Chapter 213 103: We are safe
"Don't look at me, keep your previous actions." The female researcher's voice was full of fear, making Ivan's mind uncontrollably nervous.
"What do you mean by what you just said?" Ivan looked away and asked urgently in a low voice.
"11 o'clock, rest room 4." She lowered her head and said this, then shut up.
Ivan chose the meal with a feeling that he couldn’t describe, and followed Alexander to find a seat to sit down. He looked towards the dining area and couldn’t find the female researcher with the dark circles under his eyes.
"What were you talking to yourself just now?" Alexander suddenly asked.
Ivan came back to his senses, opened his mouth and was about to explain casually, but unexpectedly discovered that Alexander's eyes at this time were so sinister and terrifying, which made his heart pound and jump in fright, and his body subconsciously twitched back, swinging His arm accidentally knocked over the yogurt next to him on the table.
"Wow! You are so excited, are you saying bad things about me? Hahaha." Alexander joked.
Ivan panted slightly, shook his head vigorously and blinked, and then looked carefully at Alexander, who was sitting opposite him. He clearly had the same playful smile as usual. The look just now seemed to be just his illusion.
"I just complain about my superiors. I eat mashed potatoes, apple soup and bread every morning." Ivan suppressed his lingering fear, took a paper towel to wipe it, and chose an issue that had been complained about by many people as an explanation.
"That's how it is here. The food of other researchers is much better than ours." Alexander complained unbalancedly.
Ivan, who was wiping the yogurt, suddenly froze and looked at the soldiers in guard uniforms in the dining area.
Yes, this is the canteen of the guards, and the researchers have a special dining area. The dining locations of the two are not the same, and the researchers do not have meal cards for their canteen, so.
Who was I talking to just now?
Thinking of this problem, Ivan started to sweat on his forehead.
Does that person really exist? But why is it so real if it doesn't exist?
With a tired voice oozing from the inside out, the look in his eyes that looked like neurasthenia and mixed with despair, how could it be his own hallucination?
Self-doubt and lack of rest yesterday made Ivan feel the pain between his eyebrows throbbing with the beating of his heart, and his face seemed to become ferocious.
"Ivan? Are you really okay? Your face is uglier than the salted fish my grandma pickled. The difference is that you may not be that salty." Alexander looked at him carefully.
"Very good, I'm fine." Ivan forced a smile.
After breakfast, the two began to inspect certain rooms and safety equipment based on their usual route.
Although Ivan was a little distracted, he still chose to finish the work as soon as possible. Then, as it was almost eleven o'clock, he told Alexander and rushed to the rest room 4.
When we walked in, there were a few people sitting here and there, mostly middle-level managers and above.
Ivan walked to the coffee table pretending to be casual and poured a cup of coffee. He kept glancing around, looking for the female researcher, but even after brewing a cup of coffee, he couldn't see it.
Just when he was almost sure that the woman was his hallucination, she gently opened the door wearing a research institute coat, glanced at Ivan, then lowered her head and found a corner to sit down.
Ivan hurriedly walked over with the freshly brewed coffee and sat down opposite the woman.
“You——”
“I don’t have much time, please listen to me first.” She interrupted Ivan’s question, grabbed the coffee brought by Ivan, and was not afraid It was hot and I drank half a cup.
"Black Egg, there is something wrong with that Black Egg. The entire laboratory has been contaminated. It has invisibly tampered with the thinking of almost everyone except me and you."
The woman spoke There was a hint of chill in the voice because of the trembling, which made Ivan's heart tremble.
"My friends disappear one after another. I don't know when it will be my turn. Maybe it will be your turn first, but it doesn't matter. The result is the same. We can't escape." Her words already sounded a little nervous. Feel.
".How to prove that what you said is true?"
"Prove? Why should I prove it? Don't you believe what you see with your eyes? The black shadow demon will get better and better. Get closer and closer until it replaces you. Some people can persevere, while others will fall immediately, but it doesn't matter. It has plenty of means to wipe you out of the world." The whites of her eyes were bloodshot. , after saying that, he drank the remaining half cup of coffee in one breath.
"The only solution is to steal the black egg and find a way to destroy it."
By the time Ivan walked out of these messy messages, the female researcher had disappeared, leaving only one cup Empty coffee in front of yourself.
He didn't even have time to ask for the name.
Ivan sat in silence for more than ten minutes, constantly thinking about the authenticity and countermeasures, and finally decided to test it with his superiors.
“You want to contact the outside world? Don’t you know that the first three months are the silent period?”
“I, I”
“Don’t worry, you are all from the North The country will take good care of every hero’s family.”
Unsurprisingly, his request for external contact from his superiors was rejected, but he still wanted to struggle.
