Hu Xing wanted to ask something, but Mei Yiqiu had already changed the topic and asked Aoki: "Can that shadow still hear us now?" ”

Aoki said, "Not for the time being, but when it grows, we will know sooner or later." ”

Mei Yiqiu nodded and said, "It's time to have a good talk with Old Man Xia." Then he consulted Aoki again, "Let's talk here, or go out?" ”

Aoki said, "Let's go out and talk." Xia Lao is not an awakened person, and he may not remember what he talked about in his dream after waking up. Moreover, you are equivalent to an intruder now, if you talk to Xia Lao, although I can try to stabilize his dreams, your spiritual power will be consumed quickly. ”

"Okay, then let's go out and talk." Mei Yiqiu didn't seem surprised to hear the unfamiliar term Awakened.

……

Hu Xing woke up and saw Mei Yiqiu sitting there, raising her wrist to look at her watch, her expression was not unusual. The old man's mental strength surprised her

Mei Yiqiu asked, "How long do you feel like you were in your dream just now?" ”

Aoki smiled but didn't say a word.

Hu Xing thought for a while and said, "Before you came, I don't know how long I waited, I was scared at that time, it felt like centuries had passed. Later, the crow took the shadow, and when you came, we talked together, and it should have been like an hour or two. ”

Mei Yiqiu asked again: "Then guess how long it has been since the reality?" ”

"Ten minutes, it won't be too long anyway." Since she can dream clearly, Hu Xing often relies on the alarm clock to dream, so she has a little idea of the time comparison between the two spaces.

Mei Yiqiu pointed to her watch and smiled: "Seventeen seconds!" Everything we had in our dreams, the reality was only seventeen seconds later, and that included the time I spent hypnotizing myself. ”

At this time, Xia Wenyuan also woke up leisurely, took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, smiled at Aoki, and then asked Mei Yiqiu: "What does the professor want to say, can you say it now?" ”

Mei Yiqiu took out his pipe and made an inquiring gesture towards Xia Wenyuan, Xia Wenyuan said a please, Mei Yiqiu put on the cigarette, lit it with a match, took a puff of cigarette and said: "The next thing may be too shocking, Mr. Xia, including this Miss Apricot Wu, I hope you will stay calm after listening to it, and don't tell anyone about this matter for the time being." ”

Xia Wenyuan and Hu Xing nodded.

Mei Yiqiu gave a rough account of the Copenhagen conference about Lester's death and his last words, and then watched them quietly with his pipe in his mouth.

Hu Xing grew his mouth in surprise and looked at Aoki as if he didn't believe it, while Xia Wenyuan frowned deeply.

"Professor, you mean that the shadow in my dream is an alien?" Xia Wenyuan didn't trust anyone easily, so he had to ask clearly.

"So far, it seems." Mei Yiqiu said.

"But...... You can't prove that what Mr. Lester says is necessarily true. Xia Wenyuan has always been peaceful, once he becomes serious, he has a majestic momentum when he speaks, even if he is old and sick, there is a kind of penetrating power when he looks at him, "Of course, I also respect Mr. Lester very much, and I do not doubt his personality and knowledge." ”

Mei Yiqiu said, "You are right. We argued about this issue in Copenhagen for three days and three nights to no avail. I wasn't sure what the so-called parasitic consciousness was until I learned about Mr. Xia's situation, but now, I'm pretty sure that what Mr. Lester said is true. It doesn't matter if it's from outer space or from the sleeping underground, what matters is that humanity has been invaded and there's nothing we can do about it. ”

Xia Wenyuan said: "The method is always thought up by people, since the professor is here, he will not come to sentence me Xia to death." ”

Mei Yiqiu said: "Xia Lao is really an expert. ”

The two of them looked at each other and laughed as they spoke.

After laughing for a while, Xia Wenyuan asked, "The professor just said it clearly, what do you need me to do?" ”

"Your personal physician said you were examined and treated at Hopkins Medical Center, and Mr. Lester died there. We have received a report of Mr. Lester's death that he died of acute encephalitis, but I have just received a secret message from a friend that Mr. Lester had another explicit last note before his death, asking the hospital to perform an autopsy on him. And the hospital did the same, and a new virus was detected in his brain. However, both the virus samples and the pathology report were destroyed. ”

"Is there such a thing?" Even Aoki didn't know about it, and he hadn't heard the professor talk about it in Mei Yiqiu's lab last time.

Mei Yiqiu said: "It was just confirmed yesterday. My friend found the problem when he was sorting out the database of the medical center, and although some of the deleted data was recovered, the specific virus information could not be found. ”

"How could such a thing happen?" Hu Xingqi said, "The Hopkins Medical Center is too lax!" ”

"This shows that there are already people in the medical center who have been successfully parasitized, and the authority of this person is not small." Aoki said.

"That's right, that's the problem we're facing." Mei Yiqiu said, "At present, there are only about a dozen cases in the resistance stage found in the world like Mr. Xia, so except for the cases that have not been discovered by us, the rest of the people are either safe and normal people who have not been invaded, or have been successfully parasitic and turned into aliens." ”

"So you even suspect Aunt Xia?" Hu Xing understood the reason why there were only four of them in the room, and suddenly shuddered when she thought of the possibility that Mei Yiqiu said. She looked at Aoki and smiled gratefully, knowing that she was able to stay in this study entirely because of Aoki's trust.

"At present, the important targets of the invaders are those who have access to the resources of human society, including technology, power and wealth," Mei said. Government agencies, the military, scientific research centers, and medical centers will definitely become their key targets, and the more heavily defended the place, the less safe it will become, because for them all defenses are useless, and only the spiritual power of human beings can deal with them. ”

Xia Wenyuan suddenly understood a little bit why Aoki lived in a place like Liuying Lane, the world's masters were probably like this, and even an unintentional move could be in line with the will of heaven and became the best choice at the moment.

"I see, you want to find a virus sample from me." Xia Wenyuan said.

Mei Yiqiu said: "Old Xia, don't worry, the current technology will not cause any substantial damage to your brain." ”

Xia Wenyuan said with a smile: "I, Xia, am a person who is about to rot wood, who cares about any damage or not, just teach a few people to do it." Other than that, what else do I need to do? ”

"When we were in Copenhagen, we had an idea that, if successful, might be able to solve the current dilemma, but there aren't many wealthy people to trust, so we urgently need R&D funding," Mei said. ”

Xia Wenyuan asked, "How much does it cost?" ”

"The more the merrier," Mei said. ”

Xia Wenyuan thought for a while and said: "I can directly mobilize about one billion funds without the consent of the family and without disclosing to the public, if it is not enough, I have to find someone to make an investment report, but like you said, I can't find a reliable person to do these things now." ”

Mei Yiqiu said: "A billion is a lot, if it is not enough, I will talk about it later." Fortunately, our 100 or so people are still useful, and there is no shortage of talents at present. ”

Xia Wenyuan naturally knew what kind of people Mei Yiqiu was talking about, and when he thought that he was about to invest in a project jointly developed by the world's top 100 scientists to save mankind, he suddenly felt that his life had meaning, and the past 80 years have not been in vain.