They lay quietly on a single bed that restrained their entire bodies. A thin transparent plastic tube was inserted into the top of each person's head. A substance similar to river water continuously flowed out of the thin tube and gathered together.
Finally, it evolved into a "river" gathering at the top of the ceiling! "What is this. What is here!"
Green muttered to himself, as if he had guessed something, and he felt that the world was so strange, and his body was just subconsciously retreating.
Zhu Long was already kneeling on the ground at this time. He stared blankly at the 42 former classmates through the transparent glass door. The college claimed that 40 of them had been expelled and resold, and two of them disappeared inexplicably in the college six days ago.
And now, they all lie here.
Lying there cold, dead, and without dignity!
"Don't stop, follow me, don't talk, and don't make any moves like you want to go in."
Levi's voice was exceptionally calm. He forcibly pulled the distraught Zhu Long up from the ground and continued to walk down the stairs.
Green also followed Levi with a confused look on his face. He didn't know what expression he should show on his face at this moment.
Was it anger, guilt, sadness, or something else? They continued to walk down, and this time they didn't walk for long before finally reaching the end.
There is no longer a staircase in front, but instead a sensor sliding glass door like the one above.
The space behind the door was very large. It was a very neat and clean laboratory. Various complex and sophisticated instruments were placed around it. There was also a huge operating table in the middle. Opposite the door where Levi and his team were, there was a long corridor with no end in sight.
There are many rooms in that corridor, and the one Levi and the others can see is just one of them.
In the far right corner of the room, in front of a large metal table, there were two people dressed in white isolation suits. They were using a hose to filter and screen the "river water" flowing over their heads and collect it into test tubes.
And on their finished product container shelf, there are 7 or 8 tubes of bright pink liquid solvent.
Anyone who has seen this thing will recognize it.
key.
It can help people with a foundation of natural knowledge to open the key to mastering the rules! Now, although they can't understand what the other raw materials are, the "rivers" flowing on the ceiling are actually taken from the minds of 42 special recruits!
Zhu Long and Green didn't know how they left the underground laboratory.
It was obvious that both of their mental states were severely impacted.
Especially Green, it was as if something inside him had collapsed. If Levi hadn't dragged him, he would not have been able to walk out of the laboratory below on his own.
On a quiet night, beside the sparkling river, the clock tower in the center of the college rang with dull bells.
Zhu Long slumped on the grass by the river, staring blankly at the River of Knowledge, which was claimed to flow with knowledge and truth.
Green lay there as if he had lost his soul, staring at the dark dome with empty eyes, no one knew what he was thinking.
Levi leaned on the bridge pier, looked at the reactions of Zhu Long and Green, and said softly.
"If you have anything to say, just say it. Don't keep it in your heart. We are safe here and no one will come to disturb us."
Zhu Long was the first to come to his senses. He slowly stood up from the ground and looked at Levi with his bloodshot eyes.
"There is no such thing as expulsion and resale, right? From ancient times to the present, all the special recruits who were nominally expelled from the academy have been made into keys like those people in the underground?"
"It's all lies! It's all lies!"
"The student union, the school board, and the faculty management committee of this college are all lying! They are using us as guinea pigs! They are using us as raw materials to master the rules! Yet they are still hypocritically using school rules as constraints and the so-called discipline as equality! We are just animals! In their eyes, we are animals to be raised and then killed!"
Zhu Long yelled out in vent.
He was breathing heavily, tears already flowing from his eyes without him knowing when. In the silence where no one answered him, he supported himself with his hands and knelt on the ground.
Originally, he had given up hope on this academy.
But only now did Zhu Long realize how much he had overestimated his despair.
Green climbed up from the grass.
His voice was trembling.
"I'm going to ask my mentor if he knows about this."
"Isn't your mentor the son of the school director? Why do you think we needed the school director-level permission card to enter the door just now?" Levi looked at Green and said calmly, "Your heart is already in turmoil, Minister Green."
"Don't mention this ridiculous name!"
Green said dejectedly.
