Survivorship Bias

    Zhong Yirou was stunned.

      Half-masculine and half-feminine children approach Zhong Yirou step by step in the painting.

    Why is my body so stiff? Zhong Yirou wanted to move, to reach out to cover the painting, but her arms were trembling and she could hardly lift it up.

    At this moment, the children in front of them differentiated from one to countless identical ones. They made noises at the same time, stood densely on the lawn, and kept asking questions.

    "Sister, do you like boys or girls?"

      Zhong Yirou forced herself to ignore this suffocation and tried her best to give an answer.

    “I…I like it all.”

      I only like girls!"

    Just as the children were screaming, the blue overalls on their body gradually disappeared, and a little bit turned into a small red skirt, and the short hair gradually became longer, reaching shoulder length.

    "No. I like them both!" Zhong Yirou frowned tightly and said in a sincere tone, "Both boys and girls, you are all the most precious angels."

    Perhaps her words worked, the angry expressions of the children in the painting were like the sky after a shower, and they became clearer.

    "Really..." Their question seemed to lack confidence. These faces were clearly drawn, but the empty eyes reached Zhong Yirou's heart.

    "Of course it's true." Zhong Yirou repeated again. She felt a little pain in her neck, and she seemed to be leaking air when she spoke, so she raised her hand and pressed it with her palm.

    The children in the painting changed back to the appearance of boys, but they all fell to the ground, no, fell into white cabins like freezers, and then escaped at the same time Underground, disappeared.

    This strange process inexplicably made Zhong Yirou feel a sense of familiarity. The spreading thoughts touched unfamiliar memories that did not seem to belong to her, but they were so clear that it seemed to be a picture she saw every day - countless identical bodies , the freezer compartment, and myself in a white coat.

    No, this shouldn't be me, it's E06 in the containment center.

    The children in the painting disappeared, leaving only a large uninhabited lawn, but there was an extra key on the lawn.

    Zhong Yirou stretched out her hand, trying to get the golden key, and touched the flat paper and lines with her fingertips. Unexpectedly, she actually picked up the key!

    "Zhong Yirou, Zhong Yirou..."

    Hearing the call, Zhong Yirou, who was immersed in the painting, suddenly woke up.

    "You look so bad." Yang Erci stood beside her and stretched out her hand, touching her forehead with the back of her hand to test the temperature.

    "No fever..."

    "I'm fine." Zhong Yirou bowed her head, a golden key really appeared in her hand, she showed it to Yang Erci excitedly, "I just found it in the painting. "

    This should be a weird thing, but here, what happens is not surprising. If there is a key, there must be a corresponding room. Several people tried one by one, and in the end, the key correctly matched the room on the corner.

    The plug can be inserted, but the key cannot be turned.

    Wu You thought, "You have to let Josh come."

    After he finished speaking, he glanced at Nan Shan, Nan Shan had to call out Josh's name and call him over.

    Hold the key in Josh's hand, and it really worked.

    A sentence is displayed on the door: [Welcome back to D03, please remember to complete today's dating report. ]

    Josh doesn't understand, what is a Dating Report?

    Why write a report when making friends?

    I thought this room would be like the sleeping room downstairs, there might be many scary children in it, Zhong Yirou had lingering fears about this, but opened the door, it was quiet and dark inside.

    Nanshan found the switch, turned on the light, and the room was suddenly brighter.

    This is just a very ordinary archive room. The walls inside are clean and there is a translucent screen hanging on the wall. There is currently no projection. There is a folding chair in the room, and two large file racks separate a small space. Walking over, there is only a glass cabinet for storing items.

    "I'll go over there later." Josh followed Yang Erci to the cabinet inside, "I'll look at it more and tell Wu blame when it's over."

    Nan Shan doesn't seem to have much curiosity to explore. He leans against the wall and his face is pale, "You all seem to like An Wu Jiao."

    Josh was a little embarrassed, scratched his fluffy brown curly hair, and the freckles on his face gave him a special kind of greenness and shyness, "I can't say that I like it, it should be trust. Don't you think he has a very reliable feeling? I have never met such a player in other games of the altar before, and I would like to be a teammate with a person like him."

    Nan Shan nodded, "It seems that I really feel this way, this guy is quite reliable, if he hadn't boosted everyone's morale from the beginning, and brought it with him to decrypt together, otherwise he would have half the money. In a state where people don't know each other, they can go their separate ways and even form confrontations. If you think about it this way, he is indeed a very good person."

    Zhong Yirou was on the other side of the file shelf. She flipped through the documents above and whispered, "That's because you haven't seen him in another way..."

    "Another kind?" Nan Shan was a little curious.

    "The other is also very good." Wu You said deliberately, "It is more reliable than now."

