At that time, no one knew how far the research had been.

Rushing into this place is just because their lives are not worth it, they are the product of a laboratory, which can be used as a tool or as a commodity.

They can be repeated, they can be used continuously, and nature can be sacrificed.

The black shadow stopped in front of them, and for the first time they could see him in the faint light...... Are those black vines wrapped around him a camouflage, a cover? Under the long hair, a pair of piercing eyes seem to be able to perceive subtle changes.

"Who are you?" Shi Wei asked.

But he stretched out a finger and gently put it to his lips: "Shhhh

They watched him with bated breath, only to see a familiar figure suddenly staggering to the other end of the path behind him......

Guo Enming?

Shi Wei just opened her mouth and wanted to call him, but the black shadow repeated his action again: "Shhhhhh

He took a step closer, as if using his body as cover for them. Through the black leaves on his shoulders, they could still see Guo Enming walking slowly, but there was an indescribable strange feeling in him. The earthy face, the glazed gaze, and the weakness of the drooping arms, his slightly open mouth seemed to make some strange noise, and his actions had no purpose......

He became a walking corpse.

How so?

Cao Xi and Shi Wei invariably asked questions. However, fortunately, the black shadow helped block them, so that Guo Enming did not notice them. After he left, the dark shadow took a few steps back and kept his distance from them.

"Who are you?" Shi Wei continued to ask, "You are not trying to attack us in the fog, but to remind us, right?" ”

The shadow man didn't reply.

"You threw that rock, right?" Shi Wei continued to ask, "You want us to leave there, what is there?" ”

However, he still did not answer, and turned around and sped into the next path.

Shi Wei's movements couldn't be agile, and as soon as she got up a few steps, she felt pain, and she seized the opportunity to come to the side of the path, and she couldn't explore his traces anymore.

Shi Wei looked at Cao Xi beside her, now, she could only give up pursuing any doubts, they had to go to the entrance of the village and find their way back.

Finally, under the constantly lit sky, they saw the towering trees, still stationed at the entrance of the village like guards.

Faced with the grass in front of them and the danger that would be in the water, they had to stop.

"What should I do?" Cao Xi was a little helpless, could Shi Wei, who was injured, survive without being attacked by the locusts?

"Don't worry about me." Shi Wei leaned hard under the big tree and looked at Cao Xi's anxious face, "You know what? I've always protected myself and I don't want to go through a split. Shi Wei's hands were on Cao Xi's thin shoulders, "I don't know if the person who split out is not me." ”

"Is there any way to do that?" Cao Xi looked at her, but there was despair in his eyes.

"There's no way." Shi Wei's eyes were as firm as ever, and she never hesitated about anything, "I thought that finding you would solve all the problems, but I didn't expect that the result was even more confused." ”

Cao Xi looked at her, and the overwhelm at this moment began to be afraid, and all the doubts poured out at this moment: What is herself?

"I ...... Am I human? ”

"Yes, you are human."

"But I'm not quite, am I?" Cao Xi's eyes couldn't help but turn red, his breathing was short, he was nervous and scared.

"Perhaps, you are just closer to perfection than us, but ......" Shi Wei stopped talking, and for a moment of trance in her eyes, she approached another figure from the end of the path blocked by the house.

"Who?" Shi Wei shouted.

The person paused when he heard her voice, then suddenly quickened his pace, and when he heard the sound of hurried footsteps, Cao Xi quickly stood up and really saw who the person who came.

"Uncle?"

"Cao Xi!"

It's Luo Xin!

All the loss and sadness before Cao Xi poured out at once, and he threw himself into Luo Xin's arms, crying loudly.

Luo Xin was suddenly surprised by Cao Xi's actions, but he still stroked her head gently, and the worries of these days were finally lifted. In front of her, another strange girl had a sense of déjà vu.

"You are? Shi Wei? He asked.

"Yes." Shi Wei nodded, her calm eyes were also scanning Luo Xin, such a first meeting was not unexpected.

