Thirteen prisons

Chapter 54 End
Lu Ming looked at Lao Hu sarcastically.But Lao Hu's next words made him frown.

"You use blood as a tool, but you don't realize that the awakened blood affects you in turn."

"Absurd! I'm the one who controls it, do you understand?" As if to prove this point, Yan Yi behind him took a step forward, stretched out his hands and pressed Lao Hu's shoulders, and pressed him firmly to the ground.

But Lao Hu didn't take it seriously: "Have you ever thought that even if blood is a living thing, it is also a low-level creature, without organs, or even consciousness. As a weaker party, over the long years, why should it compete with humans or other higher creatures? To maintain a symbiotic relationship?"

Lu Ming frowned, apparently he hadn't thought about this issue deeply.

"Although I don't know medicine. But inspired by you, I also have a guess."

When Old Hu said this, he paused for a moment, and looked at the half-rotten hands on his shoulders with disgust: "Let him stay away from me."

Lu Ming glanced at Lao Hu, and Yan Yi took a step back.Apparently Lu Ming was really curious about Lao Hu's so-called speculation.

Old Hu shrugged his shoulders. At this moment, he seemed to be completely relaxed. He lit a cigarette and took a puff before continuing: "My guess is very simple, that is, in ancient times, the leader of creatures was actually blood."

"That's impossible!" Lu Ming immediately retorted: "It doesn't even have a thinking organ..."

"Listen to me." Lao Hu waved his hand and interrupted Lu Ming: "Since blood can be alive, why can't you think more exaggeratedly? Then it's entirely possible that blood is the only dominance of all living things in the beginning. Consciousness, but later the brain gradually evolved, and became stronger and stronger during the evolution process, and the blood gradually lost its independent consciousness."

Lu Ming thought carefully for a long time before shaking his head: "These speculations cannot be proven. Even if what you said may be right, it doesn't make much sense."

"No, it makes sense."

"The influence of blood on the human body is not as you imagine, it is the control of the flesh. Its greatest ability is the influence on human consciousness. Haven't you discovered that people who have been infected by awakened blood have great The change!"

"For example, Lin He has always been a gentle and kind person, but his actions before his death were absurd. There is also Yan Yi, who has been selfish for decades, but before he died, he handed over all the information without reservation. The same is true His own child, he was ruthless when he secretly experimented on Lin He, but in the end he felt extremely guilty towards Lin Jing. Don't you think these changes are too abrupt?"

There was a mocking smile on the corner of Lu Ming's mouth: "These can't explain anything. If you don't understand medicine, don't make random guesses."

"I really don't understand. So I didn't come up with these inferences out of thin air." Lao Hu chuckled and flicked the cigarette butts in his hand on the ground at random: "Yan Yi came to me before he died, and most of these inferences are He inspired me."

"Yan Yi?" Lu Ming looked at Lao Hu with uncertain eyes.Zhou Yuan was also a little surprised, not sure if what the old nonsense was telling the truth, or if he was just talking nonsense to deceive Lu Ming.

"Maybe he doesn't have any evidence, but just has a premonition of what is about to happen. He just proposed that blood may control people in turn, and the rest is what I just thought of."

"Perhaps the scariest thing after blood awakening is that it can arouse the strongest desire in a person's heart and keep amplifying it. For example..."

"Your ambition!"

Old Hu sneered: "Even if the blood has an awakened consciousness, it is still weak. Its strongest method is to die with the host. I finally understand why. Because it has no chance."

"But you are different. Your ambition made you do something too extraordinary, and you also gave it a chance. You worked hard to cultivate it, and even let it awaken to a higher level, didn't you think about being backlashed by it? "

Lu Ming was stunned by Lao Hu's words, but then Lu Ming laughed out loud, as if hearing some ridiculous joke.He walked to the huge meat ball, picked up the knife and cut his fingertips, blood gushed out, dripping on the meat ball drop by drop.

"Backlash? This is a part of me, how can it backfire on me? Hahaha!"

