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Chapter 83: old video

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After reading the content of the message, Chu Si tapped the screen a few times, then paused for a while with his thumb pressed somewhere, and then released his hand and raised his eyes to look at the holographic screen.

During the time he was processing the message, Sae Young had released the video.

First there was a black screen for about a few seconds, only a few human voices could be heard mixed with the sound of Xixi Susuo. After a while, the front of the camera suddenly lit up, and the picture changed into a normal image.

The scene just now looked as if someone had started a photo shoot, swept away the cover of the clothes and fabric, and finally managed to secretly capture the next shot.

The place in the shot looks like a mix of a conference room and a laboratory. There is an oval conference table, but no one sits around the table properly, but sits on the side of the table in twos and threes, and some people sit. On the table, some leaned against the edge of the table, some sat on chairs, sandwiched between those people.

At first glance, the atmosphere is more like some kind of casual chatty party.

But where those people's eyes were focused, there was a huge instrument, which looked a bit like the mechanical therapy device that Chu Si once lay down, but the actual ports were much more than the therapy device.

Watching the video, Chu Si frowned. He knew what it was—this was what was drawn in the draft illustration, which was the experimental cabin that would be used in those time experiments.

In the video, the cover of the experimental cabin is raised, but it has not been activated. On the metal platform like a bed, a woman is sitting on it.

To be precise, she did not sit voluntarily. Her legs were fixed on the platform by several metal buckles, and her wrists were also buckled. Although the upper body was sitting upright, there were also several metal hoops around her. Circle, the top circle is around the neck.

The dark brown long curly hair is a bit messy, but it does not hinder her unique temperament. Her eyes were large and bright, and under the light, they seemed to be covered with a layer of inorganic glass, which was extremely clear. This makes her look very pure, and when her eyes fall on someone, it will make people feel a sense of shrinking.

She looked at the people in the room so quietly, and it was obvious that the eyes of the people she looked at would be avoided for a moment.

Standing beside her was a person who seemed to be presiding over this "chat meeting". It was a tall and thin man, a little old, with silver-gray hair and deep nasolabial lines at the corners of his mouth. When he got up, he showed a hint of shrewdness.

He smiled at the woman and said, "Miss Esther Cabel—"

The man's tone was very polite, and at first glance it sounded as if they were at a certain dinner party. After he said the title, he turned to face the crowd, and said, "This Miss Esther Cabel must be known to everyone, so I don't need to introduce it any more."

In the conference room of the command center, after Zild Feng and the others heard the name, their expressions were all a little stunned.

"Este Cabel?!" Shao Heng repeated the name, "Isn't this the legendary scientific research expert? He was born in the military combat team and has been trained for several years in a special training camp. She was transferred to the research institute for her outstanding abilities in intelligent machinery and dimensional technology. At a young age, due to an experimental error, her organs were shattered and destroyed, and she unfortunately died... Some of the things she designed were later used as irreplaceable foundations. Many government organizations have high-end intelligent systems, such as the upgrade system later attached to the space prison, high-end teleportation pads, mechanical therapy devices, and so on.”

As a fan of military mechanical weapons, he always has an infinite fondness for experts in this field, and this Esther Cabel happens to be on the list of experts he admires.

Chu Si had heard him regret the early death of the expert.

However, even if they are not fans of mechanical weapons, everyone present, as high-level officials of government organizations, still has knowledge of such experts - obviously everyone has heard of Esther Cabel's name and knows some stories about her. and, ultimately, a tragic untimely death.

But the scene in the video looked different from what they had heard.

"Miss Cabell was found to have played some tricks that were not very loyal to the experimental group. Fortunately, it was recovered in time and did not have any substantial impact on the existing results." The gray-haired man continued, "I think Miss Cabell You must understand that it took so many people and years to get the results today, and the human and material resources invested in it are unparalleled. Any destructive means should be tortured by conscience.”

Esther Cabel, who was sitting on the metal platform, hummed, his expression showing an indescribable contempt and ridicule. Such an expression made her face suddenly vivid and indescribably beautiful. But such a smile was exchanged for a sudden electric current on the metal ring of the neck.

Esther Cabel lowered his eyes and gritted his teeth, and the voice in his throat disappeared all of a sudden.

Because of the man's words, the faces of the onlookers were a little indignant and contemptuous, but at the moment when they saw her pain, they couldn't bear it a little bit.

"What we are doing is a great cause, related to the planet and even the interstellar. It is a supremely glorious thing to be born as a human being. Human beings have all the virtues bestowed by God and acquired skills to transform the world into a prosperous one today. It’s not an exaggeration to say it’s a miracle, the only shortcoming is that it has never been able to break through the time limit.” The gray-haired man paused and continued: “Imagine, when you accidentally make some mistakes, just go back Taking a step back can correct everything. Then everything in the world will be infinitely close to perfection. We can no longer be so careful, for fear that a certain decision or development will lead to irreversible consequences, or even lead to the end of the entire planet The lessons of the homeless are still there, who wants to follow in that footstep? No one."

