Survivorship Bias

Chapter 88: Double Angel

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Zhong Yirou was stunned.

The strange and magnificent vegetation on the mural seemed to have life for a moment, their edges became jagged, as if stretching out their hands and feet, spreading out in a strange shape, and the half-masculine and half-feminine child under the tree , approaching Zhong Yirou step by step in the painting.

Why is the body so stiff? Zhong Yirou wanted to move, to cover the painting with his hand, but his arm was trembling, and he could hardly lift it up.

At this moment, the children in front of me split into countless identical ones. They made voices at the same time, stood densely on the lawn, and kept asking questions.

"Sister, do you like boys or girls?"

The feeling of suffocation was like vines climbing up from the cold feet little by little, wrapping her gradually cooling body tightly, the blood almost froze. Zhong Yirou forced herself to ignore this feeling of suffocation, and worked hard to give an answer.

"I... I like them all."

"Liar!!" The moment she answered, the children in the painting screamed piercingly, like the sound of fingernails scratching a metal plate, "You all like girls! You only like girls!"

Just as the children were screaming, the blue overalls on their bodies gradually disappeared, turning into little red skirts, and their short hair gradually grew to shoulder length.

"No. I like them all!" Zhong Yirou frowned tightly, with a sincere tone, "Whether it's a boy or a girl, you are the most precious angels."

Perhaps her words worked, the furious expressions of the children in the painting became clearer like the sky after a shower.

"Really..." they asked with a lack of confidence. These faces were obviously drawn, but the empty eyes directly reached Zhong Yirou's heart.

"Of course it's true." Zhong Yirou repeated again. She felt a little pain in her neck, and she seemed to be leaking air when speaking, so she raised her hand and pressed it with her palm.

The children in the painting turned back into boys, but they all fell to the ground, no, they fell into the white cabins like cryogenic cabins, and then escaped into the ground at the same time and disappeared.

This strange process inexplicably made Zhong Yirou feel a sense of familiarity, and the spreading thoughts touched strange memories that seemed not to belong to her, but they were so clear, as if they were pictures she saw every day—countless identical bodies, freezing cabins, and people in white clothes. My own in a lab coat.

No, it shouldn't be me, it should be E06 in the containment center.

The children in the painting disappeared, leaving only a large deserted lawn, but there was an extra key out of thin air on the lawn.

Zhong Yirou stretched out his hand out of nowhere, trying to get the golden key, touching the flat paper and lines with his fingertips, unexpectedly he actually picked up the key!

"Zhong Yirou, Zhong Yirou..."

Hearing the call, Zhong Yirou, who was immersed in the painting, suddenly woke up at this moment.

"You look so pale." Yang Erci stood beside her, reached out his hand, and touched her forehead with the back of his hand to test the temperature.

"No fever..."

"I'm fine." Zhong Yirou lowered her head, and a golden key really appeared in her hand, and she showed it to Yang Erci excitedly, "I just found this in the painting."

This should be a weird thing, but here, it's not surprising that anything happened. There must be a corresponding room if there is a key. Several people tried one by one, and finally the key correctly matched the room at the corner.

It fits in, but the key won't turn.

Wu You thought of it, "Josh must come."

After finishing speaking, he glanced at Nan Shan, and Nan Shan had no choice but to call out Josh's name and call him over.

Holding the key with Josh’s hand, it sure worked.

A sentence was displayed on the door: [Welcome back to D03, please remember to complete today's dating report. ]

Josh doesn’t understand, what is a dating report

Why do you need to write a report when you make friends

I thought this room would be like the sleeping room downstairs, there might be many scary children in it, Zhong Yirou had lingering fears about it, but when I opened the door, it was quiet and dark inside.

Nan Shan found the switch, turned on the light, and the room became much brighter.

This is just a very ordinary archive room, the walls inside are cleanly painted, and there is a translucent screen hanging on the wall, currently there is no projection. There is a folding chair in the room, and a small space is separated by two large filing shelves. Walking through, there is only a glass cabinet for storing items.

