Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Retrograde Man

Ning Tao thought that Lin Qinghua's laboratory was in the office building he had been to, but Lin Qingyu drove him to a botanical garden in the suburbs.

This botanical garden is also the property of Blueprint Biotechnology Company. The huge hillside is full of various medicinal materials, common and uncommon. There are also dozens of modern greenhouses in which precious plants for scientific research are planted.

Lin Qinghua's laboratory is located in this botanical garden. It is a small compound building, which uses a lot of silver materials and blue tempered glass, which is quite a sci-fi style.

The gate is a silver metal gate, and there is a stainless steel plaque next to the gate, engraved with the words "Wentianlou", but not the words "XX Laboratory".

Ning Tao stopped in front of the stainless steel plaque and asked curiously, "Ask Tianlou, why did your brother's laboratory have such a strange name?"

Lin Qingyu said: "I used to be very curious about why this laboratory had such a strange name. I also asked my brother, but he didn't tell me. I think it's just a name. Why, what do you think it has? Does it have a special meaning?"

Ning Tao shook his head, "Maybe you're right, it's just a name, take me in and have a look."

Lin Qingyu came to the silver metal gate, opened it with her magnetic card, and led Ning Tao in.

Behind the door is a passage. Several surveillance cameras are installed on both sides of the passage, and the work indicator lights are on.

Ning Tao said, "Is there no one in this place?"

Lin Qingyu said: "There should be people during the day, but there should be only security personnel at this moment. They may be asleep. Don't worry about them. I'll take you in directly."

Ning Tao followed Lin Qingyu through the passage and entered an experimental area. There are many computers, experimental instruments and utensils in this experimental area, which looks a bit crowded.

There is a door at the end of the experimental area. The door is closed tightly, and the space behind the door cannot be seen.

In the experimental area, only the safety lights were on, but after Lin Qingyu and Ning Tao arrived, all the lights suddenly turned on. An old man in a security uniform and holding a rubber baton came out of a small door and shouted loudly, "Who!"

Lin Qingyu responded, "It's me, Lin Qingyu."

The old man took a few steps here, as if he wanted to confirm Lin Qingyu's identity.

Ning Tao's eyes moved to the old man. The old man is about sixty years old, with a horse face, a thin body, and a light walk, giving people a very healthy feeling.

The old man stopped after walking a few steps, "So it's really Miss, why did you come here so late? Did you forget something?"

Lin Qingyu said, "I'll come and take a look, don't worry about it."

"Is that your friend?" the old man asked again.

Lin Qingyu responded, "Yes."

"Then I'll look elsewhere." The old man said, then turned and left.

Ning Tao moved to Lin Qingyu's side and asked softly, "Do you know this old man?"

Lin Qingyu said: "I don't know each other. I've only been here a few times. Maybe I've seen it before, but I don't remember it." After a pause, she also asked, "Why do you ask that?"

Ning Tao said: "Don't you think a security guard talks too much? Also, the tone he spoke to you just now doesn't seem like a security guard's tone to the boss."

Lin Qingyu's gaze then shifted to the old man's back.

At this moment, the old man looked back, only looked back, and continued walking.

I don't know why, just when the old man turned his head, Ning Tao felt a little bit like an eagle watching a wolf. With a thought in his mind, his eyes and nose instantly entered the state of observation and hearing.

The aura emitted by the old man's body was colorful and colorful like that of a normal person, and his smell was also normal, even smelling of alcohol, obviously he had drunk a little.

"I think he's normal." Lin Qingyu made her own judgment.

"Maybe I'm suspicious." Ning Tao said, looking away from the old man's back.

Lin Qingyu smiled, "You are so young, but do you know that sometimes you give me an unfathomable feeling."

"Really?" Ning Tao asked casually, "What do you mean by unfathomable?"

Lin Qingyu thought for a while before saying: "Maybe it's because of your medical skills and personality, well, let's not talk about that, can you see anything?"

Ning Tao looked around, observed for a while, then shook his head, "I'm a medical student, and I'm a layman in biological research. I don't see anything wrong, why don't you take me to your brother's office to have a look."

"There, come with me." Lin Qingyu walked towards the door at the end of the experimental area.

Ning Tao followed Lin Qingyu to the door.

Lin Qingyu entered the password on the cipher on the door, and then the door opened to both sides.

Behind the door is a hemispherical space without windows. More sophisticated experimental instruments, computers, and several filing cabinets are placed inside, which store an astonishing amount of paper materials, file bags, and books.

