Chapter 4 Chapter 3 Something Happened in the Research Institute

I remembered the question Wen Baoyu asked that day: "There is a way to see things that you can't usually see and don't understand. For example, bacteria, the history of people being able to see bacteria is not very long. Before the most primitive microscope was made, Humans don't know that there is a tiny creature with us, everywhere." Wen Baoyu tilted his head: "But creatures... still live in the same space as us." I patted his head: "You are thinking too complicatedly. If you want to see things that live in another dimension, you must first admit that there is indeed another dimension."

Wen Baoyu said: "Doesn't it exist?" I took a breath: "No one can answer this question. Whether the four-dimensional or fifth-dimensional space exists, no one can answer for sure. Even if you admit ghosts, ghosts are some kind of energy that humans don't know yet. I'm afraid it also exists in the same space as us." Wen Baoyu tilted his head and thought for a while.When he thought this way, his expression was very serious, using all his knowledge to think deeply, it seemed that he no longer looked like a young man. After a while, he sighed and shook his head vigorously: "I hope this kind of problem can be solved in our generation."

I nodded: "I hope." Wen Baoyu stood up: "I'm going to say goodbye. How are you... going to deal with my parents? They are still angry. In fact, I... didn't do anything wrong at all." I thought for a while: "I would tell them that you may become a great scientist, and all great scientists, when they were young, always had some strange behaviors that adults could not tolerate, so they don't need to care about it." Wen Baoyu was a little worried: "Is it useful to say...?" I laughed: "Of course, I will scare them and tell them that if they don't know you, you will run away."

Wen Baoyu blinked, still worried: "If they are not afraid, I will have nowhere to go if I want to escape." I laughed loudly: "Flee to me." When Wen Baoyu heard this, he danced with joy, while Bai Su shook his head: "You two are neither old nor young, it's too much, how can you teach children like this." I pointed to Wen Baoyu: "Look clearly, he is no longer a child, his thinking is far beyond that of his father who runs a medicine shop." Bai Su glared at me again, and said to Wen Baoyu: "You don't have to worry, your parents don't know how much they love you. They are angry, not because they don't want to part with those rhino horns, but because they feel sorry for you for doing bad things, and are afraid that you will go astray. , that’s why I’m being strict with you.”

Wen Baoyu smiled and said: "Maybe. But if I only took three kilograms of tangerine peel, they might not be so nervous." I couldn't help laughing again, Wen Baoyu, this kid, is really funny. Wen Baoyu saw me smiling, and made his request: "Mr. Wei, have you encountered any weird things recently? Can you let me explore with you?" I immediately shook my head: "No, even if there is, I will not let you participate. A person, at your age, has too many things to do, and the most important thing is to absorb knowledge desperately, in order to have other, human beings The new ideas and concepts are all developed on the basis of rich learning and knowledge.”

Bai Su said in a low voice: "That's what makes sense." I hastened to argue: "Every sentence I said is true, but some of them are somewhat different from ordinary people's understanding." Bai Su smiled: "I won't argue with you about this..." She just said a word, the phone rang suddenly, and it was the one in the drawer with a lesser-known number. I just opened the drawer and picked up the phone. I thought it was Hu Huaiyu calling, but there was an extremely weak, low voice that was hard to identify, and it was a female voice, speaking in English with a strong Australian accent. Said: "Mr. Wesley?"

I agreed, knowing that it was a long-distance call, and then the female voice said: "Please wait a moment." After waiting for five minutes, I heard a voice calling: "Wesley?" I couldn't tell who it was, so I had to agree loudly, and said: "Zhang Jian, I'm Zhang Jian." I was taken aback for a moment. Zhang Jian was buried in his research in Antarctica, almost completely isolated from the outside world. He actually called me, so I knew there must be some serious accident. I hurriedly said, "Zhang Jian, what's the matter?" When I was talking on the phone, Wen Baoyu was still beside me. When he heard my words, he jumped up excitedly: "Well, Zhang Jian, that's the explorer in Antarctica."

