109 The Lost Village (Thirteen)
◎It really wants to live in◎
Crash——
A strong wind blew, and the corpse hanging on the tree swayed and was blown crookedly. Even if you stood under the tree, you could see that there seemed to be something hanging on it.
Jiang Ping looked up and saw dozens of feet in the air.
This time it was Jiang Ping, not Cui Kai, who spoke. "You humans are truly arrogant. Aren't insects worthy of being a source of pollution?"
Zhu Ning's heart skipped a beat. Jiang Ping was really the source of pollution. No, the bugs were really the source of pollution.
Zhu Ning entered the contaminated area several times and the source of pollution was always human. The only non-human was Subject No. 777. Theoretically, there was no source of pollution in Subject No. 777, so some people were trapped and died inside.
And No. 777 doesn't have very complex thoughts.
Chu Qing forcibly bound Huang Yaruo to become the mother of experimental subject No. 777. After so many years of training, its intelligence is at most that of a four or five-year-old child, and it calls for its mother every day.
It is definitely different from the person in front of him. If insects can become a source of pollution, it almost breaks Zhu Ning's long-held cognition.
Can a bug possess human intelligence and emotions? It could even create its own pollution zone.
In order for a polluted area to form a very complex structure, the pollutants inside must be self-consistent and logical.
Zhu Ning had always believed that the source of pollution in such a complex village must be humans, because this kind of complex emotion is originally unique to humans.
Zhu Ning saw Xu Meng stop moving in the shadows, and she knew that Xu Meng had the same idea as her.
If this insect in front of us can become a source of pollution, the logic behind it is even more worthy of human exploration.
Zhu Ning could only continue his own train of thought: "You came to Xingfu Village through some means, first living with Old Man Wu, and later returning to the village. But when you first started living there, your hands and feet weren't very agile. You weren't used to the human body, so you practiced the piano clumsily every day."
Jiang Ping looked down at his hands and said, "It's really hard to control one's limbs."
Cui Kai and Xiao Yilei also lowered their heads and said at the same time: "It's really difficult to control human limbs."
The three people said the same sentence, with exactly the same actions and tone.
Cui Kai is really dead.
Cui Kai and Xiao Yile have become puppets of the bugs. They were clearly communicating before, so Cui Kai must have really wanted to lead the team to let these cleaners go home.
Now not only is he dead, but he has to be controlled.
If these three people take action, they may have very terrifying coordination abilities. No, even the villagers must be included, they are all one.
All the villagers were his eyes, and Zhu Ning finally understood the feeling of being watched when he first came to Happiness.
She walked into a trap from the start.
Dozens of pairs of villagers' eyes looked over at the same time. There were three garrison soldiers standing in front of them, and their movements were completely synchronized.
Watching it for too long feels like spiritual pollution.
Zhu Ning suppressed the urge to run away and asked, "You didn't understand anything at the beginning?"
Jiang Ping spoke like a mischievous child, "When I first started, I was no different from a bug."
So it is difficult to play the role of Old Man Wu, and it is full of loopholes.
The first time it merged with humans was the most difficult. It suddenly had a brain, received massive amounts of information, and read all of Old Man Wu's memories.
It knew it had to play the piano, but it could not tame human fingers.
It could not play a complete song or write normal words. During that time, it was in a daze and was always afraid of being discovered.
In its eyes, every villager who comes to care for it is an enemy.
"Jiang Ping" moved his fingers, and Cui Kai and Xiao Yile next to him also moved their fingers. Because they were in complete sync and had the same arc, thirty fingers were moving.
The three of them together looked like a wriggling worm.
Its voice sounded puzzled: "Humans only have ten fingers, how can it be so difficult?"
It takes a lot of effort to get along with people's body parts, just like driving a car. You know where the steering wheel is and where the accelerator is, but you can't drive it well.
Zhu Ning: "What do you feed on? Human spiritual energy?"
Doctor Fu once said that if pollutants parasitize in the human body, the only thing they can eat is the human's mental value.
Zhu Ning had clearly mentioned all these things when Dr. Fu was chatting with him, but he just remembered them now.
Jiang Ping exclaimed, "Has technology inside the Great Firewall already developed to this point?"
Is this an admission?
So the worm initially lived in Old Man Wu's body. It suddenly possessed wisdom and human emotions, and fed on Old Man Wu's spiritual values.
Zhu Ning: "Gradually, you found that Old Man Wu's body was not working well, and you took a fancy to Shengxin, right?"
Zhu Ning didn't know Shengxin, but from her understanding, an old lady who could hunt must have a very stable mental state.
Jiang Ping sighed, "She was too alert. I couldn't even get close to her at first."
So it didn't attack Shengxin immediately, but slowly infected the whole village. Zhu Ning couldn't guess how it did it, but it might have laid insect eggs and let them parasitize first.
It ate up the spirit value of the villagers, including Grandma Afen and Lao Du.
It is strategic, trying to force Shengxin to lose his mind so that he can take advantage of the opportunity.
