"What's the matter?"

Lu Xin was slightly stunned, then he picked up his spirit, reached out to hold the baby's small face on his leg, and slowly sat up straight.

But as soon as he got up, he saw that the baby had already sat upright with a satisfied smile on his face.

It turned out that she had just woken up, just lying on her lap without opening her eyes.

Lu Xin shook his head and walked out of the room. Under the guidance of the service staff, he came to a room on the left side of the first floor of the villa, where there was an old copper telephone. By this time, the microphone had been taken down and put aside. Where the baby lives, the trees are too luxuriant, the place is too far away, and the signal is very poor, so the communication is often through this landline.

Lu Xin picked up the phone: "crooked?"

"Single soldier, how are you getting along with dolls?"

Chen Jing's voice came from the microphone, calm and powerful.

Lu Xin honest answer, after all, accompany doll is also part of the task: "very good, we sleep together."

"Well?"

Chen Jing was obviously surprised.

"On the sofa, on the sofa..."

Lu Xin explains busily: "it is to look at data to see tired, took a nap."

Chen Jing breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "there is something wrong with the investigation team that collects the basic data of Kaixin town."

"Well."

Lu Xin nods and agrees. Without interrupting, she listens to Chen Jing.

"The news came half an hour ago."

Chen Jing sped up and said, "after you submitted the preliminary information about Kaixin town last time, Qinggang sent a team of seven to set up an observation station ten miles away from the radiation edge of Kaixin town."

"It is intended to prevent any sudden changes in the forbidden area, and record the changes of radiation in the forbidden area at the same time."

"We have always been very cautious about this kind of observation station in the S-level pollution area. In addition to a series of alarm devices for abnormal phenomena, the personnel of this observation station will regularly contact the special cleaning department every three hours, so as not to be unaware of problems."

"That's the problem."

"The first step of the investigation team we sent out this time is to contact the staff of this observation station first, and then expand that observation station as the general observation center, establish several observation points, and collect the overall basic data of Kaixin town."

"However, when our people sent out today arrived at the observation point, they found that there was a serious problem."

Hearing this, Lu Xin was also a little curious: "what's the problem?"

At this time, doll has been following Lu Xin, standing there, listening to the conversation between Lu Xin and Chen Jing. The expression on Lu Xin's face changes. She sees it. Her expression becomes a little curious. She takes another look at the phone, suddenly turns around and goes straight to the building. Anyway, this is her home. Lu Xin didn't notice her actions and changes..

"The staff at the observation point."

Chen Jing paused for a moment and said: "I'm dead."

"Well?"

Lu Xin was a little surprised and said subconsciously, "what do you mean?"

"In short, it's..."

Chen Jing tried to make it clear: "one hour ago, the observation point had regular contact with the headquarters of the special cleaning department, which showed that everything was normal. Half an hour before the information collection troops rushed to the observation point, they also got in touch with them and everything was normal. They were waiting for their preparation in the past. However, it happened that when the collection troops were rushing to the observation point, they found that... "

She paused for a moment and said: "the work of the observation point is as usual, all the staff are here, they are dealing with their work in an orderly way, and even they are ready to welcome the information collection forces, but the problem is..."

After a pause, she whispered, "they're dead."

"They all have large body spots, their hearts stop beating, and some have even rotted..."

"But they didn't realize it, they were still working hard."

“……”

Lu Xin suddenly realized that it was not good: "then this..."

Chen Jing nodded and said:

"This shows that, all along, regular contact with us is basically some dead people."

"The last time this Observatory made face-to-face contact with Qinggang was three weeks ago. Now such an accident means that we don't know when the observatory went wrong in the past 20 days or so, and..."

"What's wrong!"

“……”

Lu Xin thought about it carefully, but he was surprised: "it's a little strange..."

Chen Jing listened to Lu Xin's words and sighed helplessly.

She would like to say that this is not just strange, but she is used to Lu Xin's slow response.

Lu Xin himself didn't notice anything. He was frowning and asked, "is there any other abnormality in the observation station?"

"Yes."

