"Mom" has not been to the third district for a day.

The regular feeding cycle in the past made the subjects start to feel hungry, 77 and a few subjects climbed into the compartment of the ceiling, and continued to move forward in the direction of the human voice.

The researchers are still very busy, they are busy counting all the supplies, and seriously preparing for the next plan to explore the planet. At this time, it is difficult for anyone to take care of the experimental subjects who are still in the third area.

When passing the monitoring room, 77 stopped in his footsteps, the monitoring is still on, but no one is guarding here, only occasionally someone will take a look when passing by.

An experimental subject stopped here.

She looked at the other subjects: "I'll stay here and watch, you guys go get the food."

No. 77 nodded, and went to the storage room with the other subjects.

There are only three areas, the incubation area, and the cloning area in the laboratory that are protected by layers of passwords.At the beginning of the design of the storage room and cold storage, no protection was considered. As long as you enter the password, you can open the door and enter.Every action was carefully recorded, including the password of course.

It was night now, and the researchers who hadn't slept almost all day and night were already dragging their tired bodies on the bed.

The experimental subjects silently opened the ceiling partition, fell from inside, and stopped in front of the cold storage door.

77 bent down and approached the button which was shorter for him.

He pressed six unknown numbers in the order he saw them, and finally pressed the green confirmation button.

The cold storage door was opened a crack.

The experimental subjects looked at each other, one experimental subject guarded the open door of the cold storage, the other experimental subjects entered the cold storage, dragged out a pile of frozen raw meat from the innermost part, and then restored the cold storage to its original state, completely invisible to themtraces of being here.

Compared with the fresh meat that the laboratory has always provided them, the frozen meat is hard and still steaming outside.

On the way forward with the frozen meat, 77 had to switch hands.

After dragging the food back to the third area, they opened the ceiling partition above the subject's head and threw the food down from here.

During the third round trip, all the subjects were fed.

77 did not stay in the third district, but dragged his own share and walked towards the isolation area.

The sleeping researcher seemed to hear the "rustle" sound of something being dragged away above his head. He woke up frowning, but found that the surroundings were still quiet, and the sound just now seemed to come from a hallucination in his sleep.

He lay down, closed his eyes and prepared to continue to sleep. Just as he was about to fall asleep, a drop of water dripped from the gap in the ceiling partition and landed on his forehead, bringing a feeling of coolness.

He frowned, wiped his forehead vigorously with the back of his hand, wiped a patch of red on his forehead, and then hugged the quilt again and fell asleep again.

——

77 soon arrived at the isolation room where 76 was locked.

The glass room in the isolation room was very small, so 77 couldn't go down, so he had to stay on the ceiling, looking down at 76.

After the chaos in the lab the night before, 76 has no monitoring researchers here.

76 could have broken the glass and come out here, but the researchers have set a program here that the police will be called if the glass is broken, so 76 can only stay here temporarily.

It's not just here in 76, all the glass rooms of the experimental subjects will trigger the alarm if the glass room is broken.

The frozen meat was too stiff. After taking two bites, 77 put it aside and waited for it to defrost. The first time he encountered such cold food made his teeth uncomfortable.causing discomfort.

77 was breathing with his mouth open, when he suddenly saw 76 looking at him from the corner of his eye.

Through the glass behind 76, 77 saw himself with a distorted expression and a strange look.

77's expression froze, he closed his mouth, pursed his lips, and licked his numb teeth from the cold with his tongue.

"What's wrong?" 76 looked at him suspiciously, as if asking him why he didn't continue.

The tail hanging from the ceiling was silently retracted by 77. He hugged his tail, his ears felt hot for no reason. 77 had an urge to avoid staying here and to avoid 76.

77 glanced over 76's face in a hurry: "I'll go first."

He continued to explain to 76, speaking much faster than usual: "We heard that tomorrow'mother' will have a meeting in the big conference room, and everyone will be there."

"You can come out of it tomorrow."

He thought for a while, and added: "I will come back to you tomorrow."

After finishing speaking, without giving 76 a chance to speak, he hurriedly got up and returned to the third district with the food he hadn't finished eating.

——

Seeing him come back with unfinished food, 35 was a little surprised: "Didn't you go to find 76?"

As she spoke, she shook the swollen flower bud on top of her head after stuffing food, and the face behind the flower bud was wrinkled because the food was too cold.

