Chapter 78
Tang Zeyu frowned and looked into the pit, but didn't see anything that might scare Yan Hong.
"What's going on? Such a big reaction."
Shao Xingyang asked, "What did you see?"
"No, I didn't see it, I felt it," Yan Hong swallowed and took a long time to continue. "There's something wrong with that meteorite. We absolutely can't touch it, not even get too close to it!"
"Just now, I just leaned in closer, and I clearly felt something disappearing inside me. It felt like the blood in my body had turned into a dense swarm of ants that kept moving around. My joints felt like rusted mechanisms, and the slightest movement caused excruciating pain. Even the muscles all over my body started to ache and I couldn't use any strength."
Recalling the feeling just now, Yan Hong still felt a lingering fear: "Not only was I physically uncomfortable, but when I tried to use my supernatural powers to quickly move away from the meteorite, I found that my supernatural powers were also disappearing at an extremely fast rate. It felt like all the blood in my body was being pumped away by a water pump."
After hearing Yan Hong's outrageous description, several people looked at each other in confusion. Yan Hong was worried that they would think she was exaggerating and not believe her, so she hurriedly said, "In any case, you must stay away from that meteorite! Don't go into the pit!"
"Alright, alright, I don't disbelieve you," Shao Xingyang patted the restless Yan Hong on the back and said, "It's just that what you said was a bit too scary. That meteorite looks like an ordinary stone. Who would have thought it was so terrifying?"
Chen Yunliang and Yan Ning stood at the edge of the meteorite crater. The impact of the meteorite probably disappeared only at the edge of the crater, so no one noticed it when standing at the edge of the crater, but they would feel it once they stepped into the crater.
Chen Yunliang looked at the meteorite lying quietly in the pit and asked Yan Ning beside him, "Do you think there is anything wrong with this meteorite?"
Yan Ning just replied coldly: "My major doesn't include this, I don't know."
"Really?" Chen Yunliang stared at Yan Ning with a burning gaze. "I've spoken with Professor Chen before. He said that although you're primarily studying with him now, you usually read more miscellaneous books than books on your major. It's not so much that you enjoy studying deformed organisms, but rather that you're more interested in the causes of these deformities."
Chen Yunliang sneered: "You're telling me now that you don't know?"
"Where's the ghost?"
Yan Ning looked at the meteorite in the pit in silence.
"If you don't tell me, I'll kick you out of here and see what happens if you touch the meteorite."
Yan Ning sighed.
"Are all the people in your exploration team so rogue?"
"I just have some guesses, but I don't have any theoretical support. If I mislead others by saying it, I might be held accountable."
Chen Yunliang put on a gentle smile and said, "Stop talking nonsense. If you keep talking nonsense, someone will come after you."
Chen Yunliang still hasn't forgotten how he almost beat him to the point of vomiting yesterday.
"I suspect the effect of this meteorite is related to biological distortion."
"It's possible that the radiation from this meteorite caused a high degree of mutation in organisms, affecting and changing their genes, ultimately forming the so-called aberrations."
Yan Ning turned to look at Yan Hong, who was still talking to Shaoxing Yang Tang Zeyu Lu Shi Yu and others, and said, "The reason she felt uncomfortable just now was probably because she was affected by the meteorite and almost got deformed. However, because it was short and there was no direct contact, the situation is not particularly serious."
Chen Yunliang pushed his glasses and asked, "What would happen if a creature that's already been deformed came into contact with a meteorite? Would it become deformed again?"
"It's hard to say. Even the claim that the distortion is due to meteorite radiation is just my personal guess. Don't bother me with something like this that requires experimental conclusions."
Yan Ning stroked the deer's head and said, "I do have an irresponsible guess. It's not very rigorous or scientific. Well, guessing only requires wild imagination and boldness. I guess if the deformed creatures come into contact with meteorites again, their genes may change again, and the animals may return to 'normal'."
Chen Yunliang rubbed the fawn and said, "So you think this fawn and the rabbit the team encountered earlier were both transformed back into normal animals by the meteorite?"
Yan Ning sighed, "I've already said it's just an immature guess. Don't ask me to say it's the final result or anything like that. If the teacher knows, he'll say I'm not rigorous enough."
Chen Yunliang did not continue this topic and instead brought up another matter.
"If Yan Hong's discomfort just now was caused by the distortion, then it means that humans are also affected by radiation," Chen Yunliang asked, spreading his palms. "But why have we never heard of humans suffering from distortion since the distortion disaster began?"
"have no idea."
“…”
I hate chatting with people who have no spirit of discussion.
Chen Yunliang was disappointed and felt more comfortable talking to Lu Shiyu, so he turned around and returned to the group.
"I was really scared just now, come and rub it for me."
As soon as Yanhong saw the little deer, she put her previous worries behind her and happily touched the deer's head. The little deer also cooperated and put its head in Yanhong's hand.
Tang Zeyu asked Chen Yunliang: "Did you find out anything?"
"Nothing much, but what is certain is that although he arrived here before us, he didn't discover the meteorite in advance," Chen Yunliang said after thinking for a moment. "But I'm curious, why did the base want us to search for this meteorite? And why did they suddenly turn against us after completing the mission?"
