Higashino sat on the sofa in the living room, the old man had a good appetite, and just sat down to eat a yellow bulin in the fruit bowl. In the past, some beauty bloggers advocated that the collagen of yellow brin can help maintain the elasticity of the skin, anthocyanins can also improve short-term memory ability, and vigorously promoted the delivery of goods in the name of "American yellow dinosaur eggs".

"You're not going to just put the specimen in your suitcase, are you?"

Lin Banwei dragged out his big suitcase, put it horizontally in front of the table, and said, "Don't worry, it's very tightly packed, and you usually have to report it when you enter and leave the country, it's troublesome." ”

Flipping through the clothes piled on top, Lin Banwei put a small instrument box on the table below, put his face on it, and slowly turned the password disk.

"That's it, look at it."

Lin Banwei took out a small glass bottle lying in the shockproof sponge and handed it to Higashino, and in the glass bottle was a "heart" soaked in UW liquid, which was so small that it was like a miniature model of a human heart. (Note: UW solution, the University of Wisconsin solution, refers to the solution used to preserve organs)

"What is this?" Higashino put down the yellow brin in his hand, held the glass bottle in front of his eyes and turned it to check.

"A rabbit's heart has the same structure as a human heart." Lin Banwei squatted in front of Dongye.

"Well, rabbits first appeared in the Cretaceous," Higashino gently placed the glass bottle on the table, "Did you find a rabbit that lived for 100 million years?" That was a big discovery indeed. ”

"No, no, no," Lin Banwei simply sat down on the table and looked directly at Dong Yeqi, "This is an ordinary rabbit, bought at the fresh market." ”

"And what's there about it for me to know?"

"That's right," said Lin Banwei, "this heart is no longer the original heart of the rabbit." ”

"I don't want to talk to you about organ transplantation in animals."

"Listen to me," Lin said, holding the glass bottle in front of him, "this rabbit has been parasitized by the paleontology that my father found. ”

"Parasitism?"

"I don't know if that's accurate," Mr. Lin said, "but the whole process is very parasitic, my father had a friend who started a mining business in the United States, and that friend found a strange spider fossil from the mine many years ago, and he knew that my father was a paleontologist, so he sent the fossil to my father as a gift;

"Strangely, the spider in the stone is not calcified, its tissue is still intact, my father extracted part of the spider's tissue, and driven by curiosity, he put that part of the tissue into the cell culture medium."

"And then that part of the tissue was revital?" Higashino asked.

"That's right, and," said Lin Banwei, "my father observed a month later that the cells of that part of the tissue actually began to divide, and even differentiated, and it seemed to be trying to reconstruct a complete spider!" ”

"I think the process eventually stopped, right?" Higashino said.

Lin Banwei was shocked, this old man really knew a lot about this: "How do you know, it is true that it has almost completed the reconstruction of its body, but it has not differentiated its brain, which is very strange. ”

"This is not surprising, some prehistoric creatures were born to accomplish a certain goal, at the beginning of their creation, the brain was created by the creator for a series of 'programming', that is, each individual has a unique brain, if it is gone, even if the tissue cells are still serving it, but the creator does not allow it to grow a new brain that has not been 'programmed'." Higashino said.

"You say that, it feels like there's a pair of divine hands controlling these creatures." Lin Banwei put down the glass bottle.

"The gods don't bother to manipulate these low-level creatures," Higashino said disdainfully, "and they've ever created the most perfect creatures, and they've created the dirtiest creatures." ”

"Are you a theist?" Lin Banwei asked.

Higashino glanced at Lin Banwei and said, "Let's continue with your father's research." ”

"Okay," Lin Banwei was dismissed, "the spider that 'grows back', my father found that it didn't have any physical activity other than its normal metabolism. ”

"It's already rare to be able to maintain your metabolism without a brain."

"Yes, for example, human breathing and heartbeat need to be controlled by the brain, and my father even thought of transplanting a brain into that spider," Lin said, "Later, my father returned to the laboratory and found that a guinea pig crawled into the culture medium of the spider, and the skin of the spider and the mouse actually fused together······

"What!" Higashino suddenly roared, he snatched the glass bottle and stared at the heart in the bottle, "Go on!" ”

Lin Banwei was taken aback by Dongye's big action, he didn't understand if he said something wrong: "I won't say anything about the whole process, it's disgusting, and then my father put them into the observation box with pliers, and the whole parasitic process was quickly completed, the spider completely melted into the body of the mouse, and the mouse was still alive and kicking, and there was no special action, and the previous activity habits were almost the same;

"Later, my father put the rabbit in the observation box, and sure enough, after the rabbit and the mouse came into contact, the whole parasitic process was repeated."

