anaesthetization

While Yu Mo and Lorraine were talking, Ivy's mind was full of the word "run".

The two of them often used sharp language to attack each other. At many moments, Ivy was not sure whose side to stand on. Their logic was very convincing.

Today is different.

Xin Lan's voice successfully stopped Ivy from running away. She stopped and turned around, and saw Lorraine, whose face was pale and she was covering her abdomen.

Yu Mo on the opposite side looked innocent, holding a piece of thin ice stained with blood in his hand. He frowned slightly, and was stunned for a while before dropping the ice in his hand.

With her long silver hair swung behind her, her pair of tsavorite-like light green eyes were filled with astonishment. She dropped the ice flakes in her hand and explained to Ivy.

"He stuffed it into my mouth," Yu Mo frowned, adapting to the role of being framed awkwardly, "This is his self-torture trick——"

Ivy didn't talk to Yu Mo. Her attention was all on the wound on Lorraine's abdomen.

Xin Lan was one step ahead of her, removing the bandage and disinfectant alcohol from the first aid kit and giving it to him. Lorraine silently took the disinfectant gauze soaked with alcohol, pressed it on the wound, and threw it into the medical trash can beside her. Ivy clearly saw the scarlet marks on the gauze.

Hearing Yu Mo say this, Xin Lan looked at him in confusion: "You brought the ice here, and it's in your hands now, Doctor Yu Mo, I know you have a conflict with the admiral, but you wouldn't stab him and say it was a self-torture trick, right?"

Ivy looked at Lorraine's wound, the long strip of flesh and blood that was cut out by the metal blade, but he didn't care. He waved and motioned Ivy to come over.

"Your leg wound needs a bandage, too," Lorraine said. "Does it still hurt?"

"Don't worry about me now, my little wound is almost healed," Ivy said, "you are still bleeding--"

She frowned and carefully reached out her hand, wanting to touch the wound on Luo Lin's body, but then retracted it. Now Ivy was sure that he was really innocent. What kind of self-torture? Luo Lin didn't show any pity at all, nor did he show a pitiful expression. He would never use this trick; but he didn't understand why Yu Mo wanted to hurt Luo Lin at this time.

This is not in line with Yu Mo's style of doing things. The current Yu Mo... feels different from when he first entered the dungeon.

Yu Mo grabbed Ivy's wrist to stop her from touching Lorraine.

He tried to keep Ivy awake and asked, "Are you fooled by this guy's sweet talk? He is lying to you and deliberately trying to make you feel sorry for him."

"No way," Ivy said. "Teachers never seek sympathy."

Lorraine is such a proud man, it would be better to kill him than to ask him to show weakness.

Ivy knew him too well.

"Then what motive did I have to hurt him?" Yu Mo said, "He had murderous intentions towards me."

"You can continue to make excuses, but I have other things to do and don't have time to play boring tricks with you," Lorraine said solemnly, "There are no surveillance devices here, so you can say whatever you want."

Yu Mo's eyes were like knives.

His fingertips were still stained with blood from Lorraine's wound, and the bright red color looked like a fresh scar.

"Ivy," Lorraine said, "I have no objection if you cooperate with Yu Mo--"

"Me and you," Ivy said. "I'm with you."

She repeated the words firmly and slowly: "You saved me once..."

"Yu Mo also saved you," Luo Lin said calmly. He just looked at Yu Mo coldly, "I don't need your 'reward', Ivy."

Ivy still chooses to be with Lorraine.

Yu Mo wanted to explain the matter of the ice skates. His eyes were filled with the pain of being schemed against by Lorraine - he had used this trick to deal with those two idiots, Song Feng and Song Xu, before. Ivy always stood by him without reservation.

Now, she began to defend others wholeheartedly.

Yu Mo couldn't accept this huge gap. It was like a child he had raised hugging someone else's legs and chasing after him, calling "Daddy, Daddy".

Yu Mo wanted to kill Luo Lin even more urgently.

This inconspicuous guy affected Ivy's emotional relationship with the man.

He wanted to grab Ivy's shoulders, but Ivy only avoided him.

"Don't touch me, Yu Mo," Ivy said, "No need to explain, I understand."

