abyss rose

"Chai Yuening, you shouldn't have come back."

Ye Qing's voice struck Chai Yuening's heart like a bell and drum.

She almost sighed and said: "There is no possibility between you and her."

Chai Yuening didn't understand, or didn't want to understand.

She looked at Ye Qing, her breathing still hadn't calmed down, and there was always a trace of hope in her eyes.

"Where did she go?"

Ye Qing: "The top-secret research room of the base research institute, including the military, the entire base has the authority to freely enter and leave that research room, no more than ten people."

Chai Yuening: "She... has always been like this before?"

Ye Qing: "Yes."

A reply without any hesitation blurred Chai Yuening's vision in just a moment.

Chai Yuening originally thought that she had suffered deep and visible injuries in her life, and had bid farewell to all the people who were precious to her. Even if the parting of life and death was not taken lightly, she would not let her cry easily again.

But on such a sunny day, she mustered up all the courage in her life and traveled thousands of miles.

Knock on a door, break through a lie.

The so-called indestructible defenses of this life collapsed at that moment.

Ye Qing called her into the house and closed the door.

She was sitting on the sofa, and the reporter's interview with the top scholars of the base research institute was playing on the TV.

During the interview, several scholars expressed that the experiments being carried out at the base are very likely to improve the status quo that people cannot evolve and are susceptible to infection.

They said that the brand new experimental sample this time was the stump of the giant beast brought back from the base of the dungeon.

A few days ago, Chai Yuening heard similar words from Ye Qing also on TV.

It's just that on that day, she didn't take these words to heart.

"Do you really know her?" Ye Qing asked, "Do you know why all the base reports don't mention her?"

Chai Yuening was stunned for a moment, then shook her head.

"Experimental sample No. A0027, among all the information that the base can disclose, is just a failed product that died as early as 2180."

Ye Qing said, and asked again: "Then do you know what it means for a human being to be able to successfully fuse with Hei Teng, possess the characteristics of Hei Vine, and be immune to all infections, but cannot share these with anyone?"

"This means that she cannot bring any benefits to mankind, and her one-in-a-million is doomed to become an original sin under the eyes of everyone."

"If the research institute has been unable to find out the secret of her fusion evolution, then people who have finally seen hope and can't wait for the result will no longer regard her as the same kind. They will shout and dig her flesh , look at her flesh and blood, and then hold a ten-thousandth expectation, hoping that by doing this, you can get a glimpse of all the secrets in her body."

"Do you think it's an exaggeration?" Ye Qing asked back, with a sarcastic smile in his eyes, "But this is what happened 51 years ago."

Chai Yuening's throat was dry and she couldn't speak a word.

Ye Qing got up and poured a glass of water for Chai Yuening.

When handing over the water glass, she asked, "How is your history?"

Chai Yuening shook her head.

"I'm not bad at learning, but I don't know that it's different from the history of your dungeon base."

Ye Qing smiled and continued talking.

"In 2155, geological survey personnel in the old world discovered traces of life at a depth of nearly [-] meters."

She said that it was a plant with very strange vital signs. It was like a black vine that grew in an environment that was extremely unsuitable for living organisms. The leaves and flowers of the vine had a dark red halo.

Relevant scholars speculate that these red lights are a kind of energy body, and this energy body is the reason why it can survive deep underground.

People tried to take some samples, transplant them to the ground, cultivate them carefully and multiply them, and at the same time extract the energy body from them for research.

At that time, there were two research directions, namely science and technology and medicine.

The former believes that this energy body may become a new energy source that is pollution-free and pollution-free, while the latter believes that if this energy body can be developed safely and reasonably, it should be able to overcome most of the current incurable diseases, and may even break through human physical fitness and lifespan. limit.

In 2160, human beings used the new energy extracted from black vines to build the first floating city in history, which caused a sensation all over the world.

Half a year later, the developer announced that the existing new energy sources were not enough to maintain a city floating in the air for a long time. In order to save energy, the floating city chose to land.

Humans began to develop black vine planting on a large scale.

In 2161, medical research has achieved remarkable results in some diseased animals and plants.

After several upward applications to obtain permission, the first group of terminally ill patients who voluntarily signed the experimental contract entered the surgical laboratory.

Their recovery has attracted global media attention, and more and more people have voluntarily signed a new experimental treaty.

Those terminally ill patients who seem to have recovered have undergone dehumanizing changes to varying degrees shortly after returning to society.

This kind of mutation is completely invisible at first, but the temperament will become irritable, accompanied by a certain tendency to violence, and even violent behavior.Over time, the body of the mutant will become more and more deformed, and then slowly lose memory and sanity, and will attack the people around him indiscriminately when he gets sick.

What is even more frightening than this is that it has a certain degree of contagion, and it swept the whole world silently.

