"Beep——"

"Beep——"

"Beep——"

I don't know where it is, but the instrument is making a monotonous sound. But there is another sound in the whole room.

"Dong dong."

"Dong dong."

"Dong dong."

The sound was very much like a human heartbeat, but it was not real, because it permeated the entire room, and there seemed to be devices playing sound in the corners of the four walls.

At this time, footsteps came from the end of the room. They were two humans. They were walking and talking, as if they were recording something.

After a while, a brief conversation began.

"Zone 4 is normal."

"Zone 6 is normal."

"No. 113 stopped growing."

"Keep watching."

"No. 334 has proliferated abnormally and must be destroyed."

"Transplantation number 334 is too early."

"There is no way. The last report was not approved. The superiors are determined to use a high birth rate to offset the high anomaly rate."

"The abnormality rate of embryos has been increasing in the past two years. This is not a wise decision at all. The embryos must stay in the mother's body for at least one month to ensure smooth development."

"The mother's flowering period is too short. If it is extended, the birth rate will not be enough."

"Why is it so difficult?"

"Optimistically, the overall number of children is increasing."

The footsteps gradually faded away, and only the heartbeat that filled the whole room still sounded. The light in the room was dim and soft, like a stable nest, or a huge hollow organ, and the powerful heartbeat sounded like a kind of

Proof of the existence of life.

An Zhe slowly exited the pipe. He felt a little uncomfortable in his body - there seemed to be some strange fluctuations in this place that were affecting his body. But fortunately, after seeing the layout of the human room, he finally regained his sense of control.

He had to go somewhere closer to the outside of the building.

After turning many times in the pipes, he found many vents, which led to small square rooms one after another. It seemed that it was still the time when people were sleeping soundly, and there was someone sleeping in each room. He

He couldn't get out from under the bed to look, but he could hear breathing, which was very faint. It was the breathing of cubs. The window was sealed, and there was a camera with a red light above the room. He couldn't pass through this.

Escape the room.

So after a long time, Anzhe finally succeeded in finding a vent on the ceiling of the corridor.

He carefully came out of here, stretched his body flat on the ceiling, and moved along the corridor along the ceiling - the camera was pointing downwards and could not capture the picture on the ceiling.

The layout of each floor of the Garden of Eden was similar. He recognized that this should be a corridor for handling chores. The warehouses for storing indoor cleaning tools, daily necessities, food and sundries were all here.

He became slightly excited. According to the rules, three-quarters of the way down the corridor, there would be a door leading to a small terrace - occasionally used to dry things, and sometimes staff would smoke there.

Soon, Anzhe successfully found the door. He tried his best to stretch out the mycelium and slipped in through the crack in the door.

It's bright outside - it's actually daytime.

But before An Zhe had time to think carefully, his attention was completely diverted.

On the empty terrace, on the concrete fence, stood a white, very small figure, a girl in a white skirt. Her back was to An Zhe, facing outside, and she was slowly opening her arms and moving towards

Lean forward - she'll fall right off.

An Zhe's human form appeared. He took a few steps forward, grabbed the girl's shoulders, picked her up from the fence, and placed her on the ground: "You..."

The girl looked back.

An Zhe was stunned.

He had seen her before. Just two days ago, she ran from Eden Garden to the road outside, was stopped by Lu Feng, and was finally taken away by Eden Garden staff. He would not admit her mistake.

At this time, she glanced at An Zhe. It was an almost lifeless look. It was not as bright as the children in An Zhe's class. For a moment, An Zhe felt that this girl was a lifeless doll. He

I know that my current image is not ordinary. Wearing a robe made of mycelium, I may look like a human being who goes out wearing a bed sheet - but normal humans don't go out wearing a bed sheet.

But this girl seemed not to see anything. She didn't seem to realize how special An Zhe's dress was or how unexpected An Zhe's appearance was. She also didn't seem to recognize him, or she didn't remember the existence of this person at all.

Three seconds later, she slowly turned back and looked forward.

It was early morning outside, and the aurora had just faded away. Thick white fog spread over the dark gray city, and undulating waves surged into the gray-blue sky. From this angle, half of the field of vision was covered by the cylindrical magnetic field not far away.

Blocked by the generator, it is larger and taller than all buildings, like a mountain, an isolated island in the sea fog, or a spiral staircase connecting the sky and the ground. The street lights twinkle with the morning stars in the sky, but in such a huge

They pale in comparison to their image.

And the girl looked up at the infinite sky above.

"I don't want to jump." Her voice was childish, but her words were clear: "I want to fly."

An Zhe said: "It will fall."

She said: "I know."

Her tone of voice was also calm, unlike a child of this age. The morning wind blew over, and her white skirt and black hair were blown up. It was unusually slender and soft. Women and girls outside did not have this.

Planting things - Du Sai also has this trait, but this girl is more obvious.

