Chapter 54 049. The truth
Messy and untied long hair covered the bandage on the face. The traces of blood dried into black. The bandage hid the entire face, from the bridge of the nose to the end. The chin only reveals a pair of eyes that can shoot out sharp gazes.
Endless darkness emerged from this man's body like a tide. Li Ming subconsciously took a few steps back, trying to avoid this abyss-like darkness.
However, it is of no avail.
The rush of darkness caused the lights in the entire room to flicker a few times, then turn off and light up again.
"Looking at you, you should be Saburo Onodera. As for the subjects he recruited for his crazy experiments, let me introduce myself first. My surname is Mitarai. I am the person in charge of the Eastern Laboratory. Of course, I should be considered the former One term.”
Mitarai? !
Li Dang couldn't believe it. At this moment, he felt that all his previous speculations collapsed and disappeared.
I originally thought that based on Dr. Gomori's diary, he had escaped from the laboratory, and all my speculations were based on this so-called fact.
But now?
"Wait a minute, which Mitarai are you? Are you the doctor who teaches compatibility between plants and the human body?"
Li Ming quickly took out a white paper from his pocket and scribbled on it. Although that man I was a little curious, but I continued reading.
"Ha, I didn't expect that my name is still very famous, or that my experiments are still very famous. It seems that my previous efforts were not in vain."
Professed to be "Mitarashi" "The man let out a hoarse laugh.
"How about, you know my name, which means you must have some understanding of my great experiment on the future development of mankind. Are you interested in giving up your cooperation with Onodera, and then devote yourself to me? What?”
"You guy."
Li Dan gritted his teeth. When he thought of the series of things that happened before and the experimental record, he couldn't restrain his anger and rushed forward to give him The man punched.
Originally, he thought that his fist could hit solid human flesh, but in an instant, Li Dang felt a violent distortion. Blinded by anger, he came to his senses. His right hand that punched had already It was wrapped in a thick vine and set aside.
Looking along the vine to the root, it emerged from Mitarai's black coat. Its flexibility was comparable to the tentacles of an octopus.
What the hell is this!
Li Ming gritted his teeth and tried to break free from the shackles of the vines, but in the end it was in vain. The vines became tighter and tighter under the control of Dr. Mitarai. A circle appeared on Li Ming's right wrist due to the tight restraint, which caused a temporary White blot of ischemia.
“Oh my god, it seems that the subjects recruited by Onodera Saburo are quite loyal this time. It really opens my eyes more and more. I didn’t expect that such a lunatic also has loyal followers. "
As soon as the word "believer" came out of the man's mouth, Li Ming thought of his previous speculation, but due to special restrictions, he really couldn't speak and could only bite his lower lip. .
"What? Aren't you convinced? Then why did you step forward and touch me as soon as you heard me introduce myself?"
Before he finished speaking, the vines controlled by Mitarai, loosened He opened Li Dang's right hand, but what made him a little curious was that the man in front of him saw the vines moving on their own, with a surprised expression on his face, and at the same time he looked towards the deeper corner of the room.
"I didn't expect that everything happened to come together today."
Mitarai murmured to himself. As he spoke, he threw aside a huge curtain from his lifetime, and then looked for it casually. He found a place and sat down, folding his hands with amusement written on his face.
"Subject No. H, I was still thinking about when the experimental dormancy period originally scheduled for half a year would end. I didn't expect it to be today, and it was related to the failure of my optical camouflage. On the same day, what surprised me even more was that the nutrition room welcomed its first guest today. This is simply our lucky day, right?”
Number H?
While moving his wrist, Li Dang looked deeper into the room in surprise. At the same time, he searched for memories of this letter in his mind.
Soon he realized that something was wrong. There were all the records about H in his memory, except for the beginning number in the experiment record, which was the one related to his father Jiang Wenli when he was young.
Before, I was still curious about the meaning of the number at the beginning of the experimental record, so today it seems that this is actually the name for the subjects?
According to what Mitarai said just now, subject H, Uncle Jiang Wenli, was asleep in a deeper corner of this room, but he just happened to wake up today.
But the problem arises again. Logically speaking, this white dream world is an image from more than ten years ago. So when Jiang Wenli wakes up today, the concept of "today" refers to the year 2023. , or more than ten years ago?
More and more doubts disappeared as the figure appeared in front of him, because in Li Ming's field of vision, he and the person he was looking for were finally exposed in front of him. How wonderful it was. Something joyful, despite the inhuman treatment he had suffered.
But——
All Li Ming's emotions reached their climax at this moment. The slightly rickety figure that only existed in his impression finally appeared in front of him, and was confirmed to be alive.
"Let that child go."