Ning Tao secretly said in his heart: "Lin Qingyu said that she came here after Lin Qinghua fell ill, but she didn't find any information or records related to searching for ancestors at all. This means that the relevant things have been cleared away. Looking through all the materials and hard disks in the website probably won’t yield any results, so where should I start? Jiang Hao, Jiang Hao, you really are, since you ask me for help, you have to give me some tips, right? My eyes are so dark now that I don’t even have a thought.”

When he was worrying, his eyes suddenly stopped on the arc-shaped wall in front.

There is a hand-painted oil painting on the wall. There is a burning sunset, a black mountain, and a man walking towards the sunset. The clothes on his body are blue, which is particularly eye-catching in this oil painting.

There is a passage on the oil painting: Everyone thinks that our future is tomorrow, and our road is also extending forward, but they are wrong, the road ahead is death and destruction, so I have to go back, I want to find The source and answer of all this.

This passage is very strange, Ning Tao read it twice carefully.

"I drew this painting as a birthday present for my brother." Lin Qingyu said, a touching smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

Ning Tao said, "Did you also write the text on the painting?"

Lin Qingyu said: "I didn't write it, it was written by my brother. How about it, do you have the feeling of a post-modern literary youth?"

Ning Tao walked towards the oil painting. He didn't feel any "post-modern literary and artistic youth". What he thought of was the "Concubine Yang" that Lin Qinghua was thinking of.

Going forward is death and destruction. This statement seems sad, but it is true. People are born to keep moving forward, no matter how hard they struggle, they will die in the end. So Lin Qinghua wants to go back, he wants to find the source and answer of everything.

But what does "all this" on the painting refer to?

Also, he imagined himself as Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, and he never forgot about Concubine Yang Gui, and it can even be said that he has deep affection, and Tang Xuanzong and Concubine Yang Guifei are both figures of more than a thousand years. Are you on the way?

Ning Tao couldn't figure this out.

Suddenly, Ning Tao's nose caught the mysterious and familiar smell, the smell of cyan "clay"! This discovery made him very excited, and his pace quickened.

"How is my painting?" Lin Qingyu's voice came from behind.

Ning Tao stopped under the oil painting, "You painted very well, when was this painting painted? I didn't see the date."

Lin Qingyu said: "I drew it a year ago. It was my brother's 30th birthday present. But the idea is his own. I just drew his idea." After a pause, She seemed to say something again, "It seems that I heard about the ancestral search project from him that day. At that time, I never thought that he would have such a strange disease. Dr. Ning, you must cure my brother, okay?" ?”

Ning Tao nodded, and he reached for the oil painting on the wall.

Lin Qingyu didn't stop him.

Ning Tao's hand touched the blue figure in the oil painting, and a non-canvas feeling came from his fingertips. He gently touched the blue figure in the painting, over and over again, his movements were very gentle.

"Doctor Ning, is there something wrong with this painting?" Ning Tao's strange behavior aroused Lin Qingyu's curiosity, and she also came under the wall, standing beside Ning Tao and watching him touch her "brother" ".

Suddenly, the five fingers of Ning Tao's right hand stabbed fiercely into the canvas!

Hiss!

The canvas cracked, Ning Tao's five fingers plunged into the canvas, and a good oil painting was instantly ruined by him.

Lin Qingyu exclaimed, "What are you doing?"

Ning Tao withdrew his hand from the painting, and in his hand was still holding a piece of canvas that he had torn.

"You...how can you do this? This is a birthday present I gave to my brother. It means a lot to both my brother and me!" Lin Qingyu was really angry, her voice was a little trembling Feel.

Ning Tao handed his right hand in front of Lin Qingyu, and then spread out his palm. In his palm lay a piece of blue mud the size of an egg quietly.

"This..." Lin Qingyu's anger came and went quickly, and she asked in surprise, "What is this?"

Ning Tao said: "I don't know yet, but I'm sure he has something to do with your brother's illness."

"Show me." Lin Qingyu reached out to take it.

Ning Tao pushed her hand away, "You'd better not touch it, think about your brother now, do you want to be like him too?"

Lin Qingyu then retracted her hand again.

Ning Tao quickly came to Lin Qinghua's desk, then found a paper knife and carefully cut open the cyan "clay", which contained a capsule.

Ning Tao secretly said in his heart: "Could it be that this is the biological medicine of "Xunzu" researched by Lin Qinghua? It is this little pill that turned him into a new monster?"

Ning Tao took the capsule in his hand and inspected it carefully. When he turned it over, he saw a blue symbol at the bottom, which looked a bit like a villain drawn by primitive people on the cave.

The cyan villain seems to have become the exclusive symbol of Lin Qinghua, the "new demon".

"What did you find?" Lin Qingyu also came over to look at it, her face was almost pressed against Ning Tao's.

Suddenly, all the lights were turned off, and the whole building was plunged into darkness.