"How do you feel now?"
The 23rd floor of the Specially Adjusted Headquarters Research Institute is the core research area of the headquarters. Shen Xing, who has A5-level privileges, can now enter and exit here, but he still has to apply in advance.
The place he was in was a very large experimental center. There was a huge glass room in front of him. There were pipes hanging and arranged everywhere in the glass room, some large and some small, all connected to a smaller glass box in the middle of the glass room. Inside.
In the middle of this transparent glass box is a human brain. When I first looked at it, it was a bit disgusting and scary. After looking at it for a long time, I finally felt a little more tolerable.
The entire glass room is sterile, and some parts of the brain in the glass box sometimes beat slightly.
Streams of energy liquid can be seen entering from the tube.
Standing outside the glass room, after Shen Xing asked this question, not two seconds later, the answer came from the microphones around the experimental center where he was: "It feels pretty good. Well, I didn't expect that our meeting this time would be in here!"
This sound obviously came from the brain in front of me. I don’t know what method was used to make the brain emit a sound, which was simulated through an electronic synthesis, just like talking to a real person.
Shen Xing sighed: "Brother Zhou, you are like this, I have been feeling uncomfortable and guilty."
"What's there to feel guilty about?" Zhou Dao's laughter came out. Although the electronically synthesized sound sounded a bit weird, it was clear that he had been thinking openly, "Without our efforts, Ye Yin would not have been completely wiped out. The only pity is that the old thief Yan Ye has disappeared."
"Brother Zhou, I came to see you this time, and I also want to tell you that I have reached an in-depth cooperation with the headquarters and will soon go to the base in the suburbs to start work. I may stay in Jingzhou for a long time in the future. If there is any If I have the chance, I will take time to come and see you from time to time." Shen Xingdao.
Zhou Dao's voice became lighter: "Haha, there is one thing you may not know. Dean Li Zhen grafted my brain with the core computing library of the institute, and I generated your cooperation agreement. In the past few days, I also strongly advocated that the headquarters must cooperate with you."
"It turns out that I was the one who was kept in the dark!" Shen Xing laughed dumbly.
Zhou Dao smiled even more happily, and his electronically synthesized laughter could be heard throughout the testing center: "Now my brain is the database and computing library of the entire research institute and the entire special-purpose headquarters, and it is responsible for almost 70% of it." central system, and it will gradually increase in the future. If you need to access data or information, please contact me directly and I will send it to you. You no longer need to waste time searching in the data room."
"How to teleport?" Shen Xing looked around.
At this time, a young assistant in the laboratory handed Shen Xing a dark watch. At first glance, he thought it was an ordinary electronic watch, but when Shen Xing put it on, a progress bar prompt appeared on the surface.
Then the welcome message was displayed on the surface, and Shen Xing felt a tingling sensation on the skin of his wrist close to the back of the watch, and the words "Biological information collection has been completed and binding is in progress" appeared on the surface screen.
After a few seconds, "Binding Successful" is displayed.
At this time Zhou Dao's voice came out again: "Well, I can feel you."
After finishing speaking, Shen Xing saw a line of words displayed on the surface of the watch: [In the future, we can communicate directly through this method, no matter how far apart the distance is. 】
Soon the young assistant gave Shen Xing two pairs of built-in hidden headsets, one for current use and the other as a backup.
After Shen Xing wears it, he can directly hear Zhou Dao's voice and talk to him. He can also enter text on the watch to communicate when it is inconvenient to speak.
It’s just that the watch dial is small, making it a little inconvenient to input text.
Shen Xing said: "In other words, Brother Zhou, you are now immortal?"
Zhou Dao was stunned for a moment: "If you don't tell me, I really didn't expect this. Now it seems like this."
After a pause, he replied in the headset: "So sometimes I really can't tell whether it's a blessing or a curse. Now I can feel that I have hands and feet, and a complete virtual body. I can go wherever I want. place, unless the place you want to go doesn’t have internet.”
"Can you sense your own body?" Shen Xing was also a little surprised.
"Yeah." Zhou Dao replied, "I'm really like a brain in a vat right now. If I were to blind myself, I wouldn't be able to tell at all whether I am a brain in a vat or the real one. A living human being with a complete body.”
