Chapter 100

Gray Egg didn't respond.

Wen Xin didn't know what happened to the eggs, so he asked again about the whereabouts of the scale vipers.

Who knew that halfway through the question, Huidan seemed to be unable to bear it and rolled away silently.

Ren Ping Wen Xin poked him several times, but he remained motionless, like a cold and aloof stone.

It seems not.

Wen Xin felt a little regretful. Seeing that the egg almost fell into the gap again, he quickly picked it up and tapped the tip of the eggshell lightly: "Okay, okay, don't be angry. I won't ask."

He wanted to find something to block the gap, but there were only paper towels and plastic clips in the room, which were not suitable for placing on the heating pipe, so he had to give up.

Wen Xin closed the observation window and went to check the condition of the other eggs.

After checking it out, he found that the only one that had self-awareness before it took shape was the gray egg.

The other eggs were in normal condition, they didn't move or roll around when poked.

Wen Xin looked at the incubator in front of him as if he had realized something.

The gray egg is special, maybe it is the key to leaving here.

Then he began to look around the nursery, looking for useful information.

There is a data rack on the table, which contains several professional books related to bioengineering, as well as some less important documents.

Wen Xin flipped through it and pulled out a tutorial book that specifically talked about how to raise eggs well.

The white cover only says the editor, but not the publisher or number of the book, so it is most likely internal information.

Wen Xin's eyes fell on the editor's column.

【Dr. Ann】

Leaving aside the prefix, there is only one character, is it a surname or a given name?

Wen Xin kept this question in mind, picked up the book "Efficient Cultivation of Mutant Eggs" and began to read it carefully.

There was still some time before dinner time, during which time Zhou Zhao came over once.

Zhou Zhao seemed very surprised to see Wen Xin still in the nursery A3.

He suspected that Wen Xin was up to something, and with a frown he checked from beginning to end.

However, he found that Wen Xin not only followed his requirements, recorded the data and registered the electronic files, but also readjusted the appropriate temperature and humidity for each incubator according to the growth status of the eggs.

Even the sterilization and disinfection were carried out without omission, and the dosage met the standards.

Zhou Zhao's expression changed, and he turned around with a 180-degree change in his attitude. He looked at Wen Xin amiably and said, "You did a good job. You will be in charge of the next batch of eggs."

Wen Xin and Zhou Zhao's eyes met.

At that moment, it seemed that the other party was not assigning a task, but was gratified that he had found a useful scapegoat and could dump his burdens on him.

Wen Xin raised his eyebrows slightly.

If his analysis was correct, taking care of the eggs was their current job, and the level of mutants that could be hatched was related to the career and future of the hatcher.

Everyone else was only paying attention to the eggs in the other two nurseries. An intern discovered that he was working in the A3 nursery and showed a sympathetic expression.

Zhou Zhao also gave him the job of incubation and care without hesitation.

Does this mean that, in the eyes of others, the eggs in this nursery are destined not to hatch high-level mutants?

Wen Xin first thought of the unusual gray eggs.

Judging from Zhou Zhao's expression as he discarded these eggs like trash, it was obvious that he was not aware of the specialness of the gray eggs.

Wen Xin wiped the deep thought in his eyes and agreed to the matter.

Zhou Zhao was so happy to see that he agreed that he took out something similar to a tablet from his briefcase without Wen Xin reminding him and found Wen Xin in the intern's resume.

Zhou Zhao glanced through it briefly and said, "It just so happens that you haven't chosen a nursery to work in yet, so I'll add an A3 for you... Why is even the column for responsible projects blank? What did you do when I asked you to choose research subjects?"

Wen Xin lowered his head timidly, looking a little helpless: "I don't know, no one has told me..."

Zhou Zhao was impatient to lecture him, but seeing that Wen Xin had taken over all the eggs, he was quite nice: "Alright, alright, I'll add them for you. Each intern can choose three eggs as their own project objects, you decide which three you want."

Wen Xin's eyes fell on the gray egg, but he first pointed to the white egg on the other side, and then pointed to the gray egg and the other egg in turn.

Zhou Zhao didn't say anything about the other two eggs, but when Wen Xin pointed to the gray egg, he kindly reminded him, "You chose this one? It's not good, and it may become a dead egg. I suggest you choose another one."

Wen Xin looked at Huidan with a hesitant look and said, "Just take it."

Zhou Zhao shrugged, not caring whether Wen Xin jumped into the fire pit or not, and chose the experiment number of Huidan.

"Okay, take a fingerprint here."

Wen Xin placed his finger on the fingerprint sensor, and with a ding sound, the words "Selected project successful" popped up on the electronic screen.

Zhou Zhao was the main person in charge of the A3 nursery, but he had no attachment to the nursery and left immediately, saying, "Okay, come back to me if anything happens."

The implication is, don't come unless there is something wrong.

Wen Xin continued to think, not knowing whether he would be called to the observation room again like today.

After Zhou Zhaoche left completely.

Click.

