"Thick bread is only available in Bai City. On the first day I arrived in Area 53, Ling Qiu was eating bread. It was so delicious. He even broke off half of it and gave it to me." An Yu narrated in a low voice, "That was my first I received a gift for the first time. After eating it, the more I thought about it, the weirder it became. I was so frightened that I wanted to pick my throat and spit it out, but in the end I still didn’t want to give it up.”
"Well." Qin Zhilu seemed to have sat down inside. Perhaps because of his posture change, his voice sounded softer, "What happened next?"
Later, he got used to Ling Qiu's seemingly inexhaustible kindness, but except for Ling Qiu, no one gave him anything in the next ten years.
Until he stepped on the shuttle bus, he met Yan Xi's mother, Zhu Tao, and...the chief.
The chief seemed to particularly like to give him things. He gave him a windbreaker, bread, a dagger, points from gambling wins, and an expensive house.
There is also the octopus doll that makes people break their heads and wonders why it is so expensive, and the glutinous rice snacks that were genetically injected and served in a mysterious little black box.
An Yu rarely has expectations, but gradually, he will look forward to the next gift from his superior.
Ling Qiu is right, anticipation is a wonderful experience.
The staff put a large spoonful of dazzlingly yellow nutrient solution into his bowl, turned around, grabbed a piece of compressed biscuit and handed it to him.
An Yu carefully carried the bowl and walked out, "The nutritious soup is not bad, sweet, and replenishes essential substances for the human body. It is said that only one small pill is needed to brew a large pot, which is very magical."
It's very quiet in the headphones, and it seems to have been quiet for a while.
"Sir?"
"Yeah. Listen."
An Yu touched the earphones and asked, "Is it too stuffy in there?"
"It's a little bit. Let's find a place where no one is and return the space to its original state."
"Then I'll eat quickly." An Yu said immediately.
He sat down in the corner, drank the soup in a few mouthfuls from the bowl, and then tore open the bag of compressed biscuits.
The whitish, palm-sized biscuit has a rough and hard texture, as heavy as a brick.
An Yu tried to break it open in the middle.
Qin Zhilu said: "I won't eat it."
An Yu stopped immediately, "Then I eat it?"
"Yeah." Qin Zhilu said, "Eat slowly."
The sound of chewing immediately sounded in the headphones, like a small animal gnawing on tree bark, chewing quietly and decisively.
An Yu paid attention to his surroundings while eating.
More than half of the children here are deformed. The face of the aberrant closest to him was covered in ulcers, with small flowers that looked like eroded flesh blooming from the abscesses. The boy on his left was covered in bark-like folds, while the one on his right had only four irregularly shaped fingers on each hand.
When human children see them, they will lower their heads and walk around, while Teacher Fafan stands not far away and watches calmly.
Qin Zhilu thought: "Perhaps these managers are under mental control and their previous concepts have been washed away, so they are not surprised."
"mind control?"
An Yu thought of the outrageous rumors on the forum.
Qin Zhilu explained: "Abilities are also divided into three, six or nine levels. Only a few lawful people and super-abnormalities can awaken spiritual abilities." "The brain believes that there is an invisible evolutionary chain for distortions. Low-level distortions are like 53 The mantises and jellyfish in the area only reflect the biological nature of fusion, and then they extend to the so-called supernatural powers. For example, plants can attract insects and their juice can heal wounds. Correspondingly, the aberrations have awakened the ability of spiritual bewitchment or healing. And the super Abnormalities are more complex and can affect the order of time and space on a small scale. As humans explore along this evolutionary chain, the higher they go, the harder it is to explain the aberrations purely from the genetic level. For example, in the recently joined Codex, humans and non-living things can also be integrated. .”
An Yu said: "In this way, the more powerful the lawful ones are, the closer they are to super-abnormalities. They have not lost their human will, perhaps because they are not strong enough."
"Yes." Qin Zhilu said calmly, "From a rational point of view, the higher the position on the evolutionary chain, the harder it is to retain human will. When you no longer need to be a human being, you will naturally no longer be a human being."
An Yu ate the cookies and thought, there are two loopholes in this logic.
It was him and the chief.
The noise in the distance suddenly interrupted his meditation.
He raised his eyes and saw the long-lost daily routine of the orphanage.
——Those three deformed imps were collecting "protection food" just now.
The boy with the sores in his mouth took the lead, pointed his slender fingers on the table, and said in a demonic voice: "I took one too many bites."
The two humans were entangled. One of them had several bloody wounds, and the cracks exposed bright red flesh.
Qin Zhilu whispered, "Almost all human children have external injuries."
An Yu glanced at the cookie that he had bitten neatly, "Well, bullying is very common."
An orphanage is never a paradise. The evil here is even more unconcealed than in the slums. No normal child will like this place. After everyone passes the observation period, they will quickly apply to transfer to Baicheng.
In the entire cafeteria, there was only one human with no external injuries. He was another boy who was attacked. He was estimated to be thirteen or fourteen years old. He said to the flower boy: "He didn't mean to take an extra bite. It was just that the last bite was too big. Let's forget it. "
"Yes! Yes... I really didn't mean it." The boy's face turned pale, and he hid back tremblingly.
