"Doctor Luo, I'm Mingyou, because now the robot's individual applications need to be reviewed for a period of time, so in order not to delay your trip, I have further applied directly to my superiors."

"Thank you, Mingyou."

"You're welcome, you've helped me a lot in the hospital."

Luo Xin and Mingyou contacted by phone, but they couldn't help but be worried, time passed minute by minute, when can they set off?

"How long will it take?"

"If it's fast, it will be sent down tomorrow, and you will be able to leave the day after tomorrow." Mingyou said, "Are you in a hurry?" ”

"Hmm......" Luo Xin paused, "Considering the change in weather, it's a bit urgent." ”

"It's okay, I'll do it as soon as possible." Mingyou's voice was still gentle, "If this personal experience is good, can you give me feedback?" ”

"Yes."

"Well, thank you, I hope there can be more improvements in this area."

"You've done a great job." Luo Xin replied, "Don't be too obsessed with changing something, they are not omnipotent. ”

Mingyou was silent on the other end of the phone for a while, and then said, "I understand, then I'll contact you tomorrow." ”

"Okay."

Hanging up the phone, Luo Xin's mind appeared as a quiet boy, and when he met him for the first time in Choose, he felt that this newly hired male voice was immature and a little stubborn. However, fortunately, there is still a trace of contact with him, and in this application, it helped a lot.

Luo Xin tried to call Cao Xi's phone again, but still couldn't get through.

Fortunately, with the help of Wu Shan, he left the location of Cao Xi's last communication with him, and when he went there, he should still be able to find the location of Shuixi Village.

……

"At that time, you were the first to enter?"

"Yes."

Visiting Professor Cao again, the messy lawn at the entrance has been neatly built. In order to get to know Shuixi Village better, Luo Xin had to know more and be prepared.

"And you didn't save anyone?" Luo Xin was full of questions.

"It had been several years since we received the distress signal, and when we went in, there was no one." Professor Cao was still in the room with a view, talking to Luo Xin.

"What danger are you in here?"

"I can't tell, I feel like someone is ambushing in the shadows, but it's just a black shadow, and I don't see the real thing." "I thought it was a mutated animal, but how cruel it was to be able to eat people to the bone," he recalled. ”

"No bones?" Luo Xin asked, "All at once?" Or is it a long time? ”

"Let's put it this way." Professor Cao replied, "Before entering the laboratory, we wasted a lot of time in the village, which was like a labyrinth, and several of our teammates disappeared before we entered the laboratory, and when we came back, we saw their clothes and shoes......

"Gone?"

"It's gone, it's clean."

"Are there any other characteristics?"

"Some are entangled in plants, some are covered with white slime." Professor Cao sighed, "At that time, Professor Shi and I were carrying items from the laboratory, and we just wanted to get out of here as soon as possible, and we didn't take samples. ”

"What do you guess?"

"It's hard to guess." Professor Cao looked at Luo Xin, "Just like Ma Hui said during hypnosis before, people are eaten by plants, at first glance, it sounds like a fantasy." But if you combine the situation at that time, there will really be such a guess. ”

"So, why don't you continue Ma Hui's hypnosis before?" Luo Xin was still haunted, if he had had learned more about it at that time, he might have been able to understand this place earlier.

Professor Cao was silent for a moment, then took a deep breath and replied slowly, "It's that I don't want to expand this matter, after all, many of my companions have died. He lowered his head and adjusted his state, "The main thing is ...... I reached an agreement with Shi Shaohua. ”

"Agreements?"

"He took the experiments with him and wanted to breed them successfully." "I want to do that too, and see what the hell is going to happen." But then I had a bigger idea, I wanted to use the data from the lab and cultivate it myself. ”

"So you divide the work?"

"Yes." "We don't want to tell anyone else, otherwise this achievement wouldn't be ours." ”

"But you're still separated." Luo Xin said.

"Because, Choose Technology quickly found us, they wanted this experiment, they wanted the results, so I broke away from this organization, Shi Shaohua took the experiment to Choose Technology, and continued to complete it."

"What about Cao Xi?"

"I didn't tell anyone, I had taken some samples before, and I wanted to try to breed them by hand, not by machines."

