On the outskirts of City C, inside the research institute.

Yan Zi'an sat alone in the office, still holding the slightly old mug in his hand, and in front of him was a huge screen, on which some data-like information kept pulsing.

Yan Zi'an's eyes kept scanning this information, as if he was looking for some clues.

But after a while, he seemed to give up, took off his glasses, placed them on the counter, and pressed the bridge of his nose with his hand.

“... Where, exactly, went wrong. He muttered quietly.

Suddenly, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door.

Yan Zi'an frowned, he knew that now that he was almost out of the nest, no one could get close to his office.

He pulled open the drawer, pulled out a black pistol, and followed him close to the wall on the side of the door.

Click.

The door opened.

Yan Zi'an did not hesitate to aim his pistol at the head of the visitor.

But the next moment, his nervous application eased.

He found that it was a girl who came in, and it was a girl he was very familiar with.

"I'm not welcome?" Fang Xue seemed to be taken aback by Yan Zi'an's actions, but immediately regained her composure, she looked at Yan Zi'an with a smile.

Yan Zi'an put away the gun and asked suspiciously, "Miss Fang, what are you doing?"

Fang Xue walked straight into the office.

"I'm coming for you. ”

She walked over to the chair, shifted it in a different direction, and sat down facing Yan Zi'an, who was facing the door.

"Won't you bring me a cup of coffee?" she smiled.

Yan Zi'an sighed helplessly, closed the door, took out a straight teacup from the cabinet, and then poured out a cup of fragrant coffee from the coffee machine and brought it to Fang Xue's side.

Fang Xue nodded to him in thanks, she held the teacup in both hands, and picked up the stirring spoon and a few bags of sugar on the side.

Seeing her actions, Yan Zi'an was a little puzzled, did she come just to drink coffee with herself?

"Add so much sugar, you'll get fat. ”

Hearing Yan Zi'an's words, Fang Xue's action of adding sugar suddenly stopped, she looked at Yan Zi'an with a little blush and said, "... Am I fat now?"

I didn't expect her to have such a reaction, Yan Zi'an, who was just joking, was a little speechless, so he had to smile and shake his head.

"That's good. Although she said this, she stopped adding sugar.

"I've always liked to eat sweet things since I was a child, maybe my work consumes too much brain energy, and sugar can replenish my physical strength well, so I'm also using my brain to exercise, and I won't gain weight. ”

After Fang Xue stirred the sugar in the coffee with a stirring spoon, she licked it with her tongue and showed a happy expression.

I don't know why, Yan Zi'an thinks that this girl is really like a cat.

"So, you came today, and it was the Fang family who asked you to come?"

Hearing Yan Zi'an's words, Fang Xue also knew that he naturally wouldn't believe that he had come here from the organization of City B just to chat with him.

"Guess what I'm going to do?" but she didn't want to tell him like that, so she played a game with him.

"I'm not interested. Yan Zi'an shrugged his shoulders, but Fang Xue immediately showed a very hurt and aggrieved expression.

Yan Zi'an sighed, how could he meet such a girl.

So he said, "You didn't bring your cousin who only has muscles but no brains, which means that you may not be here on behalf of the Fang family." ”

Fang Xue thought for a moment, nodded and said, "You can say so, continue." ”

"And then... You deliberately chose to come when there was no one in the institute, but you didn't come to kill me, so the purpose of your coming here is obvious, after all, there are not many places where we have intersections. ”

Fang Xue was obviously a little unhappy when she heard this.

"We don't have so much to do with each other, huh?"

But before Yan Zi'an could say anything, she immediately added: "Well, indeed, I have something very important to come to you Yan Zi'an." ”

"So, what happened to the experimental results that your Fang family took away before?"

Looking at Fang Xue's solemn expression, Yan Zi'an knew that he was right.

“... That thing, actually, how to say, although our family has a wide range of design fields, but apart from me, there are really few people who have made much achievements in the field of research. She took another sip of coffee and said with a slightly sad face.

"So, the research materials, to the other party, are really of little value, but the Fang family paid a huge amount of money to buy the research results from the organization, and what's even more strange is that the research results were not handed over to me, the Fang family's most deeply involved family member in the research field, according to my investigation, this research results, in the black market a few times, has lost a trace, and the last place I investigated out of the transaction is..."

"Salamandel Chamber of Commerce. ”

Yan Zi'an said the answer directly.

Fang Xue didn't show much surprise, but smiled.

"Sure enough, you're investigating, too. ”

Then she turned around and looked at the screen.

“... These data, you really did something in the research results, is it liquid tracking?"

Yan Zi'an nodded.

