Chapter 45 Chapter 45 The person lying on top is Jing Miao.

At the research institute, a middle-aged man is on the phone.

The man's temples were gray, and his face was deep with wrinkles, revealing a faint sense of deadness, like a rotten wood about to rot. He frowned and spoke to the person on the other end of the line: "Everyone outside is paying attention to Jing Miao's whereabouts. We will be discovered sooner or later. Teacher, do you want to continue?"

"We have worked hard for so many years and finally succeeded once, but the positive feedback has not been satisfactory. Countless experiments have proved that his blood does not stimulate supernatural powers."

"Could it be that we are mistaken? He is actually not a naturally awakened person like those people."

The middle-aged man was shocked by what was said on the other end of the phone. A flash of brilliance flashed in his eyes hidden behind his heavy drooping eyelids, but was quickly suppressed by the intense feeling of fatigue.

The man asked hesitantly, "Will this really work?"

"They caught the man today, but they can't draw blood for the time being."

"Yes, I will send someone to do it tomorrow."

After hanging up the call, the man stood there for a while, thinking carefully about all the people in his mind, and finally found that no one met the requirements.

The communication just now specifically stated that we needed to find someone with a clean family background and who had little contact with the project to do the blood drawing.

This made the man a little worried, because the people under his command who had been able to follow until now knew the target inside and out. After all, the person they targeted at the beginning was a general in the star field. Most people would retreat just by hearing the name, and only a few dared to take action.

Those who remain until now have been selected through layers of screening. They are almost crazy about awakening to superpowers. In order to achieve this goal, they can ignore all consequences.

There are still people in their group who are kept in the dark.

A person walked past the door. The middle-aged man vaguely remembered something and walked out to call the person.

"Old Li, I remember that you had a young man who had just arrived here. Is he still here now?"

Old Li thought for a moment and said, "Wang Qi?"

Man: "What's unimportant? Is he still here?"

Old Li's heart skipped a beat, thinking Wang Qi was in trouble, and he quickly replied, "Yes, I asked him to deliver food to the veterinarian today. What happened to him?"

The man paused. "He doesn't know what the project is about, does he?"

Lao Li guaranteed, "I definitely don't know. He was doing odd jobs for the past few months and never entered the laboratory. I saw that he performed well in the past few days, so I asked him to help organize the data racks. He has no chance to come into contact with the core data and that person."

Seeing that the man didn't look angry, Lao Li curiously asked, "Why are you suddenly asking about Wang Qi?"

Man: "Let him take blood tomorrow."

Old Li was suspicious: "Is he going too fast?"

Although this young man worked hard, didn't care about anything and only wanted to make money, but Lao Li never intended to let him get in touch with the core things.

Man: "Not that one, but the blood of the veterinarian today."

Old Li spent all his time in the laboratory and didn't know any veterinarians. He naturally thought that Wang Qi was an unimportant person and that letting him go wouldn't leak anything. He nodded in relief and said, "I understand."

The next morning, Wang Qi, who was suddenly entrusted with an important task, came to the place where he had delivered meals yesterday, carrying a blood collection device.

Glancing back quietly, Wang Qi saw two tall and strong researchers following behind him. The pressure was so great that he felt as if he were a prisoner being taken to the execution ground to be beheaded.

Arriving at the door, Wang Qi was troubled by the closed door. Brother Li asked him to draw blood, but did not give him the access card.

The security inside the institute is very strict, and access cards are required everywhere to open the layers of doors.

When he came to deliver food yesterday, he had to swipe his card twice just to get to the door.

The person behind him suddenly moved, and Wang Qise hunched his shoulders and dodged to the side.

"Beep Beep"

The man opened the door with a card, handed the card to Wang Qi, and warned him sternly: "Go in by yourself. There is another electronic door with a light screen inside. Insert the card into the card slot on the right side of the wall. Wait until the light screen disappears before going in. Come out immediately after taking the blood, and don't talk nonsense."

Wang Qi did as he was told.

The light screen in front of him disappeared. Wang Qi took a deep breath and whispered "Sorry for disturbing you" at the door before going in.

As soon as I entered, I was stunned. I didn't see clearly what the person inside looked like yesterday. Now, a cold and ruthless face came into my eyes. The empty and deserted room seemed to become unusual because of this face, and my nostrils seemed to be filled with the cold breath of frost and snow on the mountains.

Those beautiful eyes were indifferent and heartless, yet very clean and thorough, just a little cold when they looked at people.

Wang Qi's lips trembled and he felt like he was surrounded by a cold air and his whole body was chilled.

"Aren't you cold?" He heard the man speak slowly. Not only was he good-looking, but he also had a nice voice.

