After dinner, it was already dark.
Chengshan's documents have not been checked, but everyone has given up checking. The battery of the mobile phone needs to be saved, so it can only be continued until tomorrow during the day.
However, Ke Xun and Wei Dong still went to the warehouse and found a few old-fashioned flashlights to share with everyone. Perhaps because the battery has been left for too long, the light of the flashlight is as dim as that of a mobile phone.
Everyone entered the underground experiment area, and while there was still some time before eleven o'clock in the evening, they searched every corner of the basement with a flashlight again.
"Maybe there is a brick in the basement that is active, such as connecting to an organ or something." Li Yaqing looked at the wall that had peeled off the wall, revealing the bricks inside.
"Yes, maybe there is such a possibility. Isn't it often set like this in novels and on TV?" Zhang Hanrui nodded quickly, and looked at Ke Xun with Li Yaqing in an attempt to gain his approval.
"Then let's check each brick next to each other." Ke Xun nodded his head expectantly, and led the two of them to start the inspection from the very edge of the wall.
"What about the high bricks?" Zhang Hanrui raised his head and pointed above his head.
Ke Xun squatted by the wall and patted his shoulder with his backhand: "Come on, step on it and hold onto the wall, I'll stand up slowly, you can reach up and check."
"Can it be done?" Zhang Hanrui looked at him hesitantly.
"...Sister, do you know how to speak?" Ke Xun said indifferently, "Never question a man's 'can't do it, you know, come up quickly."
"Oh." Zhang Hanrui hurriedly stepped on Ke Xun's shoulder carefully, not daring to say that she was treating him as Xiaoshou.
Ke Xun carried a slender Zhang Hanrui without much effort, and the three of them checked every wall brick bit by bit.
However, Mu Yiran continued to look through the documents with a flashlight in the D-area laboratory.
Qin Ci looked at the documents in his hand, which seemed to be a stack of character files, and couldn't help asking him, "Do you have any ideas now?"
Mu Yiran didn't lift his head, and said while checking: "Since the research institute has set up the experimental area underground, it means that the experiments here are not approved by the official department, or it may be under the guise of legal research. These illegal experiments that go against humanity are being carried out behind the scenes. Since this is the case, these experiments must require confidentiality, and not every member of the institute can be involved in core secrets, which raises a question,”
He raised his eyes and looked at Qin Ci, "How did the author of this painting know that this institute is working on these projects?"
Qin Ci's eyes flashed: "That's right! Unless someone leaks the secret and announces the matter here."
"The issues involved in this research are both major and sensitive," Mu Yiran said. "Under the background of the times, even if it leaked, it would be suppressed by the relevant departments to prevent the situation from spreading, thus causing public shocks. So even if There are leaks, and the public will not know too much detail, but judging from the content of this painting, the author of the painting knows a lot about the details of the experiment, which means that the author of the painting is likely to be an insider of the research institute. ."
"That's right—and it should be a core member," Qin Ci nodded. "He knows the details of the four experimental projects, not only the core members, but also the leaders of a certain level."
"I remember the name of the artist I saw before entering the painting. It's called Kang Lai." Zhu Haowen suddenly asked, "Is he famous in the art world?"
Mu Yiran flipped through the character files in his hand: "Fangbox Art Museum has only been established for two years, and the art works in the town hall are only one or two paintings by famous artists, and the rest of the paintings are from novice or unknown painters. It was purchased at a low price, so this Kang Lai is not well-known in the industry, at least I have never heard of it. If he was really an insider of this institute, he is an amateur art enthusiast. possible."
"Then he is a very contradictory person," Zhu Haowen said, "while participating in research or management research as a core member, he draws these inside stories to criticize."
Qin Ci thought for a moment: "This kind of behavior seems a bit divisive. Could it be that he has a dual personality?"
"It's also possible that he felt guilty about what he had done in his old age," Zhu Haowen said indifferently, "so I confessed everything I had participated in as a confession."
"It's also very possible," Qin Ci came over and went through the archives with Mu Yiran, "Anyway, let's find this person's work information first, maybe we can get clues."
This time, it turned to more than ten o'clock at night.
"Let's go here first today," Qin Ci said slowly, looking at Mu Yiran, "Xiao Mu, do you have any suggestions for Laboratory D?"
Mu Yiran lowered her eyes and pondered for a moment: "Cai Xiaoyan fainted last night. I don't know if it was because of this reason that she was lucky enough to escape. If you are willing to try this method, I can help you faint."
Not everyone dares to be stunned in this situation, because it is equivalent to having no precautions and self-protection measures, leaving the most vulnerable and helpless self completely exposed to danger.
Qin Ci hesitated for a long time, and finally nodded with some difficulty: "I can't hide from the disaster, if I'm dizzy, I should find it on my head, or I will find it on my head, why don't you try it."
