On the dark corridor, a tall figure blocked Tang Rou's sight.
The mermaid had a sense of intimacy as if no one else was around. Rather than ignoring him, it was more like he couldn't see the two living people beside Tang Rou.
Like a pebble on the roadside, your eyes will pass by it without realizing its existence.
Because I didn't care, because it was just a background board, it was ignored.
Tang Rou originally thought that this was just the pattern instinct of cold-blooded creatures. Later, she realized that there was some kind of subtle resonance affecting her and changing her.
Several times, Tang Rou unconsciously ignored them.
Even though Aslan kept calling her and Qin Jing kept talking to her, she couldn't hear him.
The two figures were clearly right in front of me, but they couldn't be seen.
That's a very weird feeling.
They disappeared from Tang Rou's mind.
Only at a certain moment, Tang Rou recalled her original intention of going upstairs and accidentally caught a glimpse of the other two people in the reflection of the glass, did she realize that there was something wrong with her perception.
She was slightly frightened and stood there.
The eyes capture the light and transmit its coding and processing from the optic nerve to the visual center of the brain, thus producing vision. The ears capture the sound wave vibration, which is exchanged through the auditory nerve and enters the auditory area of the cerebral cortex to produce hearing.
All her senses are controlled by her brain, and now, someone is controlling her brain.
Tang Rou turned around suddenly, still unable to see or hear, there was only the mermaid beside her.
A strange premonition appeared in Tang Rou's heart, and she was being disturbed by some unknown force.
"I..." She grabbed the mermaid's arm, fearing that she wouldn't even be able to see the mermaid in the next moment, "There seems to be something wrong with me."
"What's wrong?" he asked softly, raising his hand to stroke her long hair.
The warm fingers smoothed her hair, like comforting a canary that had just been caught in a cage and was still not used to the situation.
"There is danger here."
Tang Rou closed her eyes and forced herself to calm down.
She sensed danger, but looked in the wrong direction.
She held the mermaid's wrist and subconsciously blocked her slender body in front of him, showing a defensive posture.
She thought the danger came from the darkness ahead, and even protected the instigator behind her.
Her stubborn resistance made her face extremely ugly. She even bit her lips and dug her nails into her palms, trying to use pain to keep herself awake.
Until I bit my lip and it bled.
The mermaid lowered his eyes and looked at her with a strange expression.
After a while, a vague sigh came from her ears, and cold fingers pressed her lips.
Someone said to her softly, as if compromising, "Let go of it."
Ding dong…
As if spring water poured into her mind, her thoughts suddenly became clear.
Aslan patted her shoulder, "Rou, what's wrong with you? Why don't you respond when I keep calling you?"
Tang Rou was like a dehydrated fish, she opened her mouth and felt an unspeakable feeling in her heart.
"I'm fine."
She finally recovered from the state of being on the verge of forgetfulness.
The mermaid held her wrist and tried to support her, but Tang Rou noticed that his body temperature seemed to be abnormal.
In the past, the temperature of the mermaid's palm was always warm and cool, but now it was close to her body temperature. Tang Rou pushed his hair away, touched the mermaid's forehead, and then touched his arm, feeling that the other person's body temperature was higher than usual.
A lot.
She asked worriedly, "Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"
Aslan also walked over, "What's wrong with him?"
Tang Rou said, "The body temperature is a bit high."
Aslan subconsciously raised his hand to touch it, but suddenly met the mermaid's cold gaze. His silver eyes exuded a chill and full of warning.
She retracted her hand, realizing that something was wrong with her movements, and asked Tang Rou, "How high does it feel?"
"My guess is it's about 32 degrees."
"32 degrees? High body temperature? This is hypothermia, right?"
Tang Rou shook her head, "Not to him."
Aslan suddenly seemed to realize something, and his words were a bit awkward, "Could he be..."
Tang Rou said "Yeah".
"No wonder..." Aslan murmured to himself, "I knew it was impossible for people to look like this..."
Tang Rou said, "You remember the hexagonal square you mentioned to me before, right?"
Aslan's expression became serious, "I know, there are special creatures inside."
Tang Rou looked at the merman, who was also looking at her quietly. Her face was still expressionless, but there was a vague emotion flowing in her eyes.
Tang Rou held the mermaid's wrist and said, "He is that special creature——"
Aslan's face instantly turned pale, and the mermaid's pupils shrank.
Then I heard her continue to finish her sentence, "——'s feed."
Asselan directly expressed the quintessence of Chinese culture, "Such a beautiful person is just used as fodder!"
Tang Rou nodded and frowned, "Yes, Professor Xu told me personally. The first time I saw him, he was hung by chains in the cylindrical cabin inside the hexagonal square, and his tail was almost broken.
Already."
The mermaid's two silver eyes moved slightly, as if she was thinking about something.
It turns out that in Tang Rou's eyes, he had such a miserable life experience.
He was very satisfied.
Tang Rou was still exchanging information with Aslan, and the two of them became angrier as they talked, "The senior assistant told me that if I don't adopt him, according to the procedure, he will be executed soon and will be used as nourishment to feed back to the experimental subjects in the base."
They."
"Damn, they are so cruel, they are really inhumane."
"That's right." Tang Rou's breath was unsteady as she climbed the stairs. She paused and continued, "So I adopted him, but the logistics department didn't even want to provide a breeding cabin, and no one took care of him when he was brought out."
Aslan lowered his voice and said in a standard gossip tone, "I heard that Xu Shihong's old guy's arm was broken because of that super creature."
Tang Rou was frightened for a while, but luckily she wasn't discovered by it that day at the Hexagon Square.
The mermaid's expression was idle, and he began to knead Tang Rou's fingers again, rubbing her fingers back and forth.
"There was an emergency meeting a few days ago. I am not qualified to participate. The confidentiality authority excludes most engineers. It is said that a large-scale observation experiment is going to be conducted. It is said to be related to super creatures."
"Observation experiments?" Tang Rou wondered, "Aren't the engineers observing and testing every day? How can it be large-scale?"
"I can't figure out the thoughts of the big shots. I vaguely heard that they have a terrible idea."
"what idea?"
Aslan lowered his voice and said mysteriously, "They want to create a god."
Create a god, shaped by man.
The pitch-black tower is surrounded by a circular experimental base, like a giant sword reaching into the sky. Even when the entire city's energy supply is paralyzed, the top floor is still brightly lit.
At the top of the giant sword, a virtual meeting was being held.
On the light and shadow projection screen are virtual faces that have been cleverly changed by AI. Everyone is participating in this remote meeting with identities that do not exist in the vast sea of people.
In the center of the round table, a "z" nameplate is carved.
Z means zero, the beginning of everything and the end of everything, born from destruction, the beginning and the end.
"It's too risky." The voice of someone attending the meeting was angry, but the fake face remained calm, "If it gets out of control, no one can bear this responsibility!"
"Do you know what you are releasing? Do you want to destroy this world?"
"What you have to do is to lock it up, hide it, and seal it, instead of letting it go into the crowd!"
Amidst the noise, someone knocked on the table.
"Please be patient." Several other people at the long table who were actually sitting in the conference room said, "We have confirmed the possibility of its blood rebirth."