Wen Xin looked in the direction of the sound and found that it was Huidan who was banging against the observation window, repeatedly and anxiously.

Wen Xingang had read in a teaching supplement that random rolling of mutant eggs could cause embryo dislocation and make hatching difficult.

He quickly went up and opened the observation window to stop Dan's self-abuse.

But the gray egg was in good spirits, and it seemed that rolling around did not have much impact on it.

It pressed the eggshell against Wen Xin's palm and rubbed it very hard, trying to let Wen Xin's hand touch every inch of the eggshell.

Wen Xin reacted suddenly after Huidan did a series of inexplicable actions.

"You...are you trying to get rid of Zhou Zhao's scent?"

When Zhou Zhao suspected Wen Xin was causing trouble, he took out all the eggs and checked them.

Gray Egg shook his head and said nothing.

Wen Xin: “…”

It seems that Huidan's cleanliness obsession is not only directed at others, but also quite strict with himself.

He suddenly felt a little amused and pointed at the gray egg with his fingertips: "It's obviously an egg whose olfactory organs haven't developed fully, yet it has so many requirements."

Gray Egg rolled back to the center of the heating tube, refusing to accept Wen Xin's teasing.

In a blink of an eye, it was time for dinner and Wen Xin went to the cafeteria.

There are several assistant researchers like Zhou Zhao on the entire floor. They are all arrogant when facing interns and directly call them over to help when they see them.

Several interns who were walking in front of Wen Xin were called over.

The work could not be finished in a short time. Several interns had been busy all day and were tired and hungry. They looked embarrassed when they heard this.

The assistant researcher immediately got angry and asked in a deep voice, "Why, don't you want to stay here?"

Honestly speaking, after seeing the large number of corpses being disposed of in the incinerator, Wen Xin felt that this sentence was not a threat at all, but a life-saving measure.

But the interns didn’t seem to think so. They hurriedly said, “We’ll do it, right away!”

Seeing how terrified they were, Wen Xin couldn't help but wonder if they would encounter something bad if they left the base, such as being silenced.

If he encounters an intern leaving in the future, he can pay attention to it.

Although Wenxin has to take care of more than a dozen eggs by herself, the eggs don't make any noise. What needs to be paid attention to is that the eggs need to be gently turned over every one or two days to prevent the embryo from sticking to the egg membrane.

So considering it this way, it’s not that busy.

That's the end of the day.

Wen Xin had the key to the staff dormitory, but there was a simple folding bed in the nursery.

He asked the security guard in the building and found out that he didn't have to go back to the dormitory. So he decided to spend the night in the nursery and go back to the dormitory tomorrow night if nothing unexpected happened.

Wen Xin placed the folding bed in front of the incubator.

It wasn't that he wanted to keep the eggs under his nose, but this was the only place in the entire nursery that had space for a bed.

Wen Xin took a look when he passed by. The other two nurseries had more and more complicated instruments than A3, and the space was also larger, at least twice as large.

This indirectly reflects the fact that the eggs in room A3 are not valued.

If they are treated indifferently before hatching, can they still be valued and well cared for after hatching?

Although Wen Xin felt that this was an illusion, he couldn't help but sigh for these poor little guys.

When the lights were turned off, the warm yellow light illuminated the darkness.

It was too bright and disturbed his sleep, so Wen Xin turned over and faced the incubator.

What he didn't see was that the gray egg lying on the heating tube suddenly moved and quietly approached the observation window, with the eggshell sticking to the transparent glass.

She seemed to be looking at him silently.

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Wen Xin had a dream.

In the dream, there were people who were also swallowed by the black rift, and they were fighting against ferocious mutants.

A mutant tiger rushed over with its bloody mouth wide open. Wen Xin dodged subconsciously, but the person behind him failed to react in time and was bitten on the throat.

Hot blood gushed out, soaking Wen Xin's body.

Before he could figure out what was going on, he rubbed the blood on his hands and suddenly realized that the boiling temperature of the blood was so real.

Wen Xin suddenly raised his head and looked at the chaotic battlefield where screams and roars coexisted. He was suddenly frightened and broke out in a cold sweat.

This is not a dream?!

Mutants emerged continuously, from the hills on the mountain walls and from the brown-yellow soil. They appeared like a pool of irregular black asphalt, and took shape in an instant, biting the humans in front of them with their fangs and claws.

Wenxin conditions reflexively stepped back.

When he turned around, he found a huge dinosaur skeleton, like a monster covering the sky and the sun, standing in front of him.

At the same time, he saw a group of people resting at the feet of the skeleton.

The mutants didn't dare to approach the dinosaur skeleton, and that small area seemed to have become a rare safe zone.

Wen Xin ran over without much hesitation.

The person who was resting glanced at him, then lowered his head, extremely indifferent.

But some people also showed great enthusiasm for Wen Xin.

"It's you?" The mercenary shouted in surprise, "You're not dead yet, come here quickly, there's room here!"

