"We are the ones most closely linked to the fate of humankind."
When Madam Lu was still but a little girl, her mother had told her this. At that time, her mother's lower abdomen was slightly swollen, for a new life was gestating within it.
"We are the ones most closely linked to the fate of humankind."
After she grew up, she told this to other girls as well. Back then, she was simultaneously bearing the responsibility for producing successive generations for the base while devoting herself to the research of embryo development technology. This research was extremely valuable, so she was the only fertile woman who could freely come and go from the Garden of Eden and the Lighthouse. One day, in a corridor of the Twin Towers, she met a handsome green-eyed officer.
And after that, she had a child. The birth of this child had nothing to do with her duty.
Because of both parties' work, she could not often meet her child's father, only converse through the communicators on occasion.
"Sometimes, I'll think… that I betrayed the Rose Manifesto," she said.
"Why do you think so?" At the other end of the communicator was a steady voice. "Aren't you growing a life right now?"
"To have children with their lover was a right women possessed only before the manifesto came into existence." She gently draped her fingers over her lower abdomen. "Having the freedom to control my uterus without violating regulations or causing losses to the base's resources makes me… very happy, although this way of thinking is very dangerous."
The memories were patchy, with only a few key points.
"He's going to the military," Madam Lu said. "I previously suggested that he go to the United Front Center, but now the assignments have been made. Once you come back to the base, you'll meet him."
"Does he resemble me?"
"A little. The resemblance isn't very strong, and his character isn't like yours either. The base does not allow anyone to know their blood relationships, but as soon as you see him, you'll be able to know who he is."
"I really look forward to seeing him."
"You will see him," Madam Lu said. "Stay safe out in the wilderness."
"I will," that person said. "This time, we've retrieved very important scientific research materials, some of which are also related to your focus."
She smiled. "You've worked hard. My research has also been going very well recently."
"I miss you." The male voice on the other side suddenly lowered. "Last night, I dreamed of the day humankind completely survived the calamity. We were still alive, and our children were as well. We were eternally happy just like all other ordinary people."
Her voice was equally gentle. "Come back soon."
Everything was full of hope, but the limited memories of happiness from her life ended there.
Ten days later, she could no longer call her lover, nor could she get any news about him, so she had prepared for the worst-case scenario.
On the day she had decided to go to the United Front Center to inquire about her lover's whereabouts, she met her own child in the corridor.
She didn't see him often. As if in the blink of an eye, the child who would sneak up from the sixth floor to the twenty-second floor to see her grew into a capable adult, a handsome young officer.
Although her heart was full of anxiety, being able to see him nevertheless made her feel somewhat comforted. "You're here too."
Lu Feng said in a low voice, "Mother."
At that moment, she saw the ornamentation on his black uniform and the silver badge on his chest.
"Didn't the base assign you to the United Front Center?" she asked, slightly puzzled.
"I'm at the Trial Court," he said.
"Why did you go to that place?" she asked, looking at him anxiously. If not compelled to, very few people were willing to join the Trial Court.
"I volunteered." The young officer's cold green eyesseemed to contain complicated emotions, but in the end they returned to the calm of rationality. "At the Trial Court, I can be of greater use than at the United Front Center."
She wished to say something, but finally she shook her head in resignation. Everyone knew how the Trial Court was an insane place where everyone inevitably came to a terrible end.
But when it was time for them to part, Lu Feng called out to her from behind. "Mother."
Madam Lu turned around and looked at him. Lu Feng gazed at her, his voice seeming slightly hoarse as he asked, "What are you going there for?"
"Nothing." With no intention of letting her child know such things, she only smiled. "Take care of yourself."
And so she went and opened the office door of the United Front Center's Information Management Office.
"This is the Information Management Service. What do you wish to inquire about?"
"Commanding officer of the First Combat Order, Lieutenant General Gao Tang. Is he still in the wilderness?" she asked.
From the other side came the sounds of a few keystrokes.
"My apologies," the staff member said. "The Lieutenant General has already been confirmed to have died."
Her fingers were ice-cold, but she was still able to maintain her composure. To give one's life for the base was every soldier's fate.
"In… the wilderness?"
"At the entrance to the city," the staff member said. "The Trial Court's records show that Lieutenant General Gao Tang was judged to have been infected."
Her vision blurred, and she was almost unable to stay standing.
"Madam?" the staff member called out to her.
