He closed the door, went to the chair in the room, threw his backpack on the marble floor, sat down on the chair in the room, and let out a long sigh of relief. My hands kept kneading my sore thighs, and for a moment the pain was unbearable.

The general seemed to be a little tired, walked slowly to my lap, then lay down on his backpack, found a comfortable position, and then began to fall asleep.

Maggie hadn't said a word since she walked into the room, but sat down quietly across from me, fumbling with the backpack I had just taken off, and pulling a match from it to light the candle.

"Snort"

The match rubbed lightly against the phosphorus paper, and the golden flame jumped excitedly before our eyes, and Maggie took advantage of it to transmit the temperature to the cold candle while it was still alive.

Although the candles were lit, the whole room was still a little dim, but it was much stronger than the silence and darkness before, and I felt a sense of security in my heart at this moment.

The candle was placed between me and Maggie, and I could clearly see the deep entanglement and sadness in Maggie's eyes, and the expectation and curiosity on my face.

Neither of us spoke, just looked at each other, hoping that the other would speak first.

"Qi Mo, what do you think of Paula's company.. What kind of company is it? ”

Finally, in this silent contest, Maggie couldn't hold back at first. I thought she would explain what had just happened and what had happened in the xiaolongbao shop, but instead she asked me a question.

"Well, I knew very well that Paula was a super-large scientific research and pharmaceutical company, and it could be said that it played the image of a savior, but since I saw the company's hidden farms and the infected people underground, to be honest, I found that I didn't know Paula at all."

I answered Maggie's question with a wry smile. I've been with the company for several years, but I still don't know what role Paula plays. And when I mentioned the farm, Liu Xuerong's voice and smile appeared in my mind, and I felt sad again.

"How did things get the way they are..."

When Maggie heard my answer, I was stunned. I've guessed a lot of Maggie's next reaction, confusion, curiosity, anger. But I didn't expect Maggie to shed tears!

"No, Maggie, what's wrong with you?"

I asked rhetorically as I handed her the tissues that the hotel cleaners had placed on the table.

"I brought back the multi-species gene mix reagent..."

"What do you say? ....”

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Half a year ago

"Kiki, your performance in the last few missions is very average, and it seems that your current state is not suitable for high-risk missions at all."

In a private room at a private beauty salon, a woman who couldn't see her face lay flat on a beauty bed, her clothes falling off and covered only with a small blanket provided by the beauty salon, barely able to cover her slender body. At this time, she squinted her eyes slightly, and her face was still smeared with an unknown dark blue mask, and she said to Maggie in a somewhat indifferent tone.

"Take it, this is the information you need to know about this mission, if you make another mistake, even I can't help you."

The woman lying on the bed stretched out her arm and accurately took out a file bag from her handbag and handed it to Maggie.

"Remember to destroy it after reading it, don't let me lose face again, let's get out."

After Maggie took the file bag, the woman said to Maggie as if sarcastically, and then asked Maggie to leave the place.

Maggie pursed her lips tightly, took the file bag in the woman's hand with a little stiffness with her hands, and then left the beauty salon without saying a word.

"Task Type: Shipping. Difficulty: Very easy. Number of Missions: One. Objective: Go to the Paula Company branch in the United States to bring back the semi-finished "Multi-species Gene Mix" reagent backup. ”

Back home, Maggie opened the file bag, which contained only a piece of paper, a passport, and two air tickets. Maggie pursed her lips and took the strawberry-flavored lollipop on the coffee table in her mouth with some annoyance.

As usual, the information of each mission is extremely rich, with photos of the target, behavior, personality, action route, etc., the information is extremely detailed. Even before you go on some big task, you can write a book with just what you need to know. This time it's fine, a blank slate, a few words, and nothing else.

This kind of task that beginners are reluctant to do, but I didn't expect to let Maggie perform it this time, which is inevitably a bit humiliating.

After two days of back and forth, Maggie successfully brought the "multi-species gene mixing" reagent that was still under development back to the domestic head office.