77 answered 35's question perfunctorily, and his eyes fell on her face. Thinking of his expression in front of 76 just now, it was probably the same.

Thinking of this, the tip of 77's tail hangs on the ground, and his brows are also frowned.

77 can't understand, he and 76 grew up together, it seems that they never need to avoid each other, but at this moment he doesn't want 76 to see his strange expression.

"Why?" 35 asked curiously.

77 sat there seriously and thought about it, and finally told her with some uncertainty, "Because...it's not pretty enough."

——

Since breaking the glass will cause an alarm throughout the laboratory, only the experimental subjects who can climb out from the ceiling go out, and the other experimental subjects temporarily stay in the glass room.

The routine that the researchers had developed in the past allowed them to wake up on time. After washing up, the two researchers who were originally in charge of feeding the experimental subjects subconsciously wanted to push the trolley to feed the experimental subjects.

After walking for a while, they stopped suddenly: "I forgot, there is no need to feed the experimental subjects now."

They said, put the cart aside, glanced at the direction of the third district, then quickly turned around and turned in the other direction.

Above their heads, two experimental subjects walked carefully on the ceiling partition, following their footsteps step by step.

"Where will they go next?" an experimental subject asked.

"If you don't go to the third district, when will they have a meeting?"

The two experimental subjects followed them to the cafeteria, then went around the storage room, and finally, they pushed open the door of the conference room.

The two experimental subjects stopped in their tracks. They raised their heads and looked at the "neighbors" who had been waiting on the ceiling for a while. No. 77 waved his tail to greet them: "There are two more."

He scanned the researcher's face below through a small gap, and subconsciously lowered his voice: "There are still people who haven't arrived yet."

The subjects waited patiently on the ceiling, watching familiar faces push open the door of the conference room and walk in.

Some of the more sensitive researchers who arrived in advance subconsciously wrapped their white protective clothing tightly with their hands, and swept around the corner of the laboratory in doubt.

"What's going on?" A researcher rubbed his hands.

"What's wrong?" the person next to him asked him.

"I always feel as if something is watching us all the time."

The people around him laughed when they heard this: "It must be an illusion."

——

After everyone arrived, the heavy door of the meeting room was closed, and with a "squeak", a researcher subconsciously stood up from his seat, with a trace of uneasiness in his eyes.

"What's the matter with you?"

"I..." The researcher who stood up shook his head and sat down slowly, looking at the searching gazes around him, "I didn't..."

After he sat down, the people on the stage cleared their throats: "Everyone is here, now we start the meeting."

Everyone sat where they should sit, and continued to discuss the unfinished issues from the last time.

On top of their heads, the experimental subjects dragged their bodies and moved slowly towards the several doors of the meeting room.

77 lay there, listening to the people below speak one sentence after another, and occasionally "experimental subject", "three districts" or a certain number came out of their mouths.

The researcher who sat down again looked a little restless, his forehead was dripping with sweat, and there was a "rustling" sound from the ceiling in his ears like an auditory hallucination.

There were still researchers speaking in the conference room, but he could hardly hear what he was saying, and a sense of crisis that was getting closer forced him to stand up again.

When everyone was looking at him, he rolled his throat and said hoarsely: "I feel very uneasy, there is some danger approaching."

He also knew that his words had no basis, so he could only repeat "dangerous" dryly.

His pupils dilated due to tension, and his voice trembled a little: "I want to get out of here!"

The researcher who was interrupted by him was very dissatisfied, and stopped several researchers who tried to stop him, with a bad face: "Don't stop him, let him go."

The researcher who stood up did not feel embarrassed by his tone. After hearing his words, he quickened his pace and walked towards the door.

When he was about to reach the gate, the ceiling partition above his head seemed to finally be unable to bear the weight on it, and with a "creak", it was broken from the middle.

Several experimental subjects fell from the ceiling so unexpectedly, and landed in front of the unexpected researchers.

The researchers were stunned for a moment, then screamed and ran towards the door in a hurry.

77, who was still on the ceiling with a face full of shock, looked at each other with a dozen other subjects, blinked and jumped off the ceiling.

They have no time to think about how these experimental subjects appeared on the ceiling. They only know that they don't have any weapons that can resist them, so they can only squeeze towards the door.

