Chapter 394: Flesh, Blood, Weakness (24) (1st update + 2nd update + 0.5 update of 35.6w nutrient solution) [VIP]

Qiming Line is the only way from Freeport to Zone 10.

Although the "Morning Star" mentioned by these people is really hard for someone who has seen the real starry sky to recognize it as a "star" at first glance, but after everyone saw this star, everyone had to admit that in this extremely dark and chaotic night sky, this dim dot is indeed extremely conspicuous.

Everyone in the aircraft gathered near the window with great interest, watching and chatting. The exploration team members looked at each other, quietly left the crowd, and gathered in the corner of the cabin.

"I feel like there's something wrong with this Morning Star," Zhang Lu lowered his voice, "What's going on in this sky?"

"Could it be that, like the bionic environment cover in zone 08, this is also a black box?" Wei Ye thought about it and proposed the easiest one to think of first.

"No," Si Panxuan shook his head, "From a technical point of view, it should be difficult to achieve, and it is meaningless."

There is no one living outside the nine areas, and no one except a few wanderers can see the real sky. There is no need to build such a large cover and package it into a black box.

Moreover, it can be seen from the environmental bionic system of zone08 that the existence of this big cover is to prevent the people living here from realizing that there is a problem with the sky. If the sky with problems is also a created black box, then it is completely meaningless for them to use a big box inside a small box here.

They were originally skeptical about the fact that the outside world was in eternal night. After all, they had the example of the big cover in zone 08. With the knowledge that "in the future there will be a technology that can imitate the real sky environment without being noticed", who knows if the rebel organization will also deceive them.

But after landing in the free port and witnessing the "Morning Star" with my own eyes, I think it is true that the sky is now a chaotic and eternal night. So the first problem that needs to be solved now is why the outside world has become like this. What exactly happened in the universe?

"The disaster hundreds of years ago?" Wei Ye interrupted, "Didn't it say that C-type creatures appeared in the sky, causing all people in the world to pass through SC, and then the information about the existence of C-type creatures in the world was forced to spread around the world? Could it be that at this time, there was already a problem with the stars in the sky?"

"It's possible, but the problem now is that the clues we got may be wrong," Ming Qingrong bit his fingernail anxiously. "The problem now is that the six teams before us, including the seven and a half days we stayed here, may have obtained wrong information."

They only had seven and a half days left to explore.

Although they are now on the rebel ship and have learned the answers that the previous six teams have not received for more than 90 days, if they can get all the answers by staying in the rebel organization, then why would the rebels need to go to the trouble of destroying the protective shield of zone 08?

A few comments popped up in the barrage:

[I understand what Xiao Ming means. He now suspects that all the information is wrong. He needs to overturn all existing knowledge about the world and start the investigation from scratch.]

[It may not be useful to start from the beginning. The main problem of this world is that the information obtained may not be correct. Even the current rebel organization may not have the correct information. ]

[No wonder the previous six teams were unable to get through. They had been investigating in the nine governors' ruling areas, and all they got was what the rulers let the people know. How could they possibly get the truth under such circumstances?]

[Hiss... The rebel organization may have correct information, but the information may not be enough, and we still have to distinguish what is true and what is false. ]

[There is something I don’t know whether I should say or not…]

【Talk, talk, talk. 】

[That is...Michigan's backstabbing not only destroyed the Lord's trust in Michigan, but also broke the trust chain of all the team members. Now everyone's first reaction to receiving a piece of news is suspicion, and subsequent investigations will be full of suspicion. In this state, all information will be repeatedly suspected regardless of whether it is true or false. This is also a K-world and there are only seven days left for exploration. This exploration may not be successful.]

This is putting it too mildly.

Time is tight and information is not necessarily true. In fact, most investors in the live broadcast room are pessimistic about the outcome of this exploration.

The reason why they can still stay here, apart from most of the people who are really stuck with the project and plan to finish it no matter what, is that most of them are actually worried about She Mochu's condition.

"Not necessarily," Zhang Lu interrupted the anxiety that spread from the unknown space to the live broadcast room, "Let's assume that Bo Jun and his group, as a rebel organization, are correct in their judgment of the Academy of Sciences and the nine regional governors. That means most of the history of this world is artificially fabricated, right?"

Everyone nodded.