I immediately glared at him, and at the same time made a gesture to Bai Su, signaling Bai Su to take him out.Bai Su beckoned to him, but he shrank back with a pleading look, which made Bai Su unable to bear to pull him out. Since the voice from the phone was very small, I naturally couldn't distract him to drive him out, so I had to listen to the phone attentively. Zhang Jian's words on the phone were: "Wesley, I want you to come to my place once." I was stunned: "Where are you?" This sentence is actually redundant to ask, where else would Zhang Jian be?Of course he was at the South Pole, but since he wanted me to go to him, I had to ask this question.

Zhang Jian said, "I'm at Ballini Island." He said it three or four times before I could hear the name of the island clearly, and I had to smile wryly: "This damned Ballini Island is in..." Zhang Jian said: "It is less than a thousand kilometers south of Macquarie Island, and it is only more than a thousand kilometers south of New Zealand." I couldn't help but smile wryly. After all, Zhang Jian is still in Antarctica. It seemed that he would have nowhere else to go but Antarctica.Zhang Jian and Antarctica can almost be equated. He is really ignorant of world affairs to the extreme. He wants me to go to Antarctica, which is more than 100,000 kilometers away. It’s like calling a friend to go out for a cup of coffee.

I tried to make him understand how far there was between me and him, and it was not a street corner that could be reached just by going downstairs and turning a corner, but I didn't know how to open my mouth. I had no choice but to compromise and said: "You have lived in Antarctica for too long, Zhang Jian, Antarctica is one end of the earth, and I live on the other side of the earth." Zhang Jian was taken aback for a moment: "What do you mean by that? You said you can't come? Or don't you want to come?" I faltered again, and he yelled over there: "You must come. Something has happened here, which is beyond the scope of human knowledge than what happened last time. If you don't come , Regret for life."

