Mendley was not ignorant of the private rumors in the lab during this time, and he waited silently for the rumors to ferment until someone broke out in a regular meeting.

The request to watch videos related to 157 and Alyssa was suppressed by Mendley with a strong attitude: "They have been locked in the glass room all the time. As long as no one breaks the rules to open the glass room, there will be no great danger."

"Even if they do break the glass, they won't be able to leave the third district."

Looking at the restless crowd in the conference room, Mendley asked rhetorically, "So what are you worried about?"

"In more cases, high risk means high return. I think you have already experienced it in these years." After entering the laboratory, Mendley has been providing them with extremely generous remuneration, which is the normal way for them toAbsolutely unobtainable.

Although he refused to release the death video of 157 and Alyssa, Mendley acquiesced that the test subject may be malicious to humans.

"Our laboratory has been in existence for nearly twenty years. Many of you here have come from that stage, and everyone is alive and well until now."

"So just pay attention to keeping a distance from the experimental subject, isn't it?"

Mendley looked at the researchers around him who were gradually calming down, and continued to speak: "The recent experiments are very successful. The healing potions and other products obtained from the experimental subjects are selling well on the black market, and they have always been auctioned at high prices."

His voice changed: "Experiments related to star rocks and human genes violate interstellar laws."

"If you are found, you will be exiled to Niriya Star, and you will spend 50 years in prison at the least." With the entry of the interstellar era, the upper limit of human life span has reached 300 years. Correspondingly, the prison time for some crimes has also been greatly reduced.Amplitude increased.

Mendley showed a smile that was not a smile, and glanced at the researchers in the conference room whose eyes were wandering one by one: "When you followed me into the laboratory and participated in the starstone experiment, you didn't back down.When did you suddenly start to get scared?"

Mendley showed them the profits obtained from the experimental subjects over the years, and the distribution of these benefits, not surprisingly, he saw that many people were shaken in their eyes.

His voice was softer than before: "Most jobs are dangerous, aren't they?"

"It's not just work..." Mendley said, "Traveling on a levitation car may cause a car accident, and if you take a starship, you will unfortunately encounter a cosmic storm, or a star thief plundering in the universe..."

"Compared to these, they are in the cage, and we are outside the cage..." Mendley said, showing them the weapon stockpile in the laboratory, he pointed to the various weapons in the projection, "We have enough power to deal withTheir revenge, isn't it?"

"What's more..." Mendley's voice paused, and with a light swipe of his finger, several photos of the experimental subjects were displayed. They were all experimental subjects that had died in the early stage.

"22, 09..." Mendley counted the numbers of these experimental subjects, "After they showed their aggressiveness, they were all destroyed, right?"

"The most important thing is that the remaining experimental subjects have almost no record of hurting people when they are awake."

After he finished speaking, the already wavering researchers hesitated even more, and several of them were almost completely convinced by him.Mendley glanced around briefly, then cleared his throat, and after everyone's eyes turned to him, he said: "About this issue, everyone can go back and think about it slowly, let's discuss the next issue first.”

He glanced at the quiet conference room, nodded slightly towards the next speaker, and signaled him to continue.

The spokesperson glanced at Mendley, and then said: "Our monitoring during this period has found that the planet we are now on is very active in the near future."

When he said here, he stopped, projected a photo, and pointed to one of the locations: "This is an extinct volcano."

Then he pointed to a corner not far away, where a small silver-white metal gate could be vaguely seen: "This is our laboratory."

"The planet is very active recently, and this extinct volcano also shows signs of activity. The speed at which it wakes up seems to have been accelerated. It is hard not to guarantee whether it will cause a volcanic eruption in the next period of time."

"Besides, the recent crustal activity is very frequent, which has successively triggered several small earthquakes that are not obvious."

"This planet seems to be starting to enter an active period, and we may need to start thinking about moving the laboratory to another planet."

After finishing speaking, he subconsciously looked at the expressions of his colleagues, and then continued: "Even if we don't leave this planet, we need to move out of here as soon as possible. If the volcano erupts, the laboratory will be within the scope of being involved."

At the beginning of the establishment of the laboratory, the extinct volcano was actually considered, but according to their test results at that time, the volcano will not show signs of eruption in the next few hundred years, but no one thought,But in only twenty years, it suddenly mutated into an active volcano overnight.