"How should I put it?" Shen Xing said with emotion, "Having said that, maybe we are all self-righteous. In fact, we are all brains in a vat. It's just that your consciousness has returned, and we are still being deceived by ourselves."
"Hahaha, your imagination is big enough." Zhou Dao laughed loudly, "I want to write your ideas into the data storage device, maybe it can be put to use in the future."
The two chatted for a while, and saw that Zhou Dao's current appearance was not as bad as he imagined. In a sense, he was reborn as a new life, and the burden in Shen Xing's heart was gone.
It was agreed that the core information about the abnormal history from the headquarters would be sent to Shen Xing for review later. After chatting for a while, Professor Bo entered the experimental center to remind Shen Xing that it was time to leave.
After taking a deep look at the brain in the glass room, Shen Xing left and followed Professor Bo to the 35th floor of the building.
At this moment, Feifei had been sitting and waiting in the corridor here, frowning slightly. When she saw Shen Xing coming, she immediately stood up and pulled Shen Xing aside.
Asking Shen Xing to squat down, he lowered his voice and said in his ear: "They just told me that they would conduct a routine abnormal physical test on us."
"What?" Shen Xing was shocked, "Don't you need our consent?"
"Grandpa Bo just said that this is the prerequisite for signing the agreement." Feifei said: "What should I do? Uncle Shen, will I be detected as abnormal?"
"How have you been feeling physically these days?" Shen Xing asked.
Feifei said: "I feel like I have gained several kilograms again. It's a bit heavy. And it's not like before. Now I can't feel my tongue at all. Not only do I have no sense of taste, sometimes I can't even tell what I'm eating."
Shen Xing's thoughts changed: "In this way, during the test later, if you feel something is wrong, scream immediately and show fear, panic, and helplessness. Because your mother died early, there is a certain They will also understand the psychological shadow and will not suspect anything else. I will think of a solution when the time comes."
After a pause, he added: "Also, you have to believe that you are a human being and there is absolutely no way you are an anomaly."
Feifei nodded heavily, but her brows were still furrowed.
Professor Bo stood at the door of the testing room at this time, waved to Shen Xing, and said with a smile: "Little Feifei has told you, I heard that the child was going to get an acupuncture, and the child was very scared. It's okay, it doesn't hurt at all. Which one of you? first come?"
"Me." Shen Xing nodded.
Let Feifei sit outside the corridor first, and he followed Professor Bo into the testing room with a black door.
There was a large unknown instrument inside, as well as two staff members who looked like nurses in white coats. One of them drew blood from Shen Xing and immediately put it into the instrument.
Then another nurse asked Shen Xing to take off his coat and stand in front of a built-in door that was as tall as one person, with his back leaning on the instruments at the back. Professor Bo watched the whole process without speaking.
Not long after Shen Xing stood firm, the lights in the room dimmed completely, and there was a slight roar of mechanical operation in his ears. A beam of light shone from above his head, and the light was only as thick as a chopstick.
Shen Xing felt that his body had become extremely transparent, like a glass man, everything had become transparent.
With perfect control over this body, he could feel that the light seemed to be testing and stimulating his skin, muscles, blood, cells...
During this process, one can also feel a radiation wave extending outward from the light, creating layers of shadowless and invisible ripples, detecting the feedback from the body parts covered by the ripples.
Shen Xing did not use his body to kill, nor did he let his mental antibodies create resistance, but stood calmly.
Then, he felt that the light in that part of his head became much brighter, as if it illuminated the entire brain. Then the light dimmed and retracted, and the operation of this large instrument stopped.
Professor Bo looked at the printed test report. After Shen Xing put on his coat and came over, he muttered: "The physique is completely normal, but there is a shadow on the brain. Well, don't get me wrong, this shadow is not a brain tumor, but It’s a shadow with similar anomalous properties.”
After a pause, Professor Bo analyzed: "This should be your wood sculpture's special ability to contain abnormalities. We have seen it in other people with special abilities before."
Shen Xing nodded, but looking at the images in the report, what he thought about was, could the black shadow be the second-hand person who entered his deep dream last time?
After all, no one can tell whether the idiot is alive or dead. Maybe he is trapped in a deep dream and never comes out. Maybe he has turned into a real idiot and been assimilated by the dream.
After leaving the testing room, I saw Feifei clenching her hands into two cute little fists, sitting motionless on the chair in the corridor, with a nervous expression.