Lu Ming's blood was like delicious food. Countless red threads gushed out from the huge meat ball, suddenly surrounding the dripping blood, like a hungry little animal was eating.

The accident happened at this moment.

As if it wasn't full, those blood threads suddenly shot out, and instantly became slender, but the length increased a lot, and suddenly wrapped around Lu Ming's fingers.

Lu Ming's face suddenly changed, apparently he had never encountered such a situation before.Just when he was hesitating, those blood threads had already wrapped his whole hand.

Lu Ming finally showed a look of panic. He shook his wrapped right hand vigorously, but those bloodshots were not only elastic but also extremely tough. His entire arm was completely covered with bloodshot eyes.

But the meat ball didn't stop there, it squirmed and climbed onto Lu Ming's body, countless bloodshots popped out, and within ten seconds, it almost completely wrapped Lu Ming.

Where Lu Ming's skin touched the meatball, a strange red color began to appear.

His expression was painful, but no sound came out.

Zhou Yuan and Lao Hu subconsciously kept away from Lu Ming, and retreated to the corner, only to find that Yan Yi behind him had fallen to the ground at some point, completely turning into an ordinary corpse.

And Lin Jing also sat up suddenly from the bed, as if she woke up suddenly, the strange scene in front of her made her scream in fright, jumped up and ran to Zhou Yuan's side, watching the scene in front of her in horror.

"Lu Ming..." Zhou Yuan couldn't help moaning, watching the flesh and blood creature gradually wither away, becoming more and more dry.However, Lu Ming's body swelled up, and cracks began to appear on his skin. Countless red threads emerged from his skin, like countless terrifying tentacles, dangling as he struggled.

Lu Ming opened his mouth wide, screamed silently, and tore his hair vigorously.But all this can't change the backlash of the monster he created.Gradually, Lu Ming's skin was completely cracked, revealing bright red flesh and blood, but at this time he did not die.

He was still standing, but turned into a living monster.

Zhou Yuan didn't have too much fear, only indescribable sadness in his heart.Although I hate him very much, I just feel extremely sad to see my best friend become like this.

"Let's go!" Lao Hu was the first to react, and pulled Zhou Yuan and Lin Jing out, and then slammed the door of the laboratory from the outside.

"I don't know what he will do after he becomes a monster. We have to get out of here." Old Hu's face was pale, obviously this accident was far beyond his imagination.

At this time, I suddenly heard a loud crash in the room, which was the sound of glass breaking.

The three of them looked at each other, not knowing what was going on inside, but after waiting for several minutes, there was still no movement in the room.When he opened the door, he found that the house was in a mess. Yan Yi's body was still lying on the ground, but there was no sign of Lu Ming.

Walking to the smashed glass window, I saw a pool of sticky blood on the ground, and then the blood spread all the way, disappearing into the woods of the back mountain.

"Lu Ming!" Zhou Yuan shouted towards the forest.

No echo.

The monster Lu Ming fled into the mountains like this.If this was a movie, then there would be no earth-shattering boss duel, and everything would end in such a ridiculous way, which made Zhou Yuan feel unreal.But the messy ground and the feeling of emptiness in his heart reminded Zhou Yuan that everything was real.

Maybe, many things are just so unreasonable.

"How did you do it?" Zhou Yuancong asked Lao Hu weakly. "How did you guess that backlash?"

Old Hu looked at Yan Yi's corpse on the ground with a somewhat erratic gaze: "This is the credit of Old Yan..."

"He really looked for you?" Zhou Yuan was a little surprised, he thought Lao Hu was lying to Lu Ming.

Lao Hu nodded: "Lu Ming originally wanted to persuade Yan Lao to join this crazy plan. But Yan Lao rejected him. Do you know why?"

Zhou Yuan shook his head.

"Mr. Yan once asked me a very strange question. 'Do you know what the world looks like through the eyes of a rabbit?' These are his exact words. Of course I don't know how to answer, I just thought he was tired from doing experiments, so he just casually chat."