"I'll go there later." Josh followed Yang Erci to the cabinet inside, "I'll look more and tell Wu Jiu when I pass by."

Nan Shan didn't seem to have much curiosity to explore the mystery, he leaned against the wall, his face was a little pale, "You all seem to like An Wujiu."

Josh was a little embarrassed, and scratched his fluffy brown curly hair. The freckles on his face gave him a special greenness and shyness, "It can't be said that I like it, it should be trusted. Don't you think he has a very Is it a reliable feeling? I have never met such a player in other games of the altar before, and I really want to be a teammate with someone like him."

Nanshan nodded, "It seems that I do have this feeling. This guy is quite reliable. If he hadn't boosted everyone's morale from the very beginning and led them to decipher together, otherwise half of the people didn't know each other. , can do their own things, and even form a confrontation. Thinking about it this way, he is indeed a very good person."

Zhong Yirou was on the other side of the file shelf, she flipped through the files on it, and said in a low voice, "That's another way you haven't seen him..."

"Another kind?" Nan Shan was a little curious.

"The other one is also very good." Wu You said deliberately, "It's more reliable than now."

Yang Erci didn't participate in their chat. She found many strange medicine bottles in the glass cabinet, but there were no labels. She wanted to see what it was, so she went out and dragged the metal folding chair, and threw it directly at the glass cabinet.

The loud sound of glass breaking suddenly interrupted the conversation of several others. Josh on the side was once again frightened by this decisive iceberg beauty.

"You, you be careful of broken glass."

Yang Erci reached out and took out the medicine bottle, unscrewed it, and found a transparent sampling plastic bag inside, which contained an orange pill.

Josh noticed that there was a label on the sample bag, which contained a chemical term he could not understand—cyproterone acetate, and a long list of molecular formulas—C24H29ClO4.

Yang Erci opened another bottle of medicine, which contained the same sample bag, containing a yellow tablet with another name on it.

In this way, she opened several medicine bottles in a row, which were filled with different pills. Until she finds the last bottle and finds a printed report where the bottle was placed.

[After investigation, the medicines taken by the birth mothers of this batch of abandoned babies include but not completely include the following types, and all of them are taken by the birth mothers voluntarily. The reason remains to be investigated. The results of the physical examination of infants and young children are expected to be released next Monday, and a comprehensive analysis will be conducted in conjunction with the physical examination report. ]

The strangest thing is that the person in charge's signature on this report is A02.

In other words, this is the result of An Wujiu's role investigation.

"What does this mean? The medicine the child's mother took?" Josh picked up a bottle, "What kind of medicine is this?"

Yang Erci put down the report, and said with a heavy face: "These are anti-androgens and estrogens. If it is as written in the report, then what these discarded children have in common is that their biological mothers took a large amount of estrogens and estrogens during pregnancy." Anti-androgens."

"How could you eat these?" Zhong Yirou felt inconceivable. Although she is only a prosthetic doctor, she still understands the basic pharmacology. "It is very dangerous to take too much hormone during pregnancy, and it can easily lead to miscarriage. If you are pregnant with a boy , will also…”

She stopped talking suddenly, because she thought of the children on the mural just now, their screaming and screaming hysterically.

"What will happen?" Wu You heard something was wrong, and Nan Shan on the side felt that it was time for him to recite the mantra again.

Seeing Zhong Yirou's poor condition, Yang Erci answered for her, "It will increase the risk of fetal malformation. The deformity here is different from that of Rainbow Baby. It is male feminization."

Hearing this result, the others were stunned.

Zhong Yirou felt that her hands were a little cold, she rubbed her hands in a daze, and then suddenly thought of a file that she had neglected just now, she rummaged through the file shelf again, and finally found it again, one page after another Flipping through the pages, I found a tiny hard drive sandwiched inside.

