Ning Tao thought that Lin Qinghua's laboratory was in the same office building he had visited, but Lin Qingyu drove him to a botanical garden in the suburbs.

This botanical garden is also the property of Blueprint Biotech, and a large hillside is filled with all kinds of medicinal herbs, common and uncommon. There are also dozens of modern greenhouses with valuable plants for scientific research.

Lin Qinghua's laboratory is located in this botanical garden, which is a small composite building, using a lot of silver materials and blue tempered glass, quite a bit of science fiction style.

The gate is a silver metal gate, and there is a stainless steel plaque next to the door, which is engraved with the words "Wentianlou", and the words "XX laboratory" are not engraved.

Ning Tao stopped in front of the stainless steel plaque and said curiously: "Ask Tianlou, why did your brother's laboratory have such a strange name?"

Lin Qingyu said: "I used to be curious about why this laboratory has such a strange name, and I also asked my brother, but he didn't tell me. I think it's just a name, what, do you think it has any special meaning?"

Ning Tao shook his head, "Maybe you're right, it's just a name, take me in and have a look." ”

Lin Qingyu came to the silver metal gate, opened the door with her magnetic card, and then led Ning Tao in.

Behind the door is a passage with several surveillance cameras on both sides of the passage and a working indicator light on.

Ning Tao said, "Is there no one in this place?"

Lin Qingyu said: "There should be someone during the day, there should only be security personnel at this time, maybe you are asleep, don't worry about them, I will take you in directly." ”

Ning Tao followed Lin Qingyu through the passage and entered an experimental area. There are a lot of computers, experimental equipment, and utensils in this experimental area, and it looks a bit crowded.

There was a door at the end of the testing area, which was closed so that the space behind the door could not be seen.

Originally, there were only safety indicators in the experimental area, but after Lin Qingyu and Ning Tao arrived, all the lights suddenly turned on. An old man in a security uniform with a rubber baton came out of a small door and shouted, "Who!"

Lin Qingyu responded: "It's me, Lin Qingyu." ”

The old man took a few steps to this side, as if to confirm Lin Qingyu's identity.

Ning Tao's gaze moved to the old man's body. The old man was about sixty years old, with a horse face, a thin body, and a light and healthy gait, giving people a very healthy feeling.

The old man walked a few steps and then stopped, "It's really a young lady, why did you come here so late?"

Lin Qingyu said: "I'll come and take a look, don't worry about it." ”

"Is that your friend?" the old man asked again.

Lin Qingyu responded: "Yes." ”

"Then I'll look somewhere else. The old man said, and turned to leave.

Ning Tao leaned over to Lin Qingyu's side and asked softly, "Do you know this old man?"

Lin Qingyu said: "I don't know, I've only been here a few times, probably I've seen it, but I'm not impressed." After a pause, she also asked, "Why do you ask?"

Ning Tao said: "Don't you think a security guard's words are a bit much? Also, the tone he talked to you just now is not quite like the tone of a security guard to the boss. ”

Lin Qingyu's gaze then moved to the old man's back.

It was at this moment that the old man glanced back, only glanced at it and turned back again, and continued walking.

I don't know why, just the glance when the old man turned around just now, Ning Tao actually had a little feeling of eagle and wolf. As soon as his mind moved, his eyes and nose instantly entered a state of seeing and smelling.

The qi emitted by the old man's body is the color of a normal person, and his smell is also normal, and even a little bit of alcohol, obviously he drank a little.

"I think he's normal. Lin Qingyu made her own judgment.

"Maybe I'm suspicious. Ning Tao said, retracting his gaze from the old man's back.

Lin Qingyu smiled, "You are so young, but do you know that sometimes you give me an unfathomable feeling." ”

"Really?" Ning Tao asked casually, "What do you mean by unfathomable?"

Lin Qingyu thought for a moment before saying, "Maybe it's because of your medical skills and personality, well, don't talk about this, can you see anything?"

Ning Tao looked around, observed for a while, and then shook his head, "I'm studying medicine, I'm a layman in biology, I didn't see anything wrong, why don't you take me to your brother's office to have a look." ”

"There, come with me. Lin Qingyu walked towards the door at the end of the experimental area.

Ning Tao followed Lin Qingyu to the door.

Lin Qingyu entered the password on the cipher on the door, and then the door opened to both sides.

Behind the door is a hemispherical space, windowless, containing more sophisticated laboratory instruments, computers, and several filing cabinets containing a staggering amount of paper materials, file bags, and books.