There was a group of people crowded at the door, and everyone wanted to be the first to go out, so under the scramble, everyone was trapped at the door instead, and no one was able to open the door.

At the place where the experimental subject fell, the researcher was already empty, and a large area was vacated in the center of the conference room. 77 stood there, watching them with fear and panic, one after another when he dragged his tail to approach.The screams continued.

They are like baby elephants who have been tamed in a circus since they were young. They were instilled in their infancy with the idea that the thin chains around their necks could not be broken off.When 77 broke the glass for the first time, they broke the "chain" around their necks, but in fact there was still an invisible chain around their necks.

77 looked at these researchers who were not as tall as him. They were once irresistible in the eyes of the experimental subjects. Although they were weak and weak compared with the experimental subjects, in their eyes in the past, "mother" had always been strong, difficult to resist.conquered.

77 approached one of the researchers. He was obviously terrified, his body was shaking, and he closed his eyes and threw the paper materials in his hand towards 77.

Some hard paper slipped across 77's face, leaving a thin bloodstain on the side of his face.

Compared with the wound 77 caused in the experiment, it is not worth mentioning at all.

This door was finally opened, and the researchers who were crowded at the door finally found a way out. They pushed hard to the outside, and no one was willing to fall behind and face the experimental subjects.

Occasionally someone fell down and stretched out a hand in the crowd, but was quickly stepped on by the people behind, while the group of people at the back, rolling and crawling, ran forward while screaming.

77 turned his head and looked at an experimental subject next to him. He pointed to the crowd in front of him, and said in a novel tone: "Look, this is also 'Mom'."

It is the "mother" who speaks softly at birth and takes care of them wholeheartedly. It is the "mother" who does not hesitate to use the knife to carry out the experiment. When they try to escape from prison, it is the "mother" who can use various means to suppress them."Mother".

Now in front of them, the one who has no power to resist is also "mother".

He looked at the noisy crowd, flicked his tail, and then bared his teeth and chased in a certain direction.

——

The number of researchers in the lab outnumbered the subjects, so despite the advantage, some researchers ran out.

The rest of the experimental subjects in the third area have been released. They analyzed the smell of "mother" remaining in the air, trying to find the hidden researchers from the corner.

77 has stopped this "chasing game".

He yawned, and then told an experimental subject beside him: "Go ahead, I'm going to find 76."

Although he was eager to see 76 when he left, but when he approached the isolation room, 77's pace slowed down.

77 knew that the commotion they made in the conference room was not small, and 76 must have heard the commotion, and naturally, he might have already come out of the glass room and followed other experimental subjects to chase the researcher.

Even though he knew in his heart that there was nothing wrong with 76 doing this, but when he thought that he was not the first subject to see 76 coming out of the glass room, 77 felt somewhat lost for no reason.

The tip of 77's tail hung down, but he still didn't stop his footsteps.The sound of the tail sliding across the floor was obvious, and 77 soon heard another familiar voice: "77?"

77 quickened his pace, stopped at the door of the isolation room, then pushed open the door forcefully, and saw 76 standing beside a pile of glass shards, with a smile on his face.He stood there as if he had been waiting for a long time.

When he saw 76, the tail behind 77 flicked happily. He felt his ears burning for no reason, and his voice slowed down: "You're still here."

76 nodded: "You said let me wait here for your return."

So he has been waiting here, so that when 77 comes over, he can see it at a glance.

The glass in the isolation room was broken by 76 when he heard the commotion in the meeting room, and saw 77 happily wanting to come towards him, but 76 uttered a voice telling him not to move.

"What's wrong?" 77 asked him suspiciously, he stiffly maintained the movement just now, and his white tail was stretched straight.

"You stand there first." 76 said, using his tail to sweep away the glass shards nearby, and then stopped in front of 77.

"Now you can move."

After 76 spoke, 77 quickly wrapped his tail up, and tied the tip of the tail with 76's black tail in a knot.

The side of his face was lightly touched by 76's hand.

"You are hurt."

"Huh?" 77 looked at him suspiciously, he subconsciously moved his tail, but didn't feel any pain.

76's hand stopped near the shallow bloodstain that was drawn on the side of 77's face.

Some animals are used to disinfecting with saliva after being injured. When facing some small wounds, the experimental subjects are also used to sticking out their tongues to lick the wound.