"The existence of the K-type creatures will always be kept secret by a small number of people who know about it in any world. So the fact that this world can become a consensus among all people means that a major global event must have occurred, and this event has caused the secret to be exposed. This information must be correct," she sorted out the current clues. "And for such a major global event, even if they deliberately conceal it, it is difficult to call A B. They can only make changes to the details, but cannot tamper with the overall framework of this major event. So the disaster that year must be related to the sky."

As soon as these words came out, the exploration team members in front of the screen pondered for a moment and expressed their agreement.

Small details of history may be tampered with, but major global events that affect every person on the planet cannot be modified.

"That is to say, the sky becoming like this and the inexplicable morning star in the sky must be related to the disaster at that time..." Jia Li thought for a while, "Then what can this mean?"

That the world had undergone a great change was the consensus reached by all the teams that entered it. At best, they came up with a supplementary information based on this consensus, which was that this great change was accompanied by changes in the sky, resulting in the sky turning into eternal night a few hundred years after the great change, leaving only one "star".

"It can represent the order in which the disasters occurred and why those in power concealed the reason why the sky turned into eternal night." A voice came from behind the crowd.

Everyone turned around and saw She Mochu appearing with a cup of hot water, wearing a familiar-looking brown windbreaker, and followed by a poet.

Wei Ye and Jia Li very consciously gave up two seats to these two people.

Bai Jinshu sat down and said, "The starry sky was not like this at the beginning. Hundreds of years ago, there were still traces of many stars in the sky."

"The sky gradually turned into eternal night," Huai Jiamu clasped his hands together and looked out the window. "According to the records of the wanderers, there were still traces of stars in the sky hundreds of years ago."

Wanderers live in the outside world all year round, and naturally there are settlements after being expelled from their areas. As long as there are people, there will be history passed down through word of mouth.

A few hundred years ago, the starry sky was not what it is now.

“So these settlements designed this big cover in order to prevent people from noticing that the number of stars in the sky is gradually decreasing?” Zhang Lu guessed.

"This involves the history of this space," Huai Jiamu leaned back and said gently, "How much do you know about the history before the establishment of the nine regions?"

The poet's appearance was too deceptive, and he was one of the Foundation's own. Although the exploration team members had not seen him in the previous seven days, in this world full of false information, everyone was more inclined to believe the Foundation's own people.

So everyone shook their heads, acting unusually illiterate and sincere: "I don't know anything at all."

"Okay," the poet sighed slightly and began to do some research himself. "Based on the reliable information I know, these nine regions were established after a war that swept the world."

The only trace left of this war is the deadly scorched earth they mentioned when they evacuated zone 08.

"The scorched earth is a relic of war," Bo Jun came over for some reason and interrupted, "We will pass by it later. If there are no clouds blocking the view below, you will be able to see a faint blue light emanating from the ground."

"Blue light?" Si Panxuan instinctively felt something was wrong.

"Nuclear war," Huai Jiamu added, "is not really nuclear, it's something else, but to put it in terms you can understand, before the nine regions appeared, a very serious nuclear war broke out in the world. The Death Scorch is the battlefield relic left after that war, and it is still emitting radiation continuously, so any aircraft passing through it must rise to a safe altitude and have complete protective measures before they are allowed to pass through this route."

"What about civil aviation merchant ships?" Ming Qingrong couldn't help but interject.

"Logically, there shouldn't be any," Bo Jun spread his hands and added under six pairs of horrified gazes, "but this is the poet's ship."

"So... yes?" Wei Ye trembled.

"Yes." Huai Jiamu nodded.

Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Why are there nine regions in the world now instead of eight or ten? In fact, it's because after this war, there are only nine safe places left in the world where people can live," Bo Jun said as he fiddled with a Rubik's Cube in his hand. "After this war, the starry sky became darker day by day, and eventually became what it is now."

"It's hard not to think of the global K-system disaster that occurred at the beginning. So in order to prevent people from thinking that the Academy of Sciences is useless, after noticing that the starry sky is getting dimmer day by day, the nine regions began to create bionic environment systems to try to cover up this fact," she said sarcastically. "The essence is to cover up their incompetence."

Ignoring her venting words, Zhang Lu leaned forward and asked, "What about before the war?"

"We don't know," Huai Jiamu admitted quickly, "Even the first leader of the rebel organization was born after the establishment of the nine zones. Most of the wanderers were expelled from zone 10, or were born in the outside world from the beginning. It is rare that so much information was left behind."

