As mentioned before, after the professor assigned the task, No. 7, No. 9 and No. 11, the three outstanding young scientists who went through absolutely harsh screening to stay in the xx experimental base were eligible to use all the most advanced instruments in the base for a three-month free research, of which No. 7 was biased towards unrealistic theoretical research, and was driven out of the xx base by the professor as he wished, looking at his undisguised excited smile, Elivan naturally knew that the guy was absolutely deliberate, if you really want to talk about it, his level is not much different from that of No. 9 and Elivan, and he will not make a mess of that kind at all。 Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

And No. 9 also conducts research that is biased towards theory, but unlike No. 7, which is completely on paper, No. 9 has already made a suggested heterospatial information collector, so he got a C in the professor's score, barely qualified, but later in the unfinished "world quadrant" shown by Elivan, he named the last theoretical error for Eleven, and finally caused the "world quadrant" to be truly completed, which made the professor very satisfied, so he made an exception to add a point to No. 9, and he became "b"

And the next thing to be carried out is the last project demonstration, Elivan, who is preparing, has a smile on his face, he has already obtained an A+, which is probably the highest score in the xx experimental base, so at this time he has no pressure at all, and No. 9, who is discussing with the professor the world quadrant placed in front of them, also lifted his glasses, looked at Elivan who was humming a song, and showed a chuckle.

It's not surprising that not all competitors become enemies, and like-minded young people are actually more likely to be friends after going through the same difficulties.

Ten minutes later, Elivan finished all the preparations, walked up to the presentation table with two large beakers, and carefully took out something that was quickly sealed with a silver metal bottle from the suitcase at hand, and after putting a large beaker into the sealed container, he carefully put the silver sealed container into the large beaker, and after it was completely sealed, he took out a palm-sized controller, and with a slight click, the silver metal bottle in the sealed container slowly opened it facing the side of Professor and No. 9.

The structure of the small metal bottle is complex, and the inside of the bottle is divided into dozens of small grids, each of which contains a square Xiaoice block, and the Xiaoice blocks freeze various objects, including mosquitoes, grass, tadpoles, meat pieces of unknown creatures, and even a small piece of metal, a piece of wood, and finally, an ordinary stone.

However, the moment the metal bottle was opened, a dead cold and cold aura spread throughout the classroom, and the professor, No. 9, and even Elivan himself couldn't help but shiver, but this breath came and went quickly, and after about a few seconds, the temperature returned to its original level.

"An ice experiment simulating absolute zero?"

No. 9 saw this scene, and couldn't help but cry out in surprise, if he remembered correctly, the previous No. 7 seemed to be the same experiment, but No. 7 only made an idea, but did not put it into practice like Eleven, because simulating absolute zero, which is absolutely impossible to reach in conventional mode, is an extremely dangerous time, between the extremely rapid spread and assimilation of super low temperatures, when starting or ending an ice experiment like Eleven, if he doesn't have time to let go of the lever deep into the super low temperature, he will lose a finger, a palm, and even a life, so even he will be shocked by Eleven's boldness.

The professor looked at the ice cubes that began to melt due to the normal temperature of the laboratory despite being in the sealed container, and it was not difficult to find that the living creatures in it had long since lost their lives, although it was only a simulation of absolute zero, but the ultra-low temperature made in the laboratory could reach below minus 200 degrees, which was fatal to any form of life.

"Yes, it is true that the ice experiment simulates absolute zero, but my starting point is different from that of No. 7, of course, the reason why this second subject appeared is also inseparable from No. 7, it was his experiment that inspired me, so after him, I also took the time to go to the cryogenic laboratory and made these comparisons. ”

Elevenn tapped his hand on the sealed container in front of him, and said with a strange expression, "And my subject is more special, if I have to say it, it should be classified under the occult." ”

"Ridiculous!"

Before the professor could speak, the 9th slapped the table and stood up, his previous admiration for Elivan was gone, and he slowly became disgusted, "Occultism? That's pseudoscience! It's an ugly thing that academic liars use to fool superiors and civilians!"