Cao Xi wiped his tears, walked out of Luo Xin's arms, faced the road ahead, and became worried again: "Uncle, how did you get here?" ”

"I found this place through the last location of your phone." Luo Xin replied, "I also have a robot to help me get in here." ”

"Robots?" Shi Wei frowned, "Choose's company? ”

"Yes."

"No, Cao Xi!" Shi Wei grabbed Cao Xi's hand, "If it calls the police, the people from the company will find this place soon, and your situation will be in danger!" ”

Luo Xin walked up to her: "Don't worry, I turned off its positioning and networking functions." ”

Shi Wei glanced at Luo Xin and laughed: "I don't think you have ever gotten along with robots, right?" ”

Luo Xin looked at her suspiciously: "What do you say?" ”

"It doesn't matter if it's located or not, or it's connected to the Internet, when it has the last warning, the alarm system will be triggered."

"I know this, so we must go back now and find it." Luo Xin replied.

"You can go, but Cao Xi can't." Shi Wei pulled Cao Xi away.

"Why?" Luo Xin didn't understand, "I'm here to take you back, without its help, how can you get out of here safely?" ”

Cao Xi's hand grabbed Shi Wei, wanting her to listen to Luo Xin's words.

However, Shi Wei still refused: "Don't you know that the robot's eyes are a camera?" He will record your every move and the surroundings, as long as Cao Xi is in its visual range, it can record Cao Xi's facial features, and then upload the data, and soon, the Choose company will find her. ”

Hearing this, Luo Xin suddenly understood something: "You know Cao Xi's identity, you brought her here on purpose, right?" ”

"Yes." Shi Wei replied.

"Why?" Luo Xin looked around them, "How many of you still have them?" ”

Cao Xi glanced at Shi Wei worriedly, and Shi Wei replied calmly: "It's all dead." ”

"What happened?"

Shi Wei lowered her head and was silent for a while, she was thinking, and she was also making a decision for herself, finally, she raised her eyes, and the look was unwavering.

"How much time will the alarm be triggered?"

Luo Xin was stunned for a moment, then raised his hand and looked at his watch: "There are still twenty hours." ”

"Twenty?" Shi Wei shook her head, "No, it's only eight hours." ”

"How is there twelve hours missing?"

"If it doesn't have enough time until the rescue team comes, it's just a pile of scrap metal, and it has to leave enough time for itself to save itself, so it tells you 24 hours, but it will keep at least half of the time to save itself."

"How do you know?" Luo Xin still didn't trust her enough, but he could only believe her words for the time being.

"I'm from Choose." Shi Wei replied.

"And what are you going to do?"

"Let's use this time to get out of here quickly, is eight hours enough to get out of here and return to Helong Town?" Shi Wei asked Luo Xin.

"It should work." Luo Xin replied, "My car is parked right where I came in. ”

"That's good." Shi Wei faced Cao Xi, "Don't worry, you can trust me in what I'm doing now." ”

"Hmm." Cao Xi nodded silently.

"Mr. Luo, I know you have doubts about my identity, but as long as we can get out of here safely, I will tell you everything." Shi Wei looked at Luo Xin, sincere and true.

Luo Xin glanced at Cao Xi and seemed to trust her very much.

"Okay." He replied, "And how are you going to get there?" ”

Shi Wei walked to the front of the house, pulled down a vine hard, wrapped it around her legs, and pressed her pants tightly against her skin.

"I can only try it like this, and fight for it."

The three of them tore down many vines at the same time, wrapped their legs around them, and when they were sure that there were no gaps, they prepared to take a splash of water to reach the opposite side.

Just as they stepped into the water, there was a creepy creak from the quiet surroundings, a sound familiar to them, like the iron door in front of the laboratory being pushed open again......

"Let's go!" Shi Wei reminded.

"Let's walk side by side, not front and back." Luo Xin also reminded.

The three of them stepped over the muddy pond and climbed onto the opposite stone path.

They untied the vines from their bodies, and fortunately, nothing else was attached to their legs except that they were soaking wet. After a long sigh of relief, I looked at the village on that side, which was already more secluded than it had been a week earlier, and the plants were more tightly covered, as if they were about to swallow them.

