Chapter 24: Protesters
In the dream, Vera returns to the huge beehive-tight underground laboratory of the Stem Cell Research Center before it explodes, and Dr. David stands by a blue pool full of clones, holding a tube of red potion in his hand.
Next to the blonde and blue-eyed Dr. David, Nan Jianguo's eyes were already gray, and he said something in his mouth, as if he was begging Dr. David.
Nan Zhiqiao didn't know when he walked down the air ladder, ran to Nan Jianguo's side, and pulled his father Nan Jianguo to leave.
Nan Jianguo ignored his son, just pulled Dr. David and refused to let go, and Dr. David's eyes were equally desolate.
Suddenly, a fire broke out in the underground laboratory, and everyone was surrounded by the fire, choking on the smell of burning chemicals.
Zhen Zhen ran forward, trying to pull Nan Zhiqiao and Nan Jianguo out of the sea of fire, and in the middle of the pull, Professor Bavar suddenly appeared.
On Professor Bavar's shoulders, two cynomolgus monkeys look exactly like the monkeys in the cloning conference photograph.
In the firelight, Professor Bavar smiled eerily, and Zhen Zhen felt creepy.
Something even more terrifying happened next, and two cynomolgus monkeys suddenly jumped on Nan Zhiqiao's face.
The two cloned cynomolgus monkeys frantically tore Nan Zhiqiao's hair, and Zhen Zhen was anxious and wanted to help catch the cynomolgus monkeys, but she was pushed by someone behind her, and with a "plop", Zhen Zhen's whole person fell into the pool full of clones.
The icy water flooded Zhenzhen, a large amount of liquid poured into her mouth and nose, her hands and feet were entangled in the umbilical cord that fed the clones, and the more she struggled, the tighter she became entangled, and her body felt like she had fallen into a bottomless abyss, unable to open her mouth or breathe......
Sweating profusely, she woke up from her nightmare and opened her eyes to see that it was already dawn.
"It turned out to be a dream, but how is it so real?"
Ye Zhenzhen crawled out of the quilt and took a hot bath, because of the nightmare, her pounding heart calmed down a little.
Nan Zhiqiao is far away in Paris, France, and only Zhen Zhen is at home alone, and the empty house makes people panic.
Zhen Zhen dried her hair, and then looked at the time, it was 7 o'clock in the morning Beijing time, it was midnight in Paris, and Zhi Qiao must be asleep, so he couldn't disturb him.
Zhen Zhen had a casual breakfast, and then went downstairs with her bag and took the central shuttle bus to the CDC lab early.
After a morning of experiments, Zhen Zhen was listless, and that strange nightmare always came to her mind.
Vera is an atheist, after last night's nightmare, Vera carefully analyzed the possible causes of the nightmare, and finally speculated that the result of the analysis was that she watched the content of the cloning technology conference through video yesterday, and paid special attention to Professor Bavar's report - two newly cloned cynomolgus monkeys, plus Professor Bavar had previously worked at the stem cell research center, so the two were linked together in the dream.
Although reason tells Vera that the nightmare is the result of "thinking about it day and night", Vera still can't stop worrying about Nan Zhiqiao who is far away in Paris.
Until it was close to noon, Zhen Zhen stared at the wall clock on the wall of the conference room of the experimental group, Beijing time at 11:30 p.m., it was almost early morning in Paris, and in more than an hour, Nan Zhiqiao would definitely wake up, and when the lunch time was over, the sun was about to rise in Paris, and then call to inquire about the situation.
Zhen Zhen is thinking about the time in her heart, waiting to confirm that her beloved Joe is fine.
At noon, several students in the experimental group were dragged to the central cafeteria to have lunch together.
The students who ate at the same table together thought that Teacher Xiao Ye was Teacher Nan who missed him on a business trip, and Yang Fei, a tall graduate student, had the courage to make a few jokes, but when he saw that Teacher Xiao Ye had no reaction, he changed the topic.
The TV in the central restaurant was playing the news, and the volume of the news was drowned out in the noisy sound of dining, and suddenly, the delicate Gao Fushan screamed, "Ah! Look, is that Mr. Nan?"
Several people at the same table were startled by Gao Fushan's screams.
Gao Fushan held chopsticks dipped in vegetable leaves in his right hand and pointed to the TV hanging on the wall pillar of the central dining room.
The news on television was showing yesterday's conference on cloning technology in Paris.
Seeing the news related to Nan Zhiqiao, Zhen Zhen suddenly came to her senses, forgetting to chew the food in her mouth, and her eyes were glued to the TV screen.
Ma Hui brought the remote control and turned up the sound of the TV.
The news echoed in the central cafeteria: "Yesterday's International Conference on Cloning Technology in Paris was held in Paris and participants were attacked by anti-cloning groups protesting and marching......"
In the picture, outside the conference building, a group of people are holding banners around the entrance and exit of the building, and the banners are written in blood red, in various languages, "NO CLONE!" and "Against cloning!......
At the end of the afternoon meeting, experts from various countries participating in the meeting came out of the venue, and eggs, paint packets, and tomatoes were thrown from the protest crowd.
The camera of the news screen is zoomed in, and the camera focuses on the members of the expert group who ended the meeting, Professor Bavar and Nan Zhiqiao walk in the front, a red paint bag smashes into Professor Bavar's head, Nan Zhiqiao blocks sideways, the paint bag smashes on Nan Zhiqiao's shoulder, and the dark suit is instantly dyed dark red......
Riot police arrived, tear gas was thrown into the crowd of protesters, and the scene was very chaotic.
The camera quickly cuts to the next news item, after a few large close-ups of the demonstration banners.
In the cafeteria of the CDC Center, the people at the table who were eating lunch were unusually quiet, but Zhen Zhen felt a bang in her head, and the clone meeting in Paris was really wrong!
Thinking of last night's nightmare, Zhen Zhen became more and more uneasy, and she didn't care that it was still dawn in Paris, so she immediately picked up her mobile phone and dialed Nan Zhiqiao's number.
"Sorry, the number you dialed is turned off......" came from the phone.
Shut down?!Joe's phone never turns off.
The last time I was dealing with the Streptococcus suis epidemic in Sichuan, because Nan Zhiqiao's mobile phone suddenly ran out of power and turned off, Zhen Zhen was worried and immediately bought a ticket and flew to the scene of the epidemic.
Now suddenly it shuts down, something must be wrong.
Zhen Zhen was anxious, and her head was racing to think of a way to contact Nan Zhiqiao.
Professor Bavar!
The meeting that Professor Bavar and Nan Zhiqiao attended together, the two of them would definitely take care of each other, what happened on the news was yesterday afternoon local time in Paris, and if anything happened, the two of them had enough time to deal with it.
I found Professor Bavar's number from the phone book on my mobile phone, dialed the number, and a hazy and low male voice came from the opposite side, as if he had just woken up, "Hello?"
"Professor Bavar, it's me, Vera Ye. ”
"Zhenzhen?!Oh, I should call you 'Lady Nan' by now, why call me so early?" Professor Bavar's voice became clear.
"Can you find Nan Zhiqiao? I can't get through to him. ”