"There is a label on it." Zhong Yirou turned around and walked towards the translucent screen, found the socket on the wall and inserted the hard drive in his hand. "The label says [feminization] in English."

The screen lit up, and everyone came to her. Josh's permission was needed to read it. After he followed the instructions, the hard disk was indeed turned on. There were some video reports in it. After opening, there was a long black screen in front of it.

Just as the playback was starting, there was a knock on the door, Zhong Yirou turned around and saw Shen Ti and An Wujiu coming in.

"You two can't be fake." She was very vigilant, and shouted their names outside, but there was no response.

"It's just the two of us." Shen Ti put one hand in his pocket, looking very lazy, "Rainbow rain started over there again, we came here when we were bored."

"It's not that I'm bored," An Wujiu corrected, "We want to see if we can help, while we can't pass over there."

Yang Erci looked at them carefully, and then asked, "Did you find anything over there?"

An Wujiu paused, "The door can't be opened, but there are some strange phenomena. For example, the last round of orange tin cans said orange, but when it reappeared this time, it said green. The tags have also changed to orange tags. Other than that, there are no usable clues yet."

These detailed changes are often needed to solve the puzzle, but there are too few clues, and no one can solve it directly.

"It feels like we're going to spend a while on this floor."

Just after Wu You finished speaking, the black screen on the video report ended and turned into a clear and specific picture.

What surprised everyone else was that the person in the picture had An Wujiu's face, and even his voice and body were exactly the same.

"This is you?" Josh turned to look at An Wujiu.

An Wujiu was much calmer, "It should be A02."

In the video, A02, who has the image of An Wujiu, is not in the detention center at the moment. It is obvious that he is outside, and it seems that he is in a dilapidated environment that is incompatible with his own image. There are no towering buildings here, only ruins Even the air in the "houses" made of plastic waste is dusty, and the children running past are wearing dirty old clothes.

This is downright ghetto.

A02 was walking quickly, and a child grabbed his sleeve, hoping he could give him something to eat, so he had to stop. Now is not the age of using cash. He took off his expensive tie and gave it to the child, and then quickly left.

When he was about to leave the area, he finally began to speak.

[I just visited some families on behalf of a charitable foundation who are at risk of abandoning those children. A very common point is that many of them decided to discard the child when the child was four to five years old, presumably because at that time they discovered that there was a problem with the development of the child's sexual organs, which was an unexpected problem. ]

Seeing his own face appearing in such a scene, An Wujiu felt a little delicate.

[And I found this. ] A02 in the video takes out a small medicine bottle.

[It is said that there is a very powerful doctor here, the residents spread word of mouth, and his medicine has miraculous effects, which has spread to the outside world. But when I found the subdivided room where the genius doctor lived, it was already empty, and I only found these medicines in a pile of garbage and waste products, waiting for me to take them back for testing. ]

A02 put away the medicine and walked to the other side of the road. The wind was loud, like a thin soft knife, blowing on his worried face.

The video ended, and Josh opened a second one, which read [Follow-Up].

This video is different from the previous one. After opening the screen, it shows a male resident of a slum. He looks Southeast Asian and is only in his thirties. He has dark skin and speaks in a very mature tone.

[Now everyone wants to have a daughter, who wants to have a son, how much is a son worth? ]

Immediately afterwards, there was An Wujiu's voice, that is, A02.

[Why only want a daughter? ]

The man smiled, as if he was amused by A02, with the gesture of someone who came here.

[There are so few daughters, the environment here is getting worse and worse, and no one in the city can give birth to children. The ability to have children has become a scarce resource. Although there is an artificial womb and surrogacy technology, how can the poor afford it? Besides, they all say that the baby made by this artificial womb has poor physical fitness and will not live to be twenty years old. ]

[Little girls are getting less and less, everyone is going extinct. Boys are good, they can carry on the family line, but no one will give birth to them, so how can they pass on the lineage? One day a great scientist will invent a new technology for men to give birth to their own children, so there is no need to wait desperately to give birth to a daughter. What a scarce resource the uterus is, it's all money! ]

As he spoke, the man threw a sugar pill-like thing into his mouth and grinned.

