twenty three
An alarm suddenly sounded in the FD-1 laboratory. This was one of the several laboratories in the non-standard plan. It had a large number of monitoring equipment, monitoring the raw materials, test subjects, and all abnormal data in the main city.
This alarm, as soft as the prompt sound of a food processor finishing a job, had never sounded before in Chunsan's memory.
This is the alarm issued by the Lost Valley's mental monitoring system. It will only sound when the scanned value exceeds ten times the normal value.
And this ten times is the value when the poet is fully awake.
Almost no one in the laboratory had heard this alarm, and when it sounded, everyone was stunned.
"Turn on the monitor, I want to see the data feedback." Chun San was the first to react and rushed to the screen next to him.
A large amount of information instantly appeared on the screen, mixed with various numbers and graphics that looked confusing.
Chun San didn't read all of them. She just stared at the screen, looking for the content she needed to see among the flashing unfamiliar messages.
She hoped it wouldn't appear, but if it did, she had to find it right away...
cc1q.
When she saw this field among the complicated data, she felt a little breathless.
"Copy all, set confidentiality level," Chun San gave the order, "Level I a, send to the administrator."
"Understood." The operator replied.
Chun San walked quickly into the smallest room at the innermost part of the laboratory. This was her lounge and also served as a confidential communication room.
The intercom on the wall is a single-channel one, and when you pick it up you'll be connected directly to Minister Chen's office.
Except for a few serious mistakes made by the experimental subjects, this intercom had no presence most of the time. Chun San found that his palms were sweaty when he picked it up.
"Report from the monitoring room." Chun San said.
"I'm Chen Fei." Minister Chen's voice came out.
"It has been detected that the energy in the Lost Valley is abnormal, and the mental power is more than ten times." Chun San said.
Minister Chen said nothing.
"The poet has woken up," said Chun San.
"Have you found the mark?" Minister Chen asked.
"cc1q," Haruzo said, "confirm the mark."
Minister Chen was silent for a while before he said softly, "It's just as we expected."
cc1q, this is Qi Hang’s mental power mark.
"I need the next instructions." Chun San said.
"Has the Internal Defense and Training Department reported?" asked Minister Chen.
"Not yet, I've only reported it to the administrator," Chun San said, "Do you need to notify me now?"
"No, wait for the administrator to notify you," Minister Chen said, "Any news from Lianchuan?"
"You shouldn't ask me this," Chun San frowned. Lian Chuan's situation was more difficult than she expected, which made her very dissatisfied with everyone who forced Lian Chuan to enter the Lost Valley. "Don't you and the people in the inner defense know better than me?"
"Ning Gu's biological information is indeed very special, but no fragments were detected," Minister Chen said, "so Qi Hang may not notice him immediately. All the poet needs is Lian Chuan's mental strength. If..."
"If Lianchuan gave up on himself and tried his best, he might be able to save the raw material you want most," Chun San said, "right?"
"I don't want to think so," Minister Chen said, "I watched Lian Chuan grow up. From the first day he joined the cleanup team, I have been under the watchful eyes of the internal defense and training departments. If there is any possibility, I will..."
Chun San sneered: "But now you are just like them, ready to sacrifice Lianchuan, save Ninggu's rare raw materials, remove Betelgeuse, the 'only one' that restricts the main city in every way, and get an 'infinite' that can be injected infinitely..."
"Chun San!" Minister Chen raised his voice, "Control your emotions! You should be glad that this is our private conversation."
"But the premise of all this is Lianchuan," Chun San slowed down his tone, "Do you think Lianchuan could do this?"
"Is it impossible?" Minister Chen said.
"Don't forget, he lived for twenty-six years. Every day, every second, we used pain to make him remember," Chun San said softly, word by word, "Any possibility of threatening his life must be eliminated."
Minister Chen fell silent.
"He has to survive no matter what," Chun San said, "otherwise why do you think he is the only one who fits the bill?"
These people only saw Lianchuan and Betelgeuse perform every perfect mission, like a machine that never makes mistakes, always makes accurate judgments and executes decisively, and never disobeys, but they have gradually forgotten...
Being alive is the mark that burns through his life.
The fine golden light was like scattered sand, constantly gathering and dispersing in the air, and then gathering again.
Ning Gu looked at the golden color swirling and floating against the iron black and dark red background. It was a bit dazzling and a bit weird...but the color was really beautiful.
