Invade the World

   Chapter 382 Tragedy in the Pinnacle Lab

  Xu Xiangyang recognized the black thing that was still stained with blood in the crack of the door. It was probably the baby's umbilical cord, which had been left outside to dry for a while.

   He just wondered why this kind of thing appeared here, is it some kind of remote folk custom? It wouldn't be hanging by the door, wouldn't you be afraid of being picked up by children?

   But he soon realized that this umbilical cord was probably not a real object, because it was still surrounded by a little dark fog.

   "This, what is this...?"

  Lin Xingjie also noticed the umbilical cord caught in the crack of the door, and thought it was a dead snake. If Xu Xiangyang hadn't calmed her down in advance, she would have screamed with the temperament of a little girl.

   Even so, her tone was still uncertain, subconsciously wanting to ask the people around her what happened.

  Xu Xiangyang did not answer. He didn't know whether the little girl would be more afraid or feel less scary than snakes if he answered "this is the baby's umbilical cord". Besides, at this moment, he has already reacted.

…I see.

   He still remembered that the evil spirit that Meng Zheng manipulated looked like a huge baby, with an umbilical cord dragging behind it, which was in some way closely related to the goddess who descended on the suburban highway.

   That is to say, at this time, Meng Zheng was already a psychic medium, but it seemed that his ability was not as good as ten years later.

  Thinking of this, Xu Xiangyang noticed another thing: Xingjie was indeed able to see evil spirits when he was a child. But when he grew up, he didn't seem to have psychic abilities until he fell into 41 Anning Street.

   may have been sealed since he was a child…

   While he was thinking, he heard another voice coming from the basement.

   The two adults didn't seem to notice the little girl who was squatting beside the door eavesdropping, let alone an invisible ghost. Even Meng Zheng, who had released the evil spirit, didn't notice that the partition had ears.

  Xu Xiangyang felt strange, only to see a baby slowly crawling up from under the table. It hugged the bottom table legs and climbed all the way to the table top, with flexible hands and feet, laughing as it climbed.

   is quite lively and cute to describe, but first of all, you have to ignore the deadly bluish-white skin, pure black evil eyes, and creepy laughter.

  Xu Xiangyang recognized the origin of this evil spirit at a glance, it was nothing more than a miniature version of what he had seen before, which confirmed his guess just now.

He reminded the girl next to him not to make any noise in advance, but Xiao Xingjie was obedient. At this moment, she was silent, covering her mouth with her hands, and staring at the table with her **** eyes. crawling baby.

   The little girl's eyes were filled with panic, panic, and incredible stunned.

  The ghost baby climbed over the table, and things were scattered everywhere it passed. After a while, it encountered an obstacle, which was a large glass jar containing specimens. The ghost baby giggled, hugged the jar, and fell off the table together.

  Lin Mingyuan didn't look like a psychic, he couldn't hear the sound, and he didn't look at the ghost baby, he just frowned and stared at the glass jar that fell on the ground.

   There is no major air movement in a closed room, let alone a gust of wind that can blow the jars off.

   "The teacher gave you the 'ghost baby'?"

  Lin Mingyuan asked in a deep voice.

  Xu Xiangyang heard it clearly.

   From this statement, Lin Xingjie's father is obviously not ignorant of supernatural things.

"Yes."

   Meng Zheng put his hands in his pockets, his expression relaxed.

"The teacher has a way of giving ordinary people the ability to be a medium, that is, the baby born by the 'Goddess of Elephant'. If someone else raises and grows the ghost baby, they will naturally become a new medium. Take the teacher's value for your brother. , This is the position of the senior brother."

   There seemed to be a temptation in the youth's words, but seeing that Lin Mingyuan didn't respond much, he didn't continue, just said with a smile.

   "However, I still need to get used to it for a while. I just started to be a dad, and the child is always a little disobedient. Fortunately, I am on vacation during this time, and I have no work to do."

  Lin Mingyuan's gaze returned to Meng Zheng's face. But won't let go lightly.

   "Let's get down to business, Meng Zheng."

"Um?"

   "I've been entertaining you for a week, aren't you just here to eat rice at my house?"

