Chapter 6: The Cuckoo Occupies the Magpie's Nest (Edited) "Be good. Call the teacher and let me hear you..."
The boy was tied to the bed with restraints, his eyes were blindfolded, and a ventilator was placed on his face.
This was to ensure his breathing while a large amount of muscle relaxant was injected.
The long silver hair cascaded down like water.
Some blue or purple bruises made the boy's originally fair skin look even paler.
Surprisingly, human hair doesn't need to be cut for human experiments. Perhaps the researchers felt it would be a shame to cut off such beautiful hair.
He was wearing a white hospital gown, his chest rising and falling faintly. As if hearing the sound of someone approaching, Gin's arms struggled against the restraints, causing the iron bed to creak harshly.
The footsteps stopped.
The visitor said nothing and seemed to be looking at him carefully.
This person is not one of those researchers, Gin concluded in his mind.
He could recognize the footsteps of all the researchers here. Everyone's shoes made a different sound and walked in a different way.
In the countless boring darkness, he had already memorized these sounds and classified them into different categories.
A new researcher?
"Who are you?" He spoke with difficulty and turned his head, as if trying to see the person clearly through the black cloth covering his eyes.
His voice was hoarse and harsh, as if it had been rubbed with sandpaper.
Lin Xi smiled.
Unexpectedly, the killer who would later terrify the protagonist is still a young boy with a duck voice who is in the voice changing period.
There is really no filter at all.
Gin seemed to sense the teasing in the air and struggled with his arms again.
——The restraints on my wrists seem to be a little loose.
Gin felt the man's fingers touch his wrist.
Her fingers moved up along his wrist, pried his palm apart, and gently stroked the part where he was bruised by the restraints. The cold touch made him shiver.
With a click, the restraints were untied.
Gin was confused and puzzled.
He had thought the man was going to tighten the restraints.
Isn’t this person afraid of his attack?
The researcher from before was beaten so badly that his nose was crooked.
He had just injected the drug, and although it was a muscle relaxant, knocking down an adult man was not a problem.
Even with only the right hand...
With another click, the restraints on his left hand were also untied.
Then comes the waist.
As soon as the restraints were untied, Gin exerted force on his waist and tried to sit up, but a hand anticipated his action and pressed down on the side of his neck.
That is one of the weakest parts of the human body, and Gin shook violently.
The hand didn't use too much force, but just controlled him with an unquestionable posture and pressed him back onto the bed.
Gin grabbed the man's hand.
Unlike what I imagined, the visitor's skin felt as smooth as jade, and his arms were slender, not like a man's.
"Don't get up yet. You still need oxygen, otherwise there's a risk of suffocation."
The clear female voice was as steady as the owner's hand. When it reached Gin's ears, his back subconsciously relaxed a little.
Then it suddenly occurred to him that grabbing a woman's arm...was a bit rude for someone he was meeting for the first time. So, he endured the feeling of being controlled and let go of her hand.
A new researcher? What do you want to do to me?
Seeing that he gave up struggling, Lin Xi also let go of his hand and instead grasped his jaw.
Gin felt her eyes on him.
Even under the black eye mask, that gaze with a strong presence could not be ignored.
"I didn't expect..." The woman uttered a few words, then stopped talking and looked at him for a while.
The boy intuitively knew that the unfinished words were not good things.
"Those idiots left you covered in bruises." She spoke softly, her words devoid of emotion. "This company has left me in such a mess."
Her fingers touched the bridge of his nose, and he closed his eyes, feeling the rough blindfold being removed by the woman.
He quickly opened his eyes.
The first thing that catches the eye is the plump lips.
Then there were the few strands of hair on both cheeks, the sharp eyes behind the silver-rimmed glasses, and the light that came from nowhere reflected in her eyes, like ice cubes thrown into amber wine.
The ice cubes sway and collide with the wine glass, making a pleasant sound.
A smile trickled down her cheeks, her honey-colored pupils focused intently on him. Gin could sense a mixture of surprise and amusement in her gaze.
Strangely, this playfulness is not offensive.
It was frivolous but not too frivolous, with consideration but without any interest mixed in. Being stared at by such eyes, Gin actually had an illusion -
He is a work of art being admired.
In an instant, the boy felt both fear and anger.
The fear was because this person's actions so far were completely unknown, and he couldn't figure out her thoughts. He just felt that this person's arrival indicated that what happened next would be out of his control.
The anger was because...she actually looked at him with the eyes of an assessor, condescending and almost distant.
Who allowed it?
Even though he was trapped here now, it was only because he wanted to be trapped here. He needed those idiots to continue injecting him with Silver Bullet. He needed this drug to become stronger.
