Chapter 381: The Dawn Before Dawn (Script 16)
The heavy rain continued until the early morning.
Lu Yu's body temperature finally dropped and his breathing gradually became stable.
Li Zheng sat by the bed, reorganizing all the clues: the seven chosen teenagers, Director Wang who had been connected to Master Xiao from the beginning, the memories that were deliberately erased and then implanted, and the ubiquitous number "7"...
When the first ray of sunlight in the morning shone through the curtains, Lu Yu slowly opened his eyes.
His eyes became much clearer, and he stared quietly at Li Zheng who was sleeping on the bed. For a moment, he stretched out his hand as if to touch Li Zheng's hair, but he didn't know what he thought of, his hands suddenly stopped in the air, and he turned to pick up the pistol that Li Zheng had placed on the bedside.
Li Zheng woke up instantly, only to find that Lu Yu pointed the gun at his temple.
"What are you doing?!"
He rushed forward to grab the gun.
However, Lu Yu was abnormally strong, and the two of them rolled to the ground during the fight.
In the end, Li Zheng subdued him with a grappling move, and the pistol slid into the corner of the wall.
“They gave me instructions…”
Lu Yu's voice was terribly hoarse, "Once my identity is exposed... I must commit suicide..."
Li Zheng held him down tightly and demanded, "What order? Who gave it?"
Lu Yu's pupils contracted violently, as if he was fighting an invisible enemy: "Director Wang... the last resort... we've all been programmed..."
Before he could finish his words, Lu Yu's body suddenly convulsed and white foam came out of the corners of his mouth.
Li Zheng quickly pried open his mouth to prevent him from biting his tongue, and at the same time touched his carotid artery - his heartbeat was frighteningly fast.
"Listen, Lin Sheng."
Li Zheng called him by his name, holding Lu Yu's face in his hands. He said firmly and decisively, "Look at me! You are not CT-107, you are Lin Sheng, an outstanding graduate of the Police Academy Class of 2003, my junior. Remember this!"
Lu Yu's struggle gradually weakened and his eyes refocused.
He grabbed Li Zheng's collar with trembling hands, like a drowning man grabbing a piece of driftwood: "Brother...Laboratory No. 7...there are answers there..."
Another violent coughing fit, but this time Lu Yu insisted on finishing his words: "Switzerland... St. Moritz... Snow Mountain..."
Li Zheng was about to ask further questions when he suddenly heard the sound of a drone outside the window.
He immediately turned off the lights and dragged Lu Yu to a hidden corner.
Through the gap in the curtains, he saw three black drones hovering over the rooftop of the opposite building.
"They found us."
Lu Yu said weakly, "You should go."
"Let's go together."
Li Zheng began to pack the necessities.
Lu Yu shook his head and pulled out a magnetic card from the heel of his shoe: "Go to Lab 7... find the main console... insert this..."
He paused, "Then decide whether to awaken the other Deep Ones."
"What do you mean? There are other people like you?"
Lu Yu raised a bitter smile: "We have never been the only experimental subjects... Brother..."
The roar of the drone was getting closer.
Li Zheng stuffed the gun back into Lu Yu's hand and said, "Lin Sheng, promise me, don't shoot yourself this time."
Lu Yu took the gun and suddenly grabbed Li Zheng's collar and pulled him close. Their breathing intertwined, and they were so close that they could count each other's eyelashes.
At this moment...
Lu Yu had a lot to say to Li Zheng, but he knew that now was not a good time.
He looked at Li Zheng quietly, as if he wanted to carve his current appearance into his heart: "If I can't come back, remember, you have to break the mirror to see the other side."
Next second.
Lu Yu pushed Li Zheng away and fired three shots at the window.
One drone exploded, and the other two drones immediately took off.
Lu Yu took the opportunity to rush to the door and gave Li Zheng one last look before leaving. "Seven days later, the locker at St. Moritz Station. The password is the combination of your police number and mine."
Lu Yu disappeared at the end of the corridor, and the gunshots and footsteps quickly faded away.
Li Zheng knew that Lu Yu was buying him time to escape. He took one last look around the apartment, grabbed the hard drive and magnetic card, and evacuated in the opposite direction through the fire escape.
At the corner of the street, the flames of the explosion lit up half the sky red.
Li Zheng lowered the brim of his hat and blended into the crowd, silently reciting the mysterious number in his heart - "7".
It is no longer just a number, but a key, a key that may open the entire dark maze.
…
The snow fell silently and violently.
Li Zheng was moving towards the mountainside in knee-deep snow, with a layer of frost on his cold-proof mask.
The GPS positioning surface showed that Laboratory 7 was just below the abandoned weather station ahead, but the blizzard made visibility around less than five meters.
An intermittent electrical sound came from the headphones, followed by the last signal set by Peacock before his death: "The truth is on the other side of the mirror, and the truth will burn your eyes."
A metal door suddenly appeared on the mountain wall, almost blending into the rock.
Li Zheng swiped the magnetic card given by Lu Yu, and the door slid open silently, revealing a staircase leading down.
Warm air rushed out, carrying with it the smell of some kind of antiseptic.
At the end of the stairs is a circular hall with seven display screens arranged in a circle, and each screen has a number underneath.
Li Zheng walked over to the CT-107 terminal and inserted the hard drive. The system prompted for two-factor authentication, so he entered the sum of their police numbers—071544.
The screen lit up and displayed "Memory recovery process started."
The first video plays automatically.
The picture shows a pure white laboratory. Seven teenagers are fixed on special chairs with electrodes connected to their heads.
Director Wang, wearing a white coat - at that time he was just Dr. Wang - was adjusting an instrument.
"The seventh phase of testing begins."
The young Director Wang said to the camera, "This time, we will completely erase the subject's original memories and implant the mission personality."
He walked up to a young man and gently stroked his hair - Li Zheng recognized it as 15-year-old Lu Yu, whose eyes were as empty as a doll's.
"CT-107 in particular has the strongest resistance and requires additional attention."
The scene switches to a hospital scene.
Lu Yu lay on the operating table. Director Wang relayed a message: "The frontal lobotomy was a success. With medication, he will become a perfect weapon."
Li Zheng clenched his fists, digging his nails deep into his palms.
He continued to browse the files and discovered that the entire "Deep Dive Project" was actually an illegal human experiment funded by the military with the aim of creating absolutely obedient super police.
And Mr. Xiao was the first experimental subject to awaken and defect.
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