Demolition Earth

Chapter 38 Substitution (End)

Without any hesitation, Zhao Changqi bought what he could. The most recent ticket was for the night of the first day of the new year.

His parents didn't understand his decision. According to the habit, they had to take their son to meet a bunch of relatives.

I heard that my son found a good job before graduating, and the income is very high. The old couple has been keeping this news secret. They are planning to make a blockbuster to their relatives and friends during the Chinese New Year. But now the son is leaving, which greatly disrupts their original plan.

"There's something temporary, besides, I'll spend the New Year with you all." Zhao Changqi didn't explain too much, he knew that this kind of thing couldn't be explained.He didn't dare to tell his parents where he went, they just thought he was going back to school and going to work.

During the day of the first day of the new year, he hurriedly paid New Year's greetings to relatives at home and expressed his apologies. After dinner at night, he went to the train station.

A person waited for more than two hours in an empty train station before getting on the train, in a daze.

Long-distance train rides are very boring. Most people go out to visit relatives. When they meet each other, they all have a happy New Year. They are very friendly and chat casually.But Zhao Changqi really didn't think so.

He bought a sleeper berth, and he was face to face with people, but he didn't want to talk, so he could only take out his mobile phone and stare at it in a daze.

Yang Fan has never contacted him, this kind of thing is very rare.Neither did Li Daiyuan, which is also rare.

At the transfer station, Zhao Changqi saw a man wearing earphones and experimental glasses in a restaurant, smiling and chatting into the earphones.

When they saw themselves, the two looked at each other, but the other immediately turned their eyes away.

Zhao Changqi had an impulse at that time, rushed over to say something into the earphone, and asked something.

But he held back.

The man seemed to avoid him, took the food and left in a hurry.

Zhao Changqi suddenly had a very uncomfortable feeling. He didn't know if Yang Fan was in the earphones and said something to that person, or if he didn't say anything.

No matter what it is, I don't know it, but Yang Fan knows it all.

Before knowing Yang Fan, Zhao Changqi felt that the relationship between people in society was a little alienated and indifferent, and he thought it was bad.

But now he found that it was even worse, people began to lose their indifference, but all the smiles belonged to others.

As long as Yang Fan is willing, he can be friends with everyone in the world. If there is such a day, his voice will be spoken from the mouths of 60 billion people...

Zhao Changqi didn't dare to imagine.

After changing trains, he sat on the train for a whole day. The long-distance travel made Zhao Changqi in a bad state. When he got off the train, he was in a dazed state and was crowded out of the station by a group of people.

When he walked out to the pick-up station, someone patted him on the shoulder and turned his head to see that it was Li Daiyuan.

He looked more sleepy than himself, his eyes were red, but they were shining brightly.

But his expression was downcast again, and his brows were twisted and tightened. When he saw him, he didn't speak, but patted him on the shoulder, and then took him out of the station together.

A military car was picked up outside, driven by a man in military uniform, who seemed to be an orderly.

When he opened the car door for the two of them, he saluted Li Daiyuan habitually. Li Daiyuan returned the salute, then turned his head and said to him: "Actually, you have a rank now, so pay back the salute."

Zhao Changqi was surprised because no one had ever mentioned it to him, but he subconsciously straightened his back and learned Li Daiyuan's movements.

"Turn off your phone." The driver reminded him before he got into the car.

The atmosphere in the car was very silent. Li Daiyuan was sitting in the co-pilot's seat, smoking one cigarette after another in his hand. The cold wind outside the window penetrated through the window he opened, making Zhao Changqi shrink his neck subconsciously.

When Li Daiyuan finished another cigarette and was lighting a new one with a lighter, he asked him, "What happened?"

He has roughly guessed that it is definitely not Du Yan's alone, nor Yang Fan's alone, but their affairs are getting together, and Li Daiyuan's department is also getting involved.

Li Daiyuan turned his head and asked: "Zhao Changqi, you and Du Yan have known each other for a month or so."

"Correct."

"Do you think you understand her?"

Zhao Changqi shook his head. Although he and Du Yan already had a physical relationship, their communication with each other was still very shallow, limited to some basic hobbies and experiences, and they were far from understanding each other.

"How long do you think it would take to fully understand a stranger if it's your job?"

"You fully understand what you said, how much do you understand?"

"You can roughly guess what he does every day, to this extent."

"I think... about a few months."

"A few months?" Li Daiyuan smiled, "Then you can come to be a first-rate intelligence analyst."

Zhao Changqi asked: "What about you? How long will it take?"

