The next time I saw the light of "Mr. Potato" and Cen Xiao, it was at the foot of the mountain in the northeast corner of Wangxing Village. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoAt that time, I was chasing the clue of Patient Zero, and the first thing I wanted to do was to sort out the specific timeline of these people. I've already been to the Bai family, and then I have to figure out where "Hua Xiu'e" and "Li Tianhao" are.

I'm guessing these two must have been in the previous clips. At this moment, I am constantly wondering what this "light" is.

According to the clues provided to me by Cen Xiao and Bai Yuelu, they received a signal in the form of electromagnetic waves from the deep space of the universe, which was originally very weak and almost undetectable. They felt that this "thing" -- sorry, I couldn't define what it was at the moment, an electromagnetic wave that moved according to a certain formula, but seemed to have the wisdom to respond to Cen Xiao's actions. It doesn't exist in our existing understanding of "life" or "non-life", so I think that's why Cen Xiao and Bai Yuelu keep calling it a "substance". It's a living electromagnetic wave, a flowing, storytelling light.

This reminded me of what I saw in Village Chief Chen's window: several intertwined lights painted with strange spiral patterns, like huge arcs of light falling from the dark night sky, as if a huge hand was reaching out to the world. The sky in the mountains, which is not polluted by neon lights, should be pitch black as ink, but it glows a dark red. I know it's a redshift, and if it's a cosmological redshift (note 1), then Hubble's law (note 2) tells us that this substance must have come from far, far away deep space, pulled endlessly in the expanding space, consumed, worn out, distorted in the long interstellar journey, and finally descended on Earth in this dark color like venous blood.

Of course, it is also possible that the gravitational redshift (note 3) is derived from the gravitational field formed by a huge celestial body or a black hole, and has mysterious qualities that cannot be imagined by humans.

But in any case, this "light" is consciously showing me something. It's telling me a story, and it's trying to send me a message. Otherwise, I don't think I'll see more than just these lights. There are more than 180 people in Wangxing Village, why are there only a few?

Of course, this is just a bold assumption of mine. In the absence of information, I can only keep assuming and then be ready to be overthrown.

So I decided to go to the village government office building again and look through the pile of villagers' household registration information. "Li Tianhao, born in 2008, mother Bai Min..."

Wait, another one with the surname Bai? According to my understanding, in this relatively closed society, most people with the same surname are somewhat related. So does this Li Tianhao have anything to do with the Baiyuelu family? Could this relationship be the cause of his illness?

I hurriedly went through Bai Min's household registration information again, and sure enough, she and Bai Yuelu's father were brother and sister. is the "Second Aunt Bai" that everyone said before.

So Li Tianhao is strong? I remembered seeing that Second Aunt Bai had been looking for him, and then the family hurried to the hospital in the middle of the night. The little boy who would chase and frolic with Bai Fende, the child who was "framed" by Bai Yuelu and was annoyed to death by his mother for a long time, is one of the suspected patient zero I am pursuing.

Although as an investigator, I have long been accustomed to seeing people as targets that can be analyzed. But when I met a child, I couldn't help but feel sad. Maybe it's because I've seen him frolicking, and it's hard to think of it as a symbol, a cold label like "Patient Zero".

But this discovery gave me a new idea: now I know that the two suspected Patient Zero are relatives and often play together. Then the likelihood of them infecting each other suddenly increases a lot. What needs to be done now is to find out how the third suspected patient zero was infected, who did he come into contact with, or was he directly in contact with the source of infection?

It took me some time and a lot of dust to find Hua Xiu'e's household registration information from a pile of documents.

The old lady is obviously quite old, and the household registration information says that she was born in 1934. What's more annoying is that their addresses are all written "No. and No. Wangxing Village, XX City, XX County", but I can't find these house numbers anywhere. However, I still remember when I first came to Wangxing Village, I heard a few people in the village government mention "Mrs. Hua in the east of the village". I thought that there should not be many old ladies surnamed Hua in this village.

With the attitude of giving it a try, I searched door to door on the east side of Wangxing Village.

Just as I had just been working in vain in the third house, I saw a light standing in front of a bush not far away, round and slender, really like a big potato.

What is he doing here? I walked over curiously. Before he got too close, he saw a glimmer of light among the bushes, and when he looked closely, he saw a humanoid light squatting in the grass.

After a while, that light stood up, and the thin figure was Cen Xiao. "I took samples of both the plants and the soil here." She breathed a sigh of relief and stretched out her legs to step out of the bushes, "Could you please go back and send it to Associate Professor Qian Wenyuan of the Department of Astrophysics of the University of Science and Technology?" ”

"Okay." Mr. Potato took the large test tube in her hand - I noticed a circle of huddle around his bare wrists, presumably wearing gloves, and put it in the square box-like satchel he was carrying. "Well, can I take the liberty of asking. What are you measuring soil and plants for? ”

"It's not a virus, it's not a bacterium or a parasite, it's not radiation. Then consider whether it is a toxin, or some other unknown element, and it is best to take an environmental sample for comparison. Cen Xiao replied.

I don't know why, but I especially like to listen to people with clear ideas. Just like Cen Xiao at this moment, his tone is calm and methodical, which makes people feel very relieved.

However, in such a chaotic situation, he can still be so calm, this Cen Xiao is not an ordinary person.

"Yes," Mr. Potato seemed to have something to say, and after pondering on the tip of his tongue for a long time, he said, "Actually, when I studied the previous two samples, I also found some strange imaginations. That's why I'm coming back again. ”

"What is it?" Cen Xiao took off his gloves and straightened up, looking at him levelly.

"Yes—" The man turned and pulled out a rectangular sheet of light from his large bag, presumably a folder. I found something in the blood of these samples that shouldn't be there..."