"If we had an eraser, everything would be easier and simpler. We could be a little more daring, all miracles of inventions originate from a bold idea, and we could have more chances to try, There is more room for improvement. Those excellent and great people can live on for a long time, and those ordinary citizens can also enjoy endless fun without waiting anxiously for the death that will come. That will The most subversive and alluring revolution, the most epic."

"This possibility is in our hands now, only a few steps away, why not be firmer?" The man said, looking at Esther Cabel, with an incomprehensible look at her up and down After looking at it again, he sighed again, and said in a tired voice: "We never thought that there would be you among those who betrayed their ideals. Really... I never thought that there would be you. You I have been to the abandoned star where the wanderers used to live, and I have also seen a large area in the southwest of the City of Silver irreversibly abandoned due to excessive radiation, and the survivable area of Saturn is becoming less and less visible to the naked eye. This world is too vast. , Xinghai is too big, but there are so few livable places. We walk so carefully, but we still make some mistakes. Is it really unforgivable? If we can do it all over again, why not? You tell me, there are No reason to say no."

Esther Cabel subconsciously opened his mouth and said something, but couldn't make a sound. So he was stunned for a while, and then he frowned and looked down, as if he wanted to look at his neck.

Then she smiled indifferently, shook her head, and closed her eyes as if she was too lazy to say anything.

"What did she just say?" Childe Feng asked coldly.

Several of the people here have been specially trained to be extremely sensitive to lip reading. Without even thinking about it, Chus replied: "She said, 'If time doesn't matter anymore'."

After Chu Si's words fell, the meeting room was silent again. The same is true in the video, after a few seconds of silence, the gray-haired man took a breath and lowered his eyes: "All subversive progress is always accompanied by bloodshed and sacrifice, which is sad, painful, and inevitable. The cornerstone of the experiment. At this stage of the experiment, someone has to take that step first. Miss Cabell, for what you have done before, we choose to forgive, and we hope that you will forgive us for what we will do. Honestly, You're a very, very good girl, and I'm really proud of you as your former research team leader. So... good luck."

Esther Cabel lowered his head and seemed to have blocked everyone and all voices.

The gray-haired man raised his hand and pressed the start button of the experimental cabin, and there was a buzzing sound. The metal ring on Esther Cabel was attracted by the magnetic force, which attracted her to the metal table. She lay there flat, without making a sound or moving, the transparent cover came down and closed tightly with a loud sound, like a coffin that had already been prepared, and finally sealed the cover.

Various ports were automatically linked to her body, weaving a cobweb within the transparent enclosure.

The other two experimental assistants adjusted various parameters of the instrument next to them, and the expressions of the onlookers became tense, holding their breaths, as if expecting the expected results of the experiment.

The experimental cabin suddenly opened an energy field under the gaze of everyone, and the entire instrument began to tremble slightly.

A few seconds later, the experimental cabin made a strange malfunction sound, a large amount of blood was suddenly splashed on the transparent cover, and the tremor stopped abruptly.

The gray-haired man closed his eyes and whispered, "The experiment failed."

When the blood spattered, several people in the conference room of the command center also closed their eyes subconsciously. Chu Si supported the table and bowed his shoulders and lowered his head. After a while, he raised his head and glanced at Sae Yang.

This is what Esther Cabel has experienced, and it is also what Sae Young has experienced.

Someone in the video suddenly discovered the secret videographer, so after the experiment failed, the video went black in the noise and shaking, and the recording must have been forcibly shut down.

"My... God..." Shao Heng wiped his face and lowered his head for a while. He moved his lips, as if he wanted to say something, but nothing came out.

However, Sae Yang moved the video back a little bit, back to the moment when the gray-haired man pressed the start button before Esther Cabel was forcibly pulled to lie flat by the magnetic force, and said, "Here, pay attention, she talking."

When everyone was reminded by him, they suddenly raised their heads and stared at the screen.

The picture was deliberately slowed down several times by Sae Yang, so everyone could clearly see that the corner of Esther Cabel's mouth was slightly tilted, as if showing a smile, and then his lips moved a few times, and he really said what.

But because she lowered her head, the angle problem made it difficult to recognize lip language.

"Can you tell what she's talking about?" asked the deputy commanders.

"I think this sentence is likely to be the reason why the military has re-finished it. In addition, if there is no mistake, the sender of the previous email should also be her." Sae Yang explained the process. Replayed it more than ten times.

The crowd is still clueless. Chu Si did not continue to guess the sentence, but turned to look at the old man Shao and asked, "Master, after reading this, what do you want to say? Are you sure you have to wait?"