Chapter 19 Chapter 16 The Operating Room Underground

The already short vacation ended early.The three of Jiang Xia set foot on American soil again, but instead of going to New York, they came directly to Boston.Ding Xiwu stayed in China for emergencies. In January, Boston has not yet entered its coldest season, but it has also experienced a few feet of snow.The full sun has dried the road.The gray snow mixed with dust, mud and water was neatly pushed to both sides of the road by snow plows.The Christmas and New Year holidays are over, and Americans have no Spring Festival to look forward to, so they lazily return to a peaceful life. "I don't have the house number." Jiang Xia said while holding a cup of Dunkin Donuts latte, "But I once took the subway home with little Faina in 1930s."

"Can we stop talking like that? It sounds really awkward." Ye Guangting said while looking at the ancient buildings mixed with modern high-rise buildings on the roadside. "That time she stole a fake baby specimen from the Children's Hospital and brought it home, and Pat came to get the brain cells." Jiang Xia said, "Try to follow her memory for a while." "This old lady is not simple." Qingzi sighed, "If it is said that Goldstein only met Faina once when he was young and has been working for her wholeheartedly." "This shows that Faina has very good persuasion skills. People who do great things have this ability. Didn't Ding Xiwu also be fooled by you into doing things for you? They are all lost in blind faith." Ye Guangting Say.

Jiang Xia waved his hand: "To put it this way, we are all blind. Do you know what Faina is going to do?" Seeing that Ye Guangting was speechless, Jiang Xia turned to Qingzi again, and saw the same blank gaze: " You don't know, and I don't know, but we are still doing it. I want to know who this baby is and what secrets are hidden in him. Qingzi is afraid that I will continue to lose. Some money. And you kid, as a friend, you want to help me, but I think you have something fresh and fun." "Let's talk again? Let's talk about it, I'll show you!" Ye Guangting was stubborn, but still nodded.

Jiang Xia went on to say: "I'm afraid Jenquis is doing it for his scientific research. We don't know the purpose of Goldstein. Maybe it's just helping Faina. But Faina must have figured out all the methods in the middle. Even if Each of you has your own ulterior motives, and in the end you still act according to her design, this is your ability." "I hope what Faina wants to do is a good thing..." Liaozi straightened the woolen hat on her head. Jiang Xia looked sideways at Qingzi, feeling warm in her heart.The girl's small face was blown red by the wind, and the long eyelashes seemed to have some frost, which was crystal clear and beautiful.

It seems that I haven't hugged her for a long time, right? A small misunderstanding made him feel that the two hearts were separated from each other, which has always made Jiang Xia uneasy.Almost full of guilt, he took his hand out of his coat pocket and put it around Qingzi's thin shoulders. The United States is a country that knows how to preserve its history, even though it has almost no history compared with China.Boston's subway system has been around for more than a hundred years, and I don't know how many trains have been changed, but its appearance has not changed much from the beginning.Jiang Xia easily found the route he boarded in Faina's memory.The station is right next to Boston Children's Hospital.The platform is built in the middle of the road, in addition to adding modern seats and canopies, it also retains its former appearance.Standing by the track, he almost returned to his dream, to Faina's memory.

Ye Guangting put out the cigarette in his hand, and sighed: "Never mind what Faina wants to do, but it sounds really mysterious that she made these things. Transferring people's memories to each other, you can also selectively extract them." , Even videos can be put into your brain! If this technology is commercialized, I can buy a CD and fill it in my brain in the future, and I can watch blockbuster movies when I fall asleep! In comparison, Schweil is so weak. !" Jiang Xia smiled slightly: "Three links are very important: Faina's superb surgical skills and brain cell preservation technology, Jenquis's memory extraction and restoration imaging technology, and the most important thing is to have a good carrier." He pointed to himself head.

Ye Guangting and Qingzi looked at each other and smiled heartily. "Faina is the producer, director and photographer, Jenquis is the post-processing, and you are the one who shows the movie in the theater?" "Film," Jiang Xia corrected him, "I'm just a roll of film." "We are all audiences too, some audiences who want to find clues from this movie." Qingzi added, holding Jiang Xia's hand. The two-car train jingled slowly into the station, and people waiting for the train formed a queue.Jiang Xia clearly remembers going home with Faina.A tall man in a bowler hat was standing in front of her.When he came to the door of the car, the man in the top hat looked back, smiled and let little Faina get in the car first.

The three of Jiang Xia also got into the car at this time.Jiang Xia began to think back, trying to make their every move completely synchronized with that of Faina seventy-five years ago. It was dark, and street lamps and car lights were turned on.All three of them were already jet-lagged.Qingzi grabbed Jiang Xia's arm, rested his head on his shoulder and closed his eyes.Ye Guangting squinted his eyes doing nothing.Jiang Xia looked out the window.The roads are no longer empty.But in the cracks of the new scenery, the street scenes in Faina's memory can still flash. The car stopped and went, waiting for the red light with the car next to it.Just before the subway was about to turn underground, Jiang Xia arched Ye Guangting and said, "It's almost here." He moved to the car door while still looking around, comparing it with the picture in his memory: "That's right, it's here! Next to it is Boston The concert hall. It's very close to her home."

