Chapter 19 Golden Rainbow
Guan Buhui originally didn't want to leave the black market.
Compared to his adoptive father's super socialite attributes, Guan Buhui himself wanted to be a rich second-generation who lived a life of idleness and waited for death in the black market.
Unfortunately, Guan Jiu himself didn't think so.
"I have a very important task to entrust to you."
That day, Guan Jiu called him back to the mansion and told him so.
At that time, the imperial concubine couch was soft and comfortable, and his genderless beautiful-jellyfish adoptive father leaned on it, slowly fiddling with the rare mineral nine-layer ring that had just been auctioned.
The entire living room's interior decoration style is Baroque, gorgeous and eye-catching. He stood there shivering in a cyber laser jacket, like a little thing, which was totally out of place with the imposing background around him.
Guan Jiu rested his chin on his hand and squinted his eyes at him, obviously very confused: "I give you tens of thousands of living expenses every month. You don't even change into a better piece of clothing?"
"Why is this bad... limited edition co-branded peripherals," Guan Buhui raised his arm to show him the co-branded trademark, and said happily, "Thanks to my good Internet speed, I was able to grab it! I have been waiting for several months for the pre-sale... Right! Adoptive father, you think it looks good too!"
Guan Jiu smiled and nodded, smiling: "Yes, I also think that the money in the second dimension is really easy to make."
Guan Buhui: "... Hey."
However, Guan Jiu called him here today, obviously not intending to argue with him. He really has something to find this cheap kid of his.
The masked subordinate behind him poured bloody wine for the red-haired poisonous jellyfish. The black market bosses always say that they have to show off their power before they do anything.
——Although Guan Jiu is actually allergic to alcohol, the goblet contains non-alcoholic raspberry sparkling water.
"I have an experimental project in the South Region, and I have to inspect it regularly. Can you go for me, okay?"
The androgynous beauty with long hair rested her chin on her hand and looked at him with a smile: "The trip is well funded and completely confidential. You just need to check the test area."
"South Region... experimental project?"
Guan Buhui was obviously stunned for a moment, and said hesitantly: "Didn't it say... that since the establishment of the Federal Research Institute's headquarters, the test area in the South Region has been abandoned? And the South Region was originally a former radioactive research base, we..."
"Noisy."
Guan Jiu frowned slightly, and put his fingertips on his lips: "Just go when I tell you to go, why are you talking so much nonsense? I've prepared a starship for you, get out of here tonight."
Guan Buhui: "..."
Then why are you asking for my opinion! ! Psycho! !
Unfortunately, he had no room to resist the powerful, so he could only prepare his things in frustration overnight and was kicked onto Guan Jiu's private starship.
Guan Buhui didn't think much of it at the time, thinking that his adoptive father had leased the land to start other businesses, and that his subordinates around him had other things to do, so he asked him to simply inspect it - such things were common in the past.
But it was not until he actually arrived at the test area mentioned by Guan Jiu that he realized belatedly that there was something...
weird.
Very weird.
As an abandoned former radioactive mecha research base, the sky in the southern region is dark red and blue, pressing down heavily, showing radial ripples.
Working here for a long time will inevitably lead to some health problems. Because of this, before officially entering the test area, Guan Buhui was required to wear a serious protective suit, which was as bulky as a large polar bear.
The person who came to greet him was the chief executive of the test area.
The chief executive looked old and kind, and came over to greet him respectfully. When he saw the chief executive, Guan Buhui's instinctive sense of weirdness became stronger.
He seemed a little uneasy and looked up at the chief executive's eyes.
The other person smiled kindly, so kind that the smile on his face did not change at all from beginning to end, as if he was some kind of set robot. But those eyes were rarely dazed, without a trace of light, and did not look like a pair of living people's eyes at all.
The normal eye color reflected a golden rainbow light like oil.
"......"
Guan Buhui comforted himself, it should be just a psychological illusion caused by the starship migration.
He exchanged routine greetings and walked into the test area with the person in charge.
The test area was larger than he imagined. Various experimental devices were humming in the snow-white test field. Various researchers were busy doing their jobs. The ground was so clean that it could be used as a mirror. But for some reason, Guan Buhui always felt a chill on his back, as if something, something had gone wrong imperceptibly.
Very wrong.
"Here is the elevator, leading to the underground confidential level 3 area."
The leader stared at him eagerly with his eyes full of sticky golden rainbow light, and pointed to the elevator leading to the underground.
The elevator door opened, revealing the dark and narrow space inside.
"You asked why there is no light in the elevator. Ah... The light broke a few days ago and it has not been repaired yet. It doesn't matter," the other party said lightly, then smiled and pointed him the way with extraordinary sincerity, "Don't you want to go down and take a look? The big man in the black market has specifically asked us to protect the things underground."
