316 New Species
◎Humans and pollution are completely inseparable◎
Puff——
The plastic bag that Lin Xiaofeng had previously found difficult to tear open with great strength was easily pierced with a hole, and a rotten arm stretched out.
The arm was straight, with a fifteen-centimeter scar on the forearm, and blue plastic mixed in with the muscle tissue.
There was another puffing sound, and Bai Cheng stretched out her other hand. Her breathing became more and more rapid, and the plastic bag covering her face rose and fell with her breathing.
Bai Cheng suddenly jumped out of the grave, but Zhu Ning's lower body was not dug out completely and was still stuck in the ground.
She turned her face with a stiff neck. Zhu Ning seemed to see Bai Cheng's mouth through the translucent plastic. There was an extremely stiff smile at the corner of her mouth, and the corner of her mouth was pulled upwards with force.
Zhu Ning had clearly seen Bai Cheng before. There were two Bai Chengs before him, one mechanical and the other soft. The mechanical one was like a murderer on a rainy night, and he also smiled like that, but Zhu Ning swallowed nervously.
The thing she dug out from the grave in the middle of the night was what she wanted to dig out. Now it seems that Bai Cheng is really the corpse itself.
After Bai Cheng sat up, the surroundings suddenly became quiet. The cable car hanging in the air stopped swaying, leaving only paper money blown along by the wind.
The plastic that wrapped Lin Xiaofeng suddenly lost its life and fell lightly to the ground. Lin Xiaofeng was almost suffocated by the plastic. The first thing he did after regaining his freedom was to cough.
On the other side, Pei Shu was dragged into a grave by the plastic. The corpse held him tightly, and the plastic lost control. But he was unable to break free from the predicament for a while. After all, there was a mountain of plastic on his body, and he was like a little man who fell into a pile of paper and couldn't climb out.
It seems to be the same as Lin Xiaofeng's situation. After controlling the source of pollution, the strange events will automatically disappear, and this place will become an ordinary cemetery.
Zhu Ning didn't have time to care about them. He looked at Bai Cheng in front of him wholeheartedly, but still wasn't sure if this was the Bai Cheng he knew.
Bai Cheng reached out and flicked the dirt off her lower limbs, then struggled to free her legs from the ground. Zhu Ning didn't help her while she was doing this, but just watched her.
Zhu Ning had placed a flashlight next to him when he was digging the grave. Now it was dark and the light was completely focused on Bai Cheng's body. Zhu Ning realized that she was not wearing any clothes and her body was covered with scars.
It wasn't just the arm, the abdomen, back, and neck were all fatally wounded. A rough count showed there were about twenty or thirty of them, large and small.
Bai Cheng is full of mysteries. It seems that she was hacked to death thirty times by a pervert, who then wrapped her with a piece of plastic and threw her into the ghost cemetery. Tourists wander over her body every day.
Is she in pain? How many years has she been lying here?
If Zhu Ning didn't come to dig her up, would Bai Cheng just be buried with the plastic garbage? Did she have any thoughts while she was buried?
Zhu Ning felt a little sorry for her, so he took out a grey blanket from his backpack and wrapped Bai Cheng in it. Her body was just as cold, and there was no heartbeat when he listened closely.
This was the third Bai Cheng that Zhu Ning had seen. Every time he saw Bai Cheng, he had no heartbeat and his body temperature was very low.
The touch added a lot of familiarity. Bai Cheng was wrapped in a blanket, his body extremely stiff, like a doll that had just taken shape and didn't know how to move its joints when walking.
Bai Cheng's eyes were bloodshot, and he died with his eyes open. The red bloodshot looked like spider webs, and his voice was hoarse, "Zhu - Ning -"
Neither of the tones of these two words hit the mark, and the words were out of tune. Bai Cheng: "Just live - say - not well -"
Zhu Ning sorted it out and thought that it should be that it had just come back to life, so its speech was abnormal and so its walking was abnormal. Zhu Ning thought that maybe the mechanical Bai Cheng had just been dug out not long ago?
