The moment the copper door was closed, the ground began to shake.
Fortunately, it only lasted for a short while. The next moment, the surrounding darkness quickly faded away, just like the effect of turning on the lights in a large factory one by one.
I can see my surroundings clearly.
Lin Mo looked around and saw that this place was not as huge and empty as he imagined.
At best, it’s an underground laboratory of more than 200 square meters.
There was a person lying on the ground not far away, motionless.
The copper door is placed on a metal platform in the middle, emitting a strange light.
It can be seen that there is observation glass ten meters away. This is an isolated observation room, but the glass has been broken all over the floor. At this moment, the only emergency lights in the laboratory are on.
Lin Mo walked over and looked at the person lying on the ground.
It's an old man.
He seemed to be injured, and there was a blood stain on his forehead, but he was not dead.
Lin Mo even felt the aura of a living person on the other party.
From the work permit, Lin Mo saw the old man's name.
"It's Academician Li!"
Lin Mo was a little surprised. One of the purposes of coming to the missing 4th base this time was to comply with Professor Xie's request and see if he could find Academician Li.
At the General Administration, Academician Li was deemed dead.
Because not only is he missing, but his body in the real world has also been judged to be in a medically dead state.
But Academician Li left a message, the content of which was: I will go to the copper gate and take a look, please don’t burn my body.
Seems to know that his body will die.
According to the message, Professor Xie did not think that Academician Li really died in the line of duty, so he kept Academician Li's body.
Now it seems that Academician Li is really alive.
But the next moment, Lin Mo sensed something and frowned.
From Academician Li, he felt the mental fluctuations of fake people.
Is this Academician Li a copy?
Lin Mo's attitude towards dummies has always been to kill the wrong ones rather than let them go.
But when he pulled out the knife and was about to strike, Junhun came over and grabbed Lin Mo's wrist.
Lin Mo glanced at the military spirit.
If you say that Academician Li is a fake and a fake person, please let go of him quickly.
The military spirit still didn't let go.
For a moment, the two of them looked at each other, as if they had a disagreement and were about to draw their swords at each other.
Maomao also felt the smell of gunpowder and sneaked behind the military spirit. As long as Lin Mo made a move, she would do it.
It doesn't matter who the other party is, even if it's a special expert.
At critical moments, one's own people are one's own people, and there is no need to say who to help or not to help.
During the confrontation, Academician Li actually woke up.
He saw the situation in front of him clearly and seemed to understand something.
"Junhun, it's okay, I'll talk to him." Academician Li waved his hand, but he didn't expect that Junhun actually let go of Lin Mo's wrist.
Lin Mo looked at his wrist that had a black handprint on it, and thought to himself that the strength of this military spirit was much stronger than those of those ghosts and floating corpses.
This time it was Lin Mo and Academician Li who looked at each other.
Not to mention, this dummy replica imitates the real image, and there is no trace of the dummy in its expression and temperament. If Lin Mo hadn't been able to distinguish mental fluctuations, there would be no clue that this was a replica.
"You are skilled in the use of mental power, and are good at perceiving mental power, and have ingenious abilities. It seems that you have a very powerful teacher." Academician Li said, then stood up from the ground and looked around.
When he saw the closed copper door, he was obviously relieved.
"Yes, I am a copy." Academician Li admitted generously.
Lin Mo looked at Junhun, meaning, look, this fake has admitted it himself.
"But I am indeed Academician Li." Academician Li said this again, and then waved to Lin Mo: "Come, let's talk alone."
Lin Mo walked over and Academician Li opened a door next to it. Inside was a small office. It seemed that Academician Li conducted research here on weekdays.
"Sit down wherever you want. The opening of the copper door caused fluctuations and destroyed the equipment here. I can't make tea for you." Academician Li said with a smile.
Lin Mo said, don't do this, just say it quickly if you have something to say.
A dummy is still showing off like this.
Academician Li said that young people should not be impatient. What you know may not be comprehensive and not the truth.
Lin Mo's temper also got worse.