"What do you understand?" Yu Mo was surprised, "No, no, no, you don't understand——"

He also wanted to make it clear: "There is no reason for me to hurt him. If I wanted to hurt him, I should have stabbed him with a dagger instead of a painless ice cube..."

"Because you still need him," Ivy said, "You are still working together. Do you need Lorraine to help you open the laboratory door?"

Yu Mo said: "Can't you see that he has evil intentions towards me? Can't you see that he also has murderous intentions towards me?"

"Also?" Ivy asked, "Why do you use the word 'also'?"

Yu Mo found himself stumped by her question.

He could feel his heart burning, as if someone had poured a bowl of boiling hot water on it, making it difficult for him to breathe.

Ivy said, "You're not going to say that Lorraine wants to kill you?"

Yu Mo suddenly laughed.

He said, “He has already done that.”

Although it was a fact, Ivy had a look on her face that said, "What kind of lies are you telling?" She obviously didn't believe it. Not far away, Lorraine took a breath of cold air with restraint. Yu Mo saw that worried expression on Ivy's face again -

She turned and left very decisively.

——Since when did Ivy start to distrust him?

——What if I hadn't pushed her away again and again?

Day after day of emotional cleansing allowed Yu Mo to maintain a stable mood for a long time.

He could calmly break up with Ivy, calmly watch her cry because of the separation, calmly push away her when she approached him again and again, and calmly regard himself as her father, brother, guide, housekeeper, and nanny.

When Ivy followed Yuan's plan and married the guy who was ten years younger than her and had the strongest physique, Yu Mo was also at peace. As long as he underwent regular cleaning surgeries, Yu Mo could even calmly wait for the birth of Ivy and Lorraine's child and calmly observe and study the child as a new test subject.

Every time he developed impure emotions towards Ivy that he shouldn't have, he had to undergo emotional cleansing immediately - as the intervals between emotional cleansing became smaller and smaller, the 'meta' that realized that something was wrong implanted new, forced cleansing commands in him.

The last cleanup failed.

Not only did he fail, Yu Mo also erased the command to "regularly and automatically undergo emotional cleansing."

Emotions are truly an obstacle to human evolution.

Yu Mo thought, he raised his hand to cover his chest, feeling the continuous and slow pain in that heart, once, twice, like a needle stabbing and shooting, the pain was so severe that he could hardly breathe.

Emotions are terrible things.

He wanted to protect Ivy and not let her experience such pain.

The bag of ice that I was carrying for ice compress had slowly melted into water. Drip, drip, drip, the clear, cold liquid dripped down the edges of the plastic bag, gradually gathering into a small lake.

Yu Mo could only watch her walk towards Lorraine without looking back.

Lorraine simply treated the wound, and before Ivy could speak, he asked Ivy first.

"You really want to be with me?"

Xin Lan was very polite. As soon as the two met, she ran to get a new piece of gauze.

"Yes," Ivy nodded. She said, "My right wrist is injured. Now I can't use a gun, let alone heavy objects. Now I should be the weakest fighter in the whole team... Of course, I have to be with the strongest fighter to achieve balance."

This statement made Lorraine laugh: "Your description is very similar to the story of Tian Ji's Horse Race."

Ivy was still looking at the wound on his abdomen. There was not much disinfectant alcohol, so Lorraine simply used a little and wiped it; Yu Mo took out the ice chips from the sterile ice maker that was still in operation, intending to use them to apply cold compresses to the redness and swelling caused by bruises. They would not cause more serious infections, and it was clean and tidy.

She said, "I'm sorry, teacher. If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have to suffer this unprovoked disaster..."

"If it weren't for you, I would have come to the dungeon sooner or later. Don't take all the responsibility on yourself," Lorraine applied a layer of medicine on the wound. These potions can imitate coagulation cells and quickly stop the flow of blood. His tone was calm, "I need the data here."

——And the body of a good friend.

Even though we speak different languages, and even though we have different races and cultures, the most primitive emotions of human beings can still be understood and felt by each other.

Fallen leaves return to their roots, this point resonates in many cultural circles.

"Well," Ivy nodded. She lowered her head, thought for a while, and looked up. "I will help you."

Ivy has thought it through.

