Old Tang had a head of burnt gray hair, his face was turned sideways, his eyes were squinted, and the muscles on his face were squeezed together, showing an expression of extreme surprise.
Seeing this scene, Sorge tightened his body and instinctively made a defensive posture. His right hand had already grasped the handle of the gun at his waist.
At this time.
A hand pressed on his.
K said softly: "Old Tang is just crazy."
Sorge hesitated for a moment, slowly put down his hand, glanced at K, turned back to the sofa, pondered for a moment and said: "Are you sure that the 'New World' has been wiped out?"
"Oh, Sorge, I know what you are worried about," Tam stroked the wand, "I heard K's story for the first time, and I also thought that things were a little unusual. Therefore, I and three consultants carefully inspected the Nirvana Building. In the ruins, no trace of the survival of that inorganic creature was found."
"Where are the people? These rescued people," Sorge said with a gloomy look.
"Do you think the 'New World' is inhabiting their bodies?" Tam shook his head. "In my memory, there is no relevant literature that mentions that inorganic organisms can survive in carbon-based organisms. Of course, Secret Technique and I are still Checked them out, especially Ms. Cain.”
"in conclusion."
"There is nothing abnormal, they just suffered varying degrees of damage," Tam sighed. "In addition to the damage caused by human weapons, it also includes the erosion of necromancy magic and the structural collapse of airbender Taoism. The only difference is that Old Tang , he had no external injuries, but his mind was in endless confusion and his self-awareness had been completely lost.”
"Have they done a more detailed examination?" Sorge asked.
K sat back on the sofa: "When Dr. Xisen comes back, the physical examination will be done by the doctor."
"Where is Dr. Sisson?"
K adjusted his sunglasses: "An hour ago, Li Ru sent us a message through Activision. When agents from the Order Bureau were rescuing injured citizens near the Nirvana Building, they found half of the crashed spacecraft. In the spacecraft... they were found The fourth princess."
Sorge said in shock, "That woman is still alive?"
"I don't know. Mr. Tam thinks the fourth princess is very important, so Dr. Sisen went to the joint conference headquarters to check the situation. You didn't meet him?"
Sorge shook his head and looked at Tam.
"Oh, as you are worried, if that inorganic creature does live in the human body in some secret way, but I and the three consultants cannot detect it, then the fourth princess will be the key to us knowing the truth," Tam solemnly He said, "I hope she can survive."
The room fell silent.
Eight in the morning.
The sky lit up on time, and the usual lively broadcasts turned into a heavy tone:
"Good morning, it is eight o'clock in the morning on September 13, 3027. Citizens, we have just spent the most difficult night in history. Let us pray for our compatriots who died in the attack, for the injured children, women, and the elderly. Pray, thank Xi’an, and may the Twin Gods bless Zhongjing.”
K drank in silence, the morning light shining on the side of his face.
Tam sat on the sofa with his hands folded, closing his eyes and concentrating. Sorge stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window with his arms folded, looking calm.
At this time.
Dr. Xisen rushed into the room in a hurry, looked around, then tiptoed close to the suite door, opened a gap and looked inside, then quietly closed it, shook his head and walked to the sofa to sit down.
The skinny dean of Putnam's New Australia Branch changed into clean casual clothes, but he didn't have time to wash his face. There were still congealed blood scabs on his face. His white hair was curly and uneven due to fire, and the back of his head was bald. piece.
"Doctor, how are you?" K drank half the wine and his tongue was a little tied.
"Who? The Fourth Princess?" Dr. Xisen picked up the beer bottles on the coffee table one by one and shook them. All of them were empty. He smacked them and said, "Half-dead, if it weren't for a direct descendant of a powerful family like her who has a high degree of bionic transformation. , most people would already stink."
Sorge asked: "How did she survive?"
"Her spaceship seemed to be a special service ship. This kind of ship moves very fast. It is probably that the system automatically avoided the attack. However, the antimatter annihilation particle beam was too fast and it was not completely avoided. It crashed two blocks away. I saw the fourth princess's By then, only her upper body was left."