"Afen passed a note to Shengxin," Zhu Ning said. "Lao Zhang also told her to run."
Jiang Ping thought carefully about it. These memories seemed a bit distant to him. He was very cautious and thought carefully before answering Zhu Ning's question. "At that time, I didn't think that humans could still struggle after being infected, but now I know."
"Jiang Ping" spoke with a smile, as if he knew that this secret was very valuable.
Zhu Ning suppressed his discomfort and asked, "Did you kill Sheng Xin?"
Jiang Ping's voice darkened as he thought of this. "She's not in the right place. She wants to kill me."
Zhu Ning frowned, so Shengxin really thought about committing suicide at that time and had already thrown the rope on the tree.
Shengxin tied a knot for himself. It was evening, and the setting sun covered the big locust tree like blood.
She teetered on the branch, one foot already thrust out, then back again.
She couldn't bear it. If she was destined to die, she couldn't bear to die while the worm was still alive and well.
She gripped the gun handle tightly, ready to fight back, taking someone with her even if she died.
That was the best time to strike. Sheng thought, if he didn't kill it now, it would harm so many people in the future.
Shengxin jumped down from the big locust tree, she wanted to kill the queen insect.
"But she failed."
Zhu Ning had already seen Shengxin's end, and the corpse was still dangling above his head.
"Jiang Ping" raised his head and squinted at the corpse on the tree. He couldn't see clearly at this angle, so he took two steps back, walked out of the shade, and exposed himself to the sunset. From this angle, he could see clearly and saw the corpse among the leaves.
Every time the wind blew, the corners of the corpse's clothes would be revealed.
"So I fulfilled her wish and hung her body on a tree."
It once "helped" Shengxin fulfill his wish and hung Shengxin's body on the tree, as if completing some kind of established ritual.
"Later, I met more and more people. I even hung the bodies of some of them on trees. Otherwise, Shengxin would be too lonely."
Crash——
The corpses above seemed to be responding to Jiang Ping's words. As they swayed, they seemed to be dancing together. It was a very strange dance. The ones dancing were dead bodies, accompanied by the rustling of leaves, like some kind of ancient sacrifice.
This is not antisocial, it has no concept of society at all.
Zhu Ning still wasn't used to the fact that she was actually talking to a bug. She continued, "You've been constantly multiplying and evolving for the past seventy years."
Civilians who strayed into the village, expedition teams, and garrison troops became its parasites after entering the village.
It reads human memories again and again, becoming more and more thoughtful and more adept at playing the role of a human.
Zhu Ning: "Jiang Ping is just a garrison soldier who strayed in by mistake, right?"
"Cui Kai misunderstood Jiang Ping," it sighed. "He's truly a good person. He's never betrayed humanity."
Jiang Ping has been on patrol since he was on a mission. This job is dangerous and unrewarding, but Jiang Ping feels that if humans want to continue the fire, someone must do this kind of work.
He is very dedicated every time he leads a team, and he will promise to send the cleaners back inside the wall.
Jiang Ping was young and passionate at that time. His passion was worn away, but he never betrayed anyone.
So he had prepared to die outside the wall early in the morning. That day he accidentally entered the contaminated area. The rule of all stationed troops was that once you accidentally enter the contaminated area, you have to rely on yourself to save yourself, and no one will come to save you.
Jiang Ping received no hospice care before his death, and could not even hear the voice of Prometheus. He gradually became desperate in the deserted village, thinking that the worst plan in life was death.
But he didn't expect that he would have an even worse ending - being parasitized.
"I've read his memories and I can't understand the meaning of his job at all."
We are all human beings, so why can some survive within the wall while others are forced to live with pollutants?
"So I helped him fulfill a small wish."
Jiang Ping had very strong emotions at the end of his life. The closer we are to death, the more we tend to think and the more we want to struggle.
Jiang Ping hated his job, cursed his superiors, and cursed the world for being polluted.
The world will be polluted sooner or later, and it doesn't mind speeding up the process.
So it deliberately brought people into the contaminated area. It calculated the probability of accidents outside the wall and controlled it within a certain range. The mortality rate of missions outside the wall was originally extremely high, and no one except Cui Kai should have noticed it.
Zhu Ning clenched her fists. She seemed to understand why those cleaners were killed. They all died for these inexplicable reasons.
Just because of a worm.
Zhu Ning: "How did you pass the inspection?"
Jiang Ping has never attracted attention for so many years. The cleaning center has strict inspection procedures after each mission, and the garrison troops must have them as well. How did Jiang Ping escape?
With a snap—
Instead of answering the question immediately, it took off its helmet, which it didn't need in this contaminated area.
When Zhu Ning saw Jiang Ping's face for the first time, he was very gentle and fair-skinned, looking like the kind of boy who was a bit well-behaved and shy.
Jiang Ping is not very old, probably around twenty years old, and he joined the garrison very early.
