Chapter 34
Ji Dongzang's gaze fell on the two simple stone platforms in front of him.
There is a pink pig ear on each table.
She didn't even have time to ask or choose.
brush!
The stone platform on the right, along with the pig ear on it, disappeared instantly.
On the other side, Sui Chunsheng grabbed the pig ears on the stone platform in front of him.
As soon as she tightened her grip on the slippery thing, the stone platform on the right began to disappear.
"What the hell?!" She stretched out her hand and wanted to grab the left pig ear.
At this moment, a pig's hoof covered in mud came across and blocked her hand.
With this brief obstruction, Ji Dongzang reacted quickly and took away the pig ear on the stone platform on the left.
At the same moment, the cages that imprisoned the two people, along with the silent pigmen, began to disappear.
The view suddenly widened, and a suffocating world came into view.
As far as the eye can see, there is a quagmire with no end in sight.
In the quagmire, huge, half-rotten lumps of mud and rotten wood were piled everywhere.
And the pigmen, they are everywhere.
Some rolled comfortably in the mud, their bodies covered in dirty mud.
Some of them greedily lay on the pile of rotten fruits, devouring them ravenously, while others curled up in the corner and fell into a coma.
This is a world completely ruled by mud, corruption and primitive inertia.
puff!
Without warning, something fell from above and hit Ji Dongzang hard on the head. She subconsciously raised her hand to wipe it away.
However, what she herself did not realize was that from the moment she stepped into this quagmire, her appearance began to change silently.
The bones are stretching and twisting, the skin is becoming rough and growing bristly hair, the mouth and nose are protruding forward...
At this moment, Ji Dongzang, or rather, the new pig man.
It has perfectly integrated into this swamp world and become a part of it.
…
At this moment, Ai Si Kao was carrying the "Special Civilization Experiencer Manual" awarded to outstanding students by the World Management Office, and stepped into the "Fallen World" she had been looking forward to for a long time, the only legendary world that had abandoned the language system.
Buzz...
The moment she stepped into the boundary, the clothes on her chest rippled slightly, and a platinum-colored metal card quietly appeared, with the words clearly engraved on it:
The 1,719,100th visitor to Fallen World
Aisco did not rush to explore, but first opened the thick manual handed to him by the staff when he came in.
The Handbook of Fallen World Cognition (7th Edition)
File ID: ADW-07
Confidentiality Level: [Black Seal]
Title: Fallen World (*《！&\#｀)
Basic cognition and survival norms
Its core principle: desire is truth, stagnation is steady state
Warning: Any attempt to implant order, morality or abstract values will be considered a "source of pollution"
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Resource quagmire: Provides basic nutritional intake and epidermal metabolic needs. Long-term dependence may lead to mental inertia.
Corrupted Resource Accumulation: Randomly occurring aggregates of organic matter (origin unknown), the only "high-level" energy source. Extremely unstable, the risks of obtaining it are unknown.
…
Aisco took off the multi-functional collection bag on his back.
The backpack automatically hovered the moment it left my hand, and a layer of visible energy film quickly wrapped around it, isolating it from direct contact with the world.
Soon, the backpack structure underwent an ingenious mechanical reorganization, stretching and deforming into a stable suspended balance platform.
Aisco put on special anti-corruption isolation gloves and first took out a corruption monitoring ball from the storage cell on the balance platform.
She carefully placed it on the monitoring station in the center of the platform. Then, she picked up the dedicated "corruption sample bottle" and the accompanying "corruption extraction tool."
Following the instructions in the manual, she carefully took quantitative samples from the nearby murky mud.
He also scraped some sticky substance from the rotten pile not far away.
The two samples were sealed in special isolation bottles.
These are the only two "resources" clearly recorded in the manual that can be accessed and collected by outsiders in the fallen world.
After completing the sample collection, Aisko stood up and his eyes first fell on a pigman dozing in the mud not far away.
She flipped through the manual in her hand.
Indigenous creatures: Pigmen (H《$！##^)
Appearance: Average height 2.3m, weight 300kg±50kg. Skin covered with a composite mucus layer (resistance to muddy water).
…
Then, Aisco looked around the dirty area and quickly locked on the main observation target of this trip.
Two special individuals.
On their backs, there are eye-catching fluorescent labels that do not belong to this world.
One of them, label: [Continue Winter Storage]
She stood motionless under the dead tree, letting the rotten fruits on the tree fall "plop" on her head and shoulders.
Another one, label: [Follow Spring]
She was crouched over a small pile of filth, gnawing greedily with loud chewing and swallowing sounds.
This is completely different from the "normal pig-man" video recording described in the manual.
These labeled individuals are the products of external pollution sources and are precious, reactive abnormal samples, which are exactly what Aisco needs to focus on recording.
She didn't rush in, but lowered her head again and quickly searched for the key chapters in the manual:
Behavioral classification (based on desire response pattern)
Type α glutton, unconditionally devours all accessible entities. Highly dangerous.
β-type catalepsy: People are in a state of stupor to non-instinctive stimulation. The risk level is low.
γ-type mixed state, α/β-type random switching (accounting for 87.3%), the danger level is unpredictable
The World Management Guidelines clearly state that under normal circumstances where the fallen world maintains its inherent "steady state", γ-type mixed bodies should not exist in theory.
Therefore, Ai Si Kao made a judgment almost immediately:
The one who showed no reaction to the falling rotten fruit, Ji Dongzang, fits the characteristics of a β-type catatonic.
The one who is actively eating the decaying matter, [Sui Chunsheng], is clearly an α-type glutton.
Esko first activated the odor masking system on his equipment to simulate a strong smell of corruption.
Then he cautiously approached the relatively safe "rigid one" Ji Dongzang.