    Yang Erci did not participate in their chat. She found that there were many strange medicine bottles in the glass cabinet, but there were no labels. She wanted to see what they were, so she went out and dragged the metal folding chair. Hit the glass case directly.

    The loud sound of glass breaking suddenly interrupted the conversation of several others. Josh on the side was once again frightened by this decisive iceberg beauty.

    "You, you watch out for broken glass."

    Yang Erci reached out and took out the medicine bottle from the inside, twisted it open, and found a transparent sampling plastic bag inside, which contained an orange pill.

    Josh noticed that there was a label on the sample bag with a chemical term that he could not understand - cyproterone acetate, and a long list of molecular formula - C24H29ClO4.

    Yang Erci opened another bottle of medicine, which was also the same sample bag, which contained a yellow tablet with another name on it.

    In this way, she opened several medicine bottles in a row, and they were filled with different pills. Until she found the last bottle and found a printed report in the place where the bottle was placed.

      The results of the physical examination for infants and young children are expected to be released next week, and a comprehensive analysis will be carried out in conjunction with the physical examination reports. ]

    The strangest thing is that the signature of the person in charge on this report is A02.

    That is to say, this is the result of the investigation of the innocent characters.

    "What does this mean? The medicine the child's mother takes?" Josh picked up a bottle, "What the **** is this medicine?"

    Yang Erci put down the report and said with a heavy face: "These are anti-androgens and estrogens, if it is as written in the report, then what these discarded children have in common is that their biological mothers High doses of estrogen and anti-androgens during pregnancy."

    "How can you eat these?" Zhong Yirou feels incredible, although she is only a prosthetic doctor, she still understands the basic pharmacology, "Excessive use of hormones during pregnancy is very dangerous and can easily lead to miscarriage , in case she was pregnant with a male child, she would still…”

    She suddenly stopped talking, because she thought of the children on the mural just now, their hysterical screams and screams.

    "What?" Wu You heard something was wrong, and Nan Shan on the side felt as if it was time to recite the rebirth spell.

    Seeing that Zhong Yirou was in poor condition, Yang Erci answered for her, "It will increase the risk of fetal malformation. The deformity here is different from Rainbow Baby, it is a feminization of male fetuses."

    Hearing this result, several others were stunned.

    Zhong Yirou felt that her hands were a little cold, she froze, rubbed her hands, and then suddenly thought of a file that she had just ignored, she rummaged on the file shelf again, and finally Looking back again, flipping page after page, I found a micro-hard drive sandwiched inside.

    "This one has a label on it," Zhong Yirou turned around and walked towards the translucent screen, found the socket on the wall and inserted the hard drive in his hand, "The label says [feminized] English."

    The screen lit up, and everyone came to her side to read the permission that required Josh. After he followed the instructions, the hard drive was indeed opened, and there were some video reports. After opening, the front There is a long black screen time.

    The sound of a knock on the door came when the play was starting, Zhong Yirou turned around and saw Shen Ti and An Wujiu coming in.

    "You two can't be fake, right?" She was very alert and shouted their names outside, but there was no response.

    "It's just the two of us." Shen Ti put one hand in his pocket, looking very lazy, "It's raining rainbows over there again, we came over when we were bored."

    “It’s not that I’m bored,” An Wujiu corrected, “We want to see if we can help, while we can’t get over there.”

    Yang Erci looked at them carefully, and then asked, "Did you find anything over there?"

    An Wujiu paused for a while, "The door can't be opened, but there are some strange phenomena, such as the orange tin can written in the previous round, orange, when it reappears this time, write is green. The purple purple label has also become an orange label. Other than that, there is no clue to use.”

    These details are often needed to solve the puzzle, but there are too few clues, and no one can directly solve it.

    "Feel like we're going to spend a while on this floor."

    After Wu Yougang finished speaking, the black screen on the video report ended and became a clear and specific picture.

    To everyone's surprise, the person in the picture is An Wujiu's face, and even the voice and body are exactly the same.

    "Is this you?" Josh turned to look at An Wujiu.

    An Wujiao is much calmer, "It should be A02."

    In the video, A02 with the image of An Wujiu is not in the containment center at the moment, he is obviously outside, and it seems to be in a dilapidated environment that is incompatible with his own image, there is no such thing here Among the towering buildings, there are only "houses" made of broken walls and plastic waste, and even the air is gray, and the children who run past wear dirty old clothes.

    This is downright ghetto.

    A02 was walking quickly, a child grabbed his sleeve, hoping he could give him something to eat, he had to stop, now is not the age of using cash, he put his precious tie Take it off and give it to the child and leave quickly.

    When he was about to leave the area, he finally began to speak.

    [I just visited some families on behalf of charitable foundations who might have abandoned those children. It is very common that many of them decide to throw away their children when they are four to five years old, presumably because at that time they discovered that there was a problem with the development of the child's sexual organs, which was an unexpected problem. ]

    Seeing his face appear in such a scene, An Wujiu feels a little subtle.

