Chapter 441 Family Compound
“Hello?” Sun Hang suddenly realized that he might have asked the right question.

Anna remained silent, perhaps because she was afraid of the existence of the three monkeys… The answer to this question might have reached the level that would attract the attention of the three monkeys.

“Anna? Are you asleep?”

Still no response.

“Let’s change the subject, Anna. Which do you think tastes better, Coca-Cola or Pepsi? Do you prefer white sugar and red date dumplings or pork and salted egg yolk dumplings? Do you prefer sweet or salty tofu pudding?”

Anna’s voice never sounded in Sun Hang’s headphones, as if she had cut off the communication.

Maybe… Anna’s silence wasn’t because of the three monkeys?

The three monkeys would only react to content that involved “taboos”, and these irrelevant things that Sun Hang just asked about had nothing to do with “taboos” at all!

Could it be that I lost my memory because I was arguing with someone about the saltiness or sweetness of tofu pudding and then was knocked unconscious by someone punching me?

Or maybe Sanyuan is a staunch “Coca-Cola Party” or “Pepsi Party”, and Anna is afraid that giving the wrong answer would offend Sanyuan, which is even more ridiculous!
Sun Hang glanced at the west wall of the residential building. The golden sunlight shone through the gaps between the leaves and hit the wall, leaving a patch of mottled light spots. Whenever the wind blew, these light spots would change with the swaying of the leaves… This kind of realistic light and shadow effect, which is almost indistinguishable from reality, is still an unsolvable problem even for the most advanced graphics cards on the market… The amount of computing required is really too large. Unless it is a supercomputer with amazing computing power, ordinary home computers cannot achieve this level.

The so-called “ray tracing technology” can only simulate the effect of lighting in nature as much as possible within the scope of computing power. After enlarging the picture to a one-to-one ratio with the real object, you will find that there is still a very obvious gap between it and the real world.

It is easy to create a chaotic little world, but it is difficult to make the various physical laws in the little world the same as those in the real world.

Sun Hang suddenly understood why Anna suddenly stopped talking.

Chimera 17…seems to have regained its sanity.

The current world is very stable, orderly, and has almost no chaos or abnormal factors, which seems to prove this point.

Sun Hang looked around, trying to find a medium like a glass curtain wall that could allow him to exchange information with Chimera No. 17 – at first glance, he focused his attention on the old-fashioned sign next to the aisle.

However, he stared at the sign for a long time, but the words on it did not change at all.

“Hello, is anyone there?” Sun Hang asked loudly.

No one responded.

Only the rustling sound of the wind rustling the leaves made a slight sound.

“Can you tell me where this place is?” Sun Hang asked as if talking to himself, “Could it really be a city that has already fallen?”

He recalled what the old woman in Maoyun Town had said… If his “hometown” was really in the occupied area, then could it be here?

Sun Hang’s nose twitched twice. The faint salty smell carried in the wind made him feel somewhat familiar.

He suddenly started and rushed into the residential building next to him, running up the stairs quickly.

Sun Hang did not stop at the door of any household. He ran straight to the rooftop and looked into the distance.

Wave after wave of waves hit the black rocks on the shore, leaving large patches of white foam on the surface of the rocks. A warship quietly stopped on the sea near the shore, and the warship was flying the old version of the Xiazhou Federation flag. After the Xiazhou Federation was the only one left in human civilization, the Xiazhou Federation changed the flag style once. Now the warship was flying this old flag, which meant that at this time, there were other political systems on the earth besides the Xiazhou Federation.

Sun Hang suddenly knew where he was.

The nameless island…the nameless island where the secret laboratory was built!
This answer was a little unexpected, but completely reasonable – he found Anna on the nameless island, and considering the relationship between Anna, himself and Chimera No. 17, the scene of the nameless island appearing in this small world was completely reasonable!
The current residential area was probably prepared for the families of the scientists who originally came to the island to conduct research – considering the material conditions of that era, these buildings could definitely be considered luxury homes.

But…why would Chimera 17 let me see these things?

If she wanted to reveal the truth to me, wouldn’t it be better for her to just throw me into the institute?

The rules on the Nameless Island are very strict. The scientists cannot take anything related to the research out of the institute, and they cannot mention anything related to the research when interacting with their families… It is difficult to find some valuable information in this old community – after all, the source of the fall of the Nameless Island came from within the institute, and even if there are any clues, they should not be here.

Sun Hang looked in other directions – the architectural layout of the island was exactly the same as the ruins on the nameless island after its fall. However, what made Sun Hang speechless was that when he turned his sight to the research facilities in the central position, the picture he saw was blurred like a mosaic, and produced an extremely strong sense of unreality.

This was probably the only “abnormal” thing he found in this small world.

He really wanted to run directly to the research institute to see what was going on, but a voice deep in his mind told him that the “research institute” did not exist here.

The blurry outline of the building is like a texture in a game scene. You can only see it but cannot enter it.

Sun Hang thought for a moment and returned to the sixth floor from the rooftop.

The highest floor of this building is only the sixth floor, and the seventh floor is the rooftop.

Sun Hang grasped the door handle of Room 601 and turned it gently.

The door is locked.

The liquid metal slipped in through the crack of the door like a small snake and cut off the lock tongue silently. Sun Hang gently turned the door handle and the door opened.

The furnishings in the room are also full of a sense of age – rattan sofas and chairs, a bookcase with glass doors filled with many paperback books, a 14-inch black and white TV covered with a tasseled towel, and a built-in kettle cabinet on the kitchen wall, with several kettles in bamboo shells neatly placed inside.