The car door opened, and the three of them got out of the car against the cold wind rushing in. Sure enough, not far away is the Boston Music Hall.In 1930s, when Jiang Xia went home with Faina, she could only vaguely see it. In 1997, Faina and Jenques came to the concert hall to enjoy Seiji Ozawa's performance. the whole picture.At this moment, it lights up the lights around it to welcome the guests.This is a huge building made of big stones, with a regular appearance, simple and solemn, and the agility and wisdom of music are projected by the colored light from the bottom up around it.

"Turn here." Walking to a corner, Jiang Xia stopped and thought about it, and said. "One thing I'm curious about," Lepton asked, "is what happened to Adair that Pat mentioned?" Jiang Xia shrugged his shoulders: "I also don't think this matter has a clue. From what he means, it seems to be Hitler's brother. Does Hitler have brothers?" Ye Guangting smiled: "At that time, it was not surprising that people had brothers and sisters. It's just that under Hitler's halo, who would care about his brothers?" "Pat is undoubtedly a staunch Nazi, and he wants to make Schweil a..."

Just as he was talking, Jiang Xia suddenly felt a strong aura coming from him, and he couldn't even speak.He raised his head to look at a two-story brick building on the side of the road, and couldn't help but gasped.Looking at the building in front of him, Jiang Xia felt very uncomfortable, as if two forces collided in his body, the one in the dream and the one in reality, forming a big vortex that kept pulling him in and out.Jiang Xia just looked up at this building, where both Jenquis and Schweil once rented.Gradually, Faina's obscure piano sound seemed to float out of the building again.Jenquis and Schwaer sat aside and listened to her playing the piano, each with their own thoughts.Jiang Xia settled down, and kept telling herself in her heart: This is Faina's home, this is not a dream, not a dream... The century-old house has almost completely maintained its appearance in 1930s. The white brick walls are dotted with green window eaves and white lift-up wooden windows. The paint leather of the window frames is bursting, revealing The wood pulp inside.The only eye-catching thing is that there are several yellow cordons that have been torn off in a mess at the entrance of the small building. Jiang Xia and Qingzi looked at each other, seemingly out of ideas.Ye Guangting closed the computer and went up the stairs, picking up the cordon that was almost dragged to the ground to look. "There's a stamped date on it! December 16, 2007, it's already expired. What's the matter? Ring the doorbell?" Jiang Xia didn't move.Where did he seem to have seen these cordons? Did the yellow mess haunt his dreams all the time? He has no impression. Faina's residence was cordoned off, which was obviously not a good thing.Could it be that something happened to Faina?The cordon was raised in 2007, but it has not been cleared up to now.Ten days later, in 2008, many things happened.That year, both Jenquis and Goldstein were in China implementing her plans.Eight months later, he came to the United States in a coma and lost his memory.There are probably many connections between these.Even if nothing happened to Faina, she probably wouldn't have lived here long ago.Who wants to have a crime scene sign hanging on their door?It must have been cleaned up early in the morning. Jiang Xia looked around.The street in front of Faina's house is not as empty as it was seventy years ago.It is a short distance away from the main street. Although it is located in a bustling area, there are not many people coming and going. It is like opening up a quiet small courtyard in the central business district of a metropolis.The three standing here are particularly conspicuous. "Hey!" Ye Guangting suddenly greeted Jiang Xia and Qingzi in a low voice, "The door is not locked!" The two were excited at the same time, Jiang Xia let Qingzi stay where he was, and came to the door by himself.The lock on the door is a circular hole, and the door is pulled by two thick and rusty springs.This confirmed Jiang Xia's previous conjecture that the place might really be empty. Jiang Xia became a little nervous inexplicably, the current situation has left him no way out.After doing so many things, traveling through Faina's memory for so many years, now I can only bite the bullet!But after all, no one can tell what is weird in this building, what will be seen and what will happen after taking this step, it makes people shudder to think about it.When he pressed the doorbell, he could hear it ringing loudly in the room, but there was no other movement. Ye Guangting showed a rare cautious expression on