An Zhe fell asleep in Lu Xun's car.
He woke up because he felt danger intuitively. Then he looked up and found that the car had stopped at the door of the lighthouse, and the colonel had opened the door on his side and was looking down at him.
"Didn't you sleep last night?" The colonel's voice was cold enough to freeze.
An Zhe was still in a state of conscious. He rubbed his eyes to wake himself up and then got out of the car.
——As a result, because he was so sleepy that he staggered and couldn't stand steadily, he fell forward on Lu Xun.
A pair of strong arms supported him, and An Zhe finally stood steadily without falling, but he also woke up a lot.
The inside of the lighthouse was as quiet and busy as ever. As they walked along the corridor on the first floor, four soldiers were carrying two bodies covered with white cloth. Seran was beside them. His face was a little pale. When he looked at Lu Xun, he simply said, "The experiment accident has been exposed."
Lu Xun nodded slightly and took An Zhe to the elevator on the tenth floor.
Dr. Ji stood in the middle of the corridor on the tenth floor: "You are here."
Lu Xun said, "What's the matter?"
"I'll borrow your little cutie for a while." The doctor turned to An Zhe and said, "Come with me."
An Zhe didn't think that he had become Lu Xun's property, but he still followed.
The doctor took him to the familiar laboratory where Si Nan was locked up.
Through the transparent glass airtight wall, An Zhe saw Si Nan.
But it was not Si Nan either.
An Zhe walked to the glass wall.
Inside was a black insect.
It was a little bigger than Si Nan's original size, half the size of an adult. There were
two black compound eyes on the top of its head, flowing with a dark silver color under the light. Between the two compound eyes, on the top of its head, a pair of slender antennae stretched out, and its back dragged long translucent wings. Its abdomen was slender and covered with some dark gray hairs, and similar hairs also covered its chelicerae.
Like a bee.
At this moment, it was flying around in this transparent cage, hitting the glass wall constantly, as if trying to escape, but its chest, abdomen, and limbs were shaking and trembling, as if it was in great pain.
"Its condition is abnormal, and its brain waves are very different from the past records in the database. I suspect it still has a human consciousness, and it is fighting against the instincts of alien species." The doctor said, "But none of us can communicate with it effectively, so I want you to try."
An Zhe stood in front of the communicator again.
"Sinan." He said.
Si Nan's elytra fluttered, making a rustling sound. He seemed to hear nothing and was still flying around randomly in the space.
But An Zhe was sure that at one moment, the head with compound eyes looked in his direction.
"Si Nan," he said, "Do you remember Lily?"
The rustling sound stopped briefly, and after a moment, the gray bee hit the glass wall more violently.
He looked at Si Nan and said softly, "Do you have anything to say to her?"
Si Nan's wings trembled wildly, but he had no human vocal organs, and all he showed to the doctor were the irregular troughs and peaks on the radio wave graph.
Dr. Ji said, "The radio waves change, and he can understand. Who is Lily?"
An Zhe's eyes were slightly blank.
His conversation with Lily was an unknown secret, but there was no other way now.
An hour later, there was a gentle knock on the door of the laboratory.
An Zhe turned his head.
The first thing that caught his eye was a snow-white skirt.
"Mr. Lu?" Dr. Ji's voice was slightly surprised, "Why are you here?"
An Zhe raised his head, and a lady with an elegant and gentle posture came in.
She had long black hair, which was loosely tied into a bun behind her head. She was wearing a light blue mask, and An Zhe could only see a pair of gentle black eyes.
She was slightly plump, which made her temperament more kind.
The girl she was holding with her right hand was Lily, and two Eden staff members followed her on the left and right.
"The distortion rate of Eden has increased in the past three months. I must hand over the report to Lighthouse in person and ask them to make a decision." She said, "It just so happens that Lighthouse wants Lily to assist in a certain project, so I'm sending her here on the way."
Dr. Ji said, "Thank you for your help."
"This is an exceptional outing," Mrs. Lu handed Lily to Dr. Ji, "Please treat her well."
"Please rest assured."
After they handed over, Mrs. Lu turned his head slowly.
Lu Xun was on one side of the room. He looked at her as soon as the laboratory door was opened.
"You are here too," she said.
Lu Xun lowered his eyes slightly and said, "Mother."
"It seems to be a very important research." Mrs. Lu looked at him.
At this moment, they were standing at the door of the room, one at the diagonal corner of the room, and their eyes met. Mrs. Lu's expression was gentle, and Lu Xun's eyes were calm.
An Zhe witnessed this scene, and his intuition told him that there was some unknown undercurrent in this eye contact, but he couldn't understand it.
