365 Utopia (Part 3)

◎This is matrilineal inheritance◎

Utopia is the womb, in other words the mother nest, where everything begins.

Since they speculate that the world is a giant, decaying human, it now seems that the gender of humans is determined by this.

Zhu Ning stood on the edge of the crack, hearing crazy whispers in his ears, and his brief moment of sanity would soon be replaced by madness.

In all cultures, childbirth is sacred. Humans often marvel at the greatness of life. Even if they glimpse a cow giving birth, they will stop and watch to show their respect.

The ground cracked beneath my feet, looking so abrupt on the incredibly clean streets. The feeling was very subtle, like coming home after a busy day and your closest person bringing out a pot of soup. When you open the lid, you find a human head floating inside, and you still want to drink the soup.

The powerful visual impact shocked everyone, but perhaps fear had taken over their minds, and no one, including Zhu Ning, made any move to escape.

Zhu Ning's fingers were shaking unconsciously, and it wasn't just her who was shaking, it was everyone.

Above the behemoth, humans seem incredibly small.

The created utopia, with the appearance of a clean town, was intended to paralyze everyone through hallucinations, just like the most terrifying carnivorous plant often has the most gorgeous appearance.

Zhu Ning burst the bubble of illusion, but did not change the essence. They just faced it all more intuitively.

People in this place had their minds reduced to an extremely low level. Zhu Ning's loud words that something was wrong quickly disappeared without leaving any trace in anyone's mind.

There were people moving around, and just as Zhou Haiqing said, some of them had the body shapes of teenagers, and some were adults.

Zhu Ning knew part of the inside story and guessed that they were the descendants of people with superpowers, while the other naive pilgrims did not move, as if they had come from thousands of miles away to be spectators, and Zhu Ning was one of the countless spectators.

No, they are nutrients.

Zhu Ning could sense that his spirit was being eaten away. What he was eating was not an ordinary body. If he was only eating meat, the abundant pollutants outside the wall would be enough.

He feeds on the human spirit, and Zhu Ning's sanity has been gradually fading since he entered this area.

Zhu Ning saw a familiar figure among the people, Zhou Haiqing, holding a child in her arms, both of whom stood out among the pilgrims.

Zhou Haiqing trembled as if she had met her true God, and knelt at the edge of the crack. The huge breathing creature was very close to her, but she was not afraid at all.

The creature below was shrinking, but Zhu Ning's gaze was still fixed on Zhou Haiqing. A mother holding a child is recorded in many religions, and this theme is repeated in many holy sculptures and shocking paintings.

Zhou Haiqing was the same. Zhu Ning originally wanted to walk over to her and stop her from doing anything stupid.

But her lips trembled and she quickly gave up the idea. Utopia is Xiaobao's utopia.

Zhou Haiqing came here for this. She had no idea what was going to happen, or where this place was, and she acted entirely on instinct.

Zhou Haiqing untied the small protective suit with trembling hands. The protective suit was modified by Zhou Haiqing overnight. It was like a protective shield, blocking a lot of pollution for her child.

Now she untied it, revealing the true appearance of the baby inside.

Zhu Ning had been curious about what Xiaobao looked like many times, and was still shocked when he actually saw him. It was an indescribable yellow translucent chaotic body, with deformities visibly visible to the naked eye.

It looked like a ball of plasticine that had been kneaded twice, or like a ball of jelly with eyes embedded in it. The eyes were irregularly distributed, one on the left and one at the bottom, and there was no mouth or nose to be found.

She blinked her left eye. She had eyelashes but no traditional human eyeballs. Instead, she had two slits on her eye like a rag doll, making her look like a two-dimensional creature.

She also had no hands or feet, and she tried hard to support one side of her body, like a ball of yellow seaweed, rubbing Zhou Haiqing's palm affectionately. Amid the surprised gazes of others, they communicated through their special way.

Xiaobao doesn't know how to call her mom, and Zhou Haiqing has tried so hard just to hear Xiaobao call her.

But Zhou Haiqing still smiled, crying and laughing, not knowing whether this step was right or wrong, her cheeks were wet with tears.

At that moment, Zhu Ning understood why Zhou Haiqing and Hong Yong never gave up their pilgrimage despite Xiaobao's terrifying appearance and inhuman abilities.

Zhou Haiqing lured his fellow men to lend a helping hand along the way, and killed so many people directly or indirectly, without ever wavering.

If the creature below is truly the God of salvation, Zhou Haiqing should sacrifice Xiaobao.

But she didn't know what went wrong, or maybe she had really lost her mind. Her body tilted and she fell into the crack while holding Xiaobao.

The flesh and blood squirmed like mud, and Zhou Haiqing soon disappeared.

This scene seemed to be contagious, and others jumped down one after another, as if it was a large-scale sacrificial activity. In Zhu Ning's eyes, it was like a group madness, an act of collective suicide. They gave up their lives with smiles on their faces.

