Chapter 13: The Troubles of the Travelers

Four days later, in front of a store in the Iscopy district of Auglam, Zhou Wu, wearing a peaked cap, calmly walked out of a supermarket with what he had bought. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info a lot of daily necessities. Picking up the bag and counting the receipts in his hand, after confirming that it was correct, he walked out along the open door of the supermarket.

The black security guard standing at the door just glanced at the guy twice, and his skin color didn't cause much reaction from the other party. This is a mixed Chinese and white living area, and it is not uncommon for yellow people to visit supermarkets.

Outside, walking five hundred meters along the sidewalk on the side of the road, he stood in front of a house that was large but looked no different from the buildings on either side. Fumbling with the key from his pocket, he opened the door and walked in.

"I'm back." Putting things and keys on the table in the living room, Zhou Wu looked at the various glass or metal instruments scattered around the house. It's a little dark and messy, but it doesn't mean to tidy up.

It's just that I stepped over these scattered parts without the slightest regularity, and turned down the fire on the kitchen stove to make porridge.

At this moment, there was a sound of something breaking in the garage next door.

Zhou Wu didn't speak, just opened the door from the entrance of the living room to the garage next to him and walked in. What catches the eye is not the dimness of ordinary garages, but the white light and rows of randomly placed experimental test tubes with reagents of various colors.

It's kind of like the kind of laboratory feel in a lab base.

Zhou Wu watched, his footsteps followed his eyes, and occasionally the experimental equipment placed on the side that was somewhat similar to his own world attracted his attention.

"Jingle bells." The sound of things falling came from a corner of the garage, and he looked in that direction, and finally found the real owner of the place, Vivian Jones, in a pile of reagents. The little girl, dressed in a large white overalls, was methodically dropping a drop of liquid onto a glass slide in her little hand to check the reaction.

"You're here." Xu knew that Zhou Wu was standing behind him, and Xiao Lori greeted calmly. But there was no intention of stopping.

The lilac drop of reagent that had dripped down created a wisp of green smoke on the red of the glass piece in her hand, and it messed up. She looked at it, and threw it into a trash can full of things next to her, which was where the sound came from.

"Didn't work out?" Zhou Wu stood in place and asked, he felt that he didn't even have a place to put his feet a few steps forward in this place.

Without answering, Vivien took off the large pair of latex gloves in her hands, and then looked up at the yellow man in front of her, or her new research topic.

"Nope." She said coldly, this is her inevitable habit in the experimental state, fortunately, Zhou Wu has barely gotten used to it through the contact in the past few days. "You're special. If it weren't for the fact that I'm too busy getting out of the intrigue with those guys, I should have discovered your peculiarity a long time ago. ”

"What do you mean?" Zhou Wu looked at the little girl in front of him who looked like an expert, if he hadn't known that this person had helped him gain ability, he might have killed her after escaping from the experimental base. Both sides are well aware of this and have their own ideas.

According to Zhou Wu's conjecture, at a certain stage of escaping from the experimental base that night, the other party had absolutely the opportunity to kill himself through some mechanism. But Vivien didn't do that, she thought Zhou Wu was a unique experimental material.

So, they managed to escape through a secret passage in the ruined experimental base that night. Walked out of an abandoned factory as a cover, and "hitched" a large truck transporting goods late at night along the way. Stayed in the house she had prepared for a long time.

They have been very careful in the past few days, especially after Zhou Wu learned from Vivian that the project she was doing was a confidential project of the Homeland Company and had been taken over by other researchers. A whole bunch of American drama companies had all sorts of ways to deal with leaks came to his mind, and he dared to guarantee that the other party was definitely much better than that, judging by the information he had gotten and Vivian's description.

They are now in a boat. The other party will never treat you differently because you think it has nothing to do with you.

"From my observation of your cells in the past few days, in addition to being able to obtain energy activity through ingestion, your cells cannot be obtained directly from the air like a normal person."

Zhou Wu was still standing there, hoping that the other party would give some kind of more detailed answer.

"How so?" Little Lori, who was standing on the chair, touched the tip of her nose like an adult. "Well, let's give you an analogy. Each of us has an element in our body that allows us to absorb what is known in nature as energy activity, so that we can mutate or become stronger, but you don't. ”

"Genes?" Zhou Wu looked at each other and gave a somewhat vague noun. "The underlying factor."

"Yes, that's right." Vivien turned around and jotted down the word in a notebook near her, and continued to speak to him. "I have observed your cells in the past few days and found that although your cells can also absorb and preserve the energy activity of the outside world, it is through the intake of the outside world, which is what we usually call eating. They simply don't have the energy activity that can directly absorb the air like my cells do. ”

"In other words, although I have gained the ability to mutate, I can't achieve the purpose of becoming stronger by absorbing something in the air like ordinary mutants?"

"That's pretty much what it means?"

"Do you even have ordinary people?" Zhou Wu frowned and asked, this made him feel the malice from this world somewhat.

Vivien's royal blue eyes glanced at her experimental materials with interest and nodded. "According to the results of the research projects funded by major companies, this is indeed the case."

This sentence made this yellow man stop talking, but he didn't have the meaning to question the level of biology in this world. After all, judging from the current situation, the technology tree in this world is quite deformed. Although the level of weapons has only remained at the level of the world for more than nine years, the level of biological research has almost steadily entered the level of the 21st century. Secretly speculating, Zhou Wu estimated that this had something to do with the mutants, and he even wondered if it was the mutants of high-end force that choked the throat of the development of modern weapons in this world.

Moreover, in fact, he also knows his own affairs, which may have a lot to do with the fact that he does not belong to this world.

Raising his head, Zhou Wu glanced at the little Lori who was sorting out the experimental equipment on the other side. "It's time to eat."

"Oh." Vivien replied, but she didn't mean to stop immediately, and talked about today's arrangements as she poured some discarded reagents into a specific collection basin. "I'm going to go to the black market again in the evening, and there are still some things that are not in place."

"Yes." Zhou Wu didn't speak, just nodded.

After almost a busy day, at about seven o'clock in the evening, two people with a slight makeover went out cautiously.