——Then there was the sound of things breaking.

Tang Lan frowned and strode out.

The screams continued, and the sounds of fighting could be heard.

The boy shrank suddenly. He grabbed An Zhe's arm, as if seeking protection, but said, "Don't be afraid, someone has turned into a monster, Brother Tang can beat him."

They looked out through the open door, and saw a human figure rolling in the central open space, with dense tentacles and bumps bulging on his back. The facial features on his face were distorted and transformed into a mass of gray edema, and his limbs stretched outward crazily.

Attacking, part of the other person's body turned into vines to fight with him. Tang Lan joined in, and after a while, he was subdued.

"Lock him up." Tang Lan said.

——The thing was taken down, and Tang Lan also returned to the room.

"We have human consciousness now, but we don't know when it will disappear." The boy whispered: "So I cherish the time when I can be a human being."

At this time, there was a sound outside the window. An Zhe looked down and saw a large instrument lighting up in the open space in front of the main building.

"Mr. Polly seems to have been doing this these past few days." The boy said, "It looks different from previous research."

An Zhe looked there and saw a dazzling red light between the machines. He asked, "What is this?"

Tang Lan didn't speak. He looked out the window. On the top of the mountain, the aurora and the starry sky became so low and so clear, it seemed that he could touch them with his hand.

There was silence in the room.

After a long time, Tang Lan suddenly spoke.

"Mr. Polly is a scientist of the fusion faction," Tang Lan said softly. "The fusion faction believes that one day, they can find a way to peacefully merge human and monster genes. People will not become monsters with only instincts, but they can also possess

A strong body can adapt to today's harsh environment."

"It's like this." He showed An Zhe his arm, which had some faint black scales: "The human body is indeed too fragile."

"Later, before it was successful, the Fusion Faction's experiment ran away, and the giant leech infected the water source of the base. Half of the entire base died because of this - the base will never allow any similar experiments from now on. The Fusion Faction

Scientists from the fusion faction also became sinners of the base." He said slowly: "However, other research has yielded no results, only fusion sounds like there is a glimmer of hope. So the scientists from the fusion faction defected, and they left the base, trying to find

A place where experiments can continue.”

"If they want to study fusion, they must conduct **experiments. Once the experiments are done, they will create intelligent monsters that have acquired human thoughts but are not human. The base will not allow this to happen, so it has been sending troops to intercept and kill them.

In the end, they finally found this place." Tang Lan looked up at the endless starry sky: "The Highland Research Institute is a relic.

The site was originally a place where man-made magnetic poles were studied many years ago. This place is behind an abyss, and the terrain is so high that armored vehicles cannot reach it. There are also many ready-made equipment, some of which can cause magnetic field interference in the surrounding area, causing military aircraft and radars to

It failed. The research institute then settled down, and while they were taking in the alien species, they were conducting research, which has continued to this day."

An Zhe asked: "Have you found a way to integrate now?"

Tang Lan shook his head.

"No pattern can be found," he said. "At first they thought it was related to will, and later they thought it was related to the type of foreign genes, but they were wrong. People with weak wills can wake up in a daze, and plants with weak pollution capabilities can devour people's bodies.

Will, after being infected by a very powerful monster, does not necessarily lose consciousness. The reason for retaining the will is just luck. Later, the magnetic pole failed and full pollution occurred. It was proved that this may have nothing to do with genes. Gold and iron can also pollute each other. An iron atom

Under the microscope, it somehow turned into something that we couldn't understand. My husband said that all the previous studies were wrong and we need to find new ways of analysis."

An Zhe also heard Dr. Ji mention the same argument, and he said: "The base thinks so too."

Tang Lan didn't speak for a long time.

"Anzhe," he suddenly called his name, "can you feel a fluctuation?"

An Zhe nodded, he could always feel it.

"After becoming a mutant, many people can feel it," Tang Lan said softly, "and it is getting stronger and stronger."

In the early morning, An Zhe opened his eyes from the bed. He had a splitting headache. His dreams were filled with the wilderness, the howls that shook the eardrums, the snap of animal claws stepping on the mud, and the cry - I don't know whose cry it was.

.In the jungle, the fluorescence of the beast's eyes was faintly reflected. He was running away from something like crazy, looking for something, but he could never escape or find it. The huge, nihilistic wave still followed him, it seemed

In every corner of this world, even the dew on the tips of leaves is its incarnation.

An Zhe tried his best to support his body with his arms and sit up. It was very laborious. His bones seemed to be rusty. Not only could he not move flexibly, but they had also become thin and brittle. Every time he moved, he would doubt whether he would be there the next moment.

will stop forever, so he knew that he was one step closer to irresistible death.

An Zhe hugged the quilt and sat on the bed for a long time before he felt that his condition had recovered a little. He stared blankly at the warm room - what happened yesterday was still like a dream, but today it became a little bit more real. He came to another place.

In a sense, it was a human world, and the people here were very kind to him - but his original intention of leaving Lu Feng was to prevent Lu Feng from witnessing his own death.

What about the people here who are friendly to him?

An Zhe's nose was a little sore and he felt guilty, but before he could make any further choices, there was a knock on the door.

It was the boy yesterday. He brought a tray with breakfast. On the tray were steaming enamel cups and bowls.

"You didn't wake up this morning, and we didn't call you." The boy said, "Uncle Shu made potato soup again, you have to drink it."

An Zhe said "Thank you".

As he said that, the boy put the tray on the table. He looked down at the bowl of rich soup. Small pieces of potatoes were floating in the soup. Together with the bacon shreds, they exuded a kind of gentle aroma. The aroma was mixed with the

The white mist curled up and spread throughout the room.

——Officially, he never had the thought of leaving again.