Shen Xing smiled, squatted in front of her, and said softly: "I'm healed. It won't take much time. Just stand there and relax. Don't worry about anything. Don't have any thoughts of resistance. Like I said just now, if you feel There was something strange about my body, so I screamed in fear and stopped the test."
"What if... I am abnormal?" Feifei pursed her lips and said weakly.
"Then I will become a bigger anomaly and protect you." Shen Xing replied immediately.
Feifei was stunned for a moment, and then she grinned.
"Feifei." At this time, Professor Bo stuck his head out and looked over.
"Go, remember, don't think about anything." Shen Xing followed Feifei to the door.
After Feifei entered, the door of the testing room was quickly closed.
Feifei was not afraid of the operations of drawing blood. Shen Xing knew that what she was most worried about would be the feeling when the beam of light was testing her body just now.
When he was in the testing room, he felt that time passed very quickly, and the blood drawing and light examination were quickly over. But now that Feifei entered, he suddenly felt that time had slowed down a lot.
After sitting outside the corridor for a long time, I looked up the black watch I just got and saw that only three minutes had passed.
At this time, Feifei had only been standing on the optical inspection instrument for a short time.
He wondered alone.
After a while, a cry of surprise suddenly came from the testing room, followed by a commotion.
There was a bang, and fire exploded.
A staff member opened the door, and Shen Xing rushed to the door. He saw a cloud of black smoke coming out of the large optical inspection instrument, and the room was dark.
Feifei held her head in her hands and was squatting where the built-in door of the instrument stood, with a look of fear and nervousness on her face.
"The instrument suddenly broke down." Professor Bo said.
"There's smoke."
"This optical inspection instrument is so expensive and has just been upgraded. Why did it break down so quickly?"
The other two staff members quickly turned off the power and shouted in panic.
Shen Xing pulled Feifei to his side, checked that she was not injured, and then asked: "How expensive is this instrument?"
"More than 100 million." Professor Bo frowned.
He was now standing in front of another computer, quickly controlling and searching. It seemed that he didn't care about the test results anymore. It was more important to save the instrument first.
Shen Xing pulled Feifei aside and asked, "Then can we go?"
Only then did Professor Bo react. He looked at the only bright computer screen in front of him, nodded and said: "Although the results have not been tested yet, it now shows that everything is normal. Well, Feifei is very brave, come on , Grandpa rewards you with a lollipop!"
After saying this, he did not forget to take out a prepared lollipop from his pocket and handed it to Feifei.
Feifei smiled sweetly, took the lollipop, and bowed to Professor Bo: "Thank you, grandpa!"
"Hmm, you guys go first. I may be busy here for a while." Professor Bo nodded to Shen Xing.
Shen Xing pulled Feifei away from this floor and took the elevator to the first floor.
"Did you break the instrument?"
"have no idea."
"What was the situation?"
"After the light came down, I was scared. I was so scared that my body shook. Then there was a bang on the top of my head, and I squatted down holding my head."
"It looks like you broke it."
"Well, Grandpa Bo's lollipops are so sweet!"
"Can it not be sweet? One hundred million yuan a piece."
When the two left the special headquarters building, several commercial vehicles were parked outside the gate. The first two vehicles belonged to the working group serving Shen Xing, the team headed by Team Leader Liao.
Shen Xing's luxury business car was in the third one. The interior space was extremely spacious. After entering the car, he and Feifei lay down on one side.
There is also a task force motor vehicle behind, which is Shen Xing's unique task force.
A group of four vehicles left the headquarters building and drove to the western suburbs of the central city of Jingzhou, where there was a villa specially prepared for Shen Xing by the headquarters for office and living.
Shen Xing's next work was also completed in this villa in the western suburbs, including receiving the abnormal information, carving abnormal wood sculptures as required, and sending them to the action team by a dedicated person to complete the containment of the abnormality.
At the same time, the headquarters research institute has also fulfilled Shen Xing's request. The top-grade abnormal grease diluted at 100:1 was placed in the car that Shen Xing was riding in and contained in a sealed can.
Before arriving at the destination, Shen Xing's black watch lit up, and a message from Zhou Dao came, reminding him to check the unusually secret information that had just been sent to him through a deep encrypted channel on his phone.