Suddenly, all experiments and treatment plans related to Hei Teng were suspended, and countless researchers were convicted and imprisoned.

In 2163, as the scope of the mutation became wider and wider, and even spread to animals everywhere in the city, the infection gradually became uncontrollable, and humans began to use force to suppress it.

The world is gradually entering the middle of the catastrophe outbreak, and people in the old world begin to think about how to survive in the future.

Those researchers who were imprisoned were secretly transferred to a secret research institute, and human beings restarted the research plan on Heivine, trying to find antibodies for mutated infections.

In 2172, the high-tech underground shelter in the south, which is now the base of the underground city, was successfully built and put into a sealed state, which cost a huge amount of money and took nine years.

The struggle between humans and mutant creatures has never stopped.

In 2175, humanity's top secret "Interstellar Immigration Plan" was leaked for some reason.

People who realized that they might be abandoned launched a riot. During the riot, the military was unable to withstand the pressure from both the mutants and the people, and the infection situation deteriorated rapidly.

In the same year, the confidential news of the completion of the construction of the starship was leaked again.

Interstellar immigration should be the hope of mankind, but the escape ticket is something most people dare not ask for extravagantly. Desperate people have established a "salvation" organization through the Internet organization with the ultimate goal of "human cleanup plan". Guilty theory, trying to destroy human beings to atone for the earth.

In 2177, history has entered the end of the catastrophe outbreak. The crazy Redemption Party all over the world broke through the military defense and launched a nuclear war with the ultimate goal of destroying mankind.

The earth was reduced to purgatory for a while, species on the ground died out on a large scale, and billions of human beings died in the disaster.

After the disaster, black vines grew everywhere, the remaining species were cross-infected, and strange beasts were rampant. The ground was completely unsuitable for human survival, and the earth has since entered the end of the world.

Some of the surviving humans have established four major bases to search for survivors of the old world.

And those human beings who have never been searched and rescued either died of nature or the mouth of mutated creatures, and merged into a new species.

However, the infections that have wiped out the human race continue, and they pose a greater threat to humans than ever before, so human experiments have not stopped.

The remaining materials and samples in the secret laboratory were all transferred to the floating city.

Ye Qing said, and took a deep look at Chai Yuening: "In 2178, a 16-year-old terminally ill girl who was about to die of illness voluntarily devoted herself to science at the end of her life, and became the only one in the floating city who still retained human consciousness after merging with Hei Teng." Experimental subject. The base once thought it saw hope, and the results of the experiment quickly spread to everyone's ears, but after that, the research institute's experiments did not make any progress."

The particularity of sample A0027 makes her no longer the same kind in people's eyes. People just want to dissect her thoroughly so as to find the secret hidden in her body.

All of a sudden, people marched, appealed, and asked the research institute of the base to conduct in-depth research on her.

No matter how the base explained, and how they ensured that there was absolutely no reservation in this research, they still firmly believed that the incomplete research led to no progress in the research.

In 2179, under the pressure of public opinion, the base announced that the test subject A0027 had mutated and died.

"For more than 50 years, she has been the biggest secret of the base. Except for the top military officials and the most authoritative scholars of the research institute, no one knows her existence."

At this point, Ye Qing smiled wryly and sighed.

"She is really obedient. I became Dr. Yi's personal assistant ten years ago. Since the first time I saw her in the laboratory, she has been quiet and can do whatever she asks. She is very quiet and sensible. , especially..." Ye Qing paused for half a second, then shook her head and said, "She will blame herself for being useless, she is willing to accept various experiments, she has worked hard in combat training, and has assisted the military in completing countless high-risk missions."

"Later, she disappeared." Ye Qing frowned, "When Dr. Yi found her, she, who has always been well-behaved, made a request that made Dr. Yi very embarrassed."

Chai Yuening: "..."

Ye Qing: "She wants to say goodbye to you like a normal person."

"Why did you tell me this..." Chai Yuening's voice trembled.

"Chu Ci said, it's best if you don't come back, but if you come back one day, the lie will definitely be exposed." Ye Qing stood up and walked to the bedroom, "She's sorry that she lied to you, but there are some things that are not true. Fa said it to her face, so she wants us to tell you the truth."

She took out a thin page from the middle of the book, turned around and handed it to Chai Yuening who was following her.

In black and white, there was the short poem by Neruda that she had seen before.

"I am a man of despair, a word without echo.

Lose everything and gain everything.

Last cable, my last hope babbles and sings for you.

In this barren land of mine, you are the last rose. "

……

After a while of silence.

She gently stroked the dry tears on the paper with her index finger.

It seemed to caress the face that was crying alone.

—Do you want me to come back?

She couldn't hear the answer.

She doesn't need an answer either.

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The author has something to say:

They're all enlightened, isn't Gao Tian not far ahead?