When the officer saw this, he suddenly burst out laughing.
"I didn't have anything to do with you here. You have to come in. If you don't insist so much, you don't have to sign this document at all. Even if he refuses, it won't be your turn to go to jail. Do you regret it?"
"If I hadn't come in, he would have chosen to go to jail now, and your purpose would not have been achieved, so you should thank me for sitting here now."
Ling Xiao did not expect that Ying Feng would see through his mind, the hand holding the pen trembled, and the smile on the officer's face gradually disappeared.
"You are very confident, young man. If your Qizi agreed to prevent you from going to jail, would you choose to refuse because of his willingness to go to jail? I advise you not to think too complicated about the issue, just think of it as donating blood once a week. , you are all free at other times. Moreover, if this experiment can be successful, it will be a great event for the entire Tiansu.”
Ying Feng was unmoved, "For us, going to jail is a very serious punishment, but for you, it doesn't matter whether we go to jail or not. You don't need two useless prisoners, you need blood , if we refuse, of course you will suffer, but you will also gain nothing."
The meaning of the officer's expression was unclear, and the two silently faced each other for a long time.
"It seems that our negotiations are a bit stiff," the officer finally said coldly.
"It's not impossible for us to sign this document," Ying Feng relented, aiming for the opportunity, "but the premise is that we have the right to know, including the process and purpose of your experiment, the identities of the experimental subjects, and most importantly, whether this experiment is It will cause harm to my Chiko's body."
"Are you asking too much?"
"We won't sign this until we see the subject in person."
The officer thought for a moment, "Alright, anyway, you will meet sooner or later, but don't blame me for not reminding you, if you insist on keeping up this time, the consequences may not be as simple as it is now," he pretended to sigh, " You could have stayed out of it."
"You don't have to kindly remind me again and again that it is my responsibility to enter the laboratory without permission, and I didn't intend to stay out of it from the beginning."
The officer got up and left, "It's really touching."
The two followed behind the officer, keeping a distance, and behind them, closely followed by two soldiers.
"You invaded my mind without authorization again?" Ling Xiao asked in a low voice after they walked for a while.
"So my guess is true? If I don't go in, are you going to go to jail alone?" Ying Feng didn't squint, "Don't worry, the deed master doesn't have the ability to peek at your brain, you are free in terms of thinking. ."
Ling Xiao hurriedly said, "I stole the stuff by myself, why do you always mix it up?"
"But the point of the community of interests is also raised by you. If the goals are the same, shouldn't we advance and retreat together? I now have a new exchange condition. I want to test the joint combat department of Yutian. This major is difficult to test, you promise. It won't hold me back."
"You..." Ling Xiao didn't realize why he suddenly made an irrelevant request at first, and then realized that he was trying to prevent himself from negotiating with the military in private, and he did have a request just now. such an idea. Ying Feng said that he couldn't invade his own mind, but he was able to hit exactly what he thought every time.
The Joint Operations Department, he had to admit that it was also his heart's goal.
"Then my quid pro quo is that it will be up to me to decide whether to agree or not."
"The exchange was successful."
The two got on the military aircraft, all windows were closed, and they couldn't see the outside world from inside, so they didn't know where they were taken.
The aircraft finally landed, and as soon as they got out of the hatch, they found themselves inside the room, with a long tunnel behind them, which they came from just now.
The officer walked at the front, and the two followed him to an elevator. The elevator went straight down and stopped for a long time. They realized that the destination of the trip was located very deep underground, and what place was built so hidden.
"We're here," the officer stopped outside a door with a sign - Tiansu Gene Research Center. He took out his card and swiped it. The door opened to both sides, and a brand new world appeared in front of the two of them.
Ling Xiao was stunned. He thought that the main hall of the base was huge enough, but the venue presented in front of him was two or three times larger than the base. The officer walked in without explaining anything. The two followed behind, taking the opportunity to look at the space. Computers and instruments of unknown purpose were everywhere, and complex lights and numbers were flashing on them.
