A01 is a city jointly controlled by the four major governing companies of the business alliance, almost equivalent to the capital of the world, it is located on an island in the Pacific Ocean, connected to the Asian continent by nine extremely long sea-crossing bridges.

The city is divided into 20 floors, and the shape is no longer a tree, but a ship that fits the topography of the island, with the top of the ship reaching deep into the clouds, and the people who live there can see the arc of the earth's surface on a clear day.

Located on the first floor, the Mayyaz Tower is inconspicuous in the city of A01 and on this floor, and it is hard to believe from the outside that it is the headquarters of one of the four major enterprises - Moyez Technology, and the ground part of the building is only 30 meters above ground, and it barely shines in the high-rise city center.

But those who are lucky enough to enter the interior of the building cannot deny its status as the world's tallest building, because the height of a building includes the underground part.

The lowest floor of the Mayyaz Mansion is thirty-five kilometers above the surface and is in a stratum known to geologists as the Moho Face.

At this depth of the Earth, the air is thin, lava overflows, and temperatures reach 400-1000 degrees Celsius, making it a no-go zone for almost all living things.

The Energy Experiment Center is located here, with a dome as radius as ten stories of an ordinary building, and in a large space squatting two steel behemoths, the Large Particle Collider and the Antimatter Detection Array, which occupy most of the space in the Experiment Center.

The gap under the feet of the steel giants is filled with a transparent space built of nanoglass, the transparent space is classified into dozens of laboratories and rest areas, the internal environment is more comfortable than the surface, hundreds of pipes continue to supply oxygen, clean water, air conditioning, the indoor temperature is constant at 23 degrees, the oxygen content is 21%, the artificial sun is sufficient, in addition to the equipment and living facilities, there are a variety of soilless cultivation of green plants and flowers, and even planted a few peach trees that bloom in all seasons.

"It doesn't look like a normal high-energy physics lab, does it?" Jiro Oshima's assistant brings Thomas a cup of black coffee.

"Yes, thank you." Thomas sat down on the couch in the lounge to take his coffee, exhausted from the long journey, and it took him ten days to travel from A21 to A01.

"My name is Su Jian, it's nice to meet you, will you join our experimental group?" The assistant sat next to Thomas, she was a short-haired girl, with beautiful eyebrows and eyes, and an elegant temperament revealing intellectuality, like a Chinese landscape painting.

"I hope so." Thomas smiled perfunctorily, he was not in the mood to care about Su Jian, who was in the mood to make sure that the opportunity that his father had bought with his life would not be wasted, but he couldn't do anything at this time, so he could only wait anxiously in this dark underground.

is as anxious and powerless as him, as well as Zhou Qian.

Zhou Zhen was in a top-secret energy laboratory at this time, the laboratory was located in the corner of the experiment center, and the entrance was a closed secret door, which could only be opened by the highest level security card.

There were only Zhou Zhi and Jiro Oshima in the laboratory, and on the instrument table not far from the entrance, a Maya box the size of a can was loaded with Zhou Zhi's soul.

"What does it feel like to be antimatter? Mr. Rhodes. ”

Jiro Oshima didn't know that the soul in Maya's box was Zhouzhi, and he still thought that Thomas had traveled all the way to bring Hayes's soul.

"It's so much more liberating than being in a wheelchair."

Zhou replied that the Maya box was connected to a translator and a display, which was the medium of communication between him and Jiro Oshima, and everything he wanted to say would be translated into text and projected on the screen.

"Haha, I'm afraid you won't be so free in the lab, the underground part of the Mayyaz Mansion is made of ultra-inert materials, this material is the scientific research result of Moyaz Technology, it is synthesized from dark matter and inert particles, it can resist all kinds of extreme environments, and the side effect is that it will limit your particle vision, so that you can't see what's going on outside the walls."

Jiro Oshima gave a polite smirk and explained as he walked deeper into the laboratory and pushed out two stretcher beds on which lay two unconscious men, one Asian and the other typical European and American, both in their thirties.

"Let's pick one, they are all unemployed people who are in good health, and the experimental samples sent by your subordinates last month, the ID chips have been removed."

Oshima shook the cantilevered arm under the stretcher bed and pushed the two into a sitting position.

Experiment? Zhou Zhen shuddered, Hayes had said that the Armored Mouse Company had been giving support to energy experiments, but he hadn't guessed that it would be such support.

Now is not the time to delve into the truth, survival is the most important thing, and Zhou Zhen calmly chose an Asian man.