his face, he looked at Jiang Xia, waiting for him to make up his mind. The originally clear thoughts in Jiang Xia's mind seemed to be eroded and washed away by a white mist.No matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't think rationally.All he knew was that he stretched out his hand and gently pushed the half-hidden door open. Ye Guangting turned his head and gestured to Qingzi, telling her to stay where she was.Qingzi looked anxious, but there was nothing he could do, he could only look around and raised his phone to Ye Guangting. The building is not completely dark, there are corridor lights that are automatically turned on by sensing light.This is not uncommon in American families, especially if there is an elderly person like Faina in the family.Jiang Xia stopped, the house still has electricity?It made him feel a little bad.He knocked on the wooden door frame with half-clenched fists and shouted, "Is anyone there? Is Faina at home?" no respond. Facing the door is a narrow staircase that spirals up to the second floor.Ye Guangting came over and said in a low voice, "What are we looking for? If there is no one, why not come during the day? This is enough to be a crime." Jiang Xia bowed his head and thought for a while, but he couldn't refute Ye Guangting.But he knew that the yellow cordon was the reason for him to enter this room rashly.This seemed to be a secret agreement between Faina and him. "It's too eye-catching during the day, I want to go in and take a look around to see if I can find anything. I believe that today we came here and entered this room. It was Faina's arrangement. She must have left something for me .” Ye Guangting seemed to understand, but took out his mobile phone from his pocket and clutched it. The two men spiraled up the stairs, and the creaking of the wooden stairs despite their tiptoes made them both uneasy.The air smells old and decayed.Under the light of the corridor lamp, the things in the living room and kitchen can be vaguely seen.Jiang Xia remembered that Pat once opened the baby specimen jar in this kitchen and extracted brain cells.The style of the stove has long been different from that of the past, but the other layouts are roughly the same.In the hall, they saw the legendary piano.Strangely, the cover of the keyboard is open, just like Jiang Xia saw in memory!He stretched out his hand, but was stopped by Ye Guangting. "What are you groping for?" Ye Guangting mysteriously took out two pairs of white gloves from his pocket, "Why don't you think it's not enough trouble?" Jiang Xia smiled lightly, put on her gloves and touched the keyboard lightly.He knelt down and looked carefully by the light of the corridor lamp. A layer of dirt clings to the glove. "Three years, no one plays it anymore..." Ye Guangting didn't say anything, and continued to look around, muttering: "No one is playing? The old lady will come back soon and you will see your relatives! Or Schweil, Jenquis, old Pat, what do you do? Just ask the FBI to take us to the United States to squat. It’s not like the FBI has never been in this room. I didn’t expect you to be a brave boy!” Jiang Xia touched the piano bench again, it was also covered with dust.He shook his head and stood up, feeling a little more worried.The door to the bedroom was open, revealing a bed covered with a cloth.Both little and old Faina had lain in this bed.The ceiling fan above the bed, the Steinway piano, the linen sofa and the curtains... Jiang Xia seemed to have watched Faina grow up. From childhood to old age, everything in this room carried her breath.When the things that have been lingering in the dream are in front of him, but their owners are missing, the sadness almost swallows Jiang Xia.He looked out of the window, and Qingzi was still waiting on the cold street, stomping his feet from time to time and looking upstairs.The street lights were not bright, illuminating her frozen red face.Jiang Xia felt that she should not be left outside.If it is said that there may be danger in the building, shouldn't people who love each other take risks together?Maybe it would warm her heart better than leaving her outside, at least her body wouldn't be as cold as it is now. "I'll go to that room to have a look, there's nothing special in the living room." Ye Guangting's words interrupted Jiang Xia's thoughts, it didn't feel like revisiting his old place here.Jiang Xia turned around and saw Ye Guangting wandering around in the study, trying to pull herself back from her depressed mood.Faina's room has always maintained a simple and elegant style, with no decorations on the white walls.Compared with the past, the wall of this living room is only one meter above the ground with a waistline of black and