Luo Xin gasped, feeling that his nerves were already tense, but his mind was unusually clear: "When I joined Helong Hospital, I once saw a file that recorded some abnormal states in front of a female patient, until she gave birth to a series of changes, and then died. ”

Professor Cao glanced at Luo Xin: "You really noticed." ”

"I will notice that this patient has so many symptoms after giving birth, but instead of being transferred to a larger hospital for treatment, he has remained in Helong Hospital without family or relatives, let alone a spouse."

"Yes." Professor Cao pushed the wheels of the wheelchair with his hand and moved forward, and the light outside the window illuminated his face even brighter.

"It's unethical, but I really wanted to know what was going to happen." "So, I found a patient of the right age in the hospital and experimented with her." ”

"And then, Cao Xi was born like this?" Luo Xin asked, "There are no special symptoms?" ”

"No, I think she's different." Professor Cao looked back, "She is like a cell dividing and reorganizing, to a large extent, she is a clone, I just put it back in the womb and conceived." ”

Luo Xin seemed to understand something: "The experimental samples that Professor Shi took away are actually cloned embryos?" ”

"Yes." Professor Cao nodded, "But they should all have been re-edited, and they won't be exactly the same." ”

"Even if they are all clones, how did they find Cao Xi, and how do they want to return to Shuixi Village?" Luo Xin inevitably had questions.

"If they were all born in the laboratory of Choose, they would definitely be curious about the growth of Cao Xi and return to Shuixi Village, perhaps to find the source of their lives and solve their inner confusion."

Luo Xin was silent for a long time, and had to think about it in another way: "If they still belong to the Choose company, then the company will definitely want to find different experimental products." Don't you think that Professor Shi may have leaked your information to get them to find Cao Xi? ”

Professor Cao nodded in acquiescence, "I was already aware of it before you found me last time. ”

"So are they using Cao Xi?" Luo Xin asked, "Or do you just want to find the problem with Cao Xi?" ”

"I have no way of knowing." Professor Cao was also helpless, "If you can find them, you will definitely be able to solve these mysteries." ”

Luo Xin took a deep breath, his heart was already much colder, and the later he found Cao Xi, the greater the danger he felt.

"She wasn't supposed to be in this world...... Professor Cao muttered, "but now that she's been born, I still hope to protect her and let her live like an ordinary person to the end of her life." ”

"I understand."

Professor Cao looked at Luo Xin, his eyes had the affirmation and resoluteness he wanted, he hoped that such a choice would not be wrong, and it should not be wrong to entrust Cao Xi to Luo Xin......

……

"Don't make a noise......"

When the powerful hand covered Cao Xi, a familiar voice came from his ears.

"Xiao Jing?" Shi Wei stood aside and saw a black figure covering Cao Xi's mouth and leading her into the house from outside the door.

Although there was only a small flashlight in the room, maintaining a not very bright space, with their familiarity, Shi Wei still recognized Xiao Jing.

It wasn't until he was safe to enter the house that Xiao Jing put down his hand, and Cao Xi took a deep breath comfortably, and his heartbeat eased from panic.

"You're finally back!" When Guan Yang saw Xiao Jing, his whole person relaxed.

But Xiao Jing was a little worried.

"What's wrong?" Shi Wei sensed a hint of uneasiness in him, "Have you found your way?" ”

Xiao Jing nodded: "Found it." ”

"Really?" Guan Yang walked up to him and became excited, "Is it far away?" How did you go for so long? I thought you were missing! Something happened! ”

Xiao Jing's expression was indeed not relaxed, except for Guan Yang, who was emotional, who didn't notice it, everyone else should have realized it.

"There's something in the fog." His voice was low.

"What's that?" Guan Yang was stunned.

Shi Wei and Guo Enming exchanged glances, which should have something to do with the black shadow they saw before.

Xiao Jing put down the backpack on his body and sat on the ground: "If you can't see clearly, it must not be a good thing." He looked at the frightened Cao Xi, "So, let's try to be quiet and not attract its attention." ”

"What do you think?" Guan Yang squatted in front of Xiao Jing and asked.

