Chapter 101 Personal Laboratory

The sun shines through the sparse clouds, sprinkling on the eaves. Smoke rises from the chimney in the distance. The cold air is filled with the faint smell of burning wood. A thick layer of ice forms on the lake, gleaming crystal clear in the sun.

Xu Huili squats by the lake, holding a small branch with his reddened fingers, fiddling with the ice on the ground. Perhaps because he squatted for too long, his legs are a little numb. When he stands up, his body shakes twice.

He looked at the closed door, his delicate eyebrows were stained with a bit of sleepiness and impatience: "Why is there no one? How long do we have to wait?"

Gu Hua basked in the warm sun and yawned comfortably, her voice slightly hoarse: "The pass card is restricted and cannot open this inner door. Wait for another five minutes. If no one comes, we will go back first."

Xu Huili was afraid of the cold, so he tightened his plush coat, put his hands in his pockets, and pouted: "When I went out, I should have called Tang Yichao over to warm up by the fire."

About five minutes later, no one came, Gu Hua moved her hands and feet, and just as she was about to ask Xu Huili to leave, she saw Xie Er shook her head.

"What's wrong? Do you want to wait?" She walked down the stairs, quite confused.

Xie Er leaned against a tree trunk, looking in the direction of the gate, and smiled gently: "Someone is coming."

Xu Huili turned around and looked in the direction of his sight. Two figures, one tall and one short, appeared in front of them from far to near.

"Xiao Huan? Why are you here today?" Luo Meilin pulled down the scarf covering her mouth and nose, and as she spoke, mist floated in the air. Wen Shu,

who was standing next to her, suddenly slapped his head with a woolen hat on, and his tone was apologetic: "Hiss! I said I forgot something. I was too busy these two days and forgot to tell you that today is a holiday and you don't need to come to the laboratory."

"You must have been waiting for a long time. I'll open the door for you now."

He strode onto the stairs and took out his work permit from his heavy coat with difficulty: "I was confused. I'll upgrade your pass later so that you don't have to stand in the cold wind at the door."

The temperature inside was higher than outside. As soon as he entered the room, a layer of mist appeared on the mirror. Wenshu turned on all the switches, and the sound of the heater started to sound softly. , he walked in front and led the way: "Let's go, let's go to the office and drink some hot water to warm up. Have you had breakfast?"

Gu Hua: "I have. I have a day off today. Why are you here again?"

Luo Meilin took her arm and smiled: "It's because I can't spare any time. When I got up in the morning and had breakfast, I thought of an idea for a new project. So, I can't wait until tomorrow and hurried over here."

"Let's verify it together later."

As he spoke, he walked towards Wen Shu's office.

"What are you looking at?"

Xu Huili walked at the end. Seeing Xie Er suddenly stopped and looked up, he didn't know what he was looking at. Out of curiosity, he asked.

Xie Er retracted his gaze, took off his glasses, wiped the mist off the lenses, and said with a slightly dark look in his eyes, "It's okay, let's go."

Just as they entered Wen Shu's office, he glanced at the ceiling again.

"Huh"

A slight panting sound seemed to come from the silent laboratory.

"Sit down, you're welcome."

The office was not very spacious. Not to mention that the office chair was a wooden chair, even the stools for entertaining guests were short wooden benches, and the tea table was a foldable wooden table with a set of simple teacups on it.

Luo Meilin filled a pot with water and plugged it in. Bubbles were bubbling in the pot. She saw Xie Er, a tall man, curled up on a wooden bench, looking a little cramped. She found it a little funny, but also felt sorry: "The conditions are not so good, don't mind. Ah Shu, move my office chair over. It will be more comfortable to sit on."

She was about to ask Wen Shu to move the wooden chair over, but Xie Er stopped her: "No, it's fine like this now. Thank you."

"Oh no, the research funding we get from above is getting less and less." Luo Meilin sighed, "These things were all brought back to us by our friends who were on missions outside."

Gu Hua was surprised: "Your laboratory has developed a lot of things, why are you so harsh?"

Xu Huili also held the teacup and looked at him in confusion: "I think your treatment is quite good."

"That's what she said." Luo Meilin turned off the water, sighed, and stared at the pattern on the teacup, "At the beginning, we developed some things and the treatment was really good, but then the bad things about the Meicheng base gradually spread, and the higher-ups were worried that some scientific researchers would do something that would harm the interests of the masses, so they cancelled the favorable conditions."

"Besides, nowadays, no matter what experiment we do, we have to submit a report to the superiors.

Only after the approval is issued can we proceed to the next step." "Look, your senior brother is writing a report now." Luo Meilin raised her chin slightly, motioning Gu Hua to look at Wen Shu, who was working hard on the desk.

Hearing a certain key word, Gu Hua and Xu Huili looked at each other. They had come up with many ideas behind the scenes to overthrow the research institute of Meicheng Base.

I didn't expect that the follow-up would cause such a big impact.

