The cross is a U disk with a special structure.
It took Li Xuanyuan half a day to successfully import its contents into the computer. Since Li Xuanyuan got the desktop computer, he has spent a lot of time on it. A layman like Hou Ying stood by and took a look but couldn’t see what he was playing with the computer all day long. The old-fashioned computer display screen was unexpectedly clear. It can be seen that Li Xuanyuan had changed it. The file in the cross is opened as a video.
The beginning of the video is the environment of the medical research room. There are noisy conversations from time to time, and the people in white coats are very busy and work at a very fast pace. From the perspective of the video presentation and the reactions of the people inside, it is obvious that it was taken secretly by some kind of micro camera installed on the wristwatch. Thirty seconds later, the video suddenly went black, then a person appeared clearly on the computer screen.
He was driving, raising his right hand to adjust the camera, his expression was very anxious.
“Dad!”
Meng Hanghai wanted to pounce on it but soon realized that this was just a video. Hearing his father’s voice again, Meng Hanghai cried and trembled. Several adults couldn’t bear to see him cry. Hou Ying took him back to his side and silently touched his head to comfort him.
In the video, the middle-aged man with similar facial features as Meng Hanghai said, “Son, dad is on the way to pick you up from school now. Dad will take you away from the city to a safe place far away.”
The man covered his mouth, sad. After sorting out his thoughts, he continued, “Dad originally thought that this day would never come. Dad can accompany you like a child of another family, study, grow up, make a girlfriend, and give Dad a grandson… But we must leave here now, son. I think you need to know why I did this. If I don’t say it now, I’m afraid I won’t have a chance.”
“What you saw just now is the place where Dad worked before he was 35 years old. The address is at the bottom of the lake in Hucheng. Dad is a doctor there, but he is not working on treating diseases, but researching a drug. The original intention of this laboratory is to develop anti-cancer drugs that can restore human function, but they all failed. Until more than 30 years ago, when your father wasn’t born yet, they accidentally got an alien meteorite. They accidentally discovered the unknown substance carried by the meteorite, it can stimulate human activity, so they have been studying it. Dad joined them after graduating from university.”
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“However, all experiments failed. Some patients, who are infected by the meteorite material, proved the meteorite can indeed activate people’s bodies and restore their health in a short time, but some people die soon. Most people have pathological changes before death, and they suddenly have very strong, aggressive, and violent tendencies… Just like the patients dad saw in the department that day, as soon as dad saw it, I knew that the unfinished drug had been leaked. After mutation, these people will have abilities that ordinary people don’t have, such as great strength and fast speed, but they all die and become very ugly monsters. They lost their humanities and became something that only kills and eats people.”
“Dad… Dad is sorry. Back then, Dad had a car accident. While waiting for rescue…I injected myself with medicine stolen from the laboratory.”
“Over the years, Dad always thought that if I had died in a car accident on the spot, I would not have hurt you. After Dad was rescued, my body was the same as that of ordinary people. Later, I left the laboratory and met your mother and had you. I didn’t expect that this medicine will be passed on to you, making you a different person. You can’t live as happy as an ordinary child. It’s all Dad’s fault…”
The video was interrupted for a while because the overly agitated man ran the red light and nearly caused an accident and was fined.
When talking about it again, the man skipped the previous topic, “Dad had a bad feeling in his heart that if the secret of the lab at the bottom of the lake was exposed, Dad would not escape the punishment of the law. Before they find Dad, Dad will take you out of here and send you to a safe place where there are no infected people. If Dad fails, Dad will leave this video to you.”
“Listen son, Dad has already told you the source of your mutated ability. Then you should listen carefully to what Dad said next, it doesn’t matter if you don’t understand it now, but you must remember it in your heart. After the accident of your mother… Dad has always tried to let you control the abilities in your body. Because Dad found that you are different from those diseased people. You have not lost human thoughts or displayed anti-social violent tendencies and destructive desires. You just have abilities that ordinary people don’t have.”
“It’s just that when this ability was displayed, you were too young and you did not have the ability to control it. Later, Dad really had no choice but to ask a friend of Dad’s to give you a hypnotic operation so that you can forget the existence of the power, forget that happy memory. But it’s strange that the operation didn’t succeed. You still remember your mother’s death and your grandmother’s rejection. You still remember that you have this ability, but you can’t use it and never use it again. The doctor told me that perhaps the hypnotic suggestion played a role and blocked your brain’s ability to use it. Dad has not found the real reason all these years.”
“But you should remember that if Dad is taken away, you must find the way to use this ability, and protect yourself and survive!”
