Shuixi Village is not far from Helong Town, and it happens to form a triangle with the location of the city. It's just that there is no direct route from the city to Shuixi Village, so Helong Town is the only way to go.

Luo Xin looked at the weather outside the window, it turned out that Cao Xi had been to Helong Town.

Judging from the document given by Wu Shan, in Shi Wei's adopter information, that person turned out to be the first batch of people to enter the polluted Shuixi Village to investigate. After that, only two of the members of their team came back, one was Shi Shaohua, and the other was Cao Qimin, Luo Xin's teacher - Cao Qimin.

At the beginning, he wanted Luo Xin to adopt Cao Xi, was there anything special about Cao Xi's identity?

It's just that Cao Xi is growing up day by day, and he is no different from ordinary people, and Luo Xin hasn't cared about it.

"Doctor Luo, Dr. Zhang is on duty." The nurse knocked on the door and said.

"Okay, thanks."

"And when are you coming back?" The nurse asked with concern.

"It's a week for now." Luo Xin smiled and replied, "I hope it can be as soon as possible." ”

"Okay." The nurse closed the door and left the office.

Luo Xin glanced at his watch, it was almost time to make an appointment with Professor Cao, pack up his things, and go to meet with him.

Due to his advanced age and limited mobility, Professor Cao has left the laboratory and returned home to recuperate.

When Luo Xin came to this old-fashioned villa under Qingtan Lake, the overgrown weeds at the door made people think that this was an abandoned small building.

Luo Xin rang the doorbell, and someone came to open the door for him, it was a girl in a nurse's uniform, about twenty-five years old, very clean and fresh, with a gentle smile on her face.

"Hello, Mr. Luo." She greeted Luo Xin, as if she had known each other for a long time, "Mr. Cao is waiting for you, please come with me." ”

Walking into Professor Cao's home, the inside is completely different from the outside, clean and tidy, spotless, and it seems that someone has cleaned it up quite well. As the nurse walked from the hall to the study, there was a south-facing room facing the mountain in the distance, and Cheongdam Lake could be seen like a jade-colored belt dividing the mountain and the ground under the sky.

Professor Cao is now lying in front of the floor-to-ceiling window facing the landscape, his wheelchair covered with a woven blanket, and his face is serenely admiring the scenery in front of him.

"Hello Professor Cao." Luo Xin walked over and greeted Professor Cao.

Professor Cao just glanced at him slowly, then smiled and said, "Luo Xin, you're here." ”

"Hmm."

The nurse brought a chair for Luo Xin, invited him to sit down, then closed the door and exited the room.

Luo Xin just looked at her curiously, but she didn't expect Professor Cao to notice it.

"You're here at the right time, I just came back from GL Hospital last week." Professor Cao said, "Now that hospitals have smart nursing, I applied for one to come back." ”

"Smart care?" Luo Xin sat down beside him.

"Yes." Professor Cao replied, "It's the nurse you saw, she's a robot." ”

Luo Xin was slightly surprised, but it was not too unusual, after all, the development of the city was already very fast.

"However, in the first experiments, I was the first to eat crabs." Professor Cao laughed as he spoke, "The first person who dared to take the experiment home." ”

Luo Xin responded to him, nodding and smiling.

"How did you come up with the idea of Round Long? Wouldn't it be more convenient to have care in the hospital? ”

Professor Cao looked ahead, in a dense forest, and birds passed by from time to time: "In the city, can you still see such a scene?" ”

Luo Xin understood.

"I feel that my time is running out, and being able to live here with the mountains and water, the earth and the soil is also a way to return to nature." Professor Cao's tone revealed a trace of regret, but he turned his head and glanced at Luo Xin, still smiling knowingly, "In my lifetime, it is still happy to see the results of the experiment." ”

Luo Xin took a deep breath: "Professor Cao, I came today because I want to consult about something. ”

"Well, you say."

"Did you enter Shuixi Village thirty years ago?"

As soon as Luo Xin asked a question, he noticed the change in Professor Cao's face, he hesitated for a moment and nodded.

