Chapter 46: Blackening
After taking a bath, An Yi wrapped herself in a thick bathrobe, wiped her wet hair with a towel, and walked out of the bathroom to find that her husband was not in the living room and there was no one in the bedroom.
The door of the guest room is open, my sister has just moved out, the pillows and quilts on the bed are rolled up in a mess, and the items on the table are also placed in a mess, this dead girl is really not worrying.
She pushed the door open all the way and found her husband's back. He leaned close to the windowsill and silently stared at the tall ginkgo tree outside.
"What are you looking at?" she said curiously, and there was only darkness outside the window.
"Anyi, I'm tired of this life. Kaiming suddenly spoke, "I stand at the crossroads of life, to the left is the still boring life, to the right is the unknown new life. ”
An Yi was stunned, this sound very mysterious, and what worries people is that he seems to be making a major decision, "What kind of freshman?"
"An alienated life. He turned and looked at his wife with a strange look.
An Yi felt that her scalp was numb, and quickly looked for the pockets on her body, but it was too bad that it was not on her body.
When I just took a shower, I put it in my coat on a hanger.
She was about to turn around when she was pulled by her husband.
"I thought about it, where the hell is it? I can't find it at home, I don't have it in the yard, you can't just put such an important thing in one place, then I guess you must have it with you. As he spoke, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a small silver bottle.
The bottle really fell into his hand, and An Yi frowned, "Kaiming, what are you going to do?"
By the time she realized it was wrong, Cumming had already thrust the tip of the bottle into her arm, the gray mutant fluid spreading through her veins.
His eyes were bloodshot and glowing red, his skin was covered with dense scales, and his limbs were lengthening, alienating, and savagely tearing through his clothes.
"Anyi, I'm sorry, you forget me, from now on, live a good life without me. He said the last words to his wife, taking advantage of the fact that his voice was not completely lost, and the mutation caused the audio to mutate, sounding like an out-of-tune electronic music.
"No, stop. She stepped forward and grabbed his hand, feeling the temperature quickly drain away and finally turn into hard claws.
The claws were so sharp that Kaiming pushed her away for fear of hurting her.
An Yi turned around, and her husband had turned into a monster with a mouth full of fangs, and a pair of huge claws made it impossible for her to approach.
The monster opened its mouth and put the silver bottle in front of her, tilted its head back, squirmed in its throat, and swallowed the bottle in its stomach.
An Yi rushed up and pounded the metal body, "Why do you want to be so decided? Give him back to me." ”
The metal alien blinked a pair of red eyes, pushed away the tearful woman, and jumped out the window.
He fell down the old tree, ran down the dark and deserted street, shouted wantonly, and there was nothing to stop him, and he ran to the distance of freedom.
An Yi wiped away her tears and snuggled up to the window, the wind blew off the ginkgo leaves, the crickets were still chirping in the grass, and the tall back gradually disappeared into the night.
In the CIA's office, Lieutenant General Patch held a pipe in his mouth and stared at the blonde man across from him with blue eyes.
"Tell me, if your intelligence doesn't impress me, my men will send you to immigration, you have been smuggled from Egypt to the United States, if I am not mistaken, you must have done something dishonorable, you had better figure out your situation, Mr. George. Patch said as he puffed on a ball of smoke, not minding the miasma of the office.
George smiled, "Lieutenant General Patch, I'm here to provide information, and that's how you're hospitality?"
"The CIA is not a hotel, we only have prisoners and suspects in our eyes, never guests, Mr. George, you seem to have gone to the wrong place. ”
Seeing Patch pressing the call button on the phone, George hurriedly said, "Don't worry, after you hear the information about the metal aliens, you may change my opinion of me." ”
Patch's eyebrows twitched unconsciously, but he quickly suppressed the excitement in his heart, maybe this guy in front of him was a double agent, and he came to get information, "What metal inhuman? ”
George clasped his hands, raised his head and said to him: "Don't pretend, I saw the US military take it away in Egypt, and the CIA is well-informed, you can't be unaware." ”
Patch looked at the British Yankee's expression, and he had a lot of experience in interpreting faces, but he couldn't see the clue.
"You've been in contact with metal inhumans?"
George nodded, "Not only him, but I've also seen the Nile monster, which is taller than Xiaolou, a man-eating beetle the size of a palm, and is also being hunted down by mummies in the pyramid." ”
"Your experience sounds unbelievable. Patch said.