"Then tell me what the complete truth is." Lin Mo put the knife on the table, ready to kill you if you didn't tell me.
Academician Li took a deep breath: "You are the first person to discover that I am a replica. What is your name?"
"Lin Mo!" Lin Mo also heard something was wrong.
From the look of this impostor, it seems that the other party was not just born.
If it were a newly created replica, it would be impossible to say this.
"I know you. It was you who solved the problem in Guimen Village. There is also a report on the second-hand goods alley. There is a copper gate there, which you also discovered and wrote." Academician Li took down a copy from the bookshelf next to him.
document.
"This is my research report on the underground copper door in the junk alley. It is currently confidential. You can take it away and read it. But now, what I want to tell you is that I am not what you think." Academician Li sat on the chair.
Go up and wipe the blood from your forehead with a handkerchief.
"Five months!" At this time, Academician Li stretched out his finger: "Strictly speaking, it is five months, four days, eight hours and forty-three minutes..."
Lin Mo didn't understand what the other party meant.
"What five months?"
"When I was born, I was indeed a copy, but I was not born just this time when the bronze door opened."
Academician Li told Lin Mo that the real Academician Li was not a perfect scientist.
"He has shortcomings, the most fatal ones in character and spirit. In other words, he is paranoid, very paranoid. When he found the bronze door No. 7, he even took the initiative to open the bronze door for research." Li
Lin Mo was quite surprised by the academician's words, but the fake academician Li on the opposite side continued to speak.
"At that time, he found me and took the initiative to copy me. I had all his memories and abilities. The copy was perfect, and even perfectly repaired his original flaws. If compared, I am better than him.
, he is already a madman, but I am not."
"Later, he was so crazy that he wanted to continue to explore the secrets inside the Tongmen and conduct dangerous experiments. However, he did not report all this to the General Administration and the management of the Academy of Sciences. If he is allowed to continue like this, it will definitely lead to an unpredictable disaster.
."
"So you killed him?" Lin Mo interrupted at this time.
Fake Academician Li waved his hand: "No, at that time, I was his shadow, helping him handle many things, and even assisting him in some research. I was just trying my best to persuade him. I wouldn't do that because he treated me badly.
He underwent mental surgery to remove the original dark side of the dummy, just like cutting off cancerous tissue. I think he did it on purpose. He wanted me to stop him. He wanted me to continue what he failed to accomplish.
research work.”
"Then what?" Lin Mo became curious again.
"Four months ago, he entered the Tongmen alone and never came out again," said the fake academician Li with a calm expression.
Lin Mo has been paying attention to the other party's mental fluctuations.
Nothing changes.
It seems that he is not lying, but this thing is not particularly accurate. After all, the other party is not a human being. Strictly speaking, it is the 'weird' inside the copper gate.
It's weird, so don't believe it at all.
"In other words, from that time on, you became Academician Li." Lin Mo finally figured it out this time.
The fake Academician Li on the opposite side nodded: "I have been trying my best to prevent the bronze door from opening completely. Junhun also knows this. He has helped me several times."
"But this time, the bronze door was pushed open by a pair of strange hands from the inside. I was shocked by those hands and couldn't move at all. Countless dummies ran out of the opened door, and then the hands that pushed the door retracted.
, I immediately left a message for Lao Xie, and then tried to go in and close the door, but unfortunately, it failed in the end."
When Lin Mo heard this, he felt that the other party must have lied.
The other party entered the Tongmen not only to close the door, but also to find the real Academician Li.
So far, Lin Mo didn't completely believe what the other party said.
"I know you don't believe it, but I have Academician Li's own diagnosis report here. It is impossible to falsify the date and diagnosis results on it. This can also be found in the data of the General Administration, and no one can tamper with it.
."
What this fake person means is that you should first check whether the real Academician Li is sick.
Then if you look at me now, it will compare.
Lin Mo said nothing.
He's still thinking about it.
At this time, 'Academician Li' opposite seemed to have seen something and walked over, staring at Lin Mo's arm.
Lin Mo followed the other person's gaze and looked down, and was also stunned.
