"Lin Ting, that's Xu An, don't you recognize him?"
Luo Fei's words undoubtedly shocked Lin Ting's heart.
She looked at the man with his back turned under the shade of the tree. From such a distance, the man still had a gas mask on his face, and she still couldn't tell whether it was Xu An.
While the two were arguing, the leaf buds of the willow tree fell on the man in black as if blown by the wind. Suddenly, traces of white smoke appeared on his shoulders.
He was half kneeling on the ground, seemingly injured.
Lin Ting was shocked by the surprising scene in front of her. Luo Fei took advantage of Lin Ting's daze and threw her hand away and ran under the shade of the tree.
Luo Fei helped the man in black up, and a faint bloodshot oozed from the corner of his mouth.
Lin Ting took a closer look and saw that the man in front of him was actually Xu An.
But when he first saw Luo Fei, he was deeply defensive and hostile, as if he could launch an attack at any time.
"Xu An, how are you? Are you injured?" Luo Fei was so excited that hot tears dripped down her eyes and onto the back of Xu An's hand. She bit her trembling lips and suppressed her crying, "You Where have you been for a while? They all said you were dead. Do you know how worried I am about you?"
Xu An lowered his eyes slightly, but the coldness in his eyes still did not dissipate.
He forced himself to stand up, looked into Luo Fei's wet eyes and said coldly: "I can't understand what you are talking about. But it is working time now, please return to the factory immediately."
After that, he turned to the dark path behind, apparently heading back to the Security Department.
Before the man could take a few steps, Luo Fei hugged him tightly from behind.
"Xu An, I am no longer willful, please don't leave me, okay? I'm so scared here..."
Luo Fei cried and wiped tears on his black uniform.
Lin Ting couldn't help but open his mouth when he saw this scene.
From what Xu An meant, it seemed like he didn't remember Luo Fei at all now.
But how dare Luo Fei throw herself into the man's arms without thinking? What if he is just a fake of Xu An?
At this moment, Xu An turned around lightly and did not look at Luo Fei. Instead, he said to Lin Ting.
"Lin Ting, take her away."
Lin Ting pointed at herself and said in surprise: "Do you still remember me?"
Xu An did not answer, but cruelly pushed Luo Fei's hand away. With a strong force, Luo Fei fell to the ground with a "pop" and looked at this cold man in disbelief.
"Please continue to work hard. Next time, I will punish you according to the company system."
After saying that, he turned around and left without any regrets.
Luo Fei sat on the ground blankly, watching Xu An's leaving back for a long time without coming back to his senses.
"He even remembers you, but doesn't remember me?"
As Luo Fei spoke, the corners of his mouth raised, and his smile was uglier than crying.
Lin Ting opened her mouth, but didn't know what to comfort her.
She really couldn't empathize with Luo Fei at this time, and didn't want to say anything to comfort her.
After all, in the world of ghost stories, everyone must deal with their own emotional garbage.
Otherwise, you will expose your weaknesses to the enemy.
While Luo Fei was sad, Lin Ting thought of what the note and 222 said, and slowly approached the willow tree.
The branches of the willow tree were no different from the real world, but Lin Ting noticed that the strongest part of the trunk seemed to have been chewed out by something, revealing a dark interior.
Lin Ting looked inside for a long time, but did not hear any sounds or see anything weird.
And just as she stood up, she caught a glimpse of the dark lumps above the roots of the willow tree.
Lin Ting didn't pay much attention to it before, thinking it was just ordinary mud, but it wasn't until he got closer that he realized that the texture and color of these things were different from usual.
She reached out and pinched it.
The black blocks were broken into very small shapes, but they were still smooth and delicate to the touch, and still had a slight warmth in such a cold weather.
Lin Ting observed for a long time before he figured out what the thing in his hand was——
graphite.
Fortunately, the chemistry knowledge she learned in high school has not been returned to the chemistry teacher.
Lin Ting looked at the dense graphite near the roots of the willow tree. There was a lot of it.
Graphite does have a wide range of applications, but if you just keep the machines in the candy factory running, these broken graphites are not so convenient.
Unless these graphites have experienced something.
Like...explosion?
Lin Ting pinched the pieces in her hand carefully, and the heat that had not dissipated already gave her the answer.
She only looked at the fragments for more than ten seconds before a violent nausea surged from her stomach, like a hand stirring it.
Lin Ting quickly covered her mouth and threw the things in her hands, but the discomfort became stronger and stronger.
She quickly ran to the trash can and vomited happily.
After vomiting, Lin Ting felt as if his body had been hollowed out. She looked at the still green willow tree behind her, but she already had a judgment in her heart.
Something that could make her feel intensely nauseated in a short period of time probably contained a high concentration of radioactive material.
And what about tying these together?
In an instant, Lin Ting's two veins of Ren and Du seemed to be opened.
Graphite, radioactive materials, gas masks, infections, undrinkable water…
Everything is put together and becomes traceable.
The only thing Lin Ting thought of was nuclear pollution.
Only after a nuclear contaminated nuclear reactor explodes will a large amount of graphite fragments appear.
But such a violent explosion cannot be solved by just one factory.
They tried their best to cover up the factory accident, and even tricked batches of young and energetic employees into the factory through some beautification of packaging.
The so-called method of quickly eliminating old employees and bringing in new employees is simply to cover up the fact that low-level employees cannot get sick after being exposed to nuclear contamination for too long.
Candy is probably a way for factories to hide the truth.
And those old employees in the shower room who are numb and shed their skin are the sequelae of working for too long.
As for daily showers, it is true that the radioactive substances on the body are washed away, but this method cannot save the old employees who have been here for a long time.
The water here is probably contaminated and cannot be drunk at all. Of course there is no [water] in the cafeteria.
The reason why those security guards cannot see the light is probably that they have not been able to withstand the infection caused by radiation. After the skin peels off, it will hurt when exposed to the light.
So now they can only hide in the dark corners of the basement like maggots, and can only come out at night.
As decision-makers, the medical team members may not have a good life.
They stayed at the factory the longest and were most infected. After the various functions of the body are destroyed, they are replaced by technological equipment and become one of their own tools.
But can they still be called human beings now?
Just a half-human, half-machine demon.
Indifferent, selfish and inhumane.
After thinking about all this, Lin Ting's eyes changed a lot when facing the factory.
This candy factory is basically a huge incinerator.
It never intended to let anyone out alive.
The gray sky was covered with a layer of fog at some point, and even the wind blowing by my ears turned into a whimper.
Lin Ting was silent for a long time before walking to Luo Fei, who was crying until he ran out of breath.
"Let's go."
Lin Ting fully understood at this moment that no matter how much Luo Fei cried, Xu An would never survive.
He has completely transformed into a member of the candy factory.
