Seeing that on the rectangular dining table, there is a pot of hot and fragrant white rice and bean porridge. Ke Xun is standing by the table, holding a pair of chopsticks and skillfully mixing a small pot of cold mixed beans in his hand, the sour taste of vinegar and the cooked The aroma of the beans blended together, like a warm wind after the midsummer rain, instantly blowing everyone's taste buds.
"Let's eat first." Ke Xun raised his head, met Mu Yiran's calm and clear eyes, and gave him a warm smile.
Good food is a good medicine for your mood. Perhaps it is because of the color, aroma, and flavor of food that people can feel the freshness and warmth of life. After a full meal, hope finally prevails in the battle against despair.
"Then, let's discuss the issue of taking a number now." Xu Zhen's originally frustrated tone softened a lot at this time, sitting on a chair in the cafeteria and looking at everyone.
Everyone fell into silence. This is a sensitive topic. No one wants to die. Everyone wants to choose a laboratory with a relatively higher survival rate. It is a matter of life and death, and no one wants to be humble.
"I declare in advance," Xu Zhen said, "I don't want to give anyone the chance to survive. Of course, I hope that everyone can survive, but don't try to make me humble those who are young or weak in the face of survival. Everyone is equal, and my life is not inferior to that of others."
Saying that, he glanced at the three young girls meaningfully.
The girls didn't say anything, Zhang Hanrui's tears rolled down silently, Li Yaqing seemed to be tired of crying, but just lowered her head in a daze, Cai Xiaoyan bit her lip and grabbed her clothes in her hand, showing great fear in her heart and uneasy.
"In that case, be fair," said Zhu Haowen, who was always so rational and ruthless, "Let's draw lots."
"I agree." After hesitating and thinking about it, Xu Zhen nodded in agreement, "This is the most fair. Whether the result is good or bad can only be blamed on your own luck."
No one else had any objection. Qin Ci got up and went to the office next to him to look for a pen and paper. He took it and cut it into pieces and wrote numbers on the paper. Because he was not sure how many people could enter each experimental area today, he could only press each person. The numbers are drawn in order.
Folded the paper, put it into a chopstick tube, shook it, Qin Ci put the tube on the table: "Pick it."
Xu Zhen was the first to stretch out her hand and squeeze a piece of paper out. When she opened it, her face brightened: "No. 1!"
If number 1, you will definitely get the number card of the experimental area A. For the few people who have experienced the pain of the experimental area B last night, the experiment in the experimental area of A is more comfortable than the experiment in the experimental area of the B. many.
Therefore, these few people actually hope to go to the A experimental area.
The rest of the people also took out the paper labels one by one. Ke Xun drew it after Mu Yiran. He stayed in the chopstick tube for a while longer, stirred the remaining paper labels with his fingers, and looked at the numbers on Mu Yiran's label. 7, winked at him: "Do you believe it, my intuition is really accurate."
Mu Yiran looked at him and said calmly, "Come on."
Ke Xun felt that he was stunned by the sound, and the back of his head produced a crisp electric current, which was transmitted to the tips of the fingers stuck in the chopsticks tube.
Move your fingertips, clamp one of them, take it out, unfold it, number 8.
Showing the numbers on the paper to Mu Yiran, the corners of Ke Xun's lips curled up.
The numbers of two people are next to each other, and the probability that the number card can be assigned to the same laboratory is high.
After everyone drew lots, they found out that Qi Qiang and Huang Pi didn't draw. Qin Ci looked at them and said, "What?"
Qi Qiang impatiently took out a card from his pocket and slapped it on the table: "I have already taken the number card!"
See this entry card leading to the basement, clearly printed with A-195.
Xu Zhen reacted, staring at Qi Qiang and Huangpi, daring to be angry and not saying anything.
Huang Pi didn't draw lots either. Obviously, like Qi Qiang, he took advantage of the fact that when everyone was walking out of the small iron gate, he drew the number card in advance. They knew that the card from the laboratory A would be drawn first, and they would not wait at all. Discuss with others before deciding.
This is the end of the matter, and it is useless to say more. Everyone got up and went to the small iron gate leading to the basement, and took the numbers in the order determined by the lottery.
This time, the people who got the A card were Qi Qiang, Huang Pi, and Xu Zhen.
The people who got the B card were Wei Dong and Zhu Haowen.
Those who got the C card were Li Yaqing, Cai Xiaoyan, Mu Yiran, and Ke Xun.
The people who got the D card were Qin Ci and Zhang Hanrui.
Li Yaqing, who was drawn to experimental area C again, collapsed on the spot and collapsed to the ground crying.
In the eyes of everyone, only the experiments in the C experimental area will definitely kill people. If the C number card is drawn, it means that one foot has stepped into the yellow spring.
"There's still time," Ke Xun squatted down and shook Li Yaqing's shoulder, "Crying won't solve the problem, let's hurry up and find the signature first, and we can leave after finding the signature."
Li Yaqing nodded while crying, struggled to get up, and followed the others who were also heavy-hearted to the underground experimental area.
This time, everyone searched each experimental area carefully, inch by inch, from the inside to the outside, not letting go of a single brick.
Several old members were concentrated in the D experimental area. When the inspection was halfway through yesterday, the inspection was not finished because it was almost time, so it will continue today.
