"These things are just more people like you?" Cao Xi looked at these containers and arranged them neatly in the incubator, "Am I one of them?" ”

"You?" Shi Wei looked at her, "You won't be." ”

"Am I not?" Cao Xi was even more puzzled, "Then didn't you say that this place has something to do with me?" ”

Shi Wei flipped through the notebook, and among the data recorded on it, there were five different data clearly listed. She pointed to Cao Xi and said, "There are five different data here, recording the growth curve, which should correspond to a few of us." ”

"And how did you find me?" Cao Xi asked, "Since I don't exist in this notebook, why are you looking for me?" ”

Shi Wei glanced at Xiao Jing, and then looked at her seriously: "Because of your adopter, Professor Cao Qimin." ”

"Cao? Professor Cao? Cao Xi tried hard to recall this person in his mind, but he was even more confused, "I've never seen him before!" ”

"But you know, he's your adopter."

"So what does it matter?"

"He and my grandfather, no, my adopter Shi Shaohua, were the first explorers to enter here, and the only two people who escaped."

Cao Xi heard Shi Wei say this, her brain kept buzzing, and she felt that the whole person was confused.

"You...... Didn't you say before that you didn't know who the other person was? ”

"Yes." Shi Wei's eyes flickered, "I'm sorry, because I'm afraid that I told you at the beginning that the purpose was too obvious." ”

Cao Xi froze in place, looking at Shi Wei, and Xiao Jing, who was silent on the side: "You...... Did you know that too? ”

Xiao Jing finally looked at her: "Yes, we all know it." ”

Cao Xi suddenly felt that the atmosphere here was getting stranger and stranger, thinking that he was very familiar with Shi Wei, how did the days when he talked about everything become a trap?

"I don't know...... I don't understand......" Cao Xi shook his head, unable to believe it.

"Cao Xi." Shi Wei called her and told her to calm down, "We were all brought back to the Choose company and cultivated in the laboratory, but Cao Qimin did not return to the company. Twenty years later, you became his adopted daughter, there must be a reason for your existence. ”

"You ......" Cao Xi's mind was confused, "Didn't you say there were only five embryos?" So where did I come from? ”

"That's right! That's the problem. Shi Wei looked at Cao Xi's trance-like eyes seriously, "Think about those dreams of yours, those familiar dreams, and here, is there really anything similar?" ”

Cao Xi looked at her blankly, letting her gaze slowly shift to the entire unfamiliar laboratory, she explored it carefully, and returned to Shi Wei's expression expecting answers.

"No, I can't remember what is here...... It's the ...... I've ever seen."

"Shi Wei." Xiao Jing stepped forward and pulled Shi Wei away a little, and Cao Xi felt a little more relaxed.

"Shi Wei, maybe your judgment is wrong?"

"You can't be wrong." Shi Wei was very sure, "According to all my inferences, there must be some secret in Cao Xi, and Cao Qimin must have some purpose in protecting her so well." ”

"Have you ever thought that your grandfather may not be the first to receive a distress signal?" Cao Xi suddenly opened his mouth and asked Shi Wei, "Maybe someone came here before and took away the embryo?" ”

Shi Wei looked at Cao Xi, thinking about her words, and then turned to face the whiteboard and the half-erased board......

Cao Xi took Shi Wei's notebook, flipped through it, and replied seriously: "The data recorded on this has several formulas that match the whiteboard, that is, your grandfather has tried many times to uncover this string of passwords." But he wrote a lot and tried a lot, didn't he? ”

Shi Wei glanced at it silently, it was true.

"If the data on the whiteboard at that time is complete, then your grandfather only needs to record it and go back to the experiment, and he should be able to complete it according to this string of data."

Although Cao Xi's words are very reasonable, after thinking about it, new doubts appeared.

Shi Wei looked at Xiao Jing and said, "Have you ever thought that we are also embryos that have been copied or re-cultured?" ”

Xiao Jing was stunned for a moment, then nodded slightly.

Shi Wei returned to Cao Xi's side: "Maybe I was really wrong, or maybe they lied to us from the beginning, they shouldn't just bring five embryos back, there should be more, so that they can repeat the experiment." ”

Cao Xi didn't know that his words would bring up bigger problems.