Now "Jiang Ping" was holding a helmet and looking over calmly, standing in the deserted village and quietly feeling the breeze. It looked at Zhu Ning with one eye, and a bug crawled out of its eye socket, and the bug was looking at Zhu Ning.
It destroys the real Jiang Ping.
"Jiang Ping is the most interesting body I've ever parasitized. He has no parents, no friends, no close companions, just like me."
Jiang Ping was very lonely, so no one noticed after he was infected.
The real Jiang Ping could not find support inside the wall and was just a lonely insect in human society, just like it.
It tilted its head, its eyeballs completely drooping, but a smile still hung on the corner of its mouth. "I also learned how you humans deal with pollutants."
Zhu Ning frowned. The pollution incident occurred in the 10th year of the new calendar, and it was now the 80th year of the new calendar. The insects had evolved over seventy years, and he had found different hosts in the process.
Jiang Ping was the most satisfied one.
Because it can completely get into the human body and know how humans deal with themselves.
"I was terrified when I first checked it out. I thought it would be discovered and killed by humans, but they couldn't find anything."
Jiang Ping looked at Zhu Ning and said, "How strange! The examination data shows that I am actually a qualified human being."
The development of science and technology cannot keep up with the speed of pollution, just like the cleaning center cannot find the system in Zhu Ning's mind. Zhu Ning evades the inspection of the cleaning center again and again, and it also evades the inspection of the garrison troops again and again.
"My mental state is really stable. From a human perspective, I must be very self-sufficient."
Existing instruments can detect pollutants, but cannot detect people with special abilities because they are more mentally stable.
"Jiangping" is a self-consistent pollutant.
It is calm and not crazy. It is an evolved insect that has evolved naturally.
Humans are evolving, and so are bugs.
Zhu Ning thought about this matter carefully and found that he couldn't think about it too much.
Now the existence of "Jiang Ping" proves that a tree, a flower, and a bug are also evolving. They can merge with humans to achieve complete self-consistency and avoid all existing technological inspections.
In terms of composition, what is the difference between such parasites and experimental subjects like Zhu Ning?
Taking artificial humans as an example, isn’t Li Nianchuan a human with canine genes integrated into it?
Now, is this "Jiang Ping" considered a human being with insect genes integrated into him?
Such people can enter the wall without being discovered. His case is not an exception and may have existed for many years.
Zhu Ning asked, "Do you have any kind of people?"
"Jiang Ping" looked at the sunset in the distance, half of his face was dyed red by the sunset, as if it was painted with a layer of blush.
He himself actually didn't fully understand this polluted area. After being a human for so many years, he still didn't fully understand human emotions. Humans are really difficult to understand.
"I suppose so."
If the whole world is evolving, a worm would not be an isolated case. The genes of humans and nature have merged long ago, and the natural genes have been reshuffled without humans' knowledge.
"Jiang Ping" is not alone.
Zhu Ning felt a sense of panic, as there were similar pollutants inside the wall.
The end of the world is coming, and you and I are all ants.
How should we understand this sentence? If there are such bugs inside the wall, where should humans establish their defense line?
If "Jiang Ping" has no hostility towards humans and they just live in the world, then are they enemies of humans or the same kind?
They possess powerful abilities, but at their core they are just...bugs.
What can you expect from bugs?
Pei Shu asked why we are so obsessed with categorizing people. Perhaps there is another meaning: outside the wall, nothing is surprising.
What you encounter will easily shatter your common sense. Humans may not even know half of the world's pollution.
Rules and classifications are the rules for people inside the wall. Outside the wall, there is only chaos and disorder.
Zhu Ning has been forcing himself to remain calm. The "Jiang Ping" in front of him has taken seventy years to evolve to its current state.
It can evade all inspections, but it does not appear to be stable, and this deserted village is the best evidence of this.
Zhu Ning: "Is Xingfu Village your contaminated area, or rather, your mother nest?"
Let's just treat it as a real human being. This place has its own obsessions, and there must be something that Zhu Ning hasn't figured out.
"Both. I like it here. This is probably what you humans call homesickness?" It smiled and was surprisingly shy when answering.
Zhu Ning frowned when she heard the word "homesickness". She always felt that insects should not have such thoughts, but it just had them.
It has traveled to so many places, but its favorite is this deserted village.
Zhu Ning: "Did you lead us here on purpose?"
This road was very safe when Zhu Ning and his team came. The witchers went in and out twice without any accidents. The garrison troops had patrolled the deserted village many times before and had no idea that there was a polluted area here.
Something happened during the retreat.
"Jiang Ping" has an ability that can trigger a polluted area, so this place was triggered when Zhu Ning and the others came over.
How did you do that? Is it related to the queen?
Zhu Ning asked: "Do you want to kill us?"
"No," it immediately denied, looking deeply at Zhu Ning with eyes full of affection, "I'm attracted to your body."
It could sense Zhu Ning's extremely high mental state, stable emotions, strong core, and... that fragrance.
Very attractive, nice fragrance.
Zhu Ning is like the most tempting red apple on the fruit tree, and it really wants to get into it.
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