The man who appeared in front of the two people had no expression on his face, but his body looked a little scary due to the expansion of the pores caused by the growth of plants caused by the previous experiment. In addition, people's behavior is still the same as before.
The voice was hoarse and deeper than before. In the rolling darkness, it seemed even weirder and colder.
"Huh? It seems like you actually know this visitor? It's interesting. It's getting more and more interesting."
Mitarai clapped her hands in a pretentious manner. Although she looked like she was watching a show, she still maintained vigilance in her movements. He had no intention of letting Li Ming leave.
It can only be said that he is indeed a crazy doctor. Not only is his thinking crazy and advanced, he does not even understand his current identity and status, and he still looks like the master of the laboratory.
A huge change occurred outside the nutrition room. Dr. Onodera's whereabouts are still unknown, but he is peaceful and content in the nutrition room. This comparison is even more ridiculous.
"However, you are just one of my experimental subjects. The experiment is just more successful than other experimenters. What qualifications do you have to order me?"
"I say it one last time, let that child go."
Jiang Wenli's face was pale, and unruly plant branches and leaves emerged from his open mouth during the exchange, which looked extremely weird.
Seeing the scene in front of him, Li Dang couldn't help but walked aside and vomited repeatedly. Just thinking about the scene of this combination of plants and humans didn't bother him much, but when he faced it directly, that kind of The inexplicable nausea was really hard to control.
"Have you seen it? Your current body is disgusting even to the people you know. I advise you to stay here with me obediently. You are my experimental subject, who else? Would the Creator do something bad to his own child? "
Mitarai crossed her hands and continued to watch the fun, while crossing her legs.
"You are partial to the visitor in front of you now. When you are alone together, what will this guy who makes you feel sick and sick do to you? I really can't imagine."
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Jiang Wenli, whose skin had become distorted and mutated, glanced at Li Ming who was vomiting indifferently, with a complicated expression, but still did not speak.
I believe that he has already had the same idea as Dr. Mitarai said in his mind.
If the background here was in his hometown, then he would not be afraid, because "filial piety comes first", and the younger generation has been taught since childhood that they must respect their elders.
But now the background is in Japan, no, or a place far away from his hometown. Although he doesn't know why Li Ming is here, he still has some concerns.
“I remember you said that after you completed the experiment for me, you would let me go back to my own home, but later you kept me here on the grounds that my body was not fully adapted to plant juices. In this damn laboratory
And now that I finally wake up, you keep asking me to stay. "What do you mean by this?"
While listening to the exchange between the two, Li Ming also discovered a more important doubt. The language used by Jiang Wenli when communicating with Dr. Mitarai was in Chinese. Dr. Mitarai's nationality is obviously Japanese, so why can they answer questions fluently?
Could it be that while Jiang Wenli was sleeping, this crazy doctor had been studying Chinese?
It is well known that foreigners cannot learn Chinese thoroughly every ten or eight years. This is a very strange thing.
But then I thought about it, since Dr. Mitarai can think of using plants to blend with humans to achieve immortality, and has such a crazy idea, his IQ should be very high, so he can learn another language relatively quickly. of.
"It's been so many days, half a year, Mr. Jiang, you don't really think that I do these experiments for the future of you scum at the bottom of society, do you?"
Mitarai couldn't laugh or cry. , smiling almost maniacally, with disdain written on his face, he stood up and paced back and forth in full view of the public, as if the ancient emperor was admiring his courtyard.
“Have you seen these subjects who dedicated themselves to the experiment? Together with you, and your work, which in my opinion is currently the most successful, is a stepping stone for me to get closer to the gods I worship. ”
God?
Li Dang recovered from his nausea. This name appeared more than once in his previous discussions and exchanges with Kurosawa, especially about "The Terror Underground in Volentang" and "Gela". In the discussion of "The Book of Revelation", it appeared frequently.
In the end, they finally determined that Dr. Mitarai was probably a believer of those plant-type old rulers, no, it should be said to be a fanatical believer.
Being able to tirelessly and continuously experiment on the basically impossible subject of the integration of plants and humans is such a fervent heart that even a serious doctor cannot achieve it.
Inventors like Edison already saw hope when they invented something, and they wanted to make this hope last longer.
But Mitarai is not. He has to carry out this nightmare-like experiment despite repeated failures. It is difficult not to make people doubt his original motives.
It can be seen from some scattered experimental records that he is as crazy and twisted as Dr. Onodera. Where does this motivation that drives him to continue experiments come from?
And now is the moment when the answer is revealed.
“In college, Onodera and I were very good friends and classmates. He had the same beliefs as me and often spent time in the library.”
“One day , I clearly remember that it was a hot afternoon, and the university library had a new batch of books by foreign authors. Saburo Onodera and I excitedly ran to the library to borrow books. Among the books piled up in disorder, I found The book that changed my life.”