Zhu Ning asked, "Do you become more agile the longer you live? Is that why every Bai Cheng is different?"
Bai Cheng nodded and wanted to explain more clearly, but he couldn't express himself clearly and was too lazy to explain.
Zhu Ning understood what she thought were different personalities, but it turned out to be different levels of "rehabilitation." Looking at the mess, Zhu Ning decided to set up a tent and let Bai Cheng rest.
Zhu Ning left her some simple cleaning supplies, medical supplies and clean clothes. Fortunately, she brought extra equipment with her.
Zhu Ning: "Can I help you?"
Bai Cheng didn't refuse. Zhu Ning glanced back and saw that Lin Xiaofeng was probably out of danger. The plastic on his body had been cleaned off. Pei Shu hadn't climbed up yet. Zhu Ning said, "Xiaofeng, go help your Uncle Pei. Call me if you need anything."
Lin Xiaofeng nodded obediently and went to find Pei Shu.
Pei Shugang was exhausted from all the trouble. When Lin Xiaofeng dug him out, he was lying in the grave, clinging to a strange corpse, looking half dead. Lin Xiaofeng suspected that he was silently cursing Zhu Ning.
Zhu Ning and Bai Cheng entered the tent. As soon as Bai Cheng entered, he tore off the plastic on his body, revealing a scarred body. Zhu Ning was prepared, but he was still shocked when he saw it again.
Zhu Ning applied medicine to her, but her wound had been there for several years, and it was unknown whether the healing agent would be effective. Bai Cheng was also stabbed in the abdomen. Logically, her intestines should have leaked out, but because of the plastic, the plastic was entangled with her intestines and fixed to her abdomen.
After injecting the healing agent, Bai Cheng put on a black windbreaker. Zhu Ning's clothes were a little big for her, and the sleeves and trouser legs were long. Her neat short hair, which was originally as sharp as a knife, now looked like a standard student hairstyle.
Zhu Ning had a lot of questions to ask her, but some were difficult to ask because they were private matters.
She silently suppressed the urge to ask. After all, they were still in the wild, and any longer stay would be dangerous. "How about I carry you down the mountain. Our car is down there, and I'm afraid of danger."
Bai Cheng shook his head: "No - it's dangerous."
Zhu Ning: “…”
That makes sense, the biggest danger in the Ghost Cemetery is right in front of you.
If Bai Cheng had not finally woken up, Zhu Ning would probably have been able to escape. If Pei Shu had been killed here by Zhu Ning, she would not have had to go back to save him. She could have just erected another monument and scattered some paper money for Pei Shu every year when she passed by.
Zhu Ning first pulled out the plastic from her throat, it was burning with pain. After a simple cleanup, she opened the tent. It was indeed quiet outside and there was no danger. Zhu Ning asked Pei Shu and Lin Xiaofeng to come in. There were four people squeezed into the single tent and they all sat cross-legged.
When Pei Shugang came in and saw Bai Cheng, he was stunned. He felt that his injuries were not in vain and this favor was repaid.
Pei Shu: "Welcome back."
Bai Cheng nodded coldly as a greeting.
Pei Shu gasped when he took off his helmet. It was so miserable. There was a piece of plastic bag in his eye, wrapped around his eyeball, and he needed to pull it out bit by bit.
Imagine eating a chocolate ball and the wrapper falls into your eye socket, and then you pull out a logic from it.
Pei Shu was seriously injured. A plastic straw was pulled out of his neck and the tent was filled with the smell of blood.
After cleaning the wound, flames ignited on Pei Shu's body, just like what Zhu Ning had seen before. There were flickering flames on his eyeballs and neck, and it seemed as if there was magma inside.
What a unique way of disinfection. Zhu Ning handed him a medical kit and asked him to take care of it himself.
Among the three, Zhu Ning is in the best condition. All he needs to do is tear off the plastic garbage on his body. There is blood on Zhu Ning's body, and the black mucus will devour it by itself.
But Zhu Ning noticed Bai Cheng's nose twitching, as if reacting to blood, and asked, "Can you survive by eating blood?"
