Looking at the printed year on the banknote, Li Tongchen couldn't help but frown.

What's this?

Wrong version of banknotes?

Although he has never come into contact with this thing, he has heard that wrong edition banknotes are extremely valuable and are treasured by many collectors.

Why did the developer behind the real doomsday game give him a wrong version of the banknote as a gift?

Staring at the words 2025 above, Li Tongchen's face was as dark as water.

As a great figure in the medical field, he also dabbles in psychology to a certain extent in his spare time.

When he was playing the game, he had already felt that the person who developed the game was not just for fun. Many game tasks had obvious choices.

Choose someone who can save humanity at all costs.

Many moral tortures in the game directly point to people's hearts.

Li Tongchen himself also highly agrees with many of the concepts revealed by this developer in the game.

This may be why he became one of the people who cleared the game and obtained the vaccine ingredients.

Because of this, there must be a reason for what the other party does.

This banknote must have a meaning behind it.

After staring at the banknotes in his hand for a few minutes, Li Tongchen took out his cell phone and dialed a phone number.

It was his old classmate Wang Aihua, who currently works at the Central Bank and is a senior official in the minting field.

The call was dialed quickly, and a gentle and familiar voice rang:

"Old Li, hahaha, you are such an old boy. You are the winner of the Lasker Prize in Medicine and will soon win the Nobel Prize. You are a great hero! Hahahaha, you are an old tree blooming with new flowers! You are as busy as a bear.

, why are you calling me when you have time? When will you come to the capital to congratulate you? No, it has to make you bleed. You should treat a few old brothers to a big dinner. I tell you, I won’t go if you don’t drink Maotai.

ha."

Hearing Wang Aihua's words, Li Tongchen couldn't help but feel warm in his heart.

He and Wang Aihua were high school classmates. They both came from a small county. They supported each other and took care of each other when they were young. They were basically the people he trusted the most.

"I'm just talking nonsense. What about the Nobel Prize? I don't even have a single horoscope. If you drink Maotai, just drink Maotai. I'm still afraid of your two taels?" Li Tongchen curled his lips and said.

"Hahaha, okay, we can't get rid of any surgery this time, I won't stop until I'm drunk!" Wang Aihua joked, then his voice became solemn and asked: "Tell me, what's going on? A knife has been sent from the sky?"

Nonsense is nonsense, he naturally knows that his old classmate is very busy now, and if there is nothing unexpected during this period, he will not come to him.

"I have a banknote here, and I want you to help me check if it is the wrong version." Li Tongchen said calmly, "I have become fond of collecting these days. How about I send it directly to your home?"

Wang Aihua knew that the calmer his old friend was, the more it meant that the matter was not simple. He did not ask in detail at the moment and said: "No, just send it to my office. If you make a fortune, I can also take advantage of it."

"Okay." After Li Tongchen said that, he hung up the phone.

After thinking for a moment, he put the hundred-dollar bill into an envelope, asked his assistant to call the courier, and then gave up after watching the items being bagged and sent away.

Instead of returning to the office, he took a taxi directly to Huashan Hospital and found his friend Lu Ran, the vice president who had met him several times.

Both are elites in the medical field. He and Lu Ran have only met at a few academic conferences, and they are just acquaintances.

Among the thirteen people who discovered the stone statue virus vaccine this time, Lu Ran was among them.

At this time, although Lu Ran had just made a great contribution, he was still seeing patients. When he saw Li Tongchen appearing, he just nodded slightly, as if he had expected him to come.

Li Tongchen was not in a hurry and sat aside waiting for Lu Ran to finish the consultation.

When several nurses and doctors in the clinic saw Li Tongchen's appearance, they all looked respectful and nervous. They wanted to chat and say hello to him but didn't dare.

Li Tongchen smiled and chatted with everyone, and then took the tea from everyone. He didn't look like an academic leader at all, but like the old man next door who was seeing a doctor.