"Perhaps, someone has entered here before, or maybe the so-called explorers who entered here later are all pretenses, all of them are here to take away the embryos...... But there are more and more people who fail......" Shi Wei guessed, "That's why the company asked us to come here......"

"Company?" Cao Xi asked in surprise, "Did the company ask you to come?" ”

Shi Wei could only sneer helplessly: "Our lives are not our own, they belong to the laboratory and to Choose Technology." This time, we infiltrated here to find a living body for them, and we were also ready to die. ”

"Alive?"

"Yes, let's see if we can find any of the useful embryos that can survive for so many years."

"But......" Cao Xi looked back at the incubator, "these are all dead." ”

"Yes." Shi Wei replied, "After such a long delay, death is naturally normal. After saying that, she breathed a sigh of relief: "Perhaps, death is the best result for them." ”

Looking at Shi Wei's distracted gaze, Cao Xi put away the anger of being deceived before and returned to full of doubts.

"Then why pull me?"

"You are different, since Professor Cao is bent on protecting you, then he must be reluctant to bury you here, if he takes you, he will definitely find someone to save you."

"And then take you out together?"

"Yes." Shi Wei pursed her lips and lowered her eyes, "Please forgive me for having such selfish thoughts." ”

Cao Xi couldn't tell his emotions at the moment, how to express them. Seeing that Shi Wei was in a trance and lost at the moment, even though she had a lot of doubts, in the dark, her compassion made her hateful.

At this moment, she just instinctively realized that things were not so simple.

"Then, you should try to kill me." Cao Xi's sudden composure.

"Why?" Shi Wei and Xiao Jing were suddenly surprised.

"You said that when you are severely injured or sick, you will split and rebuild into another healthy body, and if I have been reformed like you, I will definitely do too."

Shi Wei looked at her, a little incredulous, but hesitated.

"I'd love to try, but I'm afraid of what if."

"It's okay." Cao Xi calmly took Shi Wei's hand, "If I hadn't split after the heavy injury, maybe I would have been able to hold out until the last breath of my return." ”

"It's too risky." Shi Wei let go of her hand and turned her back to her, "You know, I'm also conflicted now, I hope that you are also one of us and can look for results together, I also hope that you are not, you are just an ordinary person......"

"But didn't the company let you come to find a living body?" Cao Xi suddenly reminded her, "You want me to take you back, then you must have other plans, right?" ”

"Me?" Shi Wei turned around, unable to believe that Cao Xi knew better than her at the moment, and was even more determined.

"Yes." Now, Shi Wei doesn't plan to hide it anymore, "We came here to find an antidote that can become a normal person and crack our genes." ”

"How do you break it?" Cao Xi held Shi Wei's shoulder, "Since I'm already here, being a partner with you can at least make me understand better, right?" ”

"Cao Xi ......" Shi Wei's eyes flickered, maybe she should be glad that she was half right.

"Bang!"

Just as they were talking, a loud voice interrupted them.

"What sound?" Shi Wei hurriedly hugged Cao Xi.

Xiao Jing walked outside the laboratory, at the top of the stairs, and carefully poked his head out, but did not see any movement.

He looked back and shook his head at them, not knowing what it was.

"Bang bang!" Then two more sounds, swirling around the empty staircase, seemed to strike on their hearts.

"Shall I take a look?" Shi Wei asked.

"No, I'll go." Xiao Jing stretched out his hand, "Your feet are inconvenient, I'll come." ”

So Xiao Jing tiptoed to go downstairs to check what was going on.

"Bang!" That voice, coming again, should have come from the first floor, but it was caught off guard, making Cao Xi tremble and knock over a bottle of liquid on the table.

Cao Xi hurriedly retracted his hand and shook off the water trail on his hand: "What kind of solution is this, are you okay?" ”

Shi Wei used the corner of her clothes to help her dry her hands: "It's okay, don't worry, it's not sulfuric acid." ”

So she carefully uncovered the band-aid on Cao Xi's finger: "This one is wet, let's change it to a dry one." But when she showed her fingers, she found that there were no scratches on Cao Xi's fingers, and she checked them several times, but there were indeed no traces.

