Chapter 27: Never mourn
On the huge display, a familiar figure in a black suit is standing on a high platform next to a blue circular pool, next to a tall blond figure.
"It's Uncle South and Dr. David. Ye Zhenzhen recognized the pool through the computer screen as Nan Jianguo and the foreign man who sent Kexin out of the elevator.
Nan Zhiqiao partially enlarged the picture, and there was a figure behind Nan Jianguo.
Enlarged the picture again, and the figure was actually a woman, in her forties, wearing a white skirt, with a floating temperament, but her eyes were empty.
"Who is that woman?" asked Ye Zhenzhen curiously.
"Mother?!"
Nan Zhiqiao's face instantly flashed with surprise, horror, doubt, and disbelief......
Various expressions changed on Nan Zhiqiao's face, and Ye Zhenzhen was also incredulous, "Senior Nan, didn't your mother already be in Africa many years ago...... How did you end up here?"
"Let's go, go to the bottom floor and find them. ”
With a stomach full of questions, Nan Zhiqiao ran to the front.
The surveillance footage shows Nan Jianguo, Dr. David, and the woman who looks like Nan Zhiqiao's mother next to the blue circular pool, which is on the lowest floor of the underground laboratory.
The three of them stood on the transparent central elevator again, and the original fingerprint password had become a voice-activated system.
The elevator sensed that someone was standing on it and began to speak, "Please select your destination." ”
"Go to the bottom floor. Secretary Xiao Li preemptively said Nan Zhiqiao's order.
"Sorry, your voice was unauthorized and could not complete the instructions. The sound of the mechanical system on the elevator directly rejected the order of the operating secretary Xiao Li.
Ye Zhenzhen also said curiously: "Go to the bottom layer." ”
"Sorry, your voice was unauthorized and could not complete the instructions. "Or the sound of the system's rejection.
Nan Zhiqiao's cold voice: "Go to the bottom layer." ”
"Yes, Mr. Xiao Nan, you are about to go to the core area of adult embryo incubation at the bottom of the base, please stand firm. ”
The elevator descended rapidly, and at first it felt a little weightless, but fortunately, the elevator gradually became even faster, and finally slowly stopped above the blue circular pool.
"The core area for adult embryo incubation has been reached, please follow the escalator. ”
Before the system beep could go away, a white escalator spontaneously extended from the edge of the pool.
The three of them walked up the escalator and found up close that there was a thin transparent cover on top of the blue circular pool, and I don't know what material sealed the entire pool.
In the center of the pool, a circle of miniature cots is immersed in water, and a two- or three-year-old baby is fixed on each cot, the baby is the Progeria child seen on the surveillance screen, and each child is filled with various tubes, and there is constantly pink liquid going in and out of the tube.
Seeing this kind of scene, all three of them couldn't help but tremble, what kind of experiment is this? Why use such a small child?
Nan no Qiao's gaze shifted from the pool to the high platform next to it.
The people on the high platform had obviously noticed the three people coming down from the elevator, and the blonde and blue-eyed Dr. David handed a white remote control-like thing in his hand to Nan Jianguo, and said fluently in Chinese: "Nan Dong, as long as you hold on a little longer, you can succeed, are you sure you want to do this?"
Nan Jianguo didn't react, his eyes fixed on the woman beside him, and he looked at it stupidly.
Dr. David shook his head and sighed, "Forget it, in that case, everything is up to you, and I will take the things with me." ”
Nan Zhiqiao watched from the escalator as Dr. David was talking to his father, who was motionless and in a wrong state.
In a hurry, Nan Zhiqiao ran quickly along the escalator to the high platform, and shouted at the same time: "Dad......"
Nan Zhiqiao's voice broke the silence on the high platform, and when Dr. David saw Nan Zhiqiao, he stepped back with a smile, and quickly disappeared between the rows of glass pillars along the steps of the high platform.
When Nan Jianguo heard his son's voice, his eyes finally moved away from the woman beside him and looked at Nan Zhiqiao.
Running up the high platform and standing beside Nan Jianguo, Nan Zhiqiao's eyes swirled back and forth between his father and the woman who resembled his mother, and he asked rhetorically for a long time: "Dad, what's going on?"
Nan Jianguo's expression was sluggish, his eyes were empty, and after seeing his son Nan Zhiqiao, he had a little spirit, "Zhiqiao, your mother is angry with me, she refuses to talk to me." ”
Nan Jianguo held the hand of the woman beside him, his eyes were full of sadness and despair.
Nan Zhiqiao's gaze returned to the woman again, this woman who looked like her mother, wearing a white dress, exactly the same as the dress before her mother left home for Africa, but the eyes of the woman in front of her were hollow, and her pupils were dilated, like a soulless body.
Ye Zhenzhen and secretary Xiao Li, who were following Nan Zhiqiao, but their eyes fell on the rows of glass pillars behind the high platform.
