Zhao Pengcheng remembered why he felt familiar with the old man.
Professor Mei used to be a big celebrity in Wuzhong City. His status and fame were no less than that of the mayor and the richest man. When he was young, his feat of going abroad and returning home to serve was once widely talked about and became a hot topic on the university campus; His bold remarks, which often despised dignitaries and filthy families, also impressed Zhao Pengcheng when he was young.
Mei was once the chief scientific adviser of the United Nations Space Management Committee and one of the leaders of the third space foundation composed of human scientists. He never flinched from the struggle between the original human and the parasitic human. Until human beings and parasitic consciousness signed a peace agreement, he refused to sign at the United Nations General Assembly, hid underground and became the leader of the rebel organization.
Zhao Pengcheng then looked carefully at the old man on the screen - his hair was as white as silver; His cheekbones were high and his cheeks were sunken, leaving only a wrinkled skin; His hand holding the pipe was trembling slightly and looked like he had mild Parkinson's disease.
Although he is old, his spirit is still hale and hearty. His eyes were deep, his voice was loud, and his whole body was full of wisdom. The fireworks in the pipe went out indefinitely, and the smoke sucked in by him gushed out of his mouth. Under the effect of naked eye 3D, it seemed to float out of the screen, adding a few mysteries.
Zhao Pengcheng finally knows why they locked him up. This is a struggle between the two races, just as they have repeatedly assassinated human scientists and are still chasing members of the resistance.
"You don't want to know anything from me," Zhao Peng said to the screen. He remembered that he had said similar things to Aoki in his dream ten years ago. Finally, he said a lot of things he shouldn't say, but it was because he had a killing move to trap his opponent, and today, he knew he couldn't escape.
"Oh, don't worry, I'm not interested in the secrets of your organization." Mei Lei looks not like an interrogator at all, but more like chatting with old friends, "Because I know you don't know more than I do. In the past ten years, you have cut off contact with your organization in prison. You know nothing about the outside world. You are just a poor, lonely and painless child."
"What are you doing with me? Do you just want to torture me to satisfy your pleasure?" Zhao Pengcheng sneered, "If you study us, you should know that I can get rid of the influence of human emotions and also shield human nerve pain. My tolerance of pain is thousands of times stronger than you. No matter what penalty you use, it's nothing to me."
"I'm not interested in punishing you." Mei Tui laughed. "I know you're not afraid of pain and suffering, but you're afraid of death. You've been in prison for so many years, and finally your race won - Oh, let me state first, it's a temporary victory - you don't want to die right away?"
Zhao Pengcheng snorted and refused to answer the question.
Mei continued: "I don't know how large your ethnic group is, but there are not many people on earth now. I don't think it will exceed the number of millions. However, there are 7 billion people on earth. You can only use the pyramid weakness of human social structure to occupy the spire. Therefore, every consciousness that comes to the earth is very precious. In addition, you live much longer than us to some extent It's a pity that you are more and more dead. You don't want to die until you have no chance to transfer your consciousness to another human being, do you? "
"What are you trying to say?" Zhao Pengcheng asked.
Mei took a deep breath of her cigarette, then put down her pipe, looked at the screen and said, "I want to exchange your life for Aoki."
"Aoki? Isn't he lying in bed?"
"Thanks to you."
"I don't know where he is."
"Are you very cold now?" said Mei
Zhao Pengcheng said disdainfully, "I'm not afraid of cold."
Mei Tuo shook her head and said, "the place where you are now is 37.2 cubic meters. Don't think this is a cold storage. We don't need it to store tuna. This is a laboratory - the most advanced low-temperature laboratory in the world."
"The current temperature is minus 1 ℃. If I reduce the temperature to minus 10 ℃ or lower, how long can you last? Of course, you are not afraid of cold. Your race is very strong. Even if the body is frozen to death, consciousness can still exist for a long time. Although I don't know where you will go when you are separated from the body and can't find a new parasite, ancestral star? It's still in the universe Wandering? But I think there must be a place you don't want to go. "
"Where?" Zhao Pengcheng was suddenly a little curious.
"Boumojean Centauri nebula," said Mei.
Zhao Pengcheng began to search for this vague astronomical term in his memory. When he found this memory from a corner of his brain, he had goose bumps all over his body, just like throwing him on the Siberian ice sheet from the beach in June.
The Boomerang Nebula, also known as the Boomerang Nebula, is 5000 light-years away from the earth, with a temperature of minus 272 ℃ and only 1.15 ℃ higher than absolute zero. It is the only known celestial body with a temperature lower than the cosmic background radiation.
In such a low temperature, everything is inactive, including consciousness.
"What do you mean?" Zhao Pengcheng said calmly.
"The lowest temperature that can be achieved in this laboratory is 1 / 2 billion Kelvin, only 5 nanometers away from absolute zero. At that time, your consciousness..."
When Merlot said this, he suddenly stopped. Zhao Pengcheng saw a shake on the screen, like an earthquake. Because the naked eye 3D technology was too realistic, he almost thought the laboratory was going to collapse.
The bald head standing behind Meiduo rushed up and helped Meiduo out, and then there was a sudden gunshot. The gunfire lasted more than ten seconds, and a strong flash appeared on the picture, and then the picture disappeared. The wall was restored to the shape of an ice wall, and there was no screen there.
Then Zhao Pengcheng heard a dull explosion. The sound came not from the screen or the microphone, but from outside the laboratory. It should be the explosion of the screen flash just now. If the video has not been delayed, judging from the time difference between flash and sound, the explosion is less than one kilometer away from him.
The temperature in the laboratory is maintained at minus 1 ℃, and Zhao Pengcheng is glad that if Mei starts the ultra-low temperature in order to seek truth and reduce the temperature to close to absolute zero, the space here will freeze and the atoms tend to be static, and the body he parasitizes will be equivalent to nonexistent. At that time, his consciousness will fall into endless darkness. Like Aoki in zero dimensional space, life is better than death.
Of course, if no one comes to save him within an hour, he will freeze to death here, which is not an misfortune.
About twenty minutes later, Zhao Pengcheng felt the temperature rise. Then the door of the laboratory was opened, and the foreigner appeared at the door, holding his hand as he did when he was released from prison and said, "Comrade Zhao Pengcheng, you've worked hard."
Zhao Pengcheng felt the temperature in each other's hands, but his heart was cold: "how did you find me?"
The comrade said, "we have been laying out since you went to Liuying lane. Thank you for helping us find the submarine base of the rebel organization."
Zhao Pengcheng said discontentedly, "you use me?!"
The comrade said excitedly, "everything is for the organization and great victory!"