"Biological insects, how can they be biological insects, damn it!" Higashino grabbed the glass bottle tightly with both hands.

"Paratomicrytes? Is it the scientific name for this creature? Lin Banwei didn't know that the catastrophe was coming, and he laughed, "Great! I ······ Wrong! ”

Lin Banwei quickly took out his mobile phone and clicked on the mailbox to check the email sent to him by the Treehouse Personnel Department before, "Biological insects," Lin Banwei turned the mobile phone screen to Higashino Qi, "Is this code the meaning of biological insects?" ”

“NSC0072。” Higashino silently read over the code mentioned in the email, "Acronym for Paratomicry, has the tree house found signs of resurgence of Biomimetic?" Did your father's friend ever send this fossil to someone else? ”

"No," Lin recalled, "my father asked the friend to provide him with some more of these fossils, but the other party said that no fossils have been found since." ”

"Have you ever touched the bioid directly with your skin, or have anyone else touched it?" Higashino stared at Lin Banwei's eyes, which made Lin Banwei feel very uncomfortable.

"Of course not." Lin Banwei said.

"Where's your father's lab?" Higashino asked coldly.

"At first, in college, my father simply rebuilt a laboratory at home, and he said that no one else could find out until he got a convincing report of the experiment."

"Tell me the exact address and your father's name."

"You······ What do you want to do? Lin Banwei felt that something was wrong with Dongyeqi.

"I have detailed information about the biomimetic worm, which will be of great help to your research."

"That's great, but it's good if you leave it to me," Lin Banwei said with a smile, "Thank you very much, it's a gift from God to meet you." ”

Dongye got up abruptly and grabbed Lin Banwei's neck and lifted Lin Banwei up. Lin Banwei's eyes were instantly bloodshot, and the terrifying force almost broke his cervical vertebrae. He slapped Higashino's hand hard, but Higashino's arm was as hard as steel.

"Tell me."

“··· Okay... Okay..."

Higashino let go, and Lin Banwei fell, slumping on the floor and coughing in pain. He had to follow Higashinoqi's request, and 1510 told him honestly. In order to make sure that Lin Banwei was not lying, Higashino Qi also asked Lin Banwei to dig out the courier records sent to his home before in his mobile phone.

"You damned things, for that pathetic thirst for knowledge, would touch such filthy things."

Higashino Qi scolded angrily, and then, he directly burst the glass bottle in his hand, and the UW liquid splashed Lin Banwei with glass shards. With a bang, Higashino's clenched hand ignited a scorching flame, setting his cuffs on fire. Immediately after, a piercing roar came from his hand, it was something that was struggling in pain before dying.

He let go of his hand, and the burning heart fell to the floor. With a puff of black smoke, the heart began to beat and roll wildly, and it was trying to rush towards Lin Banwei!

Lin Banwei screamed and moved behind him, his heart stopped before it could touch him, the flames gradually extinguished, the heart was completely burned into "char", and Lin Banwei stared at it in horror.

"I'll come back to you again." Higashino's voice echoed through the room.

Lin Banwei choked and looked up, and found that Dongye Qi had disappeared without a trace, he hurriedly got up from the ground, looking for Dong Yeqi inside and out, but he couldn't see anyone at all.

It's so weird! It's so weird!

Lin Banwei grabbed his fluffy hair, nervous as if he was going to tear off the whole scalp. Find him! Right! Ask the staff and find out which room Higashino Ki lives in! He must ask all this questions!

He almost hit the door, and before he could adjust his center of gravity, he pulled open the door and rushed out.

"Ahh Lin Banwei happened to bump into a group of people passing by the door, causing him to fall again.

“미안해요。 (I'm sorry)" The young man he hit smiled and stretched out his hand to Lin Banwei, revealing the tattoo on his wrist - a skull with fangs.

Lin Banwei didn't bother to pay attention to the young man at all, he couldn't understand Korean, he hurriedly got up from the ground and stumbled away.

The young man watched Lin Banwei run away, smiled and turned around and continued to walk with his companions.

"I said Li Shiyun, these are people who are dying, what kind of apologies do I have to say to him." Said the girl next to the young man.

"Ha," Li Shiyun smiled heartily again, his Chinese was not standard, "Miss Tong Wanning, maybe you don't understand that the necessary politeness is the minimum respect for the dying. ”

"Does it work?" Tong Wanning said playfully.

"At least die decently."