    [And I found this. ] A02 in the video took out a small medicine bottle.

      But when I found the special room where the genius doctor lived, it was already empty. I only found these medicines in a pile of **** and waste, waiting for me to take them back for testing. ]

    A02 put away the medicine and walked across the road, the wind was loud, like a thin soft knife, scraping on his worried face.

    The video ends, and Josh opens a second one with the filename [Follow-up].

    This video is different from the previous one. After opening it, the picture shows a male resident of a slum. He looks like a Southeast Asian man in his thirties, with dark skin and a very mature tone of voice.

    [Now everyone wants to have a daughter, who wants to have a son, how much is a son worth? ]

    Next, is the voice of An Wujiao, which is A02.

    [Why only want a daughter? ]

    The man smiled, as if he was amused by A02, full of a kind of attitude.

    [There are few daughters, now the environment here is getting worse and worse, and no one in the city can have children. The ability to have children has become a scarce resource. Although there is an artificial womb and surrogacy technology, how can the poor afford it? Besides, they all say that the little doll made from this artificial womb has poor physical fitness and will not live to be twenty years old. ]

    [Little girls are getting fewer and fewer, not everyone is going to become extinct. Boys are good, and they will inherit the lineage, but no one has given birth to them. What a scarce resource the womb is, it's all money! ]

    Speaking, the man threw something like a candy pill into his mouth and grinned.

    [Little handsome guy, for you, do you want to have a daughter too. ]

    A02 was silent for a moment.

    [Do you have any way? ]

    [Yes, my two daughters came out like this. Don't you know, our place looks shabby, but in fact, there is a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger, you go and find out, there is a very powerful foreign doctor here, and he sells a kind of abortion pill that can help you give birth to a daughter. ]

    [Really? ] Obviously there is a question, but A02's voice has cooled down.

    [Of course, if you don't believe me, just look for it. What am I lying to you for. There are many people who want to inherit the lineage, and everyone is trying to create opportunities for them every day. ]

    These words made everyone fall into an ice cave.

    No one expected this to be the case.

    A02 did not answer, and the screen shook for a while, then cut off.

    An Wujiu felt very strange.

    Before seeing this video, having experienced the first level of bizarre events, he and others decided that this institution was not as glamorous and respectable as it appeared, at least not as the original one In the video, the founder said that, it is a charitable cause completely for the poor children.

    After all, no charity has a morgue.

    But what A02 is doing now seems to go against his imagination.

    It seems that he is indeed seeking evidence for these children who have been harmed by rebirth pills, and is finding some truth.

     to find answers.

    What A02 is doing is so contradictory to this weird containment center.

    Josh opened the last video, still A02's video report, in this report, he did not appear by himself.

    When the voice appeared, everyone was stunned, this was Josh's own voice, or D03.

    [Excuse me, is it possible to adopt a baby girl for a fee? ]

    D03 does not appear in the video, the miniature lens seems to be mounted on him, the picture is a little shaky, in the video is a middle-aged man with a pot belly, sparse hair, and his dirty undershirt is about to be taken away His stomach burst.

    [You adopted it yourself. ]

    [I asked for my friend, he didn't have time to come by himself, so he specially entrusted me. Do you have a lot here? What is the approximate price? ]

    The man took out a tablet, his thick black fingers slid, [See for yourself, these are photos and prices, they are all high-quality goods, take your time. ]

    D03's finger appeared in the video, swiped the screen a few times, and asked a question that surprised the other party.

    [I hear you have some…not normal baby girls on your side. ]

    The other party was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly showed a weird smile, "Oh, you said that."

    Soon, with a few clicks of his finger, another table category appeared with the name [Double Perfect Angel].

    [I thought no one wanted it. Some time ago, a lot of them were lost after giving birth. In the end, I don’t know where those children were taken.

    Let me be honest with you, we are all business people, just be honest. These were bought back by me in a confused way. I thought they were valuable girls, but I didn't expect them to be freaks, and they grew up with men. ]

    His face was full of disgust.

    [If you want, package it for you at a low price. ]

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    The author has something to say:

    ①According to the news of "birth-changing pills" some time ago, but the real news is to guarantee "female to male" and "only male fetuses".

    This is irony, so it is reversed. Of course, there is no so-called male-to-female in the real world. In the article, seeking a girl is to use the value of fertility to seek benefits, not really like it. In reality, it is to satisfy my own paranoia. I would rather believe in pills without scientific basis and have a boy, but I really don’t like it. daughter.

      The deformed child's small pill, so he was defrauded.

    There are even many people queuing up in some blog posts and posts to send prayers such as "pick up the boy's treasure". , and there are still countless families who are unwilling to give birth to girls.