An unpleasant voice suddenly came from the earphones.
"You are really no big or small now."
"Hmm..." An Yu said in surprise: "It turns out that space folding will not interfere with communications... By the way, I have always been curious, what is it like to be in folded space?"
Qin Zhilu was silent for a full minute and then said coldly: "It's no different from normal space, it just has an extra space edge."
He paused and then said: "But the bottom of my space seems to be vibrating regularly and there are sounds. Where did you fold me in?"
"Sorry, I didn't bring out my jam jar. I really can't find a container for you." An Yu whispered, gently touching the bandage on his right wrist with his left hand.
"The small space where you were standing just now is now in the bandage on my wrist." He whispered, "So the sound you heard may be my heartbeat."
Qin Zhilu was silent again.
An Yu gritted his teeth and continued walking forward, feeling increasingly guilty as he walked.
The commander remained silent, making him feel that he was really going to die.
He suddenly thought: If the officer's anger is irreversible, then...should he be let out?
In fact, even if Qin Zhilu starved to death in his bandages, probably no one would find out the truth.
As soon as this terrifying thought came to mind, a chuckle came from the earphones.
"Then you are quite panicked now."
There was a playful sense of relaxation in that voice, "Can you hear it through the headphones? It's thump, thump, thump."
An Yu was stunned and said, "What's that?"
"Your own heartbeat." Qin Zhilu said casually: "It didn't beat so fast when I was inspected just now."
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【Scrap Book Pages】23 Orphanage with High Risk of Deformation
The High Aberration Risk Orphanage was established in 2122, the year when the disaster first occurred.
In the first eight years since its establishment, nearly 10% of the children who entered the hospital gradually became deformed as they grew up, and all of them were quickly discovered and dealt with.
And among these 10%, most of them were infected due to the invasion of external abnormalities after being admitted to the hospital—even if they live in an ordinary bait city, they cannot avoid it.
People feel that this ratio is not terrible and is completely acceptable.
In the eight years since then, miraculously, there has been no invasion of external abnormalities, and the proportion of abnormalities in the orphanage has been as low as less than 1%.
Until something happened at the orphanage.
I don’t know whether humans discovered it too late, or what happened there was too weird.
It went from an almost forgotten corner to the most feared existence overnight.
Later, when humans looked back at the Age of Resistance, they were surprised to find that it was after that incident that the world opened a new chapter of chaos.
——From genetic riot to a mysterious prairie fire.
Chapter 34 Orphanage with High Deformation Risk·34
Heartbeat?
An Yu felt it carefully for a while, "That's not panic, sir."
"what is that?"
It's because I get a little excited at the thought of doing bad things.
An Yu silently avoided the dangerous question and explained: "It is common to be stopped by the patrol teacher in the orphanage. Once the data is abnormal, it will be taken away for inspection and then dealt with."
This is a cruel but safe management method. But now, everything in the orphanage is developing in a weird direction.
According to the terminal detection, the patrolling teacher is human, but she leads a large group of deformed children as a matter of course, and there is no trace of infection.
Qin Zhilu asked, "How long do you plan to let me stay in there?"
An Yu came to his senses and whispered, "It depends on how angry you are."
"Huh?" Qin Zhilu didn't hear clearly, "What did you say?"
"I said, I hope you can see my value again, and I will protect you properly until I get a pass for you."
Qin Zhilu did not comment and ordered: "Turn on the recorder."
"oh."
An Yu almost forgot about the small mechanical ball.
After a while, the real-time picture was transmitted to Qin Zhilu's terminal, and he said: "Let's go, don't deliberately avoid people."
"Why?" An Yu asked, "The people in the orphanage are not friendly. I don't want to fight too early."
Qin Zhilu seemed to be teaching him patiently, "Every time you go to a disordered area, you have to find out how many people are deformed. If I remember correctly, there are tens of thousands of children in the orphanage, and deformation is like opening a blind box. If most people If people are deformed, then we will have thousands of genetic blind boxes."
An Yu struggled to explain: "What is a blind box?"
"Lottery." Qin Zhilu said, "If you draw thousands of times, there should be what we need."
An Yu actually didn't quite understand, but he decided not to ask further questions - the superior had once praised him for his high IQ. Now in the eyes of the chief, he is neither old nor young, his moral quality is very poor, his gentle personality is questionable, and it seems that his only remaining advantage is his high IQ, which must be preserved no matter what.
The wind and snow are getting stronger and stronger. The wind and snow here are not as fierce as outside, but they seem to be unable to disperse no matter how hard they are shaken. The snow and sand flying in the sky almost cover the buildings.
An Yu stood in the snow and felt a little drowsy. He couldn't tell whether it was because he was hungry or because he felt sleepy as soon as he returned here.
The mechanical ball spun twice, and Qin Zhilu asked: "Are all the buildings here gray and white?"