“I want to inquire about a female researcher with short blond hair and very thin”
“Ahem, in principle it’s not allowed”
In the end, the superior still Secretly gave Ivan some photos.
"No, there is no her." Looking at those photos carefully, there is no one like that woman at all. Has the superior been tainted or am I? Ivan couldn't tell if he had walked into an illusion. If these people in front of him were controlled by the so-called shadow demon, what was the purpose? Rescue Black Egg? But they are already under complete control, so why can’t they be saved?
The more suspicion he had, the more eyes he felt were watching from the inside.
In the midst of anxiety, another night comes.
This night, he stared at the sleeping Alexander with his eyes wide open, and saw nothing except the red bloodshot eyes.
The shadow demon did not appear, and there was nothing abnormal about Alexander.
Perhaps the hallucination has passed?
The next day, Ivan became more and more taciturn, Alexander had no interest in joking, and the atmosphere between them was a bit dull.
But Ivan noticed that Alexander seemed to be secretly communicating with someone, maybe talking to himself, and his eyes looked towards him from time to time.
What are "they" talking about and what are their plans?
The guards' weapons were kept in the equipment warehouse except when they were on duty. There was not even a fruit knife in the dormitory. Ivan, who was full of a sense of crisis, secretly hid a table knife in his sleeve in order to protect himself.
In the afternoon, he went to see a psychiatrist.
"I think you must be too nervous. Relax. This is one of the safest places in the country." The psychiatrist on the chair comforted.
As a closed research environment, this base is naturally equipped with psychiatrists. However, in order to prevent some people from seeking medical treatment due to male hormone attacks, the psychiatrists here are all male.
"You can tell me anything you see. After all, hallucinations may be the projection of certain thoughts deep in your heart. If you understand hallucinations, you may understand where your worries appear." The psychiatrist slowly said enlighten.
Ivan hesitated to tell what happened to him, but when he looked up, something dark seemed to pass over the doctor.
The female researcher’s reminder kept echoing in her ears: it will replace it, it will replace it.
"I, I just didn't seem to sleep well. Maybe I'll be fine if I go back and take a nap." Ivan forced a smile.
As a psychiatrist, he could guess a little, but he didn't force it: "You should have a good rest first. If you have any problems, just come to me as soon as possible. Don't put too much pressure on yourself. You need to ask for leave." If so, I can prove it to you. I think you have oral ulcers, which is also related to your mood adjustment."
His words made Ivan feel more relaxed: "Thank you."
Leaved the clinic and returned to Alexander. After not sleeping all night, he finally couldn't bear it anymore. He told Alexander and then went back to the dormitory to catch up on his sleep.
In the dream, he saw the black egg that he had only glimpsed. It was placed alone in a strictly protected transparent laboratory. Countless people were studying it and trying to crack it. secret.
Under his gaze, a distorted smiling face slowly appeared on the smooth surface of the black egg. Black tentacles ignored the protective barrier and connected to the heads of researchers one after another. They seemed to be unconscious, and as they were connected, There were more and more people, and the researchers slowly stopped what they were doing, suddenly turned their heads in unison, and looked in Ivan's direction with a silent smile.
"Ivan, why don't you join?"
"You are an alien."
"Ivan! Ivan!"
Ivan Wan opened his eyes suddenly and saw Alexander so close. He was so frightened that he tried to distance himself. He hit his head with a bang without realizing it. He squeezed the knife in his sleeve tightly: "Alexander, what are you doing?!"
"I just asked you to have dinner." Alexander forced a smile and retracted his right hand unnaturally.
It's like, there's a knife hidden. "I'm not hungry." Ivan refused.
Alexander nodded: "Okay, then I'll go alone."
After that, he turned around and left the dormitory regardless of Ivan.
Holding the back of his head, Ivan felt the pounding heartbeat and tried to hold on to a thread in his chaotic mind.
Whether what he dreamed about was true or false, from now on, he must be extremely vigilant about Alexander.
Late night.
Ivan opened his eyes.
Across the bed, Alexander was breathing steadily and was obviously asleep.
Ivan climbed out of bed gently, holding the table knife, and stood in front of his bed, staring at Alexander closely.
The palms of his hands kept sweating. He didn’t know how long he had been staring at the other person. He even suspected that Alexander had woken up and was just pretending to sleep, so he slowly moved his head closer, with his hand ready to insert a knife into the other person’s throat at any time. preparation.
Alexander remained motionless, only breathing calmly.
In the end, Ivan still didn't make up his mind to take action, so he slowly crawled back onto the bed and continued to look directly at him.
You can't feel the dawn underground, but there is light compensation. The lights in the dormitory will automatically turn on soft light every morning, which is also the time to go to work.
"By the way, you slept so much yesterday and didn't you wake up at night?" Alexander suddenly asked while eating breakfast, yawning.