The partition between the dining room and the kitchen is an aluminum sliding door, and the glass window embedded in the sliding door is stained with oil smoke that is difficult to clean. A glass tray is placed in the center of the dining table, with seven or eight apples and two bananas on the tray, and the gaps are filled with hard candies wrapped in colorful candy wrappers.

This family’s living standard has surpassed more than 95% of families at that time, but considering that they are the family members of researchers from the Nameless Island Research Institute, this treatment is understandable.

Sun Hang did not rush into the room, but silently wrote down everything he saw.

He wanted to verify a guess.

Sun Hang turned around and opened the door of Room 602 opposite in the same way.

The same furniture, the same decorations, even the number and stacking of apples on the tray and the position of the hard candies have not changed.

Sun Hang didn’t say anything, but went down to the fifth floor silently and opened rooms 501 and 502. Then came rooms 401 and 402.

……

In this building, the interiors of every household are exactly the same, as if a lazy programmer simply used the same set of interior templates when designing game scenes.

Why is this so?
Sun Hang walked into the living room of Room 102, picked up an apple from the dining table and took a bite.

The apples were not very fresh, but they were not shriveled due to dehydration either – there was no place to grow apples on the nameless island, and these fruits were all shipped in from outside the island. Considering the historical background, this apple could definitely be considered a “luxury product.”

Sun Hang picked up another candy, peeled off the candy wrapper, and put the fruit candy inside into his mouth.

The candy tasted like lemon, but the sweetness had completely overwhelmed the sourness, making the apple he had just tasted seem bland in comparison. Holding the candy in his mouth, Sun Hang retreated to the sofa against the wall and slowly sat down.

“All the residents look the same, not because of laziness, but because there is only this kind of material, right?” Sun Hang asked himself.

“It’s the same reason why the research institute looks like a sticker.”

“Chimera No. 17 has never been to the Nameless Island Research Institute, so in its memory, the institute is just a vague outline.”

“Similarly, it has never been to other people’s homes, so it doesn’t know what the residents of this small neighborhood are like.”

“And this… is where you used to live, right?” Sun Hang raised his head, stared at the fluorescent tube on the ceiling, and asked, “This is… your home?”

No one answered his question.

But the consciousness in Sun Hang’s mind gave Sun Hang a clear response – he guessed right.

Chimera No. 17 was not born in the research institute on the nameless island, but was born in this “family compound”.

“It’s so outrageous…”

Sun Hang leaned his head back, leaned against the back of the sofa, and muttered softly: “Could it be that someone secretly took the research results out of the institute and raised you here?”

A gust of sea breeze blew, and the tulle curtains fluttered.

Sun Hang stood up, walked to the TV and turned it on.

There were no remote controls for televisions in that era, and to change channels, one had to turn the huge knob on the TV.

There was electricity in the room, but there was no signal. No matter how Sun Hang turned the knob, there was only snow on the TV screen.

There was a rustling sound of electricity coming from the TV speakers, echoing the sound of the wind outside.

Sun Hang suddenly felt lonely.

He continued to walk inside. This was a two-bedroom, one-living-room residence. The dining room outside was the living room. Apart from the kitchen, toilet and balcony, there were only two small rooms of less than ten square meters.

One room was used as a study, but there were only a few books on the bookshelf, and the pen holder on the desk was overturned, with two black pens rolling to the ground.

The window of the study was open, and the same gauze curtains as those in the living room were fluttering in the wind – it was obvious at a glance that these curtains were the culprit that caused the pen holder to overturn.

The other room is the bedroom. There is only a single bed in the bedroom with very simple bedding – pure white sheets, quilt covers and pillowcases. Apart from that, there is nothing else in the bedroom.

“Do you live alone?” Sun Hang seemed to be asking Chimera No. 17, but also seemed to be talking to himself.

Sun Hang walked to the bed and pressed the sheets with his hand.

It was very hard, with the bed board underneath the sheets, and nothing in between – considering the temperature on the nameless island, it would probably be quite cold at night sleeping on such a bed.

Sun Hang lay down like an ignorant guest, looking up at the light bulb hanging from the ceiling… For some reason, Sun Hang suddenly had a very familiar feeling.

It was exactly the same inexplicable sense of familiarity he had felt inside the Nameless Island Research Institute.

Could it be that the person who used to live here… was not Chimera No. 17, but myself?

Was he a researcher at the Nameless Island Research Institute? Was he the one who “bred” Anna, and was he the one who secretly brought Chimera 17 out of the research institute?

Am I the culprit?

Sun Hang recalled the memories of those Anglo-Saxon hunters. It seemed that what the Nameless Island Research Institute was studying at that time was a human embryo – a human embryo infected with the original primary meme.

Could it be that he brought the embryo out himself?

In other words, Anna is the embryo, and Chimera 17… is a replica of Anna?

So, Anna and Chimera No. 17 are actually twin sisters?

Why would I be associated with them? Anna and Chimera 17 both clearly mentioned that their lives and deaths seemed to be tied to me, so if I were just an “ordinary” researcher…

Bullshit! If I were just an ordinary researcher, I would have been dead by now, more than a hundred years have passed!
These things in front of us are not thirty or forty years old, but more than a hundred years old!
The time span is so long that many “reasonable” speculations become unreasonable.

There is even great uncertainty as to whether Sun Hang himself is a human being.

It is definitely impossible for a person to live for more than a hundred years, at least not if he is not infected.

Could it be that… back then I injected the original primary meme in that embryo into my own body?
Using oneself as an experimental sample to obtain the most authentic and detailed experimental data, this really seems like something that the crazy people in Tianshu Tower would do…

“I was a lunatic before?”

(End of this chapter)