She owed Luo Lin so much, and the bone alone was so heavy that she couldn't return it. She couldn't learn from Nezha and give back the flesh to her mother and the bones to her father, could she?

Next, in a slow carpet search, Ivy put all her energy into carefully exploring every suspicious location. She also wanted to find the bodies of Lorraine's friends before the other two teams... If they had already turned into bones, it wouldn't be too bad; however, if these bodies still maintained their original appearance and someone discovered that there were two "Xin Lans", Lorraine and Xin Lan would be in big trouble.

Ivy didn't want either of them to get hurt—even if her own condition was in jeopardy.

The three separated teams finally reunited in the main control room on the second floor.

Song Xu was as happy as ever. He ran over and asked Lorraine if they could successfully obtain the desired data and information this time, could the members of their expedition team receive extra bonuses and rewards?

Luo Lin was observing the layout here. Facing Song Xu's inappropriate question, he was in a good mood and did not ask Song Xu to get out immediately. Instead, he asked one more question: "What other extra reward do you want?"

"Promotion," Song Xu said, "The promotion channels of the Iris Expedition Team are very limited. Is it possible for me to become the vice-captain of the Green Team? They seem to only have one vice-captain now."

Luo Lin glanced at him and Song Feng: "Given your current status, you two are most suitable to be the vice-captain of the kindergarten. You like to eat, sleep, play and cause trouble."

“…”

Song Xu returned to Song Feng in disappointment and heard the chattering of Song Feng's teeth.

"I'm going to kill him," Song Feng couldn't stand the insult anymore and whispered, "I will kill him sooner or later."

"Don't dream," Song Xu kindly reminded Song Feng, "You want to kill him? It's better to wait for him to die naturally. This may be the simplest method with the highest success rate."

The three teams had a brief exchange.

Lorraine relied on his memories of the past to touch the main control panel here; Dangdang relied on his excellent sense of smell, he said he could smell the scent of human beings here - as for Yu Mo, he said nothing.

It was the first time that Yu Mo experienced being wronged, and it was difficult for him to maintain a polite smile.

When Lorraine came over, he even silently moved a few steps to the other side, cautiously staying away from Lorraine to prevent the other party from handing him any bloody knives, ice spikes or the like.

The main control room's host screen still showed the "trolley problem", with five people tied to the track in the direction of the train's movement and one person on the side track.

Xin Lan checked the surrounding facilities and then told everyone.

"There is a liquid bomb underneath," Xin Lan easily figured out its structure and said calmly, "The bomb is connected to the question on the screen - if we answer it correctly, the bomb will automatically cut off the fuse, and we can remove it and open the door to the next level."

Anya asked, "What if the answer is wrong?"

"It will definitely explode immediately," Tsiri said unhappily, using the reflective surface of the silver metal to look at the scar on his face, "and then we'll all die here together, all together."

Ivy raised her hands. "We've already tried this once before—I chose to do nothing and let the train pass—and it failed."

Anya noticed the point: "We?"

She was still some distance away from Ivy.

The girl smelled so good, so good that Anya wanted to bite her fingers and her neck; this strong appetite that appeared in the competitor made Anya suppressed and helplessly angry.

Lorraine looked at Yu Mo.

Yu Mo was helpless: "Don't look at me. If I knew the answer, I would not choose to cooperate with you."

Xin Lan secretly gestured to Lorraine to prove that what Yu Mo said was indeed true.

Ivy responded to Anya: "Yes, this is why Teacher Lorraine and I hit rock bottom for the first time."

Anya stood up.

"That's all," she said. "I suggest that we all leave now. This is a philosophical question - let's go back and rest, and bring a philosopher over in a couple of days to solve the problem."

"Anyone who wants to quit can leave at any time," Luo Lin gestured to Xin Lan without looking up, his attention not on her, "Go slowly, watch your step."

Anya's feet seemed to have taken root in the ground. She stayed there stubbornly for a while, then left the laboratory without looking back.

No one chased her.

Ci Li clapped his hands, brushed back his red hair, and walked to the screen in a dashing manner.

"Hey, now that the result is out, isn't it easier?" Tsirri said, "It's just a choice between two options."

He clicked the button that controlled the track, and the train rumbled and changed its track. In order to save the five people who were tied up, he commanded the train to run over another person.