"We have internal standards. Within three days, understand the basic life rules of this person; within one month, understand all his hobbies and relationships, including emotional and financial relationships with people around him; within six months to a year, judge His basic behavior pattern, what time does he do on weekdays, what he does on weekends, and what he wants to buy; finally, in two years, determine a person’s personality and behavior patterns, whether he will stay at home or go out for excitement when he is broken in love, and will cry when his parents die. He will still go to the insurance company, what will he say when he is arrested by the police, what will he say to the lawyer, what will he say to the partner, what will he say to the subordinate... In two years, we can have a basic framework , the correct rate is barely acceptable, and it will increase year by year in the future, but it is also very limited."

Li Daiyuan took a sharp puff of cigarette: "But do you know how long he only needs?"

Zhao Changqi seemed to be burned by that flickering cigarette butt. He shook his whole body and said, "I read your information, which said that he persuaded a man to divorce his wife for three days."

"That was half a year ago... Now he doesn't do these things. His superiors were afraid of affecting stability, so they talked to him. But I saw it yesterday, and it only took 3 minutes, strictly speaking, 195 seconds," Li Daiyuan glanced at Zhao Changqi , "It only took 195 seconds to persuade a person to give up everything about him."

"How...how did she die?"

"Strictly speaking, she's not dead. It's a man-made brain death. It's done with an S treatment device. There's no pain and she's very quiet. When we saw her, she seemed to be asleep and was still breathing."

Zhao Changqi opened his mouth, and only said one word: "Oh."

"Then experts went up to test and found that there was no brain activity, which is completely defined as a vegetative state in medicine."

"Maybe she will wake up..." Zhao Changqi whispered to himself.

"No more," Li Daiyuan broke his fantasy, "The experts took two hours to confirm the death, and then handed it over to him."

"What do you mean?"

"You'll find out when you get there."

The car has been driving, and it has been a long time since I left the city. The surrounding scenery has changed from the city, to the town, to the field, and finally to the Gobi, and the desert.

The road gradually disappeared into the yellow sand, but road signs could still be seen at intervals.Every time he drove a certain distance, Li Daiyuan had to confirm the direction.

About four or five hours later, the car drove into a low building complex, which looked like a small town, but outside the town, Zhao Changqi saw many army green trucks and cars parked neatly.

There are soldiers standing guard at every intersection and building gate in the town, and every time a sentry car passes by, Zhao Changqi will stop once, saluting with Li Daiyuan, while guessing in his mind where this is.

The car drove into the interior of a building, where there was a long spiral slope leading directly to the ground, like a modern huge mine seen on TV.

But after entering, the volume inside became smaller and smaller, which made people feel more like a huge air-raid shelter. Finally, the car stopped in the inner parking lot. Three people came out, and the guards walked back to the ground. Only Li Daiyuan took He continued walking inside.

The inside is very quiet, the main thing you can see is the staggered, long corridors, and every footstep can hear the echo from the depths of the cave.

After walking a short distance, Zhao Changqi could see a small room appearing on both sides of the passage, or a passage in other directions, and there were soldiers in military uniforms coming and going, all of which looked hurried.

This made Zhao Changqi deeply uneasy, because in his impression, Du Yan seemed to be in a certain hospital, and she and here, just like himself and here, seemed to have no intersection at all.

There is no floor display in the elevator, only a similar code like ABCDE.Zhao Changqi only felt that the elevator had been running downward for a long time, and then stopped.

When the elevator doors opened, he found his entire field of vision brightened.

At first, Zhao Changqi thought that they had walked out of the mountain again, but he soon realized that it was wrong. This was a huge underground space. When he looked up, he could clearly see that there were many passages and platforms around the dome of this space. Some places are still under construction, and the light of electric welding will flicker from time to time.

Along the central axis of his field of vision, he searched the center of the square with his eyes, which was empty except for a large irregular stone, which was quietly placed on the ground.

Compared with the flat ground below it, it seems to be the most incongruous thing here, just like a piece of construction waste randomly generated by the surrounding construction was abandoned here.

But Zhao Changqi had read the relevant information, he knew what this stone was, and he immediately thought why the country put it in such a remote place.

Afraid of it exploding.

Li Daiyuan took Zhao Changqi, just passed by from a distance, pointed at the stone, and laughed at himself: "When it was brought here for the first time, there were several people around, and you didn't know the excitement on their faces. It's like my parents jumped out of the coffin."

"My old superior called me over, pointed at it and said, don't you always think that your monitoring objects are too simple?"

"It's not easy for you now."

"At that time, I just thought it was a political joke made by some country or company, or some new concept project we were going to do internally to test our imagination."