Mu Yiran didn't say much. Seeing that Ke Xun was bringing in Zhang Hanrui, who was crying with horror as the night came, he also asked Zhang Hanrui if he wanted to pass out manually. Zhang Hanrui said with a bitter face and sobbing: "I don't know... Maybe it doesn't work for me... I have a special constitution and it's hard to lose consciousness after an anesthesia injection. Even last night... I couldn't faint, I don't know... woo woo woo... why let me I am of this constitution, I would rather pass out and die without knowing it than to be tortured to death..."
The old members kept silent in a tacit understanding, not breaking it. Even if she could faint, she might very likely be woken up and then tortured to death.
No matter what, Zhang Hanrui finally decided to give it a try, what if it was a fluke
When Ke Xun was about to leave the D laboratory, Zhang Hanrui couldn't help chasing after him and holding him back: "Brother Xiao Ke... If I die, you... You take my cell phone back to my parents, I'm on it. I wrote something, you show it to them, it's mine... Last words, the unlock password is XXXXXX, please."
"Well, don't worry, I wrote it down." Ke Xun patted her on the shoulder, turned to walk out, walked to the door, turned back, and said to her, "Han Rui, don't be afraid."
Zhang Hanrui burst into tears, choked up and nodded.
After pinching Qin Ci and Zhang Hanrui unconscious, they placed them in the corner of the laboratory. Mu Yiran took them out and went to laboratory B with Ke Xun.
Wei Dong and Zhu Haowen had no hesitation about artificial stun, so Mu Yiran did the same.
In the end, the two went to laboratory A and asked Xu Zhenqiqiang and Huangpi if they wanted to try this method.
Huang Pi didn't speak, this man spoke very few words, he hardly said a few words since he entered the painting, Qi Qiang also refused very defensively, only Xu Zhen asked hesitantly: "Even if he faints, will he Wouldn't you be woken up by the screeching noise you mentioned?"
"To be honest," Ke Xun said, "I think it's very possible, but if you pass out, you won't face any greater danger than the noise. At least nothing moved us last night, just a noise attack."
Xu Zhen thought for a while: "Well then, I've prepared something to plug my ears, wait for me to plug it first, and then you will stun me, please put me in the corner and cover my head The quilt on the crib."
Ke Xun looked at her incomprehensibly: "Are you sure you want to use something from the crib?"
"I've already used it." Xu Zhen said coldly, showing Ke Xun the cotton wool in her hand, "These are taken out from the bedding."
Talking about the sticky rice fished out from the porridge, he kneaded the cotton wool into a ball, stuffed it into his ears, and covered the outside with a layer of mud. After wrapping it up on the ground, and finally wrapping a small quilt on his head, he made an OK gesture at Mu Yiran.
Mu Yiran knocked her out and placed her in the corner of the laboratory. He was about to wrap her up with the quilt in the crib, but Qi Qiang grabbed her and put it on his head.
Mu Yiran and Ke Xun didn't say anything, turned their heads and left the A laboratory.
Even if they were forcibly taken back from Qi Qiang and wrapped in Xu Zhen's hands, they could still be taken back by Qi Qiang after they left, not to mention that it might provoke Qi Qiang to anger Xu Zhen and hurt her while she fainted. .
Back in the laboratory in Area C, Li Yaqing and Cai Xiaoyan were hugging each other with tears in their eyes, and when they saw them entering the door, Li Yaqing cried and asked Ke Xun with a hoarse voice, "Brother Xiao Ke, what should we do? I don't want to die! I don’t want to die! Woohoo…”
Ke Xun lit the ground with a flashlight, and saw the bodies of Deng Guang and Zhao Youyi, who died in this room last night, were still lying in the corner of the room. They were removed by everyone this morning, and their faces were covered with their own clothes. , with no face in sight, only a stiff and cold corpse.
Ke Xun asked Li Yaqing, "After you felt the current pass through your palm last night, how long did you hold it before you let go?"
Li Yaqing cried bitterly when she heard the words: "I don't know... I don't know... It hurts so much, really, it hurts so much, I feel like I'm dying, I really can't catch the wire end... I really tried my best, I tried my best to endure it. I can't help it, I just let go... I'm not... I really don't want Youyi to die... "
"Don't cry, don't cry, I didn't blame you, you don't have to blame yourself," Ke Xun quickly reassured, "I think it would be the same result if someone else changed it. The pain caused by 'painting' is not something that can be endured under normal circumstances. , this is not your fault, this is the malice of 'painting'."
Li Yaqing looked at the three of them crying, and choked up: "Then what should I do tonight... I'm afraid I will hurt you again... And I don't want to die... "
Ke Xun had nothing to do about it.
The experimental nature of the C laboratory is destined to let two people kill each other indirectly. Human nature and willpower have to undergo the most cruel test here, and even he himself does not know if he can survive this game.
After thinking about it, he suddenly smiled and said, "How about we go all out?"
Seeing that the three of them were looking at him, Ke Xun turned on the phone, activated the stopwatch function, and put it in front of the three of them: "I set the phone to always-on mode, and put it in front of the machine. Staring at the stopwatch together, and every five seconds, we all let go together—you say, what will happen then?”