Zhou Qiming didn't refuse, "Then, Dr. Lu, we'll trouble you."
Qin Woyu hesitated for a moment but ultimately remained silent. He put on the diving helmet Lu Yan handed him and connected an oxygen tank.
Lu Yan lifted Qin Woyu around the waist. The nearly 1.8 meters tall man felt as light as a stack of papers.
Qin Woyu took off the helmet, held it in his arms, and asked in a low voice, "Is your last name also Lu?"
"Yes."
"Number 18's last name is also Lu."
Lu Yan replied, "He is my father."
Qin Woyu hesitated for a while and slowly said, "Did the accident at the institute happen because Number 18 came back?"
Lu Yan didn't answer immediately. After careful consideration, he said, "The Tenth Research Institute has deviated from its original purpose. You shouldn't be treated like this."
The corridor in the experimental area was long, and the only sound was his footsteps.
Qin Woyu seemed to consider Lu Yan as one of their own, leaning his head on Lu Yan's shoulder, "Number 18 is the code for the institute's experimental subject, and I am Number 3."
"Many surgeries are painful. When we couldn't hold on, 18 would tell us about the outside world. By then, we had been in the research institute for over ninety years. We didn't know what the outside world had become."
"My mother passed away. I couldn't attend her funeral because people from the institute said it was unsafe outside. Her ashes were placed in a small urn and handed to me."
"In the past, to let 18 escape, 02 died, and 01 was very sad. I pretended to be sick at that time, delaying many people. My researcher was angry and threw away my mother's urn."
"18 said he would come back to save us, to build a new home outside. We waited for a long time, ten years and another ten years, and began to feel hopeless. Then today came."
Qin Woyu's expression was somewhat sad, "But we are neither human nor pollutants. Where can we go, after all?"
Lu Yan's expression remained unchanged, calmly narrating, "He lied to you. Saying that was just to make you help him escape. You should know that 07 also escaped from the institute. Without 07, even if you waited until death, no one would come to rescue you."
"The person who wants to save you, besides 07, is your brother."
Qin Woyu looked puzzled, "Isn't he... already dead?" When the contamination case of Subject 0 was solved, Qin Woyu had a high fever for a long time. When he woke up, he received the notice that his brother had become a pollutant and was purged. That was the last of Qin Woyu's ten relatives in the mortal world.
The system suddenly spoke, "[If you want to send him away, 07 is now on the seventh floor underground. 01 has arrived, just around the corner of the first ten corridors. I'm sorry I couldn't notify you in advance because he has the talent of teleportation. He was just at the edge of the Great Wall, over a hundred kilometers away.]"
"[If you want to stay alive, I advise you to behave kindly, really.]"
So, Lu Yan asked with a lowered head, "Do you want to go? 07 should still be on the seventh floor underground, and you can make it there now."
Qin Woyu whispered, "I don't want to go with 01 and the others. I have been a burden since I was a child, attracting other pollutants. Taking me with them would be troublesome."
Lu Yan's expression didn't change much, but he felt a chill creeping up his back. He walked to the corner, where there were no people.
At this moment, ten hands covered his eyes.
It was very cold, and the touch felt like metal.
If a pollutant's contamination value is high enough, even if it doesn't have inherent infectivity, it can become a powerful pollution source.
Fish scales on Lu Yan's body uncontrollably emerged.
In his arms, Qin Woyu looked shocked, "Brother Gu Zheng...?! What are you doing?"
Although 01's distortion level was not high, at least maintaining a human appearance, the aura emanating from him clearly no longer belonged to a human.
The detection device on Lu Yan's wrist sounded an alarm, very loud. Gu Zheng reached out, crushing the watch in his hand.
Gu Zheng's ten pairs of eyes were a deep, bright red.
His hand slowly grasped Lu Yan's neck.
Although 01 didn't exert force, Lu Yan still felt a suffocating sensation.
"[Gu Zheng, experimental subject 01, codenamed Hound. Formerly the best sniper in the Special Operations Department. Although Tang Xunan doesn't use guns, he did learn shooting from him.]"
"[After a series of experiments, his affinity for humans has turned negative. After becoming a pollutant,
there have been irreversible changes in his way of thinking. For example, he believes that the current humans are inferior primitive species... in need of purification.]"
The system mentioned purification, not evolution. This already indicated 01's current attitude.
"[Mutation direction: Animalization, Bloodthirstiness.]"
"[Contamination value: 16200]"
These were the highest contamination values Lu Yan had encountered among pollutants so far.
According to headquarters standards, a contamination value exceeding 10000 is S-class. Beyond that, humans are unable to deal with it.
Every ten S-class pollutants, in today's world, were like suddenly introducing modern firearms into a battlefield of cold weapons. It was completely a suppressive killing power. Trying to deal with them would always come at a great cost.
Lu Yan's ten hands hugged Qin Woyu's waist, and his other ten hands were raised, making a surrender gesture to show that they were harmless.
Hound said slowly, "My researcher told me that Number 10 likes you a lot."
"I don't want to fight with him yet. I'll take you to exchange for other experimental subjects. Do you think Tang Xunan would agree?"
After saying that, the dog tail behind him wagged gently.
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