Following a tangential line, they entered a passage at the other end of the square, turned several turns in the passage, and finally came to a room.

It's a white room with a red cross on the wall.

There was only one hospital bed in the room, and three people were sitting on the stool in front of the hospital bed. The hospital bed was empty, and two of them were lying on one side of the hospital bed. They seemed to be asleep, and their hair was all It was gray and the clothes on his body were very plain, not military uniforms.

The third person, wearing a white coat, turned his head when he heard the door opening, and nodded to the two of them, but instead of speaking, he turned his gaze back to where he was looking at just now.

Following his line of sight, Zhao Changqi saw a machine at the end of the ward, which he had also seen in the data, a special treatment device for S therapy.

Zhao Changqi stepped forward and saw its display interface according to the information.It's very simple, just two lights that are on, one is green, which means it is being treated, and the other is red, which means it is not working.Right now, the green light is glowing.

Except for these two lamps, there was no movement in the whole cabinet.

Zhao Changqi looked at Li Daiyuan puzzled, didn't he say he was dead?Still in treatment?Could aliens be able to bring the dead back to life!
Then Li Daiyuan brought over a piece of paper, which was a consent form for surgery. The wording was very simple, that is, he agreed to undergo surgery, but the cause of the disease on it was not leukemia, but depression.

Li Daiyuan pulled Zhao Changqi out of the door again, turned on his phone and checked the time: "According to what he said, the surgery will take about four hours."

"I know you have a lot of problems right now, but you also know our business, there are many things I can't tell you.

I can only say that after four hours, the girl will come back to life, but she is no longer Du Yan.

She will still use the name Du Yan and use her identity to carry out activities, but you can guess her real identity without me telling you. "

Zhao Changqi's mind went blank.

"On our side, we need someone to follow her without attracting attention. That's why I called you here. I don't think you will refuse this job."

Zhao Changqi nodded. Tens of thousands of thoughts suddenly burst into his mind at this moment, but he was sure none of them escaped.

Du Yan's parents woke up after a while. They probably also knew that Zhao Changqi seemed to have been her daughter's boyfriend. They said a few words casually, but their minds were completely on the treatment device in front of them.Every once in a while, they will subconsciously and anxiously see that doctor.

Four hours seemed a long time, but Zhao Changqi felt it was very fast. He was sitting in the ward, and before he could even figure out the ins and outs of the whole thing, the green light went off and the red light came on.

This seemed to be a very important moment, Zhao Changqi stood up subconsciously, his face was stiff, as if he wanted to put on a certain expression, but he failed.

The door of the treatment device was not opened, and the old couple turned their heads to look at the doctor again. The doctor told them to wait, and at this moment, the door slowly slid open.

Du Yan was wearing a light green hospital gown and stood in the apparatus. She glanced at her parents, then at the doctor, then at Li Daiyuan, and finally at Zhao Changqi.These movements were slow, deliberate and blunt, which made Zhao Changqi immediately believe what Li Daiyuan said, she was not Du Yan.

She opened her mouth as if to speak, but only a few syllables came out.The expression on her face moved, it seemed to be a smile, but she couldn't control it well, and the smile was ugly.Then she picked up the phone again, tapped it a few times with her fingers abruptly, and typed out a line of words: "I can't talk now, I want to rest."

The old couple was very excited, holding the doctor's hand and thanking them repeatedly. After all, they watched their daughter die and come back to life. They didn't understand anything, and they didn't care about anything. As long as the daughter was still alive, that was all.

But the doctor's expression was serious, and his eyes were always on Du Yan. To the doctor, Du Yan is now at the forefront of world medicine, and every symptom and performance on her may be a topic.

When Zhao Changqi left the ward, the old couple were still nagging him, telling him to take good care of Du Yan in the future and not to lose his temper - listening to what they said, it seemed that Du Yan wanted to commit suicide because of a broken relationship.

When Zhao Changqi walked out the door, he finally took a look at Du Yan through the glass. Du Yan seemed to be looking out as well. Zhao Changqi couldn't find any trace of Du Yan in her eyes, and it could even be said that he couldn't find any human beings. shadow.

At this moment, Zhao Changqi suddenly felt a strong disgust and unwillingness in his heart, as if the most beautiful thing in the world was taken by a strange and indifferent existence, and he could only watch it happen and never get it back; as if He saw the vision of hell; he seemed to realize that the voice that had whispered in his ear was from the devil.

For the first time, his anger made him clenched his fists, and for the first time, he seemed to have found his direction in life.

(End of this chapter)