"That's the same question," Qin Ci said while searching, "What is the central meaning that this painting wants to express? Finding the meaning is not far from finding the signature."
"If all experiments are based on various questions derived from taking people as the subject," Zhu Haowen said, "the meaning of this painting should be closely related to people. Remember the words written on the shadow wall in the entrance hall, 'reveal the essence of consciousness, Discover the power of life, guide alienation back to nature, and help the lost to return to their nature'."
"Consciousness, physiology, psychology, ideas." Mu Yiran summed it up, "It includes all the products that an individual like a 'human' can produce, subjective, objective, substantial, and non-substantial."
"Then you say, will the signature this time be on a 'human' body?" Wei Dong said, "Just like the painting in "Animal World", the signature is a dog, this time maybe it is a person."
"We are the only people who have entered the painting in the whole institute," Zhu Haowen said. "There is no one else, and I don't think there will be people in the painting coming in from outside halfway."
"I suggest that we take a closer look at these research materials," Qin Ci said, "and maybe we can find out the real intention of these experiments."
Ke Xun looked at the stack of photos in his hand - he saw it in the D laboratory last night, and then handed it to Qin Ci: "I don't know if this counts as research material?"
Qin Ci took it over and glanced at it, his face stiffened, he coughed, and handed the photo back to Ke Xun: "This may be... um, office entertainment."
"It's like Xiao Huangshu in the past and bad websites on your mobile phone at work now?" Ke Xun put the photo back in the drawer, "But the researchers at this institute are also very bold, and even bring the photo to work directly, Xiao Huang Are books no longer enough for them?"
"What are you talking about?" Wei Dong was at a loss, and came over to look through the drawer, "What little yellow - I rely on it!"
Holding the photo, he looked at Ke Xun in surprise: "There's actually such a thing?! It's too bold! I rely... Let me check if there is anything suspicious in the photo."
Ke Xun: "Haha."
Wei Dong flipped through a few photos, and his tone was a little weird: "Wait, why are there only naked men and men having sex in these photos? Could it be that the researchers in this laboratory are all women? Are they all rotten women? "
"It may also be gay." Ke Xun said.
Wei Dong glanced at him: "You seem to have accidentally exposed your inhumane collection hobby."
"Stop talking nonsense, when it's time, put it back without looking at it." Ke Xun said, turned around and walked to Mu Yiran's side. Seeing that he was holding a stack of documents, he held up his cell phone to light it up for him.
"On April 13, it was decided by the whole group that it was unanimously approved that seven days later, a prefrontal lobectomy would be performed for Test 213." Ke Xun read the words on the document, raised his head and asked Qin Ci, "Doctor Qin, Where is the frontal lobe?"
Qin Ci's expression was a little serious: "The human brain is divided into four lobes in each hemisphere, and the frontal lobe is the largest one. After removal, people will lose a lot of body functions, even a large part of their personality, which is an extremely inhumane operation. ."
Wei Dong snapped his tongue: "What kind of devil surgery is this?! Why do you do this kind of surgery?"
Qin Cidao: "In the mid-nineteenth century, some Western medical scholars believed that this kind of operation could make schizophrenic patients get rid of emotional troubles, so that they could become quiet and obey commands. It is said that those patients with violent or suicidal tendencies, in the After the operation, it was indeed quiet. The inventor of this operation, Moniz, won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for this. Since then, at a certain stage, frontal lobectomy has become an important means of treating human mental diseases, and even It was all the rage.”
"This... does it really work?" Wei Dong asked.
Qin Ci smiled sarcastically: "I will tell you about the operation process, and you will know whether it works or not.
"The process is very simple. First, the doctor uses local anesthesia to keep the patient awake to a certain degree, because the doctor will tell the patient what to do next in the operation - and even, if the patient does not respond, the doctor will use the electric shock to wake the patient.
"Next, the doctor will drive a steel cone with a length of about 18 cm into the bone under the eyelid, facing the eye socket, tap the bottom of the steel cone with a small hammer, and the steel cone will penetrate the bone and the bridge of the nose. bone, into the brain.
"Once the cone is about 5 centimeters into the frontal lobe of the brain, the doctor rotates the cone to sever the white matter that connects the prefrontal cortex to the rest of the brain.
"In the words of one doctor, it's really just sticking a cone in the head and messing it up. It doesn't take ten minutes, and in ten minutes, the patient is probably not who he was."
"Lying... trough... Nima..." Wei Dong scolded dumbfoundedly, "You can't turn your brains into porridge? Is it a doctor or a devil who is doing this?!"
"The mortality rate of this operation was as high as 14%, but at that time there were still some doctors who were almost morbidly obsessed with using it." Qin Ci said.
"Crazy... Is there anyone still obsessed with this kind of perverted surgery?" Wei Dong covered his forehead.
"The prefrontal cortex is a key tissue for people to make decisions, shape and maintain their personality," Qin Ci said, "so some medical experts at that time believed that this kind of surgery was an operation on the soul. , can reshape a person more acceptable to society and the general public.”
"It seems that the key is here," Ke Xun said. "If the ABC laboratory is studying people, then the purpose of this D laboratory experiment is to transform people."