Snake

Behind the airtight door, there is darkness.

"Hiss, why is it so dark in here?"

Xu Cheng searched for a long time before he found a faintly glowing spot on the wall. He reached out and pressed it, and the surroundings lit up in the blink of an eye.

[Hey, what is that? Its ears are so long, is it a rabbit?]

Just as the light came on, a furry thing flew up and hit his hand directly. Xu Cheng reacted very quickly and grabbed it by the ear according to Luo Tan's instructions.

He looked at the animal in his hand, which had red eyes, saliva between its teeth, and a ferocious look on its face, and was stunned.

The animal in front of me is not a rabbit, or rather, except for a pair of long ears that look like a rabbit, it has nothing to do with a rabbit.

It has a gray-pink oval body like a piglet, two long and pointed large incisors sticking out of its mouth, and bean-shaped eyes.

Is this a rat? But it doesn't look like one.

But why do mice have rabbit ears?

Xu Chenglian felt a chill in his heart when he thought of the winged leopard he saw on the beach that day.

The strange animal struggled violently between his fingers, and when he relaxed his grip slightly due to a moment of absent-mindedness, it jumped to the ground, squeaking and ran away.

[Hey, why are there so many strange creatures here, mice with rabbit ears, cats with wings, huge sparrows... Is this Alice in Wonderland? ]

Alice in Wonderland?

What is that?

Everyone looked at each other, all confused.

But since there are so many unusual creatures, we still have to be careful and concentrate.

They were currently in a long and narrow corridor, with a number of laboratory doors unevenly distributed on both sides of the corridor. Xu Cheng tried to push the door closest to them, and this time, the door was not locked.

When the door was opened——

"Ahhhh! What's biting me?"

"What is this?"

Xu Cheng looked down and saw that the entire laboratory was densely packed with the mice with rabbit ears that he had just seen. They scattered and rioted when they saw people coming, making it impossible for people to move around and making their scalps tingle.

He suddenly felt a pain on the tip of his foot. A mouse had bitten his foot, and another mouse had somehow climbed up and left two tooth marks on his arm.

He shook it gently, trying to shake the mouse off, but the mouse remained unmoved. He then grabbed the mouse with his hands and increased his strength, but the mouse seemed to feel no pain and kept biting him tightly, making a squeaking sound.

There is a poster on the wall:

The species cultivated in this laboratory is a mutant of naked mole rats that has grown rabbit ears.

Naked mole rat? What is that?

[Hey, the name naked mole rat sounds familiar. Let me check my system. It is said to be the toughest mammal. It can hardly feel pain and can stay in an oxygen-free environment for five hours! But their vision and hearing are extremely poor. After all, if their hearing is sensitive, their screams can deafen themselves! But why do they have rabbit ears attached to them? Do they want to make their hearing more sensitive? ]

Sure enough, Xu Cheng carefully observed these naked mole rats that were forcibly fitted with rabbit ears and found that they looked extremely painful, which is why they bite people when they see them.

"Get out first!"

Everyone rushed out in a hurry and tried to take off the mole that was biting on their bodies. A few moles also ran out, and with noisy squeaking sounds, they ran to the end of the corridor and disappeared.

Next, they saw a cat with wings.

A pile of experimental reports on the table read:

"According to legend, angel cats are mythical beasts that bring luck. Therefore, a major customer placed an order with us for an angel cat to celebrate the birthday of his seriously ill child."

In the specific experimental process, every word was shocking and deeply hurt Xu Cheng's eyes:

"We initially followed the client's instructions and used the wings of a snowy owl, but the result was not good, so we tried the wings of albatrosses, swans and other animals... Although tens of thousands of cats and thousands of birds were lost, we finally succeeded in creating the angel cat."

"The client was happy, but his child died before his birthday."

"This angel cat needs to be destroyed and buried with him."

In the cage hanging on the wall, the snow-white cat was skinny, with its fur hanging in clumps on its body. The ends of the two wings that were forcibly installed behind it had blood marks on them, which looked like the injuries were caused by it tearing itself.

When the cat saw the person coming, it didn't make a sound and its blue eyes were dull.

Someone cursed: "These people are such scum!"

Xu Cheng led his men through the long and narrow corridor. As they walked, they used cameras to record everything they saw. After they went out, once these materials were made public, the parachute company would definitely pay the price.

until--

[Eh, is this GIF so careless? Is the background copied and pasted? I have seen this chair on the left side of the corridor three times, hahahaha.]

Xu Cheng stopped suddenly.

Everyone's eyes were simultaneously cast towards the chair twenty meters away.

"Have we seen it before?"

"Tsk tsk, I think I've seen it before."

"But I remember the last time we saw this chair, the last person to see it was a butterfly that grew bigger?"

Xu Cheng turned around. They had just entered the laboratory behind them. As soon as the door was opened, everyone retreated in disgust. In the glass culture dishes, there were pythons of various colors everywhere, but the difference was that they were just pythons.

Since they came in, they have walked along the corridor for a long, long time. The corridor ahead looks endless, as if there is no end.

Along the way, they came across some laboratories breeding the same animals, but he thought it was simply because those animals were more worth breeding.

Could it be that they have been walking the same path over and over again?

At this moment, the most reassuring female voice sounded——

[Wow, I know why there are still a group of pythons in the laboratory. This is too outrageous! It turns out that these pythons are not raw materials or products of animal experiments, but are prepared for someone! ]

Everyone had doubts at the same time:

Who is it for? Who needs a python?

[It turns out that the founder of Parachute was addicted to experimenting with snakes. One time, he was accidentally sprayed with venom from a venomous snake on his face and body, and large areas of his skin were corroded. Later, in order to take revenge and save himself, he transplanted snake skin to replace his skin.]

Oh no.

Everyone who heard it was shocked.

As a leading biotech company, it is very strange that the founder of Parachute Corporation wears a mask every day. Whenever a reporter asked about it, Parachute's official response was that the founder wanted to keep a low profile and not be recognized in the market.

Now that I think about it... this is just complete nonsense!

If he really had snake skin on his face, he would probably be the focus of everyone's attention as soon as he went out, let alone in the market!

[However, the experiment he did back then was too childish, hahahaha! ]

Although the underground is still in crisis, it is human nature to eat melons, and everyone can't help but prick up their ears, wanting to hear what kind of outrageous experiments the initiator of such a cruel crime could have done when he was young.

[He actually let the snake's head bite his tail and tried to sew them together to complete self-sufficient evolution. Is this something a human can do? No wonder the group of snakes sprayed venom on his face! Can snakes tolerate this? ]

Snake!

An idea suddenly came to Xu Cheng's mind, and he turned around reflexively to look at the corridor behind him. Just like the one in front of him, the corridor behind him was long and narrow with no end in sight.

Previously he had thought it was because they had traveled so much.

At this moment, he suddenly thought of another possibility.

It is known that the founder of Parachute was obsessed with creating the Snake.

The self-eating snake symbolizes self-destruction, self-rebirth, and an infinite cycle.

Then, will the path they are taking also adopt the concept of the Snake?

Is it a Möbius strip?