"In order to save the majority, the interests of a few can be sacrificed. We should consider the overall situation. That's all." Ci Li whistled and winked at Ivy. "Don't fall in love with me because of my handsome looks and smart brain, little girl - huh???"

Before he finished his words, a fiery red "error" suddenly popped up on the screen. At the same time, a shrill alarm sounded. Frightened Tsiri so much that he took a few steps back and was stunned to hear the cold mechanical sound.

"Wrong answer," the mechanical voice said, "You now have two more chances."

Ci Li stood there in shock, his red hair was so messy that it was about to split.

"Sacrificing a small number of people for the benefit of the majority?" Yu Mo maintained a polite smile and asked the people around him directly, "What's the difference between this and the Ouchi Hisahisa incident?"

Song Feng asked: "What is Ouchi Hisa?"

"The fatal Ouchi Hisa nuclear radiation death incident - every school will mention this incident when emphasizing the dangers of radiation. It seems that you didn't listen carefully," Tsuri, who has always been proud of his excellent grades, was the first to speak. "In 1999, workers who were carrying out uranium concentration made an operational error and poured in a solution that exceeded the specification, causing a critical reaction. At that time, an employee named Ouchi Hisa was exposed to Cherenkov blue light - this radiation content exceeded the lethal dose by five times."

This story was engraved in the science history elective textbook. Following some protests, it was gradually edited. Song Feng, who had not studied this in detail, asked, "Is he dead?"

"Dead? It's worse than death," Yu Mo sighed. "After being exposed to radiation, the chromosomes in Ouchi Hisa's body were almost completely dispersed. He was then sent to the treatment room by his country, and the most advanced medical resources were used to rescue him. He was repeatedly transplanted with hematopoietic stem cells and injected with adrenaline. In order to prevent his blood circulation from being blocked due to lying down for a long time, he was tied to a tilted bed-"

Song Xu opened his mouth wide: "Did he survive? No, with the medical conditions at the time..."

"He failed," Ivy said. She had read the history and knew the shocking ending. "He lived for 83 days. At first, his right hand was just red and swollen, similar to a burn. When he died, his body, which had been irradiated, had no intact skin. It had all rotted away."

Song Xu said: "Is this a rescue operation or some kind of observation experiment?"

Song Feng now understood why he had to talk about Da Nei for a long time.

"Because the government he was in needed to study data related to nuclear radiation, they forced him to 'stay alive', record him, observe him, and watch him die in pain and decay," Ivy said hastily, "...If we decide the life of another unrelated person so easily, what is the difference between this insane decision?"

Lorraine looked at Ivy and didn't move.

"Well," Yu Mo lowered his eyelashes and smiled softly, "I believe that there will be a better solution for everything, so this trolley problem is also true."

He walked to the screen, raised his hand and tapped the little man who was tied up alone, moved him to the track where five people were lying side by side, and then changed the direction of the train.

The train rumbled forward and left the empty track.

"Okay, there's no need to sacrifice anyone," Yu Mo said with a smile, "We can solve this problem perfectly now—"

Before he finished speaking, a new train suddenly appeared on the screen and ran over the six people on the track, with blood covering the entire screen.

The room was completely silent.

The cold mechanical reminder sounded again.

"Wrong answer," the mechanical voice said, "You now have one last chance."

Last chance!

Ivy immediately looked at Lorraine, only to see him gathered together with Dangdang and Xin Lan. Xin Lan had turned on the mini computer he was carrying with him, and no one knew what they were talking about.

Tsiri was already impatient. He urged: "Lorraine? What do you want to choose? Or do you choose here alone while we all leave? I guess you will put the six people together and drive your car to kill them all. You are here to take revenge on this society..."

Ivy didn't say anything. She was also waiting for Lorraine's choice.

What will he choose?

Obviously, there are already three wrong answers. Doing nothing, sacrificing a small number of people, or moving everyone away with a "golden finger" cannot solve this ethical problem.

After a moment, Lorraine approached the screen with a chip in hand.

He ignored the "trolley problem" on the screen and calmly inserted the chip in his hand into the interface. The screen suddenly turned black, and lines of purple code quickly popped out, like insects, quickly devouring the original code structure of the machine.

