"Grinding...diffusion".
The cold air penetrated my lungs, making me feel refreshed.
He Yu leaned back in the sofa chair, his eyes dry and stinging. He had forgotten how he fell asleep, and even his memory of coming to this room had become blurry, like an absurd dream.
"Mr. Postman No. 0027-01221, you have 15 minutes to ask questions."
The female doctor clasped her hands together under her chin, sat upright in the leather sofa chair, and had a calm expression.
"What's the date now?" He Yu pinched his brow, his jumbled memories beginning to resurface, and his brain began to throb with pain.
"You've been in a coma for three years," the doctor said solemnly after a pause.
"Impossible," He Yu immediately retorted. "Are you a communications officer? Or that female host from Channel 8?"
"Brain function is normal, and there is no cognitive impairment in the left brain."
The doctor, who was being questioned, did not answer his question, but instead murmured these words in the record book.
"Ha, your medical skills are truly superb." He Yu frowned, staring at the strange woman in front of him, his eyes bloodshot. "Leaving aside how I got to this godforsaken place, you can determine that I'm a normal person based on just a few words?"
“First of all, you are no longer an ordinary human being,” the doctor stated expressionlessly. “Secondly, testing whether your brain is functioning normally is very simple for me. You didn’t ask who you were when you woke up, which means you haven’t lost your memory. After hearing me address you, you didn’t show any distress and were very skeptical of my lies, which means your left brain is functioning normally, has not been damaged, and your cognitive abilities are normal.”
"Finally, the fact that you can say the communicator and the postman from Channel 2 are dead means that you are now certain that everything that happened before was not a dream."
"Alright, then let me ask one more question." He Yu took a deep breath, "What am I now?"
“A half-infected Eoubs-659.” The doctor stared at He Yu, his eyes devoid of any emotion: “You are the only one who survived after coming into contact with 659.”
“Eoubs? A research facility I’ve never heard of before, right?” He Yu noticed her gaze and looked away somewhat uncomfortably. “I knew it… there was something wrong with the contents of that package.”
The doctor took out a document and pushed it in front of He Yu.
“Eoubs was founded in 1979 and is a joint international organization for the containment of extremely unstable species. We rate and classify the supernatural life forms and objects we discover. 659, as the name suggests, is the 659th unstable life form discovered.”
"Currently, there are 72 research bases worldwide, 13 of which are located in Dongxia. All known researchers in the field are members of Eoubs."
“The people inside Eoubs are divided into five levels, from A to E.” The doctor pulled an identification tag out of his jacket pocket and continued, “A is the highest and E is the lowest. Each level is further divided into 1 to 5. I am C02, Yu Yu.”
"He is also your boss."
He Yu stared at her for a while, then picked up the document and began to read it.
[Number: Eoubs-659]
Hazard Level: EDS (Controlled)
[Control Procedure: Eoubs-659 must be placed in a sealed steel cube chamber measuring 20 meters x 20 meters x 20 meters. Daily checks for any variability are mandatory. Absolutely no biological or fleshy organisms other than Eoubs-659 are permitted in the control room; observers will use mechanical lifeforms to perform the experimental work.]
[Description: Euubs-659 is a 40 kg black lunar object. Experiments have shown that it has an extremely strong feeding desire. Any living thing that comes into contact with a radius of 10 meters around Euubs-659 will have its perception of reality affected. Recorded phenomena include: seeing unusual cliffs and mailboxes, losing self-awareness, experiencing severe emotional breakdowns, and sudden cell death.]
Eoubs-659 cannot affect life forms that have not seen its true form. It can understand language, and any life form affected by it cannot convey its message in the form of language, writing, or other forms.
If Eoubs-659 does not consume food within 48 hours, its cognitive influence range will expand exponentially. Data collection shows that life forms entering Eoubs-659's range will be pulled into an alternate dimension, the exact size of which is still undetermined. Life forms entering this alternate dimension will hear the sounds made by all the life forms that Eoubs-659 has consumed.
In this respect, even if a living organism punctures its eardrum, it cannot escape the fact that its cognitive abilities will be continuously weakened until it suffers a mental breakdown.
He put down the document in his hand, somewhat bewildered. Anyone could see that what was recorded here shattered the worldview of a normal person, and Yu Yu had previously said that he was a half-infected person of this 659.
Does that mean he also wants to be monitored by Eoubs?
“The reason you are alive is because the infection is not deep.” Yu Yu naturally knew what he was thinking at this moment, and explained in time: “Some of the characteristics of 659 have penetrated into your body. We cannot let an infected person run out of control to the outside world.”
“Listen, I had no idea what this 659 thing you're talking about was before. I just saw a job ad that said you could earn a lot of money by running errands, so I gave it a try. In other words, I'm a victim too.”
“I understand your difficulties.” Yu Yu nodded, her tone still calm: “But you have been infected, that’s a fact.”
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