Bai Cheng: "Lively."
Give her some blood so that she can feel the breath of a living person. The human is wrapped in a plastic bag, one to guard the grave, and the other to eat.
Zhu Ning thought that Bai Cheng really looked like a creature from a strange story, but as someone who ate contaminated spores, Zhu Ning had no right to judge whether or not people should drink blood.
Zhu Ning was very curious about Bai Cheng: "You can only be resurrected here?"
Bai Cheng shook his head: "Recently."
She has more than one resurrection point. If Zhu Ning is killed in the wild and needs help temporarily, she can go to find a cemetery nearby, preferably one covered by a garbage dump, including the garbage migration landscape that Pei Shu mentioned, where there are also several of Bai Cheng's corpses buried.
The reason why Bai Cheng mentioned the Guitou Cemetery was because Zhu Ning was the easiest to find.
Zhu Ning wanted to ask about the locations of more garbage dumps in the future. Pei Shu asked, "Do you share memories?"
Pei Shu asked the first question. He was a little concerned about whether the dead Bai Cheng was really dead.
Bai Cheng nodded, and Pei Shu asked, "Are you... considered one person?"
Bai Cheng nodded again. She didn't seem that close to Pei Shu. Pei Shu: "Same personality, too?"
The soft Bai Cheng is obviously different from the mechanical Bai Cheng. The Bai Cheng in front of me is like a piece of white paper.
Bai Cheng thought Pei Shu was annoying, so he patiently explained. The gist of it was that every Bai Cheng would be different because every resurrection was like living again, and the experience would be adjusted based on different people's experiences.
Pei Shu was silent for a while, always feeling that Bai Cheng, who saved him at that time, was dead.
The four of them huddled together in a tent, chatting in a mystical way, much like the ghost stories they told while camping as students. Zhu Ning casually asked, "How long have you lived?"
She now suspected that the official information provided by Bai Cheng was false. The information about the genius girl who went outside the wall for the first time at the age of thirteen and explored outside the wall were all false news released by Bai Cheng to confuse others.
She didn't know whether this question was private or not, and it was okay if Bai Cheng didn't want to answer.
But Bai Cheng showed no emotion, "I don't know."
Zhu Ning didn't know whether Bai Cheng didn't want to talk about it or not. He was about to change the subject to avoid embarrassment. Bai Cheng said, "I don't remember. It seems..."
Bai Cheng's red eyes did not fade, and when she looked over, she looked like a female ghost. Her recovery speed was slow, and her speech was even stiffer than that of the mechanical Bai Cheng.
"Ninety—more?"
Zhu Ning was stunned for a moment, thinking he had misheard. After Bai Cheng said this, everyone in the tent was shocked, especially Pei Shu, who didn't care about his own injuries and turned to look at Bai Cheng.
Bai Cheng has lived for at least ninety years? But the Federation was only established eighty years ago. Is she from around the time of the apocalypse? Are the investigators' activities considered "archaeology"? Is Bai Cheng a living fossil?
It’s not surprising that she could live so long, as pollutants can live as long as they want, but she actually became like this before it spread on a large scale?
Bai Cheng: "I'm looking for it."
There was no color on her face, she was truly a dead body. She was quiet now and thought seriously. The older the memory, the more blurred it became. She could not think clearly. She only remembered that she had lived for many years. When one body died, she would change into another body and live again.
Bai Cheng works as a bounty hunter and keeps having affairs in search of her past. She also wants to know why she can be reborn again and again in the plastic garbage dump.
Everyone has their own memories, even robots have set programs, but Bai Cheng doesn't.
So even though Bai Cheng has lived for a long time, he doesn't know what it was like before the end of the world, and he's even less aware of the information that humans have lost.
No wonder Bai Cheng wants to cheat on his wife. You can't just follow Zhu Ning for money. Qi Xueliu can't possibly consider following Zhu Ning to die. It must have personal will. Pei Shu has a mental illness, Bai Cheng is looking for the past, Zhu Ning is for revenge, and only Lin Xiaofeng is purely taking risks.