"Such a dangerous thing, handed over to your Fang family, I don't feel at ease, but it's a pity, these research results, I don't know who, it seems that they have been improved twice, and now my liquid tracker has failed, and the last place of the transaction is the headquarters of City C of the Salamandel Chamber of Commerce, and the time of the transaction was last week. ”

"In other words, that dangerous thing has been out of our control for a week, do you think it has anything to do with this earthquake?"

Yan Zi'an shook his head.

"I don't know, but I subconsciously feel that this earthquake is not too directly related to the results of the experiment. With that, Yan Zi'an turned around and tapped a few times on the keyboard.

Suddenly, the screen switched to a scene similar to that of a radar detector.

"The epicenter of this time is in City C, no, this can't be called an earthquake at all, because this energy fluctuation does not come from the ground at all. ”

Seeing the screen, Fang Xue also fell silent.

Yan Zi'an continued.

"We also really want to find out what this earthquake is, but unfortunately, the most advanced instruments cannot accurately detect the specific place when this energy is released, but the people in the research institute have already been dispatched, and I believe that soon, we will be able to get the latest information. ”

Fang Xue's silence continued, Yan Zi'an thought she was thinking about something, so she didn't bother, leaned against the operating table, picked up the mug, and was about to take a sip when she heard Fang Xue suddenly say.

“... Don't you feel like you're getting cold...?"

Yan Zi'an looked at her suspiciously, and then felt the temperature around her, and sure enough... It's getting colder, indeed.

"Is the indoor air conditioner out of control?" he looked up at the air outlet of the central air conditioner.

Then he found that Fang Xue was sitting on the chair, and she had involuntarily shrunk her body into a ball, she was wearing a thin white coat, a dark brown turtleneck sweater inside, a slim short skirt and black pantyhose, if this outfit was said to be in an air-conditioned room.

Naturally, there will be no problems.

But now, the air conditioner has gone wrong, and the whole research institute is suddenly plunged into a cold cold.

“... Can you think of a way... Let it restart?"

Yan Zi'an frowned, the probability of problems with the air conditioning in the institute is almost 0, because once the air conditioning system has a problem, it means that the room temperature of many rooms will change.

Those precious experimental samples, samples that can only survive at a certain temperature, are likely to be destroyed, causing immeasurable consequences.

Although he had doubts in his heart, he still picked up the internal phone.

"Logistics room, please send someone to see the air conditioning system. ”

"Director Yan, is there a problem with the refrigeration system? No, okay, let's go right away... Ahhhh!??!h

A cacophony and unknown voice came from the phone.

"Hey, hey, what's wrong!?"

But no matter how Yan Zi'an called, there was no response on the other side of the phone.

He didn't know how long it took for him to hear a clangling sound from the other side, as if something was hitting the metal, and then there was no more movement.

"What's going on?" Fang Xue also seemed to sense that something was wrong.

Yan Zi'an put down the phone, pinned the pistol to his waist, he looked at Fang Xue, and then said, "You wait for me here, lock the door." ”

"Wait, wait, where are you going? ”

But before Fang Xue could stand up, Yan Zi'an pressed her shoulder, pressed her back into the chair, and then put his face close to her ear and said.

"You're waiting here. ”

followed, pushed the door and walked out, leaving only Fang Xue with a blushing face and at a loss.

Walking out of the office, Yan Zi'an wanted to go to the logistics duty room first to see what was going on, and he recalled that the logistics office was at the end of the corridor on the first floor.

It was on the second floor, so he turned and headed for the stairs.

Suddenly, the ground beneath his feet suddenly remembered the sound of "knock knock".

It seems that something is crawling through the ventilation duct at the top of the first floor...

Thinking of this, he didn't delay any longer, so he ran quickly downstairs.

As soon as he reached the first floor, he found a pool of red blood outside the door of a laboratory.

“... This is?"

Yan Zi'an walked over.

He pushed open the door of the laboratory and found that the No. 4 experiment problem that was supposed to exist inside, the lion... At this point, it had been brutally dismembered, and its shattered body was scattered throughout the laboratory.

Yan Zi'an frowned uneasily, the No. 4 experiment question is the only animal transplantation power, and it is a successful experimental question, and its value is self-evident.

Not to mention that its value as an experimental subject is extremely precious, let's just say that this lion is not an ordinary lion... The power of its transplantation and its own genes have blended nicely.

It's basically a monster, but just like that, it's still easily killed, and looking at this scene, it seems that the corpse has been eaten...

“... What the hell is it. ”

Looking at the half-gnawed, flesh-and-blood lion head, Yan Zi's anxiety intensified little by little.

At this time, the laboratory's defenses are extremely empty, could it be that some monster took advantage of this opportunity to sneak in...?

Knock knock, just as he was thinking, suddenly there was another rapid knock sound from the ventilation duct overhead.

The voice slowly faded away at the end of the hallway......