Chapter 102

Wen Xin didn't know what the technological level of this research base was, but he had noticed it during his visits.

The exterior walls of the entire building are painted with a special fire-retardant paint, and the interior walls are made of a plastic silver-white alloy that is fireproof, waterproof and electrical-proof.

Each floor has an independent fire protection system, and the system will not be shut down due to a main switch failure. There are several teams of security guards inside and outside the building, patrolling every ten minutes, achieving a truly seamless system.

With these layers of security measures, 99% of the possibility of fire has been eliminated.

So it's not right - there's something wrong about a fire!

A strong sense of crisis flashed through Wen Xin's heart like a bolt of lightning, and he immediately jumped up from the folding bed.

Thick fog filled the room. Wen Xin quickly rushed into the bathroom and wrapped a towel soaked in cold water around his mouth and nose.

At the same time, he tore off his white coat and rubbed it a few times to allow the water to quickly soak into the fabric.

By the time Huidan was awakened by the sound of Wen Xin getting up, the fire had spread to the entire corridor.

The orange-red flames burned fiercely, the temperature around them rose rapidly, the air seemed to be distorted, and the whole room was as hot as an out-of-control steamer hell.

Gray Egg sensed the fierce fire outside and knocked on the observation window in confusion.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The shell of the gray egg is hard enough, but the incubator is harder than it.

At the beginning, considering that the mutants hatched from mutant eggs might be extremely ferocious and directly endanger the incubators, all incubators were made of special materials. The glass windows are as hard as diamonds. If you don't press the mechanism outside, you can't open it at all!

The gray egg knocked hard again and again, but the transparent observation window remained motionless.

It helplessly sensed the flames getting closer and closer to it, and suddenly felt a sense of panic as if the sky was falling.

How similar is this situation to what happened this morning when Ding Pingle roasted me at high temperature?

At this moment, the incubator was opened.

The gray egg that was shaking uncontrollably was picked up by a white, thin hand and placed into a white coat soaked in cold water.

The moist water vapor brought a hint of coolness, instantly blocking the high heat in the room.

The gray egg was pressed against the young man's chest.

It heard a gentle but firm voice above its head.

"It's okay, don't be afraid, I'm here."

In an instant, Gray Egg, who was almost in despair, found his own peace.

Wen Xin opened the other incubators one by one, not caring whether turning the eggs over would cause the embryos to be misplaced. He took them all out and put them one by one into his white coat. In less than two seconds, he folded them into the shape of a baby swaddle and tied them to his chest.

The door was blocked, and the fire looked like it came from the corridor.

Wen Xin quickly walked to the window sill, opened the window and looked out.

There was no thick smoke or flames downstairs, and he immediately confirmed that the source of the fire was on the floor where the nursery was located.

Looking down, the three teams of security who were supposed to be responsible for tonight's safety were now all lying on the ground in a row, unconscious.

This shows that the fire tonight was not an accident, but was most likely a surprise attack.

The moonlight is dim and dark clouds cover the sky.

Several flashlights shone from afar on the building where Wen Xin was, and finally someone discovered that an accident had occurred here.

The security guard was calling for help to put out the fire. Assistant researchers and interns all rushed over, their clothes untied and their hair in disarray. When they saw the fire on the nursery floor, they screamed and grabbed the fire extinguisher and ran to the corridor.

But the fire was too big and Wen Xin couldn't wait for them to come up and put it out.

It was a blessing in disguise that there was no fire downstairs.

He lowered his head to gauge the height and felt that the gray cub seemed to be shaking uneasily in his arms. He patted it with his backhand as a way of comforting it, and then turned over and went downstairs without hesitation.

Clang——!

The downpipe outside the wall suddenly took on the weight of an adult, making an unbearable sound.

Wen Xin's expression remained unchanged. She clamped her legs around the pipe, carefully protecting the eggs in her arms, and moved down little by little.

If nothing unexpected happens, at this speed, he will be able to land safely in just two minutes.

But the reality is that Wen Xin doesn't have an easy time.

The flames quickly spread into the A3 nursery, and after being exposed to high temperatures for a long time, those sophisticated instruments finally exploded.

The explosion caused a surging wave of fire, which rushed out of the window. The glass was overheated and exploded in all directions, stabbing towards the warmth below like a rain of knives!

"Be careful!" The interns below couldn't help but exclaim.

There was no place around Wen Xin to take advantage of the situation, so he acted decisively, leaning sideways and protecting his head with one arm.

The glass fragments cut his skin and blood flowed down the bloodstains. Wen Xin clenched his teeth tightly.

He let out a short, almost inaudible gasp until several pieces of glass almost pierced his palms.

The gray egg in the cradle trembled violently again.

Although the injury was serious, at least he avoided the risk of having his head split open.

After the rain of glass stopped falling, Wen Xin did not stop for even a second, enduring the pain and continued to move down.