"But another sentence of his impressed me deeply. He said that the world we usually experience is seen, heard and smelled through our eyes, ears and nose. But maybe we have another way to understand the world. Then he said very seriously, this feeling is very special, but it is very scary, and it is likely to turn against the customer. Maybe the attempt itself was a mistake."

"At the time, I didn't pay much attention to it. I just thought he was talking about it. But what Lu Ming did made me understand that Mr. Yan had also done this kind of experiment, but his subject was a rabbit. What he said, It's just a guess about Lu Ming's final outcome."

Zhou Yuan didn't fully understand what was going on until now.For example, this is like an idea that often appears in science fiction. Maybe one day, people can communicate directly with each other.If it really evolves to this level, human beings' understanding of the world must be completely different from what it is now.Just like people in the two-dimensional world cannot understand the three-dimensional world.Perhaps from the perspective of biological evolution, this is a more advanced biological form, but if an ordinary person directly enters this level, neither the body nor the consciousness can bear such a huge change.

No wonder Yan Yi finally rejected Lu Ming, he saw the danger of this matter in advance.Thinking of this, Zhou Yuan sighed and changed the subject: "What should we do next?"

"Bury Mr. Yan first." Lao Hu sighed.

It wasn't until the moment Lu Ming was swallowed by the flesh and blood clone he created that Yan Yi's body escaped his control and truly died.Zhou Yuan and the others really buried Yan Yi's body next to Yan Aihua's tomb this time, hoping that this old man who had experienced ups and downs in his life could truly rest in peace.

Lin Jing truly accepted this fact, and stopped crying loudly, but knelt in front of the erected new grave and whispered for a long time, not knowing what she was talking to her dead father.

Do it all in silence.Back to the lab again.Looking at this messy room, Zhou Yuan was full of emotion.Things come to an end, but it seems to be starting again, because nothing seems to have changed.

I came here because of a strange illness on my body, and now nothing seems to be resolved.To make matters worse, the person who had already found a solution to this disease has turned into a monster and disappeared without a trace...

"Let's get out of here." Lin Jing suggested, she didn't want to stay in this place any longer.As for whether he will die suddenly like Yan Yi at any time, or burn like Lin He, everyone can't control so much anymore.

Zhou Yuan nodded, he thought so too.Lao Hu quickly brought a large barrel of alcohol from the basement storage room, and while unscrewing the lid, he said, "Why do I feel that what Lin He does is similar."

Zhou Yuan could only smile wryly.It was because he was worried that his girlfriend's body would turn into a monster, so he dug up the grave and burned it.It's just that he doesn't know that the corpses of infected people will not mutate, and they will only become monsters under the control of a lunatic like Lu Ming.

But what Old Hu said is right, they are similar to Lin He, they all did these things in despair when they lost control of their physical condition...

"Huh!" Hu Dongdong was about to pour gasoline, but suddenly stopped and screwed the lid on.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Yuan was a little surprised.

Lao Hu was a little excited: "We may still have a chance to be cured!"

Zhou Yuan asked suspiciously: "But Lu Ming is gone, what should we do?"

"It is precisely because Lu Ming is gone that we still have a chance." Lao Hu put down the gasoline can: "First find all the information in the house."

Things went more smoothly than expected.

Soon they found what they wanted to find in the dozen or so notebooks that Lu Ming used to record the treatment process.

That's some detailed diagrams about the blood awakening, with text descriptions.

These graphs and text prove it again.At the front of this part of the chart and text, there are two words: "Conclusion."

In other words, this is not some kind of conjecture in the research process, but has been proved by practice.After reading it in detail, they finally confirmed that whether it was Yan Yi's sudden death or the second blood cocoon state that repeatedly appeared on Lin Jing's body, they were all caused by humans.

To put it simply, through a large number of experiments and data analysis, Lu Ming divided the symptoms caused by blood awakening into ten levels according to the stability of the human body, and described the status of each level in detail.