"Why are you still using the same trick from the escape room?" Lorraine looked at the stunned others in the room calmly, "It would be easier to just hack it."

Ivy: “…”

The last code on the screen was eaten up, and with two beeps, Xin Lan and the flexible Dangdang quickly drilled in and quickly disassembled the □□ that unhooked the detonator from below.

Ivy leaned over nervously, wanting to see what was going on, only to hear Xin Lan's surprised voice: "There really is a hidden password cabinet here!"

"Be careful," Lorraine warned, "Don't touch—"

"--I'm sorry," he apologized with a muffled voice, "I bumped into it by accident."

After saying this, the room they were in suddenly shook violently, and rocks fell from the ceiling, hitting the defenseless Dangdang, causing his legs to curl up in pain and unable to move. Seeing that the situation was not good, Song Xu dragged Song Feng to take a few quick steps, and Luo Lin also pushed Ivy hard, pushing her to a safe direction: "Run!"

Ivis did not hesitate. Her left hand still had strength enough to lift Dangdang, whose leg was injured by a rock, and she pulled him up and ran out.

In this crumbling room, only Yu Mo and Luo Lin were still standing.

Lorraine saw the host hard drive that stored the data he had always wanted. It was in the password cabinet that was slowly opening. Xin Lan was close by. He faithfully followed Lorraine's orders and reached out to open it.

"It will take some time to dismantle it successfully," Xin Lan said. "According to calculations, within three minutes, this room will completely collapse in the shaking, and it will take me at least 151 seconds to get the hard drive."

Lorraine asked: "Have all your memories been uploaded to the cloud?"

"Yes, Master," Xin Lan said, "I hope you can buy me a stronger body."

"Well," Lorraine knelt on one knee, looking at Xin Lan on the ground, raised his hand to move a stone slab pressing on his leg, and his black leather gloves were scratched by the sharp edges of the stone; they all knew that this was useless, the body of the bionic man was not as strong as that of a human, and was more easily damaged and destroyed. The floor was swallowing Xin Lan madly, and Xin Lan could not move. He could only rely on this swallowed posture to get the hard drive - since following Lorraine into the dangerous dungeon, Xin Lan was ready to change his body, "I will keep all your consciousness."

"Teacher? Yu Mo? Why don't you come out? Come out!!"

Behind her, Ivy screamed in surprise. The room tilted and collapsed so badly that she could not hear any communication inside the room. She only saw Xin Lan still lying there, as if she had been hit by something.

She wanted to run over, but Song Xu hugged her tightly.

Yu Mo looked down at Luo Lin and Xin Lan.

He asked Lorraine: "Nothing can be more important than your data, right? Whether it's Xin Lan or Ivy, are they less important to you than the hard drive that stores your data now?"

"Go away," Lorraine said. "I'm not in the mood to talk to you about this."

"Dear Hector, Lorraine Hector, you have taken the lives of three friends on your shoulders. In order to accomplish your goal, have you now completely turned into a monster without any emotions?" Yu Mo leaned over. He didn't care about the countdown at the moment, but asked, "I gave you a chance - Lorraine, when you killed me and took the chip, you chose to read the laboratory-related information first, not Ivy, right? You didn't download all the data about her, so you still don't know what you missed - you don't know what qualities Ivy was given, in the part of the data that you didn't read first."

Xin Lan was still dismantling the hard drive, and the password box was gradually deforming. Even though Lorraine tried his best to cushion him with stones, he couldn't stop Xin Lan's hands from being slowly pinched and deformed. When they decided to lie on the twisted floor to get the chip, the two of them had already given up this body.

"Don't listen to him, Master," Xin Lan reminded Lorraine, the chip in his eye starting to turn red, "You made the right choice, and Miss Ivy was not hurt. Everything is fine—"

At this point, Xin Lan moved his arm with difficulty and handed the hard drive full of data to Luo Lin. He grinned and smiled. It might be the last smile this body made. He was still so polite: "Success, Master, take it away quickly - don't forget to give me a body with lower body fat percentage, better muscles, and stronger chirping."

"I will," Lorraine promised again. He said simply, "Fall into hibernation, Xin Lan."