"Then didn't people realize something was wrong before the protective shield was established?" Ming Qingrong was a little puzzled.

The environmental system they saw in zone 08 was the world they were familiar with, but the real environment of this space was eternal night. Not to mention other celestial bodies at night, just the sun was getting darker day by day, and then suddenly got better after the protective shield was established. Doesn't this make people feel that something is wrong?

“Protracted wars can cause climate change,” Zhang Lu interjected, “and various geological disasters can also cause climate change.”

"Volcanic eruption." Shi Liqun said.

"Yes, for example, a volcanic eruption," Zhang Lu thought for a moment, "If it was a super-large volcanic eruption, the volcanic ash floating in the air would cause the temperature to drop and there would be no sunlight for a long time. Who knows what the war would have been like? Assuming that the world was in a similar stage after the war and before the establishment of the nine regions, the people at that time could not see the sky at all, and they would not have realized that there was something wrong with the sky."

When the smoke and dust in the sky gradually dissipated, a protection system called a shield had been built, and people were unaware that the sky had undergone tremendous changes during this period of time.

"So what does this mean?" Jia Li scratched his head. "It means that the nine regions all knew that there was something wrong with the sky, but chose to deceive the people in order to maintain stable rule?"

"No," Bai Jinshu, who had been sitting next to him without saying anything, finally spoke up, "This only shows that this disaster has never ended, and most people are completely unaware of it."

This approach is too dense.

"The sky began to change the moment the disaster occurred," he looked up at everyone, speaking clearly and enunciating each word, "This global catastrophe that caused the world to collapse hundreds of years ago has never completely ended."

"I don't accept your conclusion," he said with a cold face, looking at Bo Jun standing next to him, "The disaster is not over yet, and what you see may not be the truth."

"Do you still believe in the High Court of Science and Technology?" Bo Jun blinked in surprise.

“I still believe in Miskatonic,” he said.

*

More than ten hours have passed since Bai Jinshu said his last words to Bo Jun.

Regardless of what the exploration team members thought, at least Bo Jun was quite surprised.

During these ten hours or so, she would cast a surprised look at Bai Jinshu from time to time, as if she was looking at some magical species, with an indescribable feeling of sighing.

Even after getting off the aircraft and arriving at the rebel organization's base camp, Bai Jinshu would raise his head from time to time and could still see Bo Jun's face full of disbelief in the corner of his eye.

Bai Jinshu felt that in her heart, she might be just like some poor little thing who was deceived by a scumbag and still refused to believe the truth even after the evidence was thrown in her face.

What's more, what the Academy of Sciences does is not just deceiving people's bodies and hearts, it's also deceiving people's money and lives. It's much more terrifying than a scumbag.

But to be honest, his trust in the academy of science here has indeed fallen to the bottom, but all his trust in Miskatonic University comes from She Mochu.

He knew what kind of existence this place held in She Mochu's heart.

If no measures are taken, there are still seven days left before leaving this unknown space. During these remaining seven days, She Mochu will be in an extremely dangerous mood and may collapse at any time. Apart from anything else, he will be exposed to this emotion every moment and he can't stand it.

Since understanding this emotion was not a feasible approach, after staying with Huai Jiamu to calm down a bit, Bai Jinshu quickly thought of another way.

If there is no way to get She Mochu out of this dilemma, then it would be better to go down the same path with him till the end.

Since the position of Michigan University in his heart is irreplaceable, he will first put Michigan University in a position where there will never be any problems with it, and then look for answers to prove its correctness.

No matter what the final result is, he will not collapse or doubt himself in the short term.

This method was also extremely effective. After Bai Jinshu and Bo Jun said this, the vague sadness and struggle actually gradually weakened. The precarious anchor stabilized She Mochu again, allowing him to radiate an unprecedented vitality from the inside out.

But there are also disadvantages...

This kind of vitality seemed just like the last rays of light emitted by She Mochu after he reached a dead end...

You can tell what most people are thinking by looking at the comments in the live broadcast room during this period:

[I am really broken. Lord, you might as well believe that the Academy of Sciences is bad.]