"The Trial Court…" she repeated in a murmur. "Are their judgments accurate?"
"They're generally accurate. The accuracy of every generation of Trial Court trainees can be controlled at eighty percent. The average accuracy of the trainees who officially joined the Trial Court this year is ninety percent… Madam, do you require assistance? Madam?"
As she dazedly stood there, Lu Feng's hoarse call of "Mother" from that time they were in the corridor suddenly echoed in her ears. Her body trembled.
Perhaps frightened by the Madam's inaction, the staff member added, "Your authority level is high enough to view a detailed report. If you need to, I can request to view the exact data and ID number of the Judge in charge at the time… Madam?"
"No." Her eyes widened as if she had seen something horrifying in midair. "Don't look it up… don't look it up."
The memories were like a blank tide, their features blurry. Not only had she lost her lover, but from that day on, she had also gradually drifted apart from Lu Feng. She had come close to losing him as well.
In fact, she was losing her children every single day.
On the day the Outer City was bombed, while listening to the distant rumble, Lily squirmed into her embrace.
"Why did they blow up their own city?"
"So humankind can be more safe."
"But the people there are also the Garden of Eden's children," Lily said. "If children aren't important, why must we be shut up in here?"
"They have their own reasons. For more lofty goals, they have to make some choices," she said softly as she held Lily. "The Main City and Outer City are both our children. Sometimes the child will be selfish and sometimes hurt his mother and his fellow citizens. Only when we understand them will we not feel pain."
As she spoke, the blood seeping under the door from her childhood, the Trial Court badge on Lu Feng's chest, and the mushroom cloud rising in the distance all overlapped in front of her eyes.
Lily asked the same question. "So do you understand now?"
She did not answer the question. Pressing her own forehead against Lily's forehead, she closed her eyes. "I truly hope you all will never again experience this kind of pain."
As though a sorrowful piece of music had come to a close, An Zhe slowly opened his eyes.
He found himself lying next to the rose bed. Looking upward, he saw the deep red and dark green flowers and leaves, glass shards twinkling amongst them. A dark shadow swept through his field of vision, so he looked further up. The hole in the dome that originally could only accommodate the queen bee had gotten bigger, now taking up three-quarters of the dome. Its broken edges were glimmering with light, and a bee as long as a human arm was flying out through it.
The wave had disappeared, and there was no trace of the queen bee above the dome, but the glass bore signs of having been broken. In the night sky outside, gunfire exploded like fireworks. The humans' armed forces had begun fighting, although whether they had killed the queen bee or not was unknown. But it was very difficult to hit a bee in the vast expanse of the night. An Zhe saw the small bee flying higher and higher before it disappeared beneath the silver light of the moon.
Then there were several more dark shadows. With the buzzing of vibrating wings, five, then ten, then countless bees came flooding over from all directions. Some of the bees still had scraps of white fabric on them. An Zhe looked at where they came from and saw that the twenty-second floor was completely deserted, with not a person in sight. Everyone had turned into bees and were flying outward.
Bees—
Another flickering image appeared in An Zhe's mind.
He was a bee, a normal bee who did not eat people and only gathered from flowers.
It was a summer day, the reproduction season for bees, but it had flown into a human city by mistake. This city was impenetrable, with people's doors and windows tightly shut. The bee simply wanted to find pollen it could eat, but from start to finish, it was unable to do so.
At last, the bee saw it—behind some glass, there was a bright red rose in full bloom.
A woman was taking care of this flower. Standing next to the windowsill, she looked at the rose with a smile. After a long time, she then listlessly gazed at the sky outside, seemingly wishing very much to push the window open and touch the sky.
So this bee waited a very long time, until the woman left and came back, until she looked outside and dazedly shed a single tear.
Seeming as though she had finally made some sort of decision, she pushed the window open and the wind outside —the unrestrained wind—poured in. She closed her eyes as though she could take flight with the wind.
The bee had been hungry for a very long time. After it landed on the rose's stamen, pollen covered its fuzzy hind legs, and it inserted its slender proboscis into the center of the flower.
But it was very quickly discovered.
The woman reached out a hand toward it, her fingers trembling slightly, and her eyes trembling as well. There was even some slight madness, as if this was the first time she had ever seen such a life. She moved very slowly, by no means seeming as though she wanted to brush the bee away, but the bee's instinct preordained what would happen next.
When her fingers were but a few millimeters away from touching it, the bee unconsciously stung her.
