Mysterious Hunting Ground

Chapter 172 172. The Past of Hawkins

Dean followed Hope to the east for more than two hours, entered another suburban neighborhood, and followed the tree-lined path to an old villa with a red vaulted roof.

parking.

Hope knocked lightly on the glass door with a white curtain at the entrance.

And Dean habitually turned on the God's perspective to quickly scan the house at a distance of tens of meters, focusing on the telephone receiver, wall clock and behind the lampshade in the hall, eliminating possible eavesdropping and monitoring, and heaved a long sigh of relief , a woman was rushing towards the door, and another woman was sitting in the living room staring blankly at the TV. That much older face vaguely looked like Teri Ives!
But he looked weird.

The younger woman walked to the glass door, lifted the curtain, took a look outside, opened the door,

She has dark golden curly hair and wears an old dark striped shirt. She looks ordinary, about forty years old, with a tired and numb face that is oppressed by life.

"Is there something wrong?" She casually glanced at Hope in a cowboy hat and a police uniform, and the young and handsome Asian,

"Ms. Betsy? Hello, we're looking for your sister Teri Ives," Dean asked as gently as possible. "Does she live here?"

"who are you?"

Hope flashed his police badge,
"I'm Hope, the chief of the Hawkins Town Police Department next door, and he's my colleague Dean."

"Police?" The woman frowned, "Are you here to ask Teri?"

"Yes, that's right,"

The woman lowered her head and sighed, her face full of helplessness,

"Come in, you can talk to my sister, but it's unlikely you'll get anything out of her."

"What do you mean?" Dean and Hope looked at each other, feeling a bad premonition in their hearts.

"You guys are three years late... Teri can't communicate with people normally now." Becky led the two of them across the warm and simple hall, into the living room on the left, where a lively and cheerful children's play was playing on the TV. In the show, several lovely children sat under the baby cradle and played with dolls.

On the other side of the TV, Teri, who was wearing light blue pajamas, was sitting on an elderly chair with armrests. Compared with the young and beautiful appearance that Dean saw in the microfiche, she was only in her 40s. He was very old, with gray bangs covering his temples, swollen skin on his face, light age spots on his cheeks, and dull and hollow eyes, as if he had lost his soul.

Only the facial features can still see the beauty of youth.

When Dean saw her appearance, he directly stepped forward and asked,
"Ms. Teri? I'm Dean Lu, from Las Vegas...My mother, Lena Lu, and father, Guangming Lu, have communicated with you before? Do you remember?"

Teri sat there dumbfounded as if she didn't hear,

"They disappeared nine years ago in July 1972, and someone saw you with them at that time..." Dean walked up to her and knelt down, took out a group photo of his parents that he had kept for a long time from his windbreaker, and showed it to Tai Rui, "Do you know where they went? Or what did they say at the end?"

At this time, Teri blinked suddenly, turned to the photo for a look, and just when Dean's heart tensed, she turned to look at the TV again without saying a word.

"What's wrong with her?" Hope, who was supporting the door frame at the back, asked Becky next to her.
"As I said before, I'm afraid you will be disappointed." Becky looked at her sister's sluggish look with a look of pity, "Her condition is very similar to that of an elderly person suffering from Alzheimer's disease, and she can't even take care of herself. "

"You're wrong," Dean reluctantly retracted the photo in front of Teri, "I think she's worse than that, but how did she become like this?"

……

The three of them chatted around the round table in the living room, and Hope kindly lit two Marlboros and smoked with Betsy.

The woman smoked a cigarette, and the sorrow condensed between her brows eased a little,
"The origin of all this is an experimental project that Teri participated in in college."

"Is it a project in the Hawkins laboratory?" Dean thought of the report he saw in the microfiche, "Mind control experiment?"

"Yes, this experiment has been going on since the 50s, Teri joined almost ten years ago, in 70, and at that time the project has come to the end, the drugs used are getting more and more crazy, and the participants sometimes faint Sleeping, sometimes yelling like a manic-depressive patient," Betsy paused, "Teri took a lot of medicine, so she became very nervous."

