After listening to Xi Yu's long speech, Lan Jin had a question. "You're saying that the human-sized mutants in the dense forest are human-made, but what about those smaller mutants outside? They can't be born by humans, right? Then how did they form?"
Speaking of this, it was another unintentional move by the researchers.
Xi Yu explained, "Not to mention Professor Pei, even researchers elsewhere couldn't bear to see their colleague transformed into a monster, so we expended a great deal of manpower and resources and finally captured a mutant creature transformed from a researcher in the dense forest. We imprisoned it somewhere for continuous research, and of course, we also studied other parts of the dense forest during this period.
However, no matter how much time passes, we still get nothing.
Although we didn't find a way to turn these researchers back into humans, we did gain a lot from this research. I can't tell you what this thing is, but everything changed just as the end of the world was approaching. It was this thing that triggered the subsequent insect plague.
When these insects touch our human body while they are alive, there will be no other reaction except redness, swelling, ulceration and fever. Even pesticides can kill them.
But once it dies and is eaten by the surviving animals, or if it does something else, the animals' bodies can't handle it and naturally mutate. This is why there's such a huge difference between the creatures inside and outside the forest."
As people with special abilities, the four of them still have a doubt.
Lao Gao asked, "Wait a minute, these bugs and small animals mutate after eating them, either getting bigger or smaller, anyway, they mutate, but why do humans develop superpowers after eating them?"
Captain Zhang could explain this. "It wasn't the insects that gave you your superpowers, but the plants mixed in with the insects. When the plants and insects are mixed together, the power is much smaller. But the insects are still somewhat related. Otherwise, why would people who ate the insect powder spit out a worm when they returned to normal, but people who were directly injured by the plants didn't do that?"
Xi Yu said, "I really don't know how to explain this. It could be that the energies of the two combined, but it could also be that they repelled each other. In short, the degree of madness in people who develop superpowers by eating insects and plants is much lower than that of those who are directly injured by plants."
As they were talking, they had already arrived at the other side of the 4th floor. Just as they saw with their naked eyes, it was empty and there was nothing there. Of course, it was not like the room next door, which was completely shrouded in darkness.
In order not to miss any clues, even though they saw nothing, they still patted the walls around them, for fear of missing any inconspicuous clues.
Naturally, they found nothing. Captain Zhang said, "Let's check around the third and second floors as well, just in case there really is a hidden compartment."
"OK."
After searching again, nothing was found in the laboratories on these two floors.
The group arrived at the lobby on the first floor. Lan Jin looked up and felt that there was something wrong with the painting in the middle corridor.
She looked at the people around her and said, "I don't know if it's my imagination, but maybe it's the design of this villa. I always feel like there seems to be something behind these murals. My guess is that placing these terrifying paintings in this place is to cover up what's hidden behind them."
After Lan Jin finished speaking, Zhou Zhi also echoed: "I had the same idea. Before we came in, I walked around the villa and felt that something seemed wrong with the painting here."
Captain Zhang asked, "Why didn't you two say anything just now?"
Lan Jin said, "That place is too narrow up there. I'm worried that if we act rashly, we won't be able to escape if something goes wrong."
"But since we've discovered there's something wrong with the painting, let's go up and take a look now." Captain Zhang asked in a tone of inquiry.
Lan Jin was speechless. "You are the captain, you have the final say."
"No one listened to me," Captain Zhang said. "Well, we can see the stairs and corridor from the lobby on the first floor. Since it's cramped over there, why don't we all go up together? Lao Gao, Lan Jin, Ling Jiang, Chen Zhiyu, and Lao Shi, we'll all go up together."
No one had any objection to this arrangement, and the six people who were named went straight to the corridor on the second floor and carefully observed the three paintings hanging there.
As Zhou Zhiye said, there is no problem with these three paintings, either from the front or the surroundings. Since the problem is not on the painting, why not take the painting down and see if there is any problem behind it?
The painting was quite large, so Lan Jin and Lao Gao stepped forward and took it down from the wall.
After the first painting was taken down, there was still nothing on the wall.
Then Lan Jin and Lao Gao quickly moved their positions and moved down the painting in the middle.
As soon as the painting was taken away, what appeared before their eyes was a safe. Everyone was a little excited, mainly because they didn't expect that there was something behind the painting.
But after careful observation, they discovered that this safe required a chip to open the door. The six of them did not try it rashly. Instead, they took down all the paintings on the three floors. After confirming that there were four safes in total, Lan Jin said, "There were four chips in the four boxes we found outside. Could those four chips correspond to these four safes?"
Captain Zhang was eager to try it out. "We'll know after we give it a try. This safe is only half a person's height. Could there be a body inside?"
Lao Gao jokingly said, "I'm not afraid of the corpse. What if I open it and man-eating worms come out of it?"
Captain Zhang choked and then said, "Even so, the safe still needs to be opened. Do we have to carry it down the mountain?"
Shen Zhiyu was speechless. "Why are you two still bickering here? Why don't you just open it and take a look to find out what's in here? If there's really a problem, let's solve it right away. Why waste time here?"
Lan Jin took out the four chips from her purse, but holding the four chips in her hand, she hesitated again.
Lan Jin looked at the people behind him and asked, "Four chips correspond to four safes. It must be one chip for each safe. What if, I mean what if, the first chip I took out with the back of my hand fails to open this safe three times, will it automatically lock? Because I remember that this kind of safe will automatically lock if it fails to open three times."
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