Tang Zeyu glanced behind him and made sure that Yan Ning didn't come over before he began to answer Chen Yunliang's question.
"Actually, the mission to find the meteorite wasn't delegated by the base. Instead, the base's laboratory submitted a mission application to the base, which then assigned it to us. The base only acted as an intermediary. The one who really wanted to find this meteorite was the base's laboratory."
"Laboratory?"
Chen Yunliang turned his head and looked at the pit: "Could it be that this stone is really related to the occurrence of the distortion disaster?"
"But this doesn't make sense," Chen Yunliang said, his hand resting on his chin in frustration. "If the experiment could find clues about the aberration disaster from the meteorite, perhaps they could even find a way to end the apocalypse. Why would they suddenly change their mind and harm us?"
“Could it be…”
A bold guess flashed through Chen Yunliang's mind. With an expression of disbelief, he turned to Tang Zeyu and asked, "Captain, could it be..."
Tang Zeyu nodded softly.
"Someone doesn't want the meteorite to be brought back to the base."
After these words were spoken, Chen Yunliang's breathing stopped for a few seconds, and a terrible guess formed in his mind.
"You mean, there are people in the base who don't want the apocalypse to end."
"It's not hard to understand," Tang Zeyu said, touching the sword at his side. "The situation at the base is very stable right now."
"There are hereditary families, businessmen, and hardworking people at the bottom of society. There are mature planting and breeding techniques, and the city is gradually recovering. Social order has returned to normal. The current base is different from the first few years after it was built. When life enters a relatively comfortable environment, some people will not want to disrupt the current situation."
Chen Yunliang fell silent. He knew this better than anyone else. The Chen family had relied on seizing opportunities and making money from disasters to gain a firm foothold in the base. After that, they developed all the way through a bloody storm to reach a monopoly position. If anyone wanted to shake the Chen family's position in the base, they would definitely be dealt with by thundering means, and they might even be completely wiped out.
If the Chen family at the top is like this, let alone the others below. They may be even more cruel than the Chen family. After all, those who can gain a foothold in the market cannot be good people, and people with conscience cannot be unscrupulous businessmen.
Imagine that if a way to break the distortion of the apocalypse could really be found in the meteorite, and the world returned to its original normal state, the base would naturally have no meaning to exist. At that time, the entire human society would be reshuffled again. It would be hard to say whether the Chen family could still find their own foothold in the new world. Even if they did not fall due to years of steady experience, there was no guarantee that they could still call the shots like they did in the base.
Chen Yunliang sighed. Once the issue involves interests, it always becomes a headache.
"True. Those people would never allow their years of hard work to go to waste," Chen Yunliang said, taking off his glasses and pressing his brow. "But compared to those wealthy businessmen, the real problem lies with the upper echelons."
"Um……"
Now it was Tang Zeyu's turn to worry.
"Not to mention that after the base disappears, a large number of original official positions will definitely be withdrawn. The large number of people who will leave and stay after the end of the world and the social unrest will be enough to make the base management suffer."
"Under such circumstances, the stubborn old guard in the base management would absolutely suppress the news at all costs. No wonder they suddenly launched an attack..."
"Huh? What's the trouble?" Lu Shiyu poked his head out from between the two of them. "What are you talking about? You look so worried."
"nothing……"
When I saw the two men looking worried on the road, I knew that something bad was going to happen.
"Okay, don't worry about it. We can't go back to the base now anyway, so let's put it aside for now," Lu Shiyu joked. "Even if the problem is solved, the distortion disaster won't end just like that, right? So don't think there's nothing left."
Tang Zeyu: “…”
Chen Yunliang: “…”
Seeing that the two of them were silent for a long time, Lu Shiyu asked himself uncertainly whether he had said something wrong just now.
"Sometimes I really feel that your intuition is a little scary..."
Chen Yunliang put his glasses back on and said, "Don't you think being a chef is a bit of a waste of talent for someone like you? If you were like Yan Ning, and found someone with connections to be your teacher, doing the same job, not only would the work be easy and the salary high, but most importantly, you'd have all sorts of special privileges. Even if it wasn't scientific research, wouldn't doing something else be better than running a restaurant?"
Lu Shiyu scratched his head: "Why do you ask this suddenly?"
"I'm just suddenly curious. If you weren't a chef, what would you want to do?" Chen Yunliang asked. "If there were no distortion disaster, no apocalypse, and the world continued to function normally as it did ten years ago, what kind of job would you want to do?"
"What a complicated question..."
It was the first time Lu Shiyu had heard someone ask him this question. He thought about it seriously for a long time and said, "Actually, I still want to be a chef."
Tang Zeyu asked curiously, "Why? Do you like cooking?"
Lu Shiyu smiled and said, "About the same. I've been interested in food since I was a child, and I wanted to be a chef even before the aberration disaster. Although I later got into this profession out of necessity, I think if there hadn't been an apocalypse, I would probably still choose to be a chef."
"I like to make delicious dishes and make others happy after eating them. I like to cook them and you like to eat them too. Isn't that great?"
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