   "Why, this is not welcome?"

   Meng Zheng said jokingly.

   "I'm barely making ends meet, but I don't have any spare money to feed others."

  Lin Mingyuan also smiled.

   "My wife has complained to me. She went out to buy food several times this week. She was originally cooking for a family of three, but now there is one more person, and she feels tired."

   "Haha, these are all trivial matters." The young man waved his hand, "Since my sister-in-law finds it troublesome, I won't bother you from tomorrow onwards, I'll go to the hostel."

   Lin Mingyuan narrowed his eyes. After a while he said:

   "...You still refuse to go?"

   "Go? Why should I go?" The smile on Meng Zheng's face did not change, "So far, senior brother, do you still want to care where I go?"

   After a few words, the atmosphere between the two suddenly became tense.

   "Let's talk frankly." Lin Mingyuan pulled the chair away and sat down on his own. The ghost baby crawled along the table and climbed up the man's shoulder along his arm, but the man knew nothing about it.

   Across the door, the little girl couldn't see clearly, but she was so nervous that she jumped up and wanted to rush to the basement. Fortunately, the ghost baby quickly crawled away.

   "Is the teacher looking for you?"

  Lin Mingyuan sat back in the chair and put his hands on the table with his arms crossed.

   "No, it was my idea. I just asked my teacher about you, brother, and after I got permission to return to China, I'm here." Meng Zheng also pulled out a chair and sat down opposite Lin Mingyuan.

   "Senior brother retreated bravely, I guess there must be some reason..."

   "It's nothing, but with a family, the environment on the teacher's side is no longer suitable for me."

"After starting a family and starting a business, shouldn't you pay more attention to work? If you, brother, go to another laboratory or teach in a university after returning to China, I think it's normal, but the problem is that you choose to build a house in the countryside and live in this kind of place all day. place…"

  Meng Zheng looked around at the furnishings in the basement, his eyes stopped for a moment on the door that seemed to lead to a deeper place, and then moved away.

   "Do you think everyone will be out of ideas?"

   "'Everyone'? Anyone else besides you?"

   "Of course. As I said before, my brother has always been highly valued by teachers in the past. You know, some foreigners just look at the Chinese people and are keen to squeeze them out and make small moves."

   Meng Zheng sneered.

   "Of course, even if my brother is gone, the teacher's successor will still be a Chinese. However, I can't be as free and easy as you are."

   After a long silence, Lin Mingyuan sighed.

   "...Teacher, he has other ideas."

"Um?"

   "He is not only the boss of the laboratory, but also the president of the Stargazing Club. His ambitions are too great, and his abilities are too strong."

"Yeah, everyone is in awe of him. The teacher is the number one person in the eyes of countless people. Without him, stargazing would not be independent at all... Ten years ago, the observatory of the 'Malestar Tai Sui' should have closed its doors. This is because countries are planning to abandon this project, which has consumed countless manpower and material resources. The project itself is to indirectly monitor the overall scale and state of the different world through the observation of Tai Sui stars, and it is destined to lack practical benefits. It may not work.”

   Meng Zheng said.

"But the teacher, who is one of the leaders, took this opportunity to take most of the foundation of this international project, and based on this, he established a stargazing club that is independent of the jurisdiction of various countries, and then founded the 'Jianfeng' Laboratory', recruiting elite researchers from around the world to prepare for a new program of otherworldly exploration."

   "...Because he is a leading scientist in the field of research on the development of different worlds, and at the same time happens to be a divine mediator, that's why he can do this kind of thing." Lin Mingyuan sighed.

   "That's right." Meng Zheng laughed "hehe", "Don't you think it's amazing? He is changing the world by himself, which is really respectable."

"Yes, I respect the teacher very much, but unfortunately, this kind of respect is gradually turning into a personal cult that is popular within the group. As long as he is still a god-media, whether it is the 'Peak Lab' or the stargazing party, no one will be To be able to rebel against him, these groups are his words...I don't think it's a good trend."

   "That's why you left the teacher's laboratory?"

   Seeing that Lin Mingyuan finally revealed his emotions - and the tone of his speech was really sincere, Meng Zheng seemed to believe it.