I sighed, not knowing what to say.There are more than 4 billion people on the earth, I am afraid that everyone has his own personality, like the third young lady of the Wen family, her child does something that she is not comfortable with, and she blames people at random; Like Zhang Jian, he completely ignored the situation of others. Before I could ask, he said again: "Not only do I want you to come, I also want you to ask a friend to come with you, this friend..." I interrupted him: "This friend's name is Hu Huaiyu?" Zhang Jian said happily: "Yes. Yes. You have contacted him." I said: "It was not I who contacted him, but he who contacted me. Just today, he showed me three ice cubes, two of which Among the blocks, there are biological embryos, which are growing." Zhang Jian paused: "It's not two yuan, it's three yuan." I said: "Yes, the creature in the other piece disappeared. Hu Huaiyu was extremely worried, thinking that it was some ancient creature that escaped, and it would cause chaos in the world." Zhang Jian paused for another moment, and then said: "Wesley, is it funny?" I heard a lot of blame from his words, and I couldn't help but laugh: "I didn't say it was funny, what happened on your side, is it related to that?" Is it the same as what happened in Hu Huaiyu's lab? Or is it related?" Zhang Jian sighed: "I don't know, Wesley, there must be a solution if you come." What I want to insert here is that when the call came in, Wen Baoyu, a young man, was in my study. When I was listening to the phone, I hinted that he could leave, and also hinted to Bai Su that He took it away from the study, but he pretended not to understand. Not only did Wen Baoyu pretend not to understand, but he also pretended not to be listening to my phone calls, and fumbled around in the study room, as if he didn't care. No matter how much Wen Baoyu pretended, he would never be able to hide it from me. He was listening attentively to every word I said on the phone. When he heard me tell about ancient creatures escaping from the laboratory, his expression was extremely excited and his eyes glowed, which made me feel a little unbearable. So, I covered the phone receiver with my hand, and said bluntly: "Wen Baoyu, your parents must be waiting for you, you can leave. Go." Wen Baoyu also showed an expression of reluctance, and I lowered my eyebrows: "Can't you see that I am very busy? Adults are different from teenagers. Teenagers can always think about it, but adults have to do besides thinking .” His lips moved a few times, he wanted to say something, but he didn't say it, his expression was slightly aggrieved, I signaled to Bai Su again, and Bai Su held his hand: "Let's go out first." Wen Baoyu raised his hand to me, walked to the door, unexpectedly bowed to me very politely, and then walked out with Bai Su. On the other side of the phone, Zhang Jian kept talking: "Go and contact him right now. Compared with the ice cubes I sent him, what happened here is simply earth-shattering. You really must come. I will wait for you here. After you arrive at the city of Invicaji in the south of New Zealand, the people from the Antarctic Expedition Organization will contact you. You can have a small plane supply and fly directly to meet me. I’m sorry I can’t come to meet you. After the phone call, I I have to go back to the base, in order to call you, I have to go back and forth more than a thousand kilometers, fuck, human science is really backward." He suddenly complained, and I was still thinking about how to reject his invitation. At least, he could tell me on the phone first what the strange thing was. But as soon as he finished speaking, there was only a "click", and he had obviously put down the phone. I couldn't help being very anxious, and hurriedly "Hello", but after seventy or eighty "Hello", the phone was put down and there was no answer. I stared at the phone for a while, not knowing what to do.Zhang Jian, as soon as he put down the phone, would most likely set off to return to his isolated base immediately. Apart from traveling thousands of miles to find him in person, there was no way to contact him again. And he refused to tell what happened. He only said that what happened in Hu Huaiyu's laboratory was insignificant compared with what he had discovered. What happened in Hu Huaiyu's laboratory is already strange enough. Under the microscope, it can be clearly seen that there is the initial form of life in the ice cube, and as the temperature gradually increases, it splits and grows. Know what to be. And Zhang Jian also said that it was "insignificant", so what did he find?Is it really a living prehistoric monster? Zhang Jian's "invitation" is actually very desirable, but it came too suddenly.I thought about it and thought I should contact Hu Huaiyu first to hear his opinion. I was just about to pick up the phone when Bai Su opened the door and walked in: "His parents have been waiting for him in the car." I snorted: "That woman is going to drag me to the police station? How do you explain to them why Wen Baoyu stole the rhino horn?" Bai Su laughed: "It's really difficult, but I convinced them that Wen Baoyu was just doing an experiment recorded in ancient times, in which a lot of rhino horns were used. If his experiment is successful, it will be a holy medicine for children... " When Bai Su spoke up to this point, his laughter became more and more mischievous: "Wen Baoyu was so open-mouthed when he heard it, he must have never imagined that I would talk nonsense, but his parents believed it, and praised him for being promising, he could pass on the family business, continue." I heard that Bai Su actually made such a cunning, I didn't know "haha" laughed, but after laughing a few times, I felt that something was wrong, and said: "What do you mean you can talk nonsense? What are you implying? Hinting I've been talking nonsense?" Bai Su smiled lightly, and said to him from left to right: "I never said