The bee died, and when its body left the woman's finger, a portion of its viscera were pulled out and left hanging at the end of the stinger. A bee could only use its stinger once in its life.
But it also seemed to have not died, for while its body fell into the rose, its consciousness seemed to become a portion of this woman's consciousness. Just like that, it went dormant for a long time, and nobody knew of its existence. Even the woman herself thought that she had merely been stung and not infected.
Until the bee's portion of her consciousness was gradually activated by the strange waves coming from afar.
The bee's memories were very basic. After removing this experience, it could even be described as unremarkable. When An Zhe opened his eyes once again, those things gradually faded from his mind, and the roses in front of his eyes were still as vibrant as before. Who had given the flower from back then to Madam Lu?
Only two people would give her flower seeds, her erstwhile lover and Lu Feng. Their reason for sending her flowers was no more than to make her a little happier.
So in the season when the roses were blooming, the beautiful sight moved her heart, and she then wanted to bathe in the sunshine and air outside. That was how she met the bee that had come in pursuit of flowers.
The outside wind poured in. An Zhe's head graduallycleared, and he got up from the ground. The surroundings were deserted. Shredded clothes, communicators, and the various things that people always carried around lay fallen all over the ground. He could imagine that when he was affected by the strong wave and fell into the sights within the Madam's and the bee's memories, all the people present had also been infected by the wave. The hundreds of people had turned into hundreds of bees, all flying through the hole at the top of the dome into the sky.
But he was an exception, still maintaining a human body. Just like that time he was bitten by an insect, he had not mutated.
Right at that moment, a sense of danger arose in An Zhe's heart. He lifted his head and looked at the top of the dome. Three small military helicopters were hovering there, where they had just now opened fire on the bee swarm. An Zhe squinted in that direction, but he discovered that at this very moment, a black gun muzzle was extended out from a helicopter window and pointing directly at him.
At the same time, there were disorderly footsteps from outside the door, alarms going off in the background, and emergency lights and red alarm lights flashing madly. The floor trembled, and the heavily armed soldiers of the Emergency Response Department flooded in, securely surrounding An Zhe. Every one of them bore heavy weaponry, and every gun was pointed at him.
———
Underground City Base, core area.
"Thank you for providing assistance." The white officer removed his service cap. "We assumed the Northern Base would not come."
The most chaotic time had ended.
The sounds of gunfire and explosions were dying away, only echoing in the distance, and the ground was covered with shattered glass and instruments.
An officer was saying rapidly, "The prerequisite for contactless infection is being in close proximity with monsters! Clean up the bodies first!"
Then there was a gunshot, and the officer fell. The one who opened fire was an officer of the Underground City Base.
"This is our Judge," the white officer next to Lu Feng said. "After the fall of the Virginia Base, we followed your example and set up a Trial Court. Over the years, the Trial Court has been like the base's guardian angel."
Under the protection of soldiers, a team of engineers passed through the half-collapsed steel archway and went inside the magnetic pole to perform emergency repairs.
As Lu Feng looked in that direction, he asked, "How did this invasion happen?"
"Brute force attack. They came from the giant rainforest three hundred kilometers away, their sole purpose to obtain human genes and occupy the underground base—you know, the Underground City is both warm and safe, making it the most suitable place for creatures to survive."
"What about their purpose in destroying the magnetic pole?"
"Humans' genes, thinking ability, and knowledge are constantly leaking. We can only make the guess that they already know a little. By destroying the magnetic pole, humankind will fall into confusion, which is beneficial to their assault."
"They are too numerous and powerful. Our armaments are insufficient and our research and development capability is on the decline, so we were unable to performsuppressive fire. We had no choice but to seek help from you." The officer rubbed his gun's shoulder stock. "Why does the Northern Base still have such plentiful ammunition and reserves of thermonuclear weapons? Do you have some sort of technological breakthrough?"
"For now, no." Lu Feng took off his bloodstained gloves, voice flat as he answered the officer's question. "The Northern Base has sufficient numbers of troops. When fighting on the frontlines, we can use the numeric advantage to reduce the depletion of armaments."
"Conversely, the reason for our base's huge consumption of armaments is precisely because of our shortage of troops." The white officer frowned as he thought hard.
"I got it… It's because of that heavily criticized Rose incident." Before Lu Feng could reply, the officer had an epiphany, but the expression in his eyes was very complicated. "The Northern Base seems to always make these kinds of choices."
