What It’s Like Being a Vampire

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After Fang Pingfang raised her head, the lights stabilized.

She didn't think too much, and continued to look at the data on the computer screen.

After a while, the lights flickered again.

Fang Pingfang frowned and raised her head, feeling a little strange.

The power supply in these laboratories is very stable, so the problem is most likely the cause of the lamp.

It seems that there is a problem with the quality of these lamps. Did the purchasers get kickbacks?

I have to talk to the person in charge of the equipment tomorrow, it seems that someone is going to be unlucky.

Fang Pingfang is very clear about how much "Mr. Liang" attaches great importance to these laboratories, and if he dares to profit from these laboratories and waste money on them, "Mr. Liang" will definitely not let it go.

The light flickered again, Fang Pingfang simply ignored it, stared at the screen intently, and hit the page-turning key on the keyboard a few times from time to time.

But the next moment, the computer screen suddenly went black.

Subconsciously, Fang Pingfang leaned back slightly, looking at the blackened screen, she was a little dazed. The power indicator light on the lower right corner of the monitor indicated that the power was on.

So it's a host problem, black screen?

Could it be that these computer hardware have also been kicked back?

Fang Pingfang frowned and bent down to look at the host, trying to restart it forcibly, but at this time the monitor was turned on again, and the picture on it was still the same as before the black screen.

"What's the situation..." Fang Pingfang operated the computer, but there was no problem, it seemed that the screen simply went black.

Fang Pingfang looked around subconsciously, but she was the only one in the laboratory here, and the surrounding situation was clear at a glance, and there was nothing different from usual.

She got up and walked to the door, and pressed the call button with the security room.

"This is the security room. Is it... Dr. Fang? What's the matter?" A somewhat confused voice came from the intercom.

Fang Pingfang glanced at the surveillance cameras in the laboratory. She knew that due to some special reasons, the surveillance images of several laboratories on the second basement floor were independent in another system.

Even those security personnel who also signed a non-disclosure agreement have no right to monitor in real time.

"Are there any other researchers besides me on the D2 floor?" Fang Pingfang asked.

After a while, the voice on the intercom said: "Researcher Xie and Dr. Yang just left, and now you are the only researcher on the D2 floor."

"Where are the security personnel?" Fang Pingfang asked again.

"Including me, there are six people on duty working, and there are two people on the D2 floor."

"OK, thanks."

After speaking, Fang Pingfang turned to her for a while, then pressed the intercom again: "Excuse me, what's your name?"

"My name is Zhang Yaozu, and I'm the captain of Security Team 3." The security personnel on the intercom said.

"Captain Zhang, how long have you been working here?"

"It has been ten months since the construction here, plus the preparation and training time in the early stage. To be precise, it should be ten months and seventeen days." Zhang Yaozu said.

"Are there often problems with the electronic equipment here?"

There was silence on the intercom for a long time before Zhang Yaozu said with some uncertainty: "We cannot access the equipment in the laboratory..."

"I mean, when other researchers worked at night before, did they respond to equipment failures or circuit problems?" Fang Pingfang asked after thinking about her words.

Zhang Yaozu replied: "That's not true...D1's toilet broke down in the middle of the night, and the water couldn't be flushed..."

"Uh, it's not this." Fang Pingfang hurriedly interrupted him: "For example, lighting equipment, has there been any changes in brightness or flickering just now?"

"This...should...not be?" Zhang Yaozu said uncertainly.

Fang Pingfang was thoughtful, it seemed that the only problem with the lighting in her laboratory was just now.

"I remembered, before..." Zhang Yaozu's words came to an abrupt end here, without any follow-up.

Fang Pingfang was stunned, and pressed the call button several times in a row, but there was no response: "Captain Zhang? Are you still there? Captain Zhang?"

There is only a rustling sound from the intercom.

The surroundings seemed to have suddenly fallen into silence, and she could even vaguely hear the sound of the fan in the computer case turning.

Nothing will happen to Zhang Yaozu, right? Fang Pingfang had this thought inexplicably in her heart.

A few seconds later, Zhang Yaozu's voice sounded again: "...so the lights in these laboratories should be darker than before."

"The call was cut off just now? Is there a problem with the intercom?" Fang Pingfang asked hastily.

In the security room, Zhang Yaozu was stunned when he heard this, looked down at the indicator light of the intercom, and said in doubt: "No, the indicator light was always on just now, and the call was always connected. question?"

"I didn't hear what you said just now, what happened when you said 'before'?"

"Oh, I mean, before Dr. Yang felt that the lights in the laboratory were too bright and dazzling, so he replaced a batch of lamps later. The lights in laboratories No. It should be darker, or softer."