"The people will not allow such a terrible experiment," Hope interjected with a flash of coldness in his eyes, "Is this a cooperation with the government, the FBI, or the CIA?"

Becky shook the cigarette ash between the index and middle fingers of her right hand and said with a smile, "You are so funny, Sheriff."

"This is not a joke..." Hope said solemnly, "Without the government's cover, how dare the laboratory be so blatant."

"Maybe you're right, but us little people don't care," Betsy took a deep breath of cigarettes, and then continued, "Every time you participate in an experiment, Researchers would give volunteers like my sister some money, a few hundred dollars, to take some pills like sleeping pills, LSD or whatever, and get into a weird state."

Dean shook his head, "For a few hundred dollars, are you kidding with your own life?"

"You must be a rich man," Becky continued, glancing at him, "but my sister is poor. She took money several times, took drugs, and then stripped naked at the request of the researcher and lay down in the sensory deprivation tank."

"Wait, what is a sensory deprivation sink?" Dean suddenly realized something,
“The sensory deprivation tank is kind of like a big enclosed bathtub filled with warm salt water, and one puts on an eye mask and earplugs, lays in and floats on top of the salt water,” Betsy explains, “and slowly loses sight, hearing, smell, The sense of touch, as well as the various perceptions of gravity, can't see anything, and can't feel anything."

Dean remembered the water-filled metal ball he saw in the laboratory, and 11 put on a diving helmet and lay down in it. Is this an upgraded version of the sensory deprivation tank?
"Those crazy researchers believe that when the experimenter loses all other senses, the boundaries of the brain are expanded."

"Expanding the boundaries of the brain?" Hope asked. "Is this creating genius?"

Becky shook her head and smiled, "Actually, Teri was not forced in any way during the experiment. She participated in the experiment voluntarily with money. But an accident happened, which led to a series of bad results now."

"What accident?" Dean asked.

"Teri didn't realize that she was pregnant when she underwent the experiment, and she was pregnant with the child of her ex-boyfriend who had broken up."

"Pregnant?" Dean thought of the information he had read in the newspaper. "Is she pregnant with a girl named 'Jane Ives'?"

"That's a good guess. If you succeed in giving birth, you will be called this name, but in fact everything is Teri's illusion." Becky stubbed out the cigarette butt, and looked at her old sister with pity, "Teri had a miscarriage in the third trimester, Her baby 'Jane' is gone..."

Dean was taken aback for a moment, "When did Teri have a miscarriage?"

"1972, nine years ago in 1972."

Dean's heart skipped a beat. This year was exactly the year his parents disappeared.

And if her child is born successfully, she should be 9 years old this year, which is very similar to the age of the little girl "11" who was imprisoned in the laboratory.

Is this a coincidence?
"Follow me here." At this moment, Becky stubbed out the cigarette butts, and led the two into another "baby room", which was decorated innocently and childlikely, with baby cradles, toys, and even cute little colorful clothes ,shoe.

Hope froze for a moment, closed his eyes and covered his forehead, his cheek muscles twitched to reveal a trace of grief.

"Teri arranged this room when she was pregnant. She didn't expect the baby to have a miscarriage, so she couldn't bear the shock and had hallucinations." Becky recalled sitting on the small sofa, "She fantasized about Jane's smooth birth, and fantasized that Jane would be born When she returns home one day in the future, she also said that Jane is very special...with innate superpowers."

"What? Super powers?" Hope paused for a moment when he touched the wind chime's finger, and was stunned. How did this f*cking investigation of the Hawkins Laboratory have something to do with super powers?
The development of things was beyond his expectation.

"Have you seen those sci-fi movies?" Becky said jokingly, "telepathy, telekinetics, etc., are all kinds of abilities to interfere with reality with ideas. According to Teri, it is precisely because Jane has Because of these super powers, she was captured by the bad guys right after she was born."

Dean's face became very exciting. According to his observation in the past period of time, 11 happened to have mastered these two superpowers, which coincided again.