Sooner or later, he would be powerful enough to destroy the entire institute and burn all these idiots to death. The boy had no doubt that his future self could do it. From the moment he took the initiative to knock on the door of the laboratory in the Soviet Union, his chest was filled with confidence.
So, why shouldn't she look at her as an equal?
He glared at Lin Xi.
The strange thing was that even with such a fierce look in his eyes and no restraints to control his movements, he had no urge to take action.
"Your blood pressure is rising." The woman, unaware of his thoughts, looked at the rising data on the instrument and asked in confusion, "Your heart rate has also increased. It was stable just now... Are you feeling unwell?"
He was not unwell.
To be honest, my body felt strangely relaxed.
Today's attack on the researcher was actually part of his plan.
The appropriate counterattack is to show weakness - the boy has a deep understanding of human psychology. To these researchers, he is like a fish on the chopping board and a chicken in a cage. This kind of counterattack that will be quickly subdued will make them relax their vigilance.
Recently, something seems to have happened in the outside world, causing the intensity of their experiments to increase.
Silver Bullet was injected into him as if it were free... Although this was a good thing, Gin still inevitably felt a sense of urgency.
Is the arrival of this... stranger also a result of "what's happening in the outside world"?
New researcher.
I haven't seen this person before.
The fact that she could see him directly and untie his restraints showed that she had a very high status.
The name on the badge is...
"Lin...Xi."
Lin Xi raised an eyebrow: "Do you understand Japanese?"
None of the children who were brought to the research institute to serve as experimental subjects were Japanese.
The reason is easy to understand: language barriers make management easier.
It's the same reason why casinos don't hire local bodyguards.
The boy didn't say anything, but stared at her with his dark green pupils, as vigilant as a wolf cub.
"That would make things easier. After all, I don't speak Russian." Lin Xi happily switched from English to Japanese and said, "I'm your attending physician now, and we'll be together for a long time. You can call me teacher. I'm directly responsible for you, and no one else has the right to do anything to you."
She spread her palms out.
There was a pill in the palm of his hand.
"Take this," she said. "It will heal your internal injuries. The Silver Bullet will reduce your sensitivity to pain, but the absence of pain doesn't mean you're not injured."
Gin took a look at the pill, said nothing, took the ventilator away, took it and swallowed it in one gulp.
Then he habitually opened his mouth and lifted the root of his tongue for Lin Xi to check.
While researchers often give the medications intravenously, they sometimes have them swallow capsules and pills directly like this.
At this time, in order to prevent them from hiding the drugs under the tongue, the researchers would ask them to open their mouths for inspection.
Lin Xi just looked at him with his mouth wide open in confusion.
For a moment, Gin felt like a fool.
...Doesn't this woman know she needs to check the subject's mouth after giving him medicine?!
He closed his mouth and stared at Lin Xi coldly.
Lin Xi smiled again and pinched both of his cheeks with one hand.
His cheeks were puffed up, and combined with the boy's droopy voice, he looked like a puffed-up frog.
Gin: “…”
He must kill this woman in the future!!
No, killing her directly would be too easy for her. After he blew up the research institute, he would definitely make her regret it...
"Be good. Call the teacher and let him listen."
She had the audacity to ask him so nonchalantly.
"Lin...Xi." With his cheeks pinched, he called out the woman's name clearly.
Anyway, there was no way he would call her teacher.
"Isn't calling you teacher more appropriate?" Lin Xi was very serious about the title. "Calling someone by their full name on the first day you meet isn't in line with social etiquette."
“…Lin Xi.”
There was no way he would compromise.
Lin Xi sighed.
"Really not calling you teacher?"
"Lin Xi."
"Okay, then don't yell." She let go of my hand. "You still have a lot to learn about social etiquette."
A vein popped up on Gin's forehead.
He saw the widening curve of her mouth and the cunning look in her eyes, and belatedly realized that she had been teasing him just now and how childish their behavior was.
What on earth does this person want to do? !
The woman waved and called the researcher outside the window.
Seeing the researchers being so respectful towards her, Gin once again confirmed his judgment in his heart - this person holds a high position of power in the institute.
"From now on, I'll be in charge of Zero. After this last group finishes recording the data, I'll apply to stop the Silver Bullet project."
"What? But, Ms. Lin, Mr. Karasuma—"
"Shut up." Lin Xi's expression suddenly turned cold. "Letting you guys research this project will only be a waste of resources."
"Mr. Karasuma asked me to take over the research institute in order to improve efficiency and put resources into the hands of people who can actually use them."
"If Mr. Karasuma has any questions about my actions, I will explain them to Mr. Karasuma myself."
"Focus your final research on the test subject who had a strong rejection reaction, and see if you can restore his normal cellular function. If you don't have the ability to develop new drugs, and you can't even repair it, then you should reflect on yourself - are you really useless?"
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