Chapter 64
Looking at the three big words "No" on the page, Su Ci nodded.
In other words, this human base does not support the use of cubs for experimental research, which is consistent with the impression Su Ci has formed of the 24th Base these days.
In the base, there are people like Yan Ping who are upright, and people like Gu Qingchen who can produce purification abilities under the stimulation of red mist, and researchers like Zhuang Shisong who work hard to cultivate good varieties and cultivate purification plants...
There are indeed deficiencies in the raising of cubs, but that is due to lack of ability. At least, except for A Yan who is more special, the other children are raised to be fair and cute, and there is no deliberate mistreatment.
There may be some sinister people, but the overall impression of this base on Su Ci is not bad. Otherwise, he might stay here in a different way instead of continuing to be a breeder.
"Okay, I understand. Thank you for your answer."
Su Ci waved his hand again, and the work manual quietly suspended in the air retreated again. Finally, with a whoosh, it returned to the wall and was embedded in the original groove tightly.
The book spirit prototype thought that he could finally get out this time: ???
Is this your way of thanking me? Huh? !
After deep doubts, the work manual once again radiated a wave of irritable and angry emotions, and the whole book trembled.
It seemed as if it would do something terrible in the next moment.
Sensing this fluctuation, Su Ci raised his eyes and glanced at it lightly.
"..."
The still angry Shu Ling prototype calmed down in an instant, the body stopped shaking, and the emotions were no longer out of control. It quietly played the role of a wall decoration again.
And A Yan on the side, although he was curious about why the keeper asked Shu Ling like this, were there any cubs taken away by the research institute? But he did not ask.
Anyway, as long as he can tell him, the keeper will tell him sooner or later.
The child obediently crawled into the quilt, and used his body temperature to warm up the somewhat cold quilt, so that the keeper can sleep comfortably when he falls asleep!
Su Ci ended his "friendly exchange" with Shu Ling. When he turned around, he saw the child lying obediently in the quilt, and he immediately felt sleepy.
No matter what, the world is big, eating and sleeping are the most important. Let's wait until tomorrow to deal with everything. Moreover, it is late at night. Even if we can pick up No. 4, we have to wait until tomorrow at the earliest.
Su Ci opened the quilt and lay down. He pulled A Yan over to use as a pillow. Before closing his eyes, a golden light flashed in his eyes.
As this golden light appeared and disappeared, except for the quiet ones, the cubs who were noisy in their respective rooms all closed their eyes and fell asleep.
The whole nursery fell silent, and even the nanny robot No. 4586 entered a dormant state.
The night was peaceful and quiet.
Not only in the nursery, but also in most buildings in Base 24, the lights were dimmed. Only the guards and the people in the Operations Department were still on duty in the cold night wind.
The red mist in the sky was flowing slowly. At a certain moment, the clouds, which were originally calm, suddenly increased in speed, surging and roaring, and emitting bursts of wails.
The Operations Department team patrolling the base was the first to discover the abnormality.
"The temperature seems to have dropped?"
Xun Xiaoyu's expression was serious. After coming to Hell Star for a few years, she knew deeply that any small change must be taken seriously, otherwise it may cause big trouble.
"Everyone assemble!"
She called the team members together, and then called on the base's intelligent computer to report the situation.
In just two sentences, the temperature dropped directly to zero degrees, and it was still dropping.
The dewdrops that had condensed on the buildings had been frozen into frost flowers. As the concentration of pollutants increased, the frost flowers, which should have been snow-white, turned blood-red.
As the temperature continued to drop, the blood-red color became deeper and deeper, and the frost flowers continued to spread around. Even in places without water vapor, frost flowers froze when the red mist passed by.
At this time, Xun Xiaoyu had just called out the base's intelligent computer and had no time to react to the situation.
A shrill alarm sounded throughout the base.
"Warning! Warning! According to meteorological monitoring results, bloody frost flowers are forming in the 24th base! All personnel outside the 24th base are requested to immediately enter nearby buildings for shelter!"
"Warning! Warning! According to meteorological monitoring results, bloody frost flowers are forming in the 24th base..."
Hearing the alarm, Xun Xiaoyu decisively canceled the report to the base's intelligent computer, and then led the team to the nearest base building.
Although the combat suits on their bodies have a temperature control function, and the automatic temperature control mode is automatically turned on when the temperature drops, in the weather of bloody frost flowers, the temperature can drop to minus 100 degrees.
Fighting in such weather is very disadvantageous. Once the combat suits are damaged, not only will their mobility be greatly reduced, but they will also face the danger of being directly frozen.
Therefore, in frosty and snowy weather, even members of the action team must take shelter in buildings as soon as possible.
Fortunately, bloody frost flowers usually form at night, because the base stipulates that except for patrol guards and members of the action team, few people go out at night, and there will not be many people who need to be rescued by the action team.
Xun Xiaoyu had just led the team into a nearby building to take shelter when she saw someone talking in the group chat.
[What a close call! It was frosty just as I returned to the dormitory. I was freezing.]