white piano keyboard patterns.Suddenly he seemed to see something, took a few steps forward and squatted down again.In the shadow of a bunch of decorative dead branches beside the wall, he vaguely saw something inside the wall.Its shape is like a square box, covered by the wall skin with only a thin line of corners protruding indistinctly.If it wasn't for the shadow of dead branches cast by the porch lamp, if it wasn't viewed from the bottom-up angle, and if it wasn't carefully discerned from the waistline of the piano pattern, no one would notice the slightly protruding box. Jiang Xia lightly touched the wall covering the outside of the box with her index finger, as if the surface of the box was not flat.The size is very similar to the key switch in the factory on Tukang Road! "What?" Ye Guangting also came out when he heard his abnormal noise, "What are you looking at?" "Stand first, can you see anything?" Ye Guangting looked at it from several angles: "I can't see it, what is it?" He squatted down and looked in the direction Jiang Xia pointed, "Yo! You have to look like this! You really can't find it in the daytime. What is it?" "Do you feel like a button press in a factory?" "The size and width are about the same. Where are the keys?" "I feel like I'm under the wall. Look, there are three rows of three keys in each row. The wall is elastic! That should be 1 to 9, there is no bottom 0 key!" Ye Guangting glanced at Jiang Xia: "This is so mysterious! Why does she have one here? Don't tell me you want to press it!" Jiang Xia withdrew her hand and looked at Ye Guangting, and said, "If you don't do it, why am I here? Both the MIT and Tukang Road laboratories are related to this old lady. This is obviously designed by Faina for me to do so. " "You know it's a good thing or a bad thing, so you just press it? Last time I pressed it for three days, forgot? It's almost done!" Ye Guangting squatted on another leg, "Besides, what did you press? Or the same set last time?" Jiang Xia nodded: "Well, you go downstairs first, the old rules, and you come up in twenty minutes to see how I am doing." "Who are you scolding? Am I that person? I told you not to press it. If you don't listen, I have to accompany you! Don't talk nonsense, you have to press it quickly. I will send a text message to Qingzi to let her After a while, come up and collect the bodies for both of us." "Don't tell her what we are doing. Let her come up later. 1889526..." Jiang Xia muttered the string of numbers that almost changed his life, and pressed his hand on the key resolutely.However, unlike the key switch in the factory on Tukang Road, Faina's has no display, and Jiang Xia doesn't even know if it can still be used. After waiting for a while, Jiang Xia looked up, then at Ye Guangting. "Do you feel it?" Ye Guangting shook his head, stood up and went to the window to look out: "Qingzi is still there, this group number is useless. How about I give her a try and see if we are still in the same time and space... ..." He took out his phone and dialed. "Stop making trouble, you still need to call to prove that you are not in a different time and space? I will try again." Jiang Xia pressed it again, and Ye Guangting quickly stood back beside Jiang Xia. There was still no movement, only then did Jiang Xia feel that her calf was sore and tired.He stood up with his hands on the ground, bent his body and rubbed his legs up and down. "I guess the old lady won't be so uninspired to use the same number. Think again, has she revealed anything else in her memory?" Ye Guangting looked down at Jiang Xia and said. "She never gave any number. Hey! Don't move!" Ye Guangting froze when he heard this, and even held his breath. Jiang Xia gently picked up Ye Guangting's left hand, which was hanging beside the piano, holding the mobile phone. Ye Guangting's cell phone screen was still on, he froze in place, not daring to move, looked at Jiang Xia with squinted eyes, and let him take the cell phone over.Jiang Xia pointed the phone at the keyboard of the piano and looked at it from different angles. "There are three keys here that are clean and free of dust... Come and see!" Ye Guangting squatted down, his eyes were almost at the same height as the piano keyboard.Under the bright light of the phone, there are indeed three white keys with almost no trace of dust. "Didn't you touch it just now?" Ye Guangting asked. "I'm in the low range." "That's strange. Who can play only three notes on a grand piano?" "There is no dust from the inside to the outside of these three keys," Jiang Xia said, "I don't think they were popped out, but someone deliberately wiped them out to attract our attention!" Ye Guangting nodded, this explanation couldn't be more