An Zhe stood behind her. He had just protected a human cub, and he paid a price for it. At least, his existence was exposed in the eyes of this girl. Now he is in extreme danger and cannot reveal anything.

flaw.

He said: "Why are you here?"

"There are a few times when the surveillance will go haywire for a while, and they haven't noticed it yet." The girl said, "I'll go out and look at the sky."

"You can also watch the sky during your free time." An Zhe said, "Which floor and shift are you on?"

He fulfilled his duties as a teacher seriously and could not let the cub stay in such a dangerous place.

She said: "I am in the Garden of Eden."

An Zhe: "Which floor and class are you in the Garden of Eden?"

"I'm not on the floor or class." She said, "The boys are there."

Anzhe patiently explained to her: "There are also girls in the class."

There are many girls in his class, such as Ji Sha - although they are dressed similarly to other boys, they don't wear skirts and have shoulder-length hair like the girl in front of him.

"Those girls are not girls." She turned to look at An Zhe: "Only girls above the twentieth floor are real girls."

An Zhe: "Why?"

"Don't you even know this?" she said.

An Zhe: "I don't know."

He indeed knew very little about this human base.

For the first time, an expression other than a plain expression appeared on the girl's face. The corners of her lips were raised with a vague sense of pride: "Then you don't know the Rose Declaration either."

An Zhe: "What is it?"

The girl turned around and lay on the railing. The sun was rising faintly in the sky.

"Then you don't know about bacterial infections, right?" she said.

An Zhe: "I know."

He still knew about the disaster that killed 90% of the world's humanity.

"Only people with good genes can survive," she said.

An Zhe: "Yeah."

For virulent mutated bacteria, human treatment methods are ineffective. They can only escape infection by relying on their innate immunity. If a person's genes are destined to resist the disease, he can survive.

"Then, after those people survived, they found that very few living children were born in the world." She reached out and combed her hair, paused for a while, as if to organize her words, and then said: "After the infection

, those girls who survived all had defects in their fertility. Only a few of them had smaller defects."

An Zhe didn't speak. She wrinkled her nose and continued: "Scientists will do a genetic test on them. Those with a score below 60 will completely lose that function. Those with a score above 60 may give birth to normal children. Then, they will

With the "Rose Declaration". You are a boy, the declaration has nothing to do with you."

An Zhe asked: "What is the declaration?"

"We just carried it." She said, "Do you want to listen?"

An Zhe: "Okay."

She spoke calmly and said: "Twenty-three thousand three hundred and seventy-one women with a fertility score of 60 and above in the four human bases passed the following declaration with zero votes: I voluntarily sacrifice my destiny for mankind, accept genetic experiments, and accept all forms of assisted reproduction.

means, and strive for life for the continuation of the human race."

"That's it." She said, "So I am on the twentieth floor and you are below. Now you know."

"Thank you." An Zhe said, "But you still have to be careful not to come to such a dangerous place."

"I won't jump." She said, "I come every week, don't you come too?"

She looked at An Zhe again: "I wanted to see the sky, so I came here. Why did you come?"

An Zhe: "I can't find the way back."

"I know the way," she said, "I have a secret passage."

An Zhe thought for a while: "I don't have anything to wear either."

"I also know where the laundry room is," she said.

Anzhe asked her: "Then can you tell me?"

She did not answer directly, but asked: "Are you a student from the lower class?"

An Zhe: "I am a teacher."

"Promise me one thing," she said to An Zhe, her eyes seemed to be clearer, "promise me one thing, I will find you clothes and then take you out through the secret passage."

An Zhe asked: "What's the matter?"

"You find a boy named Sinan on the 6th floor and tell him that I was given a tracer and can no longer go out to play with him." She said, "This time next week, you come here again and tell me what he said.

What."

An Zhe fell silent.

The girl looked at him and asked, "Can't you do it?"

"I..." An Zhe looked at her and she blinked, now she looked like a normal child.

Finally, An Zhe said: "I might not be able to do it."

She said: "If you can find him, he is on the sixth floor."

An Zhe said nothing.

But she seemed a little anxious, pushed open the terrace door, and said, "I'll get you some clothes."

Before Anzhe could stop her, her white skirt disappeared through the door.

If the Sinan she is talking about is the Sinan that An Zhe knows, then he is no longer in the Garden of Eden, but in the lighthouse. But An Zhe doesn't know what will happen to her if he really tells her the news. He knows that human emotions will

bring pain.

So until the girl went out and came back again, pulling him through the dark, deserted, empty corridor, and finally stopped at a small, half-open door in the clutter, he didn't think of a word to say.

"If you can get in, you can go down to the first floor." She pointed to the doorway.

The door was ajar. Technically speaking, it was no longer tightly shut due to age and was loosened. But the chain-like rusty metal bolt was still hanging on the door.

It is embedded in the wall, so that it can only open to a very small extent, only enough for a child to get in sideways.

An Zhe said: "I'll try."

He walked to the door and leaned slightly.