Hearing No. 9's rebuttal, a trace of dissatisfaction flashed on the professor's face, but he didn't speak, but turned his eyes to Eleven, wanting to see what he had to say, and Elevenn didn't disappoint him, he shook his head expressionlessly,

"No, no, Mr. 9, I'm not here today to discuss with you whether the occult is pseudoscience, please listen to me!"

It was a perfectly reasonable request, and despite his anger, Number 9 sat down indignantly, his eyes full of sarcasm, wanting to see what Elivan meant by what he called "occult subjects."

"There's a reason why I say that this subject will be subsumed into the occult! Because when I came to some special conclusions through comparison, I searched through all the academic papers in the entire xx base and secretly searched the Internet several times, but I didn't find any basis to explain my conclusions. ”

As he spoke, he handed the other documents in his suitcase to the two men and explained them in detail.

"As we all know, although there are some special creatures that can survive in extremely cold or scorching temperatures, for most living organisms, the minimum biological temperature is undoubtedly a ghost gate that cannot be broken through, and the several representative creatures I specially captured also proved this, in fact, when they entered the ultra-low temperature environment of minus 220 degrees Celsius that I set, they were instantly frozen and killed, but this is not unusual. ”

"Next, I tried inorganic substances such as wood blocks and stones, and found that although their form did not change after entering the ultra-low temperature environment, their internal structure was destroyed by the low temperature in a very short time!"

As he spoke, Elevenn used special tweezers to reach into the sealed container, removed the ice cube that was frozen with stones, and gently dropped it from the highest point of the sealed container, so that when it touched the bottom of the container, the entire ice shattered, and even the stones in it turned into a pile of debris.

"In the end, I tried all kinds of special products that I could find in the lab, and I have to say that many of their test results caught my eye, and 7 of them were guaranteed to be intact in an environment of minus 220 degrees, so I lowered the temperature by 15 degrees again, and then only 3 were left with barely intact internal structures, and when I lowered the problem by 15 degrees again, there was only one that could still maintain its own hardness completely. ”

As he spoke, he took out a dark blue piece of iron from his pocket and handed it to the Professor, who frowned though Number 9 still didn't understand what Elivan was trying to say, for Elivan's experiments reminded him of a conjecture he had told him when he was a student, his mentor who believed in the existence of the occult.

"I don't have the authority to mobilize all the resources of the entire base to fully simulate minus 273 degrees close to absolute zero, and I actually did that, but my suspicions have not been fully confirmed. ”

Elivan smiled, simply pushed the sealed container in front of him towards the side of the table, propped his hands on the table, looked at No. 9 with a puzzled face and the professor with a solemn face, and said word by word,

"My guess is that it wasn't the ultra-low temperature that destroyed the internal structure of these experiments, but something else did! That's why tens of thousands of degrees of flame can't cause the complete death of a living organism, and a mere minus 273.15 degrees Celsius is called the absolute zero of the "end of all things"!"

"It stands for death! Not a metaphor, not an exaggeration, but a true description!"

"On the physical level, death that can be described, but cannot be observed, is real! Absolute zero is the embodiment of death!"

As soon as Elivan's words fell, the professor, who was still whispering to No. 9, immediately froze in place, and No. 9 stood up with a flushed face, stretched out his trembling hand like an old man in the middle of a candle, and of course a belated scolding.

"Wild... Absurd... You, you're crazy!"

Elivan ignored No. 9, who was impacted by the three views, he just put his inquiring eyes on the silent professor, and from the professor's momentary stunned just now, Elevenn guessed something, his face was solemn, and as the atmosphere between the two people became more and more depressing, No. 9 seemed to feel something, he frowned, but still sat back in his place with Elivan's nod.

"Give me a cigar and a cigarette!"

The professor lowered his head like a thoughtful schoolboy, looking extremely seriously at the empty and smooth table top, as if there was something very attractive to him, and the old man's strange state was something that Elivan and No. 9 had never seen before, and after the two of them waited quietly and didn't even dare to breathe for more than ten minutes, the professor raised his head, and the look and temperament on that face were completely as if he was ten years old in an instant, and his eyes were also red, and he actually smiled and asked the two of them"Good students" want cigarettes.

