Ji Thrush was stunned for a second, and wanted to chase Annie.
"wait!"
Rose immediately stopped him without thinking, "Leave her alone!"
The red-haired woman said eagerly:
"We don't need to take her with us, let her go if we want to die!"
There are monsters everywhere in this research institute. Rose thinks that Annie, a weak woman who doesn't even have a weapon, will die in less than ten minutes.
But Ji Thrush pushed away Rose's hand blocking the way, and rushed out the door.
And along the way, Ji Thrush could tell that Annie was not a woman with a dim mind.
So far, everything this woman has done, from why she insisted on leading the way to the inside story of her concealing the vaccine, as long as she gets to the bottom of it, she has her reasons in the end.
Therefore, her sudden running out is definitely not an impulsive suicide. The biggest possibility is that she knows the way here. At the very least, she must have a destination that she feels she must go to.
Ren Jianmo naturally followed behind Ji Thrush.
Rose spat bitterly.
But she didn't remember the floor plan of this research institute, it was difficult to find the right way back, and she didn't feel that she could pass through this "world" alive by herself alone.
So she had no choice but to put on a dark face and ran out the door too.
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Anne did not run fast, and her destination was not far away.
Ji thrush chased after her.
Anne's long, messy chestnut hair was like a flag waving, very conspicuous. She turned a corner in the corridor and slipped through a door.
Before she tried to lock the door, Ji Xiaoniao leaped over, put his hand against the door panel, and stared at her with implied warning eyes.
Annie let go of her hand in a timely manner, and let Ji Thrush, Ren Jianmo and Rose who arrived later come in.
They saw that this was a security guard room.
On the east wall of the room, there are twelve fluorescent screens neatly arranged in two rows above and below, all of which are real-time images from surveillance cameras.
Annie didn't say anything, she just rushed to the monitoring screen, and two seconds later, she covered her mouth with her hand, and let out a gasping sound that was almost sobbing.
"He's still alive... he, he's still alive..."
The chestnut-haired woman's feet softened, and she knelt down on the ground with a "plop".
This was the first time she showed her fragile appearance in front of people, her whole body was shaking like a sieve, tears gushed from her wide-open eyes, slid down her cheeks, and dripped into her fingers.
"My son...he's alive...he's really alive..."
Indeed, as Anne said, there is actually another person in the screen on the left side of the top row—a little boy in a wheelchair!
This is the first living person that Ji Thrush and the others have seen inside the institute since they entered the institute.
The monitor screen showed that the child was in a small suite of about ten square meters.
But compared to hotels and guesthouses, it seems to be closer to a single ward in a hospital from the perspective of the arrangement and decoration style of the room. Snow-white walls covered with shock-absorbing materials, cold gray striped checked sheets and quilt covers, an infusion stand at the foot of the bed, and an instrument of unknown purpose placed in the corner.
A thin little boy was sitting in a wheelchair. The angle of the screen could only capture the top of his disheveled head, and he couldn't see his face clearly.
But Ji Thrush is sure that this is a living person.
Because the child was manipulating the wheelchair and slowly sliding to a cabinet, then stretched out his upper body with difficulty, and rummaged through the cabinet for a while.
"Woo..."
Annie let out a choked sob.
Then the little boy in the camera took out a palm-sized tablet, lowered his head, raised his head after a few seconds, and put back the thing he just took out, then he turned the wheelchair and turned himself After sending it to the sink in the corner, I took some water in a cup and drank it slowly.
— Really, it's amazing.
Ji thrush couldn't help but feel admiration.
So, did a child with hemiplegia survive for half a month alone in a research institute full of monsters and corpses
"That's the room where Su Lin lives."
Annie choked and said softly:
"I used to come here often, like now, watching him from the monitor... I didn't expect that he was really... really alive..."
As she spoke, she raised her head suddenly, her big dark brown eyes full of tears looked around, and finally landed on Ji Thrush's face.
"Please..."
Annie whispered softly, as if she was talking in her sleep, with a volume that seemed to be talking to herself:
"Can you take him with you?"
Ji Thrush: "..."
He hesitated.
Emotionally, he really wanted to take that child away with him.
After all, it was a living human life, and he hadn't been able to really train his heart to the point of hardening.
Intellectually, he certainly knew that taking the risk to get a disabled little boy out of the room would be a very difficult task. Not only would there be extra complications, but it might also put himself and his companions in danger.
but…
Thinking of this, he turned his head to look at Ren Jianmo, trying to ask for his opinion.
But Ren Damei didn't express her opinion.
He just focused on the two rows of monitors in front of him, wondering what he was thinking about.
"Ah!"
At this time, Rose spoke first.
She let out a sneer.
"Now you know how to beg us?"
She raised her hand and pointed at the monitoring screen, and said sharply:
"Look, there are so many monsters! There are seven or eight screens! If you think about it with your ass, you can understand how difficult it is to save people? This is asking us to die for your cheap son? You are so capable, why don't you go in by yourself Bring people out!?"
