89. Time Rift
The person in front of him looked exactly the same as Lin Mei, who died in the Zhao family's extermination case eleven years ago.
She tapped the floor between her toes, and the pitch-black floor looked like a lighted monitor. Just like the image Zhou Yi received on his tablet before, the "monitor" at his feet is showing the scene in the white room.
Zhao Ruozhi was lying on the white soft bed, naturally curled up, like a baby wrapped in amniotic fluid in the womb, defenseless against the outside world.
There was another tingle in his heart.
"Lin Mei" clicked on the "screen" with the tip of her toes again, the image disappeared, and the ground returned to pitch black.
Strange to say, Zhou Yi came to Base X at the agreed time and was brought here blindfolded.
This is a pitch-black space, there is no light, but you can clearly see "Lin Mei" standing in front of her, as if she is a light source herself.
Even the "screen" under your feet appears out of thin air.
"Hello Zhou, I'm Eve."
"What is this place?"
"This is a four-dimensional lab at Base X. Whatever you want to know, I can tell you if I can answer it. Eve said with a smile.
"Where is Wakazhi now?"
"Right in that white room you see, there's another four-dimensional lab. It's the same as the one we're in right now. ”
"What the hell are you trying to do?"
"I can't answer that question for the time being."
"Call me here without telling me the purpose?"
"You just have to stay here. Zhao Ruozhi will be fine. ”
"Then are you Lin Mei?"
"It used to be, and it wasn't. Now I'm Eve. ”
This answer puzzled Zhou Yi: "What do you mean?" ”
"Lin Mei is dead."
"Then is there any connection between you and Lin Mei?"
"Lin Mei is me, and I am also Lin Mei, but she is a part of me, I have all her memories, but she doesn't know who I am." After saying that, Eve smiled: "Is it difficult to understand?" ”
"It's not difficult. Who is Zhao Ruozhi again? ”
"It's my daughter. More precisely, my most perfect work. Eve lit up the screen again, "Look at her, she's so beautiful." ”
"What do you mean ......" An answer was formed in Zhou Yi's heart.
"No, it's not the one you stole from. The one you stole is only a half-finished product...... Flawed, imperfect. Zhao Ruozhi is perfect, as long as he is guided a little......"
"Say no more." Zhou Yi interrupted Eve. "What the hell do you want to do?"
"There is a problem with my product, and it is normal to recall and repair, right?"
"Product?" Zhou Yi was very disgusted by the word. "She's your daughter."
"Yes, she's my daughter. If it weren't for my daughter, it wouldn't have been so perfect. Eve adjusts the angle of the display, admiring her perfect "work". "Sixteen years ago, she had already been here once, but she was too young to remember anything."
"I want to ask you, what happened in the past two years to make her hurt like this?"
Zhou Yi's eyes dimmed: "It's me who is not good, I failed to take care of her." ”
"I can heal her physical wounds, but I can't heal her inner wounds." Eve walked up to Zhou Yi: "Do you understand?" ”
At that moment, Zhou Yi saw the loneliness in Eve's eyes. It is not like the developer's feelings for the product, but the true feelings of a mother. It was only for a short moment, and then there was no trace of warmth in her eyes.
"In thirty minutes, you can take her away."
After Eve finished speaking, he disappeared from in front of Zhou Yi, and the entire space fell into darkness again.
Zhou Yi squatted down, close to the floor, and lightly buckled the floor with his knuckles. Although there is no light, judging from the feel and the sound of tapping, it is a material similar to the screen of a mobile phone.
He guessed that the reason why Eve touched the screen and didn't respond no matter how much he touched it was because of a lack of permission.
Recalling that when I followed Zhou Qifeng to Base X, there were many human models in a laboratory here. He thought that Base X was an anti-human organization specializing in human experiments, but he didn't expect that there was a four-dimensional laboratory here. Due to the size of this institution, Zhou Yi, who was still young at the time, had no way to know the whole picture of this place, and he did not have the authority to know it.
It was also around that time that he met Sara. Later, due to Sara's failure to perform the mission and was abandoned, Zhou Yicai secretly rescued her without telling Zhou Qifeng, which is the numbered ASQ1159 in the black-clothed population.
In the eyes of Organization X, the numbered ASQ1159 was nothing more than a failed test item that should have been destroyed. The upper level communicates the command, and the lower level is only responsible for carrying it out.
The ASQ1159 responsible for executing the recovery number is Ji Ru, who died of drug addiction. Ji Ru handed over this matter to Jiang Wei to do, but he didn't expect to die indirectly in the hands of Jiang Wei in the end.
As for Eve's position, Zhou Yi couldn't tell.
It was clear that Eve had extremely high authority and knew most of the things of Agency X.
Judging from her mouth, she is responsible for part of the "product development". It is not known what kind of "product" it is.
In complete darkness, there is no way to tell if there is a threat in this space, and there is no way to take precautions. So much so that for half an hour, Zhou Yi's nerves were all in a tense state.
Thinking of the completely pure white environment that Zhao Ruozhi was in, Zhou Yi suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
Isn't this black and white one yin and one yang in Tai Chi?