The glass pillar was filled with liquid, and the liquid-soaked white flower objects were none other than adult women, the women curled up, a soft thin tube connected to the navel and the tube in the pool, and the red liquid in the tube was constantly exchanged, and these women soaked in the glass pillar were actually adult embryos, relying on the little babies in the pool to provide nourishment.
Ye Zhenzhen had goosebumps all over her body, and nervously reminded Nan Zhiqiao in front of her, "Senior Nan, you see, the adult embryo in the glass pillar looks exactly like the woman in front of you. ”
Nan Zhiqiao's gaze only then noticed the surrounding glass pillars.
Countless "mothers" are being cultivated in glass pillars, and Nan Zhiqiao, who has always been strong, is also in a state of dizziness, what is the situation? Why is the mother who has been dead for many years here? Or is it in this horrible situation......
"Dad, what exactly did you do?"
Nan Zhiqiao asked hoarsely.
Nan Jianguo finally came back to his senses, looking at his son's suspicious face, and the "wife" beside him, Nan Jianguo shook his head weakly, "Zhiqiao, I was wrong, I shouldn't have listened to him, your mother must be blaming me, blaming me for not letting her be at peace after I die, so, even if I give everything I have, even if I let her open her eyes again, she still doesn't want to talk to me, I was wrong......"
Nan Jianguo's spirit was on the verge of collapse, and he kept repeating "I was wrong", holding the remote control in his hand, as if he was about to make up his mind.
"Dad, this woman is not my mother, no matter how you made her, they are not my mother, my mother is dead, she died in Africa, Dad, wake up......"
Nan Jianguo pressed the red button of the remote control in his hand, and the entire base immediately sounded the alarm, "The self-destruction device has been activated, and the base will explode in ten minutes." ”
The transparent liquid was sprayed down from all directions, with a pungent smell.
"It's alcohol. ”
Ye Zhenzhen covered her forehead with her hand, but it didn't work at all, the alcohol was like rain, wetting the ground and every corner, as long as it encountered an open flame, the entire base would explode.
"Senior Nan, it's too late, we have to take Uncle Nan out of here as soon as possible. ”
didn't care about anything else, Nan Zhiqiao grabbed his father Nan Jianguo's arm and wanted to forcibly take people out of here.
Nan Jianguo shook off Nan Zhiqiao, hugged his wife beside him, and muttered: "Where Xiaojing is, I am there, we said that we will live and die together." ”
"Dad, she's not Guo Xiaojing, not my mother. ”
"No, they are, it's all here," Nan Jianguo seemed to wake up suddenly, "Son, you go, get out of here, go and live your own life, this is the resting place for me and your mother, I promised Xiaojing, life and death together, I finally did it." ”
"Dad, come with me. Nan Zhiqiao had already begun to plead with a crying voice.
Nan Jianguo suddenly raised his head and ordered Xiao Li, the secretary behind Nan Zhiqiao: "Xiao Li, remember to hand over to him what I asked you before." ”
"Nan Dong ......" secretary Xiao Li's expression was sad and tangled.
"Do what I say, I don't want to suffer anymore, and I don't want Xiaojing to suffer anymore, this is the best ending for us, let's end here. ”
As the minutes ticked by, the system kept prompting, "The self-destruct device has been activated, and the base will explode in five minutes." ”
Nan Zhiqiao pulled Nan Jianguo's arm and was about to forcibly take Nan Jianguo away, when he suddenly felt a pain in his neck and fainted to the ground, before Ye Zhenzhen next to him could react, it was also the same blow, and the secretary Xiao Li knocked Nan Zhiqiao and Ye Zhenzhen in front of him unconscious.
Nan Jianguo waved his hand, hugged the "wife" beside him, recalled the good memories of the past, and waited for the countdown of the system, everything ended in flames.
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By the time Ye Zhenzhen woke up, it was already the next morning, and the sky was dripping with light rain.
The stem cell research center in front of me was in ruins, and a huge pit appeared on the ground, and the black, scorched earth was the mark of a burning fire.
In the light rain, the once fierce fire had been extinguished, leaving only a ruin, and Nan Zhiqiao stood quietly in front of the ruins.
Ye Zhenzhen walked out from under the umbrella of a circle of black-clothed people, walked to Nan Zhiqiao's side, and wanted to say something, but what she said seemed pale and powerless at this time, just standing quietly beside Nan Zhiqiao to accompany her.
The rain mixed with the black smoke after the fire in the air, dripping on his face, Nan Zhiqiao's body was already soaked, and the face was not rain or tears, carrying an old yellowed notebook in his hand, and the traces of handwriting could be vaguely seen on the cover, "Nan Jianguo Diary".
Secretary Xiao Li followed behind Nan Zhiqiao, and after a long silence, he persuaded: "Mr. Xiao Nan, please mourn." ”
Nan Zhiqiao's strength increased, he clenched the yellowed notebook in his hand, the green tendons on his forehead burst out, and he said word by word: "Until you find out the truth and punish the murderer, you will never mourn!"