reasonable: "It's good to be wrong, but what do these three keys represent? And what do they do?" "This is the password." After a long silence, Jiang Xia shifted his gaze from the waistline of the piano pattern on the wall back to the piano keyboard, and said faintly. The waistline just passed the box, which was another hint Faina gave him. The phone was off, and Jiang Xia turned it on again, shining on the three keys.The first two are adjacent, and the third is three white keys away from them.What kind of combination is this?Jiang Xia made several assumptions in her mind, but she still had no answer. "Play it twice and listen." Ye Guangting said. Jiang Xia lightly pressed the three white keys one by one, and the voice became sharper in the quiet room, but the lingering sound disappeared and nothing happened. It's just an ordinary piano. The sound of footsteps came from downstairs, and the two of them were startled at the same time! "It's me..." It was Qingzi's voice, "Have you guys broken into a private house and still play? As soon as you enter the door, you can hear the melody from upstairs." "Melody?" Jiang Xia seemed to think of something, he re-examined the piano keyboard and the three bright white keys, "How many octaves does the piano keyboard have?" "Octave?" Ye Guangting didn't understand. "Seven? Seven." Zhou Qingzi said. "I remember seven octaves plus three tones, a total of fifty-two white keys." Jiang Xia doesn't know how to play the piano, but he understands it somewhat. He counts from the rightmost white key to the left of the keyboard, while chanting , "One more key after the seventh octave, so the three white keys should be 'duo' 'rue' 'la' in the seventh octave, one, two, six!" One, two, six, one, two six... Jiang Xia seems to have seen this number somewhere. "When is the cordon at the door?" He asked Ye Guangting. Ye Guangting was caught off guard by this question, he thought for a while and said, "December 16, 2007." "December 16, 2007, 126 in the seventh octave, this is right!" Jiang Xia suddenly became excited, as if she had found the right feeling, "Well, the keypad does not have a 0 key, so it is natural Start pressing from 7." Qingzi was confused by him, but he also smiled. Jiang Xia came to the wall and touched the button inside the wall, and solemnly entered the five numbers "71216". Sure enough, there was a clicking sound from the closet behind him, which seemed to be a bolt being opened.Qingzi had just come up, she didn't know what they were busy with, this sound made her suddenly startled.Ye Guangting rushed forward and opened the double shutter doors of the closet, which were filled with all kinds of clothes in different lengths. Pulling back his clothes, under the watchful eyes of Jiang Xia and Qingzi, Ye Guangting was groping on the wall behind, pushing the whole wall open a crack with a little effort!A mildewy earthy smell came out, Jiang Xia pulled Ye Guangting back out of the closet. "It's not like people come in and out very often." Jiang Xia tried a few times at the entrance of the cave with a lighter on. There was no wind, and the flames did not go out, and the gas inside was not dangerous.He turned to Ye Guangting and Qingzi, and said solemnly: "I know you have been supporting me, but I can only enter this passage by myself." Ye Guangting wanted to speak but was interrupted by Jiang Xia, who continued, "Don't argue with me, I will accept your love. In fact, a few minutes ago, I thought that people who love each other should share some dangers. But you see, This room is no safer than the hole behind the wall, so don’t all of us go in. After I go in, you retreat outside the house. I’ll come out after looking around. If there’s anything, we can take care of it both inside and out.” Jiang Xia's words were true, Ye Guangting and Qingzi looked at each other and didn't insist anymore.Qingzi looked at Jiang Xia, feeling a dull pain in his heart, and said: "Be careful yourself, call me if there is a signal inside. We will go in and find you if we lose contact within ten minutes." Jiang Xia put his hands on the shoulders of the two, and looked at them with eyes, as if performing a solemn ceremony.After a long silence, he let go of his hand and gestured for them to withdraw, then turned around and went into the closet.He carefully pushed the wall further in, and shone in with the light from the phone screen.The passage behind the wall seemed to be very deep, and suddenly narrowed, allowing only one person to pass sideways.The phone couldn't illuminate very far, but he saw a strange light projected from the ground four or five meters away! Jiang Xia seemed to have been shocked, her limbs froze.There is room below!A space with lights!He didn't know if Ye