Zhu Ning paused for a long time, her gloves still stained with dirt from the grave. Bai Cheng was actually a new species.
Is this what Huo Wenxi meant when he said that Bai Cheng could be useful to you?
Creatures like Bai Cheng have existed for a long time. Pei Shu has indeed walked outside the wall. No wonder he told Zhu Ning a long time ago that the current classification of humans is meaningless.
Natural people, people with special abilities, non-natural humans, and people like Bai Cheng and Lin Xiaofeng.
Who are they?
Non-natural humans perceive themselves as insects and animals, but Bai Cheng’s perception of himself is not plastic.
Pollution is spreading, evolution is endless, there are too many species to be divided, and the more they are divided, the more chaotic it becomes.
Zhu Ning later learned that the five classes of citizens were divided to facilitate Prometheus's search. In fact, if it had not been established in this way, the federation might have been more harmonious.
From this perspective, the so-called pure-blooded humans are truly a vulnerable group. They are as fragile as pets.
However, since I knew Liu Yu, it’s still unclear what pure-blooded humans are. Maybe this concept is fabricated.
Humans are completely inseparable from pollution.
In fact, she had seen this world a long time ago, but she always felt that humans could be separated from pollution. Doesn't it mean that if we find the source of pollution in the world and purify it, the whole world will be pollution-free?
Zhu Ning lowered her eyes. There was a piece of yellow plastic debris lying in the tent. She stared at it for two seconds and smiled bitterly. It was the same thing.
Before the pollution, there was actually something similar to pollution that quietly entered human society: plastic.
Microplastics have long been present in the human body. Plastics have entered the human food chain. Fish eat plastics, humans eat fish, and genes are passed on. Everyone has microplastics in their bodies. After several generations, it is difficult to find completely pure humans. Pollution is spreading, just like when plastics entered the human world.
The invisible switch had been pressed long ago, even older than humans realized. From the information they had, the world was sick, but humans did not start to pay attention until pollution spread on a large scale, but by then it was too late.
Like an avalanche, the speed of losing land is extremely rapid, and humans are defeated by nature.
Pei Shu returned to the Federation for this very reason. The more he learned about the world, the more he felt that finding the source of the pollution was a pipe dream.
However, Bai Cheng's actions have increased many possibilities. There must be a group of people living a normal life outside the wall.
It's not that it mutated and lived like a monster, but it was very decent and continued human civilization in another way.
Pei Shu suddenly thought of Liu Yu. She was most likely an outsider, just like Bai Cheng.
Pei Shu asked, "Are there still people like you?"
Zhu Ning also thought of it. Bai Cheng paused and pointed at Lin Xiaofeng, "She."
Lin Xiaofeng is one of the few people of her kind that Bai Cheng has ever met, so Bai Cheng likes her very much.
Lin Xiaofeng lowered his head, thinking about something, and said nothing.
It seems that this type of people are rare, otherwise they would have been separated into a separate type long ago. However, Zhu Ning thinks that Prometheus should know that there may be a small group of them within the Federation, and what is the relationship between these people and the Revival Society.
Her mind suddenly flashed. When 0056 died, Prometheus, who controlled her, left the last sentence, saying that Zhu Ning would recognize him sooner or later.
Recognize what? These creatures? But what is Prometheus's position?
Zhu Ning's expression became increasingly grim. She had so many questions that it gave her a headache. A guess popped up in her mind, and she asked, "I have a question."
Bai Cheng looked at Zhu Ning, waiting for her to ask.
Zhu Ning asked, "If someone like you entered the Federation, could they pass all the current levels of inspection?"
Assuming that Liu Yu really entered from outside the wall, why was he not stopped when he entered the wall? As far as Zhu Ning knows, at least the equipment in the cleaning center cannot detect non-natural humans.
What about a fusion species like Bai Cheng? Can she pass the security check of the Kingdom of God?
Bai Cheng didn't hesitate and gave a straightforward answer, "Yes."
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