The flower boy sneered, two flower branches with thorns stretched out from his face, one wrapped around the boy's wrist, and the other covered his mouth.
"Uh-uh-" The boy was lifted up in the air and struggled painfully until blood dripped down the flower branches, and then he was thrown heavily to the ground.
It took him a while to tremble and kneel down, his knees pressing the blood on the ground, trembling and not daring to raise his head.
"Tomorrow." Hua Nan said, "I will focus on you."
He turned around and warned the uninjured boy in a cold voice, "0914, don't meddle in other people's business."
0914 did not answer, but quietly helped the boy on the ground up.
The collection of protective food continues. They stop in front of every human child, and the other person will immediately give them the leftover half of the biscuit with both hands.
Qin Zhilu suddenly said: "Except for you and 0914, all humans only eat half a piece."
An Yu quietly hid the mechanical ball behind his back, and the camera just panned across the table.
——Half a cookie lies quietly on the table, even more precise and regular than what other children left.
"Not except me." He said softly.
Bite off half a biscuit, no more and no less, because if you get more, you will lose, and if you lose more, you will be beaten. This is a survival skill he has trained since he was a child.
The flower boy stood in front of him, raised his eyebrows and said: "You are so old, you are new here?"
"Yes." An Yu looked indifferent, "My parents have just been deformed, and I am an older orphan."
"Why don't you have a number?"
An Yu said, "I haven't had time to get my clothes yet."
"Do you know the rules?"
"I heard." An Yu skillfully handed over half a cookie.
"Did you bring anything to eat from outside?"
An Yu shook his head, "I'm from the slums. I don't have any food left at home."
"What a waste." The flower boy looked at him indifferently, "You still have bandages on your neck and wrist. Are you injured outside?"
"Yeah. Bitten by a snake."
The flower boy narrowed his eyes and looked at the bandages, seeming to be thinking about something.
An Yu reached for his neck, "Do you want it? The wound doesn't bleed much, it's just stained with a little snake venom. It can be used again after cleaning it."
"Forget it. I hate reptiles the most." Flower Man frowned, "What else did you bring in from outside?"
"No more." An Yu tore at the torn bag-like clothes, "This is the only thing, if you want it..."
The flower boy left without looking back.
He looked at the identity information behind the flower boy - 21380720, Qiang.
When the three guys finally left the dining hall, An Yu put the remaining biscuit crumbs on the table into his mouth and looked away not far away.
0914, who was treated specially by Qiang, didn't seem to have any abnormality, so he didn't test it just now.
He stood up to return the bowl. When he passed by 0914, he lowered his eyes and said softly: "Sorry for borrowing the road."
The terminal vibrates silently in the pocket.
In the earphones, Qin Zhilu whispered: "Gene entropy, 10573, a highly gifted deformed person who can hide physical signs."
An Yu glanced behind him - 21370914, Chen Nian.
Chen Nian raised his head and said gently: "Are you okay? You just arrived. If you see them in the future, hide away if you can."
"Well..." An Yu nodded, gently rubbing the bandage on his right wrist as if uneasy, "Before coming here, I thought there were no deformed children here..."
"It was true many years ago, but not these years. More than half of them are aberrations." Chen Nian stared at him, "On the contrary, it's you. The orphanage hasn't had a new member for a long time, and the staff has long stopped looking for new ones. Risk child, how did you get in?”
An Yu raised his eyes and met his eyes.
Those black eyes were very clean, not malicious, but full of scrutiny.
"Any other advice?" An Yu did not answer his question.
"The management staff will not intervene in any fights. It doesn't matter if you are beaten or injured, but don't provoke them to kill you. Also, stay away from the mirrors." Chen Nian's words were meaningful. "The facilities here are very old, and the mirrors always emit Some noises, sometimes too close, I’m afraid it will suddenly break.”
An Yu's breathing stopped for a moment, then he lowered his head and said, "Thank you, I'll pay attention."
After returning the bowl, he entered the toilet in the cafeteria and stood in front of the sink.
"It's strange, sir. The facilities in the orphanage are indeed very old. I remember almost every mirror had cracks, but now they are as bright as new."
An Yu looked at himself in the mirror. He raised his hand, and he in the mirror also raised his hand. He tried to clear his mind, and the eyes in the mirror became empty.
Everything seems to be working fine.
But he always had a subtle feeling that when he stared at the mirror, something seemed to be staring at him through the mirror.
He suddenly reached out to touch his waist, and there was a clear sound of being unsheathed. The blade cut across the back of his left hand. The tip of the knife drooped, and drops of blood fell on the uneven cement floor.
Qin Zhilu said displeased: "What are you doing?"
"Give it a try." An Yu said softly.
His movements, expressions, and bleeding hands in the mirror were all completely synchronized with his own.
There's nothing unusual about it, it's just a simple image.
"corner."
An Yu's back stiffened, "Huh?"
Qin Zhilu never called him by his code name in private.