Guangting and Qingzi had retreated, at this moment he really felt helpless.If there is light, it means there are people, so their every move in the room just now must have been exposed!He listened with bated breath, the passage was extremely quiet, and it didn't seem like anyone was in it.And that made him even more uneasy.Jiang Xia cautiously took a step in the direction of the light, trying not to make any noise. Take another step.The gap between the legs was tight and empty as if they were clamped, and all the blood rushed to the head.The closer he was to the light, the lower Jiang Xia bowed his body, steam would come out from the top of his head.At the end, he almost fell to the ground, his nose was full of earthy smell.Gathered his mind, held his breath, and poked his head out.Below the hole is a very small chimney-like passage, which seems to be seven or eight meters long.The light came from the side at the end of this vertical passage, and there must have been another cave.A ladder made of thick steel welded to the bottom, very rough, but coated with a thick layer of paint.The dry patent leather burst open, with edges and small openings, obviously no one stepped on it for a long time. Jiang Xia closed her eyes, a burst of sore and hot eyelids flooded her eyelids, she almost burst into tears.He focused all his attention on his ears, but only heard the sound of his own heartbeat. Faina's house is on the second floor, and this vertical passage is thin and long.It must have gone underground from the side of the house, so there was no way to tell from the outside.Jiang Xia didn't know how long he had traveled this distance just now, and he didn't know what would be under the passage, but he still took out his mobile phone and sent Qingzi a safe message. Going down the ladder from the vertical passage will make some noise no matter what, Jiang Xia thought, poking his head out and looking down again.Taking the light of the mobile phone to look around, he found a broken brick the size of a fist at his feet. This must have been left when digging the secret passage, Jiang Xia picked up the brick and weighed it, it really has some weight.Jiang Xia changed into a one-legged half-kneeling position, with her left hand resting on the ground and her right hand holding a brick, aiming at the wall at the lower edge of the passage and smashing it down hard.The brick flew down the narrow passage, hit the side wall accurately, and was ejected from the small door opening on the opposite side!Jiang Xia heard a loud bang when the brick hit a metal object, and then heard nothing more. He originally planned this way, if there were people hiding below, no matter how the bricks fell down, it would have some deterrent effect.Maybe in the frightened state the man pulled the trigger and fired a shot or two, then he was ready to turn around and run, go back to New York to pack up and go home to marry and have children and forget these things that shouldn't be remembered. However, none of these assumptions happened, which instead made Jiang Xia nervous.He broke the rusted ladder hard, it was very strong.This seemed to cut off all his excuses for retreating. He picked up another broken brick from the ground and put it in his trouser pocket, turned around and went down the ladder step by step.Even if the hands and feet are as close as possible to the ladder, the back and buttocks will rub against the wall, and it will be difficult for people who are fatter than Jiang Xia to get down.He descended slowly, trying not to make any noise.It took a full ten minutes for the distance of five or six meters. Jiang Xia freed his hands and leaned against the cave wall to send a few more text messages.At least for now it seems to be safe.he thinks.He lowered his head and looked down between his feet, the light was below, and he was about one and a half meters away from the ground. Jiang Xia held the ladder with his left hand, took out the bricks with his right hand, slid down the passage with both feet, and stood firmly on the ground!He then turned around and raised the brick to face the light.His eyes were strained by the sudden light in the darkness, but he could still see clearly the situation in the secret room.The room is not big, the layout is simple, and there is no one at all.The brick he threw just now hit a metal bed cart. The platform of the bed cart has grooves and holes for diverting liquid. Jiang Xia knows that it is usually used in hospitals for transporting corpses or for dissection.On the side of the bed cart is a wooden platform, and various surgical instruments are neatly stacked on the white bedding, but under the illumination of the light, there is only a cold light that is greatly reduced due to rust.At