The lowest level of 0 is no abnormality, just like ordinary people, this is because the activity of blood is completely suppressed.

When Zhou Yuan was first infected by Lin He, his body had a fever and a rash appeared, which belonged to a level 3 state.And when his blood left his body and started to spontaneously combust, he had already reached level 5.At this time, the blood awakening state enters an unstable state, which may change at any time.

However, blood cocoons appeared on Lin Jing's body, and this state was classified as dangerous level 7.Because the activity of the blood becomes stronger at this time, it may get out of control at any time.

The amazing thing is that when the blood reaches the tenth level, it will instead reach a new stable state.At this time, the blood consciousness is fully awake, but at the same time it can be controlled by others. Lu Ming can control Yan Yi and Lin Jing because he maintains his body at this stage.It's just that this kind of danger is too great, because this balance is too delicate, as long as it is broken, the tragedy in front of it will happen, and the host will be backlashed by blood.

And above tenth level, it is in a completely out-of-control collapse state, and the blood is in a frantic state of instinctive self-destruction.Lin He's spontaneous combustion, Xiaoqing and Yan Yi's dehydration to death were all manifestations of this situation.

Comparing these research conclusions, they found that all three people are now in the 3-5 stage.It's not too bad, but it's by no means good either.Because the activity of the blood in the body is still in a relatively stable state, and nothing that threatens the life of the body will happen.But once some kind of accident goes beyond this stage, spontaneous combustion and organ failure will also occur.

But before I could be disappointed, at the end of the conclusion, a solution was found.Just seeing this solution, Zhou Yuan and Hu Dongdong couldn't help but look at each other strangely, feeling very ironic.

Lu Ming once proudly declared that he had made a great achievement, being able to precisely control the degree of blood awakening.In fact, he did it too, and using this as a means, he could switch the physical condition of the infected target between these ten levels.

The prerequisite for doing this is that he has developed two reagents.For example, one of the reagents is like a gas pedal, which can increase blood activity and increase the degree of awakening, while the other reagent is just the opposite, it can inhibit blood activity and act like a brake. The source of this reagent is precisely Extracted from Zhou Yuan's blood, it was derived from the virus inherited from the family.Lu Ming named these two reagents "+" and "-" respectively.

Seeing this, Zhou Yuan and Hu Dongdong felt it was ironic because, to a certain extent, the medicine Lu Ming gave them was actually useful. The problem was that he added too much, so they were kept in In a state of apparent infection.

Since these two reagents are indispensable items in Lu Ming's experiment, there must still be a lot left in this laboratory.Presumably, in the short process of Lu Ming turning into a monster and then fleeing through the window, he didn't have time to destroy it...

At this moment, Zhou Yuan suddenly became very nervous, and after reading the last word in the note, Lao Hu couldn't help but rushed to the cabinet by the wall, opened the door and began to search.

"Zhou Yuan... come here..." Hu Dongdong's voice trembled a little.Under the tense mood, Zhou Yuan couldn't even judge whether he was too excited or desperate, so he took a deep breath and walked over slowly.

In the most conspicuous place in the cabinet, there are two large bottles of transparent solution, each with a label attached to it.

"+" and "-".

Zhou Yuan heaved a sigh of relief. After so many things, he finally found the antidote to solve all this, but he didn't feel any excitement.

At this moment, he naturally thought of Lu Ming.I have to admit that based on Yan Yi's years of research, he can perfectly solve the problem of blood activation. Sure enough, geniuses are all paranoid... It's just that the blood in his body is completely out of control, even if he injects reagents now, it's impossible will be useful.

Next, you only need to inject the reagent into the vein according to the specific dosage recorded in the notes, and you can truly suppress the violent blood in your body and return to a safe level 0 state.

Zhou Yuan looked out the window with complicated emotions, the forest was silent, and there was no trace of Lu Ming.

