Chapter 178 It’s Different
"What kind of rubbish place is this? Is it built completely according to the HBP structure?" Chu Xi sneaked out of the elevator and followed Xie Ling all the way to the numbered room area. Her face became even uglier.
Especially since Xie Ling stopped outside Room 1, and Room 2 was right behind her. If Chu Xihen hadn't held her hand, she would have turned around and run away immediately.
She doesn't want to stay in this place for even a second!
"I'm used to it. I asked an earth-attributed superpower to build it according to the previous laboratory. The previous laboratory was built uniformly under the order of the superiors, so you will find the layout similar." Xie Ling opened the door and introduced the siblings: "Room No. 1 is my personal laboratory, and Room No. 2 is my lounge in the Superpower Bureau. But the equipment inside is similar, because I occasionally do some small experiments in my own lounge."
The main reason was that he used the experimental bed in Laboratory No. 2 as a sleeping bed, and it would be somewhat impolite to let Chu Xihen go in and cooperate with him in the experiment.
After the door opened and he saw the layout inside, Chu Xi's anxious heart finally settled down a little.
"It turns out that only the outside is the same, but the inside of the room is different." Chu Xixi said in a low voice.
Xiao Yan asked curiously, "What's the difference? Tell me, we can let a superpower do the transformation."
"No, it's fine this way." Chu Xi looked up and said to Xie Ling, "When you do the experiment, I will always watch by your side. If you dare to hurt my brother, I will kill you!"
"Then just forget it. I will be watching him when he does the experiment. If you dare to touch him, I can kill you." Xiao Yan looked down at Chu Xixi.
The atmosphere was a little awkward for a moment. Chu Xihen pinched Chu Xixi's little hand and said, "Don't be so nervous. Tell me what kind of equipment was in Room 2 where you lived at that time. I want to see if there is any difference between it and the one in Room 1 where I live."
Chu Xihen certainly knew that every laboratory in the HBP Research Institute was the same. He said this just to divert Chu Xichen's attention and let her stop being so nervous.
Chu Xichi really needed some relief like this.
"It's actually not much different from here, except that there are two big jars next to the lab bed where we lie, one on the left and one on the right. The one on the left is nutrient solution, and I don't know what the one on the right is. It's black, and sometimes I feel like those black things are moving, as if they want to eat me up. It's really disgusting..."
"Wait." Chu Xihen walked to the right side of the test bench and pointed to a location in mid-air. "Are you talking about the jar placed here?"
"Yes, I asked the researcher in charge of me, and he warned me fiercely not to touch that jar, otherwise he would throw me into the furnace." Chu Xi pouted unhappily.
Failed subjects will be thrown into the furnace, which is something every subject knows and fears, so whenever the subjects disobey, the researchers will use this to threaten them.
It's like a parent threatening his child that a vicious wolf will appear if he doesn't obey.
However, the evil wolf in reality is fake, but the furnace in the laboratory is real.
Xie Ling looked at Chu Xihen's expression, and then said to the two of them: "Generally speaking, there should only be a jar of nutrient solution on the top of the test bench. There shouldn't be a jar of black stuff like Xiao Qi mentioned."
He asked Chu Xiqi: "What are those black things? Is it gas or liquid?"
Chu Xichi thought for a moment and said, "It's like mist, a living mist. Many times I feel like it is watching my every move."
"Is that can connected to your body by wires?" Xie Ling asked again.
"Yes." Chu Xihen said, "It's similar to the output tube of the nutrient solution tank. As long as we lie on the experimental bed, the tube will be connected to our heads."
Chu Xi nodded in agreement, as if she knew what Xie Ling was going to ask next. She said directly: "The tube is connected to my temple. I don't feel any discomfort. On the contrary, when I feel very uncomfortable, the tube seems to calm me down slowly."
She herself was actually not sure, and thought it might be her psychological effect, so after she finished speaking, she looked at Chu Xihen, "Brother, do you feel this way?"
Xie Ling and Xiao Yan also looked at him.
But Chu Xihen shook his head and said, "No, the jar on my laboratory bed has always been empty. From the beginning to the end, there was nothing in it."
"Why is it hanging there when there's nothing? And why do you have to connect it to your head every day?" Xiao Yan asked without understanding.
Chu Xiqi's pupils trembled violently, "Is this my hallucination?"
But then she thought of something: "That's not right. After you left the institute, I lived in Room 1. I still saw the black mist in the jar. I also asked the kids next door, and they could see it too!"
"So it's not you who has the hallucination, it might be me." Chu Xihen said.
Xie Ling said, "Perhaps you both didn't have hallucinations, but one of you really saw it and the other didn't. Mr. Chu, do you mind if I draw a tube of your blood first?"
"Please." Chu Xihen followed Xie Ling here, so naturally he would not object to these.
"Wait a minute!" Chu Xi said to Xie Ling, "You've been listening for so long, why don't you say something useful? You've learned the same thing as those bastards in the research institute. Don't you know what's in that jar?"
Xie Ling was not angry. Knowing that Chu Xichi was raised in the laboratory as a test subject, he became even more tolerant of her.
Just as Chu Xiqi said, he was also a scientist and knew what kind of life those who were used as experimental subjects lived.
Chu Xichi's current situation is already pretty good.
"It may be some kind of gas related to the potential of the human body. I have not done any research in that area, nor have I seen the black gas you mentioned, so I really can't explain it. But I can use your blood for comparison. If you have really been affected by that black gas, there should still be some residue in your blood." Xie Ling explained to Chu Xichi in a good-tempered manner.
"Then stop talking nonsense and hurry up!" Chu Xixi said as he rolled up his sleeves, revealing his slender arms.
Xie Ling and Xiao Yan saw that both brother and sister had marks on their arms from long-term injections.
"So you two are not biological siblings, but just graduated from the same research institute?" Xiao Yan asked belatedly.
Mainly because after coming into contact with Chu Xichi these past few days, he discovered that the other person's personality was quite similar to Chu Xihen's. He couldn't tell from their appearance and thought they were really a pair of blood-related siblings.
After listening to what the two of them said, he realized that he had misunderstood.
"Shut up, idiot." Chu Xi yelled at him.
Xiao Yan knew that the little girl was now like a lit firecracker that could explode at any time, so he didn't bother with her.
After Xie Ling drew blood from the two people, he started working on the laboratory table nearby. Chu Xihen waved at Chu Xichen, and the brother and sister sat on the laboratory bed.
"Tell me in detail about the black gas you saw. When did you discover the black gas? Does its amount change every day?" Chu Xihen asked with a serious expression.