that——Zhang Jian's invitation, can you accept it?" I had no choice but to sigh: "He talked on his own, and after he finished speaking, he hung up the phone." I repeated Zhang Jian's words, and Bai Su said: "It seems that you have to go." I sighed again: "I wish I could have a choice, first contact Hu Huaiyu, if he is interested, let him go alone." Bai Su looked at me suspiciously. I knew what she meant by looking at me like this was saying that what I said was insincere. In fact, I wished I could be in Antarctica immediately. I did have this idea, so I had no choice but to avoid her gaze and make a call by myself.After the call was made, no one listened for a long time.I remember Hu Huaiyu said that he would be in the laboratory 24 hours a day, watching the changes of those embryos, how could no one listen to the phone?I hung up and called again. This time, someone answered the call, but it was not Hu Huaiyu's voice. I said, "Please, Mr. Hu Huaiyu..." A man's voice asked back, "Who are you?" I was a little impatient: "Just ask Hu Huaiyu to listen." The man's voice said: "You..." He only said one word, and another man's voice changed: "We are also looking for Mr. Hu, are you his friend?" I was taken aback for a moment, the voice of the second man sounded very familiar, he said they were also looking for Hu Huaiyu, what did that mean? Who are "they"? Suddenly, I felt that something was wrong. Hu Huaiyu was researching some unfathomable things in human science. In his laboratory, a mysterious stranger was intercepting the phone again. Is there something wrong with him? (Scientists always get in trouble in stories and movies, and these kinds of stories or movies really have an impact on people.) I said in a deep voice, "Yes, I am his friend. I have important matters to contact him. Who are you?" I didn't get an answer to my question, but there was an unexpected reaction. The man cried out in a voice full of surprise: "God, you are Wesley." This person, just by my voice on the phone, recognized who I was, so he was an acquaintance, no wonder I felt very familiar when I heard his voice. (There are similarities between human voice and human personality: almost no one is the same. A person with a good memory can remember a person's voice for a lifetime after hearing it two or three times, and when he hears it again, immediately recognizable.) My memory may not be that good, but it's not bad. As long as I pay more attention, I can still recognize the voice I've heard a few times. In his surprised voice, I have already recognized who he is.So, at that time, I was quite surprised, because this person had no reason to be in Hu Huaiyu's laboratory! I immediately said: "Huang Tang, it's you!" Who is Huang Tang, friends who are familiar with my story must know.He was a police officer, a competent senior police officer who had succeeded Colonel Jack.I had a few things with him. At the beginning, I had contact with him. I didn't recognize his voice right away, because I never thought that Hu Huaiyu's laboratory would be answered by him. Huang Tang repeatedly said: "Ah, I see, come to the research institute in the afternoon, the mysterious person who is with Director Hu is you." I snorted: "What mysterious person, I'm in Hu Huaiyu's research institute this afternoon." Huang Tang hurriedly said: "Don't be angry, several staff members of the research institute describe you this way. They said that Director Hu spent the whole afternoon with a mysterious person." I waved my hand subconsciously: "Stop talking about this, why are you in the lab! What happened?" Huang Tang is just a bit annoying. I have been in contact with him several times, but the friendship has never been able to develop. I don't like his unpleasant personality very much, which is also the main reason.At this time, he did not answer my question, but asked, "Do you know what research Director Hu is doing recently? In the whole institute, no one knows what he is doing." Before he finished speaking, I shouted: "What research he is doing has nothing to do with you, and you won't understand it if you tell it to you. Tell me quickly, why are you here, and what's wrong with him?" Huang Tang still hesitated for a moment. If a person's hand could be transmitted directly through the phone line, I would not hesitate to give him a heavy punch at this time, and I must hit his nose. After hesitating for a while, he said: "Something happened, we came here after receiving the report." I said angrily, "Damn it, I was just asking you what happened." There are many ways to deal with this kind of person, but when meeting such a person on the phone, it seems that there is no other way but to be patient.So I had to be patient: "Why did the staff ask for the assistance of the police?" This time, Huang Tang answered quickly: "Because of the director Hu's private laboratory, there was a strange sound coming from the staff outside. The sound sounded like the cracking of something..." I was almost begging: "You don't have to describe it to me in such detail, but to the point, you are handling a case, not writing a novel." Huang Tang paused for a moment: "You are really difficult to deal with. If you can come immediately, I think it will be easier to understand. At least you will be the last one with him." I was surprised: "What is this saying? He is dead?" Huang Tang said: "No, he's gone!" I was stunned for a moment, knowing that I would become more and more confused when talking on the phone. It seemed that I had to go once. Although Hu Huaiyu's Fisheries Research Institute was quite far from my residence, it was much closer than Antarctica. I simply said, "I'll be right there." Huang Tang suddenly asked: "Your Madam..." I naturally remembered that he had a higher evaluation of Bai Su than me, so I immediately said: "I'm here alone, you wait for me." I put down the phone and walked out of the study, Bai Su followed me, and I went all the way to the door: "I broke up with Hu Huaiyu, but within a few hours, there was an accident and he disappeared...at least that's what Huang Tang said. " Bai Su frowned: "How can you clarify a complicated matter on the phone?" I looked back: "Are you sure this is a complicated thing?" Bai Su took a breath: "It seems that you have forgotten that Hu Huaiyu has been worrying about the missing embryo in the ice..." As soon as I heard Bai Su say that, I couldn't help but feel a chill. Could it be that "escaped" creature, who has no idea what it is, really has the power to cause disaster? This kind of situation, when I think about it, is a bit funny, but if it really happened, it would be extremely scary, because I don't know what that thing is at all. I don't even know what it is, let alone how to deal with it. I glanced at Bai Su: "I hope it's just a false alarm." Then, I quickened my pace, went out, got into the car, and while starting the car, I said loudly: "I'll come as soon as I go." I waved my hand and I drove out. Along the way, I kept thinking about the meeting with Hu Huaiyu. I broke up with him at the gate of the institute. Huang Tang said that I was with him in the end. This statement is very debatable.Perhaps, he broke up with me and went back to the laboratory. Although someone saw him, he didn't say hello to anyone. Hu Huaiyu took me on a tour of the entire institute, and did not introduce me to the staff of the institute, so I became a "mysterious figure" in the eyes of the rest.But I know that the impression of the so-called "mysterious person" is mostly gradually formed after mysterious events happened later. As for what Hu Huaiyu did in the laboratory, no one in the entire institute knew about it, which was beyond my expectation.In the laboratory, Hu Huaiyu cultivated the biological embryos sent by Zhang Jian from Antarctica and frozen in ice cubes. Of course, the matter itself is quite mysterious. The biological embryos discovered under the Antarctic ice layer were bred and grown. What kind of creatures are they? However, what does it matter if we discuss and study with the biologists in the institute? It seems that Hu Huaiyu is quite cautious and does not want to cause unnecessary panic before the matter has a result, so everything is done by him alone. I kept thinking along the way, but I couldn’t come up with a clue. The road to the Fisheries Research Institute was quite far away. The second half of the journey was almost entirely on a dark, secluded road with no street lights. Naturally, I also slowed down the speed. It is raised quite high, to the point where even if a large turn is made, the friction between the wheels and the ground will make a screeching sound. I can vaguely see the lights from the research institute building in front of me, and it is estimated that there are still about ten minutes away. When the car arrived at the gate of the research institute, a policeman came up to greet me, and when he saw me, he said, "Director Huang is already waiting." I hummed: "When did he get impatient?" I drove the car straight to the front of the building before getting out. The staff of the research institute all had very strange expressions, and they looked at me with strange eyes.When I came here during the day, I was in a hurry, and there were some staff members. Hu Huaiyu might have introduced me roughly, but I can't remember. I walked directly to Hu Huaiyu's laboratory, and when I came to the outside of the laboratory, I saw Huang Tang and several staff.As soon as Huang Tang saw me, he said, "Why is it taking so long?" I said coldly: "It's best if I know how to escape from the earth. As soon as I get into the ground, I will emerge from here immediately. That's fast." Huang Tang let out a muffled snort. Beside him, there was a policeman who looked very young. He might have just graduated from the police school. He didn't even learn to look at his boss's face. He looked at me with great interest: "Mr. Wei , The legendary Tudun is a kind of imagination, I think today's underground railway is really Tudun—it goes down from one place and emerges from another place." What this young police officer said was quite interesting, just like the common people who think that "clairvoyance" is a telescope, I just smiled at him.But his boss, Huang Tang, obviously didn't appreciate his words at all, stared at him fiercely, and said sharply: "Really? Then what is Fire Dungeon? What is Water Dungeon?" When the young police officer saw Huang Tang's unkind expression, how dare he speak, I smiled: "Director Huang, don't bully the children." Huang Tang snorted: "What happened here is so serious, I don't have time to listen to people explain the list of gods with modern scientific viewpoints." I immediately said, "Seriously?" Huang Tang gestured to a staff member, who walked a few steps forward and opened the door of the laboratory. As soon as the door of the laboratory opened, I couldn't help being stunned. At the door of the laboratory, there is a sign saying "No entry without permission". When I came last time, Hu Huaiyu used a key to open the door before I could go in. It is known that the door is always locked, and no one should be able to enter casually. But at this moment, it seemed that not only someone had entered the entire laboratory, but more than one person had entered. The entire laboratory was in a state of disarray, and many instruments made of glass were broken, and some were on the table. Some are on the ground. I immediately looked at the glass cabinet, because that is the most important facility. And when I saw the glass cabinet, I was even more stunned. On one side of the glass cabinet, the glass had been broken and shattered into a big hole. I immediately stepped forward to look at the shelf in the cabinet.Of course, the glass was broken, the temperature could no longer be controlled, and the three small ice cubes on the shelf had long since disappeared, not even a trace of