Si.

His eyes were dim, and he took a step forward, trying to remove the white cloth and take another look at Vance's face, but was stopped by soldiers.

The soldier reached out and handed him a blue chip with a steady tone: "The AR1147 mercenary team confirmed that there were no survivors, and the equipment and materials were recovered by the base. The spoils have been converted into currency and have been combined with pensions and distributed to family members. Please claim the relics .”

An Zhe asked, "Where are you taking him?"

The soldier replied: "The incinerator."

His body trembled slightly, but he didn't pick up the ID card for a long time.

Lu Feng's voice sounded: "You don't want to?"

An Zhe didn't speak.After a long time, he looked up at Lu Feng: "He really...isn't injured."

In those cold green pupils, he saw his own image, slightly widened eyes, a kind of calm sadness.

Lu Feng was still expressionless, but when An Zhe thought that this person was going to turn around and leave the next moment, he took a step forward.

The black butt parted the edge of the white cloth, revealing Vance's right hand.

An Zhe half knelt down to look. On the tip of her ring finger, there was a tiny red dot, which looked like the most insignificant stab wound. However, at the edge of the red dot, an ominous drop of gray-black turbid liquid was slowly oozing out.

He was stunned, and in an instant, those scenes came to mind.

There were human bloodstains on the ant's nails—on that day, Vance told him that the reason why some people hide the truth about their injuries is because in places with less pollution, there is still a probability of not being infected after being injured, while That person wants to go home.

So, so—the man stabbed by the ant armor was not Anthony, it was Vance.

An Zhe couldn't breathe, his fingers trembled. He took Vance's ID card and put it in his pocket. He turned to look at Lu Feng, but there was nothing around him.

He stood up, looked outside, and saw a shaved black figure gradually moving away under the gray sky at the gate of the city.

After a while, there was a sudden noise behind him. He turned around and saw that it was the woman whose companion had been killed just now. She stumbled out and was stopped by soldiers again.

"Lu Yan! Judge—!" She struggled desperately, slammed forward, waved her arms in the air, and said hoarsely: "You will die—!"

Hoarse and sharp voices continued to erupt from her chest, echoing through layers of the building, but she didn't even get a single turn from the judge.

The surroundings gradually fell silent, and the two bodies were taken away one by one.In the empty corridor, there was only the intermittent crying of women.