Chapter 13: Prisoners
Xia Yutong groped for the flashlight in the dark and turned it on, covering his nose and slowly hunched over to the cold body just now. Under the light of the flashlight, www.biquge.info clearly showed a corpse wrapped in tattered clothes, some parts of the body had rotted and emitted an unpleasant smell, but the stiff but round eyes made Xia Yutong tremble. She gently set the flashlight aside and reached out to touch the rags that wrapped around his body (actually clothes, but they were too torn). ---There was a strange sound in the corner of the wall again, and Xia Yutong jumped up and quickly picked up the flashlight --- "whoosh", and suddenly illuminated the dark corner. A pale hand with blood appeared in her sight.
"Ah-----'' Xia Yutong suddenly screamed and danced with his hands and feet, and immediately fell to the ground like a legendary soft egg, and the flashlight "Gu Lu Gu Lu" rolled out of the distance.
''Help....... Save...... Help me. Xia Yutong stumbled and shouted. I was scrambling to get up and run away. "Well...... Help me...... Help me ......" There was a cry for help behind me, which sounded extremely weak. Xia Yutong turned around a little, and just wanted to shout again when he saw the dying man curled up in the corner: "Don't be afraid, I'm also human.......''
His face was thin and pale, and his eyes were closed uncomfortably at the light of the flashlight, and his whole body trembled irregularly, as if he was about to die. His hand, which was barely wrapped in a thin layer of skin, lifted it little by little: "Help...... Help ......". Xia Yutong slowly put down his nervous hand, picked up the person in the corner, and slowly, sat down beside him.
is obviously the appearance of a college student about the same age as her, and seeing him like this, Xia Yutong is more regretful and distressed. ''You...... Is there anything to eat?" said the man.
Xia Yutong paused, immediately rummaged through his pockets, and took out the things he brought with him to eat. The boy suddenly grabbed the biscuit like a madman and shoved it into his mouth as if he were ten times hungrier than a hungry wolf. Xia Yutong had always been very surprised, and now he was finally able to speak: "....... You, it's been a long time since you've eaten. "Xia Yutong has grown so big, it seems to be ...... I've never seen a hungry ...... This kind of person. "Ahem---" He coughed when he ate so quickly, Xia Yutong patted him on the back, but he seemed to have something to say, Xia Yutong hurriedly said: "You eat slowly, and then talk later." ‘’
The man devoured all of Xia Yutong's food, only to catch a few breaths, and said slowly, "...... Thank you. He seemed to choke. "No thanks, no thanks, you...... Tell me what's going on?" Xia Yutong looked at him, really anxious and helpless. “...... My name is Lin Chen. Are you?" "Oh, Xia Yutong, I'm here to explore the mystery. Lin Chen's face suddenly darkened when he heard the word "riddle": "Alas, it seems that you still don't know the story here." Xia Yutong was stunned: "What story do you say...... Oh, you mean the ice moth, I've heard from the village chief. Lin Chen heard "Village Chief" for some reason, his originally thin face became even more ugly, and he looked a little scary: "Let me tell you my story." Xia Yutong looked at him with a slight surprise and listened quietly to the young man's story.
It turned out that twenty years ago, Lin Chen was just 4 years old, and Lin Chen's father, who was a scientist, was selected as a participant in the "Ice Moth Project".
At the time, his father thought it was a very important and eye-opening project, and his wife encouraged him to take part in a scientific research project on this strange creature. So, Dad Lin, who was young and full of curiosity and fighting spirit at that time, decided to move to this small village as a family of three, and spent all his energy on the research and utilization of ice moths, so that his newborn son could be exposed to the aura of green mountains and green waters. Life in the countryside is indeed very harmonious and pleasant, and Dad Lin's work is also very smooth, and everything is very harmonious. But later, the sensitive Mother Lin found that Father Lin came home later and later, and his temper became more and more stuffy, and when Mother Lin inquired, she learned that there was a new task in the experiment of the ice moth: to greatly increase the value of the ice moth and increase the ability to secrete mucus several times, which requires scientists to work and research day and night to complete. Although Lin's mother was worried about whether Lin's father's body could bear it, she still agreed.
As a result, the research work of ice moths began to be "intensified", and scientists increased the scope of capture, and almost all the ice moths in the village were caught in the laboratory for slime extraction, and the creature was no longer seen in the village.
Father Lin's working hours are getting longer and longer, he is not as close to Mother Lin and Xiao Lin Chen as before, every day, Mother Lin is very lonely. One day, Lin's mother was too lonely and boring, so she took Lin Chen to the laboratory. When she saw these ice moths that were originally free and easy being tortured by humans to scream wildly in the feeding utensils and desperately crash into the glass, Mother Lin, who had good intentions, didn't want to believe that they were such indifferent and terrible people after all, and she never thought that it would be necessary for them to endure such great pain to increase the secretion effect of ice moths. The ice moths in the laboratory have long since lost their free nature, their wings are still shiny but have lost their former luster, and they are no longer rounded, weak and crazy like broken kites. What surprised her even more was that Father Lin didn't react to this situation, as if it was very normal.
That night, Lin's mother didn't sleep all night.
She is a kind person, and her heart starts to twitch as soon as the appearance of the ice moth in her head appears, which is really painful.
After much thought, she decided to stop it all. But at this time, Father Lin had become completely indifferent, selfish, and only knew how to blindly ask for it, and he categorically rejected Mother Lin, because he said that it was for the sake of the future of mankind. Mother Lin had no choice, and finally one day, she quietly took the potion that Dad Lin locked in the room to restore the ice moth, and came to the laboratory in the dead of night, she took out the potion, wanting to help these poor ice moths recover, but was accidentally discovered by the scientists on duty in the laboratory, she just wanted to theorize, but the ruthless scientists thought that she was an undercover agent sent by another organization, so they threw her and Xiao Lin Chen into this basement, never seeing the outside world.
Lin Chen sighed and looked at the corpse on the side: "For twenty years, we have been locked up here without being discovered by outsiders, and we only live on this fruit tree here. But no one ever noticed our ......''
Xia Yutong was surprised.