“No.” Ivan shook his head calmly.
"I didn't have any nightmares."
"No, I slept well."
"Oh" Alexander said no more, eating breakfast in silence, just his eyes Wandering around, I don’t know what I’m looking at.
"A big thing happened last night, and you haven't heard about it until now?" The conversation at the next table caught Ivan's attention.
“There was a female researcher who suddenly went crazy and killed her roommate. She also said that the other person was a demon or something like that, talking nonsense. She has been imprisoned now.”
“What to kill her with. "
"That's it."
The person who spoke raised the knife in his hand and inserted it into the bread: "With such a dull knife, it can't cut the meat. She cut off the other person’s head forcefully, which was scary.”
"Does she have short blond hair?" Ivan interjected nervously.
“I don’t know about this.” The person who spoke shook his head.
Ivan continued to eat tasteless food with a heavy heart, but Alexander, who was sitting across from him, didn't know where he had gone.
In the morning, the base issued a notice to start mandatory mental health screening for everyone, which must be completed within a week. It is estimated that the psychiatrists will be scolded.
In the afternoon, Alexander, who had disappeared for a long time, came back. Ivan did not ask him where he was going. There seemed to be an invisible and intangible barrier between the two of them. They did not speak more than ten words at the end of the day.
This continued into the night.
When Ivan thought Alexander was asleep and opened his eyes, what he saw was him staring at himself.
The two of them suddenly fell into this weird look at each other without saying a word.
After a while, Alexander slowly turned around and took the initiative to turn his back to Ivan.
Ivan quietly breathed a sigh of relief. Slowly, sleepiness gradually came over him. His eyelids seemed to be getting heavier and heavier, and someone seemed to be whispering in his ears.
"Ivan, Ivan, be careful of Alexander."
It was the voice of the female researcher.
Ivan's eyes suddenly widened, and he was surprised to find a black shadow standing in front of his bed at some point, just like the black shadow demon he had seen before, and Alexander was still lying on the bed.
The black shadow raised his hand, and there seemed to be a silver light flowing.
Ivan couldn't bear it anymore, he shouted loudly, took out the table knife that was wet with sweat, jumped up from the bed, and stabbed the black shadow demon in the neck with all his strength.
He felt a stabbing pain in his shoulder, and it seemed that he had been pierced by something, but he was in this situation now, either you die or I die!
The feeling of the knife inserted into the meat was very dull, but he still tried his best to cut the other person's throat. It was not until the grunting sound came out that Ivan felt his vision distorted. The black shadow demon under him had already He changed into Alexander's appearance.
He pointed at Ivan tremblingly and struggled to say the vague word "devil".
Ivan panted violently and slowly looked towards the bed. Alexander on it had disappeared. In other words, the one he was pressing down on was Alexander.
Alexander struggled for a while, then gradually lost his breath and died completely.
Ivan dropped the knife in his hand and pulled his hair, feeling a splitting headache.
What did he do? What on earth did he do? Was Alexander a devil? How could a devil die with a table knife? Or is this a dream, everything is just a trick played by the devil.
"Ivan! Ivan! Come with me, time is running out!"
The female researcher opened the door and waved to him nervously.
As if grasping at a life-saving straw, Ivan chased after him without hesitation.
"Here!"
The female researcher appeared at the corner every time, guiding his progress and taking him all the way to the core of the laboratory.
But the researcher here who was still working overtime ignored him, who was covered in blood, as if he hadn't seen anything.
Finally, he passed through the defenses and arrived at the black egg storage point.
"Where are you? Where are you?!" Ivan turned around and shouted.
The figure of the female researcher disappeared, and there was no one here except for the black egg body that was blocked by layers of obstacles.
The aerospace glass was lowered silently, and the last barrier between Ivan and Heidan was broken.
“I’m right here.”
Heidan slowly turned around, and the face above was clearly that of a female researcher.
Ivan froze in place, as if he had been completely fooled by the devil.
I saw the black eggs begin to surge, and then they seemed to bloom, with layers of petals opening, and things as small as bees inside kept pouring out and scattered everywhere.
Finally, the head of the female researcher crawled out of the black egg, and her neck was made of twisting tentacles.
"Come here, Ivan, you don't have to be afraid anymore, no one can hurt you here, you are a good boy."
"Yes, there are demons outside, it's scary .”
Ivan’s eyes gradually became blurred, and he walked forward uncontrollably. He walked forward and stretched his head towards his head. .
The tentacles climbed up Ivan's outstretched arm, slowly reaching the wound on his shoulder, and then the tentacles slid in along the wounds, like a grafted flower growing a second head. .
The female researcher turned her head, almost touching Ivan’s forehead, and breathed softly.
"Now, we are safe."
(End of this chapter)