There are many staff working in the venue, and they turn a blind eye to the strangers who appear here, as if the comers are transparent people. It is also a white uniform, but different from the base and the CDC. It looks cold and inaccessible on these people. With their unchanging expressions, if Tiansu strictly prohibited the development of any artificial intelligence entities, Ling Xiao would almost think that they is a robot.
The officer led them to open one door after another, and the incredible security level made them no longer believe that what was inside was just an ordinary experimental subject.
The last door was finally opened, and Ying Feng and Ling Xiao also saw the true face of the experimental subject for the first time. A human with a similar body shape to the baby was lying quietly in the vacuum chamber, as if it had been sleeping there for thousands of years.
Ying Feng felt strange at first glance. Tiansu people have many hair colors, but yellow is very rare. Among the people he had seen before, only Zhu Yue had light yellow hair, but this person in the vacuum warehouse had very pure golden hair. He had never seen anyone with such a hair color.
However, he was only slightly uncomfortable. Just as he was about to ask Ling Xiao how he felt, when he turned his head, he saw Ling Xiao clutching his chest with a painful expression.
"What’s wrong with you?"
Ling Xiao's eyes were full of uncertainty and disbelief, "I, I know this person."
Ying Feng was also stunned, "Do you recognize him?"
Ling Xiao himself shook his head in denial, and seemed to be struggling. The moment he saw the other party, his heart was beating wildly, as if something was about to come out, "I don't know, it seems like I've seen him somewhere."
No, not just met, they should have been more closely connected than acquaintance, a long, long time ago.
Compared with the two people who were all focused on the lying person, the officer kept his eyes on Ling Xiao after entering the door. When he saw his reaction that was different from Ying Feng, There was light in his eyes.
He really was the person they were looking for, and only the blood of this person could wake him up.
As long as this person can be woken up, they will do whatever they can.
But Ling Xiao's performance made Ying Feng alert, and he turned his attention to the officer, who was staring at Ling Xiao with chilling greed in his eyes.
"You lied," Ying Feng said suddenly.
The officer then looked back reluctantly, "Why do you say that?"
"You said that as long as the blood of Qizi who has just completed the deed, he can wake up, that is, there are many people who meet this condition, but why does he have such an unusual reaction? What is the blood of Qizi you want? , or the blood of a particular deed?"
The officer showed an inexplicable smile, "Is there a difference? No matter which one it is, he needs to complete it."
Ying Feng's face sank, "This doesn't match what we communicated in advance. Presumably you have concealed more than this truth. If you can't determine your true motives, we would rather go to jail."
After he finished speaking, he wanted to pull Ling Xiao away, but as soon as he pulled it, the other party didn't move.
"I," Ling Xiao lowered his head, "I want to accept it."
"what?"
"I want him to wake up, I want to know why I feel this way, and more importantly, I feel like he knows who I am."
"You are Ling Xiao, even I know that."
"Ling Xiao is my name in this life. My soul randomly flew into an energy warehouse to get a surname and a given name, but what about my last life? What about my last life? How did I change from a soul in the first place? As an adult, I always feel that this person can tell me the answer. He is definitely not a stranger to me, we must have been very familiar with it, so familiar that I can even perceive this person’s thoughts, and I am familiar with him.”
Ling Xiao closed his eyes, the memory fragments that did not belong to him were presented in a disorderly manner, mixed with extremely strong emotions, sadness, remorse, hatred... all of them were dark, negative, and powerful enough to almost swallow people. This seemingly harmless boy on the outside has accumulated hatred that is enough to destroy the entire planet. What happened to him makes him hate the world so much.
The officer's voice sounded leisurely, "Your pawn said so, what are you still insisting on? Do you want to use the pawn master's ability to force him to refuse?"
When he said this, Ling Xiao also looked at Ying Feng nervously, as if reminding him of the conditions he had just exchanged.
"Let's go," the officer said generously, "since you've come, I don't mind letting you know more."
The group of them returned to the hall just now. This time, the officer took them to a place that looked like the main engine. The person in charge was different from the others. When they saw someone coming, they immediately stood up, "Sir, they …”
The officer waved his hand, indicating that it's okay, "Introduction, this is Dr. Ganga, you will spend a lot of time with him in the future," he introduced Ling Xiao separately, "This is the person I mentioned to you before."