On his own arm, a mark appeared at some point.
Like an eye.
At first it looks like a painting, but after looking at it for a long time, the eyes look like real ones and they can still look at you.
"What is this?" Lin Mo looked at 'Academician Li' and seemed to know something about these eyes, so he asked.
The latter said: "This is the seal of the Closer."
After speaking, he took out a research document and handed it to Lin Mo.
Lin Mo opened it and saw that it was written by Academician Li about the research on the seal of the Closer. The date of writing was about four months ago.
"He and I wrote this together. At first, the copper door just opened a gap, and he closed it alone. After that, something like this appeared on his body."
"Is it a curse?" Lin Mo knew about curses very well. He smelled it carefully and found that there was indeed an aura of curse on the eyes.
"It should be a curse, but this curse is very special and cannot be removed at all." 'Academician Li' sighed: "Moreover, after this curse is added, it will inevitably bring bad luck. He was tortured by this curse during those days.
Look."
The man in the name of "Academician Li" is the real Academician Li.
Lin Mo looked at the research content.
The situation is the same as what the other party said.
The real Professor Li recorded in this research diary the pain he suffered after the door was closed, and these pains were caused by the mark of the person who closed the door.
Lin Mo also noticed that the fake Academician Li was also mentioned in the research diary. It was exactly what the fake said. The real and fake Academician Li cooperated with each other.
Moreover, the real Academician Li also called the counterfeit the greatest 'work' of his life.
Lin Mo looked at this report and already believed 90% of what 'Academician Li' just said.
The reason is simple.
The first is the time when the replica was born. It was definitely not this time. If it were this time, it would be impossible for the replica to prepare this kind of research log in advance.
This stuff is not something that can be written on the spur of the moment.
In addition, Lin Mo also saw some clues in this office. For example, there were two desks and two sets of office supplies, and they were all exactly the same.
Even the cups for drinking water are exactly the same.
These cannot be prepared in advance either.
"Actually, the reason why he decided to enter the Tongmen again was to find a way to solve this terrible curse. However, he probably failed."
'Academician Li' sighed.
At this time, Lin Mo pulled out his own yellow paper from his heart and looked at it.
Sure enough, there was one more curse in addition to the original thirteen.
However, the words of this curse are very strange, with a touch of hatred and resentment that is difficult to get rid of.
5-0 Ghost Bite
Lin Mo remembered that he had previously analyzed that the curse in sequence No. 5 was of pain type, and this curse ranked at the zero position of pain sequence No. 5 was definitely unusual.
But just how unusual it is, Lin Mo still doesn't know yet.
But from the research log in my hand, we can roughly tell.
"Every day, I will be killed and eaten by that terrifying ghost, endlessly..."
This is the original text in the log, and Lin Mo has not changed a word.
Apparently it was written by Academician Li before.
From this sentence, we should be able to see the horror of this curse.
Die once a day.
And he was still eaten by ghosts.
Come to think of it...it's quite exciting!
Lin Mo felt that it would not be the ghosts that would eat him, but him that would eat the ghosts.
Perhaps seeing the disapproval on Lin Mo's face, 'Academician Li' on the opposite side warned: "This thing is no joke. The real Academician Li who is tortured by this curse does not look like a human or a ghost, so he would venture into the copper."
Lin Mo didn't like people who only spoke half of their words, so he took the initiative to ask.
"What exactly do you want to say?"
'Academician Li' opposite took a deep breath: "I suspect that the one who pushed open the bronze door this time was Academician Li. I ventured in this time just to find him, but unfortunately, I couldn't find him."
'Academician Li' said before that the hands that pushed open the copper door this time were extremely strange.
But how weird it is is hard to describe using words alone.
Lin Mo asked if you can draw.
‘Academician Li’ nodded.
"How about you draw one for me and I'll take a look." After Lin Mo finished speaking, 'Academician Li' had already found paper and pen to start drawing.
The painting is very serious.
Soon a pair of indeed very strange hands appeared on the drawing paper.
Not only is this hand thick, but it is also covered with dense eyes.