Chapter 43: The Only Candidate
"What, you're the director?" Nie Kai felt that he had misheard.
"Why, don't you think I'm like it?"
Nie Kai quickly glanced at the funny mummy in front of him. "No, no, but shouldn't the director be the old man?"
"Thirty minutes ago it was, not now. ”
Nie Kai took a deep breath.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, just thirty minutes ago, I was officially appointed as the new director. ”
"Thirty minutes ago?" Nie Kai exclaimed, "that was shortly after the director's death? ”
"Me. ”
"You?"
"That's right, I applied to the dean myself. ”
"You applied for it yourself, and he agreed?"
"He didn't have a choice, after the old man died, I was already the most familiar with the work here. ”
The monkey affirmed.
Nie Kai looked at this self-righteous mummy in a daze, and suddenly had a feeling of disgust.
"Do you think I'm too cold-blooded, too impersonal, my own teacher died, and I didn't rush over to dispose of his body as soon as possible, but thought about how to replace him?"
The monkey said suddenly.
Nie Kai was stunned for a moment and did not answer.
"Are you wondering if this bastard has been coveting the director's position for a long time, so as soon as the director dies, he will immediately replace him?"
Nie Kai still didn't speak.
The monkey sighed.
"I know, that's what everyone thinks. But have you ever wondered if if I don't stand up, then who will clean up this mess? If I don't stand up, will I just watch the project that the director has painstakingly worked on for decades fall into the hands of people who don't know anything?"
"Maybe you think I'm a cold-blooded guy in your heart, because before I came here, I even did experiments with my own teacher. I'll admit I did go crazy, but that was 10 years ago. I betrayed my teacher once ten years ago, and ten years later, I will never do the same thing again. ”
Nie Kai suddenly wanted to say something, but he didn't know where to start.
The monkey sneered.
"Do you know what's going on with these bandages on me? 40 minutes and an hour ago, I was confronted by an intruder at the entrance to the basement, and now more than half of my bones are shattered. ”
Nie Kai gasped.
"I was going to die for that old man. Unexpectedly, the old man died, but I lived. ”
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I misunderstood you. Nie Kai hurriedly said.
"You don't have to tell me I'm sorry, I know what I'm supposed to do, so I don't care about other people's comments. ”
"By the way, did you see what those guys were doing outside when you came?"
After a while, the monkey suddenly said.
"Well, see, they seem to be rushing to repair a facility that has been damaged by the intruders. ”
Nie Kai replied.
"I sabotage, exactly, when that bastard threw me like a bullet. During the flight, I broke 17 pillars in a row, three of which were reinforced concrete. ”
The monkey said, with a hint of pride in his tone.
"What? in that case, you can still count?" Nie Kai exclaimed, he couldn't imagine what it was like.
"In fact, I was awake until the time the staff dug me out of the rubble. It seems that it is correct to replace the skull as well. ”
"What did you say?"
"Oh, nothing. Do you want to know what those people out there were doing?"
"They're there too?"
"No, of course they weren't there at first, but I fought the invaders for about five minutes. So, I'm sure by the end of the day, those people will have found out. That's why they were able to dig me out as soon as the intruders left. ”
"You mean they're watching a play?"
"Probably. ”
"Those guys can't be saved?"
Nie Kai said indignantly.
"No, no, no, don't say that. You know, they don't belong to the combat staff, and in the face of that kind of enemy, even if they do, it won't help. So for them, watching a play is the best choice. ”
"Really?" Nie Kai said, still not quite understanding.
"Of course. They've done what they're supposed to do, you see, aren't they already on the repair site right now? If it weren't for them, I would probably have died of blood loss. They are doing their best to minimize the damage that Yogg has suffered. ”
"Are they doing it all on their own terms?"
"Of course, you see, the old man is dead, and I'm still lying here as the new director, being rescued, so no one has ordered them to do it. ”
"Are you trying to express something?"
"I would say that everybody here is doing what they're supposed to do. The invaders were too underestimated. It has been half a century since its establishment, and it is not just a person or something, it is an organization. Everyone in this organization knows their responsibilities. So no matter what kind of setbacks it encounters, it can quickly adjust. Yes, Yog is not impregnable, but it is a basin of water. The surface of the water can be broken at any time, but no matter how many times it is broken, it can be quickly restored. And those who try to break it may be drowned in the water. ”
Nie Kai was deeply touched, and he thought that if this was a mission, he had already been convinced. He looked at this mummified monkey in a daze, and said in his heart, I didn't expect this guy to look like a hanger before, but it turned out to be a set of reasons.