It was already afternoon, and the consultation time would soon end. However, there were too many people on Lu Ran's list of experts, so it was delayed for a while.

After the patients, doctors and nurses had gone out, Li Tongchen gently closed the door, locked it, turned to Lu Ran and asked:

"Doctor Lu, are you a player?"

Lu Ran obviously understood that Li Tongchen would ask this question, he nodded and said calmly:

"Yes, we should all be disciples, otherwise we won't be able to get the vaccine ingredients."

Then Lu Ran continued:

"Doctor Li, it's a bit reckless for you to come to me directly. Although the developer didn't say anything, since he used the game to notify us, it means that he is wary of something. Perhaps the person who made him wary is hiding among us.

middle."

Li Tongchen smiled and shook his head and said:

"I may not be able to trust other people, but I can still trust Dr. Lu. I have seen your resume, and you were also on the front line of SARS at the time."

If people who can risk their lives to save lives on the clinical frontline during a pandemic are not trustworthy, then it is really difficult to find people who are trustworthy.

Lu Ran also smiled slightly, nodded and said, "You also discovered..."

"Of course, the various level tests that the developer set up, don't they want people like us? And he is not afraid of others finding him, because he is confident that no one will find him..." Li Tongchen said slowly.

Developers don't care.

"But, why would he do this? Why tell us the ingredients of the vaccine in this way? Player organization? He wants to form his own organization? Just a stone statue plague? This doesn't make any sense...unless..."

Lu Ran lit a cigarette, took a puff, and then said what Li Tongchen said:

"Unless he still needs us in the future, something similar to the stone statue disease epidemic will happen again..."

The two of them looked at each other, and their expressions became solemn. The smoke puffed out by Lu Ran seemed like a fog, covering everything...

A similar scene happened to the thirteen selected medical leaders.

All the disciples were wondering, who was calling them?

What is the purpose of calling them together?

It's just that although they were confused, they all abided by one rule, that is, they would never tell anyone except the disciples about the real Doomsday Game.

Including other players.

Even if the developers don't seem to care.

They have all had more or less contact with psychology, and they have a vague guess in their minds, but they are not willing to believe it.

Because if their speculation is true, then everything is too scary...

…

Eagle Country Silver Spring, Maryland, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) headquarters building.

As the assistant to the director, Edith stood by the floor-to-ceiling window of the office, looking at the storm outside the window and lost in thought.

The Bureau's Gulfstream aircraft should have already taken off to track the hurricane, but his heart was still at rock bottom.

Although the vaccine was finally developed and timely compulsory injection was carried out to control the spread of stone statue disease, it was still a little late after all.

Including Jason, the captain of the "Okainos" exploration team, half of the entire exploration team members were almost completely petrified, and in the end they could not be saved due to organ failure.

There are also many colleagues in the bureau who have become disabled due to early petrification symptoms.

The reason for all this is because they secretly salvaged the ruins blocked by the Chinese scientific expedition team and salvaged a large number of prehistoric stone statues that looked like virus bombs.

And this action was carried out by him against all the opinions of the public. It can be said that he is responsible for all the negative consequences.

But until now, his memory is a little fuzzy. He can no longer remember why he is so obsessed with that ruins. He even quietly reported it to the highest level and conducted in-depth lobbying before he obtained the authority to force the excavation.

Did he do something wrong?

He just doesn't want his country to miss this opportunity, or his team to miss this opportunity...

maybe……

Looking back now, think about it, why did he so firmly believe that there were good things in these ruins that could determine the fate of the country?

Just then, the phone on his desk rang.

Edith picked up the receiver, and suddenly there was a burst of white noise, followed by a low muffled sound, as if a person's heart was being grasped.

Then there was a slightly hoarse whisper:

"...go to death...forgive yourself...die...I forgive you...just need to die...forgive you...die..."

Edith's eyes became blank, she raised her hand to hang up the phone, opened the drawer, took out a revolver from inside, and put it against her chin.
Chapter completed!