"How far do we have to go?" Renata asked quietly in the dark corridor.

Even though she deliberately kept her voice as low as possible, her words still echoed endlessly in the corridor, which was enough to show how long the corridor was.

“Black Swan Harbor is actually bigger than you think. This building was designed with many hidden facilities, such as attics, terraces and...basements.” Elena said lightly.

Black Swan Port, four o'clock in the morning, area B of the experimental area.

In the corridor, two girls walked side by side. They were now in the experimental area of ​​Black Swan Port. The owner of the port here, Dr. Herzog, would often do some scientific research that was beneficial to the motherland, and climbed to the extreme in the Cold War.

, when the arms race reaches a freezing point, there will always be someone who wants to find another way and create some creations that can break the situation.

I heard that Black Swan Port was born for this purpose, so there is a special experimental area here, which covers about one-third of the entire port. The three buildings are connected together in a concave shape, making the corridor inside very long.

People are terrified.

This is the most mysterious place in Black Swan Harbor. I heard that screams sometimes come from here at night, and bloody footprints can often be seen in the corridors. There are embryos of unknown animals hidden in the laboratory, with bloodshot and sinewy features.

Membrane. Some people even witnessed it with their own eyes. A skinned polar bear was lying on the operating table, and the internal organs of the abdomen were still pulsating...

From various sources, it seems that the experimental area has been created as a restricted area, and it is indeed a restricted area for those who have no interest in it. There are electrified barbed wire fences at each entrance with the words "no entry" written in Russian. Even the nurses have no right to step on it.

Take a step further.

But now, they boldly broke in. Yelena got the key from somewhere, opened a door to the experimental area, and brought Renata in openly. It looked like she should be

A habitual criminal knows every route by heart without looking at a map.

Renata was walking in the lonely corridor, and could only hear the breathing of herself and Elena. Every time she said a word here, the sound would echo through the empty building, so she could only cover her mouth gently,

I was afraid of waking up the monster hidden in this dark building.

The only approximate light source for the two of them is the lantern in Elena's hand. The light brightness is limited and can only illuminate the darkness within five meters. It is like traveling in heavy fog. You never know what is waiting for you in the deep darkness.

.

“I feel like someone is following us behind us.” Renata turned her head and looked behind her uneasily.

“No one is allowed in the experimental area except for doctors and related personnel. How could there be others?” Yelena also looked back behind her and comforted Renata.

“…” In fact, Renata didn’t feel wrong, because someone was really following them at this moment.

Lin Nian hid in the corner, avoiding Renata's sudden turning gaze. He had received professional tracking training from the execution department. It couldn't be easier to track two children like this, especially when one of them was following

He knew this tacitly, and even if Renata accidentally caught a glimpse of him, Elena would probably fool her into seeing him wrong, right?

In the pink room converted from an abandoned freezer, Lin Nian, who was hiding in the closet, listened to the entire conversation between the two. Perhaps from Renata's perspective, what Yelena said, such as 'emperor' and so on

, a bit foggy. But from Lin Nian's point of view, every word Elena said was like thunder.

 ‘Emperor’ appeared decades ago.

 The blond girl turned out to be someone from decades ago.

 The ‘Emperor’ actually hunted down the blond girl during these years.

 The blonde girl’s ability is to ‘tamper with cognition’.

 …

 But judging from the fact that the blond girl does not have sex appearing in her mind, can it be considered that the emperor was successfully pursued? But why is the blond girl still leaning over him like a ghost?

Lin Nian didn't know, but the blond girl asked him to read on, which probably meant that some of the mysteries might really be revealed this time. He followed the two of them to the end of the corridor, where there was a green-skinned room.

Next to the wooden door hangs a silver house number with a scrawled German sentence engraved on it.

Elena read out this string of characters in German. Renata looked up at her and seemed confused. She translated it in Russian, "Dr. Jung von Herzog, this is the doctor's office."

.”

“Doctor’s office?” Renata’s face turned green at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In Black Swan Port, every child is afraid of the head nurse. This is because the head nurse has the power to confine people. But the doctor is different. He almost never confines people. When the children are naughty, he will only show a gentle smile like an elder. As it should be.

No one is afraid of this old man, but when the name of the doctor is mentioned, there is no child who does not clench his legs and his face changes... because the doctor has operated on almost everyone, and brain surgery requires cutting.

The machine's scalpel was a daunting memory, deeply engraved in everyone's mind in a physical form.

Renata had never had an operation, but she was surrounded by children who were in awe of doctors. Over time, she also developed a fear of the gentle and rigorous old man, even though he had always been very kind to her and did not allow her to undergo surgery.

Taiwan. There was a time when she naively thought that the doctor treated her as a special family member, but then when she discovered some obscure and indifferent emotions in the old man's eyes when he occasionally glanced at all the children, Renata felt quietly in her heart

This possibility is ruled out.

"What are you afraid of? If I want, I can still be the doctor's biological daughter." The blond girl shrugged.

 “But I’m not.” Renata grimaced.

"You can be, do you think so?" The blonde girl tilted her head and looked at Renata, "I can set you to be the doctor's illegitimate daughter. Your mother is a popular singer in the Soviet Union, so boys can

I begin to think that you are just underdeveloped now and will grow into a real woman with long legs and a slim waist in the future!"