About ten seconds later, Mrs. Lu said, "I should go."
One of the two staff members stopped her and turned around. The two of them protected her tightly.
The footsteps faded away, and Dr. Ji closed the door.
"Today is the 35th day of Mrs. Lu's work for the Garden of Eden." His eyes seemed confused: "She is really a great woman, why don't you say a few more words to her?"
Lu Xun looked at the tightly closed silver door: "We haven't seen each other for a long time."
"Then you should say a few more words to her. Have these works in the Trial Court made you so cold-blooded and ruthless?" Dr. Ji said: "Remember when I was a child, I helped you mess up twenty floors of surveillance so that you could go to see her often-the candy that my wife gave me was delicious."
"Dr. Ji," Lu Xun said lightly, "it won't do you any harm to talk less."
Dr. Ji shrugged.
Three seconds later, he suddenly said, "I did a really flawless job back then. You say, after so many days, has the surveillance been fixed?"
Lu Xun looked at Lily, then looked at An Zhe who was looking at Lily, and said, "It seems not."
- Lily had already slumped on the glass wall.
Her eyes looked at the bee-like alien behind the glass, and a kind of joy of seeing something new suddenly appeared in her always lifeless pupils: "Is this a bee?"
The gray bee slumped on the glass wall, facing her, and its movements finally stopped for a moment, but after a moment it fell into painful convulsions again.
"It looks like it's in pain." Lily looked at Anzhe. She obviously recognized him and asked him, "Did you ask me to come and see the bees?"
Anzhe whispered, "It's Si Nan."
Lily was stunned for a moment. Just when Anzhe thought she was going to look sad, she suddenly laughed.
"Si Nan." She said to the gray bee through the glass wall, "You can fly."
There was no fear or strangeness in her eyes. She had never seen a monster killing a bee, nor had she been warned to stay away from alien species. There was nothing wrong in the eyes of bees and children.
She was not even surprised that Si Nan suddenly turned into a bee - probably because, in the eyes of a young bee, the whole world was so unpredictable.
"It's messed up again," the doctor looked at the instrument, "but it's only been three seconds, and its radio waves are very close to humans."
Dr. Ji patted Lily on the shoulder: "Lily, do us a favor."
Lily: "What favor?"
"Sinan's consciousness is fighting with the consciousness of the bees. Maybe you can help him wake up. Can you keep talking to him?"
"Yes," Lily said, "Can you turn me into a bee too?"
"If you turn into a bee too, Eden will shoot me." The doctor said: "It would be better if you can communicate with him. We have to know how he was infected. The source of infection is in Eden, but it has not been found yet. Only by finding it as soon as possible can we ensure the safety of the main city."
"Okay," Lily put her hand against the glass wall, "then will you reward me?"
Dr. Ji said gently, "What do you want?"
"I don't want to stay on the 20th floor," Lily put her cheek against the glass, "Can you rescue me out?"
"Sorry." The doctor said, "This is beyond my ability."
"Okay, I guess." Lily looked back at the gray bee: "I will try my best."
She did work hard for a whole afternoon, but Si Nan's condition was up and down, and he only gave normal feedback a few times, but according to Dr. Ji, the situation was much better than before, and he decided to continue inviting Lily over tomorrow.
The doctor had other busy research tasks, and Lily didn't like to communicate with others, so in the next few days, Anzhe had to accompany Lily and Sinan in the lighthouse. At
seven o'clock in the evening, Lily's physical strength and energy as a child had been exhausted. She was sent back to the Garden of Eden, and Anzhe could also go off work. He
fell asleep in the car at noon and was beaten by Lu Xun once. This time he learned his lesson and spent the whole journey soberly, got off the car soberly, and took the elevator with Lu Xun to the 37th floor soberly.
Similarly, he also faced his door soberly.
A closed door.
One second, two seconds, three seconds.
Until Lu Xun's slightly smiling voice rang behind him: "Why don't you go in?"
An Zhe took a deep breath.
Going into the pipeline last night was one of the two most wrong decisions he had ever made in his life. The other decision was to go to the windy wilderness on the night of February 14th.
He regretted it very much.
The colonel certainly understood the dilemma he was facing. He said lightly: "You can reissue the ID card at the city office in the main city. The duration is three days, and you can find a place to live by yourself."
After that, he calmly swiped open his door, walked in, and made a gesture to close the door.
An Zhe turned around and looked at him, frowning slightly, biting his lower lip lightly, with a tangled look, as if thinking about something.
But Lu Xun didn't say anything, just looked at him calmly.
Time passed quietly.
An Zhe turned around and pressed the elevator button.
"Then I'll go find Seran."