No. 9 naturally did not, he was an extremely pure person, he didn't smoke, but he wouldn't stop others from smoking, and Elevenn was much more casual, he took out a pack of beautifully decorated cigarettes from his pocket and handed it to the professor, but strangely, when he took the cigarette case from the professor's hand, he found that the colorful cigarette box in his original memory was blurred, as if it was covered by a thick fog, and no matter how he squinted, he couldn't see what was written on the cigarette box.

"What the hell is going on?"

After glancing elsewhere to make sure there was nothing wrong with his eyes and glasses, Elevenn clutched the hard cigarette case in his hand, and the clicking sound from it reached his ears, this guy is a man with a lot of imagination, he immediately thought of today's sudden test almost without warning, and turned his head to look around, feeling more and more strange about his surroundings.

However, after the professor pinched the cigarette and let out a few breaths, he began to speak in a low voice, this kind of opportunity is one in a million, so even if Elivan was curious about everything familiar and unfamiliar in front of him, he still obediently threw the cigarette case in his hand on the table, moved a chair and sat next to the professor and No. 9, that posture, that demeanor, like a kindergarten student who listens well.

"This is no longer the argument I heard about the so-called symbolism of absolute zero, and I was... My mentor back then... Her last topic, similar to what you're talking about now... No, it's not similar anymore ... Exactly. ”

After saying this, he seemed to drain all the strength in the professor's body, and his vicissitudes of life were full of nostalgia and a pain that could not be concealed, and that look of Eleven seemed to know very well that it was... Losing the eyes of his beloved, this will be the 9th couldn't help but ask,

"That's... What about your mentor?"

"Studying this kind of occult subject can sometimes be considered insane, but at some special times it is extremely dangerous, so you can't continue to study it, Elivan!"

The professor did not answer No. 9's question directly, but warned Elevenn with a serious face, and he even read Elivan's real name despite the ban of the base, but seeing the puzzled eyes of No. 9 and Eleven, he squeezed the last bit of cigarette butt in his hand before speaking again.

"She... She was devoured! right in front of me, less than half a meter away from me, and in the face of her pleas for help, I even... I didn't even dare to reach out my rescue hand, and I watched as she was swallowed up by the darkness... Oh my God, oh my God, what the hell did I do! I'm a coward!"

Speaking of which, the professor seemed to be unable to bear that kind of pressure anymore, and this old gentleman, who had never shown a third expression other than seriousness and irritability in front of everyone at the base, turned out... Sobbed.

"Devouring?"

Hearing this word, No. 9, who had been a little disappreciative, and Eleven, who had raised his head to observe the surroundings, suddenly met together, and then quickly moved away, Eleven's fingers were tangled, and when the professor's mood calmed down a little, he asked cautiously,

"Professor, what has she been devoured by?"

"Darkness, pure to the extreme, heavy to oppressive, but ethereal to the extreme, I... I don't know how to describe it, but I witnessed the whole process, and in the first experiment where we synthesized minus 273 degrees Celsius in the lab, it popped out of the test area so abruptly, like... It's like our shadow, yes, at that moment, I see it clearly, the shadow, the shadow is gone! It was absorbed, and then it stayed between the two of us, it spoke, but it didn't have a mouth, and I can't forget that feeling in my life, that sound that didn't have a specific meaning, but it was a murmur, but you could hear it clearly, and it was asking, who was it? Who summoned it? Yes, I didn't dare to say yes, because I wouldn't have believed it at all, but my mentor, who was a master of applied physics who believed in the occult, was ironic, right? a really top scientist who believed in so-called "pseudoscience". ”

However, Elivan and Number 9 did not care about the identity of the professor's mentor in the slightest, and the two young men were already deeply attracted to this story, and according to the professor's usual words and deeds, he disdained to lie, that is, the story was 100% true.

But I don't know why, in the process of listening to this story, Elevenn always felt that the originally bright classroom around him seemed to be darker, but when he looked up, everything was normal, and outside the window that Elevenn didn't notice, the bright sunlight was no longer as bright as it used to be.

"She responded?"

Number 9 asked softly as he lifted his glasses.

"Yes, she responded!"

The Professor's eyes were out of focus, and it was clear that he had returned to the nightmarish scene he had been in.

