Anzhe woke up from a comfortable dream.

In the dream, he had no eyes, no ears, and no organs used by humans to perceive. He seemed to have gone back to a long, long time ago, when he was buried deeply in the soft and moist soil. But that was not soil. He seemed to be on land.

He was not far from Jie's side. He was so close to the colonel's breath, closer than the distance to death.

After opening his eyes, he stared at the gray ceiling in a daze - he had been trying not to think of the people and things in the northern base. He could feel the passage of memories, the poet, the doctor, and Colin. He had almost forgotten them.

His appearance and personality, everything that happened in that city gradually faded away, but Lu Feng appeared in his dreams more and more frequently.

Sometimes when he opened his eyes, he felt that this person was beside him. The dark green vine leaves hanging by the window were covered with hoarfrost before they withered, turning into a crystal clear color, like land.

Jie's eyes were looking at him.

But the coldness of the outside world quickly enveloped him again.

Outside the window, lead-gray clouds hang low on the top of the mountain, and the hard ground on the top of the mountain is covered with white frost like pine flowers. Winter is coming.

People at the Highland Institute still take good care of him. Ten days ago he received a woolen scarf and a pair of rabbit fur gloves. Every day, he wraps himself in these warm things and leaves the main building to go to the white building of Ripoli.

The laboratory is waiting.

The Simpson cage consumes a lot of power, and the power of the wind turbine is limited. It can only be turned on for two hours a day. During the rest of the time, Polly will do other things. Sometimes, he will teach Anzhe some physics and

Biological knowledge, for example, everything is composed of molecules and atoms, and atoms can be split into electrons, protons and neutrons. However, this is far from the end. No one can see what the material basis of this world is.

"To perceive the world, a blind person can only reach out and touch things, but what he feels is obviously not the full picture of the thing. Our understanding of the world is just like the blind, and we are destined to only see the surface. We have many assumptions, but

There's no way to verify it's correct," Polly said.

While saying this, the window of the laboratory was blown open by the howling north wind on the mountain top. The brown-skinned Indian man stood up to close the window. Polly Jean reached out and pulled up Anzhe's scarf.

The scarf wrapped Anzhe's entire neck, and he was buried in the soft and warm cloth. He asked Polly: "Aren't you cold?"

"As I get older, I have become slow in many places." Polly Joan's gentle gray-blue eyes looked at him, and Anzhe could see his own reflection in his eyes, wrapped in a white ball. But

He didn't look at it for long before he lowered his head and coughed. It was so cold outside, but his lungs felt like they were burning with fire, swelling and hurting.

Polly ran down his back and handed the hot water on the table to him.

"Are there any antibiotics left?" he asked the Indian man named Rum.

"There's some left."

After coughing, Anzhe trembled and took the medicine. He lit a charcoal stove in the room, but he still felt very cold.

"I can't find the cause of your illness." Paul wiped away the fine cold sweat on his forehead with his fingers. There was obvious pain in his gray-blue eyes, and he whispered: "There are no advanced instruments here... I'm sorry.

"

An Zhe shook his head: "It doesn't matter."

Polly said that human beings always have only a superficial understanding of the world, and sometimes he felt that his understanding of human beings was only superficial. When he returned to the abyss, he never expected to receive such hospitality from humans.

For example, Polly was not a medical expert, but because An Zhe's body was getting weaker, he began to read the medical literature in the database, and Rum would also help search.

Sometimes Anzhe would feel guilty because of their kindness, because he was not a human being, and these kindnesses seemed to be stolen by him wearing a human skin. He began to fear that his original shape would be revealed on the day he died.

He once told Polly that he didn't need to worry so much. At that time, Polly used the back of his hand to test the temperature of his forehead and whispered-->>

: "You are like my child."

When Polly was away, he asked Rum in a subtle way why Mr. Polly treated him so well.

Rum said, sir, he loves everyone here.

"Before I came to the institute, half of my body was broken and moldy, and I was not conscious." Rum rolled up his trouser legs. His strong calves were covered with hideous scars and earthworm-like protrusions. This man who has always been taciturn

He said a long sentence: "Sir, he treated me day and night for half a year. I didn't believe there was such a person in the world before."

He added: "I was not a good person before. When I was a mercenary, I harmed my teammates. Now I have rescued three compatriots from the outside, which is considered as atonement. It feels good to be a good person, and it is better to be a human than a monster. Research Institute

There are many people here like me, and everyone loves Mr. Ai."

An Zhe clearly remembered that he suddenly thought of Lu Feng for no reason at that time - an inexplicable association. He was wondering how Lu Feng was doing now. Then he shook his head and took the name of the guy who was completely opposite to Polly.

The silhouette was driven out of my mind.

Rum is an amateur music lover. When he has nothing to do, he will practice harmonica against an old music sheet. Sometimes he also teaches An Zhe how to play the harmonica.

Instruments that are thousands of times more beautiful, together they can play an incomparably grand and shocking symphony.

When talking about this, Polly also came to them and joked: "If Rum was born a hundred years ago, he must be an outstanding musician."

Rum, who was always taciturn, smiled. At this time, he would take out an old radio, turn the tape over, and press the play button. Fierce or gentle rhythms would be emitted from the rusty machine.

The sounds produced by countless musical instruments, each with its own timbre and melody, are combined together to form another magnificent sound. The music flows and echoes in this charcoal-burning laboratory. Downstairs,

A man whose left arm turned into an animal claw waved in this direction, and Rum hung the radio on the railing outside and turned up the volume.

The light and smooth music came through the ice-covered windowpane, and there was an announcement before the music played on the tape. This was Beethoven's "Spring Sonata". An Zhe held his chin and listened, the spring in the abyss was also beautiful, but he

Probably can't see it anymore.

——It was at this time that he received the text message from the northern base.

The communication channel that had been silent for a long time flashed red - there was only one nameless object on the communication list.

An Zhe brought up the communication interface and found that the text message sent by the unknown person only had two lines and a dozen words.

"Winter has arrived."

"The monster behaves strangely, please pay attention to safety."

An Zhe enlarged the words and looked back at Polly: "Mr."

"The news about Dr. Ji from the Northern Base," Polly said, "he is the only one who has been in secret contact with me these years."

The words "Dr. Ji" made An Zhe feel dazed for a moment. He asked: "...Do you want to reply?"

"Reply." Poliwen said in a warm voice: "You can reply for me."

Northern base.

The communication channel lights up with a text message reply from the Highland Institute.

"received."

"Thank you for the reminder. Please pay attention to safety at the base."

The doctor passed by the communication screen.

"Colonel Lu, tusk," he raised his voice, "I can't imagine that the judge would do such a thing, but you are still a kind person."

Lu Feng looked lightly and looked at the text on the screen.

"Who's on the other side?" he asked.
Chapter completed!