"Fuck, can you live with half of it?" K cursed.
"This is a bionic technology unique to Xi'an. As long as the brain is intact, you can survive." Dr. Sisen finally found a bottle of beer, opened it and took two sips. "It has only been applied to a small number of direct descendants of the family. Physically, probably dozens of people in the Putnam family have undergone this kind of transformation. I have studied it privately. It is a stem cell programming technology. It is very complicated and I still haven’t figured it out.”
K leaned over and touched the wine bottle with the doctor, and said with a smile: "I told you earlier, I should have let you take the lead last night."
"Ah? I didn't accept the reform," Dr. Sisson said angrily, "I don't like Shangcheng, and I don't trust Xi'an. I relied on courage last night. Do you understand courage?"
"Haha..." K smiled and gave a thumbs up.
Sorge was obviously not in the mood to mess around. He glanced at the apartment door and asked softly: "You checked their body. What's the result?"
Dr. Xisen looked back and lowered his voice: "It's very strange."
Sorge instinctively leaned forward.
"Those people found in the drainage pipe, like Brother Shui and House, in addition to gunshot wounds, their shoulder blades, ribs, pelvis, and femurs were all broken, and there were a lot of bruises and abrasions on their skin, indicating that they were killed in a very short period of time. Forcibly stuffed into the pipeline, those enhanced semi-bionic commandos are also very strange. Their bionic organs are intact, including their skulls, but their brains are inexplicably dead." Dr. Sisson scratched his hair. "What's even weirder is Cain. She looked seriously injured, including gunshot wounds, electromagnetic pulse burns, and dozens of shotgun blasts found in her body. However, her internal organs were not injured at all. Oh, by the way, there were also some magic injuries?"
Tam nodded and added: "Oh, necromancy magic and airbenderism. The people in the pipeline suffered less. Cain was hit by at least three kinds of necromancy magic and one type of airbenderism, but it did not cause fatal damage. .”
"Where's Old Tang?" Sorge frowned.
"Old Tang is the strangest," Dr. Xisen said in a lower voice. "From the scans, his brain is normal and there is no organic damage. Logically speaking, there should be no mental problems. I always feel that he is faking it." .”
Sorge was stunned for a moment and looked at K.
K said nonchalantly: "I tried it just after the inspection, and I can't tell it's fake. Mr. Tam also confirmed that his thinking is very confused. Besides, why does he need to pretend to us?"
"Oh, yes," Tam nodded, "At least that's how it is in my and the mystic's perception."
The room fell silent again.
After a moment, K hugged Dr. Xisen and said with a smile: "Old man, it's time for you to rest."
"It's okay," Dr. Sisson waved his hand, "How can I sleep at this time?"
"Then drink some more," K opened another bottle of wine and handed it over.
"Forget it," Dr. Xisen declined, then thought about it, "Well, why don't I drink some more, I'm mainly hungry, Daji..." The old man turned his head, froze for a moment, and sighed softly. Take a breath.
K squeezed the doctor's shoulder hard: "Whatever you want to eat, I'll get it for you."
"Whatever..." Dr. Xisen seemed much older, shook his head, and drank silently.
More than ten minutes later.
K returned to the room carrying a food box.
Dr. Xisen has fallen asleep on the sofa.
Sorge was the only one left in the room, standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, staring at the city below.
K gently put down the food box and walked to Sorge.
for a long time.
Sorge smiled: "We should be lucky to have a companion like Dr. Sisen."
"Yes, he has been saving people non-stop since midnight. Without him, many people would not have survived." K lit a cigarette and smiled in silence for a moment, "I am also honored to know you."
"Each other."
"Li Liang hasn't woken up yet?" K glanced at the suite with the door closed.
"No," Sorge said in a low voice, "I have a hunch that when he wakes up, we will set off again and embark on a more difficult road."
"It doesn't matter," K put on his sunglasses, "there is nothing that can scare us anymore."
Sorge smiled and looked down at Zhongjing with K:
"yes."