"Minister of Discipline! Minister of Discipline! Whose discipline am I investigating? If all the keys are made of human lives, then the existence of so-called scientists is wrong! This academy has never been a holy place for the pursuit of truth, but a bloody slaughterhouse!"
"I, I am also an executioner, how ridiculous, and I am still pursuing fairness and justice, how ridiculous..."
Green raised his head, looking extremely haggard and embarrassed.
"I know about this. The decree signed by the school board passed through the student union. I thought it was a good thing for the special admissions students."
"Have you heard of the Changping Warehouse plan before?" Levi continued to ask.
This term was obviously unfamiliar to Green, and he shook his head in confusion.
"You can simply understand it as follows: due to the prevalence of cheating in the college over the years and the tacit approval of this matter by the higher-ups, the consumption of keys has increased year by year and the inventory has decreased. The college plans to directly harvest the top 5% of the special admissions students and turn them into raw materials for keys."
Zhu Long, who was originally kneeling on the ground, suddenly raised his head. Green also locked his pupils and looked at Levi with disbelief.
"The college currently has 130,000 special admissions students! The top 5% is 6,500 people!"
"These 6,500 people will be gathered together for a month of study, and then they will be screened again. They should have some requirements for the raw materials of the keys. It is estimated that about 3,000 people will be sent to the laboratory we just saw."
"3,000 people"
Green muttered the cold number.
There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!
"They want to kill 3,000 people at one time!" Zhu Long stared.
Levi looked at them.
"I think we might be able to save them."
Green turned his head and stared at Levi, and Zhu Long also looked at him absentmindedly.
Levi and Green looked at each other. The key to this matter lies in the discipline minister who has a noble status but is completely different from other people in the same class.
"Do you know about the escape of Zhulan Farmer?"
"I've read that news, but the situation at the academy is different from that at Zhulan. Zhulan is an agricultural resource city, and many stations were built to facilitate the transportation of agricultural products. The academy's stations are very concentrated, and there are only three of them. To enter and exit each station, you must have the corresponding authority. Special admissions students don't have this ability at all."
"Can you help them get permission?"
Levi's words stunned Green, but soon he took a deep breath, his eyes never hesitated, and he spoke with great determination.
"I can."
Then he seemed to want to continue discussing the feasibility of this idea with Levi.
"But the farmers in Zhulan were able to flee because they had their own leaders to organize them. What about the special recruits? I can help them, but how can they know and trust me to help them?"
Levi simply pointed at Zhu Long who was standing nearby.
“He can be that leader.”
After Green looked at Zhu Long again, a look of realization appeared on his face.
No wonder Levi brought Zhu Long with him tonight. He had already planned how to accomplish this matter and how likely it was to succeed.
Facing the gazes of the two, Zhu Long took a deep breath and spoke.
"With Jiang Qi, Hong Lili and a dozen other people, I can only gather people from our own class who trust us. All of them together only have one or two thousand people."
"That's enough. Face the reality. We can't save all the special admissions students."
Green frowned and suddenly shook his head.
"No, no! Special students are different from farmers. Even if they seize the intercity train and escape from the academy, the academy will never let them go! And where can they go next? To be laborers? To be farmers? Or to go somewhere else and wait to be oppressed to death?"
His words calmed down Zhu Long, who was originally agitated, as if he had been poured with a basin of cold water.
In response to his question, Levi calmly pointed to the quietly flowing river.
"key."
"Before they hijacked the car and left, they stole a batch of keys from the laboratory and let the special students who escaped from the academy take them away. With the keys, they become scientists and have the ability to control the rules. Everything will be different. They may be very weak at the beginning, but there will always be unlimited possibilities in the future."
"As for where to go, there are so many dungeons, you can go anywhere. But you can't go to the sun, at least not openly."
Both Zhu Long and Green were obviously shocked by Levi's idea.
They originally thought that organizing the special recruits to steal a car and escape from the academy was a bold enough idea, but Levi turned out to be much bolder than they imagined.
He actually wanted to snatch the key from that laboratory and take the escaped special recruits away with him! Green swallowed his saliva, turned his head, and looked at Zhu Long, who also turned around and looked at him.
They both saw the burning fire in each other's eyes! (End of this chapter)