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Chapter 39 The Cold Man
The glass elevator was operating normally, and Duan Lili led the two back to the room. As soon as the glass door hung with thick curtains closed, the dimly lit interior flooded the spacious room, like a whole jar of viscous honey.
Being in a closed environment with two young men, Duan Lili's posture was subconsciously tense.
Ruan Xian took a few steps back knowingly, and Tang Yibu's movements were more obvious. The android threw off his shoes, climbed onto the big bed as if he had no bones, and wrapped himself tightly with a soft quilt. Ruan Xian stared at the bulging bulge on the soft bed for a few seconds. Tang Yibu was tossing and turning under the quilt, humming softly from time to time.
After all, Tang Yibu played the role of chewing and swallowing the fireflies, so the current disguise is reasonable.
Ruan Xian sighed, rushed into the bathroom, and pretended to "vomit" for a few minutes. When he returned to the room again, Duan Lili had unscrewed the speaker and played soothing music.
The titular vice-captain of the Bliss was sitting in a chair, knees clasped together, in a defensive stance. According to popular aesthetics, Duan Lili is undoubtedly a beautiful girl. Right now, her face is pale, her eyes are red, and her expression is a mixture of forbearance and prayer, which can arouse the desire for protection in ordinary people.
In the past, I would definitely follow her will, show appropriate temptation and pity, or show what Fan Lao wanted to see earlier, and play a harmless fool.
However, the box in which the devil was imprisoned had been opened, and the broken chain could not be retrieved.
The taste of breaking free is really good, Ruan Xian showed a wavering appearance without cooperation. He just sat down on the soft edge of the bed, raised his legs, and looked at each other calmly.
Seeing that the other party had no intention of taking the initiative, Duan Lili exhaled lightly, put away the complicated expression on his face, and replaced it with a reluctant smile, "You spit out the medicine"
"Yes." Ruan Xian nodded, he could feel Tang Yibu thumping in the quilt behind him.
"That's good." Duan Lili pursed his lips, "As for your partner, there's nothing you can do if you chew it. You can ask him to drink more ice water and stay away from the place where the grass grows. If you have medicine at hand, atropine It can properly relieve the symptoms of drug addiction. Although there are medical resources in the Bliss, the monitoring is very strict, so please understand that I can’t get it for you.”
"You took that kind of medicine yourself." Ruan Xian did not mention the name of the pill.
"Yeah, I have no way back." Duan Lili's eyes became more red, "But, but you are different from those people, I can see that I am very accurate. You sent Jiang Lin back, too. I should have seen her seizures, what made her become like that was the pill just now, and Mr. Fan called it a firefly."
"At first we thought she took psychedelic mushrooms. Is there something wrong with the pill just now? Fan Lao Mingming took one himself." Ruan Xian lied fluently, by the way, he patted the wriggling quilt bulge behind him, signaling Tang Yibu Quiet.
"The one he ate just looked alike, and was marked in advance, but it's not actually a firefly at all." Duan Lili's smile became a bit bitter.
"I see, Miss Duan. Thank you for your kind reminder, but I just don't get it."
Ruan Xian knocked on his pocket, and there was a dull metallic sound in the pocket.
"I recorded our conversation. You said that if I gave it to Lao Fan, would I get a good reward? As the deputy captain of the Bliss, you turned a little quicker in the face of strangers who met by chance."
Duan Lili's face turned pale, but she didn't tremble or waver.
"Please listen to me first, I have been paying attention to you at the dinner party. You brought Jiang Lin back, and you were very restrained at the dinner party, not like the kind of short-sighted person" She swallowed her saliva, and wriggled awkwardly. hands. "The vice-captain is just a toy for those men to have fun. There is no vice-captain in this ship, there is only one who can really control the overall situation. I was also tricked by the old man at first, thinking it was the level of smoking a cigarette. I became addicted to drugs like this. Anyway, I can’t run, is it wrong to try to climb up?”
Ruan Xian looked at her quietly.
"I know you doubt me, and I know it's very rash. Yes, there are many other ruined ships outside. It's not that no one left here. If the fireflies are completely cut off, people are half-waste. What will happen to young women? I said that you also know that you are obedient here, get fireflies regularly, and at least you can live as a person."
Duan Lili clenched his hands on his knees, "I've been comforting myself like this before."
"Before"
"Hu Jian is my lover, he didn't come back this time." Duan Lili sniffled, tears finally streaming down. "I thought that Fan Baiyan would at least look at my so-called title and let him go."
"So you want revenge." Ruan Xian responded without any emotion. Tang Yibu on one side lifted a slit on the edge of the quilt and quietly glanced outside, seeing that his nose was about to stick out. Ruan Xian stretched his hand back, pressed the corner of the quilt "affectionately" and pressed the gap back.
"Yes, I can see that your ability is not bad, so can Fan Baiyan." Duan Lili raised his chest, "Fireflies are too easy to get, and it does bring people a sense of relief. Fan Baiyan is very good at catching people's weaknesses. , Everyone is living the good days before the end, it's really too easy to degenerate. By bringing back Jiang Lin, I will prepare some thank you gifts for you, it's better for the two of you to leave here as soon as possible."
"So you're not going to explain the rules here?"
