It was late at night, and Tang Xue hadn't slept yet.

In the room with the lights off, she looked out the window.

Concrete was poured into the excavated foundation, and the construction team over there, wearing face shields and thick protective clothing, was working.

To be honest, this place is really not suitable for patients to recuperate, there is the sound of machines humming everywhere, and the HSA has brought not only airplanes and tanks, but also a lot of infrastructure equipment.

In addition to the aircraft carrier, they also have more than a dozen tugboats and transport ships, loaded with cement, sand, steel and other building materials, and even at night they have to work with searchlights.

It seems that they really plan to build a research base here and work overtime overnight.

But she didn't fall asleep because it was too noisy, and even if it was quiet, she wouldn't sleep, and she remembered the conversation during the day, and her heart was in a mess.

"I don't know much about his ability to perceive infectious bodies, but he once told me that he can sense almost the entire state and mountain city."

"Have you talked to him, in what way did he perceive it? Which way is it, is there a radar-like sense directly in the mind? Is it very clear, or is it vague? ”

"I haven't talked to him, but his perception should be very accurate."

"Is that so?"

"What do you want to do to him?"

"As a researcher, for a unique individual like him, of course, I want to understand all the secrets in his body, when I brought you back, I did a full body examination of Ling in the cabin, and you have obvious traces of being scratched by an infected person, but the wound does not appear to be infected.

I have studied 'Hel' for several years, observed hundreds of individuals infected to different periods of time at close range, and indirectly studied tens of thousands of cases, as long as the blood has direct contact with the visible 'Hel' cluster, there is no one as safe and sound as you, they have become the hotbed of 'Hel' without exception.

You are the only one who survived the quarantine period, I asked you, but you said that you passed out, I don't know what happened, I started to suspect after reading the notes, it was he who got you out of the infection, if this is really the case, then he has done what all researchers have been trying to do without a clue - he saved an irretrievable life.

Do you know how much this weighs either? If I can figure out how you got out of the infection, maybe you can develop a cure, which is one of the ultimate goals of HSA, so I will give the order, do everything I can, to bring him back. ”

"Bring back your test subjects and research materials?"

"If he is communicable, we will try to give him equal terms, but he still needs to be restricted in his life freedom and monitored 24 hours a day."

"Dr. Sue, can I call you that? Actually, I know how the mold in my body is removed, I have been infected twice, both times I fainted, but he rescued me, I hope you can explain to me the HeLa infection, and all the related things, in exchange, I can tell you how he removed the mold from my body, maybe it can help your research. ”

"Do you really have something to hide? You ask, but you only have twenty minutes left, because in twenty minutes I will be experimenting on a strong infected brought back by the reconnaissance team, and I can only answer your doubts for twenty minutes, and if you don't mind, I can come and talk to you again when I have time. ”

"I don't have a lot of problems."

"Then ask."

"Will Hela be able to communicate with humans and be friendly with them?"

"Theoretically, Hela has such intelligence, can talk to intelligent creatures, but human beings are food to Hela, Hela's way of thinking is fundamentally different from humans, in fact, compared to humans, Hela is like a more advanced life form, they have an absolutely rational way of doing things like AI, in the face of difficulties, their choices are basically the optimal solution, they also have the ability of multi-threaded processing, while individual actions, they can simultaneously manipulate the infected people in the settlement to act separately, and control the details.

However, due to their absolutely rational way of doing things, they will not get along with humans, Hela puts [eating] and [survival] first, maybe they can communicate with their own kind, but for them, humans give priority to food, and then they can communicate with objects. ”

"Do you think the author of the note is Hela?"

"I don't think so, because he's acting more like a human being, but from what I know so far, he has a lot to do with Hela, and what the specific situation is, only research can know."

"Why do you think he is dangerous, judging from the situation of the notes, the second Hela Xiao Yun'er of Zhoushan City should be very friendly to him."

"If a phone is manipulated by two people at the same time, snatching each other's application permissions and payment permissions, then these two people will definitely find a way to make the other operator completely lose control, and in some older people's theories, they believe that there are several Hela candidates at the beginning of the infection, but in the end only one will survive, because the one who survives does not allow another individual to snatch control from it.

In this theory, it is believed that Hela does not have all the abilities at the beginning, they need to eat, and then evolve the ability to manipulate the infected, and then the first candidate to learn will control the infected and kill the rest of the competitors, just like raising Gu, and the one who survives will eventually become Hela.

And I think the reason why he was able to get along with Xiao Yun'er in the past was because the Hela trait in his body was not obvious, this was the sixth year after the disaster, and he could hardly ingest any active factors to allow the 'Hel' in his body to multiply, but once he appeared with a stronger 'Hel' trait, he was very likely to be regarded as a threat rather than a friend.

Although Xiao Yun'er does not exhibit the third trait of Hela, I think she is a complete Hela, and you have been surrounded by infected people several times since then, perhaps because he has undergone some kind of change in his body and has been regarded as a threat. ”

Tang Xue's thoughts pulled back again, looked at Xiao Bai, who was lying on the ground and was already asleep, and sighed.

Knock knock, outside the door, there was a sound of hurried footsteps, and the door was suddenly opened.

It was Dr. Su, who turned on the light, dusty, holding a tablet in her hand with a photo on the display.

Very blurry photograph, but one figure can be seen inside, falling in the beam, wearing a white shirt and belted trousers, no shoes, only a back, and he can be seen fleeing hastily into the darkness.

(End of chapter)