The corrupted surveillance ball hovered beside her, its camera trained on the target.
Experiment No.: ADW-09 "Symbol Selection Test" (commonly known as: Red Bean and Raisin Test)
Escau took out a handful of bright red beans and a few shriveled, blackened raisins from a special anti-corrosion container.
She strictly followed the procedures and slowly and clearly displayed the two items in front of Ji Dongzang's vision.
"choose."
She tried to give instructions and make clear gestures.
First he pointed at the red beans, then at the raisins, and finally at the pig-man himself, repeating the action several times.
The surveillance ball faithfully recorded the reaction of the stiff person:
The pig man's eyes rolled blankly, staring at Escau's hands, then at the beans and raisins.
Its throat made meaningless gurgling sounds, its body tensed, and ultimately there was no effective response, saliva mixed with mud flowed from the corners of its mouth.
Esko quickly entered his observations on the holographic recording board that popped up on his wrist:
ADW-09-β: Physiological desire persists, but cognition is completely unable to process the concept of "choice." Symbolic command stimulation only induces nonspecific body tension and salivation.
After putting away the sample and the recording board, Aisco walked cautiously towards the "Glutton" Sui Chunsheng.
This time, she had already put on a "corruption protection suit" that covered her entire body, and the mask blocked most of the smell and possible splashes.
She knew well the glutton's terrible instinct to devour everything.
The glutton in front of her had his back to her, frantically devouring everything in front of him:
Black mud, half-rotten plant roots, and even mud-covered bristles and dandruff that fell off other pigmen.
Esko took a deep breath, activated the highest defense level of the protective suit, and then moved around to the front of the Glutton.
She held tightly in her hands two specially made extended metal rods with grooves at the front, in which were placed a few red beans and raisins respectively.
She didn't even have time to make any moves to show off.
It burst out with astonishing speed, its huge body rushed forward quickly, and its big mouth full of sharp teeth bit the metal rod fiercely.
Snap! Crunch!
The hard metal rod and the raisins on it were stuffed into the huge mouth.
The metal twisted and deformed under its sharp teeth, mixed with raisins and mud, and was swallowed by the pig-man in big mouthfuls.
Without a single pause.
The pigman used his huge claws to wave away Esko's arm, snatched the metal rod, and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing it madly.
Immediately afterwards, Sui Chunsheng's eyes were fixed on Aisco under the protective suit, and he was about to pounce on him.
Aisco, who was well prepared, reacted very quickly!
The moment it grabbed the pole, she ejected several high-energy synthetic nutrient blocks from the emergency delivery port on the waist of her protective suit with a bang.
The food, smelling strongly of artificiality, fell at the glutton's feet.
The glutton's attention was instantly diverted, and it immediately gave up on Esko and pounced on the nutrient block on the ground.
Aisco took the opportunity to retreat quickly and keep a safe distance, the alarm light inside the protective suit still flashing silently.
The suspended corrupted surveillance ball now pushes the camera to an extreme close-up.
Recording the chewing scene of a glutton.
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The experience time is about to end.
Aisko relaxed his tense nerves and sat next to the Rigorous Ji Dongzang to sort out the records.
No matter how she touched or moved within his field of vision, the Pigman Ji Dongzang had no reaction and no intention of attacking.
Not far away, the glutton Sui Chunsheng was still tirelessly swallowing everything he could find.
Including the nutrient blocks that Aisco had thrown out to escape danger.
Esko focused on the holographic screen that popped up on his wrist and wrote down his final observation report.
But she overlooked two fatal details:
At the joint of the right arm of the protective suit, a tiny crack slowly emerged from the previous collision, and the protective force field fluctuated for a moment.
The glutton seemed to have swallowed some extremely stimulating substance. Deep in his eyes, the desire for destruction replaced the original greedy chaos.
Attack!
Sui Chunsheng rushed towards Aisikao's side without any warning.
Aisco dodged quickly with his well-trained reflexes, but his right arm and right leg were still hit hard.
Even through the protective suit that was said to provide absolute protection, severe pain still hit me instantly.
Alarm bells rang in Aisko's heart. Is there something wrong with the performance of this protective suit?
However, Esko had never used this type of protective clothing before, so he had no way of judging.
But now is not the time to think.
Without hesitation, Aisco used his still movable left hand to crush the platinum visitor badge on his chest - this was the World Administration Office's last emergency escape method!
However.
Buzz...boom!!!
A blinding white light burst out from the shattered badge and instantly enveloped Esko's protective suit.
What followed was an explosion far more violent than one could have imagined.
The priceless high-tech protective suit, along with Esko inside, was blown to pieces with a loud bang.
There was no blood or flesh flying around, no debris.
The core of the explosion left only a shallow, charred crater. All traces of Esko's existence, along with her unfinished report, were wiped out in an instant.
Snap...
The shockwave of the explosion flung two objects in front of the Glutton who was about to pounce on them:
The thick "Handbook of Fallen World Cognition (7th Edition)" and Esko's personal backpack.
The glutton Sui Chunsheng pounced on it without any hesitation and started tearing and chewing the pages of the manual.
"Crack...Crack...Swish..."
The records of civilization vanish in the chewing of primitive desires.
The zombie Ji Dongzang in the distance was hit by the huge explosion.
Faced with all this, it felt innately excited and moved its feet unconsciously, with its hooves making a "click" sound.
He stepped on the already damaged backpack with precision, emitting a final short electronic whine.
The mud flowed slowly, covering the scorch marks of the explosion and swallowing up the final alarm that should have sounded sharply when the protective suit was ruptured.
All that remained in the fallen world were the greedy chewing sounds of the gluttons and the footsteps of the rigid ones...
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