the other end of the platform is a set of biological experiment equipment, including carbon dioxide incubators, shakers and centrifuges.These are household items that Jiang Xia is very familiar with. He knows that this set of tools is necessary for genetic engineering and cell culture, but the age seems very old, at least more than 20 years.The strange thing is, how did these big guys come in from that small passage? In the corner of the room was a ceramic sink and a clumsy double-door refrigerator.Next to it is a white glass-door cabinet, in which there are three or four empty glass specimen jars, exactly the same as the jars containing half-cut baby specimens I saw before.Everything was covered with a fine layer of dust, and it was left unattended for some time.A thin layer of soil was evenly spread on the ground, and there were no traces of other people's presence on it except for the few footprints that Jiang Xia had just stepped on. Here is Faina's small operating room and biological laboratory!Jiang Xia thought, maybe Faina's father trained her all the surgical skills here when she was young, maybe Pat's dead baby who has been looking for unsuccessfully was transferred here?It seems that the answers to the questions that have troubled Jiang Xia for a long time can be found in this secret underground room. At this moment, the air in the room suddenly felt a little cool, and Jiang Xia was startled! How could there be wind in such a deep basement?Jiang Xia put his index finger into his mouth as he did on TV and took a sip, standing in front of him to sense the direction of the airflow. There is an inch-wide gap between the white cabinet and the wall, and it is from there that the wind flows in slowly.Jiang Xia put her hand in the gap and felt it.There must be a secret passage leading elsewhere behind the cabinet!He bent down and lifted the lower edge of the cabinet and slowly moved it away, leaving a distance of one person's width from the wall. There is indeed a stone door on the wall behind the cabinet, which is partially hidden. It is dark inside and there is no light. What a big project!Jiang Xia couldn't help sighing secretly.He seemed to have been injected with a strong force, and he hurriedly opened the door and stepped in.He turned on the phone to light up, and the front seemed endless.The mobile phone can't receive the signal at all here, and can only be a weak light source.He backed out, sent a few text messages and re-entered the black hole. Jiang Xia supported the wall with his right hand, and paddled with his left hand in front of him, and he was cautious when he stopped.The walls and the ground are not as rough as they were when they were newly dug.His heart was empty and there was no tension at all, he just felt that he should go on like this, no matter what was ahead.He put the phone in his pocket, and the black completely wrapped him up, just like Faina in her later years.Jiang Xia felt that she had become her again, wandering in this dark tunnel all day long.Slowly and staggeringly, she walked towards an unknown world, as if she was approaching the end of her own life. Gradually, Jiang Xia's eyes lit up.He saw a little girl looking up at her father with terrified eyes. The father was holding a jar, which contained a baby specimen that was only in half!The baby's bulging eyes were half closed, and his matchstick-like fingers were tightly clenched into a fist on his chest.The mouth is slightly open, exposing a toad-like upper jaw and tongue, with a protrusion next to the mouth.He looked very painful and terrible. "Son," said the father, "I know you don't like it, but maybe you will spend your whole life with this specimen." The father's eyes were full of sadness, and he continued, "You haven't met your grandpa, He was once the greatest surgeon in the world. He devoted his whole life in his clinic and treated countless patients. His talent is still unsurpassed until today. However, his career was ruined by this on the child." The little girl's emotions eased a lot, and her tense little shoulders gradually relaxed.But her eyes were fixed on the dead baby in the specimen jar. "At that time, I was not yet born. A pair of foreigners came to your grandfather's clinic. They opened the blanket wrapped in layers, and inside was a pair of conjoined twins who were just born one month old!" The father stopped and looked at the daughter who had never spoken, touched her head, and took her to sit on the sofa beside her. "You're ten years old. I'm sure your grandma told you what conjoined twins are, haven't you?" The little girl finally responded and nodded slightly. The father let out a long sigh of relief, remembered something, and asked with great interest: "Do you think you