Wang Lan also took a break.
Because he was about to head to the final fortress, and didn't know what dangers or troubles he would face, he needed to have enough energy to deal with them.
But he was woken up shortly after falling asleep.
Wang Lan rubbed her eyes, looked up, and saw that it was Sun Muchen.
"Mu Chen?" Wang Lan said, "You're awake!"
Sun Muchen looked somewhat melancholy, biting his lip and shaking his head as he said, "I can't sleep, I want to talk to you."
"Can't sleep?" Wang Lan suddenly pulled out a watch without a strap from somewhere, checked the time, and said, "But you've been sleeping for five hours!"
Sun Muchen: "..."
Looking puzzled, he asked, "Where did you get this?"
"It's still running in the cave, but I don't know if the time is accurate," Wang Lan put the watch away. "What are you trying to say?"
Sun Muchen sat down next to Wang Lan, rested his head on Wang Lan's shoulder, and said, "It's not that I'm saying anything, it's just that I feel a bit uneasy, and I have a bad feeling about it."
Wang Lan frowned and asked, "What ominous premonition?"
Sun Muchen asked, "Brother, do you think the final fortress is still safe?"
Wang Lan thought for a moment and said, "Whether you think it or not... what can you do? We have no other choice now. There are infected people everywhere outside. Once the border wall is breached, there will be those animals that have mutated into monsters. We have no way out."
At this point, Wang Lan gave a wry smile, "To be honest, given the current situation, I feel it would be a miracle if we survived to reach the final fortress."
The monsters outside the safe zone are not like the animals inside the safe zone. Just like free-range animals are always stronger than captive animals, they face more dangers and difficulties. These dangers and difficulties will give them more skills and make them more ferocious.
Sun Muchen was silent for a moment, then said, "You know, brother, I read a word in a book called cloning. It means that an organism can be completely copied without being born from its mother, and the cloned organism is exactly the same as the original."
"That's amazing?" Wang Lan looked surprised, but quickly realized, "I understand. You mean that the mountain of corpses we saw was created by the Final Fortress using cloning technology, which is why so many identical people appeared?"
Sun Muchen nodded. "I think that's the only possibility. Otherwise, where would so many people come from? And what I'm thinking is that the Fortress selects a group of people to live in the Fortress every year after the Eternal Night. Do you really think they're just there to live a peaceful life?"
"Isn't that right?" Wang Lan was somewhat puzzled, but then she thought of the mountain of corpses and the series of events that had recently occurred, including her speculation about the final eternal night.
The final fortress seems to truly lack any intention of protecting the civilians in the safe zone.
Sun Muchen then said, "I don't think the final fortress is meant for civilians to live in. Perhaps the reason they select a group of people every year is to study them."
Wang Lan rubbed his temples and said, "But what's there to study about them? They're just a bunch of civilians. In terms of brainpower, they're definitely not as good as the scientists in the fortress. In terms of combat, no matter how fast they are, they can't outrun a bullet. Even someone as strong as Yu Bin, I didn't have the upper hand at all when I fought him. Didn't you take him down with one shot?"
“That’s not how it works, brother,” Sun Muchen thought for a moment and said, “It’s like how animals outside the safe zone are stronger than animals inside the safe zone, and animals inside the safe zone are definitely stronger than animals raised in the final fortress’s ranch. That’s the logic. Although civilians are inferior to people in the fortress in many ways, after being baptized by the Eternal Night, coupled with the daily treachery and dangers, and the experience of being killed at any moment, the physical fitness of civilians is definitely stronger than that of people in the fortress.”
“So I’m thinking,” Sun Muchen raised his head and said seriously, “could it be that everyone who went into the fortress was cloned into samples and then used for experiments? Otherwise, why are there mountains of corpses? Why did that giant infected evolve by eating other infected?”
"But…"
Wang Lan didn't know what to say either.
If Sun Muchen's deduction is indeed true, then the final fortress is truly terrifying.
He remembered what Yu Bin had said: the infectious virus and the final fortress were inextricably linked. Could it be that the infectious virus was originally an experiment conducted by the final fortress on living people, and that it became the infectious virus because the experiment failed?
Wang Lan became increasingly frightened as he thought about it. He even felt lost, unsure whether he should continue heading towards the final fortress.
Just then, a series of roars echoed in Wang Lan's ears.
Sun Muchen immediately covered his ears.
The roar was so loud, filled with impatient rage and fury, that it was deafening and seemed to be very close to them, not far from the edge of the red mist.
Old Zhang was awakened by the sound.
He skipped the dazed phase and became fully awake, frowning as he said, "This... why does the red mist seem even thinner?"
These words shocked Wang Lan and Sun Muchen.
Only then did they realize that the red mist had become incredibly thin, and had even lost its red color, turning somewhat pink.
No wonder the monsters outside made that sound; they must have seen the red mist thinning and knew there were still living people inside, and they were getting impatient.
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