"Are you sure it's this finger?" Shi Wei asked.

"yes." Cao Xi was also puzzled, "It just bleeds, and it heals so quickly?" ”

Shi Wei put down her hand and smiled: "Maybe the wound is not deep, so we can't see it." ”

"Okay." Cao Xi took his finger.

The two waited for Xiao Jing in the laboratory, looking out of the glass window of the laboratory, just a world of black, white and gray.

The fog is gradually lifting, revealing the original appearance of the village, and the vegetation has crawled all over the bricks and tiles of the village, pressing on them, and there is a possibility of collapse at any time.

"What kind of village is this?" Cao Xi muttered, "Is it really an uninhabited village?" ”

"Nobody, not necessarily." Shi Wei replied behind her, and she was only guessing, "It's just that more than fifty years have passed, and the traces of people will soon be erased." ”

"That'...... What about those who have been here? Cao Xi asked, "Will their traces be erased so quickly?" ”

"No, do you remember what Xiao Jing brought back?" Shi Wei said, Cao Xi turned his head and looked at her.

"I remember."

"They're probably already one with the land here." Shi Wei said silently, "Everything that grows vigorously here may be returned to them by humans." ”

Cao Xi pursed her chapped lips and turned her gaze back to the window.

"Can we go back?"

……

The sky is getting darker, and it's time for night.

Two small orange lights light up on DL-03's body, on either side of his arm. This lamp is used for guidance, making it easy for the owner to observe from a safe distance.

They walked straight along the moss-covered road of the village, which looked a little slippery because Luo Xin was not wearing professional outdoor shoes.

"Mr. Luo, do you need me to help you?" It asked.

"No, you can just look for it, I can." Luo Xin thought that he could persevere, but it was really hard for him to walk like this, and he just wanted to rest against the wall for a while, when DL-03 immediately pulled back his hand and held his arm.

"What's wrong?" Luo Xin was a little surprised by it like this.

"Mr. Luo, these plants grow a little fast, especially at night, I'm afraid they will entangle you."

"How so!" Luo Xin just wanted to laugh, when Ma Hui's face suddenly appeared in his mind, telling him that those plants would eat people......

As soon as he touched the creeper's hand, he felt a trembling sensation, and the whole person couldn't help but feel weird with the constantly dark environment.

"Let's hurry up." Luo Xin said, "Can you now scan if there is heat nearby?" ”

DL-03 paused for a moment, then responded, "Not really. ”

Luo Xin was slightly disappointed: "It's okay, let's move on." ”

"Okay, Mr. Luo."

In this wilderness mountain village at night, Luo Xin had not eaten or eaten for nearly a day, but he did not feel any discomfort. However, the robot in front of him has a signal that has been reminding it in its mind for a long time - "Please locate it online as soon as possible." "It's just because of Luo Xin's order that this signal can't be updated and can't be eliminated.

DL-03 just walked forward, unable to locate it, and its direction was only forward, backward, left, right, and right.

"Are you going to get lost?" Luo Xin asked behind it.

"Mr. Luo, so you don't allow me to position, but I still have the general direction of walking." It replied, "If one path doesn't work, I can take you back to the original path and go in the other direction." ”

As soon as they finished speaking, they came across a wall, which was blocked in front of them in black.

"No way?" Luo Xin was wondering why DL-03 didn't leave, but there was still a path on his right side.

"Why don't you leave?"

DL-03 remained motionless and did not respond to him.

"Is there no power?" Luo Xin touched it suspiciously, "Hey? ”

"Mr. Luo." It spoke abruptly again, but in a noticeably lower voice, "There's something up ahead." ”

"What?" Luo Xin stared at the dark path ahead, "What's the matter?" ”

"There's a ...... or a group of ...... That's a lot ......"

"What is it?"

"They're changing......"

"Change?" Luo Xin's back was faintly cold, but his eyes couldn't leave the end of the dark path, what was it?

"Here they are......"