As if being trapped by a man, Wang Qi nodded and said cold subconsciously.

"Then why do you keep standing under the vent?"

Wang Qi's expression froze. He looked up and saw the exhaust fan above his head running silently, blowing a steady stream of cold air towards him.

Wang Qi: “…”

It turned out to be a vent. How embarrassing.

Lu Zhiluan looked at the young man who suddenly blushed and walked towards him with his hands and feet trembling, and couldn't help but wonder if this man had some problems with his brain.

After seeing what he had in his hand, his eyes became alert, "Who are you? Where is Du Ru? Why do you care about me?"

Facing the three questions from the person in front of him, Wang Qi could only reluctantly answer the first question. Although the person outside did not let him speak, he was a person obsessed with looks and could not say anything to refuse this face. Noticing that there was no surveillance in the room, he thought for a moment and whispered, "I'm from the Canaan Research Institute. We are conducting an undisclosed research project. Don't worry, it's formal. Now we need a little bit of your blood. I hope you can cooperate."

Facing Lu Zhiluan's suspicious eyes, Wang Qi became even more flustered: "Really? They said they only need to draw a little blood and it won't hurt you."

There was a strong stabbing pain on the side of his neck. Lu Zhiluan didn't know what the injection was yesterday. After a night, he still couldn't use any strength. He could only try his best to deal with the man in front of him and ask for more key information.

Lu Zhiluan unexpectedly learned from the gossip about the two people captured by Guatian Xishi yesterday that the missing General Jing was now imprisoned here.

The two had been fanatical followers of superpowers since they were young. They had completely lost their minds and would do anything for superpowers. They had two lives on their shoulders. Later, they joined an organization called "Chasing Rain", which was full of the same fanatics. Their every day work was to try their best to wake themselves up. In the end, they frantically planned to kidnap Admiral Canaan.

The receiver in his pocket was getting slightly hot. Wang Qi knew that the person outside was urging him. Facing Lu Zhiluan's resistance, he remembered what Brother Li said, that it was just a blood draw and would not endanger his life. He also thought of the money promised to him, so he didn't care about etiquette and walked over bravely, took Lu Zhiluan's wrist and started drawing blood.

He said confidently, "I'm sorry, but I was just following orders. I can't disclose anything confidential. After the project is completed, they said you will be compensated."

After drawing two tubes of blood in a muffled voice, he did not dare to look at Lu Zhiluan's slightly pale face. He left the room without looking back, handed the blood to the person outside, and went to find Brother Li to collect the money.

Wang Qi thought he only needed to do this once, but he was asked to have his blood drawn again at noon just after the morning draw. Each time, the blood volume had to be filled to two large tubes.

But in the evening he received another notification from Brother Li.

Even if Wang Qi was blinded by money, he couldn't bring himself to do it. He found Brother Li and humbly negotiated with him, "Brother Li, if you keep beating him like this, something bad will happen to him. Can you..."

Brother Li was so upset that he had no place to vent after learning that the experiment had failed again. Wang Qi's timid and cowardly look just hit his angry mouth: "What's the harm in drawing some blood? Just go when I tell you to, why do you care so much! You took the money so easily before, why are you pretending to be a good man now?"

"If you don't want to do it, don't do it. Get out of here!"

Wang Qi said nothing and lowered his head, allowing the man to insult and curse him at will.

After Brother Li finished cursing, he realized that he was too careless. If this guy really didn't want to do it anymore, where would he find someone to help him?

So he lowered his posture and coaxed the man first, "I'm sorry, brother, the project has been stagnant. I'm under a lot of pressure recently. Don't take those words to heart. I apologize to you. Today is the last time. You don't need to draw it later. Just think of it as helping me, okay?"

"Go over there later and take some nutrients to give to that little brother, and express my apologies on my behalf."

Wang Qi kept his head down and said nothing.

Seeing this, Brother Li tried to persuade the man with kind words, and finally he managed to appease the man after he had talked so much that his lips were almost dry.

Wang Qi said in a muffled voice: "You said it was the last time."

Brother Li: “I promise.”

After Wang Qi left, Brother Li, who had been amiable just now, suddenly changed his expression, his eyes full of viciousness.

He dialed a number and said in a deep voice, "That guy is not fit to stay here any longer. Get rid of him after tonight."

Wang Qi came in with a bunch of nutritional supplements, his expression extremely unnatural. Lu Zhiluan sat against the wall and glanced at them lazily.

His body was weak to begin with, and he had lost so much blood in one day. In addition, it was not known whether Wang Qi had received professional training or not, and he knew nothing about anything. Lu Zhiluan decisively gave up collecting information from him.