Luo Meilin took a sip of hot water and continued, "Of course, the higher-ups can only impose maximum restrictions on official laboratories."

"Since the official treatment has become worse and worse, some people couldn't stand it and resigned."

"After resigning, those people were pulled by various forces."

"They set up personal laboratories, which still need to be managed by the official authorities on the surface, but the experimental freedom they have is much greater than that of official laboratories."

Xu Huili couldn't help but interrupt and ask, "Don't the officials worry that those personal laboratories will conduct anti-human experiments?"

Luo Meilin smiled bitterly and said, "This is not only a concern of the official authorities, but also a concern of many people. After all, people's conscience is insignificant under the drive of interests."

"It's not that what you just said has not happened before."

"About two months ago? Many homeless people disappeared in the outer city. It didn't attract much attention at first, until the sister of a high-level superpower disappeared in the outer city."

"I don't know if you still remember when superpowers were discovered."

She suddenly asked this question.

Gu Hua recalled the process of her superpowers: "The day when the zombie virus broke out."

"After being bitten, I had a high fever." Xu Huili's answer was different.

Luo Meilin looked at Xie Er again. The man seemed a little absent-minded. After a few seconds of silence, he answered, "Same as Xiaohuan."

"That's it. Many people believe that the zombie virus is the key to human evolution. A superpower who can resist the zombie virus represents the success of human evolution. If one becomes a zombie, it means that evolution has failed and one has become a walking corpse."

"And after being bitten by a zombie, one will definitely have a high fever. If one survives the high fever period, one can gain superpowers."

"If I remember correctly, it was a personal laboratory set up by only three people. They believed that serum could be extracted from the blood of zombies and then injected into the human body, which would help humans gain superpowers."

Luo Meilin frowned. One of the three people was her junior.

"Their experiment must have failed. Without exception, everyone who was injected with the serum turned into zombies, so they changed direction. Since the serum of zombies is useless, what about the serum of people with special powers?"

Gu Hua understood and took over the conversation: "So, they started capturing people with special powers."

Luo Meilin nodded: "Yes, that's right."

"Their idea is actually for reference, but the method is wrong. No matter when, science cannot harm the interests of others by violating personal wishes. If they can recruit volunteers to participate in the experiment, they will not end up with no complete body."

"No complete body?" Xu Huili put down the teacup.

"Well, no intact body." Luo Meilin stood up and felt a little hot around her, so she took off her coat. "The sister of that senior psychic died on the laboratory table. This was his revenge."

Gu Hua asked, "Who was that senior psychic?"

Luo Meilin looked back and her eyes fell on a chessboard on the bookshelf. Her eyes dimmed a little: "The director of the Intelligence Bureau - Luo Yiqi."

"I have a question." Xie Er, who had been silent, suddenly spoke.

Luo Meilin: "What's the problem?"

Xie Er had been staring at a shadow in the dark, his eyes suddenly turned cold, and his warm voice was tinged with a little chill: "Your experiment should not be about studying gunpowder."

Wen Shu stopped writing, and the ink from the pen tip became larger and larger: "What do you mean?"

There was a faint smell of burning in the air, and Xie Er immediately stood up and released his mental power. Before he could say anything, an explosion sounded, followed by a blazing flame.

The explosion stunned the people present for a while, the temperature around them was getting higher and higher, and their clothes were wet with hot sweat on their backs.

Gu Hua was about to use the teleportation ability, but found that her ability seemed to be suppressed by some force.

"Run outside, don't worry about anything!"

Xie Er held Wen Shu with his left hand, and kept using his mental strength to resist the huge energy generated by the explosion.

The building was about to collapse, and they supported each other and ran outside.

On the ceiling, a shadow quietly dissipated, and a transparent thread also quietly connected to the back of his head.

"That's probably what happened." Xie Er said a lot of things, his throat was a little dry, and he poured a glass of cold water and drank it in big gulps.

Song Shinan still didn't have much clue, and waited eagerly for Xie Er to continue.

"The world is so big, there are all kinds of wonders, why don't you go and find out whose superpowers are related to shadows." Gu Bingchen was disgusted with Song Shinan's expression.

Song Shinan rolled his eyes in response: "Do you think it's that easy to find? All I know is..."

He swallowed the words he hadn't finished, and a barely perceptible sharpness flashed across his eyes.

Maybe, that person, could help him.

"Any other clues?" He stood up and straightened the wrinkles on his clothes.

Xie Er leaned back, and the recliner rocked twice. He had just woken up not long ago, and his slightly hoarse voice was mixed with a little nasal sound: "Northwest, his direction is in the northwest."

Northwest direction?

In addition to Zhou Jun's detachment camp, there is Shangguan Xian's residence...

No, there is also... Luo Yiqi's intelligence agency!

It's not considered northwest, but very close.

Who could be the real culprit behind the scenes?

He is one step closer to the truth.