Their bodies collided with the behemoth, making a bang-bang sound, which was the last sound.

…

Bang, bang, bang—

A window was not closed and was blown by the wind, constantly hitting the edge. In the ancient house, the information Huo Wenxi received far exceeded her imagination.

Huo Jinsheng was the best guide. He said slowly, "You've found a lot. Even without me, you can connect them all."

Huo Wenxi carried documents with her, which contained all the information she had investigated, as well as a picture of the world outline drawn by Zhuang Lin.

Now they have one more piece of information: Utopia is the womb. If Zhuang Lin were still alive, he would use his imagination to draw it in the appropriate location, but he is dead.

Is this world a rotting female corpse? He is female.

Huo Wenxi didn't know how to make sense of it all. It was like a bug trying to understand the structure of human society. What did this corpse mean? The fall of the gods? A myth like Kuafu chasing the sun?

My eyes turn into the sun and the moon?

Huo Jinsheng: "Everything makes sense, but you've been deceived."

Huo Wenxi stroked her eye patch. She guessed that this eye was contaminated by the evil children underground in Area 103, so there was always an eye watching her.

If viewed from this perspective, the watching eyes may also be part of the world, and they are just using Huo Wenxi's body.

Huo Wenxi felt the gaze from above, the lines extending upwards, the huge eyeballs looking at him expressionlessly.

Her intuition had always been correct. The truth she and Zhu Ning had uncovered was terrifying and came from an even more unknown place. Now she had touched the tip of the iceberg.

Huo Wenxi: "The Huo family and the Lu family have different responsibilities."

She has been asking questions since she sat here, and now she is trying to summarize.

"I was curious when I was little," Huo Wenxi recalled her childhood memories. Back then, she had many questions, but she was smart enough not to ask them deliberately. "Why is the Huo family ruled by the grandmother? Now I understand."

Most of the aristocratic families in the Federation are very feudal and follow a certain decadent system internally. Women are mostly decorations, and all power is in the hands of men.

This is normal. Technological development does not mean ideological progress. The more crises there are, the more backward and regressive human thinking becomes. This can give some people a sense of security, after all, they are very familiar with that system.

The Huo family is completely different. Huo Wenxi is a woman, but she has never been deprived of the qualification of being an heir, and this intuitive ability seems to be passed down only to women.

Huo Wenxi has never seen his parents, his father doesn't even have a name, and the whole family says that this man is not important.

Her mother gave birth to her before she got married. Her mother's profession was a scholar outside the wall, and she was carrying out exploration missions outside the wall all year round. Perhaps because there was a new heir, her mother did not need to inherit the family and could also realize her own ideals.

The old witch said that Huo Wenxi's mother had an affair shortly after he was born and died during a mission.

Huo Wenxi's mother is also an intuitive psychic. When the grandmother, mother, and Huo Wenxi awakened their abilities, no one was surprised. It seemed as if they were waiting for something that was sure to happen.

The Huo family's genetic inheritance is very stable, and they have found some kind of genetic law.

Huo Wenxi: "It's the same with the Lu family. Lu Yao is not important. The important one is actually Lu Yuan. Lu Yuan is the most important step in a certain plan. She is very... valuable..."

Huo Wenxi carefully considered his words and didn't know how to describe the similarities between the Lu family and the Huo family.

Huo Jinsheng's answer was even more straightforward, "You're right, this is a maternal inheritance."

Internal genetic stability occurs only in females.

It's just that the manifestation is different in different families. Because the Huo family plays the role of observer, Huo Wenxi is freer than Lu Yuan. There is no need for too many observers, and Huo Wenxi does not need to take responsibility for Huo Jin's life or death.

Another thing passed down from generation to generation in the Huo family is the eyes. Ever since Huo Wenxi entered the door, Huo Jinsheng has been staring into her eyes.

Huo Wenxi paused and asked, "Is it related to Utopia?"

"Yes, the specific reason is unknown, but this is indeed the law we currently understand," said Huo Jinsheng.

Huo Wenxi: "What is the Pilgrim of Utopia?"

Huo Jinsheng: "What do you think?"

"Exchange," Huo Wenxi and Zhu Ning had discussed this issue, and their guesses were consistent. "Gene exchange."

Huo Jinsheng rubbed the ring on his finger. "This question is difficult to answer. History is very complicated, but please do not doubt it. We are saving the world."

Huo Wenxi did not react to this statement. She found it hard to convince herself that her former enemy's goal was not to destroy the world, but to save it?

They are the saviors, and I am just the villain?

Huo Jinsheng: "Think of this as a biological experiment, one that will require the efforts of several generations, and you and I are one of them."

The candlelight flickered in the room. Huo Jinsheng's eyes were blank, and she thought of something very old. Her conversation with Huo Wenxi was actually an exchange between two generations, or a direct handover between two generations.

