Gao Cheng shook his head dazedly.
There was a foggy darkness in front of him, the ears were filled with buzzing beeps, and the brain seemed to be stuffed with cotton, and it was too dull to turn.
Here is... where
what happened
He blinked forcefully, and the fog that enveloped his eyes gradually dissipated.
Gao Cheng finally saw exactly where he was now.
It looked like an abandoned warehouse, dim and flickering lightbulbs dangling in mid-air by a wire, a dim light illuminating the shabby and mottled interior of the warehouse - a few broken chairs, one side high and the other low The broken-leg table, a few dusty old canvas covers the debris in the corner, only vague outlines can be seen.
It looks like a scene from a horror movie.
Gao Cheng only felt hair all over his body. He tried to get up from the ground, but he found that his hands were tied behind him - the knots were so tightly tied, he broke away completely.
"Awake?"
The boy's voice was clear, with a bit of the hoarseness of a voice changer in his tone, breaking the silence without warning and sounding beside him.
Gao Cheng was startled and suddenly looked in the direction from which the voice came.
I saw that there was a fairly complete long table next to the place where he was tied, and a lamp was placed on the corner of the table, barely illuminating the dark corner.
The young man sat on the long table and looked at him with a smile, his two slender legs swayed leisurely in mid-air, and half of his porcelain-white face was illuminated by the yellow light of the desk lamp, which outlined his slightly raised figure. The corners of his lips dyed those abyss-like dark eyes with a layer of silent burning fire.
Without the cover of the hat, the pair of fluffy cat ears on his head became more distinct and conspicuous.
Yes... a lycanthrope!
Gao Cheng felt the cold hairs on his back explode in an instant, and the memories before fainting flooded back into his mind like a flood—
He remembered that he met Chen Ziyan in an alley who hadn't come to school for a long time, and then... he accidentally knocked off the hat on the other person's head... The last image left in his mind was that the other side showed it to him. With a bright smile, everything that happened next seemed to be spinning and shattering. He felt a pain in the back of his neck, and everything was swallowed up by the endless darkness.
Although he has been wearing a metal collar that suppresses mutation since he can remember, he also knows what he might look like if he doesn't wear the collar.
However, in the current society that is strictly controlled by the government, this is the first time that Gao Cheng has seen a beast that has been transformed.
After all, he is a generation who grew up with relevant education and propaganda. In their hearts, the lycanthrope is synonymous with brutality and bloodshed, and all they bring is killing and chaos - although they hate the clothes they wear around their necks. A collar that symbolizes aliens, but it doesn't mean they identify with their hidden lycanthropy.
Even, they fear and dislike the lycanthrope more than ordinary people.
Ge Xiu jumped off the table and walked in front of him.
Gao Cheng's face was pale and his throat was dry. He asked in a tone-shifting voice, "I... I, what about... the other two?"
Ge Xiu pointed nonchalantly behind him.
Gao Cheng turned his head with difficulty and looked in the direction the other party was pointing at. He saw that his other two companions were also tied tightly, lying like dumplings on the dusty warehouse floor. Did not wake up from the coma.
"He... what happened to them?" Gao Cheng asked nervously.
"I didn't grasp the strength when I attacked." Ge Xiu shrugged regretfully, and the cat ears above his head twitched slightly with his movements.
He retracted his gaze and looked at Gao Cheng again, the curvature of his lips deepened slightly:
"However, since you woke up, let's start with you."
Gao Cheng's face was pale again, and his voice trembled slightly from panic: "You... what do you want to do?"
The boy turned around and walked briskly to the table. Under the dim light of the lamp, he lowered his head and carefully selected the equipment and tools on the table.
From this angle, Gao Cheng could only see the cold silver light flickering from the metal equipment on the table, as well as the tingling sound that made the scalp tingling.
He shrank back in panic, but was tightly bound by the rope behind him, so he could only stick himself firmly to the pillar behind him.
"you you you… "
Gao Cheng stammered: "Please, I, I can give you money..."
The boy had already picked out the tools and walked towards him unhurriedly.
"Ahhh-" Gao Cheng screamed.
The familiar facial features looked so unfamiliar at the moment, and the lips twitched, like a cruel and pleasant smile from an evil spirit.
"You call whatever you want, no one can hear you."
…
Ge Xiu clenched the tool in his hand, paused slightly under his feet, and then tilted his head thoughtfully:
"... This sentence sounds like a villain."
Gao Cheng was stunned for a moment, the scream that had just rushed out of his throat was blocked in the middle, he choked on his own saliva, and then began to cough piercingly.
When he was coughing in the dark and dizzy, Ge Xiu had already squatted down and started to fiddle with Gao Cheng's neck with a tool.
The sound of metal knocking sounded, Gao Cheng stopped coughing in horror, and stammered:
"No, no! Electricity, electricity..."
Ge Xiu glanced at him indifferently, then withdrew his gaze indifferently, the movements of his subordinates did not stop at all.
Gao Cheng was in despair—it was not that he tried to remove his collar when he was young and ignorant, but after being punished by high-voltage electric current several times, he never dared to do so again, especially as he grew older, the electric current strength will increase.