Annie was stunned speechless by her.
Rose was right indeed.
From the very beginning, she insisted on "leading the way" for them, just because she wanted to take advantage of the unequal information of the people and the lack of understanding of the internal structure of the institute, to find a way to lead them to the bottom layer, and then find her for her. adopted son.
However, people are not as good as heaven. The degree of danger in the research institute is far beyond Annie's expectations, and because of the concealment of the vaccine, she has lost the trust of others.
In the end, they bumped into each other by mistake and rolled down from the garbage disposal channel to the bottom floor. What made Annie even more sad and happy was that her adopted son Su Lin was really alive and well, but she couldn't do it alone. Someone rescued him from the room...
Anne didn't dare to quarrel with Rose, but stared at her resentfully with teary eyes, bit her lips tightly and stopped talking.
Now she can only lower her posture into the dust, making herself look more pitiful and helpless—after all, that curly-haired kid is really good-natured, and he might soften his heart for a moment and agree to help her.
Rose used the words she had honed in the workplace to stab Annie a little sharply, but Annie resisted the urge to retort, and she just bowed her head and shed tears of grievance silently.
"Hey."
Ji Thrush watched the confrontation between the two beauties, and then looked down at his watch.
He was a little surprised to find that the progress bar had indeed advanced a bit, and it had reached almost three-quarters of the position.
Reaching out and gently tugging at Ren Jianmo's sleeve, she showed him the dial of the watch:
"what do you think?"
Ren Jianmo lowered his head, feeling a little funny when he saw the pair of round dog eyes of last season's thrush.
I don't know when, Ji Xiaoniao no longer hides her expression in front of him.
Ren Jianmo pursed his lips lightly, and the corners of his lips formed a shallow arc, "What do you think?"
"If the progress bar on the watch isn't deceiving, I think..."
Ji Thrush moved closer to Ren Jianmo's ear, and said in a low voice, "This at least shows that Annie..."
He tapped his chin in the direction of the screen, "Also, that little boy named Su Lin is a very important person in this 'world'..."
Ji Thrush thought for a while: "So, even to find out what happened in this research institute, we have to get in touch with this little boy."
As he spoke, he paused, "So, I think, maybe we should try to save him."
"Hush."
Ren Jianmo raised an index finger at him, signaling him not to worry, "Let me think about it first."
As expected, Ji Thrush obediently withdrew his hand, and squeezed his lips tightly, not daring to disturb him anymore.
Ren Jianmo refocused his attention on the twelve real-time monitoring screens in front of him.
He is comparing and superimposing these pictures with the map imprinted in his mind, and then performing 3D reconstruction in his mind.
——If you really want to save people, you have to go out of this security room and go through a corridor at the corner ahead. The corridor is about 30 meters long, with a monster at one end and one at the end...
Ren Jianmo touched his chin.
If there is only this amount, he is sure to get rid of them quietly and quickly without making any sound...
— but the more troubling problem lies later...
He frowned while thinking.
… wait!
His eyes fell on the monitor screen in the room where the child was.
"here."
Ren Jianmo reached out and tapped the lower right corner of the screen.
He is so tall that he can easily reach even the fluorescent screens hanging on the upper row.
"Is this thing on the wall a telephone?"
A word awakened the dreamer, and Annie jumped up when she heard the words, and rushed to grab Ren Jianmo's arm.
"Yes! There's a telephone in his room! I remember it well. It was a telephone!"
Ren Jianmo flicked his sleeves as if unintentionally, and easily broke away from Annie's hand.
"Then, let's try to contact him first."
In the monitoring room, there is a communication device that can communicate with most places in the research institute, and there is also a summary table of the internal telephone numbers of each room.
Ji Thrush didn't know how Ren Jianmo figured out how to use that bunch of buttons. Anyway, after about two minutes, he heard the call sound of "beep beep beep" from the loudspeaker.
The child on the monitoring screen was also stunned at the same time, turned his head to look at the phone hanging on the wall, and after about three or four seconds, he seemed to wake up suddenly, turned the wheelchair with both hands, and pulled himself to the phone.
"Hey?"
In the loudspeaker is the timid childish voice of a little boy before the voice change period, "Yes, who is it?"
"Sulin!"
Annie exclaimed:
"It's me! Su Lin, it's me!!"
The boy on the other end of the talker trembled, as if he couldn't believe it, and called out a name:
"... Aunt Annie?"
Ji Thrush frowned.
Although it is not his own, but he does not call his adoptive mother who has taken care of him for nearly ten years to be his mother, but instead calls her auntie... This does not seem to fit his perception of a normal mother-child relationship.
Then the child's next sentence deepened his doubts.
Because he heard the child's trembling voice asking in horror:
"You, you... why are you here?"