"Where is what?" Luo Xin continued to ask, "Why didn't you let me continue to investigate when Ma Hui brought up Shuixi Village before, is it because something happened there?" ”

Professor Cao continued to look out the window, his expression solemn. He breathed slowly, adjusting his mood.

"How did you come up with the idea to ask me this?"

"Because ......" Luo Xin didn't want to hide it, if he mentioned her, Professor Cao should also confess, "Cao Xi went to Shuixi Village. ”

"Huh?" Professor Cao was startled, and grabbed the handle of the wheelchair with both hands, trying to stand up. But I don't have enough strength to support myself. The otherwise calm breathing began to rapid.

"When?" He asked pretending to be calm.

"It's been almost four days......"

"Four days?" Professor Cao took a deep breath, "Who did she go with?" ”

"People in college." Luo Xin replied while observing Professor Cao's expression, "Shi Wei, do you know? ”

"Shi Wei?" Professor Cao thought about it carefully, "Shi ......" He suddenly realized something, his eyes widened, and then he lowered his eyes again and sighed.

"Professor Cao?" Luo Xin asked softly, "Are you okay?" ”

Professor Cao replied slowly: "I'm fine, I just remembered a lot of the past......"

He raised his eyes and continued to look out the window, the Qingtan Lake in the dense forest was as calm as a mirror, reflecting the gray sky. You can't see the sun here, and if the sun does, it will rain later, so it's better to keep the haze and get used to it.

"If Cao Xi had been adopted by you, maybe there wouldn't be what she is today......" he muttered, "Someone would have found her at last." ”

"Who?" Luo Xin asked.

"Shuixi Village was abandoned at the beginning of the construction of the laboratory." Professor Cao said slowly, "My mentor and tech company personnel conducted secret experiments there. ”

Luo Xin listened.

"However, in the years of their experiments, I don't know whether their experiments were a failure or a success, and by the time we received the distress message, it was many years late." Professor Cao just grabbed the hand of the wheelchair and slowly relaxed, "We are a group of eight people, ready to go to the laboratory to find them, the goal at that time was to save people, but I didn't expect more people to die here, only me and Shi Shaohua were left." ”

Professor Cao added: "He should be Shi Wei's caregiver." ”

"And where is he now?"

"As far as I know, he passed away a few years ago...... Maybe that's why Shi Wei found Cao Xi to go to Shuixi Village together. ”

"Professor Cao." Luo Xin couldn't bear it a little, "I know it's a bit presumptuous for me to ask this, but I really want to know, what is Shuixi Village like?" What was the lab doing? ”

Professor Cao turned his face sideways and looked at him, he could understand his feelings, the name Shuixi Village had been pestering him for a long time, starting from entering the hospital and contacting Ma Hui.

"Shuixi Village, in the past, should have been just an ordinary village, when there were still people living in the village, there was an earthquake one day, and then the names of the villages there were moved away and became an abandoned village."

"After a long period of time, I said that someone there detected a change in the magnetic field there, and then the technicians from Choose went into the village with our biology supervisor at our university and did the research," Professor Cao recalled. ”

"What was studied?"

"No one knows exactly what they were doing, but I heard that they were taking test subjects with them at the time, and it wasn't until we got a distress signal and entered the lab that we found out about their research project......"

"What is it?"

"It's people." Professor Cao took a deep breath, his words trembling a little, "They want to create a perfect person. ”

"Perfect man?" Luo Xin couldn't sit still, "What is perfection?" ”

Professor Cao sighed meaningfully again: "This is not a result that we can find out immediately, it must be verified by growth and time to get the result. ”

"Then what does this have to do with Shi Wei and Cao Xi?"

Shi Wei ...... It should be the unfinished experiment that Shi Shaohua brought back from the laboratory at that time......"

"What?" Luo Xin rubbed and stood up from his chair, "Experiment? ”

Professor Cao shook his head helplessly: "It's not just one, we took five ...... together"

"Five?" Luo Xin calculated in his heart that the students who took Cao Xi to Shuixi Village were exactly five people...... Is it a coincidence?

"That'...... Cao Xi too? Luo Xin asked.

