Chapter 244 Lizard 14
A strong wind suddenly arose, and the sky darkened, as if a dark cloud had settled over the forest. The rustling of fallen leaves was drowned out by Min Xi's high, piercing voice. He crouched on the ground, his pupils dark and shimmering, their eyeballs suffused with blood. The two colors collided, eerie and terrifying, exuding a bloodthirsty savagery.
Yu Mo noticed that the scales on Min Xi's body became harder and instantly raised their most powerful attack. Even the soft scales on his face seemed to have changed, and the intersection of the scales was particularly clear.
At this time, even if your vision is blurry, you can't mistake him for a human.
...It seems to be raining.
Yu Mo wiped off the wet marks, hardened her heart, and said, "I'm leaving soon. Protect yourself. This is an anesthetic and won't cause any harm to your body. You'll be back to normal soon... Min Xi, again... Ah!"
Before she could finish her words, Min Xi lunged at her. Yu Mo was horrified and instinctively stepped back, tripping over him. Min Xi gripped her ankle tightly, his nails piercing the hem of her skirt and seeping into her flesh.
Min Xi made a sound similar to a flattering purring. Usually when Yu Mo had insomnia, she would fall asleep quickly as long as she heard this soothing sound, but this time, Yu Mo was not soothed by him.
Because Min Xi's eyes were full of murderous intent, his palms tightly gripped her ankles, he was furious. Yu Mo even felt that he wanted to tear her apart, but he didn't do that, just kept making gurgling sounds...
"I'm sorry, Min Xi." Yu Mo looked him straight in the eye. "I have to leave. If they find out you're with me, you'll be arrested."
As the drug took effect, Min Xi became increasingly irritable, no longer trying to please her in a disguised manner. Instead, he howled in anger, sharply and loudly, as if telling her that he would tear her apart if she dared to leave him!
Yu Mo pried open his fingers, one by one, and Min Xi's desperate voice echoed through the woods.
"Don't shout, you'll be heard! Min Xi, be obedient!"
She pulled out a backpack, specially made for the research institute, with a secret lock inside, where all the medicines were stored. She pulled out a tranquilizer, met Min Xi's increasingly expectant gaze, and slowly approached him, covering his eyes with her palms. The needle pierced his flesh, and his sharp howls gradually faded...
Yu Mo dragged him to the side of the stone bed and piled dried weeds on him. When she left the cave, she looked back. Min Xi's eyes were red and he was forcing his eyelids to stay open. His clear and clean green pupils were like those of a bloodthirsty beast, filled with wildness and despair, and a hazy mist.
The cave was blocked by huge rocks.
Through the cracks, those eyes, stained with pain, seemed to have the power to tear the sky apart. Dark clouds covered the sky, and the entire forest began to weep. The wind blew the sand from the shore against the sky, and the waves roared. The entire island and the entire sea were filled with screams that seemed to shatter everything...
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Yu Mo suddenly opened her eyes and gasped for a long time. It was not until she heard a concerned voice from the bed next to her that she said she had a nightmare and went to the bathroom to wash up.
The woman in the mirror looked haggard, with dark circles under her eyes. She turned on the faucet, scooped up some water and splashed it onto her face, letting the water drip down without wiping it off. She then used a rubber band to tie her shoulder-length hair back.
Her thin, pale lips were tightly pursed, and her eyes were naturally cold. She packed up, put on her work ID, left the dormitory, and headed to the cafeteria.
"Yu Mo, here!" Liu Mei waved. She had been admitted to the institute at the same time as Yu Mo. Seeing Yu Mo sit down with her plate, she exclaimed, "Why do you look so haggard? Did you have another nightmare?"
Yu Mo hummed, seemingly not in the mood to talk. She picked up the omelet and stuffed it into her mouth. She swallowed it in a few bites and then picked up other dishes from the plate.
"The food in the cafeteria isn't as good as before, but it's much better than I expected. The chef's stewed potatoes are a bit bland, without much meat. The vegetables are adequate, but the meat is scarce!" Liu Mei was lucky the lifeboat didn't malfunction. She arrived early and knew a lot about the research base.