Ganga suddenly said, "You are Ling Xiao? It's great to be able to find you. You are very important to us."
The officer interrupted, "Show what you're doing."
Ganga hesitated, "Is this appropriate?"
"If you don't let them see clearly, they won't agree to cooperate."
"Oh... well then," Ganga tapped on the keyboard a few times, "Look, people are evolving, and viruses are also evolving. We just discovered a virus variant in the plain wolf, and we don't have this virus in our bodies. If you have antibodies to a virus, once you get infected, you will get sick. So I developed an antibiotic against this virus, then translated it into genetic code, implanted the original program, in layman's terms, it is a patch, and then Upload it to..." He glanced at the faces of the two young people, knowing that he didn't need to talk any more, and sighed, "I know, it's hard to understand, right, some things can't be explained clearly in a few words, And for you, the amount of information that needs to be accepted at one time is too large."
Ling Xiao took a long time to find his voice, "What are you kidding me, we are humans, how can humans be controlled by this kind of thing," he looked around, "How could these computers, instruments, and data be used for The tools that govern us, why we get sick or not, are determined by a piece of code, what are we?"
"You don't need to explore our origin, because you can't," the officer inserted, "you just have to remember that we have evolved in this way for thousands of years to become as perfect and as we are today. And powerful. If you were the one who lost in the coming-of-age ceremony, it would be impossible for you to survive. You can stand here thanks to these emotionless machines."
"No no, let me explain this question," Ganga was afraid that he would scare the two of them, just as adults have not yet developed, in his eyes they are children, "A long time ago, the triggering conditions of the coming-of-age ceremony were not like they are now. , has a very complex judgment. Only when a series of hormones such as dopamine, amphetamine, and adrenaline in the human body reach a certain value, the adult ritual will be triggered. Simply put, this condition is love."
"In ancient times, there was only one ending to the coming-of-age ceremony, that is, the one who loves kills the other and gains all his abilities, and the loser enters reincarnation and repeats the process."
"Although such a rule makes us stronger, it also makes our hearts extremely lonely. We have power, territory, and subjects, but we cannot have love. Therefore, for thousands of years, we have been working hard. Change this setting to minimize the impact of the coming-of-age ceremony. The current coming-of-age ceremony can only be initiated subjectively by people, or passively triggered by sex hormones. The loser will not die, and we are also working hard to reduce the disorder. Although the pain caused by the period is not good enough, after all, this cannot be done overnight.”
Ling Xiao has not yet fully come out in the huge shock, "Then what does this have to do with the people lying inside?"
"Because we can change the cause and effect of the coming-of-age ceremony, but there is no way to completely cancel it. The reason is that we can only improve the code on the surface, but we do not have the authority to modify the core. Like the emergence of the coming-of-age ceremony, the existence of soul traction, also The inability to reincarnate after the death of a baby, etc., all belong to the core of the program, and changes can only be allowed under the premise of personal authorization from a person of a certain bloodline."
"A person of a specific bloodline? Could it be that person?"
"That's right," Ganga seemed very excited, "Ling Xiao, you are the person we found that matches this person's genes the most, if you can wake him up, the coming-of-age ceremony can be banned, and we can be like other races. That way, love each other as equals, no one will ever die, no tragedy will happen, everyone will be free, and only you can do this."
In this case, whether true or not, it will make the two young people feel complicated. The amount of information they receive today is greater than the sum of the past ten years.
"Having heard so many good and bad things, I think you have already made a decision in your heart," the commander reminded them kindly, "I forgot to tell you one more thing, if you signed the document just now, at least you can join or Either go to jail or go to jail, but if you have to go further, the price you will pay will naturally be higher.”
His words seemed to be an order. All the people who were immersed in their work all put down their work and turned to the two of them in unison. The expressionless faces made the scene chilling. Ling Xiao and Ying Feng subconsciously approached. each other.
"Now you also have only one choice, accept our conditions, or keep everything you just saw here as a secret forever."