The Guatian Xishi, which has been silent for a while, has updated a piece of gossip, this time it is about Wang Qi.

As the information flooded into his mind, Lu Zhiluan's expression froze.

Wang Qi came over, tore open a bag of blood-replenishing nutrient solution, inserted a straw, squatted down and handed it to Lu Zhilan's mouth, and said carefully: "Well, drink some of this first."

Lu Zhiluan sorted out the freshly-steamed hot melons, preparing to eat them.

I happened to glance at the bag of nutritional supplements, opened my mouth and drank it through the straw.

What is this? Atonement before death?

Wang Qi's hand trembled, and he looked up at Lu Zhiluan, only to find that he was daydreaming, his eyes were looking somewhere else, and he was not talking to him at all.

Before death? Who is dying? Is this said to him?

[Oh, I thought Wang Qi was in cahoots with the crazy people who kidnapped Admiral Jing. Turns out he's just a poor bastard who got tricked and had to take the blame.]

Kidnap the admiral? Who? Yourself?

Wang Qi's pupils trembled violently.

【It turns out that before him, there were more than a dozen people who were deceived into coming here in the name of high-paying jobs. When there was something to do, they did odd jobs. When there was nothing to do, they were arranged to be brainwashed by fanatics, who preached the benefits of superpowers. Those who were successfully brainwashed stayed, and those who were not receptive were dealt with. They were said to be dismissed, but in fact, they were injected with unsuccessful drugs. The mildest ones became idiots, and the worst ones died on the spot.】

[It seems that this loser is one of those people who is not easily influenced by others. No wonder he will be dealt with after tonight.]

[Should I remind him? But it seems I can’t escape…]

Wang Qi recalled the so-called training classes he had attended every now and then since he started working...

At the time, he was only thinking about making money and didn't pay any attention to what the passionate experts were saying. Now thinking back, it seemed that they were constantly instilling in them the importance of superpowers.

Wang Qi: The sky is falling.

After finishing a bag of nutritional supplements, Lu Zhiluan found another bag next to his mouth in a blink of an eye. He was slightly surprised.

Wang Qi's eyes were red, and he whispered to him, "Tomorrow morning the power will be cut off for about an hour at the institute. You should drink more to replenish your energy, and find the right opportunity to leave tomorrow."

Lu Zhiluan: "You want to let me go?"

Wang Qi smiled bitterly: "I can only let you out of this room. You can only rely on yourself for what happens next."

He left the remaining nutrients to Lu Zhiluan, drew two tubes of blood from himself, and left.

Lu Zhiluan couldn't help but said, "Don't sleep too deeply tonight."

It sounded like a harsh remark, but Wang Qi understood that it was a reminder to himself.

After going out, Wang Qi handed the blood to the two men, collected the money as usual, returned to the room, dragged out a black box from under the bed, opened it and started the operation.

The next morning.

Brother Li handed a tube of injection to the two people who had been following Wang Qi and instructed: "Dispose of it cleanly."

As soon as the two took it, the lights on the ceiling suddenly went out and the room fell into darkness.

Li Ge's expression suddenly changed, "What's going on?"

Soon someone came to inform us that there was a problem with the power system and the entire institute was without power.

"Awooo~" A few wolf howls echoed not far away.

Someone else reported: "The access control is broken! The animals are running out!"

As soon as he finished speaking, several crazy honey badger rushed into the room and ran all over the floor. Brother Li was clawed on the face and cursed, "Damn beasts! Who the hell injected them with the reagent? Didn't I tell you not to move for now?" Then he was clawed again.

No one answered him. At this moment, the research institute was in chaos.

On the other side, Lu Zhiluan rushed out immediately after the power went out.

System: [Host, there are suddenly many crazy animals in the research institute! ]

The roars of tigers and howls of wolves echoed throughout the entire research institute, and Lu Zhilan looked very ugly.

Danger is detected ahead, and the system panics and reminds: Don’t stay in the corridor, find a room to hide! A small group of wolves is coming here! "

Lu Zhiluan slammed on the brakes, felt for a nearby door that was not closed tightly, and hid inside.

With a "click", the door behind me closed automatically.

A few seconds later, several wolves with ferocious eyes stopped outside the door and anxiously pressed against it, as if they smelled human presence inside.

Lu Zhiluan leaned his back against the door and slowly calmed his rapid breathing.

Suddenly, his eyes fell on the bed in front of him, where a person was lying.

Part of the power supply in this room seems to be independent of the institute, and the surrounding instruments are still operating smoothly.

There was a light on right above the bed, bright enough for Lu Zhiluan to see clearly when he got closer. The person lying there was Jing Miao.