"Anything could be, we don't know anything about this place." After Xiao Jing finished speaking, he happened to see Mo Mo in a coma, "How is she?" ”

Guo Enming shook his head.

"Will you be able to make it until dawn?"

"I don't know."

Shi Wei walked up to Xiao Jing: "Where's the walkie-talkie?" ”

Xiao Jing pulled out the walkie-talkie from his waist and handed it to Shi Wei. Shi Wei took a closer look, and the walkie-talkie was not turned on.

"Why don't you open it?" She asked, "I've contacted you so many times that I thought you really had an accident." ”

"I did it on purpose." Xiao Jing replied, "If I encounter danger, my voice will reveal my location. ”

"But at least tell me, won't you?"

"Nope." Xiao Jing was resolute, "I decided to turn it off temporarily. ”

"Why?" Shi Wei looked a little angry.

Xiao Jing didn't answer her directly, but opened his backpack and took out some things from it. Lay them on the ground one by one and let them see for themselves.

"What is it?" Guan Yang asked curiously, until he looked at those things closely, his face turned pale and he didn't want to speak anymore.

Cao Xi also leaned over to see what it was, the things that were on the ground had some pieces of symbols on their clothes, a messy clump of hair tangled in vine leaves, and some white bones.

"What are these?" Cao Xi's voice trembled slightly.

"I found it in the field." Xiao Jing replied, "There is a stretch of road full of such vines, entangled in a lot of white bones, and hair. ”

"It's the person who entered here before." Shi Wei said.

"Yes."

"Why don't you have anything to do to turn these things out and bring them here, aren't you disgusting?" Guan Yang turned his back and said.

"I didn't find it myself." Xiao Jing said that these things were put together, "but when I was walking in the fog, I was pushed by something and fell to the ground and found it." ”

Everyone was shocked: "Is there anyone else?" ”

"I don't know." Xiao Jing replied unhurriedly, "I fell to the ground, and soon there were vines wrapped around my legs, and instead of struggling, I pulled them out of the ground and cut off part of them with a blade. ”

Everyone listened to him reminiscing.

"I knew something was unusual with some hair tangled in the vines and leaves that I pulled out, and then I turned some bones out of the ground."

"These vines are what entangle people." Shi Wei replied, "But didn't you find anything that pushed you?" ”

"Nope." Xiao Jing replied, "But the fog was very big, I didn't see clearly whether it was a person or something, anyway, when I fell to the ground, I noticed that a black shadow quickly jumped in front of me, and soon it disappeared into the fog, and I couldn't find its direction at all." ”

Everyone listened with bated breath.

"Perhaps, it is using me to escape this vine, or maybe it is tempting me."

Shi Wei slowly squatted down, her face heavy: "Here, there must be other things, taking advantage of the thick fog, it can hide its actions." ”

"What could that be?" Guan Yang was a little scared and nervous, "Cannibalism?" ”

Xiao Jing looked at him: "Don't panic, as long as we stay together, there shouldn't be too much of a problem." ”

"I knew that after so many years in this place, those who lost their traces must have died." Guan Yang started again, "The creeper on our tent that day, and the thing that stung the tent into holes, may make us lose our lives!" ”

"What if you lose your life?" Guo Enming looked at him, "Isn't our life here?" ”

Guan Yang looked at him and was speechless.

"Alright." Xiao Jing interrupted them, "Now is not the time to argue. ”

"Anyway, at least now Xiao Jing is back safe and sound." Shi Wei said, "Don't think about these things so pessimistically, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, maybe we can go back safe and sound?" ”

Cao Xi listened to their words, but his eyes drifted to Mo Mo, who was seriously ill. From time to time, I was worried that even if they really had any special background or identity, would the injured Mo Mo be able to go back unharmed?

"Cao Xi." Shi Wei approached her and patted her on the shoulder, "Don't think about it, let's rest first." Let's see if the fog clears tomorrow. ”

Shi Wei turned to everyone: "We have to leave tomorrow, we have to hurry up and get out of here, since Xiao Jing has found a way out, we should be able to reach our destination immediately." ”

"I hope so."

Cao Xi has changed his previous curiosity, leaving only the unknown and dazed.