Seeing this, others rushed to pick him up. The moment he landed smoothly on the ground, Wen Xin breathed a sigh of relief.

He didn't care about his own injuries, untied the swaddling clothes tied to his chest, and held the eggs in his arms. He looked up and asked the others: "Is there an incubator somewhere else? Now is the incubation period, they can't leave the incubator for too long."

The others remained motionless.

I don't know when it started, but I couldn't hear any sound around me.

People's faces showed either joy, sadness, or anxiety, but together with the blazing fire, they were frozen in mid-air like an oil painting.

Looking at the entire open space, it was like a movie was suddenly paused, full of dramatic absurdity.

Wen Xin's hands holding the eggs suddenly became lighter, and all the eggs disappeared.

The space before his eyes was filled with fine ripples, as if a stone had been thrown into a lake, causing ripples to form.

As the ripples covered Wen Xin's entire vision, the scene in front of him suddenly changed.

Wen Xin returned to the A3 nursery room once again. The silver-white alloy walls were glowing with a cool light.

There was no fire, and he was not wearing a white coat. In the silent nursery, more than a dozen incubators were operating normally, and the instruments were making ticking sounds.

Wen Xin had just escaped from the fire scene when he suddenly saw the peaceful scene of the past. He was a little slow to react.

Did he come to a new dimension or encounter an illusion?

Wen Xin pondered, walked to the incubator containing the gray eggs, and tentatively reached out to the observation window.

The result was nothing.

It seems to be the latter, and everything before my eyes is an illusion.

Just as Wen Xin was thinking this, the incandescent light on the ceiling suddenly flashed violently, and the whole room fell into darkness.

All of a sudden, from the corridor outside came the sounds of countless people shouting, arguing, and gathering footsteps, a chaotic noise mixed together.

"An unknown data source has invaded the base system. Quickly disconnect the control connection between the nursery and the central system!"

Following the shout, Wen Xin heard a clear and distinct sound of a door being cut off not far away. The sound was not small and came from the A1 nursery next door.

Not long after, the same sound of the door being shut down was heard from the A2 nursery adjacent to this room.

Only the incubator in the A3 nursery room continued to operate unchanged in the dark environment, with warm yellow light illuminating the floor.

Normally, a quieter environment can bring peace to people, but at this moment, the quietness around only made Wen Xin feel an indescribable feeling of palpitations in his heart.

He opened his mouth and shouted anxiously, "No one is here! The A3 nursery is still open! Someone come!"

But the warm voice spread out, but there was no response from the noisy outside.

He walked through the door and looked out into the busy corridor.

Assistant researchers and interns in white coats gathered in the A1 and A2 nurseries, nervously transferring the mutant eggs inside.

"There are still some unused incubators in the hatchery next door. Move them out quickly! Quick!"

Countless people were busy, but they all skipped the A3 nursery.

Wen Xin saw a familiar figure and rushed forward quickly, trying to stop Zhou Zhao who was running in front.

But Zhou Zhao was completely focused on the mutant egg in his hand. He ran without looking up and his body went straight through Wen Xin's arm.

Click!

A3 There was a slight sound coming from the nursery.

Logically speaking, Wen Xin shouldn't be able to hear such a faint sound in such a noisy environment.

But he heard it, the clicking sound lingered in his ears, becoming more and more continuous.

It was as if there was a being in the void that deliberately amplified the sound in his ears.

Wen Xin curled his fingers.

Having been with the gray egg for nearly a week, he could easily tell that it was the sound of the eggshell hitting the observation window.

The frequency of the collisions was very high, it was Gray Egg desperately calling for help.

Wen Xin's eyelashes trembled violently.

Reason told him that the past was of no use now because it was an illusion, or rather, it was the past that Xiao Hei had experienced.

But by the time he reacted, his feet had already reached the door of the A3 nursery.

Even though he realized that he might witness a cruel scene that would break his heart, Wen Xin did not want to timidly hide away when Huidan needed someone to accompany him.

But Xiao Hei gave in.

The existence that was fighting against the murderous nature cast a gentle glance from the void, and the scene suddenly changed.

When Wen Xin passed through the A3 nursery, he did not see the expected scene.

Time was gently moved forward, the chaotic night turned into the next morning, and the warm sunlight shone through the window into the messy room.

The sudden incident has been quelled.

There were large patches of burnt black marks on the alloy wall, and the pungent smell of gunpowder still lingered.

Wearing masks, the interns cleaned up the scrapped instruments after the explosion. A corner of the plastic plate was burned and fine paper ash was scattered everywhere.

The cracked or overcooked eggs were thrown on the floor like waste.

Zhou Zhao and another assistant researcher stood together, both looking extremely anxious.

The assistant researcher complained to him: "Why did you forget to disconnect the control system of the A3 nursery?"