Ning Gu was a little fascinated by what he saw.
The only thing that made him unhappy was that Lian Chuan was always standing in front of him.
He knew that Lian Chuan wanted to save his life. With his own strength, if he stood up in front of Lian Chuan for the sake of face, it might result in an embarrassing death.
That's not good.
In this critical moment, it is better to do as Lian Chuan asked, stand against the wall and wait and see what happens.
Not long after, the golden light slowed down and began to slowly take shape in the huge space in front of the cave.
It's a little blurry, but you can still tell that it's a human face.
"Poet?" Ning Gu asked in a low voice. He really didn't expect this way of meeting. He felt that even if the poet was an illusion, he should at least find a shell for their first meeting. Bats have so many modification materials.
"No." Lian Chuan's voice was a little deep.
"What?" Ning Gu was stunned for a moment, staring at the face, and asked in a low voice, "Do you know him?"
"This is Qi Hang." Lian Chuan said.
The golden face in the sky smiled.
I didn’t see the mouth move, but a voice came out: “It’s all me.”
Just like the previous sentence, the direction of this voice is still unknown.
Although this answer is a little confusing, since it is "both", then at least half of the boring things such as blowing and whispering were done by this face.
Ning Gu immediately felt annoyed with this schizophrenic girl with a golden face.
"You're addicted to playing tricks, aren't you?" He said with some disdain, "Where's your old blind follower? He didn't come with you? Aren't you going to make a deal with us?"
"It's not you." The man with the golden face smiled again and slowly approached the cave entrance. He could see "his" eyes looking at Lian Chuan.
"Don't go any further." Lian Chuan said.
"Warning?" asked the Golden Face.
The voice still had no definite source, but Ning Gu was so shocked that he didn't care about the humiliation of Jinfenlian openly ignoring the ghost town's facade. It was Lianchuan's voice.
"Before death." Lian Chuan said these four words as coldly and calmly as he said "main city cleanup team" when facing the mission target. He did not give any reaction to Jin Fen Lian's ability to speak in his voice.
If there is one thing that Ning Gu truly admires about Lian Chuan, it is his calmness, which can make his opponents angry to death, and he won't even twitch his eyelids no matter whether you fart or hear thunder.
"Interesting," the voice of the man with the golden face returned to its previous tone, "It seems that you won't believe my words so easily."
"I only believe in myself," Lian Chuan said.
"I only believe in myself," Gold Powder Face repeated this sentence in his voice again, "Do you know who you are?"
"It doesn't matter who it is." Lian Chuan replied.
"Your words don't count. You should say something decisive." Ning Gu was a little impatient. He grew up in a ghost town. Travelers always fight at the slightest disagreement, even if silence is golden. If he didn't need to eat, his mouth would degenerate in a hundred years.
"Let's talk about something," the golden-faced woman repeated Ning Gu's words, "Okay."
Ning Gu's muscles immediately tensed up, ready to take action at any time.
"Has Lei Yu told you who your parents are?" asked the girl with golden face.
Although Ning Gu also had doubts about the same question, it was not his turn to answer now. The one asked by Jinfenlian was Lianchuan.
Unexpectedly, Lian Chuan is also an unlucky guy who doesn’t know who his parents are.
"No." Lian Chuan replied.
"Have you ever thought," said Gold Face, "that you actually have no parents at all?"
"I'm not interested in my parents." Lian Chuan's voice remained steady, and his murderous intent could be clearly felt in his slightly low voice.
"What is there without parents?" asked the girl with golden face.
"A precursor test subject of an unconventional plan." Lian Chuan said.
"What did you say?" Ning Gu felt a chill down his entire back.
The main city's unconventional plan is public and everyone knows about it, but it is said that there has never been a successful experimental subject in all these years. He and Dingzi have used this matter to mock the main city for being useless, and they might as well try the administrator.
Is Lianchuan an experimental subject of an unconventional plan
No, that's not right... front-wheel drive
"What is a precursor subject?" he asked.
"The foundation of the Unconventional Plan," Jinfenmian actually explained to him patiently, "With this experimental subject, the Unconventional Plan will officially begin to run."
"Oh." Ning Gu didn't know what to say. He just kept staring at Lian Chuan's profile. He was not a real person. No wonder he was so powerful. No wonder the main city had unconventional plans. Who wouldn't want a legion composed of such people
"How did you know?" Jinfenmian tilted her head. "Except for the core, no one knows. They can't tell you. If Lei Yu and Chun San leak the secret, they will be recycled and never reset."