"Honestly, I didn't expect you to say such philosophical things. Nie Kai forcibly suppressed the waves in his heart and pretended to be indifferent and said.
"Because I'm also doing what I'm supposed to do. I used to joke because I wasn't responsible for what I said, but now that I've taken over here, I need to do something that someone sitting in this position should do. ”
"Oh. ”
"It's just, 'oh'? I said, everybody here is doing what they're supposed to do. So now, I'm wondering, do you know what you're supposed to do. ”
"What am I supposed to do?"
Nie Kai was a little overwhelmed.
"Have you passed the test?"
"Yes. ”
"Did the old man give you the serum before he died?"
"Yes. ”
"So what should you do now?"
"You mean injections? But, he said give me time to think about it myself. ”
Nie Kai was almost out of breath from being asked a few questions, and he said hesitantly.
"Are you still ready to refuse?" the monkey snapped, "the serum is already on you, and the director is dead, and Number Seven has been taken away, so you should know that this is the last serum of Yog." But what you may not know is that this is also a very special serum. In order to make such a serum, Yog spent countless manpower, material resources, and even sacrificed dozens of excellent deep divers. Now the director has given you such a precious thing, and you actually told me that you have to think about it. ”
"Special?"
"That's right. Generally speaking, what we call serum is a partially active ingredient isolated from blood No. 7. But, you know, number 7 was never the real source we wanted. On the contrary, he was only an experimental subject, a relatively successful experimental subject. In other words, the genes contained in his body are only the tip of the iceberg of the Old Gods. This is far from enough for our original intention of excavating the ancient gods. So, 15 years ago, Yog's board of directors approved another solution, the Deep Sea Project. “
"Project Deep, does this have anything to do with Cthulhu? Have you found the legendary Lalaye? Nie Kai couldn't help but ask. Cthulhu's lair, Lalleyer, was somewhere at the bottom of the ocean, and he still remembered the yearning in Song Xiaoxue's eyes when he said this.
"Lalaye?" the monkey paused, "No, no, no, no one can find Laleye, unless Laleye wants to find you, because Laleye himself is a being beyond human cognition. What I call a deep-sea plan, in simple terms, is just fishing. “
"Fishing?" Nie Kai's jaw almost fell to the ground, and he got on a fishing boat for a long time.
The monkey ignored Nie Kai's surprise and continued to say to himself: "Although I don't know the specific reason, many deep-sea creatures have some genes similar to the ancient gods in their bodies. Therefore, we have sent more than 20 special groups of fishermen to catch a lot of very suspicious creatures from the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. “
"You mean that the monsters in those breeding machines in the basement were specially captured by you?" Nie Kai forcibly endured his disgust.
"yes, it's not easy to catch those things. Fortunately, the experiment finally yielded gratifying results. We were able to extract the ingredients we wanted from them, and they were very successfully integrated with the ingredients in Body 7. So we got another, purer serum. “
"This is the special serum you are talking about, why has no one ever mentioned it to me?"
"That's right, we call it type II serum. The reason why no one told you about this is because we only got 11 of them in total, and the last one was used up two years ago. As for the one in your hand, I actually refined it alone in the past two years. “
"Eleven? I want to know what happened to the 11 people who were injected with this serum. Nie Kai asked suddenly, looking directly into the monkey's eyes.
The monkey also looked at Nie Kai, and suddenly, he smiled wickedly. "Dead. He said.
"Are they all dead?" Nie Kai jumped up, "What about 。。。。。。 “
"Don't get excited, 9 dead, to be exact. “
"What about the remaining two?"
"The remaining two, one is Song Huai'an, who used to be beautiful, and the other is Song Xiaoxue, who you know very well. “
"Xiaoxue?" Nie Kai chuckled in his heart.
However, among these two people, Song Xiaoxue actually did not succeed in fusing with the serum, so to date, Song Huaian is the only one who has succeeded. “
"This, this," Nie Fei hesitated, "for such a dangerous thing, why do you have to choose me?"
"I don't want to. The monkey sighed helplessly, "Do you know that serum, I actually prepared it for myself." But your performance managed to convince the director, and it convinced me, that I had to give up this opportunity. “
"My performance, what performance do I have?" Nie Kai was a little overwhelmed.
"You woke up Seven, and you withstood Seven's rampage. Have you forgotten? When the woman named Spider tried to kill you that day, Number 7 suddenly opened his eyes. And after No. 7 opened his eyes, the spider immediately lost its combat effectiveness, but you were unharmed. “
"W-what does this mean?"
"Shows that you have a natural affinity for Cthulhu. Although I don't know why you have this kind of power, the last one to have this kind of performance was Song Huai'an, and he succeeded. So now, you're the only one. “