It is impossible for an adult to pass through here, but he is still a mushroom after all. Under the cover of his clothes, his body briefly changed to the state of mycelium. After losing the restrictions of human bones, he easily entered behind the door.

"Your body is so soft," the girl said.

"I also have one thing," An Zhe said: "Can you not tell others that I have been here?"

The girl said: "If you come here again next week -"

Her voice stopped suddenly.

"Lily?" a female voice said.

"You're here again." The voice was slightly reproachful.

An Zhe ducked aside, and he heard Lily say: "I'm sorry, madam."

"I found you this time," the woman called "Madam" said softly, "If it were them, you would be locked up again."

Lily said: "I won't do it anymore."

Then there were footsteps, and they seemed to be walking out. An Zhe looked over there through the gap, and saw Lily being held by a lady in a snow-white dress, and her figure gradually walked away in the dim corridor.

Lily didn't finish her words, but he knew what she wanted to say. He seemed to have reached an agreement with Lily. He would come here again next week to tell her Simon's reply.

He was worried and looked around - it was dark all around, and the smell of moisture was coming from the floor. He could vaguely see that the walls were mottled and peeling off, covered with gray-green mold spots, and the ground was covered with gray-white powdery debris - this was a small place.

Steep stairwell. And, obviously, it hadn't been used in who knows how many years.

An Zhe found the handrail of the stairs and walked down it little by little. There were no windows and it was darker than night. This place was not much better than a pipe.

There are 20 stairs on each floor. An Zhe counted the floors as he walked. When he went down to the 6th floor, the small door of the stairwell had a gap about the same size as the 20th floor. He went out from it.

And arrived at the utility room on the 6th floor.

The bright light shone on him. The clothes Lily gave him were the standard clothing of Eden personnel, a snow-white shirt - no different from his previous dress. He walked out and looked at the time on the wall clock in the corridor. It was seven o'clock.

, if he went to work at the training base from Eden - he would already be late.

So An Zhe went downstairs and walked towards the door faster. The bright red slogan "Human interests above all else" in the hall was particularly eye-catching on the white walls. Staff in white uniforms walked on the bright floor, and children's voices could be heard in the distance.

The sound, everything was different from the inside of the deep and twisting pipe, and he felt like he was alive again.

The glass door of the hall opened and someone bumped into him.

An Zhe: "..."

Lu Feng.

Behind Lu Feng is Seran.

He saw Lu Feng's eyes narrowed, and he felt some dangerous aura from this action.

Sure enough, Lu Feng said in a deep voice: "Why are you here?"

Facing this person, An Zhe's hyphae were about to explode.

He shouldn't be in Eden right now, he should be at the training base with Colin.

"I..." He looked up at Lu Feng.

And those cold green eyes stared at him, and the meaning seemed to be: You can start making up.

An Zhe said: "...I took the wrong step."

He really went wrong and got completely lost underground in the entire city. If he hadn't happened to come to the Garden of Eden, or hadn't found the terrace in time, he might have continued to be trapped in that place, lost his identity as a human being, and would never be able to come out again.

.

and……

And Lu Feng, this bad guy, has nothing to do with him from now on.

He lowered his eyes slightly. For some reason, he felt that the colonel was no longer as hateful as before.

Then Seran said gently: "It's time to go to work at the training base today. Didn't you realize that the location has been changed?"

An Zhe said nothing. The sun rose from behind the artificial magnetic pole in the distance, and the golden rays of light shone on the silver buttons of Lu Feng's uniform.

His voice was a little hoarse: "And we're going to be late."

Lu Feng didn't speak, but he didn't open his mouth to make things difficult for him. An Zhe felt that based on Lu Feng's understanding of his IQ, Seran's reason was convincing enough. An Zhe moved to the side, trying to bypass Lu Feng.

Get out of here.

Lu Feng's voice suddenly came from beside him: "I'll see you off."

Lu Feng's car drove very steadily and fast, at least twice as fast as the shuttle bus. When it stopped at the entrance of the training base, the time on the display screen in the car had just reached 7:25 a.m., which was far from the required time to go to work.

There are still five minutes left, so you are not late.

But when he got off Lu Feng's car, An Zhe felt that the people who also came to work at the training base all glanced at him.

Anyway, it was not the first time that he had been spotted. An Zhe came to the card swiping machine at the door, and people came over one after another, swiped their ID cards to open the gate, and entered.

Anzhe paused - he discovered something.

There were footsteps behind him. He turned around and saw Lu Feng standing very close behind him, raising his eyebrows and looking at him.

An Zhe: "...I forgot to bring my card too."

Then Lu Feng heard a soft "tsk" sound.

Two slender fingers clasped the blue ID card and placed it on the sensor. With a beep, the gate opened.

It was Lu Feng who used his ID card to open the gate for him.

At the same time, the colonel's voice sounded in his ears with a hint of disgust.

"Too stupid."
Chapter completed!