Ning Tao said secretly in his heart: "Lin Qingyu said that she came here after Lin Qinghua fell ill, and she didn't find any information and records related to the search for her ancestors, which means that the relevant things have been cleared, even if I flip through all the information and hard disk here, there will probably be no result, so where should I start? Jiang Hao, Jiang Hao, you are really, since you ask me for help, you have to give me some hints, right? ”

In the midst of his worries, his gaze suddenly stopped on the curved wall in front of him.

There is a hand-painted oil painting on the wall, with a burning sunset, a black mountain, and a man walking towards the sunset. The clothes on his body are cyan, which is particularly striking in this oil painting.

There is a passage on the painting: "All people think that our future is tomorrow, and our path is also moving forward, but they are wrong, the way forward is death and destruction, so I have to go back, I want to find the source and the answer to all this."

This passage was very strange, and Ning Tao read it carefully.

"I painted this painting as a birthday present for my brother. Lin Qingyu said, and a touching smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

Ning Tao said: "Did you also write the words on the painting?"

Lin Qingyu said: "I didn't write it, my brother wrote it, how about it, do you have the feeling of a postmodern literary youth?"

Ning Tao walked towards the oil painting, he didn't feel any "postmodern literary youth", he thought of the "Yang Guifei" that Lin Qinghua was thinking about.

Going forward is death and destruction, which may seem sad, but it is true. People are born to keep moving forward, no matter how much they struggle, they will eventually die. So Lin Qinghua has to go backwards, he has to look for the source and answer of everything.

But what does "all this" mean in the painting?

Also, he imagined himself as Tang Xuanzong, and he never forgot Yang Guifei, and it can even be said that he was deeply affectionate, and Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei were both characters for more than a thousand years, can this be regarded as already on the road of "going back"?

Ning Tao couldn't figure it out.

Suddenly, Ning Tao's nose caught the mysterious and familiar smell, the smell of cyan "clay"! This discovery made him excited, and his steps were faster.

"How am I drawing?" Lin Qingyu's voice came from behind him.

Ning Tao stopped under the oil painting, "You painted it very well, when did you draw this painting? I didn't see the date." ”

Lin Qingyu said: "I painted it a year ago, and it was a gift I gave to my brother for my thirtieth birthday, but this idea is his own, I just drew his idea." After a pause, she seemed to sound something again, "It seems that I heard about the ancestor search project from him that day, and I didn't expect him to have such a strange illness at that time." Doctor Ning, you must cure my brother, okay?"

Ning Tao nodded, and he reached for the oil painting on the wall.

Lin Qingyu didn't stop him.

Ning Tao's hand touched the cyan figure in the oil painting, and a non-canvas feeling suddenly came from his fingertips. He gently touched the cyan figure in the painting, over and over again, and his movements were very gentle.

"Doctor Ning, is there anything wrong with this painting?" Ning Tao's strange behavior aroused Lin Qingyu's curiosity, and she also came to the wall, standing beside Ning Tao and watching him caress her "brother".

Suddenly, the five fingers of Ning Tao's right hand slammed into the canvas!

Shhh

The canvas cracked, Ning Tao's five fingers plunged into the canvas, and a good oil painting was suddenly destroyed by him.

Lin Qingyu exclaimed, "What are you doing?"

Ning Tao withdrew his hand from the painting, and he still held a piece of canvas that he had torn apart.

"You...... How can you do this? This is my birthday present to my brother, and it means a lot to my brother and me!" Lin Qingyu was really angry, and her voice trembled slightly.

Ning Tao handed his right hand in front of Lin Qingyu, and then spread out his palm, and there was a piece of cyan mud the size of an egg lying quietly in his palm.

"This ......" Lin Qingyu's anger came and went quickly, and she said in surprise: "What is this?"

Ning Tao said: "I don't know yet, but I'm sure he has something to do with your brother's illness." ”

"Show me. Lin Qingyu reached over and took it.

Ning Tao pushed her hand away, "You'd better not touch it, think about your brother's current appearance, do you want to be the same as him?"

Lin Qingyu followed and retracted her hand again.

Ning Tao walked quickly to Lin Qinghua's desk, and then found a paper cutter to carefully cut the cyan "clay", which contained a capsule.

Ning Tao said secretly in his heart: "Could it be that this is the biopharmaceutical of "Ancestor Hunting" that Lin Qinghua researched, and it was this little pill that turned him into a new demon?"

Ning Tao took the capsule in his hand and examined it carefully, and when he turned it over, he saw a cyan symbol at the bottom, and the shape looked a bit like the villain drawn by the primitive man on the cave.

The cyan villain, this seems to have become the exclusive symbol of Lin Qinghua's "new demon".

"What did you find?" Lin Qingyu also came over to take a look, and her face was almost on Ning Tao's face.

Suddenly, all the lights went out, and the entire building was plunged into darkness with no fingers to be seen.