When the car stopped, the middle-aged man looked in the direction of the school gate and smiled at the camera. “My dear son, Dad hopes that all this is just Dad’s imagination, and we can all be well in the future. But no matter what the future is like, Xiaohai, you must remember that Mom and Dad love you very much. You are our most precious treasure in the world. You must be strong and live well.”
The middle-aged man took off his glasses, wiped his eyes, and turned off the camera.
The computer screen returned to the main interface again, and Meng Hanghai is already sobbing. The adults looked at each other and waited for Meng Hanghai’s emotions to calm down before Hou Ying whispered, “It’s okay, everything will be okay. Your uncles will always be with you.”
Meng Hanghai choked and said nothing. It was very hard to see him cry so much so Gongsun Jing used a little medicine to make him fall asleep, which made the sad atmosphere a little better.
Jiang Tao said, “I didn’t expect this child’s life experience to be so bumpy. It is not easy for him to be as strong and optimistic as he is now.”
Qiao Daye came over and touched his head, “Now that this child has become an orphan, I will treat him as a relative and take good care of him. You also give me a witness. If anyone dares to bully him in the future, who will be anxious with me for him?”
Wang Hehe also nodded in support.
Hou Ying smiled bitterly, “The situation you are worried about will not happen. If someone bullies him in the future, you don’t have to say anything, none of us will let it happen.”
Liu Zhan hesitated, “Brother Tao, Xuanyuan, Lao Er, what do you think? That meteorite…?”
Jiang Tao nodded, and several people exchanged glances, their expressions very heavy. He said to Hou Ying who doesn’t know, “Before we received the order to go to Hucheng for disaster relief, we had just completed a special mission. The satellite detected a large meteor shower in late February. Some meteorites may enter the atmosphere and land on the earth or the ocean at relevant locations, causing disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, or reflective diseases. So we went to these places to evacuate people.”
Qiao Daye continued, “But when we arrived at the mission site, we received an order from the top that the meteorites were consumed and weakened when they passed through the earth’s atmosphere. Only a few large meteorites would land in the ocean’s no man’s land. Let us stop the mission and not cause unnecessary social panic. At that time, we saw meteors passing by. In broad daylight, we could see very dense meteors. However, there was no expected disaster, so we all retreated. Then, we received a support mission for the Hucheng earthquake.”
Jiang Tao nodded and said just as Qiao Daye said, “After we arrived at Hucheng, we determined that the earthquake in Hucheng was not a natural disaster, but was caused by a large explosion at the bottom of the lake. Now it seems that after the appearance of the virus infection, the laboratory under the lake got the news and was destroying the evidence.”
Liu Zhan took over, “If Meng Hanghai’s ability and his father’s zombie-like infection are true, then in other words, the source of the zombie virus… is probably related to the meteor.”
Li Xuanyuan said, “This probability is more than 90%.”
Hou Ying had never heard of this, and could not help asking, “Since it is a large meteor shower, why is there no astronomical news? The above blocked this information, isn’t it because they detected in advance that this meteor has what you call radioactive infection material? After your evacuation, has there been no action on this matter?”
Liu Zhan shook his head with a wry smile, “Our soldiers listen to the orders from above, who’s going to get to the bottom of it?”
He couldn’t answer Hou Ying’s question.
Gongsun Jing did not attend that mission. She joined them during the disaster relief in Hucheng, so she also heard about the existence of this secret mission just now. She said grimly, “It can’t be wrong. The zombie virus is infected all over the world, indicating that the virus carried on the meteorite material has spread throughout the earth. I think that no matter what is predicted above, if it is a hazardous event of this degree, they really can not take any measures in advance.”
Unless all of them emigrate from the earth, the radioactive virus in the meteorite will be a disaster for all mankind. No matter the country or the world organization, no one can do anything about it.
Don’t say anything about telling people in advance to let them hoard food and do a good job of collecting and distributing and avoiding such stupid things. What if everything is just speculation and won’t come true? Who will bear the responsibility for causing social chaos? Therefore, the public sector will never disclose information to the public until such a potential crisis becomes an established fact.
As for whether the country will prepare in advance… Everyone thought of the Yellow River Base in the capital and the more than three million survivors of the base. For a moment, they had mixed feelings.
Oh My heart! So that’s what are truth. Thanks for the chapter ❤️❤️
So the virus came from the meteorite, and Xiaohai is “infected” by the drugs made by the laboratory but he still retain human consciousness, does having a special ability. So in a sense Hou Ying’s situation is similar to Xiaohai, the only difference is that he seems immune to the virus itself.
omg this gives me aot vibes like Eren father huhu