"Go down and take a look... Go down and take a look..."
The thing underground...?
What thing?
Why did Guan Jiu set up a secret experimental base here? And why did he send people to check regularly?
Why...
Guan Buhui clearly felt that something was wrong with his condition. The more he thought about it, the more confused and distressed he became. He saw the dark elevator entrance getting closer and closer, but he felt like a puppet filled with lead water, so heavy that it was difficult to breathe. The general manager whispered in his ear, "Go down, go down."
Through the dark and gloomy elevator shaft, the young man with purple hair vaguely saw that there seemed to be a flowing, sticky, liquid-like golden wave spreading upwards, just like some kind of golden slime with independent will, or a monster in liquid form, waiting thirstily for a new sacrifice to fall into its mouth.
At this moment, he suddenly woke up.
The entire test area was silent. Or rather, dead silent.
Even the sound of machinery turning could no longer be heard.
Under the incandescent light, it was quiet. At some point, the researchers had turned their heads silently and looked at him expressionlessly, and then showed the same smile with the exact same arc. The eyes of hundreds of people fell on him in unison, like an actor on the stage, silently welcoming the silent gaze of the audience.
——The eyes of those people were the same as those of the general manager.
Sticky, brilliant golden rainbow light.
...
Guan Buhui forgot how he left the test area.
When he came to his senses drowsily, he was surrounded by his personal bodyguards and had returned to the relocated starship.
"Young Master? Young Master? Are you okay?"
"What made you go crazy just now? You ran out of the test area screaming... What did those nerds do to you? Or did you see something? I told you there are a lot of mutated creatures in the radiation test area. Next time, I'd better persuade the boss to change people..." There
was a hustle and bustle, but nothing seemed unusual.
He managed to calm down, only to feel a tearing pain in his head, and his mouth was full of bitter saliva secreted due to shock. He drank several bottles of juice before he came back to his senses.
Is it... a creature mutated by radioactive elements?
How is it possible?
How could a creature be in such... such a state?
Or... was it really a strange hallucination caused by his fear?
He didn't care about the chattering of the bodyguards around him. He just trembled all over and looked back inexplicably. The white building that marked the test area was there silently. Far away, Guan Buhui seemed to see a white shadow standing at the window of the building in a trance. It was
not the general manager, nor the researcher.
It was pale, thin, and human-shaped.
Like a statue reshaped by pearl powder, it didn't have any vitality, and it was even a little fragile and soft, like a boy just pulled out of the water. Wet, soft and fluffy, even a little dirt would make him shatter into foam like the little mermaid.
But those golden eyes full of malice could not be faked.
At that moment, every nerve and every cell of Guan Buhui was trembling and howling in fear.
It was not a human.
That thing was definitely, definitely not a human.
*
This experience caused a serious psychological shadow on Guan Buhui. It
was so serious that he did not even want to go back to the black market in the next few days, but went directly to the most glamorous dark star field nearby.
After a fierce frenzy and being captured on the starship, Deng Baoying's expressionless admonition and physical teaching successfully restored his san value. He realized belatedly that there seemed to be a more terrifying reality than that ethereal white shadow.
——"In short, this is what happened."
Guan Buhui curled his lips when he was forced to recall that unpleasant memory, and his face turned pale again.
He didn't remember how he ran out of there. It might be that the biological protection mechanism locked the memory of that period in his brain. To be honest, even now when he recalled what happened in the test area, Guan Buhui still doubted whether it was a weird, psychedelic nightmare.
"Golden liquid, laboratory, white shadow?"
Deng Baoying, who was sitting behind the desk, narrowed his eyes slightly: "Guan Jiu only mentioned to us that he built a new test site on the abandoned base in the South Region... The specific research direction is the recombination and regeneration of radioactive elements. The Inspection Court also sent people to inspect it. It was just an ordinary test area, in compliance with regulations, and there was nothing abnormal."
"As for the so-called underground restricted area... My subordinates did not mention it when they went to inspect it."
"What do you mean, you suspect I'm lying?"
Guan Buhui frowned, puffed out his chest with great dissatisfaction, and said seriously: "Although I admit that I'm indeed not very reliable, I'm like this now, there's no reason for me to make up stories to deceive you? Besides, how would I know what my adoptive father is doing... Speaking of this, the white shadow I saw."
The pink and purple-haired man paused, looked around, and his hand tied with handcuffs pointed directly at Fu Jiao next to him.
"The eyes look a lot like hers, both are that thick golden color."
"So, I was stunned for a moment just now."
The young man stared at the cub sitting on the sofa, and couldn't help touching his arm, and got goosebumps again: "You don't understand what I'm talking about if you haven't experienced it yourself... The feeling of being stared at and alienated is really... too scary."