Chapter 264: Good, and Bad

Seeing that Qiong Xuan had also appeared here, Han Meng's gaze tightened, and he replied calmly:

"Familiarizing myself with the terrain to facilitate patrols."

"I should have said that you don't need to worry about the third level and below, and don't do anything unnecessary... Deputy Captain Han Meng came to the third level, it seems without reporting to me?"

Han Meng's worry was finally fulfilled, but for him now, this was no longer important... His purpose for coming to the Aurora Base had been achieved.

"No," Han Meng stared at Qiong Xuan expressionlessly.

Seeming to sense Han Meng's disregard for him, a look of anger appeared on Qiong Xuan's face. He said coldly:

"Deputy Captain Han Meng, ignoring discipline, leaving your post without authorization, confined to the first level, suspended for five days... Do you have any objections?"

"No."

Chen Ling blinked and suddenly spoke, "Doesn't this deduct some salary?"

Han Meng: ???

Han Meng turned back to look at Chen Ling with an expression as if he had seen a ghost. Even when confronting Qiong Xuan, he hadn't been so uncomposed... Chen Ling's words silently stabbed Han Meng in the back of the neck, almost making him break down.

A few minutes ago, he was patting his chest saying he was absolutely on his side, and now he turned around and suggested deducting his salary... Grudges shouldn't be held like this, right??

Qiong Xuan raised an eyebrow and looked at Chen Ling, who was standing behind Han Meng with little presence, in surprise.

"And why are you here?"

"I..."

"I let him follow me," Han Meng said before Chen Ling could speak. "He was originally patrolling, and I let him follow me to supervise me, so that I wouldn't be thought to have ulterior motives if I went down to the third level alone."

"Right," Chen Ling nodded repeatedly. "He forced me."

Han Meng: ...

Han Meng was, after all, a Deputy Captain assigned here, so Qiong Xuan didn't dare to go too far in dealing with him. But Chen Ling was different; he was just a first-rank newcomer. If Qiong Xuan thought he was with Han Meng, he would likely be caught in the crossfire of his anger... Chen Ling had finally managed to infiltrate the Aurora Base, and if he were confined or expelled from the Aurora Base now, the mission would be completely ruined.

Now was the time to sell Han Meng out!

Qiong Xuan looked at Chen Ling suspiciously, but finally waved his hand: "Return to your own post."

Chen Ling turned and left without hesitation.

Han Meng's face was livid, and he also walked toward the second level. At the same time, Qiong Xuan's voice sounded again:

"Han Meng, I don't care what deal you reached with Tan Xin, but here, I have the final say... Understand?"

Faint light flickered in Han Meng's eyes. He didn't respond to Qiong Xuan and walked into the dim passage without looking back...

……

A hospital bed was slowly pushed out of the laboratory.

"Strange... The medicine has been injected for so long, why hasn't this 12138 shown any reaction yet?"

"Logically speaking, even for the first injection, there should at least be a change in skin color by now... But there seem to be no traces of mutation on his body."

"Could it be that the dosage was too small?"

"Not sure. Just push him back and observe for a while."

“……”

As the hospital bed was pushed back to the original room, several white-coated figures were about to turn and leave. Just then, one of them seemed to remember something and took out several restraint straps from the side.

"What are you doing..."

"Sigh, did you forget this is a mental patient? If he's not tied up well, what if he runs around again when he wakes up?"

"True."

The group worked together to tie Jian Changsheng tightly to the bed with restraint straps. After confirming that he wouldn't move no matter how much he pulled, they left satisfied.

The room fell into a deathly silence again.

Jian Changsheng slowly opened his eyes.

"Phew..." he let out a long breath. "What on earth did those guys inject into my body... Why does it feel kind of comfortable?"

He turned his head to look to the side. On the next hospital bed, a black object that no longer looked human was lying there. Seeing this scene, Jian Changsheng's pupils shrank slightly, as if he had been startled.

Just a moment ago, his neighbor was still a teenager. How did he become like this in the blink of an eye?

"Brother... Brother?" Jian Changsheng asked tentatively. "Are you okay?"

That puddle of black object showed no reaction. It wasn't until Jian Changsheng had given up on communicating with him that a hoarse, harsh voice slowly sounded:

"...Not very good..."

"You can still talk? I thought you were dying."

"..." He let out two bitter, dry laughs. "Probably not far from death... Compared to now, maybe it would be more of a relief to be dead."

"How do you feel?"

"Don't know... I can no longer feel my original body... Everything hurts... The perspective of my eyes is also very strange..."

Jian Changsheng tried to look up there, only to find that his face had been covered by black incantations, and he couldn't see where his eyes were at all. He couldn't help but feel some pity... He had been unlucky for so long, and it was rare to see someone worse off than him.

Jian Changsheng sighed. "Why couldn't you think it through and send yourself here..."

"Didn't you come too?"

"Me? I'm different."

*I'll be leaving in a while...* Jian Changsheng thought to himself.

Zhao Yi paused for a moment, his voice full of helplessness. "If there was a choice, who would be willing to come here... It's a pity that the lives of ordinary people like us are the least valuable."

Jian Changsheng looked at the time on the wall. It had been three hours and fifty minutes since he entered the Aurora Base... He had already missed one rendezvous opportunity during the experiment, and he absolutely couldn't miss this one again.

"Brother, do me a favor."

"...What?"

"In a moment, no matter what you see or hear, don't make a sound... Just pretend you didn't see anything, okay?"

There were only ten minutes left until the next rendezvous, which meant Jian Changsheng had to move now. And even if his movements were secret, it was impossible to hide them from Zhao Yi, who was right beside him... That was why he had tested Zhao Yi to see if he was unconscious or still conscious.

Now that the other party was still awake, he could only use this method to stabilize him first.

"Okay," Zhao Yi replied very simply.

His simplicity was actually somewhat unexpected to Jian Changsheng... He couldn't help but ask:

"Aren't you curious about what I'm going to do?"

"Mushrooms can talk now, does it matter what you do?" Zhao Yi gave two dry laughs. "You infiltrated this base, you must have a different purpose, right?"

This sentence made Jian Changsheng frown directly. He didn't expect this young man in the next bed to point out his identity so nonchalantly.

"Aren't you afraid I'm a bad person?"

"I'm already dying... Good or bad, what does it have to do with me? If you're bad, you'll just stab me to death. If that happens, maybe I should thank you."

Zhao Yi paused for a moment. In his mind, scenes of Chen Ling turning to ash on the train, Han Meng being condemned by everyone in court, and himself suffering torture in the Aurora Base appeared one after another... After a long while, he spoke hoarsely again,

"What's more, in this era, what is good and what is bad... I can no longer tell."