[Don't think like that, wuwuwu, please save the others, please save them. If the Lord finds the Iron Wolf in the end of the investigation, then it will be over, right? ]

[I am here to invest in projects, not to be a corpse. ]

[I thought I was dead a few days ago. I thought the broken Lord was heartbreaking enough. I didn’t expect that he had fighting spirit. I was even more devastated. I really want to bang my head against the bed and die.]

[Laxatives, have been collapsing for several hours. ]

[The Lord is not broken, I am broken, what is going on! ]

[This is not fighting spirit, this is simply a flash of brilliance. I would rather She Mochu had never come in this exploration. ]

[Ah——If God really wants you to kill me, don’t kill She Mochu.]

The other members of the exploration team were also hesitant to speak...

Stop talking and want to...

Zhang Lu thought for a long time, then came over and asked tentatively: "Brother Chu, what do you think now?"

"Keep investigating," Bai Jinshu said as he sat on the edge of the aircraft window with a large pile of information in front of him. "There must be something wrong with the image that the Academy of Sciences is showing now."

"Then..." With the encouraging eyes of his teammates behind him, Zhang Lu continued to speak timidly, "Brother Chu, what do you think is the problem?"

"Why did the nine regional academies split up? Why can't humans enter the Dreamland now? What is the principle behind the pills that control hybrids to turn into K-type creatures? What is the principle behind the brooch that doesn't have any old seal elements but can guarantee safety?" Bai Jinshu started with a long list of questions, "What is the K-type disaster that caused the sky to get darker and darker? What is the only thing left now that the sky has turned into eternal night? Is it just the Earth that has a problem or is this disaster affecting the entire universe? In a K-type world, why aren't there any K-type creatures other than hybrids that have turned into K-type creatures? What does the blank space that Ming Qingrong saw after the san check mean? These are all current doubts, and we can't draw conclusions based on one-sided statements alone."

Everyone's eyes became more horrified.

She Mochu, this is the kind of person who would kill you if you said one more word to him. He would never sit if he could lie down, and would never stand if he could sit!

And now, in front of him was a pile of information found by the poet, and he opened his mouth with a long list of questions, as diligent as if he were another person.

Ming Qingrong, who was mentioned last, seemed to be hesitant to speak, but everyone understood the look in his eyes.

[Could it be that he became like this because he was overstimulated? 】

"It's hard to say..." Wei Ye patted his shoulder slowly, "How about Xiao Ming, you go and try it out?"

Ming Qingrong: "...My research area is not psychology."

He is a doctor of medicine, not a doctor of psychology.

"Then who is that, the poet, why didn't he stop it?" Si Panxuan crossed his arms, looking at the information in front of She Mochu that almost buried him, and then looked at the members of the rebel organization who were still moving information, "He just spoiled She Mochu like this?"

"Do you want to stop She Mochu?" Jia Li said weakly, "Tell him not to investigate. Is Mi Da here also an Iron Wolf?"

"She Mochu might tear us apart first," Zhang Lu returned from his fruitless attempt, holding his forehead and sighing, "He seems to be possessed now."

As soon as She Mochu got off the aircraft, he rushed towards the information. Their dear teammate the poet who had disappeared for seven days did not try to dissuade him, and even helped him to collect all the information in the current rebel base, allowing him to plunge into this true or false information, trying to prove that the actions of the Academy of Sciences were just.

Everyone wanted to persuade him, but it was obvious that it was impossible to do so.

She Mochu is like a fire that is willing to burn out for this, madly burning the last of his life, trying to find an answer here that will allow him to continue burning. Anyone who approaches him will be forced back by the scorching flames.

If he can be found, then he is still that ball of fire. If he cannot be found, then he is probably just a ball of dust.

"If it doesn't work, why don't you go find a poet?" Si Panxuan was also embarrassed.

For them, this failure was actually nothing. After being in the Foundation for a long time, they knew that no one could successfully explore the unknown space every time. Moreover, compared with the previous six teams, they had already made an epoch-making breakthrough and found countless new information and exploration directions. Even if they did not fill in all the rules and leave this time, it would not be considered a complete failure.

Even considering the fact that they had achieved nothing in the previous few attempts in this space, the fact that they have been able to get to the point of rebel organization is considered a great victory. As long as investors are willing to continue to make additional investments, there will definitely be a team that will find the final answer one day following their direction.

But for their team alone, seven days is really not enough time, whether it is to make further progress or find more clues.

