Hokkaido, Nemuro City, a villa near the sea somewhere.

Qing opened his eyes first, and the alarm rang in the dark room.

She always wakes up one step ahead of the alarm clock.

The light white curtains beside the floor-to-ceiling windows were slowly opened, revealing the beautiful scenery of the sea and the sky before her eyes.

A transparent, Ragdoll-like cartoon image appears on the glass of the floor-to-ceiling windows.

"Good morning, Qing, it's March 30th, 8:30. Your mental state today is white, and you have a little problem. Please adjust yourself and spend a good day in a happy mood!"

The cartoon figure in the glass made a sound.

White state of mind?

Qing sat up, looking through the window at the calm sea.

This is the butler system she designed, named "CAT". As for the mental detection system, it comes from the organization. It provides five levels, gray, white, black, blue, and red.

Baijiu's mental state is not very good, but it is within the range of normal human emotions.

As for the system's image and name, it's purely because she likes cats.

Generally speaking, her mental state is transparent, which is the lowest level of zero.

Not even grayscale.

But what happened last night caused Qing's mood to fluctuate slightly.

The experiment failed.

The mysterious energy obtained from the underground statues cannot be controlled by humans at all.

I screwed up everything...

she thought so.

Although she is very young, most of the research work of the organization is conducted by her.

For this cause, Qing has never been tired of it.

but……

"What about today's arrangement?" She took off her pajamas and put on her regular clothes - a dress with a kitten pattern.

"At half past eleven, I had lunch with Mr. Boss and greeted a guest. At three o'clock in the afternoon, I took over the research materials from Iceland..."

"..." Listening to the chatter of the artificial intelligence he developed, Qing fell on the bed again, "I remember today is a day off."

"The newly discovered statue needs your wisdom." Cat replied succinctly.

"understood……"

Qing covered his face with the pillow, making a muffled sound.

After washing up, she changed into a white research coat and left the room.

The moment the door was locked, the image of the puppet cat in the glass disappeared, the curtains were slowly closed again, and the room was dead silent.

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Today, a guest came to the base.

A boss who is not often seen on weekdays appeared on the lawn.

On the lawn was a white round table with a chair on each side and a half-filled goblet.

"You have spent tens of billions of yen to build this place, and you have recruited a large number of biologists, medical scientists, mathematicians, historians, psychologists, and even folklorists in various names... I know you I'm doing an extraordinary business, but I can't convince my boss to invest without revealing a little bit about your research direction, and from what I know about him, he'd prefer to use the money to support a woman." A three The ten-year-old man said with a smile.

His name is Kawabata Shuichi, and he comes from a large and low-key consortium.

"I promise, my research must be more interesting than women's," said the gray-haired man who did not look old at all. "Besides, your boss has misunderstood one thing... The funding I am asking for is not money."

Kawabata Shuichi said with a smile: "Since this is the case, then things will be easy to handle. What do you need, sir? I have the power to deploy some resources, and I will definitely try my best to help."

The man who couldn't tell his age raised his goblet and looked at Kawabata Shuichi through the drink in the glass. After a while, he also laughed.

"I need people."

"People?" Kawabata Shuichi looked at him suspiciously, "Did you say something wrong?"

"You heard right, it's a human being, but I only want two kinds of people," he said slowly, shaking the goblet, "a newborn baby who is still ignorant, and... a criminal with extreme emotions."

Kawabata Shuichi listened to his two requests and thought of several answers in his mind, but none of them could answer why he needed people.

Newborn babies and extreme criminals...

Could this person be carrying out some kind of terrorist activity?

After all, the former is unformed and suitable for brainwashing, while the latter has gone to extremes and is a very sharp knife.

"I'm taking the liberty to ask, you need these two types of people to be..."

Kawabata Shuichi finally asked the doubts in his heart.

"follow me."

He got out of his chair and stood up.

Kawabata Shuichi followed him forward.

After passing through many gates, when the last white door opened, a gentle-looking woman came out: "Boss, the children are all fine."

"Yeah." He responded softly, looking at Kawabata Shuichi at the same time, "Go in and have a look."

Kawabata Shuichi stared at the door in front of him, and the woman with a gentle smile, suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

Not physically, but psychologically.

It's like being stared at by something terrifying...

He fought back the discomfort and walked through the door.

There was a large group of children in white clothes.

The weird thing is that some of them are doing medical experiments, some are doing mathematical deliberation, some are painting, and some are constantly writing something...

Kawabata Shuichi looked at them in disbelief.

"Are you... cultivating geniuses?"

The man walked over and looked at the children in front of him with piercing eyes: "It's not such a superficial thing... What you see is enough to convince your boss to invest, because you at least hit the point, They're all geniuses."

Kawabata Shuichi still couldn't believe it. He looked at the group of children in the white room again. They ranged from four to five years old to ten years old, eleven or twelve years old. They were dressed in neat white jumpsuits and masks, and they moved very fast They were neat, and their bodies showed no signs of being abused, but... Although their eyes were bright, none of them showed any emotion.

"I...will report to my boss everything I see," Kawabata Shuichi said.

The grizzled man said with satisfaction, "You just have to do this."

Until Kawabata Shuichi left, he still couldn't believe what he had just seen.

Looking back now, that research base was really weird.

As long as the gray-haired person doesn't speak, there will be no sound in the entire base.

It's like a tomb...

How could the boss know such a strange person, they seem to be old friends?

The vehicle finally returned to the urban area after driving on an ice and snow long road that was enough to get lost in an uninhabited area.

Kawabata Shuichi went there by himself, without even a bodyguard. I heard that the base was not allowed, and his boss agreed.

However, just as he parked the car, he heard some strange movements from the trunk.

Kawabata Shuichi took out his pistol and walked cautiously towards the rear of the car.

"Meow"

A wild cat suddenly jumped up from under the car and squatted on the trunk.

Kawabata Shuichi heaved a sigh of relief, it turned out to be a cat...