 “I feel like I can’t grow much taller.” Renata said subconsciously.

"Try to drink more milk. If you have time, jump with rubber bands to help stretch your bones. This is scientifically based." Yelena opened the door to the office as she spoke. Renata was distracted from the topic and forgot to stop her.

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When she opened the door, it was dark in the office. Yelena turned on the light on the wall. The warm yellow light illuminated the room filled with bookshelves. Compared to an office, this place was more like a study room, with bookshelves on both sides.

There are books in various languages, most of which are in Russian and German, and there are a few rare languages ​​that Renata has never even added.

"Aren't we going to find that little boy... Matvey? Why are you here?" Renata asked, shrinking her head and looking at the bookish room.

 “He is right here.” Elena said.

“Right here?” Renata and Lin Nian, who was hiding outside the office door and eavesdropping, were both stunned.

The office like the study is not big, only about fifty square meters at most, and most of the place is filled with bookshelves and books. There is no place to hide people. Could it be that the little boy is hiding under the desk?

Just when Renata wanted to ask a question, she found that Yelena went straight to the chair behind the desk and sat down, adjusting her sitting posture comfortably, making her completely confused as to who this girl was here for.

It's a human being who came to the doctor's office as an excuse to cause trouble.

“Come in, if you don’t come in, you won’t have a chance to come in.” Elena said.

Renata subconsciously took a few steps forward at the door. Yelena bent down and opened the third drawer of the desk. She didn't know what she did inside. Suddenly, the whole office shook, and the books on the bookshelf collided with each other.

Unusual noise.

Renata's whole body tensed up, thinking she was in trouble. She looked back at the door she came from, only to find that it was no longer a corridor, but a slowly moving wall! No...it wasn't the wall that was moving.

, but they are moving. This office is like an elevator, taking this study-like room slowly sinking toward the underground of Black Swan Port.

No wonder Yelena said that if she didn't come in, she wouldn't have a chance to come in. She didn't say this to Renata, but to Lin Nian outside the door. He also entered the room the moment the elevator started.

Nata stood behind her without noticing it at all. When Renata turned her head, he moved his position. His speed and reaction were fast enough to ensure that he would definitely appear in the opponent's field of vision.

Elena seemed to be completely unable to see such a big person behind Renata. She looked at the bewildered girl in front of her and told her calmly, "We are going to find Matvey now, but Matvey's condition remains.

Neither is very good, so don’t panic or scream when you see him.”

"Why is he in...a place like this?" Renata's lips were a little dry, and she realized that she seemed to have touched a taboo that she shouldn't touch. The experimental area was already mysterious enough, and the doctor hiding in the experimental area

How taboo is the place that a secret elevator leads to in the office? What is the situation of Matvey who is hidden there? She has no idea what will happen next and can only look at Yelie helplessly

Na, because Yelena led all of this to happen, she can only follow the other person's pace now.

“Actually, I’ve known Matvey a long time before you did.” Yelena felt the vibration of the office sinking and said, “It’s just that the timing of our first meeting was not very good, and I couldn’t communicate with him at all.”

“Unable to communicate...? Didn’t he know how to speak at that time?” Renata thought of the little boy who couldn’t even use a spoon.

"No, it's worse than this." Yelena looked at Renata...or the boy behind her and said, "At that time, he was just like a bloodthirsty beast, a complete little monster.

"

"Little monster?" Renata couldn't understand, because in her opinion, the boy named Matvey was so harmless, even stupid and timid. This kind of child would hide in the corner with his head in his hands even if he was bullied.

Are you going to get hit by rocks? How come it has anything to do with monsters?

“Without reason, without consciousness, completely controlled by the killing instinct.” Elena said, “What did you think of?”

“Monster?” Renata originally wanted to say polar bear, but sometimes polar bears also have very cute scenes, such as taking the little polar bear to play in the snow. There is no reason or consciousness, only man-eating monsters in fairy tales.

"He was like that when I first met him." Yelena said, "The first moment he saw me, he jumped on me and bit my throat like a mad dog. Fortunately, his

There were five chains on my body, so I wasn't thrown to the ground by him, but the force he burst out in that moment almost tore down the wall... I admit, I was scared at that time, almost.

Then he turned around and ran away."

"Five iron chains? What did he do wrong to be imprisoned?" Renata asked in a low voice. In her impression, only criminals would wear iron chains, and only the heinous and inhumane truly bad ones could wear them.

He will be chained by five chains, but Matvey is only a four or five-year-old child. What reason is there for him to receive such inhuman treatment?

"I don't know, maybe his birth was a mistake." Elena said, "A mistake that is never allowed by the ethics of the world."

“Even you can’t communicate with him?” Renata asked softly.

"Yes, my tampering with cognition has no effect on him. I have tried to use my ability to change my status in his mind many times but failed. From 'master' to 'doctor' at the beginning, and then to a milder '

Neither family nor friends had any effect, but many times I crossed the safety red line and was almost killed by him," Yelena said.

“He...he is just a child, how could he kill someone?”

“Leopard cubs will bite when they are young, let alone monsters.”
To be continued...