Zhao Pengcheng remembered why he had a sense of familiarity with the old man.

This Professor Mei used to be a big celebrity in Wuzhong City, and his status and fame were no less than that of the mayor and the richest man. His feat of going abroad as a young man and later returning to China to serve was once rumored to be a hot topic on college campuses; And his bold remarks that often despise the powerful and the marquis of dung and thousands of households also made Zhao Pengcheng admired when he was young.

Mei Yiqiu was the chief scientific advisor to the United Nations Space Management Committee and one of the leaders of the Third Space Foundation, a group of human scientists. In the struggle between the original humans and the parasitized people, he never flinched. Until the peace agreement between humanity and parasitism was signed, he refused to sign it at the United Nations General Assembly, and since then he has been hiding underground and becoming the leader of the resistance.

Zhao Pengcheng carefully looked at the old man on the screen - his hair was all white, like silver threads; His cheekbones were high, his cheeks were sunken, and he was so thin that all that was left was a wrinkled skin; His pipe-holding hand was trembling slightly, and he looked like he had mild Parkinson's disease.

Although he looks old, his spirit is still strong. His eyes were deep, his voice was loud, and his body was full of wisdom. The smoke in the pipe was flickering and flickering, and the smoke he had inhaled spewed out of his mouth, as if it was about to float out of the screen under the effect of naked-eye 3D, adding a bit of mystery.

Zhao Pengcheng finally knew why they locked him up. It's a struggle between two races, just as they have been assassinating human scientists and are still hunting down members of the Resistance.

"You don't want to know anything from me." Zhao Peng said to the screen. He remembered that he had said something similar to Aoki in a dream ten years ago, and that he had ended up saying a lot of things that he shouldn't have said, but that was because he had the killer move to trap his opponent, and today, he knew he couldn't escape.

"Oh, don't worry, I'm not interested in your organization's secrets." Mei Yiqiu didn't look like an interrogator at all, more like she was chatting with an old friend, "because I know you don't know more than I do." In the past ten years, you have been cut off from your organization in prison, and you know nothing about the outside world. You're just a poor, lonely, nobody's hurting child. ”

"Then what are you holding me for? Do you just want to torture me to satisfy your pleasure? Zhao Pengcheng sneered, "If you have studied us, you should know that I can get rid of the influence of human emotions, and I can also shield human neuralgia, my tolerance for pain is thousands of times stronger than yours, no matter what punishment you use, it is nothing to me." ”

"I'm not interested in torturing you." Mei Yiqiu laughed, "I know you're not afraid of pain or hardship, but you're afraid of death." You've been in prison for so many years, and you've finally waited for your race to win—oh, I'll be clear, a temporary victory—and you're reluctant to die right away, right? ”

Zhao Pengcheng snorted and refused to answer the question.

Mei Yiqiu continued: "I don't know how large your race is, but there are not many people coming to Earth now, I don't think it will exceed the number of millions, but there are seven billion people on Earth, and you can only take advantage of the pyramid-shaped weakness of the human social structure to occupy the spire. Therefore, every consciousness that comes to Earth is precious, and you have lived much longer than us to some extent, so it seems that it is a pity that you are dead. You don't want to die until you have a chance to transfer consciousness to another human, do you? ”

"What the hell are you trying to say?" Zhao Pengcheng asked.

Mei Yiqiu took a deep puff of her cigarette, then put her pipe down, looked at the screen and said, "I want to exchange your life for Aoki." ”

"Aoki? Isn't he lying in bed? ”

"Thank you."

"I don't know where he is."

Mei Yiqiu said, "Are you very cold now?" ”

Zhao Pengcheng said disdainfully: "I'm not afraid of the cold." ”

Mei Yiqiu shook her head and said, "The place where you are now has 372 cubic meters, don't think that this is a cold storage, we don't need to use it to store tuna." This is a laboratory – the most advanced cryogenic laboratory in the world. ”

"It's minus 1C now, and if I lower it to minus 10C or lower, how long can you keep it going? Of course, you are not afraid of the cold, your race is very strong, and even if the body is frozen to death, the consciousness can exist for a long time. I don't know where you're going if you're out of the flesh and can't find a new parasite, Ancestral Star? Or is it floating in the universe? But I think there's a place you don't want to go. ”

"Where?" Zhao Pengcheng was suddenly a little curious.

"Centauri Bumorang Nebula." Mei Yiqiu said.

Zhao Pengcheng began to search for this vague astronomical term in his memory, and when he found this memory from a corner of his brain, he had goosebumps on his body inexplicably, as if he had been thrown from the beach in June onto the ice field of Siberia.

The Bumojan Nebula, also known as the Pullback Bar Nebula, is located 5,000 light-years from Earth and has a temperature of minus 272C, only 115C above absolute zero, and is the only known object whose temperature is lower than the cosmic background radiation.

At such low temperatures, everything is inactive, including consciousness.

"What do you mean?" Zhao Pengcheng forced his composure.

"The lowest achievable temperature in this lab is one part of two billion Kelvin, and there are only five nanometers left from absolute zero. At that time, your consciousness"

Mei Yiqiu stopped abruptly when she said this. Zhao Pengcheng saw a tremor on the screen, as if an earthquake had occurred, and because the glasses-free 3D technology was so realistic, he almost thought that the laboratory was going to collapse.

The bald head standing behind Mei Yiqiu rushed up and helped Mei Yiqiu out, and then there was a sudden gunshot. The gunfire lasted for more than ten seconds, a strong flash appeared on the screen, and then the picture disappeared. The wall was back to its appearance as a wall of ice, and there was no screen in it.

Then, Zhao Pengcheng heard a dull explosion. The sound didn't come from the screen or the microphone, it came from outside the lab. It should be the explosion of the screen flash just now, if the video has not been delayed, judging from the time difference between the flash and the sound, the explosion site is less than a kilometer away from him.

The temperature of the laboratory is maintained at minus 1C, and Zhao Pengcheng is glad that if Mei Yiqiu really activates the ultra-low temperature and lowers the temperature to close to absolute zero, the space here will be frozen, the atoms tend to be stationary, and the body he parasitizes is equivalent to non-existence. At that time, his consciousness will fall into endless darkness, and like Aoki in the zero-dimensional space, life is worse than death.

Of course, if no one came to save him within an hour, he would freeze to death here, and that would be a misfortune.

After about twenty minutes, Zhao Pengcheng felt the temperature rise. Then, the door of the laboratory was opened, and the foreigner appeared at the door, just like when he was picked up from prison, holding his hand and saying, "Comrade Zhao Pengcheng, you have worked hard. ”

Zhao Pengcheng felt the temperature on the other party's hand, but there was a chill in his heart: "How did you find me?" ”

The comrade said: "From the time you went to Liuying Lane, we began to lay out. Thank you for helping us find the Resistance's undersea base. ”

Zhao Pengcheng said dissatisfiedly: "You use me?!" ”

Comrade excitedly said: "All for the organization and the great victory!" ”