"Thank goodness Teacher Li had the foresight to plant vegetables here a few years ago, so we wouldn't starve to death!" Liu Mei kept muttering, and suddenly leaned close to Yu Mo's ear and whispered, "Are you okay? You look uneasy, are you still thinking about what happened after you fell into the sea..."
Everyone around the table pricked up their ears. They were so curious about Yu Mo's situation! Many people had fallen into the sea, but only Yu Mo had been found. Many were brought back as corpses. God knows how much they wanted to ask Yu Mo what she had experienced alone on the deserted island, but they didn't dare to ask... Yu Mo's face was so cold, her eyes were cold too. It felt like they would freeze if they asked...
Sure enough, Yu Mo raised her eyes, but there was no coldness in her eyes as they thought, but she looked a little confused. They immediately sighed, how could the cold beauty who used to be in the research institute become a fool?
Thinking of Min Xi again, the pair of hateful eyes in the dream were like those of a betrayed wolf, so red that they looked like they could bleed... When Yu Mo came back to her senses, she saw Liu Mei looking at her with concern, and the eyes of the people at the next table were also filled with various emotions.
"There's nothing to think about. I do want to ask you, can the cafeteria withstand eating like this? Aren't we going to save some food? The soil quality on the island I'm staying on is very poor, and it's difficult to grow crops. The only thing we have is sweet potatoes."
"That's different! Teacher Li came here a few years ago and studied the soil and water quality. The crops have all been improved. There's a greenhouse behind our base, and there's plenty of food! But there's no meat..."
Someone nearby interrupted, "If you ask me, they should have brought more chickens, ducks, and geese! That way we wouldn't be starving for meat!"
A few years ago, the Devil's Sea wasn't as unpredictable as it is now. Back then, even with storms, the Institute's specialized ships could still navigate them. But in recent years, the sea has changed, becoming increasingly dangerous. The waters of the Devil's Sea are pitch black, impenetrable even by sunlight. It's terrifying to look at, and ships that enter there rarely return...
Yu Mo didn't leave after finishing her meal and asked, "Didn't you say when I could leave?"
"How can we leave when the signal is cut off?"
"ah?"
"We can't contact the outside world!"
"But my satellite phone is still working. I used it to contact my senior sister. How could there be no signal..."
"To be precise, the dividing line is the Devil's Sea. We tried to contact people outside, but nothing worked. We can still contact people nearby, but the signal is not very good."
Liu Mei and Yu Mo left the cafeteria side by side. Liu Mei introduced the situation of the research base to her. When she heard the news that Yu Mo was alive, Liu Mei was very happy! She had seen too many friends die, and finally got a response that they were safe. In addition, she was curious about Yu Mo's experience, so she asked her how she survived.
Yu Mo glossed over the story with Min Xi, saying only that she was lucky, having munched on wild fruit when hungry and thirsty until she fixed her satellite phone and waited for help. Perhaps her explanation was boring, so Liu Mei lost interest. Just then, a storm arrived. In the blink of an eye, dark clouds covered the sky, and a strong wind swept in.
"It's like this all day long!" Liu Mei complained.
Yu Mo glanced at the surrounding electric fence. The research base had always been well protected, but the foundation was built very high, rising from the ground. Standing inside, it felt like being trapped in a giant cage. Was this to prevent escape?
She returned to the dormitory, changed into clean clothes, and lay on the bed with her eyes open, staring at the ceiling. Teacher Li had not assigned her any work during the days since she returned, and asked her to rest and take care of her body. She didn't feel that she needed to take care of herself, and was happy to be free, but it was easy for her to have random thoughts when she was idle.
Where is Min Xi now? What is he doing? Usually at this time, after they finish breakfast, Min Xi would pester her and ask to play, carrying her on his back to play in the woods, rolling in the soft grass... Don't think about him anymore! You are not the kind of person who would linger on! Yu Mo couldn't think about Min Xi. She began to think about what happened at the research base...
Perhaps because of the shipwreck, the atmosphere in the base was depressed, and the teacher looked unhappy, only smiling when he saw her. She lived a regular life here, without having to worry about bacteria on things in the wild, or attacks from wild beasts, and had a bed to sleep on and colleagues to chat with... She should be happy to be back to normal. Yu Mo pulled the corners of her lips and revealed a smile without any smile.