Jiro Oshima sat down in front of the quantum computer, opened an identity document and read: "Subject 1105, age 32 years old, in good health, no disease, no history of alcohol and drug abuse, S-level physical function, normal brain capacity. ”

"Where's the name?" Zhou asked, before occupying someone else's body, you should at least know who to thank.

"Name?" Jiro Oshima was stunned for a moment, then looked up and explained in surprise: "We don't record this kind of information, you know, staff should avoid any emotional connection with the test subject, and knowing the name is considered the first step in establishing an emotional connection." ”

Zhou Zhen was outraged by this answer, how could a living person be regarded as an experimental object that could be discarded at any time?

But when he thought about it, he was frustrated, and he desperately needed this body, which made him an accomplice, but otherwise, he would not be able to explore the truth of the energy experiment and complete Hayes's legacy.

Is this the right and dark choice that Hayes said?

"What's next?" Zhou Zhiqiang suppressed his complex emotions and asked.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't have time to explain to you in detail before, antimatter needs to be stored in an ion trap that can maintain a strong magnetic field, so that it does not come into contact with other matter and annihilate, and the Maya box you are in now is an ion trap."

Jiro Oshima patiently answered while inserting some needles connected to instruments and equipment into the subject's body: "The human body is actually a natural ion trap, but the previous technical means cannot fully analyze the structure of the human body, and the antimatter and dark matter particles in the human body have been ignored for a long time, which has led us to debate whether the soul exists for thousands of years. ”

As he spoke, he grabbed the subject's head out of thin air, as if to pull out the invisible substance inside.

"But there is often only a narrow line between ignorance and science, and human beings are ignorant of more than 90% of matter and energy, and even the mantle layer has not set foot in it, and we will never be able to cross this line without the impetus of giants."

Speaking of this, Oshima paused, patted his chest gently, and continued: "And I, Jiro Oshima, my predecessors and my colleagues, are the giants who promote the progress of mankind, after decades of our efforts, now we can not only capture and transfer the soul, but even use it as an energy source, the technology that saves your life, Mr. Rhodes, is just a by-product of the energy experiment, an insignificant contribution, you can imagine how significant the energy experiment itself is." ”

Zhou Zhi was not Hayes, and he was not interested in these scientific theories in the slightest, but Oshima's words reminded him of another question: "Well, interesting, but if soul transfer is effective, why do you go to such lengths to seize Zhou Zhi's parasitic system?" Instead of directly transferring your own soul? ”

Oshima Jiro was stunned for a moment, then smiled and pointed to his face: "The energy experiment is a top-secret project, and I, as an executive of Shennong Group, am the leader of the experiment, if I suddenly change my body, not only will my status be gone, but it will be difficult for the energy experiment to hide from others, and even, the enterprise alliance will get rid of me for the sake of secrecy." ”

He calmly explained his reasons and plates, and then sat back in front of the quantum computer again, and after a while, the man who was the test subject suddenly struggled violently, and let out a howl like metal friction in his throat, and the struggle and howl lasted for a few seconds, and the man's body returned to calm.

This was the harshest noise Zhou Zhen had ever felt, and the particle vibrations caused by the sound waves were like ghostly dances, and it took a while for him to ask, "Is he dead?" ”

"No, no, no, just like you, his soul has been transferred to a larger ion trap for subsequent experiments, and we won't waste any test subjects, and now this body is an empty shell without consciousness."

Jiro Oshima seemed accustomed to this brutal scene, and he stood up and reconnected the device.

"Now, there's only one last step left, to transfer your soul to this healthy body."

Oshima's tone suddenly became cold: "It's just that I still underestimated the emotional factor, I didn't expect Hayes, an old fox, to be willing to sacrifice his life in order to save his comrades." ”

"You..." Zhou Zhen behaved like a gambler who had his hole cards exposed, and he didn't know how to defend himself for a while.

"As early as when you asked for your name, I knew that you weren't Hayes, he didn't have so much sentimentality, and I had already explained to him the reason for obtaining the immortal parasitic system."

Oshima paced back and forth, his eyes never leaving the Maya box, like a cat playing with a mouse in a cage: "You know too little, and you ask too much, this is the reason for your demise." ”

"I'm talking about perdition, and your soul will be the same as the soul of the test subject just now, and will become a stepping stone for energy experiments."

He said as he stretched out his right index finger and slowly pressed it towards the quantum computer's keyboard.