The woman looked around in panic, but didn't see the metal box, so she asked again, "Have you poured anything into it?"
Tang Rou nodded, "Pour it in."
But the other party suddenly raised his voice, "Did you fall in? Tell the truth! Otherwise, everyone will be killed!"
Even the gentlest person would be aroused by her attitude. Tang Rou shook off her hand and repeated in a cold voice, "I fell in, but there is a mermaid injured in the fiberglass and needs help."
"Mermaid...what did you say?"
The woman's expression could no longer be described as panic. She had only seen ghosts during the day. She pulled Tang Rou to the escape passage and asked again, "What did you see? Mermaid?"
Tang Rou looked confused, "What's wrong?"
The woman let go of her hand.
She looked dazed and muttered to herself in a daze.
"How is it possible? Impossible... If you saw him, how could you still be alive?"
At this time, footsteps came from the other side of the passage, accompanied by an exclamation, "Tang Rou, why are you here!"
Aslan came running from a distance, his face full of fear, "I thought something happened to you!"
Then he saw the woman next to Tang Rou and respectfully shouted, "Director Qin."
The woman ignored Aslan and looked extremely ugly. She grabbed Tang Rou's hand and threatened in a low voice, "Don't say a word about what happened today."
Tang Rou frowned and felt pain coming from her wrist bones.
At the same time, the gated area not far away was surrounded by layers of armed personnel, and a heavy metal defense net was erected.
It seemed like there was some dangerous monster inside.
Tang Rou looked at it in confusion, but was grabbed by Aslan and hurriedly dragged to the escape tunnel.
"Don't go over there, that's no place for us to get involved."
Tang Rou asked, "Who was that woman just now?"
"The special director of District S is a dangerous person. You'd better not get close to her." After a pause, Aslan said word by word, "Today... many people died, the experiment was not completed, and the 17th has already
It has been transferred back to your laboratory and we will notify you again tomorrow."
Tang Rou wanted to say something else, but Asselan grabbed her shoulders, and her voice was trembling slightly, "Rou, we have to live well and don't care about things that we shouldn't care about."
"..."
Tang Rou looked into Aslan's eyes in silence and swallowed the words in her mouth.
Don't care about what you shouldn't care about.
Otherwise it will kill you.
Back at the hotel apartment, when Tang Rao was changing his clothes, he found something cold in the pocket on his waist. When he took it out, he found it was a scale like thin ice.
The polarized light flows like glass, like a dream.
Tang Rou subconsciously put the scales back into her pocket, and the brief encounter felt like a dream.
Area S is always a mysterious area that cannot be reached.
The next day, a notice came from the terminal that the laboratory was closed.
After another day, Area A was unblocked and Tang Rou was able to go back.
Aslan bought her coffee and took it to the office, and informed her that at one o'clock in the afternoon, she would conduct a secondary splitting experiment on the 17th.
Tang Rou took the coffee, and Aslan added, "The results of the day before yesterday came out. Many people were punished. The special creatures in Area S went riot, and the entire area was almost destroyed."
"So serious?" Tang Rou couldn't help but ask, "What is locked inside?"
"I don't know. I heard that Professor Xu was looking for someone and asked who entered the special area yesterday. Deputy Director Gao said it was her, but she was dismissed."
Tang Rou was stunned, "What's the problem?"
"I don't know, why do you suddenly care about this?"
Tang Rou didn't answer.
Her subconscious ignored the mermaid. After all, its deceptive appearance looked so fragile and harmless, without any sign of aggression.
And...he was injured.
She didn't know if anyone was treating his injuries, Tang Rou frowned.
While talking, No. 17 has been escorted into the test cabin.
"Tower of Babel" firmly believes that the code of human evolution is hidden behind these mysterious lives, and has studied them to the point of madness. Every time engineers discuss them, they always show obsession on their faces.
Tang Rou had no way to come into contact with those more advanced and terrifying creatures, and except for the mermaid she had a glimpse of yesterday, she didn't have such a strong interest.
The creatures in area a are terrifying enough.
Aslan waited with Tang Rou outside the laboratory and chatted with her about genetic programming.
"The first batch of gene-edited humans have been put into testing. The viviparous disease has disappeared after genetic repair, and they have become perfect humans."
Tang Rou asked, "Is the second respiratory system ready for use?"
"Okay, yesterday, through underwater experiments, it was confirmed that human beings who have undergone gene editing can also breathe in water. They succeeded."
Tang Rou was slightly lost in thought.
Perfect human?
"Tower of Babbitt" created humans with two sets of respiratory systems, and those engineers became creators in a sense.
From Homo sapiens to god.
They want to dominate everything, want to stand at the top of the pyramid forever, and control this planet that is gradually losing control.
"But there was a strange phenomenon. Thirty minutes after entering the water, they began to lose control and swam deeper. After being fished out of the water, they claimed to have heard strange sounds in the ocean."
"sound?"
"The strange thing is that the receiver did not collect any abnormal sound waves, but they said they heard... singing."
"singing?"
"Yes, it's very gentle, as if calling them to come over..."
They were chatting, not realizing that what they were talking about at this moment would change the entire human race in the future.
They just brushed it off and passed the topic unconsciously.
After about four hours, the split testing was all over.
The heavy door was opened, and No. 17 was pushed out. The originally beautiful and bluish face was slightly transparent, and the eyelashes were wet and covered in strands, covering the pupils of the eyes.
"Thank you for your hard work." Tang Rou walked over and touched his head, "Does it hurt?"
The security officers holding weapons next to them looked at each other, and were surprised by Tang Rou's bold behavior of directly touching the experimental subject.
No. 17 meekly lowered his eyes and avoided her sight.
His original intention was not to make her feel bad, but he was too tired to act energetic and just fell into a deep sleep.
The researcher was still praising, "It's amazing. In the past, experimental subjects would faint during the test. It's rare that they can survive the splitting experiment, let alone retain consciousness."
Tang Rou looked over coldly, "No one told me before that this test is life-threatening."
The researcher was stunned, and then his eyes showed contempt.
"Because there are always some hesitant owners who will affect the experiment, the dangers of the test have always been kept confidential. Please understand."
It seems to be mocking Tang Rou's "Holy Mother".
But the next second, the institute froze.
He saw the dangerous Experimental Subject No. 17 looking at him with a gloomy, abyss-like gaze. Just one look made him feel as if he had fallen into an ice cave.
When he woke up, the experimental subject had been pushed away.
The person next to him touched his shoulder and said, "What are you doing?"
The man was calm and had a strange look on his face, "You think...do these cold-blooded creatures have feelings?"