Paula Company, domestic Fengtian head office.

"Sister, what is this reagent for?"

In a dimly lit office, two women sit facing each other. Because the woman opposite Maggie was in the shadows, she couldn't see her face at all.

"Click"

There was a crisp sound in the room, followed by nine neatly arranged electronic screens behind the woman in the shadows, showing the surveillance cameras of the company's various laboratories, in which very strange experimental projects were being carried out.

"This... What is it? ”

Maggie asked the woman in front of her in shock.

I saw that on the screen of nine electronic screens, each camera was filming the situation in the transparent glass laboratory in real time. Each lab has a sophisticated vital sign monitor with metal wires attached to a test subject. There were also three or four other experimenters in white anti-contamination suits and gas masks on their heads around the subject. But what is a little creepy is that these experimental subjects are all living people!

"Continued research and development of the "Multi-species Gene Pooling" project. ”

The woman in front of her picked up the cigarette case on the table, took out a slender lady's cigarette from it, and slowly exhaled the smoke to explain to Maggie while tasting the cigarette. Even if you can't see her face clearly, you can feel the innate nobility from her every move.

"But... But isn't that still a work in progress? Directly use living people for experiments? ”

Although Maggie doesn't know much about scientific research experiments, she still has common sense. Even if he wants to develop a tube of lipstick, he needs to test the toxicity on mice, not to mention this kind of multi-species genetic mixing project that he has never heard of, and it is not child's play to be linked to the word gene!

"Kiki, don't get so excited. This is the final plan of our company. Soon, we will be able to control the voice of the world.

"What ?.."

Suddenly, an extremely strange scene erupted on the second monitor screen at the top! I saw that those test subjects who were originally lying quietly on the bed, full of various catheters, began to twitch violently, the skin on their bodies slowly changed from the initial normal color to black and brown, and the originally normal faces began to age rapidly, as if they had spent a lifetime in just a few seconds! In an instant, the test subjects who were still pulling out all of them stopped moving, and completely died in the laboratory.

The scientists were all stupefied, they had never seen anything so weird before.

The shattered bottles and cans were ignored, and instead approached the dead subjects, trying to dispose of them. But suddenly, the change started again. Just when a researcher who seemed to be the leader of the team had just squatted down next to a dead subject, the extremely miserable subject suddenly rose from the ground, pushed the experimenter to the ground reflexively, and used his hands like dead branches to cut open the original excellent quality anti-pollution suit, and stabbed the experimenter's belly with his unabated hands!

These experimenters had no combat power at all, and with the fact that they were wearing heavy and clumsy anti-pollution suits, it was too difficult to escape for their lives. But the test subject, who had become brutal, would show no mercy to them! In an instant, the originally white and clean laboratory suddenly flowed into a river of blood!

"A small team of the Yang Group, fully armed, go to the A5 laboratory on the twenty-eighth floor! Annihilation of all, including the experimenters. ”

The woman sitting in front of Maggie pressed a green button on the desk unhurriedly, and then quickly gave the battle order.

"How can you do this..."

Maggie was now pale and speechless, and there was a hint of heartache in her expression when she looked at the person in front of her.

"I said little princess, if you don't want to participate in the company's plans, you can leave, no one forces you."

The woman in front of Maggie elegantly snuffed out the cigarette butt and said to Maggie intentionally or unintentionally.

Maggie didn't say another word, and stood up to leave the place. It's so depressing here, she can't believe that the company she has worked for for so many years has such a face.

"Oh yes, stay safe in the coming days, it may be going to change... Hehehe.."

When Maggie heard this, her figure paused slightly, and then resolutely walked out of the room.

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"Qi Mo! Where are you going?! ”

"Maggie, I'm sorry for you, I don't have the face to go down with you anymore. General, go. ”

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be like this. Is everything I do aiding and abetting? I was ashamed for a while, and I didn't have the face to stay here any longer, and I was about to leave with the general.

But as soon as I pushed the door open, I felt my body being held tightly from behind by a pair of soft arms.