"I've been traveling all over the world all year round, and naturally I've had a lot of bizarre experiences that people can't get when they're in the office all day. ”
Patch was a little curious, "What are you travelers running around for all the time?"
"Everyone has different ideas and different goals, and I just want to find a place where I don't have any constraints. ”
"Mr. George was such a noble thinker. ”
George shrugged and replied, "You're wrong, I'm trying to find a place where I can do bad things without your hands and feet." ”
Patch rolled her eyes and immediately got to the point, "How much do you know about metal inhumans?"
"Did you know that he was originally a Chinese?"
"Now I know. ”
George smiled, "I once had a feud with this yellow-haired boy and almost killed him, but this guy didn't know what kind of magic he used, and he turned into a monster with scales all over his body. ”
"It's not easy for you to survive, but he has invincible strength. Patch tilted her head to look at him.
"I won't tell you that I squatted all night in an aboriginal hut to survive. George frowned and said, "Sooner or later, I'll have to settle accounts with him, and I know that he was captured in the United States, so I followed him all the way, but now that he is in China, you obviously screwed up." ”
Patch took a deep puff of his cigarette and exhaled it slowly, "As you said, we were going to lock him up for secret research, but he fled back to China, and he is often active on various TV channels, and he is very popular. ”
"I know who he is, and as long as I work with you, finding the metal Inhuman won't be a problem. George said.
Patch touched his chin, then reached out to the British: "Good cooperation." ”
George didn't hold it, "I have a condition, you tell me all about the research of metal inhumans." ”
The fox finally showed its tail, and see who had the last laugh, and you can fly alone?
Patch curled the corners of his mouth at a hidden angle, "No problem. ”
The hands of the two men clenched tightly in the air.
George is taken to the underground research institute where the metal Inhumans were held, and along the way, he listens to Patch talk about them, and finally learns about the metal Inhumans.
Isn't that what I have always longed for, no more wandering, no more searching, and with his ability, he can defy all rules and live without any constraints.
"This is our latest research. Patch pointed to a U-shaped test tube to explain, interrupting George's thoughts.
The glass tube contained a blood-red liquid, somewhat cloudy, with a large number of small bubbles attached.
"We took active cells from him and cultivated them in test tubes. ”
"You want to make another monster?" asked George.
Patch shook his head, "According to research, this kind of cell cannot remain, it can only mutate by invading normal cells, in short, you can make a normal person become a monster, but you can't create a monster out of thin air." ”
"I've seen him turn from a human to a monster of more than three meters in an instant, how did he do that?"
Patch showed him a zoomed-in picture of cells, compared to normal cells, the color of the abnormal cells on the left is much darker, "We found a metallic particle from the cell, the miraculous thing is that it has memory, it can flow unimpeded in the blood vessels, enter the bone marrow will make the bone quickly toughen, enter the skin will coagulate into small steel pieces like fish scales, it can slow down the cell division of humans, and more than double the lifespan." ”
"It's going to be against the sky. George stared at the picture for a long time and didn't understand it, but his eyes lit up when he heard that it would prolong life. He saw a rectangular glass box on the left, lined with five syringes containing the same liquid.
Patch led him to the box and said, "We did experiments on rats, where we injected alienated cells into them, and metal scales grew on the rats. ”
"You're saying that you can turn into a metal Inhuman by injecting these cells?" asked George.
"Theoretically true. Patch frowned, "But there's a fatal flaw, and this way is by replacing normal dead cells with mutant cells, but it takes seven years for all human cells to be renewed." ”
It's too bad, it's going to take seven years to complete the whole mutation process.
"We added a drug that causes the body's cells to die quickly, and the mutation process is completed in a minute, but this is counterproductive, which is equivalent to seven years of life consumed in one minute. Rats normally have a lifespan of two years, but die before they can complete their mutation. ”
George was stunned, God, I still have to fight with my life.
At this point, Patch is called to the other side by a researcher, leaving George alone.
George stared at the syringe in the glass case, and his mind calculated, he was only twenty-nine years old today, he didn't smoke, he didn't drink, he should live to be a hundred years old, minus seven of the remaining seventy years, there were also more than sixty years, and if he turned into a metal Inhuman and doubled the rest of his life, he would live for a hundred years!
Seven years for sixty years is worth it.
George looked back into the distance, where Patch was chatting with the researcher, and everyone around him was busy with their work.
This is a great opportunity.
His hand trembled as he reached for the glass box, which had a small door, and with a slight push, it opened.
Oh my God, it's not locked.