I fell into a drowsy sleep, and when I woke up, my senior sister was sitting on the bed next to me, drying her hair.
Yu Mo called her: "Senior Sister, you're back!"
The senior sister looked at her with a smile: "I saw that you have been having nightmares these past few days. I didn't want to wake you up, so I brought you lunch."
Yu Mo thanked him, climbed out of bed, and took the lunch box. Although she had no appetite, she still ate it in small bites. Then she looked up at her senior sister and asked, "Is the teacher busy? I'm really fine. I can go back to the lab."
"No hurry, wait a little longer." The senior sister threw away the towel and asked, "How did you get that ankle injury? Did something scratch it?"
Yu Mo was startled, looking down. The wound on her ankle had already scabbed over, and the skin had been tanned. After returning to the research base and staying in the house for a few days, it was faintly showing signs of whitening. Therefore, the scar was particularly conspicuous, as if it had been scratched by a wild animal...
"I was being chased while hiding in the forest. Luckily, I had my backpack with me, and I managed to escape with the tranquilizer. Senior Sister, is there something wrong with that deserted island? Or is there a new species that the teacher is researching?"
Ever since she came back, her senior sister had been questioning her about what happened on the deserted island, intentionally or unintentionally, but Yu Mo had always been able to evade them with vague answers! Her intuition told her that her senior sister was hiding something, or perhaps trying to get something out of her...
The senior sister smiled and said, "I was just asking casually. I think you are very... lucky to have returned safely!"
After leaving the dormitory, the senior sister went straight to the laboratory and knocked on the door. A middle-aged male voice came from inside, asking who it was. After the senior sister answered, the laboratory door opened with two beeps, and the senior sister walked in.
Several electronic screens were placed in the center of the lab. Teacher Li stood in front, his hands behind his back. When the senior sister came to him, he said in a slightly heavy tone, "034 is dead!"
Following his gaze, he looked at the screen. Overgrown with weeds, a giant lizard, its limbs touching the ground, looked human-like, but its body covered in scales. Holding the 034 Teacher Li had mentioned, the screen was instantly splattered with bright red. It was a young woman. He turned off the screen without hesitation, his wrinkled face no longer filled with regret as he stared blankly ahead.
Youyou sighed and said, "It's a failure! Most of the carefully prepared experimental bait was lost in just a few days. I don't know when I can complete my plan... What are you doing here? Is she asleep?"
The food was drugged. The senior sister nodded and said, "At least she succeeded."
Teacher Li operated the button and the screen changed. Dense grass and a lizard man similar to the previous one appeared in the picture. The difference was that this lizard man was holding flowers and standing on two feet like a human. Then Yu Mo appeared on the screen... The picture ended here, the screen went black, and then there was the sound of a camera breaking.
"...I've observed many times. This lizard man has no desire to kill, and Yu Mo in the picture also shows no fear. Something must have happened to them! It's just that the picture just happened to be cut off here!" Judging from the last sound, it must be the lizard man who stepped on the camera and broke it. Fortunately, he was quick to export the picture, otherwise there would not even be this picture!
The senior sister hesitated and said, "But judging from Yu Mo's expression, she doesn't seem to have any special impression of this lizard man. Perhaps she just happened to encounter him when he was full and escaped?"
"I've observed them for many years. They have brutal temperaments and a strong sense of territory. Wherever Yu Mo appears is her territory. Even if she's not hungry, she won't let anything enter her territory... Moreover, this season is when they're in heat, when they're at their most violent. Yet, Yu Mo managed to come back alive..."
"I prefer it to show her as a female who can be sedated!"
Senior sister was silent.
Teacher Li continued, "Wait a few more days. Yu Mo is an assistant I like very much. I don't like to force things. You can discuss it with her. It would be best if she can cooperate. If not..." He stopped talking and his attention was attracted by the lizard man who appeared on the screen, his eyes showing fanaticism.
The senior sister left the lab, closing the door behind her. In the empty corridor, the screams of her former colleagues as they were bitten by the lizardmen still lingered in her ears.
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