Life in the institute is not as orderly as in the base, and people do not have fixed tasks and positions-->>

, but they have a spontaneous division of labor. The institute took him in, and he knew that he had to give something in return. He wanted to work hard and do something, and the people in the institute also welcomed him.

At first, he would go out and collect edible plant roots with the boy in a relatively safe area. Later, his body could not bear the cold wind blowing in his face, so he could only stay at the base to help plant or cook.

Later, he could no longer even support such a job. People at the institute believed that he was suffering from some unidentified disease - this is a common thing. In this world, any disease may occur, and even the entire

The world is terminally ill.

That day, Polly came to see him. From that day on, Anzhe lived with Polly Qiong in the white building on the west side of the main building. Although his body gradually weakened, his mind was still clear enough to be a qualified assistant.

There is also a silent Indian man as an assistant in Polly's laboratory. He is good at repairing various equipment, named Coder.

This is a strict laboratory with machines on all sides. The machines are connected to display screens. The largest one - its optical cable lines extend from the laboratory to the ground and are connected to a device called the "Simpson Cage" outside.

The main components of the Simpson Cage are four five-meter-high mechanical towers, which are like smaller versions of the two white towers outside the institute, and the shapes of those two white towers - An Zhe looked at them for a long time to confirm that they were the same as those at the base.

The huge artificial magnetic poles have many similarities. He immediately thought that the Highland Research Institute was the place where the artificial magnetic poles were first developed.

The four towers form a rectangle more than ten meters long and twenty meters wide. When the Simpson cage is activated, the entire cubic rectangular space enclosed by them will be filled with a hot red light similar to a high-frequency laser, like a scarlet

Sea of ​​Fire. Everyone in the institute knew not to walk into the open Simpson Cage, otherwise they would die ugly.

From the laboratory manual, An Zhe learned that the "Simpson Cage" was the most cutting-edge masterpiece in the field of high-energy physics at the peak of human science. It directly contributed to the success of artificial magnetic poles.

"Until now, we don't know the cause of geomagnetism. Some people speculate that it is due to the flow of molten iron in the earth's liquid core, and some think it is the rotation of the electrical layer in the mantle, but there is no strong enough evidence. We don't know how it is generated.

The reason for its disappearance cannot be known, which is beyond the limits of our knowledge. Similarly, we cannot reproduce the electromagnetic field unless we create a magnet as large as half the earth." Polly explained to him:

"But one of the physical laws we know is that magnetism is produced by electricity, and the movement of electric charges produces a magnetic field."

"One of the contributions of the Simpson cage is that it can present the wave force field between elementary particles, thereby analyzing the way they interact, and then reproduce some phenomena. So we got the inspiration for the artificial magnetic pole - you lack physics knowledge, I

There is no way to explain it more profoundly. To put it simply, two artificial magnetic poles emit pulse waves of special frequencies, causing the resonance of charged particles in the solar wind, just like we hold a trumpet and tell them, please go over there. So the particles

Resonance and motion generate a magnetic field, and the earth is protected."

An Zhe nodded. He understood, but that was all. His work did not require him to master advanced physics knowledge, he only needed to take good care of the instruments.

Sometimes, Polly was outside calibrating the frequency of the Simpson cage, and another assistant followed him. There was only An Zhe in the white building. He sat there, with the low night sky outside the window. The machine made a monotonous buzz, connecting the spectrum of the Simpson cage.

The instrument draws a complicated curve and I don’t know what it is recording.

Those curves were noisy, tangled, and without any rules. He recalled for no reason the chaotic and terrifying lines painted on the paper by Sinan in the Garden of Eden. He closed his eyes and felt the fluctuations of nothingness becoming more and more violent.

He would feel scared as he felt life passing by day after day, but sometimes he felt that he was gradually approaching eternity.

Polly came back and began to analyze the chaotic curves. Anzhe tried hard to pick up the thermos beside him and poured him a cup of hot water.

"What are you doing?" he finally asked.

"I want to find that thing," said Polly.

Looking at the screen, An Zhe asked: "...What is it?"

"Something that causes change in the world."

"It must be everywhere. If it is in this world, it must be in the Simpson cage." He said.

An Zhe frowned slightly.

Polly picked up a compass at hand: "We can never see the magnetic field, but the direction of the compass can tell us that it exists. The same is true for other invisible things in the world. Our knowledge is too shallow and we can only pursue them.

The representations that are projected onto the world."

"Look here." Polly highlighted a smooth curve: "Everything in the world is interacting, and there is a lot of information in the traces of interaction. Like this line, it, like the compass, represents the magnetic field."

"We assume that the changes that are happening in the world are because something huge is gradually coming... but the magnetic field can resist it to a certain extent - since the magnetic field can resist it, it must have a similar presentation to the magnetic field.

Polly's gray-blue eyes looked at the messy screen with fascination: "It is very grand, beyond our knowledge. It changes the nature of the world, but it is here. I think it must be

There is a specific reception frequency, and you can see the shadow it casts on the real world."

An Zhe asked: "What then?"

Polly shook his head slowly: "We must first know what it is before we can think about ways to deal with it."

But can it really be found?

An Zhe looked at the screen in confusion.

As if she knew what he was thinking, Polly spoke.

"Although it's very slim, but..." He only spoke halfway and sighed softly, "After all, we have created many masterpieces that are unimaginable to humans before."

An Zhe read the fluctuations in his tone and repeated the last sentence: "A masterpiece that is unimaginable to humans."

Then, he saw that the twinkling light in Polly's eyes gradually dimmed.

Polly Jean looked out the window at the boundless wilderness, the sky filled with gray haze, and the howls of wild beasts coming from all directions. There were strange fluctuations in the sound that could not be deciphered by human sound spectrum.

"Only for human beings." He said softly, "Before we were shattered, we thought we understood the whole world."
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