If Xun Xiaoyu remembered correctly, the person who spoke should be from the maintenance team. She frowned slightly and typed to ask: [Why are you still outside so late? ]
[Captain Xun, good evening! I didn’t want to do that. Today, I went underground with my colleagues from the cultivation garden to collect water samples, and we were delayed on the way back.]
Xun Xiaoyu suddenly realized that she had indeed heard about the cultivation garden investigating water samples, and they had discussed it in the small group today.
So she continued to ask: [Well, has everyone returned to the dormitory?]
[Yes, everyone is back. Don’t worry, Captain Xun, you have worked hard too.]
Xun Xiaoyu smiled back and closed the group chat.
She looked outside the building. At this moment, a thick layer of frost had condensed on the glass windows, and everything was blood red. Even the surveillance cameras distributed in various corners of the base had gradually lost their vision.
Under this terrifying natural force, no human or machine can operate freely.
Xun Xiaoyu's expression became extremely solemn.
In the past, as long as they hid in the building, they could ensure safety. However, after experiencing the bloody weather before, no one dared to guarantee this.
Without the vision of the surveillance camera, the action team lost the base's intelligent computer as the "eyes", and there was no way to accurately judge the location of the monsters, and there was no way to rescue the people trapped outdoors in time.
Not only that, they were scattered and could only act on their own, unable to rush to the place where the battle might occur for support in time.
At this moment when they were about to face an unknown battle, Xun Xiaoyu and the members of the action team were more aware of the seriousness of the situation.
At this moment, Xun Xiaoyu suddenly frowned.
She stared at the glass window that was almost covered with frost, and vaguely seemed to see a figure outside, staggering forward against the night wind.
However, when she was about to see more clearly, the alarm sounded again.
"Please enter the building immediately to take shelter if you are still outdoors! All building passages in the base will be closed in one minute! The countdown begins!"
As the alarm sounded, the metal shield on the window fell down with a bang, completely blocking Xun Xiaoyu's sight.
Xun Xiaoyu sighed and could only tell herself that she had not received any distress messages from people outside, so...she must have seen it wrong just now.
She raised her head and looked in the direction of the brooding house, hoping that those little guys would behave themselves tonight and not attract the attention of the monsters...
On the fourth floor of the brooding house, when the bloody frost flowers fell, a small light was still on in rooms 4 and 5.
The little girl was lying on her small table, holding a light red paintbrush in her hand, and was carefully painting on the drawing paper. Next to her hand, four star chain fruits were neatly placed.
The fruit with bright red skin and a faint sweet fragrance gradually became weird from the moment the bloody mist began to spread outside the window.
The little girl was unaware of this, and her paintbrush kept sketching and painting on the white paper. Her use of colors was bold and abstract, and it was difficult for people to tell what she was painting.
She was so focused that she didn't notice even the bright red paint on her palms.
As time went by, the temperature outside the window became lower and lower.
In this closed, not very spacious room, strange movements gradually began to occur.
First, there was a person's laughter, a sharp, crazy laughter, and it was impossible to tell whether the owner of the laughter was a man or a woman.
The laughter was originally very vague, and it was impossible to hear it clearly without listening carefully, but as the little girl continued to paint, the laughter became louder and louder, and more and more sharp and piercing.
In addition to the laughter, the mumbling of various people began to appear. The mumbling echoed in the ears, which could make any normal person feel dizzy and have a headache when they heard it.
Finally, the little girl stopped painting.
Red mist spread from her painting and filled the small room, and the mumbling and laughter also gathered into a sound full of illusion.
"Oh, my little cutie, we meet again!"
After the voice fell, the room was once again filled with shrill laughter, as if countless men and women were laughing wildly. The
little girl who had been concentrating on painting finally raised her head.
There was no fear on her face, and her cute brown eyes had turned into the vertical pupils of a beast, and as if they were stained with blood, they turned into a weird deep red.
"I want my brother." She said.
"Oh? My dear little baby, your brother hasn't come back yet? Have you been taken away by those hypocritical humans to do something bad? You are so pitiful, you won't have a brother in the future, hahahaha..."
The laughter echoed in the room, sometimes gentle, sometimes full of malice.
"Shut up!"
Number Five roared angrily, clenched her hands into small fists, and hammered the table hard. The paintbrush in her hand broke into two pieces, and the debris pierced her skin, bleeding.
The laughter paused for a moment, and then became crazy. The red mist that permeated the room gathered and swam around the little girl's hands like a shark that smelled blood.
The laughter in the room became even crazier.
"Don't be angry, my little cutie. Remember, we are a team."
The illusory voice coaxed softly, "As long as you donate your soul to me and lend me your power, as long as we merge together, I can rescue your brother."
"In this way, we can leave this disgusting place and live happily together as three people. Do you think this is a bad thing? What are you still hesitating about?" The
little girl, who had just turned five years old, still had a childish look on her face. She listened to the strange voice in the red mist, lowered her head slightly, her eyes fell on the four neatly arranged star chain fruits.
Tears rolled down from her crimson eyes, splashing onto her painting with a dripping sound, and a red tear flower spread out.
Finally, the little girl said softly, "Okay."