Chapter 380 Experimental Subject (Scenario 15)
There is only one file in the video folder.
In the picture, the young Lu Yu - who was still called Lin Sheng at that time - stood in front of a man tied to a chair, holding a gun.
Someone off-camera ordered: "Execute the traitor."
Lu Yu raised his gun and shot, but the slow motion showed that his wrist slightly deflected when he pulled the trigger.
The scene then switches to a hospital scene where the "executed" man - CT-103 - is undergoing surgery, with the surgeon wearing a mask with the number "7" printed on it.
"It's all acting..."
Li Zheng muttered to himself.
The video ends with a line of text: "Some of us have fallen - CT-103 remains."
The third folder requires an additional password.
Li Zheng tried all possible combinations but failed. Finally, he somehow entered his police number.
The password is correct.
There was only one photo in it: Mr. Xiao was talking to a middle-aged man in police uniform in a restaurant.
The calendar in the corner of the photo shows the date as April 2007 - one year before the launch of the "Deep Dive Plan", and Li Zheng was very familiar with the back of the policeman - Director Wang.
Suddenly, there was the sound of a car braking suddenly outside the window.
Li Zheng immediately drew his gun and moved close to the window - two black SUVs were parked downstairs, and several strong men wearing tactical vests were quickly dispersing and surrounding the building.
He quickly pulled out the hard drive and put it in his pocket. Just as he pushed open the door to the fire escape, he heard footsteps downstairs.
The retreat was cut off.
Li Zheng retreated back into the house, locked the door, and loaded his pistol. The other party obviously knew where he was, and the safe house was no longer safe.
When the first bullet penetrated the door lock, Li Zheng had already climbed out of the window and was moving on the decorative eaves that were less than ten centimeters thick.
The five-story building was deadly enough, but he had no choice. As he struggled to reach the next window, an explosion sounded from the safe house behind him, and the shockwave almost knocked him off his feet.
The sound of shattering glass startled the elderly woman inside. Before she could scream, Li Zheng covered her mouth: "Don't be afraid, I'm a police officer."
He flashed his ID—although it was forged, it was intimidating enough. "Is there a backdoor?"
The old lady pointed towards the kitchen with a trembling voice.
Li Zheng just rushed into the back stairwell when he heard a roar from the top floor: "He ran away! Search the whole building!"
Li Zheng didn't dare to waste time.
He used the terrain to shake off the first group of pursuers, but when he turned a corner he ran into two gunmen head-on.
At the critical moment, a silenced bullet shot from the side and accurately hit one of them in the temple.
Before the second person could react, he was shot in the head again.
Li Zheng looked in the direction of the trajectory - a dark shadow flashed by on the rooftop of the opposite building, and the outline of its turning around was so familiar that it made his heart frightened.
"Lu Yu?"
He moved his lips soundlessly.
After nightfall, Li Zheng followed the clues on the hard drive to find an abandoned factory on the outskirts of the city. The iron door of Warehouse No. 7 was ajar, and it was full of rusty mechanical parts.
"password."
A hoarse voice came from the darkness.
Li Zheng immediately raised his gun and pointed it at the source of the voice: "'One of us has fallen.'"
After a cough, Lu Yu walked out from the shadows.
His face was pale, his right arm was bandaged across his chest, and his suit jacket was covered in dried blood.
But what shocked Li Zheng the most was his eyes - no longer covered by his iconic gold-rimmed glasses, his eyes were nakedly revealing his fatigue and pain.
"You looked at the hard drive."
Lu Yu leaned against an old lathe, breathing heavily, his face still as pale as ever: "Now you understand."
"Understand what?"
Li Zheng didn't lower his gun. "Do you know that Mr. Xiao is also a member of the 'Deep Dive Project'? Do you know that Director Wang might have been a mole from the beginning? Or do you know that all the colleagues you killed over the years might have been acting?"
Lu Yu suddenly started coughing violently, and blood oozed out from between his fingers.
He slid down weakly and sat down. "CT-103...was my roommate in the police academy...he discovered the truth..."
Li Zheng finally put down his gun and went forward to check Lu Yu's injuries.
Lu Yu's right lung was pierced by a sharp object. The wound was only hastily bandaged and signs of infection had already appeared.
"Why don't you seek medical attention?"
Li Zheng tore open his shirt and saw the shocking wound inside.
"The hospital... they have people..."
Lu Yu's pupils began to dilate, "Listen to me... Mr. Xiao and Director Wang... are not just cooperating... they..."
Lu Yu had another heart-wrenching coughing fit.
Li Zheng knew that if he didn't treat this injury, Lu Yu would not survive the night.
"Hold on."
Li Zheng held Lu Yu up and said, "I know where it's safe."
The so-called "safe house" was actually an apartment Li Zheng had temporarily rented while on the run. The medical supplies he had bought with fake ID came in handy. As the surgical forceps penetrated the wound to clean out the necrotic tissue, Lu Yu bit into the second towel in excruciating pain.
"No more anesthesia."
Li Zheng wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Just bear with it a little longer."
Lu Yu suddenly grabbed his wrist with astonishing force: "Hard drive... the last file..."
"I've seen the photo of Director Wang and Mr. Xiao."
Li Zheng continued to clean the wound: "The date is strange."
“It’s not a group photo…”
Lu Yu squeezed out a few words in the pain, "It's the video... the sound..."
Li Zheng then remembered that the photo file did have an attached audio file, but he was in too much of a hurry to listen to it.
After finishing the stitches, he opened his laptop and inserted the hard drive.
The audio has been processed for noise reduction, and the dialogue is still blurry, but several key words are clearly identifiable:
"…The experimental group performed well… CT-107 showed the strongest resistance… We can proceed to the next stage…"
"...When will the brainwashing process...real memories..."
"...Once the Deep Dive Project is launched... these children will be the best weapon..."
The recording ends with a sharp electronic sound.
Li Zheng looked at Lu Yu who was sleeping on the bed and suddenly understood something.
He gently lifted Lu Yu's collar and found a tiny mark on his right shoulder blade - the same special mark from the police academy as his own, except that there was an extra number next to Lu Yu's mark: 7.
Thunder roared outside the window and a summer rainstorm poured down.
Lu Yu began to mumble in a delirium due to a high fever, and his intermittent sentences were mixed with Chinese and Thai.
Li Zheng wiped his burning forehead with a wet towel when he suddenly heard a familiar name: "Brother... the information is hidden..."
Li Zheng's hand froze in mid-air.
In the police academy, only students with the same instructor would call each other senior and junior, and he did graduate two years earlier than Lu Yu - Lin Sheng.
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