Hearing this news, Mendley's expression was a little serious. When he was thinking about this issue, the water glass placed on the table in the conference room suddenly shook, and the water in it rippled round and round.

Another small earthquake.

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At the same time, the experimental subjects in the third area also felt this shock, which was completely synchronized with the heartbeat in the hatching area.

77 stood up straight with his ears on the ground, and looked at the other subjects in the third district: "Something seems to be waking up underground."

——

Mendley's words seem to have achieved satisfactory results in a short period of time. Claire thought of the white stag in the projection. It was always gentle, even to the point of being submissive, but in the end it was "attacking humans".be destroyed.

"Is 22 really destroyed for attacking caretakers?"

Mendley glanced at Claire, he naturally also remembered number 22, it died after the second test subject attacked the caregiver.

After the two incidents of hurting people in a short period of time, people in the laboratory were fluctuating, and because one of the experimental subjects was more valuable, it was not destroyed immediately, which made some researchers have some doubts about it.

"Because the laboratory needs to show everyone that it will not leave experimental subjects with malicious intentions toward humans."

"Number 22 is a beautiful deer, but that's about it," Mendley said. Shortly after birth, after testing, they decided that 22 was just slightly different from the average deer, which was a failed experiment.body.

"It doesn't have a lot of research value," Mendley said, "but at some point, in other places it could be more valuable."

In an overly tense atmosphere, few people would think deeply about why No. 22, who had not experienced a few experiments and had no aggressive power, would take the initiative to attack humans.No. 22, which hardly poses much threat to human beings, was ordered to be destroyed directly in the observation room that had never experienced a glass room.

——

On the surface, it seems that the uneasy atmosphere in the laboratory is beginning to subside. After realizing that they still have a lot to retreat, the hearts of the researchers are indeed much more stable.position, but other work is still going on step by step.

The conflict between the experimental subject and the researcher broke out on the next contact day.

Mendley encourages the researchers to contact family members who remain in other systems, and they will eventually become one of the reasons why the researchers decide to stay and continue.

Originally, all the plans were good, but when the first person sent a communication request but was told that they could not connect, they turned to another direction.

The first video that could not be connected made the researcher subconsciously think that it was his own optical brain problem, and then he called the second one, and the cold mechanical female voice continued to repeat: "The signal cannot be connected..."

"What's going on?" He muttered, then lowered his head to fiddle with the optical brain in his hand. When he raised his head, he saw that another colleague not far away seemed to be doing the same thing as himself.

An inexplicable uneasiness began to emerge from the bottom of his heart: "What's wrong with you?"

"Is it because the video cannot be dialed out?" Subconsciously, he went to find other colleagues, but noticed that none of the cursing colleagues could connect to the outside world.

A grumpy researcher suddenly threw his optical brain on the ground forcefully: "Why can't I receive any signal?"

The communication room was quiet for a while, and then suddenly a researcher hesitated and said: "When I checked the star network last time, I seemed to see a report saying that a planet in the galaxy we are in seems to be leaving this galaxy......"

"What do you want to say?"

"At the beginning of the establishment of the laboratory, the signal base station was placed on a nearby planet..." The researcher who spoke subconsciously whispered a little, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt that his guess was reasonable.

Now can't receive any signal, except that have left the previous galaxy, there seems to be no better explanation.

"There must be a problem with the signal base station..." A researcher scratched his hair, "There must be a problem with the base station."

He raised his head, as if he was asking his colleagues, and he seemed to be talking to himself: "If this planet breaks away from the galaxy, how can we go back?"

When he thought of this guess, the worry and anxiety in his heart suddenly broke out at this moment, which made him feel a little surprised by such a strong emotion.While he crouched down against the wall with his head in frustration, a researcher took off the optical brain in his hand and threw it on the table, then walked towards the door: "I'm going to find Mr. Mendley, I haven't had a vacation for a long timegone."

"I'm going to go home and have a look," he said.

"I know there are two small starships in the lab."

——

Undoubtedly, Mendley dismissed the requests of the researchers to temporarily leave the system and return.

"But we can no longer communicate with the outside world!" The person who went to find Mendley subconsciously yelled. In this uninhabited small planet in the fringe galaxy, losing the only way to communicate with the outside world makes people feel anxious.

He loudly told Mendley about the news he had read from the Star Network some time ago, about the situation of communication with the outside world that no one had been able to just now, and the speculations of other researchers.