Zhou Yuan suddenly had a thought: did Lu Ming forget to destroy this reagent, or did he leave it for them on purpose?
end
The moment the reagent was injected into his body, Zhou Yuan felt a sense of relief, whether it was an illusion or not, as if the commotion in his body had calmed down like this.

They stayed in the small building for another night.Because Lu Ming injected his own blood into Lin Jing's body, which caused her to be controlled by Lu Ming, Zhou Yuan was a little worried about whether Lin Jing would have some side effects, but the next day, after testing, their body temperature recovered. Normal, including Lin Jing.

It seems that things are developing in a positive direction, and everything that has passed is like a dream.

When they left, they set a fire in the small building.

"Zhou Yuan, it's all over!" Seeing the fire gradually engulfing the secret building, Lao Hu said with emotion.

"Yeah, it's all over." Lin Jing murmured, a tear fell from the corner of her eye.

For the next two days, there were some troubles.But it was all expected.

The fire in the small building was caused by a gas explosion, and they actually did the same.Lin Jing took the initiative to take out a sum of money and donated it to the town to build a school, and this "accidental fire" just stopped.

Hu Dongdong distributed some shares of the plaster factory in the town to the two guys. He planned to continue the business of Jiaoergen, but he was not satisfied with small troubles, and planned to focus on marketing and promotion.

Although the reagents had been injected and the body temperature had returned to normal, out of caution, they decided not to go in and out of the crowd as much as possible for the time being, so as not to cause disasters to others due to accidents.

After a brief discussion, everyone did not return to Beiyang City, but continued to stay near Daba Town.Yan Yi left a rich inheritance to Lin Jing, and she bought a house.

Zhou Yuan and Hu Dongdong have started their business, and Jiaoergen's plaster is selling well.But under the inspiration of Lin Jing, they developed a mask made of horn root.The stuff worked well for skin scars and quickly became a smash hit.In just over a year, they unknowingly made it a well-known brand, and everyone moved from Daba Town to Chengdu, built a factory building, and began to artificially cultivate horn roots.

Although all signs show that they are no different from ordinary people now, Zhou Yuan always feels that there is something in his heart that has not been let go.I often think of Lu Ming.

What he thought about the most was the things he had experienced, how did all this happen?When bored, Zhou Yuan came up with many hypotheses.

In the beginning, maybe tens of millions of years ago, or even hundreds of millions of years ago.At that time, there were no humans on the evolutionary tree of the earth.Blood was the first living things.But their form is too fragile. In order to protect themselves, they evolved hands and feet in order to survive better during evolution. Later, because they were too lazy to think, they evolved brains, just like humans invented computers.

The creatures on the earth are divided into two categories: animals and plants. Perhaps all animals were just different varieties of blood in the earliest times.

But the blood did not expect that the brain would eventually evolve independently and become a complete individual. The brain can survive well with the hands and feet, so the blood degenerates completely and becomes a part of the human body, and the consciousness gradually fades away .

Or another possibility: blood is only for survival, so it lives symbiotically in other organisms.This kind of symbiosis makes life become stronger and tends to be perfect in each evolution.It's just that in the end, the two sides of the symbiosis inevitably began to compete for dominance, and the result was that the blood failed, and in the subsequent evolutions, they completely lost consciousness and became part of other living beings.In this case, what happened to me before was just an occasional phenomenon of blood atavism?
These speculations are impossible to answer, because they involve the most mysterious mysteries of biological origin.It's just that with the passage of time, Zhou Yuan gradually developed a strong interest in it, and bought many books on biology to read.Sometimes looking at the professional books in his room, Lao Hu would shake his head and say with emotion, Zhou Yuan, how did you become a scientist? A few years ago, you were a black car driver. This change is too scary.

Zhou Yuan replied not to be outdone, this is life, and no one knows what he will be changed into.Mr. Hu who opened a barbecue restaurant is now Mr. Hu who sells facial masks. You haven't made any progress?