Chen Jing said in a low voice: "for example, some electronic components of unknown origin have been found around the observation station."

"For example, in the observation station, the information collection troops collected an unknown mental radiation..."

"The information gathering forces we sent in the past have been strictly trained and know that we can't act rashly at this time."

"They have withdrawn from the observation station and are waiting for professionals to investigate."

“……”

Lu Xin nodded his head and said, "what do you mean, group leader?"

Chen Jing said: "according to our process, we either send an investigation team to investigate the reasons first, or select the right person with ability from Qinggang to investigate. However, because it is too close to happy town, the best choice is..."

Lu Xin understood and said, "I'll go."

Chen Jing was relieved and seemed to be moved. After a pause, she said, "it's hard for you."

"Now you can join me in Teqing first."

“……”

Lu Xin agreed to come down, and then ready to go upstairs to get his bag.

But just then, he saw the doll coming down the stairs.

She once again put on a black gothic dress, stepped on a pair of brand-new black Roman lace up boots, with a smiling fox face mask on her face, an umbrella in one hand and her black bag in the other.

It looks like I'm ready to go out.

"This..."

Lu Xin suddenly understood the meaning of the doll and had to explain to her: "I can't take you when I go out this time. I'm going to work. It's too dangerous for you to go outside the city. So, you'd better wait for me here and come to see you after work, OK?"

The baby kept her head down and went on.

Lu Xin reaches for her wrist and the baby stops.

Lu Xin looks at her and smiles.

Pulling her wrist, she took her black bag and said with a smile, "go back!"

He waved his hand to the doll and walked out of the door with the bag on his back.

Baby with an umbrella, quietly stood in the hall looking at him, has been watching his back disappear, also did not move the place.

I have a mask on my face. I don't know what the expression is.

But next to the service team, have been extremely distressed.

……

The bus is waiting at the door. Lu Xin gets on the bus directly.

Five minutes later, we arrived in front of a three story white building on the west side of Teqing department.

Someone is waiting below. Taking Lu Xin through the long corridor, he comes to an office at the end of the room. As soon as he enters, he finds that all the staff, Chen Jing and several professors are listening to an external audio.

"The information gathering unit has arrived, hasn't it? Have you found any other problems? "

"Ha ha, there's no problem. We only care about whether the collection troops have brought us the latest magazines and Erguotou. As a result, these guys just came to show their heads and ran out. They said that there are rules on them and they can't contact us now. I said, when did they break the rules, Are they a little too careful... "

"... well, to understand, you know our rule is that the more careful we are, the better."

"Well, well, it doesn't say anything. In other words, can we withdraw when they come?"

"In this broken detection point, I can't call my family directly. My child is three years old, and I want to die..."

“……”

After Lu Xin came in, she nodded to Chen Jing and listened to her first.

This seems to be a normal regular call.

The various contact points, large and small, established around Qinggang will make such regular contact every three hours.

Some of the time is long, some of the time is short, and sometimes the operator and the observer will chat on a whim.

The purpose of doing this is to judge whether something has happened at the observation point through various details and exchanges.

Now this call is a call that sounds very normal.

"Well, you'll be at ease for a while. I'll tell you about it."

At this time, a researcher in a white coat whispered and hung up.

Lu Xin realized that what she had just heard was not a recording, but a normal telephone call.

"Until now, they didn't know they had a problem."

When the researcher turned around, his face looked dignified and even frightened.

It's totally different from the calm and friendly voice during the call. The voice seems to be slightly trembling

"During this period of time, the data reports and mental test reports they handed in are all very normal."

"Even this contact number just now, it was called in full accordance with the code."

"The only abnormality is..."

He pauses and whispers: "we all know that the dead call us."

……

In the conference room, the temperature seems to have dropped a few minutes.

None of the staff on the scene rushed to speak because they didn't know what to say.

The calmest one is a young man with a black suit, a flat head and a tender appearance.

He stood up and said, "well, now our problems are mainly two."

"One is to investigate why they became like this."

"The other is..."

He paused: "how to tell them that they are dead?"