"Actually, the rules are very simple. Give your life to work and exchange your contribution for fireflies." Duan Lili's nose was still red, and her voice became flat. "The rating is decided by Fan Baiyan alone. The higher the level and contribution, the more fireflies you can get every day. If the contribution reaches a certain level, you can be promoted to the upper level and do the easiest indoor work. At present, few people can get this treatment. ."
After that, she smiled sarcastically, "Everyone wants to go up and wants to die. Selling the future has always been a huge profit, isn't it? But according to Fan Baiyan's methods, I don't think there is any ideal life waiting for it."
Duan Lili stood up, took out his handkerchief, and carefully wiped the wet corners of his eyes, "That's all I have to say. You can go to Fan Baiyan to record it, or you can stay. At least I tried my best."
In the end, she put an unmistakable smile back on her face. "Then follow you."
"When did you assemble the recording equipment?" After Duan Lili stepped on high heels and left, Tang Yibu asked in a muffled voice under the quilt.
"I just knocked on the can." Ruan Xian touched the smiley can in his pocket. "You can come out of the quilt, you did a good job."
"No, I'm really uncomfortable." Tang Yibu stuck his head out of the blanket, his eyes were a little wet.
Ruan Xian tensed his nerves, "I thought the firefly was so powerful, I thought you"
"I ate too much." The android sighed earnestly.
Ruan Xian gritted his teeth, "It's business."
"There are two relatively rare ingredients in fireflies." Tang Yibu hugged the quilt tightly, and his voice was extremely low. "One of them, based on its molecular structure, is likely to have something to do with the shuttle agent used by the thieves. But the amount is too small, and I tend to think that it is the residue after extraction. The other has no doubt a psychedelic effect, The concentration of neurotransmitters that directly act on non-mechanical life is not high, nor is it very low, and one time is enough for addiction."
"This quirky psychedelic ingredient is naturally occurring. According to my personal inference, psychedelic ingredients can lure small animals to devour the fruit, thereby spreading the seeds further afield. There is no problem with its reproductive strategy."
Ruan Xian folded his arms and snorted, "To put it simply, psychedelics are just a by-product of shuttle agents."
"Yes. The two components interact. If the components of the shuttle agent are not separated, and the concentration of the psychedelic component in the organism is too high, it will induce the host to shuttle to the most suitable environment, and then stimulate the seed to germinate."
Jiang Lin said at the beginning that "fruit is not good for people", it seems that this is mostly the reason. but
"The firefly didn't remove the seeds of the cyanobacteria." Ruan Xian touched his chin.
"No. It tastes a little bitter." Tang Yibu described the taste of the deadly thing very honestly.
Ruan Xian probably had a guess. Everything here is unreasonable, electricity is being wasted indiscriminately, and the environment is appallingly clean. After that, there must be a huge labor force to support, and the current world is not a good era for struggle. With enthusiasm, it will not last long, and fireflies are undoubtedly an excellent weapon to control people's hearts.
But psychedelics always hurt people. The more people contribute, the more fireflies they need, and their physical fitness gradually decreases.
The people who were sent to the ruins of the hospital were sent to the dangerous frontline because they were deeply trusted, or did the Bliss simply not want them back?
Or go a step further and hope they just become part of the "resource" for later use
"Do you want to leave?" Tang Yibu interrupted his thinking, "I don't want to leave yet."
“If you want to say because of the food”
"No." Tang Yibu shook his head quickly, "I just think the situation here is very interesting."
"If you still want to go back to the Shihao, we still have three days left." Ruan Xian lowered his head and looked at Tang Yibu's face buried in the pillow. "I have no problem with staying here either."
"You want to help the lady just now." Tang Yibu raised his eyebrows slightly and raised his voice. "Like being in a shelter"
"No, I don't owe her favor."
Ruan Xian stretched out his hand, his fingertips passed around Tang Yibu's long black hair that was scattered on the pillow, his face was expressionless. Then he leaned down and continued in a whisper.
"And I don't believe a word of what she said."
Walk Stone.
Yu Le stretched out, holding the wine bottle in his arms contentedly, paralyzed on the tattered couch, flipping through a pornographic magazine with an explicit cover.
"Lao Yu." Tu Rui's projection suddenly flashed beside Yu Le.
The captain of the Walking Stone shuddered and nearly dropped the magazine in his hand. He took the magazine back in his hands in two or three times and spat, "Damn, Tu Rui, I will be scared to death by you sooner or later. Could you say hello next time, what should I do if I take off my pants."
"The newcomers are very honest, but there is no information on the positioning of Ruan Lijie and Tang Yibu. Their final positioning is the site in the west." Tu Rui ignored the other party's nonsense.
"Oh, Bliss"
"I'm not sure, 80%. I suggest removing the location tracking of these two people, and if they eat fireflies, they will be sent back."
"Send it back and send it back. You can't kill me. But Tu Rui, you can't do it." Yu Le threw away the magazine in his hand, sounding a little sincere.
"How to say"
"That Ruan Lijie is not easy."
"I can't see it."
"That's normal. After all, our Captain Tu is a gentleman, a public official." Yu Le grinned, "As for me, I've been squatting in the number for so long, and I've seen all kinds of lunatics. Guess who and that Ruan Lijie is most similar to the most dangerous group of murderers, and I can live to this day by avoiding those uncles."
"Back then, I even teased him specially, that kid is stable enough. Fan Baiyan, the old scumbag, may not be able to coax him."