The surging rocks completely wrapped Xin Lan's body. Lorraine got the hard drive containing the valuable data and just stood up when he heard Yu Mo's voice.

"Are you sure Ivy wasn't hurt? Are you sure that hiding the truth from her and closing your heart won't cause her pain? Your arrogance, arrogance, arbitrariness, and dictatorship—" Yu Mo said coldly, "Look back."

Lorraine turned around and saw Ivy punching Song Xu three times, then broke free from Song Xu's restraints and ran towards this side as if she didn't care about her life.

——She is always like this, not taking care of her own body for the sake of others.

Lorraine sighed helplessly. As soon as he took a step, he realized something was wrong.

The hard drive in his hand was coated with a strong anesthetic, and Lorraine's glove was cut when he helped Xin Lan turn over the stone just now.

Xin Lan is a bionic man, so anesthetics have no effect on him.

Lorraine is human.

The strong anesthetic drug quickly penetrated the skin, and Lorraine's body stiffened and he fell to the ground uncontrollably. Almost instantly, he knelt on the ground.

Ivy came running and supported him in time.

"Help me," Ivy yelled angrily, "What are you doing just standing there? You won't do anything unless you're scolded? Are you all masochists?"

Ci Li and Song Feng ran over quickly, lifted Lorraine up, and quickly carried him to a safe area outside the room. Dangdang, who had injured his leg, dragged Song Xu, whose face was swollen, to stop him from taking risks.

Lorraine was still conscious, but his body began to become completely numb. He saw Ivy still in the room, staring at Xin Lan who was gradually being swallowed up by the stones and the floor, and understood what she wanted to do.

--No.

——Don’t go.

Lorraine couldn't make any sound, but he was conscious enough to hear Yu Mo telling Ivy a new lie.

"The bodies of Lorraine's two friends are down there. Xin Lan is also stuck now, and Lorraine is also injured. Our best option is to take Lorraine away from here. Xin Lan can also get a new body."

"But she may be unconscious," Ivy rolled up her sleeves. Her right hand was still weak, but she didn't care anymore. She said firmly, "I want to save Xin Lan."

She suddenly ran to where Xin Lan was, knelt on the cold, still curled and deformed ground, and tried to move the stone pressing on him and move Xin Lan out of the gap.

Her fingers were sore from scratching, and her right wrist, which had not yet recovered, was bearing the heavy force. Ivy gritted her teeth and held on. Bionics can store memories and change new bodies, but what about consciousness? What about Xin Lan's self-consciousness? Can it be inherited smoothly? The textbooks she learned never mentioned this, and the ban on bionics meant that "consciousness" would not be inherited to the new body. What should Lorraine do if Xin Lan, after changing her body, is no longer the current Xin Lan?

——This is Lorraine's best and perhaps only friend.

——Lorraine has too few friends, and he is so arrogant and rarely gives his true heart to others. He cannot afford to lose them again.

Also, Lorraine said that his important mission here was to find data chips and the bodies of his friends; in order to conceive her, 'Yuan' lured and killed Lorraine's two friends and took away his leg bones.

Ivy wanted to give it back to him.

If you can't give back the bones, then give back something else.

She couldn't afford to owe him any more.

The floor beneath her feet was shaking more and more violently, but Xin Lan didn't make any sound. He was as quiet as if he was dead. Ivy was not sure whether he was in a coma or not. She struggled to turn over the stones with her hands, thinking only of saving him, saving him, saving him.

The dawn is just around the corner.

Ivy happily turned over the last stone that was pressing on Xin Lan's leg. Just as she tried to pick up Xin Lan, whose leg bones were deformed, she heard a loud bang -

She fell to her knees uncontrollably, feeling the room completely collapse.

The heart-wrenching cries of Song Xu and others behind him were drowned out by the rumbling sound of the house collapsing. Even Yu Mo fell to another corner in order to avoid the rubble.

In the last second before her consciousness faded, Ivy thought regretfully.

It’s a pity that Xin Lan was not rescued successfully.

——Lorraine is the only good friend who understands him and is willing to accompany him.

——If it weren’t for Xin Lan, he might really be alone in this world.

Poor thing, Lorraine.

You need someone again.