Zhou Zhao ruffled his hair anxiously: "Fuck it, it was so urgent at that time, and I was also called over to help, who would care about this place?"

"But you are in charge of the A3 nursery..."

"How can I be responsible for more than a dozen eggs by myself? It's all because of those interns. They are so arrogant. If only one of them was willing to come to the A3 nursery and remind me when the incident happened, would there be such a thing?"

The assistant researcher didn't know what to say and just sighed.

The intern next to him saw Zhou Zhao's unhappy expression and asked cautiously what to do with the eggs that were in trouble.

Zhou Zhao: "What else can we do with it? Send it to the incinerator."

Hearing this, Wen Xin's heart felt as if it was suddenly grasped by a sharp claw.

The intern didn't dare to add fuel to Zhou Zhao's anger, so he just nodded in agreement without questioning.

No one in the white coats present noticed that a grayish egg in the pile of discarded mutant eggs moved weakly.

But Wen Xin saw it.

He saw the gray egg trying hard to prove its existence, but was thrown directly into the box by a careless intern.

Then several broken eggs fell down at once, drowning the small body of the gray egg and its weak and unappreciated struggle.

Then the intern carried the box full of waste eggs and walked towards the incinerator.

As workers passed by, they were carrying the bodies of those who died in yesterday's accident. The smell of blood filled the air, and the scent of death was always with them.

Until the interns walked into the incinerator, no one noticed that the gray egg was still alive.

Wen Xin wanted to follow in the footsteps of the interns and enter the factory, but was blocked by an invisible barrier and could not move forward.

Until a deafening sound was heard from the factory, as if the incinerator had exploded. Amid the chaos, someone screamed loudly—

"Something has hatched in the furnace. It's a mutant! At least an A-level mutant!"

That was the last scene Wen Xin saw in this illusion.

His consciousness quickly returned to his original body, and the moment his sight overlapped with the crowd, cold sweat flowed down his temples onto the egg in his arms.

The security guard manually activated the fire protection system on the floor and the fire was effectively stopped.

Wen Xin saw Zhou Zhao among the crowd rushing down.

The egg in the other person's arms had already cracked. It was not the high temperature that caused the egg to be unable to withstand the pressure, but the successive explosions of the instruments after being heated.

Zhou Zhaoru lost his parents and angrily yelled, "Who set the fire? Who set the fire?!"

There are many people who collapse like Zhou Zhao.

Now is the incubation period, the most critical moment for the mutant eggs. Their shells will become partially softened and cannot withstand any severe damage.

When the explosion occurred, only a small number of eggs survived, and most of them did not survive the sudden disaster.

Wen Xin swept through the mutant eggs that had suffered the consequences and couldn't help but sigh, but he didn't even glance at Zhou Zhao and the others in white coats.

He found the gray egg among the dozen eggs in the cradle, held the egg in his palm, and caressed every inch of the eggshell lovingly.

Finally, Wen Xin looked at the tip of the eggshell, identified that as the location of the little black forehead, stuck out his tongue, and licked the eggshell lightly.

In the mutant's body language, licking the forehead represents recognition and intimacy, and is also a silent comfort.

Wen Xin tried to use this method to soothe the ugly scars left in Xiao Hei's memory.

As he licked gently, there was a sudden soft clicking sound under his palm.

The gray egg cracked.

When mutants are born, they often cannot suppress their oppression very well, and in fact they don't know how to suppress it.

The moment they broke out of their shells, the mutants crossed the first boundary between life and death. Rather than hiding their existence in a low profile, they wanted to roar loudly, release their pressure in all directions, and inform the world of their arrival.

The pressure from the A-class mutant spread out like an invisible wave, affecting all the people running around and causing them to stagger on the spot.

They raised their heads in shock, looking at the gray egg held in Wen Xin's hands in disbelief.

Wen Xin's reaction was not much calmer than theirs.

When the eggshell cracked, he froze and his first reaction was that he had licked the egg too hard and cracked it.

But fortunately, the next second he saw a small black claw sticking out from the gap.

Wen Xin didn't dare to move.

No matter how rich his life experience was, he had no experience in delivering a mutant, and he was afraid that if he made any mistake, it would affect the birth of the little guy.

The little guy is more competitive than I thought.

It tried hard to use its head to push open the eggshell and crawled out, dripping wet. The fine scales on its body did not unfold and looked very soft.

Seeing this young version of Xiao Hei, Wen Xin couldn't contain his joy and reached out his hand, wanting to touch it.

However, the little black monster, whose eyes were closed, grabbed her wrist precisely.

It sniffed the warm hand carefully, then suddenly lowered its head and kissed the palm of the young man devoutly.

【Author’s words】

Thank you to the little angels who voted for me or irrigated me with nutrient solution during 2023-06-17 04:12:47~2023-06-18 02:29:30~

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