"I just found out," Lian Chuan looked at Jin Pian Lian, "You told me."
The golden-faced girl showed an expression of surprise.
"You can only imitate my voice," Lian Chuan glanced at Ning Gu, "If you could imitate his speech, you would have done it long ago."
"That's right. If you are so cocky, it's impossible for you not to learn from me. If you don't learn, then you can't learn." Ning Gu said in support.
He could no longer think, his mind was in a mess, the only clear thought was that Lian Chuan was indeed the strongest hyena in the main city, the Betelgeuse that was feared by everyone inside and outside the domain.
He showed no emotion when he suddenly heard the news.
One person turned into gold powder and merged into one with another gold powder person, while I worked hard for more than twenty years and suffered so much, but in the end I was just an experimental subject.
"You disappeared decades earlier than me, and much earlier than Feigui. Lost Valley has surveillance, so there is no way for you to contact me again and capture my information," Lian Chuan said. "The only possibility is that as a precursor test subject, my information has long been in the system."
"How clever," the golden-faced man exclaimed as he moved slightly closer to the cave entrance. He was less than five meters away from the cave entrance. Some of the golden dots of light that were still dancing around the edge flew into the cave entrance, like dust illuminated by strong light. Some fell to the ground, and some hung in the air. "If we can cooperate..."
Lian Chuan didn't say anything and suddenly jumped up.
When the cave wall on the right suddenly exploded and flew up with countless iron and stone fragments, Ning Gu was still marveling at the fact that Lian Chuan could actually say so many words... Then he saw clearly that Lian Chuan had kicked a deep crack in the cave wall.
The sharp fragments flew out of the cave, pierced through the golden face with a high-speed scream, and fell downwards.
Deathbed notification.
Lian Chuan really did what he said...
When Ning Gu raised his hand to block two small pieces of debris flying towards him, he saw a thin golden particle being carried by the air flow and rolled in front of his eyes.
The light was very soft, like a distant window seen in the darkness, or like an open door at the end of a long corridor.
Lian Chuan had already discovered it when Ning Gu took the first step forward.
This traveler is such a huge nuisance...
If the ability was suddenly activated at this time, the schizophrenic hybrid would immediately discover it, but he has no understanding of the hybrid and has no confidence in being able to fight against it.
The only way is to get ahead of it.
He rushed to Ning Gu, grabbed the back of his collar, and rushed out of the cave with Ning Gu.
The two people rushed into the vertical hole like a catapult, and rushed into the golden light ball in the hole in front.
Countless tiny golden particles of light whizzed past at a rapid speed, dancing and colliding.
Many figures were swaying in the strong light.
Ning Gu had never seen such a strong light since he was a child, and he could hardly open his eyes.
pain.
The familiar pain that had tormented him all night came back again.
He knelt on one leg on the ground, feeling a dull pain in his back that kept tearing his body apart. He struggled to stand up and could hear his own heavy and labored breathing.
The figures in the strong light slowly merged into one and walked towards him.
He tried hard to open his eyes and face the strong white light.
The figure held a long black staff in his hand and raised it towards him.
To live.
Can't die.
Live no matter what.
He jumped up with all his might, and it was as if a switch was turned on in his brain. The moment he stood up, the pain was suppressed to the deepest part of all his memories.
Push off the ground, jump up, turn sideways, dive, and punch using inertia...
The punch hit the blurry figure hard.
But it doesn't feel real.
The human figure seemed to be shattered by the wind and scattered in all directions.
The intense pain was released again and he could hardly breathe.
The golden ball of light behind him seemed to be shattered by a punch and instantly lost its shape, like the golden fireworks on the last day of the celebration.
Lian Chuan's previous estimate was correct. It was indeed unlikely that he would jump into the hole diagonally below the opposite side while carrying Ning Gu.
But the sudden explosion of the ball of light made him realize that Ning Gu might not be a trouble to him.
He made the first decision in his twenty-plus years of life that went against his instinctive will.
He raised his hand fiercely and threw Ning Gu out.
When Ning Gu fell heavily into the opposite cave, Lian Chuan's trajectory paused briefly in the air due to the reverse resistance of this operation.
Then he fell into the depths of the vertical hole.