   "Have you two ever had a conflict?"

"Yes."

   Lin Mingyuan nodded.

"A little...academic dispute. But it's pointless, because no one in the lab will choose to side with me. And you know what kind of person the teacher is, he always likes to go his own way. A person like him, if Being right all the time, may lead all mankind to an unprecedented new era; but if it is wrong, the consequences are far more disastrous than making mediocre leaders."

"Um…"

   Facing the sincere senior, after bowing his head and thinking for a moment, Meng Zheng tapped on the table with his fingers, and suddenly began to shake his head vigorously.

   "No, it's not right. This kind of words can explain why you want to leave, but it can't explain the way you are now. If you become depressed because of the conflict with the teacher, it's easy to say. But you..."

  Meng Zheng stood up from the chair and stretched out his upper body. While the two were close to each other, his eyes were always fixed on each other's eyes.

   "You're not, right? You didn't give up at all, you just had other ideas. You left because you wanted to hide from the teacher. Even the teacher couldn't reach out to this country."

  “…”

   "...that doesn't seem right."

   Lin Mingyuan hadn't refuted yet, Meng Zheng rejected his own thoughts again, and sat back muttering, with an expression immersed in his own world.

"If I were you, after I turned against the teacher, I should have switched to other forces early. Then now, you should stay in the laboratory in the capital, and all your wife and family live in the family area protected by the military and police, not a single one. A remote country house."

   The young man's scattered eyes refocused on the opponent's face.

   "How did you do it? Senior brother, what are your plans to avoid people's eyes and ears like this?"

  Lin Mingyuan shook his head.

   "I finally see what kind of person you are."

"…Oh?"

"Let's exchange information." Lin Mingyuan relaxed, leaned his back on the chair, and said, "It's not fair for me to talk about it alone. Tell me, why did you come to me, did something happen over the peak? what?"

   "Lab..." Meng Zheng didn't object, he simply took out a videotape, "Do you have a video recorder here?"

"have."

  Lin Mingyuan brought the old TV from the corner. After a while, he plugged in the VCR and started playing.

   The screen of the black and white TV flickered, reflecting a picture that looked like it was in a laboratory.

  An older leader stood in front of the glass curtain wall, and young people with pen and paper in their hands seemed to be discussing something intensely around them, and everyone's expressions were serious.

   "Robert?"

   Lin Mingyuan frowned and recognized the person in the video.

   "Yes, Brother Robert." Meng Zheng replied, "After you left, he became the second-in-command of Jianfeng Laboratory."

   "Oh...what are they doing?"

   "Be patient, brother, you'll see it soon."

   On the other side of the glass curtain wall is a naked man.

   He sat cross-legged in a large spacious space, surrounded by nothing, the walls and floor were cement.

   This bald man has pale skin and is about forty years old. He has a tall stature, but he keeps his head lowered. I don’t know if he is asleep or meditating. His hands are hanging on his sides.

  Xu Xiangyang, who was on the sidelines, took a deep breath.

   He had an impression. He had seen this scene before, it was the videotape that Meng Zheng gave him, and he was watching it with Xingjie at the time.

   Not long after, the man struggled, twisted, and rolled on the ground, like a drug addict, and the video was filled with howls of pain.

  The lights in the laboratory flickered, on and off. The experimenters panicked, and saw the man suddenly rushed to the glass curtain wall, clasped the wall with both hands, used his head as a hammer, and slammed it down with force.

  The strength of the human body cannot help the bulletproof tempered glass. But after a while, blood-colored, blood-colored sea water swept in from all directions, poured into the room in an instant, and quickly filled this boxy "cement box"—

   And the barrier between the room and the laboratory was only blocked for a few seconds, and then countless spider web-like cracks bloomed "kakaka", and then overwhelmed and turned into a sky full of crystals.

   At this time, it was too late to escape.

  Everyone disappeared into the sea of ​​blood.

   "...Senior brother, you want to ask 'how is the laboratory?', that's a good question." Meng Zheng saw Lin Mingyuan's serious expression, but a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "I tell you, it no longer exists."

   (end of this chapter)