"I really admire the willfulness you lot have," he finally stated.
———
The Northern Base.
When An Zhe was escorted away from the twenty-second floor, he passed the main hall. One hour ago, this was a place with soothing music and a gentle atmosphere, but now it was a mess. Nobody was walking around, and a tea table was toppled over in one corner. Glass cups lay on their sides, and milk was spilled everywhere, soaking a white dress that lay flat on the ground. On this white dress were some shining honey-colored things resembling the fluff on a bee's limbs.
"How many people were infected?" the commanding officer of the Emergency Response Department shouted into his communicator.
"The twenty-second, twenty-first, and twentieth floors!"
A grating voice came from the communicator. "All the women in the Garden of Eden who meet the Rose Manifesto's standards, all the staff members, and the vast majority of the embryos in the culturing devices on the twentieth floor. There are some on the other floors as well, and they are currently being culled!"
The commanding officer's fingers tensed up, nearly crushing the communicator.
The second-in-command asked, "What do we do now?"
"Clean the place up! Have you gone soft in the head?" The furious commanding officer whirled around and the second-in-command shivered, but the one whom he turned to was not the second-in-command, but An Zhe.
Beneath the pale lamplight, his visage was as cold as a stone statue.
"What happened on the twenty-second floor?" His voice was like a thunderclap in An Zhe's ear, making his head ache. The soldiers escorting him pushed him forward, and he felt that the bones of his shoulders were on the verge of being crushed.
The pain made An Zhe tremble slightly. He lowered his eyelashes.
"Madam Lu mutated," he said.
"At that time, where were you?"
"… In front of her."
"Why would she mutate?" he roared. "The twentieth and higher floors of the Garden of Eden are watertight, so how could the women here mutate?"
"Many years ago… she was stung once by a bee," An Zhe replied truthfully, and the officer in front of him became so frighteningly violent that he unconsciously stepped backward and was pushed further forward by the soldiers escorting him.
"If she could mutate, she would have done so long ago!" The commanding officer yanked out the pistol at his waist.
"Senior Colonel, calm down a little. The current situation—" the second-in-command said shakily.
The ice-cold muzzle of a gun was jammed against An Zhe's temple.
"You're going to speak for him?" Veins bulged out on the senior colonel's neck. "I saw him during the transfer! He's someone from the Lighthouse, not a worker of the twenty-second floor—didn't the Lighthouse have a bee sample before? I've said ages ago that those science lunatics were raising xenogenics in the Twin Towers and accidents will happen sooner or later! Just like that old Fusion Faction, they want the base to die!"
The second-in-command asked, "Do you want to contact the Trial Court?"
"There's no need for the Trial Court." The senior colonel pressed down on the trigger, his voice cold. "He's linked to the infection."
———
An Zhe gently closed his eyes.
He knew the meaning that the recent event held for the humans. The disappearance of the mothers and children meant that the human base had completely lost its future. Under this sort of circumstance, no matter what the senior colonel did, he would not be surprised.
Right at that moment!
"Senior Colonel!" A familiar voice rang out from the end of the main hall.
It was the doctor.
An Zhe looked in that direction.
"He is from the Garden of Eden and currently assisting the Lighthouse with a study," the doctor said. "Please hand him over to me."
"Everyone was infected, and only he lives. Plus, his arrest was ordered tonight because of a sample." The senior colonel's voice was deep. "Does the Lighthouse intend to shield him? Exactly what research have you people been doing? Why is infection possible without contact?"
"Regardless of whether this matter has anything to do with the Lighthouse or not, you must hand him over to me," the doctor said. "At least I know that if he is killed, all will be lost."
The senior colonel let out a sardonic laugh. "And then you will continue your dangerous experiments?"
"What happened tonight has absolutely nothing to do with the Lighthouse's experiments," the doctor said in a calm voice. "On the contrary, we will investigate why things are this way."
"Since more than a hundred years ago, you people have said you can figure out the cause of infection, but right now you're still ignorant, unable to obtain even clues," the senior colonel said. "How can the Lighthouse guarantee that it won't be more dangerous to keep him around?"
"I have no way to guarantee it"—the doctor looked directly at the senior colonel—"but I know that the base's situation will not be worse than it is now."
After a brief silence, the senior colonel's gun-wielding hand trembled. The doctor's words seemed to make him lose all strength at that moment.