"No, she's not." Professor Cao replied, "She was the second update operation we carried out in the laboratory through the legacy data, and wanted to replicate their experimental results, thus giving birth to Cao Xi ......."

Luo Xin felt that he had broken out in a cold sweat, and he felt a faint chill on his back.

"So, she has 'Stream' in her name."

"And after that?"

"Cao Xi is destined to be different, and the serum extracted from her blood has also made our experiment." Professor Cao looked at Luo Xin, "I let you inject the serum for a reason. ”

Luo Xin's eyes widened and looked at Professor Cao, he should be full of emotion and unable to tell at this moment, and finally he can be completely released at this moment. So, when he said this, he unexpectedly relaxed.

"The serum has fused particularly successfully in you, and I hope you can have enough time and energy to take care of Cao Xi and protect Cao Xi."

Luo Xin sat on the seat, but he was uncomfortable.

"Then why didn't you tell me this before?"

"Ma Hui's matter is also an accident." Professor Cao turned around and continued to look out the window, "So, I'm not going to tell you, I just hope you don't go to Shuixi Village." In case something happens to you, there will be no one to take care of Cao Xi for me. ”

"But I have to go there now, I'm going to get Cao Xi back." Luo Xin said.

"Yes." He nodded, "But I can't help you anything, it's been more than twenty years, and who knows what the hell has changed there." ”

"That'...... What to do? ”

At this moment, there was a neat knock at the door, and three fell down, interrupting their conversation.

The nurse opened the door, smiled and said, "Mr. Cao, you need medicine." ”

Professor Cao made a known gesture, then approached Luo Xin and said to him seriously and seriously, "You have dealt with the Choose company before, right?" ”

Luo Xin nodded.

"Don't reveal it to Choose, you're going to Shuixi Village." "But you need robots to protect you," he said. ”

Luo Xin hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "I understand." ”

……

"I don't understand, what you're talking about." Cao Xi's eyes were in a trance, but almost everyone in front of him was firm.

"Cao Xi." Shi Wei's eyes seemed to be able to penetrate her body and see her clearly, "We are already here, and many mysteries will be revealed." ”

"Then you came here, and you have something to do with me?" Cao Xi was excited, grabbed Shi Wei's hand, touched the bracelet on her wrist, and her eyes shifted to the bracelet.

Shi Wei withdrew her hand and gently moved the bracelet into her sleeve.

"It's not that it's about you, it's that we all have something to do with here." Guo Enming stepped forward, "We all want to know the reason for all the secrets. ”

"What do you mean?" Cao Xi was even more confused, "You also don't know anything?" ”

"We're here to find answers." Guan Yang shrugged his shoulders.

Cao Xi opened the notebook, the characters on it dazzled her, she didn't understand what they were at all, what were these things recorded?

"Don't look at it." Shi Wei closed it gently, "You can't understand it, you will understand these data when we find the laboratory." ”

The "clang" broke the silence of the night, and the flashlight slipped from its original position without knowing what it was, and the halo made several circles around the front.

A black shadow flashed in the halo, causing Cao Xi to drop his notebook to the ground.

"What's that?"

Everyone saw it, but they didn't see what it was.

Guo Enming picked up the flashlight that rolled down and put it back in its original position, but suddenly found that the sleeping Momo began to convulse.

He hurried over to check on Momo's condition, and it seemed that something was wrong.

Cao Xi picked up the flashlight on the ground, shone on Momo's pale face, opened her eyelids, and under the illumination of the light, her pupils were no longer reacting.

"She's going to die!" Cao Xi became nervous, "Hurry up and go back!" ”

But compared to her nervousness, everyone was indifferent to her advice, although Guo Enming had always been worried about Momo's body, but he never mentioned leaving early.

"Do you really want to answer the mystery here, do you really not care about a human life?" Cao Xi asked.

But no one answered her.

She ran out the door, trying to find a way to go, but she couldn't see anything in the fog, and Black was even more frightened.

"Shi Wei, are you really not afraid?" Before she could finish speaking, she only felt something behind her violently clasped up, something covering her mouth from behind, such a cold hand, which made her even more frightened, so tight, so hard, she couldn't make any sound, she couldn't shout......