77's body was embraced by 76, and his slender and forked tongue carefully slid over the wound, disinfecting him carefully and meticulously.

One of 77's hands unconsciously grasped the long black hair in his hand. After 76 let go, he buried his face on 76's shoulder, and his tail tightly wrapped around 76's tail.

76 looked down at the top of 77's head, hesitated for a moment, and hugged him tighter with both hands.

——

After leaving the isolation room, 76 and 77 walked slowly towards the third area.

They have lived in the third district for so long that now when they think about going back, they subconsciously turn to the third district.

The laboratory has become quiet again.

76 and 77 were talking all the way, and stopped when they passed a closed laboratory.

"Did you smell it?" 77 turned to look at 76 beside him.

76 nodded, he also smelled it, it was the researcher's breath.

The two experimental subjects approached the closed door, and behind the door, there was an uncontrollable sound of panting.

In the past period of time, the experimental subjects have become accustomed to walking lightly, so as not to be discovered by their "mother".

But now 76 and 77 are deliberately leaving the sound of their walking.

——

Hiding in the laboratory is a researcher who has not been discovered by the experimental subjects by luck.

After pushing open the door, all the researchers discovered that there were other experimental subjects waiting outside.He was in a stagnant position at the time. Coincidentally, he was surrounded by a group of experimental subjects, and he slipped out smoothly because of the number of researchers.

But this does not mean that he is safe now, there are still experimental subjects patrolling the corridor back and forth, looking for the researchers who were left out.

He covered his mouth, trying to make the movement of his breathing smaller, but after a few times of coming and going, and then quickly going away, the movement stopped at the door this time.

The researcher hiding in the cabinet was sweating on his forehead. He unconsciously clenched his hand tightly, and a red patch soon spread out.

With a "squeak", the door of the laboratory was pushed open, and the researcher subconsciously curled up even tighter in the cabinet. 76 and 77 walked in and smelled the smell of blood gradually spreading in the air, and the source was a cabinet in the laboratory.

The researcher hiding in the cabinet heard the sound of the tail dragging on the ground, as if it was ringing in his ears clearly. His eyes were bloodshot, and he lowered his head and stared at the thin slit under the cabinet by his feet.Light filtered in from there, and the floor of the laboratory could be seen.

Soon, the only visible floor pattern in the field of vision was replaced by a white tail thicker than his waist. After the white snake tail passed by, a black tail also quickly passed by.

The researcher gasped for breath, the smell of blood on his hands made his eyes redder, and he lowered his head and stared there in a daze.

The sound of the tail sliding across the floor kept ringing, one after another, as if hitting directly on his heart.

Whether it was intentional or not, one of the glassware on the experimental table was pushed down and fell to the ground, making a crisp sound, and the person hiding in the cabinet trembled subconsciously.

And 77 raised his head after hearing the sound, his eyes swept across the pile of bottles and cans on the table.

They know that the container with something inside should not be touched, and there may be dangerous items in it that they don't understand, but things like empty test tubes don't seem to have such hidden dangers.

77 slowly pushed a bunch of empty glassware to the edge of the table with his hands, then raised his tail, and poked the tip of his tail lightly on the glass bottle, and soon there was a crisp glass breaking sound again.

77 turned his head and glanced at the cabinet, and encountered a cold object in his hand. It was 76 who took another empty bottle and put it on his right hand.

The researcher hiding in the cabinet listened to the continuous sound of glass breaking. After about ten minutes, the two snakes finally stopped.

They were still walking back and forth in this small laboratory, their long tails occasionally passed by the researcher's line of sight, and several times they even got close to the cabinet he was in, and the tail touched the cabinet as they moved forward, smashing the cabinet.Shaking.

The person who was already frightened was even more nervous. He bent his body and almost couldn't help screaming.

Simply, the two snakes didn't seem to find what they wanted here. After losing interest, they quickly dragged their tails and walked towards the door.

Researchers hear the door being opened, followed by another loud slam.

He was still huddled in the cabinet, looking down at the patterns on the floor. After a few more minutes, his breathing gradually eased, and he loosened his hands, wanting to move his blood-poor hands and feet.

He raised his head subconsciously, and saw a pair of green eyes through the gap above his head.

When he raised his head, his eyes narrowed happily, as if to say, "I found you."