can separate a pair of conjoined twins? I mean, they will still live separately after separation." The girl shook her head. "Hahaha!" My father swept away his gloomy mood and laughed heartily, "You can, you can. I heard from grandma that your hands are getting more and more dexterous. Maybe you can do it in two years." The girl blinked, as if she wasn't looking forward to that day. The father looked forward to it alone for a moment, and then said: "The conjoined twins your grandpa met are very strange. They are almost face to face, with two heads, four hands and four legs, but the position of the hip bones is connected, and the two boys They share a pair of testicles. According to your grandfather's records, the conjoined twins were born on April 20, 1889. Their parents are Austrians, with an age difference of more than 20 years. According to your grandfather's According to the medical records, the child's father is the mother's uncle, how strange it is! They came to the United States by boat, and hoped that your grandfather would separate the conjoined twins. He spent three days making a detailed operation plan, and in one day The operation was performed on May 26, 1889." The father took the specimen jar around and showed the girl the label on the jar with the date the specimen was made (1889.5.26).The girl stretched out her slender but strong fingers to touch the label, touched it and began to pick the wax on the side.The father gently pushed the girl's hand away and put the jar at his feet. "This is in Grandpa's handwriting. He managed to separate the two babies," the father paused, showing embarrassment on his face, but then said persistently, "The two boys each kept one testicle." The girl didn't feel shy about it.Looking at the specimens in the jar, her fingers were moving and walking silently, as if imitating the operation of her grandfather's surgery to divide conjoined twins. 父亲注意到了，低下头看了会儿女儿的手，没有评论。 “然而手术后才几个小时，当你爷爷重返监护室的时候，他发现其中一个孩子，就是罐子里的这个，已经没了气息。裹在下身的纱布被拉开，睾丸也被撕扯掉了。而活下来的那个满手满嘴的鲜血，躺在那里正睡得香甜。” 凝重重新回到了父亲脸上，仿佛看到了当时血腥可怕的一幕。女孩的手也停止了动作，垂立在身侧。 “你说这是怎么一回事儿？”父亲似是在问女儿，又似在问自己。 女孩的小眉头拧了起来，似是在想，又似没在想什么。 “你爷爷赶紧做了详尽的记录，但是他后来对你奶奶只说了很简单的一句话，'一个极度狭隘的、出生仅月余的孩子杀死了他的兄弟'。我想你爷爷说的是对的。然而奇怪的事远远不只这些。打那以后，你爷爷的诊所不断有人离奇地死去。大家对他从信任到唾弃，不仅没有人再去他的诊所里就医，即使在路上遇到也都避得远远的，都说他的诊所里有恶鬼。你爷爷没过多久也去世了。但他是不相信鬼邪的。他知道，所谓的魔鬼就是那个婴儿——被抱回欧洲的，连体婴儿中活下来的那一个。” 父亲从裤兜里掏出一本拿绳线缠扎起来的皮面记事簿。 “这是你爷爷生前整理的一些手札。在他生命的最后几个月里，他做了大量的研究工作。他认为那个'极度狭隘的孩子'绝非寻常。他与生俱来的嫉恨、贪婪和杀戮本性使嗅到他仇恨气息的人都要死于非命，包括和他同在一个监护室的无辜病人，也包括你爷爷……” 女孩探出头来，绕过父亲看那罐子。她的小身子靠在沙发上，单脚着地，另一只悠来荡去，仿佛在听一个离奇的故事，和自己扯不上半点儿关系。 父亲已经决定要在今天把这件事都讲给女儿，虽然眼见她听得已有些松懈，但也固执地说下去：“布朗医生是你爷爷的好朋友，他们曾经一同创办了波士顿儿童医院。他相信你爷爷的遭遇一定事出有因，所以顶着巨大的压力收购了'第三台'诊所，把钱都给了咱们。你爷爷把连体婴中死去的那个做成了标本留存下来，他坚信邪恶与善良本源于一体，这个倒霉的小东西也许与另一个有着同样的能量和智慧，只要做正确的引导，他可以拯救世界也未可知！但是这件事你爷爷和谁都没有提起，只告诉了你奶奶。” 女孩指着标本罐脱口而出：“都死了都死了！” 父亲乐了：“谁说不是呢？哈哈哈！但是智慧可以重生啊，你爷爷认为可以，你奶奶认为可以，我也认为可以。虽然我们都没能让他的智慧复活，但是也许你可以呢，是不是？不过现下最重要的是把这件标本保存好。他的大脑里一定有无穷无尽的能量，想得到它来做坏事的人今后一定会有很多。你一定记着我这句话。” 女孩的小嘴噘起老高，嘟囔着：“这对兄弟是……” “活下来的那个叫阿道夫·希特勒，罐子里的叫阿代尔·希特勒。他们的父母，就是把这对兄弟送到你爷爷那里的人，据说也已经死了。是否死于非命不得而知，但是我想是有联系的。我可以说是阿道夫的同龄人，看过你爷爷的手札之后，这些年一直在关注他的动向。阿道夫·希特勒原本一直默默无闻，一直靠孤儿救济金和卖自己的画为生计。我曾经幼稚地认为你爷爷的判断出了问题。然而是我错了，他邪恶的能量只是被环境压制了一时，他终究会做出震撼世界的事来！” 父亲把女儿搂了过来，仰起脸出神地望着天花板。 女孩毕竟还小，哪里知道阿道夫和阿代尔关她什么事。她只知道窝在父亲的臂弯里比站在冰冷的手术台旁舒服惬意。阿代尔一生下来就被自己的兄弟弄死了，阿道夫也已是孤儿，比起她来可是可怜得多了。 “十几年前，应该是……一九一四年吧，那时你还没有出生。全世界打了一场仗。二十多岁的阿道夫在那时候就预言了他的国家会战败。他认为犹太人是德国的敌人，是日尔曼民族的绊脚石，一定要予以清除才可以成就大业。就像是要清除掉分去他一只睾丸的兄弟一般！” “后来德国真的战败了。再后来阿道夫改造德国工人党，发动的慕尼黑啤酒馆暴动等一系列动乱都印证了你爷爷当初的推断，阿道夫是一个极度狭隘，极具杀戮本性，却的确具有大智慧和超强能量的人。他今年和爸爸一样是三十九岁，以这样的势头下去，我想用不了多久，阿道夫将可以统治全世界了。那将是世界的末日！如果再有人把阿代尔的智慧偷去辅佐阿道夫的话，你想想吧，女儿。”父亲用手按住脚旁的罐子，仿佛他的希望都在那里面盛着，害怕它插翅飞走一般，“但是孩子，'智慧'只是个中性词，我们可以赋予阿代尔正义。也许只有阿代尔才能与阿道夫抗衡！” 随着几声轻微的敲门声，女孩的奶奶推门走了进来。妇人六十来岁的模样，个头很高大，头发已经全白，蓬蓬地卷在两侧，眼睛里闪着精光，但也充满了慈爱。她端了盘小饼干，女孩从沙发上一挺小肚子蹦下地来，奔去奶奶那里取饼干。 父亲挪了挪身体，腾出位置来给奶奶。 “今天也不必说那么深入吧，西伦？”奶奶说，“小法伊娜才十岁，一下子哪听得进去这许多东西？” “你教了她那么多外科手术知识和操作，还有基因学、生理学，她的心智早已远远超过一个十岁的孩子了。对了妈妈，你教了她我爸爸独创的缝合术没有？我想起件有意思的事儿得告诉她。” 奶奶会意地点点头。 “法伊娜，”父亲来了兴致，用手指在膝盖上描画着，“奶奶教给你的大伤口缝合术是爷爷独创的。据说是受到东方佛教'卐'字的启发。这样缝合不会破坏皮肤和肌肉的组织，减少渗出液，伤口非常容易愈合。你爷爷当初为阿道夫和阿代尔兄弟施行分割术时就是用的这样的缝合术。阿代尔标本的下半身被除去了所以看不到，但是阿道夫的下体却一定留有这样的疤痕。有意思的是，我看到由阿道夫设计的他们的党旗，就是这样一个'卐'字！只不过顺时针旋转了45度！哈哈哈！恐怕是他自己对着镜子设计的吧？全世界也没几个人了解这个标志的寓意呢！竟是他下体的一块疤痕而已！哈哈哈！” 父亲得意极了，满脸的光彩。奶奶也在微笑。小法伊娜看看两位高兴的大人，也手舞足蹈起来。 “只可惜现在还不知道如何利用阿代尔的大脑。”奶奶说，“等研究出来，整个地球恐怕已经成了阿道夫·希特勒统治下的炼狱了。” 父亲脸上的笑容也慢慢淡去了，对奶奶说道：“所以我想还是让法伊娜带着阿代尔回到美国去。法伊娜在那种环境下才有可能做出突破性的工作。” “去美国？”奶奶心中仿佛对此有些忌惮，“你最好已经有了周密的计划。要知道，离开苏联去到美国等于是将阿代尔的秘密暴露在世人面前。我同意，要尽快想办法激发阿代尔的潜能就一定要回到哈佛，回到波士顿儿童医院去。但这真的是一柄双刃剑！你布朗叔叔早已故去，没人能帮我们。阿代尔落到野心家手中那也是没有办法，我可是还要我的小孙女呢。” 奶奶朝早已心不在焉的孙女笑了笑，又递给她两块饼干打发她出去玩。法伊娜接了饼干却并没有挪动身体，就在原地吃起来。 父亲看了看女儿，转过头对奶奶说：“妈妈，我一直在酝酿这个计划。法伊娜去美国就用她妈妈的姓，多尔戈卢卡娅。以一个普通护士的身份进入波士顿儿童医院，谁都不必告诉。对了妈妈，爸爸在波士顿的房子距离儿童医院远吗？你说过爸爸在地下修建了一个手术室？在地下？” “是的，那是你爸爸做研究用的，谁也不知道。那栋房子已多年没人住了，离儿童医院倒是很近的。”