Just as he was waiting for the electric shock to come, he felt a chill in his neck, and then, the sound of footsteps of the other party gradually moving away from his ears.
Gao Cheng was startled.
He opened his eyes and turned his head.
The neck was empty, and the cold wind blew from the bottom of the door of the warehouse, sweeping on his neck, bringing a cool feeling - this was the first time he felt the feeling of taking off the metal collar.
But this feeling is more frightening than when wearing a collar.
If he doesn't wear it, he may become a new lycanthrope, and this process is irreversible.
At that time, whether it was the endless pursuit or the hostility of the whole society, even thinking about it made him shudder.
This is the dilemma of today's collar wearers—they loathe the mark on their necks that distinguishes them from normal people, but are inexorably dependent on it, dreading the untold suffering they may face if the collar disappears.
Gao Cheng begged: "Please, don't take the collar away..."
Ge Xiu was working at his desk without raising his head: "Don't worry, you won't change in such a short period of time."
"how do you know?"
"Have you ever changed your collar since you were a child?"
The body shape changes during the growth period is very large, and the collar obviously does not have the function of adjusting the size, so it must be replaced regularly - that is to say, it will not cause too much impact on the wearer if it is removed in a short time.
The warehouse fell into dead silence.
After a long time, Gao Chengcai asked uncertainly, "So, will you still return the collar to me?"
"Of course." Ge Xiu gave him a strange look: "What do I want it for?"
Gao Cheng hesitated: "You... Aren't you going to turn me into a beast like you?"
"You are too good." Ge Xiu replied casually while working, "What do I want you to do."
Gao Cheng: "..."
Although I felt relieved, I suddenly felt that I was being insulted. Why
He continued to ask tentatively, "Then you're not going to do any human experiments on me?"
Gexiu put down his tools and began to seriously consider the possibility of doing so:
"Forget it, I don't have enough surgical equipment and anesthesia right now. Opening you up in such a harsh environment is likely to outweigh the gains."
Gao Cheng: "..."
shivering.
He closed his mouth and sat quietly in the dark, trying to minimize his presence.
Ge Xiu concentrated on dismantling and researching the metal collar in his hands, writing and drawing on the paper with a pen in one hand, outlining its internal structure.
However, to his surprise, the internal structure of the collar is much simpler than he thought. The electric shock function he observed last night actually constitutes the main body of the entire collar—its main purpose is to prevent the collar Taken off, there is no high-end technological equipment and electronic structure that can support the so-called "mutation gene inhibition" effect.
Except for the part of the material that Ge Xiu was unfamiliar with, it was just an ordinary electric shock collar.
The key point must be here.
Ge Xiu disassembled the part covered by the material—the inside was a simple energy amplifier, and the inside of the amplifier was a silver-white metal with regular edges, radiating a faint light.
He recognized at a glance that it must be artificially made, and the traces of the process on it are very obvious.
Ge Xiu had never seen such material before, he looked at it over and over, frowning in confusion.
Suddenly, he suddenly thought of something, turned and rushed to Gao Cheng, who was tightly bound, and held the piece of metal in front of his eyes: "Is it glowing?"
Gao Cheng was taken aback by this unexpected question. Under the pressure of Ge Xiu's real eyes, he daringly observed the metal block that was held up in front of him:
"Um... no?"
In Gao Cheng's eyes, this is just an ordinary silver-white metal.
-now it's right.
Ge Xiu thoughtfully retreated to the table, looking down and playing with the metal block in his hand.
He was able to see invisible forms of energy, so the metal was glowing to his own eyes—that's why energy amplifiers were placed on the outside of it, and its ports were aimed at the wearer's glands and nerve-dense neck.
Not only is it not a suppression device, but it is a source of radiation to the human body from the outside.
Then why is this synthetic radiation material able to play the role of "inhibiting mutation"
Unless... the manufacturer knows very well what caused the variation.
Gossiu began to ponder a possibility that gradually became clearer.
The appearance of the lycanthrope has always been the result of the natural mutation of human genes in the media's publicity, but the timing of its appearance is too uniform, and the state's protection of this information and intelligence is even tighter.
The appearance of beasts is likely to be man-made.
Just when he was in deep thought, he suddenly felt a slight sway in front of him, and then, the familiar feeling of weightlessness came, as if falling from a height.
Ge Xiu struggled to break free from the cover of his clothes, then turned his head and glanced at the gap in the warehouse door - the sky outside was completely dark.
Oops.
Ge Xiu was taken aback.
Because he studied too seriously, he forgot the passage of time for a while.
Not only did he become a cat outside, but he didn't have time to return Shen Boyan's clothes!
In case he finds that there is one set of clothes missing from his wardrobe, his vest may not be guaranteed.
He jumped onto the table, shoved the piece of metal back into the amp with fluffy claws, and jumped off the table with it in his mouth, tossing it onto the stunned Gao Cheng's lap.
Although this effect will be discounted, Gao Cheng has been irradiated for more than ten years, so as long as the collar is nearby, it is enough.
Ge Xiu licked his paws, then turned and ran out of the warehouse.
Gao Cheng watched in shock as his small and agile figure leaped into the darkness, and blinked in disbelief—
This is... a cat? ?
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