"We need to make sure that our planet is still in its original orbit."

At the end, his eyes were a little red, "I will go back sooner or later."

"We need to make sure that when we want to leave, we can leave here and return to Emperor Star."

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The loud dispute in Mendley's office obviously did not hide the truth from the experimental subjects in the third district. Although Mendley knew the experimental subjects better than other researchers, he didn't understand many things.For example, the five senses of the experimental subjects are stronger than humans, but he doesn't know how sensitive their five senses are.

The test subject with the best hearing was pushed out to listen to Mendley and their argument, and the other test subjects kept silent tacitly.

77 turned his head and saw No. 76 beside him. Because he wanted to keep quiet, neither of the two subjects made a sound, nor did they make much movement.

76 looked at him, blinked at 77, then stretched out his hand, and pinned 77's long white hair behind his ear.

The pain of 77's tail has improved a little recently, but his tail, like 76 before, began to show signs of shedding.

The upcoming molt made 77 a little lazy, he opened his mouth and yawned, then leaned his body on 76 next to him, and continued to listen to another experimental subject relay what Mendley and the others had said.

"They were arguing a lot."

She continued to listen carefully: "Some people want to go back and leave here."

"They're anxious."

The experimental subject suddenly raised his head and smiled: "Because they can't seem to leave."

"It seems to be good news." Hearing this, 77 flicked his tail lightly.

77 seemed to suddenly remember: "They seemed to be very afraid of us a while ago, right?"

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Regarding the inability to connect to external signals, Mendley quickly responded: there was a problem with the small planet where the signal base station was established.

Some people believe it, and some people naturally don't believe it.

When it comes to your own safety, people will inevitably bring a little anxiety. Although Mendley has tried to appease everyone, he contacted Carlo when the signal was still available a few days ago, and waited another week for his starship to arrive..But when it comes to whether it is possible to leave this small planet, even the researcher in charge of the signal base station is a little nervous.

Although under Mendley's suggestion, their answer to everyone was that there was a problem with the signal base station of the small planet, but they were asked more times, and occasionally their faces would inadvertently reveal anxiety, and they would even become unconscious due to nervousnessConfidence.

"I'm still very worried..." The researcher, who was trying to lie, stood in front of Mendley's desk with a dejected expression, "We have lost all the information on the base station planet."

"Another way of thinking," Mendley said, "maybe the planet where we built the base station is the one in the report?"

"What's more, there are two starships in the laboratory, and we also have plenty of fuel."

Mendley looked at him. "There's always a way out."

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Although the researchers who fed during this period didn't pay much attention to the experimental body, the two researchers this time seemed extraordinarily perfunctory.

They talked while feeding, and words like "signal", "planet", "galaxy", and "go home" were constantly passed into the ears of the experimental subjects.

Especially when it comes to "going home", they appear extremely anxious.

And the consequence of being distracted from work is that even if they distributed according to the recipe list, they accidentally mixed up the food of the experimental subjects.

77 looked at the two figures getting closer, approached 76, whispered a few words in his ear, 76 nodded, and then climbed down the tree trunk.

The two researchers arrived at 76 for a long time. When they finished feeding and were about to leave soon, 76 knocked on the glass, and the crisp sound made the two researchers turn their heads subconsciously.

Then they saw 76's face close to the glass, showing them a humane smile.

In all fairness, this smile looked very gentle, even with 76's appearance, it seemed a bit awkward and obedient, but the two researchers subconsciously took a step back, the movement was so fast that they almost fell, and the hairs on the backs of the two stood up.Get up and look at 76 vigilantly.

At one point, they were on the verge of screaming.

But 76 didn't do anything other than smile, as if the family would take the initiative to approach the pets who came to act coquettishly, maintaining a smiling expression, looking at them behind the glass.

But because 76 is too similar to human beings, they can't feel affection for their pets. They just feel a little scary, and subconsciously avoid 76, not daring to meet his face.

The two researchers speeded up their movements, quickly delivered all the food to the glass room where they were supposed to go, and then pushed the empty cart to the end of the corridor.After leaving the third district and closing the gate, one of them questioned the other.

"Did you just see it?"

He rubbed his arms subconsciously, thinking of 76's smile, probably because 76's upper body is too similar to a human being, when he remembered this scene, he had an inexplicable creepy feeling: "Did 76 just smile at us?"

"Smile like a human?"