Chapter 145: Thirteen Years Ago
"You might as well go see for yourself." As the masked man's words fell, everything around him came alive. Busy doctors and nurses keep passing by Star Swirl, and the hall is filled with tension.
Star Swirl soon spots a familiar face in the crowd, the young man he had seen in the room photograph earlier. Star Swirl immediately followed him.
The man made his way up the stairs to the third floor and into the locker room, where Star Swirl waited outside for him to come out. But ten minutes passed, and there was no movement inside.
Star Swirl walked through the closed door, and the locker room was empty, with no one in sight.
How could it disappear into thin air? She looked around and found that there was a half-meter-high passage hidden behind the closet.
Star Swirl crouches down at the entrance of the passage and looks inside, where a conveyor belt is visible, and the exit on the opposite side is clearly visible.
Star Swirl stands on her back, but the conveyor belt doesn't activate. Thinking that she wasn't a physical entity at the moment, Star Swirl reluctantly crawled towards the exit.
There was a curfew at the exit, but she was still able to pass without an ID card at this point. Passing through this small door, the eyes suddenly opened up.
In a spacious and bright laboratory, everyone wears biosafety suits and sits in the safety cabinet to concentrate on the operation at hand. Star Swirl can hear their conversation.
"Dr. Lu, you see that this strain is a typical colony morphology of Candida glabrata."
"Although morphologically this is the case, it is necessary to do a biochemical experiment to determine its biochemical characteristics. In addition, if we do a genetic analysis, if there is a genetic mutation, we must find the gene of the mutation. ”
Star Swirl was dizzy when she heard the technical terms in her ears, and it was already very difficult for her to find the man among the people who were all wearing hazmat suits.
Moreover, at this time, the masked man is also missing. Where does Star Swirl go from here? She stood in the lab feeling a little dazed.
An alarm sounds in the hall, and Star Swirl subconsciously reacts that she is still in a mental sanatorium, only to see that the smoke sensors on the ceiling have begun to spray water outward.
"Oh my God, what's going on?" The staff in the laboratory began to rescue the computers and materials on the table, looking at the sensors overhead in confusion, but the water was getting bigger and bigger.
Several doctors waved to a corner of the lab's ceiling and shouted, "There is no fire here, please stop the fire extinguishing system!" ”
Star Swirl walks over to see that they are shouting at the monitor on the ceiling, the camera moving, but the sensor still not working.
"It's crazy!" Finding that the communication was fruitless, one of the doctors walked towards the exit, but let out another exclamation: "Why is the exit blocked?!" ”
"What's going on?" A group of people rushed to the exit to look, only to find that the door had been locked tightly at some point, and the original identification system was completely useless.
"If this continues, the lab will soon be flooded! What are we going to do? The crowd began to panic, and someone threw a chair against the window, and there was a loud crashing sound, and the glass was unharmed.
"That's bulletproof glass! We're done! We're done! "Some people can't help but start having a nervous breakdown and roaring like crazy.
"Why did you ruin everything here? Isn't it all worthless? Someone has not given up hope, holding up the petri dish in his hand and shaking in front of the surveillance camera.
Star Swirl noticed that there was only one person, sitting quietly in his chair. Didn't call for help, didn't struggle, just sat there silently.
Star Swirl walks over and finds him holding a pendant with a photograph in his hand, which shows Star Swirl seven or eight years old.
Through the transparent part of the shield, Star Swirl could see the reluctance and sadness in her unfamiliar eyes, and for a moment, her heart was deeply stabbed.
The tragedy was unfolding in front of us, and as the water continued to pour in, half of the laboratory was already flooded. The people inside were still struggling and praying. No one can face the sudden arrival of death.
With a crisp snap of her fingers, everything in Star Swirl's eyes vanished, and she returned to the door of the fully enclosed hospital room. And the masked man reappeared beside her.
"It's cruel......" Large, tears welled up from Star Swirl's eyes, falling like beads with broken threads.
The masked man reached out to touch her head, but his hand froze in mid-air, listening to her mournful cries, and finally gently patted her on the shoulder.
Star Swirl's sobs stopped as she asked uncertainly, "Is that man in the lab my relative?" ”
The masked man replied, "He is your father." ”
Star Swirl's body shuddered, and although he didn't have any memories of this man in his mind, he felt a sense of familiarity and a tingling in his heart the moment he saw him.
She began to doubt her past, and all the dull and comfortable childhood life in her memory suddenly became a little ethereal.
He ...... Didn't survive, did it? Star Swirl asked quietly.
The masked man was silent, looking at the skinny girl beside him, and felt a dull pain in his heart, "However, he has something for you." ”
"What is it? Can you show me now? Star Swirl asked anxiously.
"Follow me." The masked man walked to the next room, "Sit down." The man said as he activated the projector placed on the table.
The snow-white wall instantly projected the faces of the man and woman in the photo.
"Star Swirl, when you see this video, Mommy and Dad are probably gone," the man said, choking in his throat, "but you have to stay strong without us......
What I'm going to tell you is something you must hear clearly.
The experiments we participated in were originally only aimed at overcoming the incurable diseases of human beings, but because of the intervention of the 'outside world', the purpose of the experiment was distorted.
Your mother and I only found out after some time that they were trying to replicate the living body, and when we tried to report to our superiors, we were intercepted in the middle of the process, so they secretly imprisoned all the doctors and our families involved in the experiment.
They use your safety to coerce us to continue the experiment, and we can't resist. But you never expected that they would be crazy enough to conduct human experiments on your body.
Thankfully, in the course of their repeated experiments, you developed antibodies to the ST virus. Then we did everything we could to finally sneak you out of the lab center and hide you in a safe place. ”