Speaking of this, they will always be silent in unison.Because I will think of another person who has been changed beyond recognition.That Zhou Yuan used to be best friend.

Zhou Yuan and Lin Jing got married in the second year after they left Daba Town.

In the fifth year after leaving, Zhou Yuan found Hu Dongdong and had a long talk, telling him what he was going to do.At this time, Zhou Yuan and Lin Jing already had a pair of twins, and their careers were already on the right track.No need for money anymore, this was Zhou Yuan's dream when he was driving a black car a few years ago, but now that he realized it unknowingly, he doesn't feel much.

It's just that I'm more sure that I'm going to do it myself.

"You really decided to go to Lu Ming?" Hu Dongdong couldn't cancel Zhou Yuan's decision, and his expression was very sad.

"Yes." Zhou Yuan's attitude was firm.

"It's dangerous. No, it's too dangerous, and..."

Zhou Yuan knew what Hu Dongdong wanted to say.Lao Hu thought it was unnecessary, because Lu Ming's ending was caused by his paranoia.But Zhou Yuan still thinks that the source of everything is because he pulled him in. If he was tempted by the devil, then he who brought the devil to him is also responsible for it.

Before setting off, Zhou Yuan got very drunk.That night, he had a dream.

In the dream, Zhou Yuan was at the beach, wandering alone, listening to the sound of the waves beating against the rocks, his heart was filled with inexplicable sadness.When the sky gradually brightened, he realized that the sea in front of him was not blue.

The sea in front of me is red.

It was a sea of ​​blood, and what the blood-colored waves beat against was not a rock, but a person.

That is Lu Ming.Surrounded by the sea of ​​blood, or besieged, he looked at Zhou Yuan from afar with a desperate expression.

Zhou Yuan didn't tell Hu Dongdong about this dream, let alone tell him that this dream often appeared in his consciousness at night in recent years.

In the legendary hell, the No.13 floor is called Blood Sea Hell.

What Zhou Yuan wants to do is to rescue Lu Ming from No.13 prison.

postscript
The Daba Mountains stretch for thousands of miles. Due to the dangerous terrain, transportation has been inconvenient since ancient times. The countless dangerous peaks in it are still in their original state and sparsely populated.

Among a steep mountain, a man in his 30s was trudging through it with difficulty.Almost no one has ever been here, and it is nearly a hundred kilometers away from the nearest village, Daba Town.

The man was carrying a huge travel backpack, and the equipment on his body, from the hat to the trekking poles, was all top-notch, but looking at his embarrassed appearance, he could still see the difficulty of the journey.

He finally reached the top of the mountain, sat on the grass wearily, and looked around.There are many trees unique to Daba Mountain, such as lingchunmu and yew, but there is no trace of people's presence in the dense vegetation.

There was a hint of disappointment in the man's eyes, but soon his eyes became firm again.He took out a small compressed biscuit from his backpack, ate it earnestly, and after a short rest, he stood up again, ready to go down the mountain and continue to explore the next mountain.

At this time, he suddenly felt something abnormal, and his figure stopped.

The anomaly came from the woods behind him.

There are many birds in this primitive mountain forest, and you can hear the free singing of birds all the time.But at this time, he was surprised to find that there were at least hundreds of birds densely packed on a Lianxiang tree in the forest.

These birds were of different colors and species. At a glance, he recognized seven or eight species, including the black-billed willow warbler and gray-headed thrush, and he couldn't name more.

The birds didn't chirp, they all stared at him in unison, silently sizing up the uninvited guest who broke into the forest.This kind of humanized behavior appeared on the birds, and there was an extremely strange sense of abnormality.

One person, Bai Niao, was relatively silent like this.

Suddenly, a little cuckoo flew up from the branch and flew towards the man.

Just as he was about to get close to the man, the little cuckoo's body suddenly shone with light.

Then the light expanded rapidly, engulfing the bird, and then a burst of flame burst from the bird's feathers.

The bird flying in mid-air just like that burned out of thin air.

(End of this chapter)