16 years

Chapter 174 He finally discovered the horror of "choice"

"I will never go back to that hell again, never." Chris said, "Even if you kill me and cut my flesh, I will never go."

The handcuffs were rattled by him, and the fragile flesh and cold metal rubbed together, cutting several obvious wounds on his body.

Viscous blood oozed from his wound, and then trickled down the hard metal onto the table in front of him.

Chris stared at Fu Yan in front of him, with fear like an abyss in his eyes.

"But I can tell you where it is," he said.

"Where is it?" Fu Yan asked.

"In a place with a long eternal night." Chris said: "There are no seasons, only ice, and a long endless night."

"That's an island," Chris said.

Chris stayed in the institute for a long time, and his sanity and world cognition were completely destroyed in random experiments.For a long time, there was no concept of "time" and "space" in his mind.

According to his own words, at that time he felt that he had "evolved", as if his perspective had jumped into a higher-dimensional space, where there was only a dead silence, his mind sank in the deep sea, and his body functioned. Still working mechanically.

The life in the institute destroyed his sanity so much that after Chris escaped from hell, it took him a long time to learn how to face human beings and how to survive in society.

But after so many years, he is still not sure how long he has been in the institute, nor can he determine the specific coordinates of the institute.

He could only remember that when he escaped back then, he trudged through the knee-deep snow for what seemed like half his life, and finally fell down beside a bridge, with the tiny light in his eyes.

The colorful curtain fell, reflecting the rusty bridge deck with a sense of fairy tale, which looked like a freeze-frame scene after his life ended.

Over the years, Chris has suspected countless times that he may have actually died in that snow field, and everything after that was just an illusion seen by the little girl who bought matches.

"Extreme night, extreme cold, and aurora?" Liu Ruosong confirmed.

"Yes." Fu Yan said: "There are only a few places like this that can be found all over the world, and I later asked about his escape route and time. It was around August. But according to Chris, the temperature was still very low at that time, and within a few minutes of walking outside, his whole body was already frozen."

"In July, the body temperature can't compete with it." Liu Ruosong said: "I thought it was Santa Claus' hometown, but from this point of view, it doesn't seem to be - in July, there should be more than ten degrees."

"And according to Chris, that island is not a city, and it is completely uninhabited." Fu Yan said: "There is unmelted ice everywhere, and there are a lot of wild animals. When he just escaped, he almost He was attacked by ferocious beasts, but maybe because he had just been transformed at that time, his body was full of rotten virus smell, so those beasts didn't dare to do anything to him."

"He walked in the snow for a long time, and lived by eating the raw meat and bones left over from hunting wild animals. Finally, at the 'end' of the island, he found a bridge connecting the land." Fu Yan said: "He was next to the bridge. I fainted, and when I woke up, I had already been taken away, and I couldn’t tell where I was.”

"Undeveloped, extremely cold island." Liu Ruosong pursed his lips and thought for a while, then suddenly said, "I know where it is."

As he spoke, he stood up, signaled Fu Yan to wait a moment, then walked to the closet by himself, and began to rummage through Fu Yan's collection of magazines.

In the peaceful era, Fu Yan collected a lot of outdoor nature magazines for Liu Ruosong. Although he didn’t read most of them carefully and only read the parts that included Liu Ruosong, the amount of his “family wealth” accumulated over the years was also Quite impressive.

Fortunately, Liu Ruosong had gone through his pile of "inventory" from beginning to end in his previous life, and knew Fu Yan's storage habits quite well, so he quickly pulled out a thick annual magazine from the bottom of the box.

Liu Ruosong blew the dust off the book, then spread out the magazine on the tea table, and quickly flipped through many pages according to the catalog.

Before "returning to his old business", Liu Ruosong traveled through many no-man's lands that ordinary people have never been to in order to take pictures - Gobi, desert, snow-capped mountains, glaciers, he has dabbled in almost all of them.

This publication is the annual general publication that Liu Ruosong was invited to work with industry insiders when he was in the industry for the third year. It is objective in thickness and rich in content. From deserts to deep seas, almost every natural geography and landform has a special commentary column .

Liu Ruosong quickly turned over the part of the forest area he was in charge of, and found a nature reserve behind.

"Wrangel Island." Liu Ruosong pointed to the photo in the album and said, "Near the Arctic Ocean, next to the Siberian Sea. The climate here is extremely inhospitable. It can reach more than minus 50 degrees, and it is under the jurisdiction of neighboring countries.”

"I know this place." Fu Yan once knew this dangerous area during the flight: "But I remember that this is an ice field and cannot be developed."