Fang Pingfang replied after a few seconds: "You should pay more attention to the monitoring in a while to see if there is anything abnormal outside and around my laboratory. If there is any situation, please notify me as soon as possible."

"Dr. Fang... What are you talking about?" Zhang Yaozu felt a little nervous for no reason.

"It's nothing, I just said it casually, there is no problem, you don't need to care too much."

Sister, I care even more when you say that. Zhang Yaozu wanted to ask a few more questions, but Fang Pingfang had already ended the call.

He immediately turned his attention to the multiple monitoring screens in the security room. Except for the interior of several laboratories and storage rooms, other rooms including corridors, stairs, elevators, etc., were all within the monitoring range. And as long as he wants, not only D2, D1 and the various floors on the ground, but even the surveillance in the entire park, he can directly view it.

But after looking around, I didn't find any problems?

Then he noticed that Dr. Fang Pingfang walked out of No. 6 laboratory, and then walked into No. 8 laboratory. going in."

"Could it be that there was something unusual in laboratory No. 6 just now?"

Recalling Fang Pingfang's various strange behaviors during the call just now, Zhang Yaozu began to get nervous.

He had never felt such nervousness when performing some dangerous tasks before, which made him very uncomfortable.

He couldn't help but wonder, besides all the instruments and equipment he had seen, what else was there in those laboratories and several secret storage rooms?

What are highly educated talents like Dr. Fang and Dr. Yang doing research here?

Before, like other colleagues, he signed a non-disclosure agreement to work in the secret research department of "Shenxing Technology" for a high salary, but he didn't know anything about what this department was researching. Because they didn't want to lose the high salary, none of them dared to probe for information outside of his duties, and they just did their jobs peacefully.

But being teased by Dr. Fang's mysterious and somewhat weird words tonight, he couldn't restrain his curiosity.

Although Dr. Fang Pingfang has only been here for a few days, they have not had much contact with each other, and the sum of previous conversations is not as much as tonight. But Dr. Fang, he probably has an impression through other channels, knowing that this is a person with very strong professional ability, even Dr. Yang and others admire him, and he has a straightforward personality. Obviously not the kind of person who would overreact at the slightest disturbance, otherwise she wouldn't have stayed so late in D2 by herself.

And most importantly, Dr. Fang Pingfang has the highest authority in the laboratories of D1 and D2. Apart from her, other researchers need at least two people to enter the sixth to tenth laboratories.

Therefore, Fang Pingfang must know what they are researching, and must know the secrets that he does not know!

So if she can find anything strange, it must have her basis.

Just as he was focusing on the screen in the corridor outside the laboratory on the monitoring screen, his shoulders were tapped suddenly, which scared him almost reflexively to fight back.

"Fuck! You scared me, what are you doing?" A young voice sounded in the security room.

Zhang Yaozu, who was holding the other party's wrist and was about to force it, let go quickly, and also let out a sigh: "Why did you come in so quietly, I was also surprised by you..." The one who took his shoulder was Xiao Gao, a colleague who was on duty at D2 together.

"What's so quiet, didn't you hear the sound of me opening and closing the door?" Xiao Gao asked strangely, "Old Zhang, you're not in a good state, what happened?"

"It's nothing, you just watch here, I'll go to the experimental area to check around." Zhang Yaozu said, took the walkie-talkie and other equipment and stood up.

At the same time, in the No. 9 laboratory.

Fang Pingfang opened the container containing the rabbit wood carving, and after a transparent box rose slowly from the metal platform, she could see the weird, rough, and ugly rabbit wood carving inside through the transparent material of the box, "smiling" ".

There is no doubt that this wood carving is the most valuable item they brought back from the Qinling no-man's land this time.

On the way, she and Team Leader Li had already discovered that this wood carving has the ability to affect people's dreams, so whether it is on the way or after it is delivered here, there is a strict storage standard - far enough away from the rest area. It also prohibits researchers from sleeping in the lab.

However, the day before yesterday, when they deliberately conducted a dream effect experiment to observe what changes it had during this process, they found that the people who fell asleep around it no longer had the weird dream with rabbit meat, and even two people Didn't even dream.

They suspected that the wood carving could only work at night, so they conducted another experiment last night, and the result was the same, no dreaming.

So Fang Pingfang preliminarily judged that the ability of the woodcarving could only work in the no-man's land in the Qinling Mountains.

But after some abnormalities occurred in laboratory No. 6 tonight, she couldn't help but think of the rabbit wood carving.

Squinting her eyes at the wood carving in the container, Fang Pingfang couldn't help muttering to herself: "Are you playing tricks?"

She began to repeat some test items that had been performed several times before, recording information.

She wondered if this "rabbit woodcarving" had re-entered the active period?