Finally, they fled all the way to the highway in embarrassment, and at the last moment, they finally got into Luo Xin's car.

"Are you sure you'll be fine?" Luo Xin looked through the rearview mirror and asked Shi Wei.

"It's not surprising to die here, just let it think we're all dead, and if the rescue team can't find us, it will give up." Shi Wei said.

"Then your company won't come to you?"

"Yes, but at least we can guarantee that Cao Xi is safe."

Luo Xin started the car and began to drive towards the nearest town, Helong.

Cao Xi leaned on Shi Wei's shoulder, there was nothing to say, only he felt tired, and he wanted to sleep like this.

"What did you find here?" Luo Xin asked as he drove.

"What do you want to know?" Shi Wei asked rhetorically.

Luo Xin sighed: "I want to know, the secret of Shuixi Village. ”

"I'm the secret here." Shi Wei's eyes met him in the rearview mirror, "However, this secret is no longer a secret." ”

"What else?"

"Here, as long as I've met two different types of survivors, I don't know if they're test subjects or mutants. There may be another category that we haven't met, but that already exists. They hide in the shadows, and they walk secretly. No one saw them clearly. Shi Wei looked out the window and walked away into the woods, "Then, these three categories can be completely expanded, maybe there is a fourth, fifth, or even countless categories." ”

"You're saying you're one of the known kinds, and even many more?"

"Yes."

Luo Xin's hand holding the steering wheel was already sweating: "Could there be a certain kind of people who are looking for a host, crazy people, thinking that they are going to eat them, but in fact, they should want to enter their bodies and maintain their sustainable life?" ”

Shi Wei slowly approached him from the back seat: "How did you think of that?" ”

Luo Xin took a breath: "I once had a patient who suffered a similar situation here. ”

Shi Wei leaned back in her chair: "Where is he now?" ”

"He was paralyzed and taken back to the hospital in the city."

"Really?" Shi Wei's tone was skeptical, "The company will not miss any opportunity to dig up all kinds of secrets, you are a very dangerous patient." ”

"Dangerous?" Luo Xin disagreed, "He's already like this, who will do anything to him?" ”

"Huh." Shi Wei sneered, "I hope." As long as it's useful information, the company always has a way to get the dead to speak, let alone a vegetative person. ”

Luo Xin was silent and did not intend to answer. Because before that, he himself had never thought about such a complicated thing.

"I worked with Choose for a while," he says. He silently said that he had to be honest about this, "I was a doctor at GL Hospital at the time. ”

"Have you ever been in the company?" Shi Wei asked.

"Been there a few times." He said, "Dormant Project." ”

"You've been asleep?"

"Nope." Luo Xin continued, "I'm just looking for a suitable candidate for this experimental plan. ”

"Have you done anything wrong because of this?"

"Why do you ask?" Luo Xin looked at her.

"Since you're leaving, you must have done something wrong." Shi Wei's tone was not polite, "The company is not a family of goodness. ”

Luo Xin shook his head: "I don't have much to do with the company, that's all." Later, I went back to Helong Town with Professor Cao to conduct the next experiment. ”

"Is it related to Cao Xi?" Shi Wei asked.

Luo Xin glanced at her, and Cao Xi beside her had been quiet beside her for a long time, as if he had fallen asleep.

He didn't answer directly.

"Then will you take us to Professor Cao?" Shi Wei continued to ask.

On the rear seat, Shi Wei always hugged Cao Xi and gave her the most stable posture.

"Yes." He replied.

Cao Xi was just drowsy, she could still hear their conversation, and she could feel Shi Wei's arms already wrapped around her tightly. However, it was obviously a warm embrace, but she felt extremely cold, and there was a kind of coldness that began to slowly penetrate from her cervical vertebrae, and spread all over her body with blood.

"Shi Wei ......," she murmured, and fell into a dream.

In the dream, the deserted city is dead silent. An old tree in front of her was like a huge black hand stretching out of the earth, stretching out in front of her eyes, stretching out its fingers to bind her, pulling her into the land, falling layer by layer, until the darkness swallowed her......