Wen Xin couldn't remember who this person was: "Do we know each other?"

The mercenary smiled and said, "I don't know you, but if you hadn't led the way, I wouldn't have dared to go into the rift, and I would be dead now."

As soon as he said that, Wen Xin immediately remembered it.

Before entering the rift, the First Base started a massacre in order to block the news. A group of people retreated to the edge of the rift, but did not dare to step in.

Later, probably because he dared to take the risk, he mustered up the courage to step into the black rift.

Wen Xin didn't think it was his own credit that he chose to live, and shook his head: "What's going on now?"

The mercenary arrived before Wen Xin and figured out a little bit of the situation: "The day and night in the Black Rift seem to be divided into two spaces. During the day, we will be dragged into a base and play the role of interns inside."

"It will transform back at night, and the location is different. Look, it's right here. If you're slow to react, you'll be bitten to death by the mutants. I almost died when I first came here. This is such a pit."

Among the fighting crowd, Wen Xin saw a waterfall of water rushing to the sky and a rattan whip leaving afterimages.

"How did those people get their supernatural powers?"

The mercenary grinned: "This is the only good news. As long as you stay here, you can evolve into a superpower!"

"I didn't observe this myself, a friend of mine told me about it.

He said that no matter whether it is day or night, once dead, dead is dead.

Also, when you are an intern, you must be careful with your words and actions, not reveal your identity, and not be kicked out of the base, otherwise you will die on the spot."

Wen Xin quickly understood this huge amount of information: "Is the base an illusion, or is it a real place?"

"Some people speculate that it is a different dimension, but no one can give a definite answer."

"Everyone is on the same base?"

"It depends on the situation. Some people will be together, some will not. The starting point of their identities is interns."

Wen Xin asked some more questions and learned that they all chose the A1 and A2 nurseries.

The mercenary said, "The main thing is that we are in the A2 nursery when we first come out. If we want to go to A1, we need to fight for it. But even if we go there, we may not be able to choose the eggs inside. It is better to stay in our own territory to avoid violating the rules and being kicked out of the base."

Wen Xin asked doubtfully, "So, no one is in A3?"

"A3?" The mercenary frowned and thought for a moment. "No one there, I heard from the assistant researchers that the A3 nursery is full of defective products, and it is highly likely that nothing good will come out of it."

"They have invested a lot of money in this project, so they are reluctant to throw away even the second-rate eggs. They just try to hatch them."

Wen Xin understood what was going on and sincerely thanked the mercenary for telling him this information.

Hiring a mercenary was a little embarrassed: "Nowhere, no where."

Wen Xin raised his head and looked at the huge skeleton above his head.

The skeleton was several kilometers long. He stretched his neck but could only see a section of the cold, pale trunk.

I don’t know if there are other survivors living where the skeleton extends, and how many people have been swallowed by the black cracks.

The most important thing is, where is Xiao Hei? Where are A Lu and the others?

Wen Xin felt sleepy for no reason.

There were people all around, some of whom were folding their arms and taking a nap with their eyes closed. Wen Xin also slowly closed his eyes.

In the dim light, he seemed to hear the sound of a scale viper.

The Scaled Tree Viper anxiously told him that all of this was caused by Xiao Hei, including dragging people into the alien space shaped by Xiao Hei's memory.

It felt that Xiao Hei's aura was unusually violent, and it seemed that he had entered the critical moment of breaking through to his complete form.

S-level energy is constantly overflowing, and those humans are able to gain superpowers because their bodies are infected by Xiao Hei's energy, invisibly breaking through the boundaries of their bodies.

But there is a threshold to the amount of energy that the human body can absorb.

Previously, Xiao Hei was still conscious and controlled the speed of energy dissipation. Now the situation has changed and Xiao Hei's consciousness is becoming restless.

If you absorb the right amount of energy, you can evolve; if you absorb too much, you will explode.

If we delay for too long, not only those people, but even Wen Xin will be in danger.

This is why the scale viper is anxious.

The mutual repulsion between S-class and the top pressure of Xiao Hei's strongest mutant made it impossible for it and A Zi to interfere with the operation of the alien space.

We can only rely on Wen Xin to help Xiao Hei break through to the complete form and eliminate the alien space.

Wen Xin's heart tightened: "What should I do?"

"Calm it down, don't let it get irritated, you can be gentle."

The sound of the scale viper gradually became farther and farther away, as if it had reached the limit of what could be transmitted.

Wen Xin seized the opportunity to ask, "What was the experiment number before Xiao Hei was hatched?"

The scale viper didn't bother to hide its past and tried its best to answer.

"I can't remember, it should be, D55..."

In the early morning, the sun is dim.

Wen Xin suddenly opened his eyes.

The noise he made when he turned over was quite loud, and Huidan was awakened. He paused, and then, as if trying to cover up something, he slowly rolled back.

But Wen Xin didn't notice this little move.

His eyes were focused on the number on the gray egg incubator, which was in bold black: D55.

【Author’s words】

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