"I could feel that she was also very scared, but she seemed to have found proof of her lifelong faith, and she was also very excited, so, when I tried to dissuade her to no avail, she responded! And then the darkness, like flowing water, was contaminated on her body, it was devouring, but more like blending, she... She was flustered at first, but at the end, she was calm and said, "Take it!", but I... I hesitated, and it wasn't until the moment she was completely consumed by the darkness, when I saw the darkness simulate her smile, that I knew that I had lost her!

When the professor finished saying this, his face was already terrible, and in his eyes when he lowered his head, the pupils had shrunk to the extreme, and at the last moment, the last trace of sparkle in his eyes disappeared, but soon another flame ignited in his eyes, but soon calmed down again, and then he was puzzled again, he stretched out his hands to look, and looked up at the old acquaintance who looked like his former No. 11 and the original base, Big Brother No. 9, shook his head, and showed a knowing smile。

"Professor, what's wrong with you?"

"Nothing... I was just... Found yourself!"

Number 9 and Elivan immediately sensed that something was wrong with the professor, and the old body seemed to have a new owner at that moment, and the two of them quietly took a step back full of vigilance, but the professor did not make any other movements, just stretched out his left hand and tapped twice towards the two people,

"Ice coffin!

The next moment, the originally neat professor changed greatly from beginning to end in the horrified eyes of Elivan and No. 9, if the original classroom was just an ordinary human world, then the space they were in at this time was like a pitch-black hell, and even more excessively, after the professor's nervous two clicks in the air, their bodies were suddenly enveloped by extremely thick but not very cold ice cubes from the neck down, and now these two guys can only stay in a dark shadow of water that can't see the edge at all。

"Hey, Eleven, remember the story the professor told me just now? I suspect it wasn't his mentor who responded to the call of darkness, but himself, you look around us, that fluid darkness, oh my God, they've solidified, this place is in the world, we've never even heard of it!"

"I don't even think this place is still on the Earth we're familiar with, Professor, do you still think he's a professor? Maybe he's got another one in his body now, maybe it's a demon?"

"No, I'm not just a demon!"

Elivan's complaint obviously reached the ears of the professor who was already not normal, he turned around, with a strange smile on the corner of his mouth, and then reached out and wiped it lightly on his face, and a face exactly the same as Elivan appeared in front of the two of them, and the old-fashioned researcher uniform on his body also began to change rapidly, and finally fixed into a set of men's hunting clothes that were quite medieval Renaissance.

A large black leather trench coat, a well-made tight-fitting vest with a white shirt and black bow tie, a pair of slender pants and a pair of deerskin boots that don't look like Earth at all, and what is even more noticeable is that this guy snaps his fingers with one hand, and a red cane appears in the hand of "Eleven", while on his other hand he twists a cowboy hat from the void and buckles it on his head.

"You... Who the hell are you?"

When Elivan saw the face that was exactly the same as his own, he felt panicked, and a voice in his heart was frantically shouting for him to run, but he was tightly bound in place by the ice, let alone escape, he couldn't even move, he could only watch the young man full of evil spirits, the other self, walk slowly in front of the two of them.

"Hello, you represent wisdom and justice, but at the same time you are the side of my intellect that escapes! You are probably the abandoned me! I once had, but I was abandoned! What a pitiful, I didn't even know that you had been living in my shadow all these years. ”

"Elivan" said to the flustered Eleven, who resisted, as if his every word was the most terrible venom.

"You are the embodiment of my sensibility as a representative of memories and nostalgia, and at the same time I am the embodiment of my sensibility! You are the former me! You are the recorder and executor of all my life on earth, and your name should be the real "No. 11", am I right?"

Elivan turned his head to No. 9, who seemed to have understood something, and No. 9 lowered his head and thought for a while, then bravely raised his head to look at the smiling Eleven, and asked with a solemn expression,

"And what are you, darkness, or tyranny, or evil?"

"No, I represent reality, I am now and I want to live and protect all those I love, I am furious, I am dark, I am tyrannical, I am evil, I destroy everything! I care about everything! I desire everything! I protect everything! I am... I'm Elivan, I'm Elivan-Mogedin!" (To be continued.) )