He said slowly, "After an hour, there must be some progress."
The doctor said, "All right."
With a bang, the interrogation room door came slamming down, and the escorting soldiers stood guard outside.
Through a layer of glass, An Zhe and the doctor looked at each other. The soldiers' actions were rough, practically hurling him in, and his back and shoulder blades were still throbbing with pain.
But the doctor did not exchange greetings with him. There was no time, and perhaps he wasn't in the mood.
His first question was identical to the senior colonel's. "Exactly what happened tonight?"
An Zhe told him the truth. Unlike the senior colonel, after a brief period of contemplation, the doctor believed him.
"What you're saying is that there had always been xenogenic genes incubating in her body, and they expressed themselves only now?"
An Zhe nodded.
"She killed the base's women and offspring. Was it because she hated the base that she made this choice? Are you saying that while she was lucid, she initiated contactless infection within a certain range?"
"That's not it." An Zhe shook his head. "Right when she had just turned into a bee, she only wanted to leave this place, but the bee later returned."
"Do you believe her consciousness had already been taken over at that time?"
"Yes."
The doctor suddenly laughed, but the sound of it was very raspy. His brows were furrowed and the corners of his eyes were downturned. It was a smiling expression that
looked even more ugly than crying. "She could not be spared either."
An Zhe silently looked at him.
"Don't look at me with that sort of expression." The doctor took a deep breath. "It's like you don't know anything, yet also like you know everything."
An Zhe said, "I don't know anything."
"Si Nan… Si Nan being able to maintain occasional lucidity is already a one-in-ten-thousand possibility," the doctor said.
"Do you know of the Fusion Faction?" the doctor asked.
An Zhe shook his head.
"A hundred years ago, the base's scientific research strength was tremendous. Many scientists believed that other organisms could obtain larger bodies and greater strength via mutation, and then through mutual infection and variation obtain the ability to adapt to the environment. Humans could as well." the doctor said.
"They first observed the changes radiation made to the human body, but the more complex an organism's genes are, the lower the probability of favorable mutation. When human beings are exposed to cosmic radiation, they can only get multiple cancers all over their bodies or other genetic disorders."
"Later, they believed that genetic infection was a means by which humans could evolve, so as a result they were known as the 'Fusion Faction.' They performed many crazy experiments, infecting monsters with various monsters and infecting humans with monsters. They created countless xenogenics with the aim of observing how human genes change and how to preserve human will in their memories. They discovered the fragility of human will and that human intelligence is very easily acquired by xenogenics, but there were indeed individuals who could maintain lucidity and control their post-mutation bodies with human thinking— although it was for limited periods, sometimes long and sometimes short."
An Zhe silently listened, but he saw the corners of the doctor's lips curl up in a self-mocking smile. "This was a piece of good news. They applied for more samples and finally eliminated all influencing factors, but they reached a certain conclusion. There is no external method whatsoever that can help a person maintain his will, and whether or not a person can remain lucid after being infected does not depend on the tenacity of his will. When a person is infected, there is a one-in-ten-thousand chance he'll retain his consciousness, and the other 9,999 will forfeit their will. This is just a question of probability. Everything is random, everything is irregular, everything is uncontrollable. Randomness is the most fearsome thing for science. The day this conclusion was reached, at least three of the Fusion Faction's scientists committed suicide."
"But there were also some people who did not lose heartand continued their research. They believed that the reason why this matter presented random results was because we had not yet found the decisive factor or that the decisive factor was beyond the scope of what could be understood with human technology."
"… And then?" An Zhe asked.
"Then there was no more Fusion Faction. All samples were killed, and all research was urgently stopped." The doctor's voice fell lightly. "In that year, a humanoid leech xenogenic contaminated the water source supplying the entire Outer City, and the entire city was exposed. The ten days over which the Trial Court was set up and blood flowed like water… That xenogenic was a Fusion Faction experimental subject that had acquired human intelligence."
An Zhe thought hard, digesting the implication of the doctor's words.
But then he heard the doctor abruptly say, "I've said enough to him. Have you made your judgment?"
An Zhe was stunned. Lifting his head, he saw a door on one side of the room open and Seraing and another Judge walk through it to stand behind the doctor.
He suddenly looked at the side of the interrogation room he was in. It was a smooth mirror.
"It's a one-way mirror," the doctor said. "Seraing had been watching you the whole time."