This proves that Teri is not talking nonsense, 11 is more and more like Teri's daughter.

Dean asked,
"Do you mean Dr. Martin Brenner and his team by bad guys here?"

"Have you heard of this guy?

"We read from the newspaper that he is also the head of the Hawkins laboratory." Hope explained,
Becky nodded and said, "In 1972, Teri denied the fact of the miscarriage, but believed that Martin's team at the Hawkins Laboratory had kidnapped her child, so later that year, in May, she tried to get her back. Boy, sue Team Martin and the entire Department of Energy."

"But the court ruled that Tai Rui lost the case, and the doctor also believed that all this was a fantasy that she couldn't bear the blow of abortion, and it was a self-protection mechanism to avoid collapse."

Betsy's words were consistent with what Dean had read in the newspaper.

"But what if what Teri said is true?" Dean's eyes sparkled, "What if she really gave birth to a girl named Jane?"

"That's impossible, there's no birth certificate, no hospital records," Betsy said earnestly, "and the doctors and nurses certify that she had a miscarriage."

"Maybe it's a cover-up," Hope straightened his hat, and stood clearly on Dean's side. "Think about it, what can our government not do to get a child with superpowers? And for them It's easy to falsify evidence."

"It's not like what a police officer would say. If Teri was still sane, she would definitely have a hot chat with you." Becky smiled, obviously she had already decided in her heart that her sister's miscarriage was a fact.

Dean exchanged glances with Hope helplessly, and asked,
"Is this what Teri has become since the trial failed?" Dean asked.

"Not so fast. Teri didn't give up. She kept trying to bring her imaginary 'Jane' back from the Hawkins lab."

Betsy sighed,
"After a long preparation, in 78 years, she finally took action... I guess she broke into the Hawkins laboratory, but what exactly happened, I don't know. When I saw her in the hospital, she was already unable. She was able to express herself fluently, and in the following three years, she gradually lost her ability to communicate and take care of herself..." Becky said distressedly, "It's just like receiving the inhumane lobotomy used to cure mental illness."

"Teri's downfall to such a degree must be related to the people in the laboratory. Maybe they were worried that Teri would hurt her by telling her again." Dean asked, "Haven't you ever thought of settling accounts with the lab?"

"What can I do, I'm just an ordinary person, I have no evidence, what can I use to compete with the laboratory? I'm thankful that Teri survived!"

Becky asked for another cigarette from Hope, lit it, and the white smoke blurred the sadness in her eyes.

"You took care of her alone for three years?" Hope asked,

"She is my only relative, and I can't let her go." Betsy said helplessly,
"Take care of such a patient, isn't it tiring?"

"That can't be helped, I just hope she can return to normal one day."

"Then Lena and Bright?" Dean asked unwillingly,
"Your parents? I'm sorry, I have no impression of them. Teri can only answer you when she wakes up."

……

There was a moment of silence in the baby's room.

Hope played with the wind chimes on the cradle, lost in memory.

Betsy smoked quietly, trying to clear her mind.

Dean pinched his knuckles crisply, and the thoughts in his mind were like electricity.

Teri couldn't communicate normally.

The only way to get information out of her mouth is to kill her and torture her soul.

But he immediately dismissed the idea.

He sorted out all the information he got today.

In 1970, Teri joined Hawkins Lab's mind control program in order to earn money, taking drugs and entering the sensory stripping tank.

At the beginning of 1972, Teri underwent experiments while pregnant, which resulted in a miscarriage, but she firmly believed that her daughter Jane was successfully born and was taken away by the laboratory.

In May, Teri sued the Hawkins lab for failing to get her daughter back.

In July, Teri met with Dean's parents.

From 72 to 78, Teri made long preparations, trying to get her daughter back.

In 1978, Teri broke into the Hawkins laboratory and failed to retrieve the imaginary child, becoming disabled.

……

The period of 1972 was particularly impressive for Dean.

Tai Rui sued the Hawkins laboratory for stealing her daughter and lost the case, and then met Lena and Guangming, and after that, the two disappeared.