"Tai Chi means that before heaven and earth are divided, the vitality is mixed into one, that is, the beginning and the one."
Since it is yin and yang, there must be a place of convergence.
Whether it is in the two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or four-dimensional world we are in now, as long as there is yin, there must be yang. As long as the correlation point is illuminated, you will definitely be able to find the "yang" where Zhao Ruozhi is.
Zhou Yi crawled along the floor, feeling the changes in the "screen" under him.
Sure enough, he guessed correctly, and the further he went, the more powerful the sound of hitting the ground became. It shows that this space also has a boundary, and the closer you get to the edge, the thicker the sound of percussion will become.
Soon, soon, almost to the border.
Suddenly, a crack appeared on the "screen".
Zhou Yi tried to put his hand into the crack, and he was surprised to find that the crack was very deep and would gradually expand as his hand entered.
At this moment, an angry voice suddenly sounded behind him: "Don't you want to die?" ”
It's Eve who is back.
"Get your hands out. It's a time rift, and if you go in, you can't get out. ”
Suddenly, a huge force wrapped around Zhou Yi's hand in the crack, pulling him inside.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Eve immediately stepped forward to help.
Zhou Yi was pulled by the powerful force in the crack of time and was already lying on the ground, his face painful.
"What's in the rift in time?" Zhou Yi didn't forget to ask Eve.
"I don't know. None of the people who went in came back. ”
"Did you die inside?"
"Some people say that inside the rift of time is nothingness. There is no time, no space, no light, no air and no water. The person who falls into it is actually physically not dead, but the spirit is worn out. ”
"Then please let it go, I want to see what's in this rift of time."
"Don't mess around, if you die, what will happen to my daughter?" Eve was in a hurry and pulled Zhou Yi tighter.
Zhou Yi could feel that the force pulling him down was more like an air current, but the air flow was very fast, which made people feel terrifying.
"I think it's very likely that this time rift is connected to a wind tunnel, and you are in charge of the wind tunnel laboratory here?"
"Wind tunnel?" Eve thought for a moment, "The wind tunnel won't be open today. ”
"Since it is a rift in time, it may be connected to a wind tunnel at some point in time in the past or in the future."
"Even if I have the authority to close the wind tunnel, I can't close the wind tunnel at that point in time."
"Then you'll come with me." Zhou Yi looked at Eve and asked for her opinion.
"Good. I also want to see what's in this rift of time. ”
Zhou Yi unloaded his own power and let the force in the rift of time pull him down.
Miraculously, at first, you can still feel a force pulling, and as the whole body enters, it is obvious that you can't feel the gravitational pull of the earth, as if you are in space, floating at will. It's just the sound of the wind whistling in their ears that reminds them that this is a wind tunnel.
Eve hugged Zhou Yi's arm tightly and entered the time rift together, and she immediately realized that it was a vertical wind tunnel.
"Did you think of anything?"
"It's a vertical wind tunnel, the last one opened the day before yesterday, to test ......," Eve didn't continue, realizing that it would be a matter of secrecy if he continued to talk about it.
"Can you turn it off?"
"No problem."
Eve tapped his watch a few times, and the wind speed in the wind tunnel began to slowly decrease.
"It looks like it's back to the day before yesterday." Eve reclocked the system back to the day before yesterday, and sure enough, the wind tunnel was shut down.
As they descended, Eve suddenly realized a problem: how to explain their sudden appearance in the wind tunnel? Won't the people below who are doing the experiments find out? Even if they won't be discovered, how are they going to get back?
"Let's open the wind tunnel again." Zhou Yi said.
"You mean we're going to go back the way we came?"
"Now that we all know how the time rift works, it's not too hard for us to go back."
"It's too late."
Suddenly, the wind tunnel is alarmed, reporting that the system is abnormal.
The staff immediately closed the wind tunnel, and in an instant the wind speed dropped to zero, and the two quickly fell from a high altitude.
There is nothing to borrow from the wind tunnel pipes, and I don't know what I will hit if I fall down.
"Open the wind tunnel."
Eve's hands kept shaking, and the operating system was much slower.
"Quick!"
Just as the two were about to fall to the protective iron net, a super strong wind blew up, holding the two firmly.
"System troubleshooting, reboot successful."
As the wind increased, the two were blown into the air again.
"Thank you." Zhou Yi thanked Eve.
"You're welcome."
"If we fall and don't fall to our deaths, who will we meet?"
"The day before yesterday, this wind tunnel ......" Eve swallowed back when the words came to his mouth, and he had to admire Zhou Yi for being very good at picking the right time. In such a thrilling moment of life and death, not only did he not show any fear and panic, but he could also think of ways to set his own words.
When he reached the height he had entered, Zhou Yi quickly found the rift in time and sent Eve up first.
Eve reached out to pull Zhou Yi, but Zhou Yi refused.
"It's hard to get out of that dark place, don't try to pull me back again."
"Don't you want to see Zhao Ruozhi? I'll take you. ”