"After the Wall was built, first-class citizens came up with many solutions and proposed different types of plans, such as the familiar Project Wall and Project Spark. If we want to save the world, the first step is to understand what's wrong with it. We conducted a very in-depth exploration."

Huo Wenxi couldn't help but interrupt: "Because you found the secret a long time ago, in order to prevent the plan from being affected, you gradually stopped the investigation outside the wall."

Many people think that large-scale investigation activities outside the Great Firewall have stopped because they are worthless. In fact, it is because key information has been explored long ago, so the secrets are kept in the hands of a few people.

The group of investigators back then had been cleared out long ago, and the current members of the Northern Investigation Team are still foolishly investigating the world. Huo Wenxi was extremely shocked when he got the vascular information of the fishing village, thinking that he had discovered a new secret of the world, but he didn't know that the upper class had already known it.

Batches of members of the Northern Transfer Team went out and died outside the wall just to make a show and satisfy the people's expectations of exploring outside the wall.

Huo Jinsheng couldn't deny it, "Some people will always be sacrificed in this world."

Huo Wenxi didn't say anything. She wanted to mock him, but she suppressed it because she was one of the beneficiaries.

It was Zhuang Lin and the entire investigation team who sacrificed, and it was Huo Wenxi who survived. What right did she have to mock them?

Huo Jinsheng didn't care. Being an observer for a long time made her more cruel and more indifferent to the lives of others. In her eyes, life was no different from dust.

Huo Jinsheng said calmly, "Our initial goal was simple. We just wanted to test the maximum distance humans could travel and see if there were other humans alive besides us. We thought there were others outside the wall, but every time we were disappointed, we found that they were contaminants."

Are there other city-states outside the Federation? They were more curious about this at first. As long as others can survive, maybe they can work together to resist the pollution.

Unfortunately, nothing was found, only one polluted area after another.

Huo Jinsheng: "Until we met a woman during an investigation mission."

Huo Jinsheng spoke slowly, his voice carrying the weight of history. "The woman appeared to be moving normally, her mind was in good working order, and she could communicate normally. She passed all our detection machines like a perfectly normal person. She said she was a bounty hunter who had discovered a mysterious area and had crucial intelligence that needed to be reported to the Northern Investigation Bureau urgently."

"People at that time were very enthusiastic and simple, and wanted to contribute their own strength to the world, which is different from now." Huo Jinsheng laughed when he said this, with a bit of self-deprecating meaning.

It is these few people in power who have turned the world into what it is today.

"Led by the woman, we arrived at a place that pilgrims call utopia. It's hidden deep in the forest, and we have to go through layers of danger to reach it. The town looks incredibly clean on the surface, but underneath it lies an incomprehensible creature, a giant piece of meat. We didn't know what it was at first, and the first people who entered died, and they became nutrients."

"We thought we'd been tricked by this woman and were about to abandon the exploration plan, but the second support team had already been dispatched. When they arrived nearby, they discovered someone had survived. She looked like a brand new human, as if she had been resurrected. She retained her original memories and wasn't contaminated, but rather even more powerful."

The support team who witnessed it were extremely shocked. The man was not wearing protective clothing and was standing alone outside Utopia, like a newborn baby.

Huo Wenxi: "Being re-conceived?"

"Yes," Huo Jinsheng said, "Why did she come back to life? We've studied them for a long time and found that they share common traits. First, they're both women. Second, and most unusually, she was born to two people with special abilities. Such people make up a very small percentage of the population, and many are deformed and not taken seriously. Back then, they would choose to work as investigators or bounty hunters, risking their lives."

"In the beginning, investigator training wasn't systematic, and no one was willing to go outside the walls. Only people at the bottom, like the disabled, were willing to go outside. This unexpectedly led to a low-probability event, which tested the laws of utopia."

Huo Jinsheng: "Fortunately, we have mastered another rule. The offspring of people with special abilities can be conceived again."

"Embryo." Huo Wenxi said.

It sounds like the offspring of a mutant is like an embryo, which develops into a mature adult after entering the uterus.

"Yes," Huo Wenxi was very smart and hardly needed any guidance. Huo Jinsheng continued, "You can consider the offspring of people with special abilities as the first generation, and those who are conceived as the second generation."

"The second generation was initially unstable. It was strong in its first year, but within a year it began to fail and completely lost its sanity. We suspect the pollutant's genes are too tenacious, while human genes are too few. Development of the third generation is urgent. We tried different methods, fusing different genes, and found that it must be combined with pure human genes. As long as this combination is achieved, each generation will become more stable than the previous one. Thus, we have the fifth generation."

"Lu Yuan." Huo Wenxi said.

If we think of this as a product update and iteration, Lu Yuan is the latest product, and her next generation may produce a completely stable, brand new human being.

Huo Jinsheng nodded. "So, don't think the people of God's Kingdom are arrogant. They are just livestock kept in captivity."

She told a cruel joke.

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