"According to the Trial rules," Seraing said, looking at An Zhe, "I still believe he is human."
"I thought as much." The doctor seemed to finally let out a sigh of relief. "Even Lu Feng could comfortably place him by his own side."
"Lu Feng…" With those words, the doctor's eyes flew wide open. "If Madam Lu had been infected long ago and it was gradually stimulated over recent days, and she could even infect Si Nan without completely losing her sanity, why did Lu Feng not see it?"
"My apologies." Seraing's gentle eyelashes lowered. "The Trial Court has never been able to judge whether or not the women of the Garden of Eden have been infected."
The doctor was taken aback. "Why is that?"
"The environment in which they grow up is too different from that of ordinary humans. According to the Trial rules, every single woman does not meet the standards."
The doctor was stunned.
Five seconds later, he couldn't help laughing out loud. He bent double, body trembling, and his hands clutched the chair's armrests in a death grip.
It was only once a full three minutes passed that he finished laughing, after which his expression changed to one of loss. The color in his cheeks receded, leaving behind only a wan complexion.
"Do you still recall the source of the calamity that happened not long ago in the Outer City?" he suddenly asked.
"I do," Seraing said. "Insect-class creatures had reached their breeding season."
"Like that, why the Madam infected so many people can be explained," the doctor said. "She wished to leave the Garden of Eden, where the only goal was human reproduction. She wanted to obtain freedom, even if shehad to abandon her human form and consciousness for that purpose. However… The moment she completely freed herself from her human body was also when she was controlled by the queen bee's biological instinct… It's currently the breeding season for arthropods. What she was doing when she was human was something she still had to do after turning into the queen bee. She…"
The doctor continued speaking, his broken words making it difficult to form sentences. In the end, he closed his eyes bitterly. "She could never get free."
After a long silence, his voice was frighteningly hoarse. "It's inescapable."
An Zhe opened his eyes slightly wider, for he realized what the doctor was saying.
The instinct of a creature was to live, and the instinct of a species was to reproduce.
No person could escape it. Nobody could escape it, and the Madam had already fallen into it for eternity.
Perhaps, perhaps at that moment only, that fleeting moment—the moment she was about to turn into a bee but had not yet done so—she briefly obtained what she wanted.
Then the eternal and ignorant black curtain abruptly fell before her eyes.
"The Rose Manifesto was the inevitable choice for the base's long-term development, but it does indeed violate the standards of humanity. The Trial Court, the mercenaries, the emergency response system… Many systems were violated. If I was not seeing things from the base's point of view, I would support the Madam's resistance." His voice was extremely low. "But did her resistance have any meaning? She even… took away all of our embryos."
"Nobody had done anything wrong, but the ending is still the same." He looked at the blank walls, the look in his eyes approaching that of a breakdown. Seemingly on the verge of breaking, he could barely maintain his clearheadedness by mumbling to himself, "This… this fucking age."
To humans, this era of the geomagnetic field's disappearance was not a catastrophe, but rather a trampling upon.
It first made humans aware of their own bodies' fragility, then made them grasp the meaninglessness of the technology they were so proud of, then denied the legitimacy of the entire base's methods of operation, and finally proved that the will that humans alone had was alsoall but worthless.
But putting it this way was also not quite right.
Because this world did not care about the existence of humans at all.
An Zhe placed his hand flat against the interrogation room's glass. He strove to get closer to the doctor, wishing to comfort him.
"All right." He saw the doctor take several deep breaths, forcing himself to recover a certain degree of calm. "Now it's time for you to answer two questions."
"First, since Seraing believes that you're human, why were you not infected by Madam Lu? Second, why did you enter Laboratory D1344 and take away the inert sample?"
An Zhe dropped his eyes and said nothing.
"You must tell me," the doctor said. "If I cannot get results, you still will only be able to land in the senior colonel's hands."
An Zhe silently shook his head.
"You haven't seen the military's interrogation methods."
The doctor got up from his chair, stood in front of the glass wall, and met his gaze. "If you also don't know why you weren't infected, we'll just wait for Lu Feng to come back, restore power, and go to the Lighthouse to perform a full-body examination, but you must tell me where the D1344 sample is."
An Zhe still said nothing. In the end, the doctor said, "Is there something you cannot tell Seraing and me?"
An Zhe nodded.
"Why not? You're a good kid." The look in the doctor's eyes was complicated as he once again repeated, "That sample is of great importance. Exactly where is it?"