Mitarai paused and looked into the distance with a happy expression of recollection, but such a disgusting expression from such an old man made Li Ming feel goosebumps all over his body.
"The book that changes your life".
Li Dang took out the two books from his pocket, patted them casually and made a sound.
Mitarai's thoughts were brought back to reality by the sound of books colliding. He suddenly turned around and saw the two thick black books. A look of joy immediately appeared on his dry face.
"That's it. Where did you find it? It's this "The Terror of Warren Tang Underground"!" Mitarashi rushed forward and snatched the two books from Li Ming's hand, "It's really It’s been a long time since I saw it, and when I see it now, I feel like the enthusiasm I felt a few years ago is rising again.”
"In a cell, there are desks on both sides of the cell."
Although he didn't have a good impression of this guy, in order to understand the whole story, Li Ming still wrote on a white paper to inform him, but What he wrote was not in Chinese, but in Japanese.
It's not that he has forgotten how to write Chinese, but that he is a little unsure. The doctor in front of him has learned all the uses of Chinese. To communicate with this guy, to be safe, he still needs to use his native language.
“Ah, it’s in that room. It’s expected when you think about it, because Subject H lives there. I lent him these two books to read, so I left them there. Normal."
"Then what is this "Revelation of Glachi" about?" Li Dang frowned, and his curiosity made him continue to ask.
"This book, haven't you read this book? If you haven't read this book, it would be a great regret in your life."
Mitarai had a troubled look on his face, as if he was disgusted with it. What, anyway, there was a complicated expression on his face, but it quickly disappeared.
“But after thinking about it this way, you must have been recruited by Dr. Onodera today. If you can read such a heavy book in such a short period of time, I still have to doubt what you are. Who is this?”
“Now that I have said this and the atmosphere has been heightened, I will give you a good introduction to this book.”
Mitarai hasn’t spoken yet. After saying that, he was interrupted by Li Ming raising his hand.
"No, there are some changes happening outside the laboratory now, so it's best to keep the story short. Just tell me some of the plots that moved you when you read this book."
"Mutation? Experiment? What's going on outside, and what does it have to do with me? Gentleman, please pay attention to me. I'm staying here well, and I don't have to worry about what happens outside affecting me."
Mitarai looked sullen when he was interrupted, as if it didn't matter to him. But when he flipped through the thick book, the expression on his face became calm again.
To be honest, this old man behaves as if he is mentally ill. It is no wonder that these days' enthusiastic experimental enthusiasts or experts in a certain field are all mentally ill.
The face is moody and the speech is somewhat incoherent.
"Well, since this rare guest doesn't want to hear it, I will mercifully promise you, and I will simply say it."
"The book "The Revelation of Glachi" moved me the most, It should be one of the old rulers Ai Luo described in it, whose The image is of a plant-type creature covered with vines and tentacles."
Li Ming didn't listen to what the doctor said later. As soon as he heard the words "a plant-type creature covered with vines and tentacles" , a secret smile appeared on Li Dang's face.
As expected, this book also contains an introduction to plant-type creatures. The Green God counts as one, and this and Ai Luo also count as one, so this is why he wants to make plants. Motive for the human fusion experiment?
“When I was in college, after reading these two books, it had a certain impact on my spirit and beliefs. Looking back now, it should be some instinctive thoughts about the gods in destiny. ”
"No, you simply fell into madness briefly after reading that book." Li Ming complained silently.
“When I was in college, I firmly believed that there were these two gods in this world. Just when I wanted to look around for information, Onodera Saburo came to me and asked me what I wanted to do after graduation. "Have your own laboratory"
"He said that he had a wonderful idea and wanted to make human flesh. Integrating with machinery to achieve the so-called immortality to a certain extent, although there are many disadvantages, won’t the sense of technology in the future be stronger?”
“These were his original words, so at that time I had an idea. As soon as I moved, I assumed a goal, which is what you know now, I want to combine plants with humans to achieve "eternal life". ”
Looking at it this way, it turns out that Dr. Onodera, who had always been considered not a good person, was originally motivated by the development of mankind, and Dr. Mitarai has become a pure evil person.
Li Dang smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly and shook his head. He subconsciously looked at Jiang Wenli not far in front of him. The man's expression was very stiff, and his body was tired but with a sense of natural excitement. Aggression.
Li Mang subconsciously took a few steps back, leaving the battlefield in front of him to the two of them. Although finding Jiang Wenli made him even more happy, the man probably couldn't listen to it now.
"So, you understand, I am not doing these experiments for the fate of you scum, but for the pursuit of getting closer to the gods in destiny." When reading this book, do you feel like before? All speculations have been overturned? I just want this effect (laughing)
(End of this chapter)