"Could it be that the two of them followed Teri to the laboratory to snatch the child, did something happen?"

The idea came to Dean's mind, and he shook his head again,
"Not necessarily, but their disappearance is inseparable from the Hawkins Laboratory."

With this thought, the progress of "Bloodline" jumped to seven percent.

Dean suppressed his boiling mood.

Teri is crazy and can't ask any more clues, he should go to the researchers of the Hawkins Laboratory to "chat", especially Dr. Martin Brenner, the leader of the experimental team, who knows the inside story 100%!
"Don't worry, I have to make a thorough plan first to avoid exposing myself."

……

Afterwards, the two continued to chat with Becky for a while, but there was no more information.

"Then let's stop here today, thank you for your answer." Hope said goodbye and left with Dean.

But before going out, Dean looked at this warm home, the old and tired sister, and the crippled sister. He paused, put his hand into the underwear pocket of the windbreaker, made a fake gesture of pulling out money, and took it out from the fantasy space. A stack of almost two thousand dollars was handed to Becky, who was stunned seeing the green dollars.
"What are you doing, officer?"

"Teri used to be a friend of my parents, and you can also be considered my elder. Your answer just now helped me a lot. So this money is a little bit of my heart, let's use it to improve my life a little bit."

"This is not a small amount of money, are you sure you want to give it to us?" Becky pursed her lips, her eyes longing, but she didn't reach out her hand.
"Take it..."

"I, I... thank you." Becky took the money, gave Dean a hug excitedly, wiped the sore corners of her eyes, and her lips trembled, "It's been many years, this is the first time I've received such a large amount of money .”

"This is a reward for your family affection. By the way, please don't disclose the matter of our visit today, and you can't mention it on the phone. Otherwise, Hawkins Laboratory will take action against you, and your lives will be in danger."

"I swear to God," Becky said clutching the banknote, "I will never reveal everything about today!"

"very good."

Dean turned back to the living room, took one last look at Teri Ives who was sitting in the old man's chair and stared at the TV, and thought of the little girl 11 in the laboratory.

Regardless of age, gender, or superpowers, 11 is similar to the kidnapped daughter in Teri's "imagination". There is a high probability that 11 is the daughter Jane Ives snatched from Teri Ives by Martin's team. !
He also made a bold inference that it was precisely because the mother underwent a lot of mind control experiments, sensory deprivation experiments, and taking a variety of prohibited drugs during pregnancy that 11 was born with superpowers, but also because of this superpowers It is catalyzed, so there are side effects, and nosebleeds are bound to occur every time you use it.

So Dean called out two names in succession——

"Jane Ives?"

"11."

Teri looked stiff and unresponsive.

"Good luck to you, see you soon."

Dean sighed, turned and walked out the door.

"What on earth did you do before?" Hope asked curiously with his back on the Chevrolet, "Giving a stranger two thousand dollars casually? Is there any place to spend the money?"

"I forgot to tell you, compared to the lowest level of ordinary people, I have a little superpower." Dean then opened the car door and threw a lollipop to Hope, "Money."

"Then how about paying for the two bar treats I owe Nick?" Hope boldly asked,

"No problem, you also helped me a lot this time."

"Fucking rich man! I so fucking like it!"

……

"Haha, Teri, God bless, today we are very lucky to meet kind people, and we can live a comfortable life for a while again!" Looking at the two cars going away outside the window, Becky's face was full of decadence and exhaustion, excitedly She quickly ran to Teri, hugged her and kissed her deeply, "It's thanks to you, I'll go to town and buy some of your favorite roast chicken right away!"

Betsy left happily,

There was only Teri alone in the house, except for the noise of the TV, everything was strangely peaceful.

At a certain moment, Teri blinked with a silly expression, and his fingers trembled slightly twice.

sizzle...

A string of bulbs on the ceiling flickered uncontrollably, the light flickered on and off,
"11...Jane, Lena, Lou..." The muffled murmur drifted out of the window, and a tear rolled down Teri's withered cheek.

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