water left. At that time, I opened my eyes wide and stared at the expression in front of me, it was very weird, so the shrewd Huang Tang immediately asked: "What is in this cabinet?" I turned around and looked at him, his expression was full of doubts, I thought for a while, and then said: "Simply put, I can only say that I don't know, but to put it more complicatedly...but it's too complicated , I can’t finish talking all at once, you first tell me the story of the situation!” Huang Tang's expression was even more puzzled, he thought for a while, and then pointed to a few staff members: "It's still up to them, I also came here after receiving a report, and when I came, this place was already like this. " I noticed that the table in the laboratory was not damaged much, and the phone on the table was also there. I called Hu Huaiyu just now, and it was this phone number. I looked at the two staff members, and one of the older ones said: "The director sent you out, and after you came back, you walked into the laboratory. What experiments are you doing these days, as his main assistant?" , I have no idea." I asked, "Is this normal?" The staff member smiled helplessly: "Of course it's not normal, but the funding for the entire institute comes from him personally, and he has the right to do whatever he likes. This is his private institute." Hu Huaiyu mentioned this to me. However, he has so much financial resources, it is from his father's property.The staff member said again: "He opened the laboratory, and my responsibility is that as long as he is in the laboratory, I will be outside, with him—" He pointed to another young researcher: "Together with him, There is always one person on duty in rotation, who can listen to his instructions at any time. These days, the director is in the laboratory almost 24 hours a day, so two more people are added to be on duty." When he said this, he pointed to the other two researchers. Huang Tang snorted: "It's great to be rich, even being a scientist can be so majestic." I also felt the same: "It seems that Director Hu's predecessor left a lot of property to him." Huang Tang muttered: "I don't know what kind of business he made his fortune from, so I have to check it out." Huang Tang was talking to himself, but I could clearly hear what he was talking about.What he said surprised me.Because what Hu Huaiyu's predecessors did has nothing to do with what is happening now, so why did Huang Tang suddenly think of that? Did Huang Tang feel that there was something wrong with Hu Huaiyu's behavior deep down in his heart?That is even more unreasonable. It is always a great good thing to use the property left by the previous generation for scientific research. Naturally, I was only a little surprised at the time, and didn't think about it any further.But later, Huang Tang really went to investigate Hu Huaiyu's predecessor, and the result of the investigation was quite unexpected, and it can be said to be somewhat related to this story, at least it can be said to be an episode in the whole story.But that is a matter for the future, and I will record it when the time comes. The employee continued: "We have been outside all the time. Since we have nothing to do, we are just chatting. During the chat, everyone guessed what research the director is doing in his personal laboratory. But guessing , to no avail, at this moment..." When he said this, he looked at his watch: "The correct time is 9:12." Huang Tang gestured for him to continue talking.The employee took a breath: "In the laboratory, there was a ping-pong sound, as if something was broken. This sound must be very loud, because everyone outside the door can hear it very loudly." It’s clear, and the door of the laboratory is closed again.” The staff member spoke up to this point, looked at the other people, and the other people nodded together, confirming his statement.He continued: "This made us feel very strange, but the director didn't call us, and we didn't dare to disturb. From the sound just now, it seemed that something was broken. We didn't know what to do. It keeps coming out, we know that in the lab, a little bit of an accident happened..." I hear here.I couldn't help but said: "Your reactions are too slow. What does it mean to have an accident? It must have happened. This laboratory is not an audio laboratory. How come there are constant sounds of breaking things?" The clerk glared at me and said coldly: "It's easy for you to say, of course we know that there was an accident, but look at the sign on the door. The director has repeatedly told us not to disturb him at will. what should we do?" Huang Tang murmured again: "Scientific research should not be combined with money." I sneered: "If you don't have money, how can you do research?" Huang Tang didn't continue to argue with me. Seeing that I didn't have any new criticisms, the staff continued: "At this moment, there was a huge sound of glass breaking..." His expression seemed quite tense at this moment, and he gasped involuntarily: "In the laboratory, there is a rather large glass cabinet. We know this. The sound was impossible except that the glass of the glass cabinet broke. It's something else, so he..." He pointed to a young employee: "He knocked on the door immediately, and we all yelled outside the door, asking: 'Director, what happened?' But In the laboratory, there was no sound coming out again, I wanted to push the door in, but the door was locked." When I heard this, I hurriedly raised my hand to indicate that I had doubts. The staff member didn't wait for me to call out, and said, "The door will not be opened until we call the police. After the police arrive, the experts will open it." I immediately looked at Huang Tang, Huang Tang nodded: "This lockpicking expert is me." I took another look at the door lock of the laboratory. It was just an ordinary door lock. It didn't need an expert, an ordinary locksmith, to get it open at once.