"It's gray because it's dirty. It used to be pure white. The managers hope that the wind and snow can become a protective color here and reduce the risk of abnormal invasion, just like the dome does to the main city." An Yu replied while scanning the sparse buildings. Said: "Although it doesn't have any technological content, at least in the eight years I have been here, I have never heard of an invasion of abnormal species."
The team's public frequency suddenly sounded again.
"We finally got rid of those guys!" Fengjian Tianyu panted: "It's so easy to chase, an adult with a group of children, no, little freaks! Did you look up in the mirror? The enemy army is too huge, thank them As a matter of fact, the area that Halley's Comet swept over just now is the area we are in."
There was some silence in the channel for a while.
Jiang Xiao continued: "Everyone, we are in the southeast corner of the orphanage. Judging from the coordinates, Luhe's corner is in the northwest, Slade is in the southwest, and Pat is in the northeast."
An Yu, who was feeling empty due to hunger, suddenly raised his eyes.
After three missions, Lady Luck was finally on his side - the place where he lived back then was in the northwest corner, which meant that the archives room was also nearby.
Slade suddenly spoke and said displeasedly: "I was almost interrogated too. The clothes and things outside are very conspicuous in the orphanage, and people will ask if they see them. Why didn't the corner remind us?"
There was a subtle silence in the channel for a moment, and Pat hummed: "Young senior management, are you afraid that we will steal the contribution points?"
An Yu said nothing and continued walking forward.
A low building appeared in front of it, with a sign with a rice bowl at the door. It was the canteen.
His stomach immediately rumbled.
Slade said: "Law, please explain to us and those under your supervision that no one will want to compete with senior executives and junior executives for contribution points. Lord Corner does not need to be so vigilant..."
"Sir's channel is broken." An Yu suddenly interrupted him.
Slade: "What?"
An Yu said without changing his expression: "I just met the patrol teacher, and the officer and I got separated. If you can connect to his frequency band, please send him my coordinates."
He paused and lowered his tone, "My attitude was not very good just now. Sorry, there is no wet nurse or commander, which makes me a little anxious."
After he finished speaking, he immediately hung up the public channel and continued to walk faster towards the cafeteria.
The private channel sounded, and Qin Zhilu said calmly: "Who did you learn from, so shady?"
"Nearly being killed by the first octopus man in Area 53 made me understand that if I notice someone wants to kill me, I have to strike first and don't wait for the other party to take action." An Yu said, paused slightly, and said uncertainly: " Do you want me to be a kind person?"
Qin Zhilu seemed to chuckle, "It's up to you."
As soon as he finished speaking, another private channel lit up.
An Yu took a glance, and sure enough, it was from Slade.
He stood there and answered the communication.
"I'll go find you." Slade coughed twice on the channel, "I'm closest to you, it's safer to move together."
The snowy sand in the wind fluttered on An Yu's face, and his eyelashes became covered in an instant.
Under the baptism of the wind and snow, those golden eyes were so clear that it made people feel cold, and the flash of coldness in their eyes was even worse than the wind and snow.
"Your friendliness really does not disappoint." An Yu said softly, "Then I hope we can meet."
Slade said: "I move in the direction of your coordinates, and you also move in my direction."
"Um."
After the call was cut off, An Yu waited for two seconds and saw that Qin Zhilu really had no intention of intervening, so he muttered and asked, "Sir, can I go get something to eat? I'm very hungry after using Space Folding once."
Qin Zhilu chuckled, "You had already reached the entrance of the cafeteria before you thought of asking?"
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The cafeteria is exactly the same as in the memory, no change.
It happened to be dinner time. An Yu walked back from the front of the line, stopping for a moment next to every person who passed by with signs of abnormality, until he reached the end of the line, and quietly put the terminal hidden in his sleeve. Back to pocket.
Qin Zhilu looked at the synchronized test records, "The highest gene entropy is just over 200 years old. Most of them seem to be in the early stages of distortion and have not yet been able to hide their physical signs."
He stopped and thought for a while, "It stands to reason that this early state can last for a few days at most, but their behavior seems to have been abnormal for a long time."
An Yu observed the team silently. All clothing in the orphanage has identification tags sewn on the back, showing ID and name. The ID usually consists of the year of admission plus a four-digit code. The people in the entire team were admitted before 2139, which means that it overlaps with his time in the orphanage - he has been away for ten years, but These people still look like kids.
Either they all came in as babies, or I'm afraid there's something wrong with time here too.
An Yu thought of the prophetic poem called "Asylum" and whispered: "Only by finding the archives can we know what happened here."
The camera of the recorder slowly turned around the counter, and Qin Zhilu suddenly asked, "Do you eat this every day?"
"There is only one kind of nutritious soup, but the staple food is compressed biscuits and steamed peas." An Yu received a bowl, "It's a pity that it's biscuits today."
He kept some distance from the person in front of him and whispered: "The compressed biscuits can be eaten, but they are digested after a while. Steamed peas will cause stomach bloating when eaten, but they can be digested for a long time and taste better."
Qin Zhilu seemed to sigh, "I thought you had eaten coarse bread since you were a child."