[Little handsome guy, if it were you, would you also want to have a daughter? ]

A02 was silent for a moment.

[Do you have any method? ]

[Yes, my two daughters came out like this. You don’t know, our place looks dilapidated, but it’s actually a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger. You go and inquire about it. There is a very powerful foreign doctor here. He sells a kind of rebirth medicine① that can make you give birth to a daughter. ]

[real? ] It was clearly a question, but A02's voice cooled down.

[Of course, if you don’t believe me, just go find it. What am I lying to you for? There are many people who want to carry on the family line, and everyone is trying to create opportunities for them every day. ]

Hearing these words, everyone fell into an ice cave.

No one thought that this was the reason.

A02 didn't answer, the screen shook for a while, then cut off.

An Wujiu felt very strange.

Before seeing this video, he experienced the strange events on the first floor. Like everyone else, he believed that this institution was not as glamorous and decent as it appeared on the surface, at least not as the founder said in the original video. , is a charity made entirely for the poor children.

After all, no charity has a mortuary.

But what this A02 is doing now seems to be contrary to his vision.

He seems to be really seeking evidence for these children who were harmed by Zhuantaiwan, and is trying to find out some kind of truth.

If this is really the case, I am afraid that the specific process is that the detention center received these forced deformed fetuses. Due to the large number, it attracted the attention of A02, and only then did they come to the concentrated discarding place of abandoned babies to find the answer.

What A02 has done is too contradictory to this weird holding center.

Josh opened the last video, which was still A02's video report. In this report, he did not appear by himself.

When the voice appeared, everyone froze for a moment. It was Josh's own voice, or D03.

[Excuse me, it is possible to adopt a baby girl here for a fee. ]

D03 does not appear in the video, and the miniature lens seems to be installed on his body. The picture is a little shaken. In the video, there is a middle-aged man with a big belly, thinning hair, and his dirty sweatshirt is about to burst from his stomach.

[Adopt yourself. ]

[I came to ask on behalf of my friend. He didn't have time to come by himself, so he specially entrusted me. Are there many of you here? What is the approximate price? ]

The man took out a tablet, and slid his thick black fingers, [Look for yourself, these are photos and prices, all of which are of high quality, choose slowly. ]

In the video, D03's finger appeared, swiped the screen a few times, and asked a question that surprised the other party.

[I hear you have some… not quite normal baby girls here. ]

The other party froze for a moment, then suddenly showed a strange smile, "Oh, that's what you said."

Soon, he pointed a few times, and another table category appeared, with the name [Double Perfect Angel].

[I thought no one wanted it. Some time ago, many children were lost after giving birth, and I don’t know where those children were taken in the end.

Let me tell you the truth, we are all business people, just be honest. These are the girls I bought back in a daze before. I thought they were valuable girls, but I didn’t expect them to be freaks. ]

There was an unconcealable disgust on his face.

[If you want, I can package it for you at a low price. ]

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The author has something to say:

①According to the news about the "birth transfer drug" some time ago, but the real news is to guarantee "female to male" and "only male fetuses".

This is irony, so it will be reversed. Of course, there will be no so-called male-to-female conversion in the real world. In the article, seeking a daughter is to use the value of fertility to seek benefits, and I don’t really like it. In reality, it’s to satisfy my own paranoid ideas. I would rather believe in pills with no scientific basis and have boys, but I really don’t like it. daughter.

If you search the news, you will see that basically they are taking abortion pills to ask for a female to male conversion. Many ignorant people are still pinning their hopes on these unknown pills that can even cause miscarriage and deformed children. Tragic scam.

There are even many people queuing up in some blog posts and posts to send prayers such as "accepting the male baby". Willing to give birth to a girl.