After a while, Fang Pingfang felt a little thirsty, so she walked to the supporting lounge next to the laboratory, and took a disposable paper cup next to the water dispenser to collect water. After receiving the water, she was about to go back, but was Accidentally swept to a plate next to the water dispenser.

Who made a plate of rabbit meat and put it here? And it's still undercooked?

Fang Pingfang walked back while drinking water, this thought flashed through her mind.

Then she was stunned, and even held her breath for an instant, a chill rose from the bottom of her heart, and cold sweat drenched her back.

She turned around slowly and looked at the piece of raw rabbit meat that was placed on the porcelain plate next to the water dispenser.

Subconsciously, she clenched her right hand, and the paper cup in her hand was squeezed flat. Fortunately, she was drinking cold water, so she didn't get burned.

This is what she saw in a dream!

In a dream now?

I fell asleep unconsciously?

Fang Pingfang closed her eyes and shook her head, then pinched herself. The pain made her realize that she was either in a dream or in reality.

But...is it really real?

She opened her eyes again and looked at the water dispenser. The plate of "raw rabbit meat" had disappeared, as if it had never appeared before.

Hallucination?

Fang Pingfang walked out of the rest room, re-entered the laboratory, and looked at the wooden rabbit isolated in the transparent container. The rabbit grinned wide, as if mocking her.

Suddenly, the lights in Laboratory No. 9 dimmed, as if the sun was shining one moment, but the next moment it was cloudy and stormy.

Fang Pingfang had the illusion of suddenly entering another dimension, as if she had entered the inner world of Laboratory No. 9.

But a second later, the lights returned to their original brightness, and there was no movement in the laboratory, just like when she just came in.

"It 'lived' over..."

There was a voice in Fang Pingfang's heart saying so.

She has never believed in the theory of strange powers and gods. In her cognition, all phenomena have corresponding reasons. Some phenomena cannot be explained for the time being, just because there is not enough information.

But I know that I know that many times, under the influence of some films and works of art, there will always be associations about certain things instinctively, even if the rationality knows that it is just "scaring myself", but the emotion of fear is the body's instinctive response to it. Out of this awe of the unknown.

Fang Pingfang's heart was beating fast, and after taking a few deep breaths, she controlled her emotions and put the transparent container where the wood carving was in back into the metal platform to completely isolate it from the outside world.

It was the first time she had felt this way since she was born, but after that trace of fear and fear, she felt a sense of excitement that she was extremely looking forward to.

Fang Pingfang, who left the No. 9 laboratory, happened to see Zhang Yaozu who came to patrol.

Seeing Fang Pingfang with a pale expression and cold sweat on his forehead, the latter asked in surprise, "Dr. Fang, what happened?"

His heart was pounding: something really happened! Something happened in Lab Nine? !

Fang Pingfang said: "Secretize D2...no, including D1. Don't allow anyone to come in tomorrow morning, you go to the security room on the first floor to be on duty. What to do next, wait for the arrangement of 'Mr. Liang'. "

Zhang Yaozu was taken aback, and wanted to ask something, but the lights in the aisle suddenly dimmed.

Fang Pingfang walked over quickly, pushed him, and urged: "Go!"

Zhang Yaozu didn't dare to say anything more, and didn't dare to ask more questions. He just used the walkie-talkie to notify Xiao Gao in the security room, while looking back at the closed door of the No. 9 laboratory, secretly guessing what happened inside.

...

Tongshi Town, a standard room in a three-star hotel.

Lying on the bed, Xiang Kun opened his eyes, retreated from the "super sensory state" again, took a deep breath, and relieved the fatigue of his brain.

Just now, he repeatedly entered the "super sensory state", landed around the "rabbit wood carving", and relied on the bones that established the "super sensory connection" to exert some influence on the surrounding environment.

After judging that there was a person around there, suspected to be one of those people who came out of the no-man's land in the Qinling Mountains with a "rabbit woodcarving", he began to "make trouble" in various ways, trying to attract his attention.

His "pretending to be a ghost" was to disturb that person's mood, and then he couldn't help wondering if there was something wrong with the "rabbit wood carving", so he focused all his attention on the wood carving.

When the person got around the "wood carving", Xiang Kun tried to use the function "developed" by Little Apple again, "calling" the collection of concrete emotions of the rabbit wood carving, betting it on the person, and directly affecting his emotions influences.

Xiang Kun is not sure what the effect of this effect will be. After all, in the "super sensory state", many perceptions need to be "decoded" by himself, and there is too little information that he can "decode" now, whether it is the screen Or sound, can not get.

But at least one thing he can be sure of is that the person who appeared around the "rabbit woodcarving" has become tense and frightened.

Naturally, his purpose is not to scare people with pranks, but to lure the vampire that may exist behind "Shenxing Technology", hoping to get him to come to "Rabbit Wood Carving" in person.