Seeing that I was about to leave without saying anything, Maggie couldn't help but put her arms around my waist and leaned her head tightly on my back, tears streaming down.

Under Maggie's embrace, I stopped, turned slowly, and looked at Maggie's blurred face.

"Maggie, don't cry, the responsibility for this matter lies with me, you are just being used by the company."

As I spoke, I took Maggie's slender arms with both hands and slowly pulled them down from her arms around me.

Maggie looked panicked and didn't know how to persuade me to stay, just as the door to Dabin's room suddenly opened.

"Kuroko, what are you two doing here? It's so dangerous outside, so let's get some rest at this late hour. ”

The voice of the conversation in the corridor just now was heard by Dabin on the other side, and he hurriedly opened the door and stood in front of me and Meiqi. At this time, Dabin was holding a claw hammer in his hand, wearing a dirty white hurdle vest on his upper body, a pair of velvet pants on his lower body, and a pair of slippers under his feet, and said to us with a puzzled face.

"Dabin, I'm sorry for you, the general and I left first, take care!"

With that, I took the general downstairs.

"it, what are you smoking? What's going on? Maggie, what's the matter with him? "As soon as Dabin heard me say such a resolute thing, he couldn't hold back all of a sudden, quickly stopped me and the general, and threw the question at Meiqi, trying to figure things out.

Maggie was so stumbling that she couldn't say a word

"Brother Qi, let's talk slowly, how dangerous are you alone? And we don't know anything until now, what's going on? ”

Fei Fei also came out of the room at this time, and without waiting for Maggie to answer, she asked me in the same confusion.

There was a "banging" of the door all over the hallway, and the noise we had just made was a bit loud, and the infected gradually became a little restless when they heard the movement.

"Kuroko, let's go into the house and say, don't leave this pestle."

Without saying a word, Dabin grabbed my arm and pulled me into his room. Maggie followed with a blank expression.

There were two candles lit in Dabin's room, and the room was still well-lit. I was pulled to the side of the chair by Dabin and sat down, and Maggie and Fei Fei sat on the bed.

"What's going on, Kuroko? Why are you suddenly like a different person? ”

I was silent for a moment, not knowing where to start.

"Don't stop talking, so, if you want to go, you have to tell us why, right? Fei Fei and I don't know anything like two big fools. ”

Dabin is also a little anxious, looking at this posture, he is bound to figure out what is going on today.

"Ugh..."

Then, I told Dabin and Fei Fei all the causes and consequences of the incident.

"I'll go! Maggie are you so? ”

"Dabin, didn't you find the point?" I led the development of the "multi-species gene pool" reagent! If this project hadn't been launched, the world wouldn't have been like this at all! ”

I said to Dabin very seriously. Why doesn't this guy seem to have a heart? When is it now, it's useless to still talk here.

"Oh, why are you going to do everything to you? I understand what's going on, but you're not trying to create some virus to exterminate the world, isn't it all Paula's doing? Does it have anything to do with you? ”

"I.."

I was stunned on the spot, yes, I originally intended to make a special medicine to resist human diseases, and I didn't want to harm human beings, all this is just a conspiracy of Paula, and I am a pawn in this conspiracy!

"Yes, Brother Qi, this has nothing to do with you, it was all done by Paula's company, and you were used at most."

Having said that, when I think about my parents, Liu Xuerong, and Dr. Wang, who operated on me, a deep sense of powerlessness swept through my body.

"The mother's Paula company is really ruthless, killing so many people at once! What the hell are they trying to do? Destroy the world? ”

Dabin slammed the table hard with his fist and scolded Paula with an angry face.

At this point, I had gradually calmed down. I developed the reagent, but I didn't want to destroy the world. After experiencing the death of my parents and Liu Xuerong's sacrifice, my nerves have gradually become a little numb, and the sense of regret and shame just now has gradually disappeared. After all, I'm still alive, and I have friends and generals around me. As for Paula, I'll admit, I can't take them out, but that's before the end of the world. After the apocalypse, not necessarily.