"It is true in theory, so this island has always been used as a nature reserve, and no one cares about it." Liu Ruosong said: "This is a well-known no-man's land. Because the conditions are too severe, we all take outdoor photography. I seldom go to it. The island is not small, with several thousand square kilometers, if you want to hide a research institute, as long as you are willing to spend money, you may be able to succeed."

Shao Xuefan once said that the source of R-01 is in the glacier.Wrangel Island is close to the Arctic Ocean and is located in an extremely cold place. It is difficult for Liu Ruosong not to associate the two.

"That bridge should have been built by a neighboring country to conduct regular inspections of Wrangel Island." Fu Yan said: "Chris passed out near there, and the border inspectors may regard it as a bad luck to venture into no-man's land." Egg."

"That's why he was taken away." Liu Ruosong said, "Otherwise, if Joe Aiden's people found him, they should have executed him on the spot."

Liu Ruosong couldn't help standing up while speaking, his tone seemed a little hurried due to excitement.

"Yes, yes—" Liu Ruosong said, "It must be so, right here, this is the only place that meets the requirements."

And Liu Ruosong suddenly remembered one thing - when he was in City D, Joe Eden disappeared by land for no reason. At that time, they joked that Joe Eden had escaped from the Bering Strait.

The direction of Wrangel Island and the Bering Sea is similar. Now it seems that their jokes at the time may have inadvertently hit some kind of truth.

"There must be a quiet research environment and absolutely safe concealment conditions." Liu Ruosong said: "It will cost a lot to build such a research institute, and Joe Eden will not easily abandon this place."

His emotions became excited, and he seemed a little excited. He couldn't help walking back and forth in the living room several times, his fingers intertwined, and his nails unconsciously printed several crescents on his hands.

Fu Yanyan stopped him with his hand, then held his hand and gently brushed his fingers away.

"Ruosong." Fu Yan said warmly, "Calm down."

Hearing this, Liu Ruosong raised his eyes to look at him, took a deep breath, then nodded, and said to himself: "Yes - yes, yes, calm down, the more cautious you are at this time."

But that being said, it was difficult for Liu Ruosong to really maintain a normal mind.

Judging from Chris' narration, Wrangel Island is a research institute that has been fully operational six or seven years ago, and it is the place where the experiment of petri dish transformation was first started.From this point of view, this may be the beginning of everything, the base camp of Joe Eden's conspiracy.

If he could find this place, Liu Ruosong couldn't help thinking, maybe he could find Eden No. [-].

No, not maybe, but definitely, Liu Ruosong subconsciously clenched a piece of soft meat in his mouth, and convinced himself firmly in his heart: It is impossible to find it, this research institute is different from other research sites of auxiliary medicine, this is The "hatch cocoon" of the petri dish must be aimed at Irene.

A ridiculous idea suddenly popped up in Liu Ruosong's mind, he thought that Shao Xuefan was not completely useless, at least he made such a fuss and helped him successfully defraud Chris.

Otherwise, relying on their ordinary "screening" method, they could at most screen out Chris's special physique, and they would never have thought that there was a survivor who escaped from the tiger's mouth hiding right under their noses.

No, a thought suddenly popped up in Liu Ruosong's heart.

A dense layer of goose bumps appeared on his arms, and he reacted belatedly.

Fortunately I didn't kill him, Liu Ruosong broke out in a cold sweat,

Until this moment, he finally discovered the horror of "choice" - he had countless chances to kill Shao Xuefan before, whether he did him secretly or created an "accident" casually, he could make him silently. Disappeared in this world without a sound.

In those days and nights before, as long as his emotions overwhelmed his reason once, causing him to burst out with flames of anger and hatred, Shao Xuefan would be burned to the ground.

Then--

Then Wrangel Island will not appear, Liu Ruosong thought with fear.

Butterfly's hurricane created a chain reaction, which meant that as long as he made a wrong choice, the entire route of fate would be reversed unconsciously.

Liu Ruosong tried his best to make himself look at the news objectively and rationally, but his distorted persecution paranoia began to vaguely emerge again. He looked at Fu Yan and grabbed his hand with some force.

"Fortunately, I held back." He muttered to himself, "Fortunately, I'm not willful."

His voice was very low, and without beginning or end, Fu Yan didn't understand what he meant all of a sudden, and asked, "What?"

"Don't go by yourself." Liu Ruosong suddenly came back to his senses, and said eagerly: "Don't believe Irene's words, if you want to go, you must take me with you."

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Regarding Wrangel Island, in fact, there is only extreme cold and no extreme night on this island XD, the text is an overhead setting, so the geographical location has been slightly modified, everyone can enjoy it~