Moreover, there are eight members in the exploration team now, six of them are wanted, one is the leader of a rebel organization, and who dares to let the remaining She Mochu go alone? If this continues, it is obvious what the outcome of this exploration will be.

But for She Mochu, whether this space can be explored successfully is very important to him.

Everyone could see that he was almost risking his life on this. It was the first time that Zhang Lu knew that She Mochu was also a gambler and that he dared to put himself at the gambling table in such a situation.

"Tsk, this is difficult," Wei Ye rubbed his face frantically, "How about I go talk to the poet? I think he is the only one who can persuade She Mochu now."

The state of She Mochu just after he got off the aircraft was really terrifying to watch, as if he was saying "I will die if I can't find out the truth". But no one knew what the poet said when he took him to get the information. Let's not talk about what state She Mochu was in when they saw him again, but he didn't look like he was going to die in the next second.

It can only be said that this is also a kind of progress...

The base of the rebel organization is located in an area between zone 10 and zone 09. Compared with the three-dimensional city zone 08, this is a completely underground base.

Everything here exudes a very rigid and simple style. According to the people here, this base was originally a military base. After the nine areas were established, all residents in the outside space were evacuated and it has been vacant for many years.

When the place was found, it even contained a considerable amount of ammunition and canned instant food that would last until the next century.

As a military base, the various lines here are separated from the normal civilian lines in the outside world, and it has its own power generation machines. That is to say, in the outside world where human cities and various city-related supporting factory facilities are shut down, living in this base can basically achieve simple self-sufficiency.

As one of the rare large-scale organizations among the wanderers, this place is now owned by the rebel organization. Over the past few hundred years, people have made various modifications to this base, and it eventually became what it is today.

The area they are in now is in the middle layer of the military base, which is also the living layer here. Most members live on this layer. According to the original base layout, they live in dormitories in groups of six. The quality of life is definitely not comparable to that of areas like zone 08, but compared with other wanderers, it is the difference between prehistoric civilization and modern society.

But according to Bo Jun, they actually live quite far away. After being expelled, most wanderers choose to live close to the city, on the edge of the city, and can barely survive in the eternal night by relying on some abandoned buildings and various modern facilities during the development of the nine regions. As for why they are here... they, a rebel organization, certainly cannot live next to them.

Isn't that stupid.

The middle floor of the military base is the residential floor, and further in is the office floor which was arranged when it was built. Poets are usually in the president's office on this floor, and Bai Jinshu is also in the information room on this floor.

The Presidential Office is literally the Presidential Office. Bo Jun casually mentioned that this place might have been built by a certain country. Anyway, when people moved in hundreds of years ago, someone found a bomb button in that office.

Zhang Lu almost couldn't help but ask out loud, "Could it be the nuclear bomb button?"

——Probably not, because at the time of the war, nuclear bombs were considered light for them, and God knows what they blew up on the ground.

To be able to find such a place in the Eternal Night and develop it into an organization base, this group of rebels is really brave...

Having said that, when this group of people went to find Huai Jiamu hesitantly, hoping that he could intervene in She Mochu's behavior of burning his life to prove his authority, Huai Jiamu responded very gently and calmly.

"Is there anything I can do to interfere?" The poet looked up from behind his desk, his expression showing no sign of being disturbed. "Since he believes in Miskatonic, that's good. Such a firm belief is very lacking in this era."

Zhang Lu almost kneels down to this brother.

You call him a poet, but he can't just talk like he's writing poetry? Is that a problem that this era lacks? That's the problem that Shemochu will die here. It's fine if you want to spoil him, but you can't just watch him die.

"But there is a piece of news that needs to be brought to him." As if he didn't see the frustrated expressions on their faces, the poet thought for a while and pulled out a new piece of information from a pile of information. "Or you can take a look at it first."

"What?" Si Panxuan took the first step forward.

"Very interesting, someone in zone 07 contacted us, contacted the poet," Bai Jinshu pushed open the door and heard Huai Jiamu's voice, "He claimed to be one of the investors, but his real identity is the heir of a business family in zone 07. He has some connections and channels in zone 07."

"He said that he had once made an angel investment in She Mochu," the content of this message shocked everyone on and off the screen speechless, "so after discovering that he had entered his own world this time, he was willing to provide some small help."

"He..." Zhang Lu was stuck for a long time, "What does he want?"

"He wants the truth." Huai Jiamu looked up and said.

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